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First Blog of 2013: Victorian Chick’s Reflections on Happiness, Social Media and Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Happy is good. I’ve always been a fan of happiness.” –Marsha Mason to James Caan in Neil Simon’s Chapter Two. It’s been two weeks since my pre-NYE blog as I have intermittently been working on my monster blog for … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Literature, Relationships, St. Augustine, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged chapter two, choices, Cliff Baldridge, daphne merkin, elizabeth wurtzel, facebook, feminism, friendship, gwyneth paltrow, happiness, harper's bazaar, hope Steadman, James Caan, Jewish, jezebel, Joe Bologna, katie baker, lynn beisner, marriage, Marsha Mason, mel harris, memoirs, money, New Years Eve, new york city, new york magazine, polly draper, private school, psychoanalysis, Role Reboot, secular jews, st. augustine, therapy, thirtysomething, yale
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Hello to Victorian Chick Readers from My Favorite Place on Earth (NYC)!
I have a 4K blog post written on the plane but will post that in the morning. I have no internet in the apartment and my boyfriend thinks it’s just the ethernet cable which looks about as old as I … Continue reading
Dad’s 2011 Reminiscence on D-Day: “We didn’t start Pearl Harbor; they came to us.”
Not until checking in on the FB page of one of my very favorite people on FB, James Strock, author Reagan on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Great Communicator as well as Serve to Lead and a book on Teddy … Continue reading
Bridesmaids Review (Infuriating, Sometimes Hilarious, but Depressing) and Musings on the FWB or Fuck Buddy Relationship circa 2011
I saw Bridesmaids last night with J after a great sushi dinner, at which I ordered a special roll posted by a FB friend of mine in Oregon, after whom the restaurant named a special roll (spicy salmon, spicy tuna … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Film, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Relationships, St. Augustine
Tagged booty call, bridesmaids, fuck buddy, FWB, gwyneth paltrow, kristen wiig, maya rudolph, sex, sex in la, sex in nyc, st augstine
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Childhood Recollections of Movies with My Mother; Favorite Mike Nichols Films; Ally Macbeal; Ishtar [Revised/Old FB Note]
My favorite Mike Nichols movies, because I am nearly 39, not 55, are not Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge or Catch-22 . I did see some of the first movie because the last boyfriend, 56 now … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Family, Film, St. Augustine, Television, Travel, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged absence of malice, biloxi blues, cynthia nixon, dustin hoffman, elaine may, gwyneth paltrow, ishtar, jack nicholson, kramer vs kramer, la, matthew broderick, melanie mayron, meryl streep, mike nichols, moonlight and valentino, ny, postcards from the edge, terms of endearment, thirtysomething
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Sweet, Funny Inconsequential Movie from 1984: Gotcha, The Last Seduction Meditation re Gender Roles, Woody Allen’s Alice and Blythe Danner
Just a silly shortish note, inspired when I went to Soho, a club in Santa Barbara, for a Christmas rock-and-roll show, at which a friend of my friend’s was singing. J had work to do and never made it and … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Facebook Notes, Fashion, Film, Lifestyle, School, St. Augustine, Television, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged alice, anthony edwards, bill pullman, blythe danner, family ties, gary goldberg, gotcha, gwyneth paltrow, kevin james, linda fiorientino, peter berg, shana goldberg, the king of queens, woody allen
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