MAGIC MOLLY

Martha Stewart

Yesterday we went to a Martha Stewart taping. The studio on 26th and 7th Avenue was fronted by a...

Oct 1st

Chinese snack

Oct 1st

Things to think about

Have you seen this ad? It is a small rectangle on the bottom left corner of page 78 in this...

Oct 1st

Lotus bun

Less a sensation of taste than of sight. You don’t buy a lotus bun because you are hungry....

Sep 30th

Fine.

Sep 29th

Ancient Utopias and Imaginary Places

Our Classics professor was handsome and box-shaped, with eyes that hinted at an excellent sense of...

Sep 29th

A charming couple on the Met stairs

Sep 28th

Show that will be very good

One of my favorite groups, Sleigh Bells, is playing at Le Poisson Rouge this Wednesday at 10 PM. It...

Sep 28th

Value added

Two schools bookend the block. One a high school, the other a middle school. Summer lent a break...

Sep 28th

Wig store on 27th & Broadway

Sep 27th

A good description of a type

“He had a twinkly expression, combined with what I supposed to be instinctive suavity. I...

Sep 27th

Penury

We buried our Archie comics for a year and re-read them at the point when all was forgotten so that...

Sep 26th

In a dream

My beloved left me and I stifled the pain with a peanut butter, jelly, and Cajun shrimp sandwich.

Sep 26th

From time to time he tried to change, but he’d never...

Sep 26th

Website Book Covers

Sep 25th

"Your lips will run red with lipgloss...

A central tenet of 1990s makeup application held that eyes and lips should never be emphasized at...

Sep 25th

No lo tolere ni sienta verguenza, ni...

The MTA worker across from me is thatched from head to toe with black hair. He is stocky and...

Sep 24th

Experience relief

When the song first appears to be “Benny and the Jets” but it is actually MJ...

Sep 24th

Nine satisfying forms of contact

1. Slipping into well-fitting loafers 2. Moshing 3. Snapping a magnetized purse shut 4. Smashing...

Sep 23rd

Poetry Reading

Sep 23rd

A sari is an age-neutralizing garment

A small woman in a sari stares at the ground, chin in hand. Her opulence and seeming despair are at...

Sep 23rd

For humans to live comfortably in captivity, their cages...

Sep 22nd

Train account

I get on a train headed to 125th Street. The Grand Street Station smelled like cooking grease, as it...

Sep 22nd

Crap

We’re all typical girls in one way or another.

Sep 21st

Little Shop of Horrors

Sep 20th

October VOGUE Summary

1. Karl Lagerfeld considers green the color of hope. 2. A cup of raisins has more calories than a...

Sep 20th

The look is in the attitude

Here’s a small pleasure: perfect bananas. A perfect banana is unusual but possible––unlike...

Sep 20th

Tuning In

A man next to me drinks Sprite and reads a book called Awakening The Third Eye. He underlines a...

Sep 19th

Marzipan hedgehogs–– too cute?

Sep 18th

Friday account

Slow, damp morning. “Fifty-six degrees and cloudy,” says the radio announcer. I make...

Sep 18th

Spike Jonze Speaks!

Sep 18th

What Would Steve Martin Eat (WWSME?)

Sep 17th

Being rich never interested him all that much. As long as he...

Sep 17th

This will be good

Frank Portman (aka Dr. Frank of Berkeley pop-punk outfit Mr. T Experience, a past favorite of mine)...

Sep 17th

Teenagers

The ride over the hill––we call it a hill, it is more of a mountain––is 15 miles of hairpin turns...

Sep 16th

Aborted story ideas

-Potted plants and their personalities -When you put cinnamon in your coffee and it won’t...

Sep 15th

PERVERTS

Two male models are taking a break on a park bench, one eating a small container of yogurt. An older...

Sep 15th

There was a ritual cupcake dance in the park across from...

Sep 14th

Sep 14th

Sep 14th

Eavesdropping

A woman and a man are bending over a blueprint. Their relationship appears, at first, to be a...

Sep 14th

Half circle

Overheard: “He’s a dick and he’s the worst kind of dick––the kind that pretends...

Sep 13th

Why A Refrigerator?

The intrepid Molly Langmuir recently uncovered a book called Electric Refrigerator Recipes and Menus...

Sep 12th

Ballad

My children are boys, ages three, five and six I drink Ovaltine smoothies that come from a mix My...

Sep 12th

Immeasurable things

Justin Timberlake’s talent Anna Wintour’s intrigue Ice Cube’s charisma

Sep 11th

Weekday account

It was not a good day for meetings. I felt as though someone had hit me over the head with a plank....

Sep 11th

SWINE FEVER

Sep 10th

Fashion Week

Here they are again! The long-shaped girls with small heads and prettily lank hair. Moving...

Sep 10th

Jenny Holzer temporary tattoo set, at the Whitney.

Sep 10th

"Helen and I bought the new Wilco CD."

The shop windows are marked with sticky fingerprints at kid level and the temperature is perfect for...

Sep 9th

"I can situate my “raw food high” in...

Alice’s exposé of working at a raw vegan mecca among the elite, the malnourished and the...

Sep 9th

Can you have the hop if you don't have...

I slept late on Labor Day–– “like a teenager,” he said, and it was interesting to think...

Sep 8th

HUMAN

Sep 8th

HUMAN AND HUMAN

Sep 8th

CAT AND FEATHER

Sep 8th

CAT

Sep 8th

CAT IN SUNGLASSES

Sep 8th

CAT AND HUMAN

Sep 8th

Sep 7th

Housatonic butter pecan

Labor Day vacations up here focus on two activities: eating and moving slowly through attractive...

Sep 7th

Beautiful girl on cell phone

“You’re freaking out, aren’t you.” “You need to tattoo that on your...

Sep 6th

Friday account

I’M A BACK DOOR MAN! Jim Morrison is screaming over the stereo. I used to love this album but...

Sep 5th

When you wish upon a knee cap

I have arrived at the definition of luxury. Actually, I walk past it twice a day. There’s a...

Sep 4th

A new wave. Can such a thing exist?

My stepdad kept an archive of The Surfer’s Journal issues near the wood stove and to the left...

Sep 3rd

Decorating tip

Carefully clip a page from your favorite children’s book and frame it in a cheap ready-made...

Sep 3rd

Stay organized

Sep 3rd

Working Out

Here’s a new habit: biscotti. One a day, like medicine or calisthenics. They are so cheap and...

Sep 2nd

Synesthetic wish

Clean white sheets that smell like lipstick

Sep 1st

Not a cloud marred the blood-red sun

Memories remain incomplete in your head but sometimes, if the memory is shared, you can pool...

Sep 1st