March 2009
35 posts
Sooooo…. yes, I know I put up the photographic evidence yesterday, but my book LOVE, MOM: POIGNANT, GOOFY, BRILLIANT MESSAGES FROM HOME really, truly is out! And I’m not just saying this because I, uh, wrote it—the book really is the perfect Mother’s Day gift. Or perfect gift for your friend’s bathroom. Or perfect thing to buy if you just want to support Jessica and...
I just realized I have the exact same number of Twitter and Tumblr followers. It’s like social media numerology.
So… it started as sort of a joke, but then I decided what the hell, I’ll be vegan for a week. It’s so out of character for me that I’m still in the phase where it’s funny, but I’ll probably be craving a steak and molten chocolate cake by tomorrow. The only exception I’ve granted myself is GoLean, which, it turns out, has honey in it (who knew?), but really...
Also worth pondering: the fine line between twattiness and self-promotion. I will willingly tread that fine line to note that our book was reviewed on Boldtype today, which I am thrilled about. An excerpt:
The relationship between a mother and her baby is one of the simplest either will ever have. But, each year, that relationship gets slightly more complicated for both parties, until the day...
[redacted] just called and invited me to a party... →
natashavc:
Doree asks : why tweet when you can twat?
Indeed, I do ask such things.
Dept. of Understatement
In today’s NYT, Daphne Merkin writes:
What Mr. Madoff brought to the table, I think, was a sense of mishpocha, of being part of an extended family, but one you carefully chose rather than being arbitrarily born into. He seemed to humanize the cold, frequently anonymous business of investing by giving it an avuncular face. By all accounts, he was the quintessential nice guy. (I did not know...
I keep meaning to mention: the lovely and hilarious Catie Lazarus has been added to the lineup of the night Jess and I are doing at the 92Y Tribeca on May 7. Buy tickets, etc.
Blair? Is that you?
I really, really want this to be real. Except part of me also doesn’t because, um, wowzers.
A story
I am going to London on Saturday. I called AT&T to get an international calling plan for the time I’m there. The woman asked where I was going. I said London. She said, “Where in London?” I said, “Excuse me?” She said, “Like, London, France? Where is London?” I said, “It’s in England.” She said, “Oh, I wasn’t sure where it...
Dear Friends With Cellphones,
mollylambert:
Do you date? Do you text? Do you dext? Obviously much of our communication is done with our thumbs these days. Allegedly Chase Crawford broke up with Carrie Underwood via text message (Underwood $$ quote: “We broke up over text so … it’s like ‘peace out.’”) We’re starting a blog to document this phenomenon.
We want you to send us the crap texts you’ve received, from a dude, from...
WatchJess and I were on the Brian Lehrer Show this morning. Oh, you missed it? You can listen to us anyway! (Bonus: my mom calls in. No, really.)
“He looked back up at the people on the platform. “There were lots of people, and...”
– Reluctant Subway Rescuer Steps Forward - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
Blog to Book Deal of the Day
From Publishers Marketplace:
March 17, 2009
Non-fiction: Humor Maxime Valette and Guillaume Passaglia’s F MY LIFE, based on the website (and the original French website and book), telling horrible, horrific, and humorous anecdotes of others’ misfortune, now with never-before-seen-entries and illustrations, to Ryan Doherty at Villard, for July publication, by Elsa Lafon...
A smidgen of good news
From the NYT:
After a dip in the fall, the number of books sold in France rose 2 percent in December from a year earlier and 2.4 percent in January, according to Livres Hebdo, a trade publication.
The trend has been similar in Germany, where the number of books sold rose 2.3 percent in January, according to the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, a trade organization. Analysts say many other...
WatchSomething I neglected to mention the other day—this here video was produced by the lovely and talented Niharika Desai. We met during Human Bingo at freshman orientation (true story!).
Anyway, if you didn’t have a chance to watch it when I reblogged Balk’s original post, here it is, again—our video for Love, Mom.
Thousands of girls stand before me, but I only have 13 photos in my hand:
Pandemonium erupted outside of an “America’s Next Top Model” casting call in midtown Saturday when an overheating car triggered a stampede of catwalk-craving cuties.
Screaming as they ran for their lives, hundreds of hotties in heels toppled over barricades along W. 55th St. after several people in the...
youngmanhattanite:
Something I Learned Today: 99 and Balk have Twitter accounts. AND THEY USE THEM.
It’s all coming together now.
Hanna Rosin breaks down breastfeeding in the new Atlantic:
In Betty Friedan’s day, feminists felt shackled to domesticity by the unreasonably high bar for housework, the endless dusting and shopping and pushing the Hoover around—a vacuum cleaner being the obligatory prop for the “happy housewife heroine,” as Friedan sardonically called her. When I looked at the picture on the cover of Sears’s...
Mushy mush →
Pretty great audio slide show on NYTimes.com about sled dogs in Montana. As I was playing it Lee’s ears perked up. But I don’t think she’d make a very good sled dog.
“People who live in apartments in New York City, as a lot of people do, don’t...”
– Alex, regarding her inflatable, above-ground pool. (via laurlinkdump)
This part of RHONY was awesome: Alex and Simon, splashing around like two trashy hippos, in their KIDDIE POOL in their backyard, acting like they actually live in a Park Avenue duplex penthouse with a wraparound terrace and a...
Jessica and I are going to be doing a Postcards From Yo Momma evening at the 92Y Tribeca on May 7—we’re currently looking for a (lady preferably) comedian to moderate. Any ideas? Email me.
Ode to Brad
Hyperion started sending out copies of our book last week, and in the last couple days I’ve started hearing from friends and acquaintances who have been on the receiving end of it. It’s weird to be on the other side of the publicity machine! (If you’re keeping track, it’s coming out in three and a half short weeks from now. ZOMG.)
Anyway, I was happy to see that Brad Walsh...
Awkward
Chris: i had a date last night
halfway through he told me he was technically married
Barking Pit Bull Hailed A Hero By Brooklyn Family →
“Well,” said Amy, looking at herself in the...
meltzer:
Doree ponders liberated materialism. Two things:
1) When Doree emailed me to ask if she could use an excerpt from an earlier email, I asked her if I sounded dumb, and she was all, “No, I call you my wise friend.” And I was like, “You can go ahead and use my real name.” Also she was watching Singles and liveblogging it for me—“Bridget Fonda just realized she doesn’t have to be with Matt...
Dept of Good to Know
As the proprietor of so many hot spots, including Balthazar, Pastis and Schiller’s Liquor Bar, Mr. McNally certainly knows the benefits of admiring coverage. But he is nonetheless ambivalent. “On the one hand, I’m flattered, and on the other hand it makes me anxious,” he said.
He elaborated by e-mail: “I don’t understand why people — or rather the blogs — are so curious about this place, but I...
3/2/09
davidcho:
isgossipgirlnewtonight:
NO.
In case you’re wondering why there haven’t been any new Gossip Girl’s (or 90210’s or any other CW scripted’s) for the last few weeks, it’s because they started their season a month early (so that the network wouldn’t have to compete with the other networks for premiere ratings) and rather than ending early as well, advertisers wanted to make sure their ads...
