I got to spend some time hanging out with Martin Marty at Renaissance Weekend a couple years ago. All I knew about him was gleaned from lunches, dinners, and panels together. During last night’s run, my friend Marty Marty started speaking into my iPod earbuds in the form of an interview on Speaking of […]
A couple months ago I received an email in response the resume I posted on Craig’s List from Dr. Sadie Allison, America’s Pleasure Coach, proprietor of TickleKitty and the Tickle Kitty store.
David and I met Sadie for drinks at the Beach Chalet while I was in San Francisco on business. […]
May 19, 2002, Washington, DC – When you are 32 and charmed, its pretty difficult to leave the Mister Magoo world of happy obliviousness. Well, being on the Grand Jury with our focus on Murder, Mayhem, and Sexual Abuse is like a boot camp for getting out of my guilded carriage to see what […]
I call the new feminism Manolo Blahnik Feminism, which is a super-sexual, super-sexy, and super-confusing form of self-empowerment. Ariel Levy calls it “raunch culture” and I believe that it is going to blow up in American women’s faces.
I thought of a poem I wrote ten-years ago after I wrote Manolo Blahnik Feminism. It is called An Ode to Fashion
I received this anonymous missing in response to my article, A D for Effort,
“I think we need to bring back beatings.”
This anonymous contributer continues,
“It works wonderfully here. The teachers write a bunch of stuff on the board, tell the kids to copy it then go off to drink tea or do something that’s actually […]
When I was “32 and charmed,” I spent five weeks as a juror on Grand Jury Duty.
Well, I have finished three-of-five weeks of being a Grand Jurist. I am the Sergeant-at-Arms and one of 23. We are down to 22, but a quorum is 16. Let me tell you, this job sucks […]