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Category Archives: Politics
Happy Friday from Uptown Lounge in SB: Great Dance Day Monday and Comedy at Hollywood Improv Tuesday (Jay Mohr and Jason Lawhead)
In anticipation of a day of organization—my least favorite sort of day—I decided I needed fortification in the form of Brioche French toast and many cups of Peerless Coffee. The San Francisco coffee is the closest thing to blow … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Politics, School, St. Augustine, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged archer school for girls, brentwood, Brentwood Country Mart, David Mamet, Davis and Polk, diana meehan, Farm Shop, gary goldberg, hama, hama jazz dance, Hancock Park, Jerry Evans, Karabel, Marlborough, Rebecca Pigeon, risa, Sherman Oaks, sitcoms, st. augustine, Sullivan and Cromwell, tracey durbin, traffic, TV, westlake school for girls
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Post-Sandy, Election Eve Blog: Closing Day of Circle Bar B Season (“Any Wednesday”), Seagrass Dinner With J (Travelzoo) and CALM (Child Abuse Learning Mediation) Wine, Jewelry Chocolate Event at Montecito Country Club
I don’t know that I have ever gone 10 days without a blog but if I have it’s rare. I’ve been posting as usual on Facebook Victorian Chick and my personal page and written half of four blogs I … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Politics, Theater, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Any Wednesday, Ben Vereen, Broad Stage, Broadway, CALM, Circle Bar B, consignment, dance, David Selberg, fine dining, hama jazz dance centre, Karabel, lola, Lori Shinder Pearl, luigi, Main Street Dance and Exercise, Northwest Dance Project, pacific pride foundation, Paul Rudnick, pets, Pippin, Rachel Hett, Regrets Only, Richard Goode, Seagrass, Susie and David Couch, tracey durbin, Yogaworks
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Friday of Halloween Weekend Reflections on Amy Biviano’s “Women of the Ivy League” 1995 Playboy Shoot, Feminism and Feminist Scholarship
As I noted en route to Bay Head, New Jersey a few weeks ago, my social and professional writing life (such as it is) depends upon technology, social media in particular. But I don’t understand technology and computers. I have … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged Amy Biviano, beauty, Cielito, class, class distinctions, class warfare, divorce, donna haraway, elizabeth heckendorn cook, facebook, feminism, feminist criticism, gender, graduate school, grey's anatomy, John donne, julie carlson, katherine philips, money, nudity, Occupy Wall Street, Playboy, rescue me, Ruth Bernard Yeazell, sex, sexuality, the 1%, Women of the Ivy League, Wordsworth
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Groggy In-Flight Notes on TSA, the Jewelry Lover on Flight, and Obnoxious United Flight Attendants
Ed Note: I wrote this Saturday, inflight. I’m at Le Pain Cotidienne on 65th and Columbus now, waiting for a friend, after a spectacular dance class. I may take a second class at 7 as my dinner was postponed till … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Politics, Travel
Tagged 2012 election, apocalyptic thinking, botox, dance, dermal fillers, DIA, new york city, SBA, TSA, United Airlines
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“The dear woman is having an orgasm over a bracelet: Get her a man!” [Meditation on Money, Inheritance Tax, and the Deeper Aesthetic Pleasures of Jewelry]
My eccentric, literary, retired lawyer/economist FB friend, sailing around the world and currently cruising the American Samoa, does not understand many things in life. He has done everything from climbing tall mountains to biking long distances to riding champion dressage … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged aesthetic pleasure, bernard williams, diamond nexus labs, ethics, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, inheritance tax, jewelry, kant, orgasms, poverty, psychology of money, sex, Swarovski, third critique, yale
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Victorian Chick’s Philosophy of Yelping (LA, NYC, Santa Barbara) and Remarks about Wasted Political Energy on Facebook
I. Yelp as Vehicle for Bestowing Praise on the Worthy. My Austin friend who gave me the title for last week’s prose ode to Groupon–”Food Stamps for the Upper Class”–inspired this blog as well. I have 9 reviews thus … Continue reading
Musings on the Culture of Money in my LA Childhood in the Wake of “Journey to Freedom,” the Story of my Pen Pal in Afghanistan (Major in U.S Army)
Ed. Note: This is nearly three times the length of any blog on Victorian Chick except my 2011 year in review and my SB Zagat-like dining guide. I have decided artificially to segment it though I think it flows together … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Politics, Relationships, School, St. Augustine, Television, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 1%, 2%, anna karenina, coffee beans company, culture of money, cup of joe for a joe, entertainment industry, heat, immigration, inheritance tax, military service, money, st augustine, vietnam war, works
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Miscellaneous Wrap-Up of Week: Montecito Aesthetics Institute, Artistic Nails, Pacific Pride Foundation Rooftop Mixer on Day of Obama Gay Marriage Announcement, John Cusack and Pico Iyer This Week, Westlake School for Girls Reunion Lunch Today….
What an exciting week this will be in our little sleepy beach town my last week before New York! Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), no one organizes anything here and the Lobero Theater’s people didn’t talk to the UCSB Arts … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Politics, School, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged artistic nails, botox, dr. joseph chang, evolutions medical spa, eyes, harvard westlake lunch, montecito aesthetics institute, mother's day, Obama and same sex marriage, pacific pride foundation, perlane, westlake school for girls
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Pictures and Video of Emma, the Labrador Retriever Who Does Not Retrieve and Reflection on Fabricated Facebook Lives and the Freedoms of Victorian Chick
It feels like summer. I’m in a green mermaid sheer maxi-dress I bought as a cover up for the Dominican Republic in the summer of 2010. I hadn’t been out of the country in 17 years and I had … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Philosophy, Politics, Travel, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged anti-romantic child, autism, depression, dyslexia, facebook, gossips, happiness, hyperlexia, kay young, kids, mean women on Facebook, parenting, parents, personal philosophy, priscilla gilman, summer vacations, ucsb english, west los angeles, yale english
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Quick Pre-Dinner Blog from SBAC: Sunday NYT Review and a Carrot Cooler
I am giggling to myself , camped out on the top floor of SBAC which has undergone extensive remodeling. I was heartbroken last summer when they did away with the pro shop and the new corporate ownership has definitely … Continue reading