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I fought the urge to write about it immediately after seeing it. In fairness, it was 2:30am (yes, the very first public screening in Manhattan), so writing was unreasonable if not impossible. It goes without saying that I loved the show. Its leading lady is a columnist characterized by an unhealthy relationship with shoes and Manhattan. She is inclined toward ridiculous outfits and cheese-ball puns. …

The Guest Writers series features the works of people who a. have fantastic, applicable thoughts and b. asked for works to be posted. It was developed in the name of democracy, actually having new posts, and Erin Taylor. My mom has this healthy obsession with buying things, changing her mind and then returning them days or even fashion seasons later. Clothes, shoes, rugs – and …

Being an adult is hard. Very hard in fact. There’s taxes and rent and cleaning your own bathroom and not sleeping with ex boyfriends and figuring out if/when to add new favorites to your Facebook profile. They warned us about this stuff, and they were right. It’s not easy. Still in all the stresses of life-without-parents, there’s a select list of tasks/responsibilities/social goals that most …

*A little levity from the heavy, relationship talk Much like those mysteries of the universe, there are things we encounter etiquette wise that no one’s quite written the rule on. Not like Emily Posts’s guidance on wedding gifts and thank you notes. More like do you tell your boss who you wildly respect that you’re unhappy and looking for a new job? Or, if you’re …

I love words almost as much as I love avocados and boys who aren’t afraid to wear purple. For today, as a diversion from male over-analysis – I’ve assembled a little modern-day Lexicon of the things we’re saying (or should be) and the phrases that should be relegated to the ranks of “dang quesadilla.” Eeen: Joaquin Phoenix – (n.) a term used to describe someone …

People talk about our social world being all grey area. That nothing is ever really black or white. That all things are open for interpretation. It could mean this, but it could also, if you look at it from another perspective – after a few drinks – in a completely different outfit, mean that. There are no absolute truths. I think that’s a crock of …

Tonight is the premiere of Quarterlife the new, highly-anticipated, digital video shorts that launched as a wildly successful Internet show a little over 6 months ago. NBC picked up the series developed by Marshal Herskovitz and Erik Zwick, the guys behind similarly successful life-angsty My So-Called Life. The buzz over this next project of theirs is huge. Through digital snippet scenes shot home-video style a …

My parents took a trip into this city this past weekend because I threatened to stop going home to visit them until them came to visit me. I have lived 50 miles from my hometown of Freehold, New Jersey for almost three years. My mother has been here twice. In fairness, it’s hard for more than four people to visit my apartment at one time, …

Time is a funny thing. Not funny ha ha — funny confusing – makes-no-sense funny. Time when you’re 23-26…7…8 is a scary thing. Not shake in your boots scary — scary like you have no concept of it and yet it controls you scary. I notice us stuck in this “life’s too short” but “we’ve got a long way to go” mode. We know this …

A recurring series (maybe).It has long been my assumption that guys like girls who like sports…within reason. It’s a tentative relationship – territorial even – between guys, girls, and sports. A lot like that between guys, girls, and fashion. Fashion is ours. Sports is yours. I know that’s sexist, not 100% true, and makes me sound like such a girl. But sexism is rooted in …