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The screenwriter Don Payne, a writer on “The Simpsons” here earning his first big-screen credit, may not have had [Glenn] Close, much less the Sonic Youth frontwoman Kim Gordon, in mind when he wrote this film. But he might as well have since, unwittingly or not, it perfectly expresses what Ms. Gordon once called the [...]
some fictional gossip
When Betsy moved back to Brooklyn last month – which, by the way, was one of the best things to happen ever – I went over to her new place and hung out while she unpacked. Randomly among her books was My So-Called Life Goes On, which is exactly what it sounds like: not a [...]
I know I’ve said it before, but I’m addicted to the The Stranger’s blog, and you should be too. The whole staff blogs, which means you get constant updates, ranging from news to travelogues to random rants and videos. Dan Savage is on there all the time, obviously, but the rest of the staff is [...]
Things suck for women and culture now, at least according to Carlene Bauer at Salon, who uses Sleater-Kinney’s break-up to reflect on what she sees as “the end of an era.”
I’ve been listening to music and going to shows for more than half a lifetime now, watching indie rock devolve into backward-looking, fashion-damaged pop, while [...]
Kelefa Sanneh continues to dote on Chris Carraba in the Times, while Nerve is, predictably, interested in better things.
With the Replacements on in the background, plenty of not-so-smart things seem like wonderful ideas….Westerberg’s sensitivity worked because, as much as he was a nice guy, he was also a bad boy: always drunk, falling down, unreliable. [...]
Danielle Teplitsky, newly graduated from high school in Port Washington, N.Y., is the owner of about 150 [lip] glosses, she said. Last Sunday, she stopped at Macy’s in Herald Square to slick on the new Pink Lollipop gloss from Lancôme.
“It needs to be shiny and it needs to taste good,” said Ms. Teplitsky, 17, who [...]
Bath and Body Works is having a sale and I just went there and tried out about 10 different kinds of lotion and body spray, and now I’m greasy and reek so strongly of lemon-berry-butter-cream-sage-coconut-mango-basil-creme brulee-pear-mint that Betsy might make me shower before we can hang out and be writerly.
solstice is a nice word
– The Mermaid Parade is on Saturday… but it is going to rain.
– Ever try the Wikipedia “random article” function? It takes “learn something new everyday” to new levels of excellent-ness.
– On the front page of the Observer, Sara Vilkomerson investigates the rising acceptance of male “flabbiness,” a la Vince Vaughn and Jack Black, and [...]
Kitchen Sink has a new blog.