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Friday, August 12, 2011

Lather, rinse, repeat.

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I haven’t looked at the back of a shampoo bottle in years. (Now the front, I do look at, just to make sure I’m treating my locks to somethin...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Something is rotten in the state of Nott Cott

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Seriously, folks, I don’t give The Royals all that much shelf-space in my mind. Sure, I gobbled up the article in the latest Vanity Fair on...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, and the making of Thelma Madine

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A few weeks ago, while lying on my flu-bed, I happened to take in a number of episodes of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding , which chronicles the we...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

What Would Madame Defarge Knit

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I’m not much of a knitter. I do know how to cast on, knit and purl, but that’s about it. I haven’t picked up a pair of needles in years,...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

Too much monkey business.

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The other day, I gave into a bit of temptation and, feeling furtive and somewhat depraved, clicked through to see what’s up at The New York ...
Friday, August 05, 2011

And in this corner, Octomom

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I must say that it has been quite a blessed while since I had given any thought to Nadya Suleman, the Octomom.  And I am thankful for that. ...
Thursday, August 04, 2011

Holy Smoke! Here’s some bullets I’d want to be dodging

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I had lunch with my friend Peter yesterday, and he mentioned a recent Colbert Nation during which Stephen talked about a company that turns...
Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Naked Shorting

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I admit, I’m always at something of a loss when I try to figure out how performance artists actually make a living, as opposed to just gener...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Camping

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Last week, The NY Times ran another one of those delicious dudgeon-inducing, gorge-elevating articles on what rich New Yorkers do to spoi...
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Monday, August 01, 2011

So the last shall be first and the first last

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A couple of weeks back, Boston was all a-twitter with having been named the worst dressed city in the US by GQ . Naturally, I wasn’t surpr...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Mini vakay

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Pink Slip is taking a couple of days off, and will return on Monday, August 1.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Princely sums

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The rich are different from you and me. And it’s not just because they have more money. It’s how they spend it. Which I find if not endles...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Debt is “cool”? Huh? (Huh?)

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As if this past year’s hoo-hah over football players trading shoulder pads for discounts on tattoos wasn’t quite enough news coming out of O...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Well, that’s the last time I’ll take a grocery store sample

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There’s grocer samples. And then there’s grosser samples. As some Albuquerque, New Mexico shoppers found out when they sampled the red-lig...
Friday, July 22, 2011

J-E-L-L-Oh!

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On a long-ago business trip, I got to go to Bloomington (State Farm Insurance) and Peoria (Caterpillar), Illinois. We got to stay at Jumer’s...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Here on Gilligan’s Isle…

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Sherwood Schwartz died last week, at the considerable old age of 94. On the life-scale, it can absolutely be said that he got a lot more tha...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Human Cannonball-ing

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Oddly, given that the economic landscape seems to be so dominated by GIANTS like BofA and Exxon-Mobil, we’re constantly reading both the sma...