Sunday, February 3, 2013
Tweet I felt like an era ended when former New York City mayor Ed Koch died at 88 on Friday. When Koch became New York City’s mayor in 1978, I had just turned 10; his third and final term ended on Dec. 31, 1989, eight days after I turned 22. He was the mayor of [...]
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Tweet MrB and I went to Washington yesterday for an inauguration dinner. We didn’t see the First Couple — Beyonce and Jay-Z — in person, nor did we see Barack and Michelle Obama, but we still had a good time. I wore an emerald-green Zang Toi gown for the last inauguration. According to Pantone, emerald [...]
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Tweet I’m amused by Happyplace.com‘s collection of anti-ObamaCare, pro-Canada tweets. Empty threats are so annoying. Can’t we pass a law that says that anyone who vows to move to Canada (“#forrealthough”) has to GO? Immediately? Like as soon as you say or write it, a moving van pulls up in front of your house. I [...]
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Tweet Forget about the wrinkly elbows. Realizing I had missed last week’s hot new Internet meme/website made me feel old and out of touch. The fact that I only learned of it today by reading the quaint paper version of the New York Times pegs me as ancient. (Damn! When have I ever needed to [...]
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Tweet Last night, MrB and I went to a screening of the HBO movie Game Change, which premieres on HBO on Saturday. The movie is based on the book of the same name, written by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin about the 2008 presidential campaign. The book covers Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, [...]
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Tweet I’m sure all of my fashion-obsessed readers are eagerly following the news of Europe’s deal to reduce Greece’s debt and stem the financial crisis that has shaken the euro. The Wall Street Journal’s front page story, headlined, “EU Forges Greek Bond Deal,” explains that European leaders “had reached agreement with private banks on a [...]
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Tweet Hallelujah! Michelle Obama has spoken! And she’s politely told the world to fuck off, which makes her my kind of lady. In case you haven’t been keeping up on the tempests in teapots that pass for news these days, Obama wore an Alexander McQueen gown to a state dinner for President Hu Jintao of [...]
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tweet If you don’t follow blogger, illustrator and pug-lover Gemma Correll, you should: Gemma’s Twitter Gemma’s Facebook Gemma’s blog This cartoon by Gemma depicts what happened to me on Monday night after I suddenly developed a fever. After researching the possible causes of my fever, I felt much worse and did go to bed early. [...]
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Tweet Hillary Clinton sashayed over to the United Nations on Sunday wearing a cheap-ass-looking hair clip, meaning she’s again in the middle of a fashion-related uproar. Search online for “Hillary Clinton hair clip” and you’ll see about 700 related articles. Some peeps are saying the clip is a fashion crime. Other peeps are outraged that [...]
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Tweet Here’s my gorgeous nephew, Sebastian Berry, looking like he’s going to his company’s annual picnic in a tropical button-down shirt and khakis. I don’t know what that fixed stare is about. “I’ve been hyp-mo-tized!” People keep asking me if Mr. Berry looks like his mother or his father, but he looks more like Winston [...]
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