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Category Archives: Relationships
The Problem with Mannequins Circa 2014: A Rare Note on Body Image and Weight in Middle Age (300th Victorian Chick Blog!)
Ed. Note: Yesterday I wrote the better part of a blog about Robin Williams, genius and mental illness, but because it’s a more academic (that is, allusive and exegetical) blog than usual and my printer is disconnected from my MacBook, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Relationships, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged bicoastal brunette, body image, depression, eating disorders, feminism, feminists, fitness, health, kathleen rooney, live nude girl, Naomi Wolf, psych meds, psychoanalysis, psychology, Robin Williams, therapy, toni bentley, weight, yale
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A Qualified Defense of the Mrs. Degree: Experimental Blog in 200 Degree Santa Barbara Heat (Link to Click! Bang! Podcast with Jacob Sullum)
I. Obscene Heat, Vapor Connection and Click! Bang! Podcast with Reason’s Jacob Sullum. I intended to blog both about the Vapor Connection in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara’s second legitimate vapor store, and about the predictably excellent podcast on Click! Bang! with Reason’s Jacob … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged a/c, CASAA, Click! Bang!, e-cigarettes, heat, Jacob Sullum, new york city, Princeton Mom, Reason, Susan Patton, Vaping, Vapor Connection
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Thoughts on Victorian Chick’s 3rd Anniversary: Writing for Love and Identity, Dealing with Haters, and Getting a Real Estate License to Work as Relocation Consultant
Last week marked three years of Victorian Chick. I’ve been too busy to think of an anniversary blog which does justice to the role it plays not just in my everyday or social life, but the way in which it … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Politics, Relationships, St. Augustine, Theater, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
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Back in Santa Barbara: Dr. Sigrid Fry-Revere’s “The Kidney Sellers” and New York Travel Notes
I returned from New York last Friday on a blissful Virgin flight I listened to Kinky Boots and Wicked for over three hours. I love everything about Virgin: the planes, the service, the food, the wine, the entertainment, the WiFi, and the sockets … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Relationships, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged healthcare, Iran, kidney donation, kidney sellers, kinky boots, new york city, Newark Airport, Pippin, sigrid fry-revere, Virgin Airlines, Wicked
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Happy Tuesday! Podcast Tonight at 9PM EST on Click, Bang! to Discuss Beverly Hills Patch E-cig Piece (My First!)
For Victorian Chick, this will be a short blog as I am uploading my Amy Chua piece to Huffington Post, at least if the “internal server error” of 16 hours on Firefox has not somehow spread to Chrome. The piece is over … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Politics, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged Bang!, Beverly Hills Patch, Blue Tavern, Breakfast in SB, Click, e-cigarette bans, e-cigarettes, e-cigs, fine dining, Nanny State nonsense, Vaping, Victorian Chick podcast
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Catch-Up Blog from Visalia, CA and Musings on “(Dis)Grace Under Pressure” by Role/Reboot Author Lauren Hermanson
Yet again, life seems to have interfered with blogging. I have two half-written blogs, one on Marin County and one on the 4th Annual Veuve Clicquot Will Rogers Polo Classic, but since my last blog I’ve seen Alan Alda and … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Relationships, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
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Happy 47th Anniversary to Mom and Dad, aka the Saint and the Flow Goer
My parents married on August 26th, 1966. It was the year my mother passed the CA bar after graduating from UCLA Law in 1965, one of a dozen women in a class of some 300 men. The two had dated … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Relationships, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
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Part I of NYC/Cape Cod Trip Blog and Week in LA (Dance, Blue Jasmine, Flat Tires, Bank Incompetence, PMS Lethargy and Reconnect with Childhood Classmate)
My ambitious writing hopes for the past few days were foiled by a tire blowout on the 101 freeway in Westlake Village, midway between LA and SB. I was lucky to get over to the outside shoulder from the left … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, School, St. Augustine, Travel, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged Barrington, Blue Jasmine, Cate Blanchett, country clubs, James Bond, Landmark Cinema, luigi jazz dance centre, nyc, RI, Sammy Davis Jr, Something's Gotta Give, upper east side, Wianno Club, woody allen
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Penultimate Day in CA Pre-NYC: Brief Note on American Buffalo, the C Word, Rescue Me and Preview of Cabaret Cares for AIDS and Ben Vereen Tribute
I’m writing this on the porch of J’s condo. My Saab fob is in my friend’s SUV in LA (or by now in his house) as I left it there on Tuesday after an outstanding lunch at Maison Giraud with … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Relationships, Television, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged afghan whigs, alexandra patsavas, american buffalo, Ben Vereen, denis leary, diane farr, feminism, Geffen Playhouse, glengarry glen ross, grey's anatomy, john scurti, Laurie Beechman Theater, life in the theater, Maison Giraud, Mamet conversion, musicals, Naomi Wolf, new york city, Patrick Stewart, profanity, race, rescue me, ron eldard, Stepping Out, the chop shop, TR Knight, yelp
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Wonderful Mother’s Day Weekend in LA: Westlake School for Girls Reunion Lunch, Dinner at Osteria Latini and League of Their Own, and American Buffalo at the Geffen Playhouse
Summer has come to West LA. Happily, summer here bears very little relation to summer in most of the country, which tends to be obscenely humid or so hot–115 in Arizona or Palm Springs–you don’t care whether the heat … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Beauty, Relationships, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged american buffalo, CARAL, cultural studies, David Mamet, Geffen Playhouse, harvard westlake, joanie parker, NOW, sex and the city, summer in LA, ucsb english, weekly standard
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