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What your weed smoking choices really say about you?
It doesn't matter whether you smoke or not, it's how you smoke the good shit that says a lot about you...
Trying to figure out who you really are deep inside...
The joint man: What it says about you:...
ELECTION DAY IS THE NEW HALLOWEEN: Some Thoughts From One of the Little People in America
The left and the right has Americans all lathered up in a tizzy once again. The HOPE of 2008 has turned into RAGE of 2010. Election Day is literally the new Halloween. Seriously, who are we ...
The top ten socialite whores of NYC.
Personally I’d rather starve than become a socialite, but judging by the way most of you parading trinket jeweled puppies are behaving you’re all too happy to gorge yourselves in the all you can eat daily buffet called ‘Socialite...
Should a writer just give up and become a socialite instead?
For a while lately I have been complaining about my resilient state of glamorous poverty (that's right kids being a writer is best reserved for those of you with trust funds like my esteemed...
Free Burma Alliance. The Humanitarian crises you never knew anything about.
Scallywag and Vagabond recently headed over to the Friars Club where the Free Burma Alliance was having a fundraiser for those individuals caught in the unrelenting and system abuse of Burma's citizens at the hands of...
The demise of the Chelsea Hotel.
Anyone who has been anyone or is anyone has at some point stepped through New York’s Chelsea Hotel, either as a visitor or resident knows only to full well the...
And so it continues- Darren Bettencourt insists his client Jill Zarin is not a Media Whore.
Media whores. That's one mouthful of a word, well strictly speaking 2 mouthfuls but that hasn't stopped publicist Darren Bettencourt who has single handedly (along with a bit of help from Jill herself) propelled Jill Zarin...
The new breed of Coke Whore.
In its most derogatory sense a coke whore is a 'slut' who offers herself up to a man in exchange for the promised elixir of cocaine.
In its most base terms it's a patriarchal relationship which qualifies...
The deceitful tricks of pseudo celebrities.
It’s a Sunday afternoon and I get a phone call from a publicist who shall remain nameless who wants to know if it’s possible I can send a couple of photographers over to GIRASOLE, a ...
CHILDREN OF WAR – Breaking the cycle
NYC. October 12, 2010, Children of War, Bryan Single’s award-winning documentary on the rehabilitation of Northern Ugandan former child soldiers was unveiled in its World Premiere at the United Nations General Assembly Hall.
For the past ...
The dizzy and nasty rise of the NY Publicist…Welcome Alison Brod.
Let me say from the outset I have no malice towards Alice Brod and her public relations concern: Alison Brod Pr. That said, I do take exception with some of the correspondences that I have ...
Son of South. The fight for racial equality…
Dr. MAYA ANGELOU WANTS THIS FILM TO GET MADE.
A movie should nourish you a little beyond its popcorn intake. In the stellar fundraiser at Dr. Maya Angelou’s Harlem home, Shirley Sherrod and Dr. Bob Zellner join spirits...
Taxi Driver. An exploration of a ‘transient’ class.
Taxicab drivers are, according to the 2002 US Department of Labor, 80 times more likely to be robbed and 60 times more likely to be killed than other 12-hour shift laborers. While most do become drivers...
Gasland: Light my (water on) fire…
There are certain things you can no longer afford to ignore. In the movie Gasland, opening today at the IFC, Josh Fox awakens you to more than a few of these – and hopes you’ll spread...
MONEY-TO-WEAR, Skanking it up in East Hampton.
Or how to wear 8 grand north of your flip-flops and still look like you were this close to getting cast on Jersey Shore.
Innocent Parisian girl that I was, I always assumed that the phrase "Money...
