Daily Archives: November 1, 2012

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Project Runway All-Stars Season 2 Episode 2 Liveblog

Oh, Peach, we hardly knew you again.

I mean, come on. Who among you was surprised when Peach got the old heave-ho last week? I certainly wasn’t, for she is certainly the least crazy of this particular assemblage of “all-stars.”

Ok, so here we go with the second episode of this season of “All-Stars.” And who is this host? Carolyn Murphy isn’t even Heidi-lite. She’s more like HeidiHardly. Or HardlyHeidi. This woman is definitely not going to have a line of crappy baby wear. Well, thank Heidi it’s Thursday, because it’s time to pull up a chair, pour a BIG glass and snark with us! Join us as we rip the “fashions” and the sewtestants!

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Pigeonholed for the Stripper Pole

Recently my friend Misty and I were having lunch and she mentioned that she’s looking for a new job. She told me her rather plain middle name and asked me if I thought she should use that on job applications. I told her I liked the name Misty but didn’t have a good answer about what would be most effective at landing a new job. Here’s an essay she wrote about living with her name.

I’m thinking about ditching my first name for job applications, and using my middle name instead. The other day I remembered that while I worked briefly at a restaurant back in 2006, the manager asked me if Misty was a nickname. He might have asked before writing out the first paycheck. When I said no, he replied that he thought it might have been my “dancing name.” His name is one of the most common-  one that doesn’t register a blip on any snobbiness radar- yep, John. The Social Security website lists the most popular names by decade here. Continue reading →

Notes on the Apocalypse

The madness has subsided. We’re safe and comfortable, which I realize is more than I can say for a lot of people in New Jersey, Queens, and elsewhere. We were far from the worst of it, I know. But I figured I might as well set everything down now before it washes away like so many trees and debris.

I would hope that those of my friends who thought it was ‘all a bunch of hype, just like Irene’ are now sufficiently chastened. But I don’t think even those of us who took it seriously expected something on this scale. As of Monday evening I was envisioning something like the following: staying in while drinking wine and eating all the snacks we’d stocked up on and playing Settlers of Catan by candlelight until the power went back on in a day or so, at which point we’d switch to watching movies until the subways came back in another day or so and I no longer had an excuse to stay home from work. Continue reading →