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Back after quite the hiatus is the famed Sexism series. Joining a long line of debates include Phone Behavior and Leading People On is this — It’s best to just paste this as the convo went down Yesterday, approx. 11am – gchat Geanna: millie* has been working for the bicycle festival Jessie: haha Geanna: no it gets better Jessie: oh Geanna: so she’s been all …
I swore I would not watch this show. I abandoned The City after 2 episodes, stopped watching The Hills when Spencer grew that terrifying white beard and have not watched one episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. I had risen above it all. I was watching Mad Men on AMC onDemand and DVRd episodes of The Rachel Maddow Show. Until last night. NYC …
My friend John calls the other day (this friend John) as I’m walking home from work. “Jessie,” he says like he always does, “I want to talk to you about quarterlife crises.” These are the kind of calls you start to get when you write this blog. He and our friend Kurt (this friend Kurt) had been talking about how 80% of their guy group …
On Saturday afternoon at roughly 3:15pm my friends and I saw a topless woman frolicking around Central Park. We do not – after extensive examination — believe this was a stunt. Liz noticed first. We were talking about either the flawless acting career of Will Smith (which went briefly contested until someone – fine, it was me — remembered Jamie Foxx was not Will Smith) …
I’m growing increasingly concerned about the milestone adult skills I haven’t had the occasion to learn. Several kids I went to high school with now own homes slash children. I recently decided that storing extra shoes inside my oven was crossing the line – and so I ordered another set of rack raisers to increase storage under my bed. For the record they’re very hard …
I’m at the elevator bank of this random building on 22nd street yesterday afternoon. On the floor are two offices – the one I was at and this vague marketing company with a really nice font on their door. It’s fonts like those that really set you apart, I thought. Out of the nice-font-office door walk two girls. One in normal prep girl clothing (winter …
Today is a historic day. The kind of day where you forget about boy troubles and work stresses — where you’re compelled to say, “thank god, right?” to anyone wearing an Obama ’08 button. It’s the kind of day where state pride surfaces (that’s my New Jersey!!! 15 point margin!) and national pride returns (only in America could we come up with that CNN hologram …
Apparently we all suffer from (a certain degree of) multiple personality disorder. A recent Atlantic article on the way the mind goes about decision-making suggests that there really isn’t one governing body in control – not one sane mind deciding if the devil or the angel shoulder wins. Says the author, Paul Bloom, “The idea is that, within each brain, different selves are continually popping …
So we have a few things going on here. Instead of settling down and assuming golden generations lifestyles (j-o-b, wife, house), today’s guys are relishing in the glory of post-grad lifestlyes that are like college minus the classes (so, college) Part of why they’re in this state is because we’ve fallen on hard times economically, politically, and some may say fashion wise. So it’s not …
Why I’m Leaving Guyland “What used to be regressive weekends are now whole years in the lives of some guys,” Kimmel tells NEWSWEEK. In almost 400 interviews with mainly white, college-educated twentysomethings, he found that the lockstep march to manhood is often interrupted by a debauched and decadelong odyssey, in which youths buddy together in search of new ways to feel like men. Actually, it’s …