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The coffeemaker at work is broken. You’d think this would be enough tragedy for one day. I’m stuck here in the back of the office with a bunch of architect temps, including Viagra Guy, who felt it neccessary to call his pharmacist from work and request that they give him more Viagra pills because, “I […]

::collapse:: Beer… beeeeerr… must… have…. beeeeeerrrrr….

Interesting experiment by Marie Claire magazine: We photographed a gorgeous, size-14 model in a neutral pose and made the unretouched photos into two mobile billboards. Then we gave each billboard a vastly different message: one confident (“I think I’m sexy. Do you?”), one unsure (“I think I’m fat. Do you?”). We asked everyone who saw

No? No? Someone called the house this morning at 5am – THREE TIMES. Finally, on the third call, someone with a slight Irish accent actually replied to my angry “HELLO!!!” and said they’d been trying to fax something three times (“I KNOW!!!” I said), and wasn’t this New York? “No, this is a RESIDENCE in

If they have the balls to do it, it might go something like this: 1) The legality of abortion will get kicked back to the states, so blue states will have the procedure, some of the bigger red and mostly southern states won’t, and I’ll be smuggling in terrified pregnant teenagers from Indiana into Illinois

Though I’ve never been a classically small person (which I’m generally OK with), I put on about 70 lbs between the ages of 16 and 18, due mostly, looking back on it, to getting on and then off the pill. Add in some depression (also partly caused by the pill) and a bad relationship, and

Continuing with the subject of having kids… Unless you’re absolutely wild about the idea, you probably shouldn’t. I must say I admire those who do, but you better be clear about what you’re getting into.

All five flights out of La Guardia Sunday night were cancelled due to weather. They didn’t finally give into this, of course, until about midnght, when we’d all been suffering through unannounced gate changes and assurances that flights would get out at some point, which is why we sat through 7 or 8 hours of

Off to NY for the weekend…

Alleyrat rant: Many people have come to accept the notion of homosexuality but have a much harder time with bisexuality because it suggests a type of sexual flexibility or fluidity they find threatening. It is also much harder to pin people down into sex/gender categories if they tell us they are bisexual. We have our