Check out Jen Miller’s “Sex and the City Endurance Test” at Nerve, where she tries to watch all 96 episodes of the show in one sitting:
Lopi keeps threatening to leave, but because I fast-forward through the theme song, she stays. It gives her no time in between episodes to make a run for it before [...]

I’m a little behind in my reading of this weekend’s Times, so I just noticed this piece in “Week in Review.” Using the recent death of actor Vincent Schiavelli (who played Mr. Vargas in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and that really scary subway ghost in Ghost) as a jumping point, Peter Edidin writes sweetly [...]

i love me some savage

From this week’s “Savage Love”:
Joking about Christianity isn’t evidence that I’m intolerant—hell, I’m perfectly willing to tolerate Christians. I have never, for instance, attempted to prevent Christians from marrying each other, or tried to stop them from adopting children, or worked to make it illegal for them to hold certain jobs. I don’t threaten to [...]

buttercream frosting!

Birthdays are funny. Today I spent mine in an office all day, but because It Was My Birthday I gave myself permission to slack off and poke around the interweb for interesting things. Since I slack off at work pretty much every day, this didn’t do much to help me feel like this day was [...]