Elderism #74
Saturday, September 11th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"I’m older; I have a great love of the English parlance. I can’t stand dipshit, tattooed, lacquered, varnished, depilatoried younger people talking their stupid shit, stage-sighing, saying “It’s like, I’m like, whatever,” and talking in horrible clichés, rolling their eyes ...
10 Things to Talk About This Weekend
Friday, September 10th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Tom Stoppard says he wants to die via a falling bookcase. And other conversation gambits from my Times column.
Elderism #73
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. It's satisfying. Every blade that's cut in half dies, for sure. But the other half springs back to life." -83 year-old musician Chuck Berry, in an article by Neil Strauss in the most recent ...
Possible Conversation Topics for the Upcoming Weekend
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »My New York Times column here. Calvin Klein's 20 year-old boyfriend, our President's forehead, Fidel Castro's apology, imminent changes to the O.E.D.--let the conversationing begin!
Thought of the Day
Friday, August 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The Ground Zero mosque: If a former Burlington Coat factory is "hallowed ground," then London Fog's headquarters must be Mecca.
Cancer: The Upside
Friday, August 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Two recent articles take a not-so-traditional look at cancer. A piece in Wednesday’s New York Times reported that according to a study published by The New England Journal of Medicine, “patients who began receiving palliative care immediately upon diagnosis not only ...
10 Things to Talk About This Weekend
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »#9. According to the New York Post, women who go on "Eat Pray Love"-inspired sojourns often feel burned. There's never a pot of Javier Bardem at the end of that rainbow. And other possible topics of conversation here.
The Senator and the Bad Romance
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Close your eyes. Imagine you are at a Lady Gaga concert. What do you see? A smoke-filled stage and a flaming angel statue? Check. A gang of muscular, nearly nude, male back-up dancers wearing what can only be called minimalist ...
I Go Columnar
Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »So. I have started writing a weekly column for the New York Times called "Crib Sheet." Rearing its ugly little head each Thursday, it will be a list of ten interesting and timely conversation topics for the weekend ahead. Here is ...
La Symphonie Radiateure
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »In my New York City apartment, I have a noisy radiator--a real "talker." I recorded it (and 9 other radiators in the metropolitan area), creating a musical composition which I then presented to a classical music expert. It all airs this ...
