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The bad behavior of young women.
Of late young women have been going out of their way it seems to misbehave. Where they have found this courage is beyond me, but then again the behavior of most women is beyond me. In a...
Sexuality within Sports. Gotham Rugby
Gentlemen…Gentle-Men. Not steroid ridden animals, not men of men, but gentlemen. Why do some sports then, like Rugby at times, demand such an overtly masculine man, or better yet visualize an overtly masculine man on the pitch? What if...
The great Coney Island hoopla show.
When traveling to Coney Island for Nathan's 2010 Hotdog competition you begin to embark on a travel of epic proportions. Upon embarking the B train I immediately ran into a cute foreign couple from the Netherlands who were also...
A few observations for the 4th of July.
So here we are once again celebrating the 4th of July long weekend and all that comes with it- mad dashes to the airport, freeway, summer escape house, our friend's barbeque, the book we've meaning to...
Best Frenemies for Life: Modern Women and the Difficulty of Making Friends
College students live in the same manner as rats in a science lab. In tiny little dorm room cells, an endless stream of impressionable freshman hope to survive the scary experiment we call forced socialization. Living...
The Thin Line Between Gay and Straight, According to Someone Who’s Crossed It.
What is identity? Or rather can we define our identity pursuant to our sexual inclinations? In this rivetting essay award winning journalist Mikey Rox asks some provocative questions- what is it to be gay, is it...
Virgin Airlines: The flight from Hell.
Once again it's that time of year where we dig up the summer travel holiday nightmare from hell. Last year it involved Continental flight #2816 where up to 300 people were trapped for up to 2 days...
Gender, Sex and Money.
In response to the articles:'Why Some Vixens Screw their way around the Globe, 'CAUGHT BETWEEN A COCK AND A HARD PLACE. “A Modern New York City Girl’s Dilemma” "Payola- How Women play Men," "Dating in the...
The dirty secrets of the beauty industry.
In a world intent on selling you an idealized version of reality lurks a lot of trade secrets that hardly make it to the light of day. With merchants intent on selling you the latest fad,...
The double standard of women…
I'm sitting across the table with a woman on a luncheon outing and to be sure she's quite delightful. We speak at length about our respective careers, aspirations, expectations and what passes for gossip. For a...
Beating Those New York Summer Blues.
It’s come to my attention that some of you fine New Yorkers can’t be bothered to find anything fun or original to do with yourselves this fine, hot summer. That’s fine. To these poor folk I...
Social Media, the definitive guide.
“I have twatted.” - Stephen Colbert (Interview with Meredith Vieira, 2009)
If I don’t “check-in” somewhere, am I nowhere to be found?
I’ve barely taken 2 steps into an establishment and already checked-in on Foursquare, setting off...
The arrival of the Bushwick hipster.
If you want irony you're best advised to stay in Williamsburg, on the other hand if you're seeking legitimacy and a kind of jaundiced slacker attitude that comes with skinny kids wearing dog collars without...
100 Cups of Coffee. The ins and outs of internet dating.
Being in Central Park, I immediately was on the lookout for the Central Park Rapist. That was until I met Kimberly Spice, the serial dater (as opposed to the serial rapist) that I was interviewing. She...
The return of the Montauk Monster…
At least every summer since 1975 has been plagued by some variation on “the Jaws Effect.” Following the arrival of the bloated creature that washed ashore in Montauk in the summer of 2008, another cryptozoological feeding frenzy...
