From the category archives:
“I’m a big fan of your blog even though I’m not into fashion and shit.” — Arjewtino, to Johanna, winner of CW reality show “Stylista”, when I met her at a happy hour last year.
We all own one.
That one article of clothing we love that shouldn’t be loved. That one shirt or sweater or [...]
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Three months ago, I called for the abolishment of the word “douchebag”.
Overused and deficient to many superior pejoratives, “douchebag”, I argued, had run its course and become a stale word choice “for the uncreative and the indecisive”.
My controversial stand had a noticeable impact. Since then, I have heard it much less frequently. Or [...]
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A few years ago, my friend Wacky and I went to a Green Day concert.
During one of the band’s songs, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong waved his hand above his head and implored the crowd to follow along. Of course, everyone did, including Wacky.
I, however, stood with my arms crossed.
“What’s the matter?” Wacky asked me, [...]
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Shortly after moving to DC and taking a job as a newspaper reporter, a hot intern who I tended to ignore in the newsroom told me she thought I was a snob.
She quickly backtracked and said no, she had thought I was a snob but was happy to see I actually wasn’t one.
“Why did you [...]
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I have an awful affliction that might have reached its tipping point — I have an insane need to always be right.
This is ironic considering that most of the time I’m wrong.
This need to be right often defies logic, especially when I find myself arguing a point even in the face of irrefutable proof [...]
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Jim Caple, you are not alone.
Henry Fonda did it. He faced off against an entire jury of white dudes who didn’t agree with him. And it wasn’t easy.
If he was able to do it, I’m sure even you, Jim Caple, can convince the entire baseball world why the Dodgers will beat [...]
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As you may remember, I love free stuff.
So when I wrote about my yarmulke experiment last week and mentioned my regret at not having an Obamica or McCippah, I received an e-mail from none other than the guy who designed the politically themed Jewish “beanie hats”.
The MOT’s name is Shmuly Tennenhaus, a self-described “former YouTube [...]
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Ever since I can remember, the word douchebag has been the go-to pejorative term for the uncreative and the indecisive.
The word is deprecating without being taboo, psuedo-sexual without being vulgar. It has been used by preppies and hipsters alike, by Gen-Xers, Gen-Yers, and even Baby Boomers. It is fun to say but doesn’t [...]
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Throughout the lifecycle of this blog, I have written quite extensively about Facebook and its alluring siren call.
I have written so much about Facebook, actually, that it could probably merit its own category.
I didn’t intend to write about it so much. It’s just that the ubiquitous social networking site has provided so much [...]
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Barack Obama drew criticism this week from the GOP when he uttered the now-infamous “lipstick on a pig” comment.
But what exactly did he mean by that comment? Was he making a tongue-in-cheek aphorism about how you can’t make McCain’s campaign promises look tenable? Or was he not so subtly making a swine-themed dig [...]
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