What Would Phoebe Do?

I'd say so definitively, except that two very similar ones live in my building - one slightly more gray and one jet-black - and those ar...

-I thought it was supposed to be a good thing that people - even those who aren't poor or hipsters - buy used clothes . What with landfi...

Continuing the eternal-paperwork theme, my goal for the day is to have organized my materials in order to get to Frahnce. A notary will, it ...

How timely ! Schools are now moving away from grading on the basis of folder organization, assessing students instead on the basis of test ...

To get this out of the way: parents should not go around writing about their children on the Internet . This is not going to be the point of...

I feel so blogospherically uninspired. (Want to hear about my afternoon rereading a novella I read for a class in college and remembered as ...

Women! Between the $250 million-per-year hair-extension industry in the US and "[t]he $1.8 billion business of superfluous hair remo...

-Remember the discussion a while back about whether fashion is or is not about women dressing to please men , or whether these are two diffe...

-A man has his first real job, the one that teaches a young person that working often sucks and it's not a bad idea to go back to school...

The most chic Spanx $17.50 can buy. I suppose compared with getting into them, riding a horse would be a piece of cake. Cake that I wouldn...

The sound is mostly traffic, so this is best watched on mute. The takeaway: four of the five dachshunds belong to one man. He's the luck...

Why I can't wait to see " Belle du Seigneur ": -Natalia Vodianova is the only model whose beauty I can look at as art, rathe...

For Britta: The gray sweater for a medium-sized child fisherman has arrived. I tried it on, and while my boyfriend's response was a glan...

A common argument made about eating meat - and to a lesser extent all animal products - is that if you wouldn't be comfortable slaughter...

Amber's right , I like this essay . Especially the point about how men shouldn't view looking hot as something that takes away their...

A man whose main professional interest is the promotion of timeless luxury goods that will last forever and ever gives an interview about ...

Hello (again!) readers of Andrew Sullivan . Nothing like a link from a big one to make me notice an error in the rare post people outside my...

If grad students had any money, I suspect there'd be a huge market for dissertation helpers . (As it stands, it's more likely that w...

I love that a commenter refers to the U.S. government's plan to promote cheese as "Reminiscent of the worst excesses of the French ...

The likelihood of ( sometimes literally ) running into runway models in Manhattan below 23rd Street is always high, but quadruples if you ha...

-The "our friend is coming" excuse does not give you and your friend who really is there access to another whole two-person table ...

The story of meritocracy usually goes as follows: the brilliant but not especially well-born prove themselves in school and end up successfu...

Someone got here by Googling... This could, in essence, be the entire blog, if I choose to switch over to something even less effort-full ...

Dream shopping list : -The Stella McCartney  llama shirt . (Yes, Kids', but do they make llama shirts for grown-ups?) -Knee-patch ri...

-I'm not sure where I stand on the question of kids'-clothes-as-vanity-sizing, as my self - contradiction might have shown. But, to...

I just figured out (with technical help from Jo and, randomly enough, a comment thread to Dear Prudence) how to block the Facebook news feed...

-Do not, I repeat, do not go to Chelsea Market on Halloween. It was like the four years I spent living in and around Park Slope condensed in...

-Movies now cost $13? -But the Battery Park City movie theater is right there . How was this my first time going? -Oh right. Movies cost...

I'm too tired to continue arguing Tea Party with Miss Self-Important (see comments here ), who's convinced me I'm wrong but I...

Today was especially productive work-wise, probably because the device I'm now typing on (Last Legs MacBook) was at home, and I was not....

Britta's comment  below has got me wondering: how have I lost my spot on my own blog as the sniffer-outer of anti-Semitism in contempora...

I'd been meaning to post on the concept of 'your privilege is showing' - what this phrase is for, who's using it, and why. B...

Charles Murray points out that today's elites marry in, perpetuating their elite elitism. "Three examples lifted from last Sunday...

If you're in a French doctoral program, you've seen the following articles, then been reminded of their existence by everyone you kn...

Torrisi Italian Specialties : I remembered this as a new sandwich place near campus where the food was Italian but made in the States. I rem...

How is this guide to dating European men a book? Both because it's already an Onion article , and because young American women looking ...

I had always - "eternity" defined as since beginning grad school - figured that the end of the eccentric prof was due above all to...

Have you ever dined at a nice restaurant and wondered, why are there not grocery shoppers with shopping carts weaving between the tables? Or...

-So much for complaining about being called " ma'am ." Today I got a "sir." Wearing a dress. This is not how the blu...

Sometimes, when I'm putting on makeup, I think how lucky I am to be of the sex for whom this behavior is socially acceptable. I absolute...