Wednesday, May 06, 2009
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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.
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May
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- Dunkle Materie
- Oh the misogyny
- Racists, carbon monoxide, and other unpleasantness
- Best search leading to this blog, to date:
- More running do's and don't's
- There are no words...
- The Fitness Flâneur
- "Is this friendship worth salvaging?"
- Worst use ever of "empowering" in reference to women
- Ghent is a terrible place to go vegetarian
- Silly French word of the day
- E-gripes
- Bittman, Zola, and the "myths" of slimness (3 unre...
- Not under my roof
- I'm in love
- Against college room-sharing
- Thoughts of the moment
- And he's smart, too!
- Quote of the day
- Another blog post by a New York Jew
- Another novel about New York Jews
- Multiple fashion personality
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May
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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)
1 comment:
I like this for the "thanks for making my point for me":
Red faced, spewing insults and standing nose to nose with the Flanders Opera’s general director, the businessman predicted the production would stir up anti-Semitism, which festers just below the surface here, he said, to which the flustered impresario blurted out that if the situation for Jews were really so precarious here, they should leave.
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