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Writing Day at SB Apartment on Martin Luther King Holiday: SB Symphony Recap, Fun with Caulking Gun (Sort Of), Patriots Defeat and a Cheeseburger Sans Ketchup
I’m in my cold Santa Barbara apartment for the first time in almost a week. I remembered to turn the new heater off when I left for LA, which doesn’t sound impressive but after 3 years with no heat, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Health & Beauty, Relationships, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged christopher commission, family, home improvement, LAPD, Macbeth, Martin Luther King Day, Mendelssohn, Mozart, new york city, Nir Kabaretti, Patriots, pets, Red Sox, relationships, SB symphony, sex, Takemitsu, the Granada Theater SB, yale, Yankees
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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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“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 at the “Love Event” (Sheraton Gateway): Larry Loik, Life Coaches and Motivational Speaking
“How many tapes, books, CDs, DVDs have you bought to change your life, only to find that nothing changed?” –Larry Loik, Biggest Tony Robbins franchisee, entrepreneur, motivational speaker “Uh, none.” –Victorian Chick (aka anti-woo woo therapy snob) … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged californication, counseling, dating, happiness, internet dating, larry loik, life coaching, maria simone, marriage, mental health profession, motivational speaking, psychoanalysis, psychology, sex, sheraton gateway, the love event, therapy
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Last Morning in Newport: Musings From the Cabo Grill on Languages and The Client List
“If your man gets what he needs at home, he doesn’t go lookin’ elsewhere.” –Riley (Jennifer Love Hewitt) in The Client List. Gazing on a large blue plastic Marlin at Cabo Grill, in the strip mall with Starbucks, Sushi … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Fashion, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Television, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged botox, cabo grill, dating, dermal fillers, disport, escorts, evolutions med spa, happy endings, hydroquinone, jennifer love hewitt, montecito aesthetics, per lane, relationships, sex, sun damage, the client list
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A Wonderful Weekend in LA! Louise’s Saturday with Parents, Descendants at Landmark, Golden Globes Online, Hama’s Dance Center, Erbe Matte in Beverly Hills!
I was having so much fun this weekend and removed from my USB cable until 8 30 PM that I didn’t blog. I don’t have time to do a full blog about the wonderful Clooney film which I saw four … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Food & Wine, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged Descendants, fidelity, Golden Globes, hama, happiness, jazz dance, Landmark Cinema, Louise's, marriage, monogamy, parenting, sex, Westside Pavilion
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Del Mar Horserace/Toxic Airborne Concert Canceled/”Higher Ground” and Evangelical Christianity: Happy Friday!
I am in LA. Today is my parent’s 45th wedding anniversary and that would be wonderful but for Dad’s knee flare-up and extreme discomfort and lack of function, even with the cane. I realize that 86.5 is 86.5 but it … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged abstinence, airborne toxic, bible, del mar, higher ground, horse race, judaism, pentecostal, perry, politics, religion, religious history, religious studies, sex, social conservative movement, texas, vera farmiga, weekend
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“There Are No Happy Endings”: Tommy Gavin in Season 7, Episode 3 of Rescue Me
Ordinarily before I write a real essay or piece of criticism, I want to have my text mastered, be it a poem, novel, film, or television show. But as my ex-chair once wrote on a chapter of mine, criticism is … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Family, Relationships, St. Augustine, Television, Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, alex patsavas, andrea roth, andy cipowicz, comedy, denis leary, fidelity, franco, friendship, grey's anatomy, happiness, heartburn, janet, lou, male friendship, marriage, monogamy, nypd blue, pain, peter tolan, rescue me, sex, sheila, strong female characters, tragedy
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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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I Left New Haven, 15th Yale Reunion, a Year Ago Today: Freshman Year (1990) and Memorial Day Reflections (2010)
It has been a lovely five days in LA with my parents. I did not quite finish typing the books, as my brother brought his girls and we spent the day with my parents before having dinner at Noma, a … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Food & Wine, Uncategorized
Tagged friends, new haven, relationships, sex, yale reunion
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