Monthly Archives: February 2011

Tina Fey’s boring anti-feminism

I think I’m going to break up with 30 Rock. It may be putting the “fey” in “Tina Fey” to me-a (however feminist) male-to devote a blog entry to lecturing the writer/actor/comic about feminism, but the show’s increasingly inelegant reliance … Continue reading

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Treeshagging: Ten ideas for dendrophiliacs.

Asking me about dating is like asking a monkey about his experience falling out of trees.  I have done it, yes, but more or less accidentally, and so surprised was I that it actually happened  that next to nothing has … Continue reading

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Paterson: bad governor, worse professor?

Ah, to be rich! As much as we beardy brooklynites deny it, saying we don’t need money, that’s something for the “white man” (meaning our dads), we all secretly desire to be rich. Some of us want to be rich … Continue reading

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On being a cheap date

Before I write an article about money and dating, let me propose a couple of given truths to work with: 1. Blogging-already a self-satisfied activity-is made ever more smug when-like I often do-individuals write about things using words like “life … Continue reading

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Faking orgasms: a playlist for the neighbors

Last week I wrote about one brave young anti-capitalist who was endeavoring to take down the system that enabled wealthy men with pot bellies to have jacuzzi (jacuzzii?) built by people wholly disenfranchised the capitalist system by annoying the living … Continue reading

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