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Happy Non-St Patrick’s Day St. Patrick’s Day Blog: Happy Hour at Wine Bistro, Notes on New York vs SB Dry Cleaning and Nails (Redux), and the Joys of Complaining
I thought I’d just check in since I never wrote a Friday or weekend blog. I’ve been rereading parts of Sigrid Fry-Revere’s Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran and writing pitch letters. Saturday I had a glorious, long … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged dry cleaning, graduate school, J Brand, jeans trauma, Jeeves, Jeffrey's, lola, Madame Paulette, old New York, Piatti, sigrid fry-revere, The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran, upper east side
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Procrastination Pre-Departure Blog: Gary Gutting on the Crisis in Humanities, Tina Brown on the Written Word (Oy Vey), and Arianna Huffington on (Not) Paying Huffington Post Bloggers (Like Me!)
It’s a pretty early winter day in Santa Barbara, which means it probably got down to 50 degrees last night. I am listening to Wicked on YouTube, looking forward to shows at the Triad (N’Kenge, currently on Broadway at Mary Wells … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged 54 Below. VIP membership at 54 Below, Ben Cameron Broadway Sessions, Broadway, Gary Gutting, graduate school, higher education, holiday shows, humanities in crisis, LA Times editorial Tina Brown, Motown, N'Kenge, new york city, NYT, the Triad, Tina Brown
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Reflections on Relationships and the Relinquishment of One’s Own High and Pop Cultural Investments, or The Challenges of Living a Life of Ideas Outside the Academy
Usually Ollie prefers the ottoman on which I’ve photographed him numerous times but the sun is so brilliant and warm streaming through the window, he decided to lounge about on the hardwood floor. He often sunbathes on the upper … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Food & Wine, Philosophy, Relationships, Television, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged CT, depression, dresses, graduate school, Grey Laswell, grey's anatomy, happiness, literature, money, Morning Glory, music from Grey's Anatomy, new jersey, new york city, parents, relationships, Suits, Tadashi Shoji, tutoring, wealth
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Why Posing Nude and Doing Porn Aren’t Equivalent: Amy Biviano’s “Women of the Ivy League” 1995 Playboy Shoot vs. Duke Student’s Porn Career (with Thoughts on Feminism and Feminist Scholarship)
Ed. Note: This is a revised blog from 16 months ago. I was moved to rewrite it in part because my last blog from CA about Gloria Steinem, like the blog about that nitwit feminist writer in Oregon, did surprisingly … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged Amy Biviano, beauty, Cielito, class, class distinctions, class warfare, divorce, donna haraway, elizabeth heckendorn cook, facebook, feminism, feminist criticism, gender, graduate school, grey's anatomy, John donne, julie carlson, katherine philips, money, nudity, Occupy Wall Street, Playboy, rescue me, Ruth Bernard Yeazell, sex, sexuality, the 1%, Women of the Ivy League, Wordsworth
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Quick Happy Friday Blog: PCPA Theaterfest “Daddy Long Legs” Musical and a Bit of Wine Tasting (with Pictures from “Legally Blonde” Adventure in August)
Glad it’s a bit cooler in my apartment today. I had a rare decadent breakfast at Steve’s, where I can smoke V2 and get WiFi now: banana pancakes with sprinkled macadamia nuts and real maple syrup. I’m being very … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged daddy long legs, graduate school, Inn at Petersen's, legally blonde, musicals, PCPA Theaterfest, quinn mattfeld, the rivals, Twilight Singers, wine country
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Happy Fiesta Weekend from Santa Barbara! (Plus Preview of “To Rome, With Love” Rave and Reflections on Victorian Chick’s “Rarefied” Life)
I am back from New York (and the Cape/Barrington, Rhode Island), happily ensconced with J and the animals on a stunning, sunny Saturday after a morning of clouds and drizzle. I didn’t plan to return on Thursday, August 2nd because … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 1%, 360 State Street, amy waldman, big law, deconstruction, fiesta, graduate school, harvard westlake, husbands and wives, kathy reich, literary theory, manhattan, midnight in paris, new haven, o'melveny and myers, post-structuralism, taft apartments, to rome, upper east side, upper west side, west los angeles, westlake school for girls, with love, woody allen, yale, Yale Club of LA
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Victorian Chick’s Childhood Among the “Beautiful People” and Lifelong Reverence of Beauty in all its Forms
Just about any beautiful woman could become a professional beauty–not through success at court, but in the emerging celebrity culture associated with illustrated periodicals and mass-circulated photographs. The professional beauty needed not be rich, highly born, nor well educated–provided she … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Literature, Music, St. Augustine, Theater, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged All in the Family, arts education, bob schiller, childhood, family ties, gary goldberg, graduate school, hollywood, I Love Lucy, literary criticism, Maude, st augustine, steven bochco
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Sick in Santa Barbara on a Stunning Friday but Happily Ensconced in Book Nook With Book Reviews and Macbook Pro
Not a great picture of me but I am so absolutely in love with my book nook or “jolly corner” as a friend called it before I left for NYC/DC. I was in Kalorama (D.C.) a month ago today … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Philosophy, Politics, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged autobiography, books, duke lacrosse scandal, emily dickinson, graduate school, henry james, liberal indoctrination, moments of being, nervous breakdown, parental relations, philip terzian, psychoanalysis, richard brodhead, robert pippin, samuel becket's company, skepticism, solitude, stanley cavell, the weekly standard, virginia woolf, wordsworth and the victorians, writing, yale english
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Happy Sunday From NYC: DC Photo Blog (Angela Gheorghiu at Kennedy Center, Ali Wentworth Signing Four Seasons, Michel Richard, Library of Congress, Atlas District/H Street)
I have been remiss with blogging as I sometimes am on the East Coast, where the majority of my friends live and I have a constant stream of social engagements. Also, as I observed on Facebook, I tend to write … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Music, School, St. Augustine, Television, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged angela gheorghiu, Atlas District, cherry blossoms, childhood friends, graduate school, H Street, kalorama, library of congress, michel richard, restaurants in DC, st augustine, ucsb, washington national opera
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