2008
Jun
See you all after the Fourth! Enjoy the Internet! Whee!
Jun 26th
When a dog falls in love with a ram. - By Jon Katz - Slate...
Jun 26th
Neighborhood news
I saw a sign in the window of the Applebee’s at Flatbush and DeKalb that they now have cake...
Jun 26th
Oh yeah...
I wrote this piece for the Observer this week about assistants. Don’t worry, it’s...
Jun 26th
Life imitates The Wire
Jun 25th
Bikes and beer
The owner of the Brooklyn Brewery is peeved that he can’t find space to expand in New York...
Jun 24th
Apocalypse Now
Grogan Returns Author of the bestselling Marley & Me John Grogan’s new memoir, THE LONGEST...
Jun 24th
The "Power Stick"
I loved this email we got on Postcards From Yo Momma from a mom telling her daughter not to give her...
Jun 24th
Summer Guide 2008 - How to Pick, Prepare, and Eat a Lobster...
Jun 23rd
According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television...
— Reporters Say Networks Put...
Jun 23rd
You mostly get what you pay for.
My mom came to visit this weekend, and she decided to take the $10 MegaBus back to Boston. Her...
Jun 23rd
Just shoot yourself before things get any...
Jun 23rd
That thing that happens
Last night I was introduced to a friend of a friend—my friend had gone to high school with this guy...
Jun 22nd
The Love Guru” placed fourth at the weekend box office in a...
— ‘Get Smart’ Beats ‘Guru’ at...
Jun 22nd
The Unseen Movement - The New York Times Great slide show...
Jun 20th
Reconsiderations
Sam and I went deep into Park Slope last night, and the most annoying person of the entire evening...
Jun 20th
Lemurs at the Bronx Zoo [via NYT]
Jun 20th
Doree Is Turtle
alexbalk: Microfame is an ecosystem, a collection of fans who contribute and invest themselves in...
Jun 18th
Kelly Cutrone, revealed
My co-worker Meredith Bryan wrote an absolutely brilliant profile of Kelly Cutrone, the owner of...
Jun 18th
(via alexbalk)
Jun 18th
Doctoring
Totally depressing article about being a doctor: Not long ago, fed up with what he perceived as a...
Jun 18th
So remember when I said I was on a...
Yeah. Well! Since then I’ve finished Netherland (recommended!) and read The Talented Mr....
Jun 17th
Stuff I should've taken a photo of when...
The plaque next to the McDonald’s on Lower Broadway that says: “McDonald’s....
Jun 17th
IKEAIKEAIKEAIKEA
I am so terribly sick of all the IKEA coverage. I am trying to tune it out but it just keeps...
Jun 17th
On ugliness
There’s an article in USA Today by Michael Gartner, who hired Tim Russert to host Meet the...
Jun 16th
Cause and effect
There was an article about Russian tourism in Sunday’s NYT that pointed out: A record 2.5...
Jun 16th
Mr. Collins believes his partner is his ideal match because...
— Gay Couples Find Marriage Is a...
Jun 15th
The Monovore's Dilemma
That would be the diet of this girl, which is chronicled by her co-worker. Who shall remain...
Jun 13th
Sheila's mom
Sheila wrote this hilarious post on Gawker today about emailing someone she thought was her mom. I...
Jun 13th
Solis said her family initially opposed the match with Uribe...
— 700-pound man dreams of...
Jun 11th
The Taxman
My $600 (yes, I qualified, shut up) “stimulus” check from Our Federal Government arrived...
Jun 10th
Domino has started to feature more celebrity covers, but...
— WWD.com “Not tonight,...
Jun 10th
Betty White, Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan reunite for the...
Jun 10th
Fingers crossed...
… that my piece of crap two-year-old RAZR will make it to July 11.
Jun 9th
That would be her mom on the left. Apple doesn’t fall...
Jun 9th
maura: youngmanhattanite: Good god, this really is almost as bad as being locked in an elevator for...
Jun 9th
Thunder dog
Lee is a little freaked out by the thunder. She crawled under my desk (where I’m sitting) and...
Jun 9th
In one telling example, he is moving to hire Aaron Pickrell,...
— Obama Maps a Nationwide Push...
Jun 9th
Listen
I was having a major craving for Martika this morning. Yes, that Martika, she of the 1989 power...
Jun 6th
Waxy memories
I was discussing the merits of various bikini waxing places (palaces?) around town, and was reminded...
Jun 5th
‘How do you feel about your inclusion in the vaguely...
— Gothamist: Benjamin Nugent,...
Jun 5th
Musings on Williamsburg
I sort of contributed to this (admittedly a bit strange) package the Observer did this week about...
Jun 4th
We put Google AdSense on Postcards From Yo Momma when we...
Jun 4th
Spamalot
I keep getting spam with the subject: “A. Jolie’s advice.” I wonder what that...
Jun 4th
"I'm a statistic!"
That’s what my sister, who lives in Miami, gchatted to me the other night when she informed me...
Jun 4th
oh world,
lefindumonde: i wish job listings would give the actual salary number. when it comes down to it,...
Jun 4th
Don'tcha just love...
… when someone sends you an email they clearly, undeniably meant for someone else? And...
Jun 4th
Going, Going, GONG
The Gong Show is coming back… with Dave Attell: “THE GONG SHOW” WITH DAVE...
Jun 3rd
Mom the Cat Burglar
This email I put up yesterday on PFYM conjures up some very hilarious mental imagery, at least in my...
Jun 3rd
Scary thoughts
I just realized that as of this fall, there won’t be any high school students left who were...
Jun 2nd
Parents, police powers and ID targeted in new crackdown on...
Jun 2nd
May
Flashbacks
Goooooo Celtics!I’m gonna have to unearth the scrapbook I kept back when Larry Bird & Co....
May 31st
Are we not gchat friends?
I recently switched my gchat buddies list to “large” (yeah, yeah, that’s what she...
May 30th
Seriously, wtf, Technorati
It seems like every time I’ve tried to search Technorati lately, I’ve gotten an error or...
May 30th
On a lighter note, this is a pretty hilarious graphic....
May 29th
Cruel, cruel world
What is there to say about a woman who lived in an iron lung—an iron lung—for almost 60 years and...
May 29th
allthesadyounggossipgirls: Spotted—Press list, Sex and the...
May 28th
"His OCD is worse than ever"
In this week’s Observer, I wrote about Jeff Lewis, the “deeply neurotic” (my...
May 28th
Suck on that, Angert. Okay, fine, I shouldn’t make fun...
May 28th
Cheer up! People are STILL making funny LOL-whatever jokes!...
May 28th
Poll: What is the most pointless poll...
It may be this one: the “Top 10 Worst American Accents,” by British actors in American...
May 28th
Blogs to books blah blah blah
So Newsweek ran a story in their print edition this week about this crazy new phenomenon—perhaps...
May 28th
Amanda Lorber, you have sort of forsaken...
So last night’s doubleheader of The Paper was mostly enjoyable, except for the elaborately...
May 27th
A rebuttal to 'Millennials' criticism:...
perpetua: jessicagoldharalson: Why isn’t there a dialogue about how our generation volunteers...
May 27th
Novel gazing
Sometimes I feel like I’m reading bulimic: There are weeks when I can’t stand to pick up...
May 27th
Timbaland, high school, etc etc
We got a great submission about Timbaland going back to his high school on Postcards From Yo Momma.
May 24th
We went back! Allen & Delancey, take...
The power was on and John, the manager, wished me a happy belated birthday and bought us a round of...
May 22nd
Rule of thumb
If you ignore something it really does go away, unless it is an STD or flesh-eating virus.
May 22nd
Jimmy Fallon, man of the ... people?...
In this week’s Observer I did a piece on Jimmy Fallon and how he’s gonna be the new...
May 21st
Photo finish
It’s Gawker week at the Times! In addition to Emily’s piece, there is this kind of odd...
May 20th
"My teacher was a better writer than...
One of the weirder New Yorker pieces I’ve ever read is in this week’s issue; it’s...
May 20th
alexbalk: Apart from trying not to sexually harass people,...
May 20th
Gangs of New York
1: For Urban Baby newbies, it takes a little time to catch on to the patois. The gist is that the...
May 19th
This submission about jazz hands on PFYM made me recall one...
May 19th
Electric Company
Sam took me out to Allen & Delancey tonight to celebrate my birthday. Neither of us had ever...
May 16th
Presumably in the same way that Joel...
alexbalk: “‘The young kids think he’s the cat’s meow,’ says Caroline Hirsch, proprietor of...
May 13th
Just one more thing...
Of course, Daily Intel has the Gossip Girl roundup locked down, but they missed one very crucial...
May 13th
Myanmar
Noticing that the NYT is going to great lengths to keep the identities of its correspondents in...
May 12th
Oh yeah
The red-eye is always one of those “it seemed like a good idea at the time” ideas. Want...
May 12th
What qualifies as an exclusive these...
“The singer and his family declined to be interviewed at the event, but David Archuleta did...
May 11th
Madness
There’s an article about my old boss in tomorrow’s Styles section. It’s all about...
May 10th
LA so far
Keep forgetting to bring my camera. Ate ramen but not at the place someone recommended because it...
May 9th
Hello Upper East Siders!
I wrote about a book club in the Observer this week. I also wrote a couple other things but I think...
May 6th
What's wrong with the French
That kind of attitude is why we never get anything done around here! On April 11, the finance...
May 6th
Going to LA! Tomorrow!
So I’m heading to LA tomorrow for a few days. I’ll be staying with friends in West...
May 6th
Oh right, that photo
Thanks for the reminder, Lux—that lovely screecap is now at Boinkology.
May 6th
Gawker-to-Fleshbot transformation...
Good thing I screengrabbed Nick Douglas’s completely gross post before the post was hurriedly...
May 5th
On embargoes
I reviewed Barbara Walters’s new autobiography, Audition, for Wednesday’s Observer....
May 5th
Where you will find me this evening
I’m reading at tonight’s installment of Ritalin Readings at the Slipper Room (at Orchard...
May 5th
Not again.
In Salon today, Megan Hustad—whose new book, How to be Useful, I hear is quite entertaining—rehashes...
May 2nd
Listen
Counting Crows were not a band that I thought I would appreciate 10 years later, but “A Long...
May 2nd
Dita Von Teese
postcardsfromyomomma: Check out Fredericks of Hollywood Dita Von Teese collection. Very nostalgic...
May 2nd
alexbalk: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… vaginas. There...
May 1st
Lee sniffs the outdoors as if it were a fine wine.
May 1st
Apr
Get a liiiiiiiiife
I wrote about Lifetime TV for this week’s Observer. I sort of loved Lifetime’s whole...
Apr 30th
Bookish news
I suppose I should point out that martinis have never been my drink of choice, but other than that,...
Apr 29th
The New York Times ran a “correction” of their...
— Gawker, Manhattan Media News...
Apr 29th
prettystandard: The M’Finda Kalunga community garden on the...
Apr 29th
jessicalouise: butterflyeffect: One last family...
Apr 29th
National identity
Seriously, what is it with the Austrians and their secret underground lairs? It’s really...
Apr 28th
Really, this is all you need to know about my...
Apr 28th
dog training
I saw one of these dogs today—it poked its head into the train I was on (with a cop in tow of...
Apr 24th
Encore pays its collectors in India an average base salary...
— Debt Collection a New Frontier...
Apr 23rd
YUP
emily:
imitation is the sincerest form of CREEPY WEIRDNESS
Apr 23rd
LIARS. Maybe this is true for the express lines. But lately...
Apr 23rd
Information overload
I put together this map and list of the “Brooklyn Literary 100” for this week’s...
Apr 23rd
Books your dogs will read to you
From Publishers Marketplace: Genevieve the Dog, as told to Dennis Fried, Ph.D’s WHEN I WANT...
Apr 22nd
More on gmail ads
Could it be possible that gmail ads pop up according to what you’re typing in AOL Instant...
Apr 22nd
Ms. Plew says she remembers precisely where she was when she...
— Saying She Patented Bra, L.I....
Apr 22nd
four twenty
postcardsfromyomomma: what did you do to celebrate? anything cool?well, happy 4/20love, mom I was...
Apr 22nd
Paris Review update
I heard from TPR editor Philip Gourevitch via email, who told me that any transcription work by...
Apr 21st
Intern life
“Larissa McFarquhar did a piece about Barak Obama for the New Yorker, and I did the...
Apr 21st
ad buys
This ad: Bachelorette Party Ideas - www.Awesome80sProm.com/Bachelorette - She’ll have the Time...
Apr 21st
The police noticed Mr. Quest at 64th Street and West Drive...
— CNN Reporter Faces Drug Charge...
Apr 18th
Naked Gun probably ruined me for life with the beaver...
Apr 18th
That's one smart loofa
From PFYM: hi jujubear,i just keep forgetting to tell you to change...
Apr 18th
dream
postcardsfromyomomma: Ok I had the Wendy is pregnant dream. I will keep you imformed. THe dream...
Apr 17th
Dept. of Page Six corrections
I love corrections that happen nearly a month after the original article/item. Especially when...
Apr 17th
Just curious...
… when the Tina Fey backlash is gonna start. Because, you know, it’s inevitable. Any...
Apr 17th
On roaches
In last week’s Observer, Choire wondered: “Where Have All the Cockroaches Gone?” I...
Apr 17th
Chodorow strikes again
In the season finale of Real Housewives last night, Jeffrey Chodorow managed to get in one last plug...
Apr 16th
This makes total sense if you believe that Obama’s...
Apr 16th
Devon Miller, who lives on Beach Avenue, near the shooting...
— In Tale of Fatal Robbery,...
Apr 16th
Tadpoling
This is much funnier if you imagine they mean Demi Moore when they say...
Apr 15th
kate spade Oh my: “pop clinton gives a vibrant punch...
Apr 15th
Star power
So last night on The Hills the gals are helping out (the amazing) Kelly Cutrone put together the...
Apr 15th
Oh, and re: the below
Happy Tax Day!
Apr 15th
Maybe next year you can do this...
postcardsfromyomomma: Well, I went ahead and found your W2 online and filed your taxes. It doesn’t...
Apr 15th
And good riddance
We went to the last Knicks game at Madison Square Garden of the season tonight—they played the...
Apr 15th
We are thrilled to confirm their engagement and congratulate...
— Usmagazine.com | EXCLUSIVE:...
Apr 14th
Oh, fuck you, Verizon
I waited all morning for Verizon to come fix our landline (our cell phones barely work in our...
Apr 14th
Apr 14th
Listen
This Jawbreaker (uh, yes, I said Jawbreaker) song brings me back to a drafty Urban Outfitters in...
Apr 14th
This is from my mom’s sweet 16. It looks pretty super...
Apr 14th
THE Lonely Planet guidebook empire is reeling from claims by...
— Lonely Planet’s bad trip...
Apr 14th
Movie afternoon
Sam and I watched All the President’s Men today—neither of us had ever seen it. (I’m...
Apr 14th
Bingo
Rex really gets to the heart of the matter regarding this whole “People You Might Know”...
Apr 13th
I must love you
postcardsfromyomomma: This will be the title of all my e-mails from now on, since everything you...
Apr 12th
david: Anyone using Firefox/Safari can try a (still very...
Apr 12th
The Chocolate War: Not as sweet as you'd...
Anna at Jezebel let me do a “Fine Lines” column this week, and so I picked one of the...
Apr 11th
Fridaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
I’m so over today, that the only thing keeping me reasonably sane is this video of a mom duck...
Apr 11th