Kate poses 
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Book!
In March 2017, my first book, "The Perils of 'Privilege'", was published by St. Martin's Press.
For a taste of what it's about, try the "YPIS" tag here.
Blog Archive
-
▼
2004
(538)
-
▼
October
(118)
- "It took me a while to admit it, but I was scared ...
- "...some excess junk in the trunk."
- Plain Wrong
- Halloween at Chicago
- Zac as a vampire and Aaron as, we determined, a pr...
- I wish I were a Japanese doll-robot-person
- Kate poses
- Shabbat Shalom
- The Skeleton Comes out of Columbia's Closet
- NEWS FLASH! Not All Protesters Are Getting Laid
- Andrew Sullivan, Lincoln, and "Gay"
- Israel: not just a depressing CNN headline
- Shawn Macomber is a Prophet
- The Old Country is New Again
- Thanksgiving with the Macombers
- Danceable Education
- My latest Maroon column is online.
- Could it be...
- Can You Do This?
- "In a matter of months, the Bush administration lo...
- "'Anybody But Bush'--and this from those who decry...
- More Thoughts on Safire
- Kerry and the Jewish Vote: a response to the respo...
- "Workloads have never been heavier"
- Heather, you just think he's gay because he's not ...
- Is Safire missing something?
- The Best Internet Site Ever
- This is Unfortunate
- They Like Him, They Really, Really Like Him
- Weekend Update
- Pamela Anderson out to save the bears, reports the...
- Newfound fame
- Buster's Garage: Tribeca Anomaly or Yet Another Ir...
- Overheard on line at a Michigan Avenue Walgreens
- NYC public school kids, more wholesome than most
- Moon boots?
- Sailors for Bush
- Al Sharpton is Not Cuddly
- A Chance To Make a Difference
- Huh?
- SJM, GOP, Seeking SJF, GOP
- In defense of "partisan hacks"
- Even gay conservatives are allowed, every so often...
- Books I Probably Won't Like
- "Gay novel" wins prize [UPDATED]
- "Fiercely Orthodox Jews"
- Do not talk on your cellphone while riding your bi...
- Would You Like a Side Order of Psychodrama With Th...
- Woe are those born in meritocratic times
- Remember the socialist utopia that was 1950s America?
- No Culture...Not Bad!
- Let Princeton have its Small World, we U of Cers a...
- Post-Raines revolution at the NYT?
- Viking Hipster
- Jen and me, waiting for the #6 bus
- Vietnamese food, 1
- Vietnamese food, 2
- October in Chicago
- A hot pepper outfit for a dachshund
- Vote or Die! Or Not?
- Brooks vs. Blachman: Let the best parody win
- A student's earnest but misguided plea to Kerry: S...
- When tourist attractions include Classics Cafe and...
- Sweet Sixteen, Indeed...
- In praise of re-learning
- Expect the unexpected
- Les Deux Magots de Bartlett
- Michael Musto in Plato's Symposium, the Patricia F...
- It's in the details
- Was he or wasn't he?
- But that's all she's unveiling...
- Jane Brody, on produce:
- How many were there?
- Thankfulness and whininess
- The REAL Gender Gap
- What I Did on My Winter Vacation
- Overheard
- NYT does human-interest
- Red State, Blue State, Squirrel State, NYT-reader ...
- Ashton Kutcher, leading third-party candidate?
- How to braise an endive in 0.01 seconds
- $7.11
- This is Chicago. This is Grand!
- Chafetz and Sullivan bring a wide audience to the ...
- Downtown Chicago, October 9, 2004
- Fox & Obel
- Fox & Obel Cafe, 1
- Fox & Obel Cafe, 2
- Michigan Avenue
- Horse and apple
- Looking at sailors
- The mucky puddle known as "too much information"
- One and the same
- Guest chef
- Guenter Lehnhof brings spaezle to Chicago's dinin...
- Here we go again: Where was I when this happened?
- Neocons for Kerry, Part 3
- "...drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue"-...
- For those who haven't already seen this: My discus...
-
▼
October
(118)
Labels
- gender studies (490)
- tour d'ivoire (396)
- haute couture (351)
- haute cuisine (193)
- US politics (159)
- personal health (154)
- non-French Jews (142)
- heightened sense of awareness (140)
- young people today (133)
- first-world problems (129)
- vanity (126)
- euphemistic New Jersey (124)
- YPIS (119)
- Old-New Land (115)
- francophilic zionism (114)
- cheapness studies (109)
- I am not French (102)
- another food movement post (94)
- Europinions (92)
- correcting the underrepresentation of New York (80)
- der schrecklichen franzosischen Pudel (79)
- old age (68)
- dirty laundry (67)
- major questions of our age (67)
- race (60)
- I am an intellectual (58)
- lives you could only dream of (58)
- busman's holiday (56)
- fish in a barrel (53)
- persistent motifs (53)
- nineteenth century France (52)
- converting to Flemish (51)
- male beauty (50)
- unpaid internships (48)
- bloggery (45)
- defending the indefensible (44)
- life isn't fair (44)
- Le Reg me manque (40)
- unsupported social commentary (39)
- Jewish babies (38)
- nonsense overanalyzed (37)
- HMYF (35)
- conserva-rants (35)
- vroom vroom (35)
- paging Dan Savage (34)
- non-French Canada (33)
- blather (32)
- cheapness studied then deliberately ignored (31)
- booklined Upper West Side childhoods (30)
- dachshundwatch (29)
- Belles Juives (28)
- rites of passage (26)
- very young people today (26)
- Go Peglegs (24)
- another window of opportunity post (24)
- respect mah authoritah (24)
- wanty (24)
- back to pasta (22)
- fromage (22)
- Grad-Student Anti-Defamation League (21)
- the post-facebook age (21)
- Humanities Anti-Defamation League (20)
- dreams of my dishwasher (20)
- meritocracy mediocrity (20)
- on the intermittent appeal of those subway ads to become an air-conditioner repairman (20)
- rocket science (20)
- unsolicited manifestos (20)
- I am not Japanese (19)
- a long post nobody will read (19)
- contrarian responses to contrarian articles (18)
- too brilliant to bathe (18)
- fiction is better (17)
- on turning my apartment into a Japanese restaurant (17)
- post-YPIS (17)
- woes of gentrification (17)
- it doesn't commute (16)
- the new Brooklyn (16)
- we've come a long way baby (14)
- not-so-young people today (13)
- repeating myself on my blog because I'm too busy to come up with new material and don't want to abandon the blog altogether (13)
- conservative critiques of academia (12)
- fauxbivalence (12)
- further cluttering the internet with Lena Dunham commentary (12)
- love-hate relationships (12)
- WWPD Guides (11)
- holistic (11)
- maybe just maybe gun control (11)
- questions for (both) my readers (11)
- had my Phil (10)
- leaving the house (10)
- susan sontag heidi montag (10)
- Ashkenazi alcohol tolerance (9)
- I am not Californian (9)
- Rufus Wainwrightism (9)
- barely-supported historiographical commentary (8)
- contrarian responses to advice columns (8)
- life imitates art (8)
- pretty privilege (8)
- Don't-Go (7)
- Paris is nice (7)
- builds character (7)
- contrarian responses to fish-in-a-barrel articles (7)
- contrarian responses to non-controversial articles (7)
- gratuitous smug (7)
- rescue culture (7)
- sport (7)
- unsupported psychological commentary (7)
- second after Sartre (6)
- the Allen-Roth two-headed monster (6)
- I am not German (5)
- Orientalism (5)
- act British think Yiddish (5)
- basic life skills (5)
- dreams of my Internet (5)
- genre-coining (5)
- nothing new under the sun (5)
- ombré (5)
- progressive-universalist babies (5)
- Casa Della Bisou (4)
- Gwyneth Paltrow's weekly cigarette (4)
- and that's the last you'll be hearing on this topic (4)
- graphomania (4)
- horribleness (4)
- mansplaining (4)
- perils of overshare (4)
- rainy but worth it (4)
- things that cannot possibly interest anyone else (4)
- utter nonsense (4)
- vigorous defenses of contrarian articles (4)
- weight-think (4)
- French Canada (3)
- I am Liz Lemon (3)
- I am a dirty hippie (3)
- I am actually three (3)
- Invalides (3)
- Isaac Jashevis Singer (3)
- Jews in agriculture (3)
- Undergraduate Anti-Defamation League (3)
- abolish middle school (3)
- an investment piece (3)
- creative types (3)
- eiskaffee (3)
- family values (3)
- hair politics (3)
- high-end stretch pants (3)
- hopeless attempts at photographing household objects (3)
- in which I translate from the Style section (3)
- kaas (3)
- kale (3)
- the contemporary relevance of 1970s sitcoms (3)
- unsupported legislative commentary (3)
- unsupported political commentary (3)
- unsupported style commentary (3)
- writing about writing (3)
- British television overanalyzed (2)
- I am an art ignoramous (2)
- I am an art ignoramus (2)
- Miss Fine (2)
- Quinn and the Fashion Club (2)
- art imitates life (2)
- avoiding the news cycle (2)
- bloggery as self-life-coaching (2)
- converting to Flemish maybe some other time (2)
- entitled much? (2)
- fast fashion (2)
- feelings (2)
- goils were goils and men were men (2)
- guilt (2)
- having thoughts on the major legal and political stories of the day but only sharing thoughts about fashion (2)
- interior decorating (2)
- meh (2)
- non-Canadian North America (2)
- not quite first world problems (2)
- on her former employment at a bridal shop in Flushing Queens (2)
- pickitarianism (2)
- provincial complaints (2)
- self-improvement (2)
- unsupported neurological commentary (2)
- utter genius (2)
- your questions answered (2)
- Festivus (1)
- French-teacher anti-defamation league (1)
- Greater Philadelphia (1)
- I am not a medievalist (1)
- I am not a wine connoisseur (1)
- Sandy-whine (1)
- Simon Doonan and the tongue-in-cheek defense (1)
- The Moment (1)
- a post on which I expect no comments (1)
- autobiographical projection (1)
- because it's there (1)
- biology 101 (1)
- bonapartism (1)
- buried ledes (1)
- busman's holiday avoided (1)
- casualwear sexism (1)
- contrarian cheapness advice (1)
- contrarian responses to legislation (1)
- contrarian responses to perfectly lovely urban developments (1)
- contrarianism (1)
- early-twentieth-century France (1)
- embarrassing confessions (1)
- exercises in futility (1)
- fashion and feminism (1)
- first-world French-major-specific problems (1)
- friendship (1)
- great escapes (1)
- hamster-wheel workouts (1)
- hareglayim shelee (1)
- how is there not already a Natalie Portman tag (1)
- imaginary French boyfriends (1)
- in which God walks out of the men's room (1)
- matzo brei (1)
- mini-bailouts (1)
- miscellaneous seafood in a barrel (1)
- neurosis (1)
- not sarcastic I swear (1)
- on the foolishness of Googling one's own name or the title of something one has written (1)
- overanalyzing so-last-season cultural phenomena (1)
- oxymorons (1)
- pasta anti-defamation league (1)
- placeholders (1)
- pot meets kettle (1)
- psychology of sub-dollar expenditures (1)
- quasi-offensive reappropriation (1)
- rampant materialism (1)
- renewed germophobia (1)
- round-ups (1)
- shameless attempts to provoke a dwindling libertarian readership (1)
- shortness overanalyzed (1)
- something is fishy (1)
- terroir (1)
- the final word (1)
- there oughta be a law (1)
- unsupported climate-science commentary (1)
- unsupported philosophical commentary (1)
- warm welcomes (1)
- you don't care (1)
2 comments:
Fair warning, Tallyrand, your identity has been discovered and you will pay!!
If this pose doesn't scream silent film star, what does?! Superstar, even, if such things were allowed on the silent screen.
Post a Comment