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The Real Reason Why You Watch Gossip Girl.
In case you have not checked out the hyper-sexualized Gossip Girl, (now in its second season) here is some motivation for setting up your DVR if you have not done so already—all for one imperative lesson in the spiraling...
A Gigolo’s Handbook. Part 1.
Based upon every Thursday night at a Turtle Bay bar, the point of the program was for young, affable men to charm the knickers off a Golden Oldie. Hence began my education...
This is a primer. A discussion of the...
Loitering and Smoking. The past time of dilettantes.
Nonchalance and its sister arrogance are the type of acquired characteristics that can never be feigned. Such qualities of being often take a lifetime to develop and any attempt to affect such dispositions without having being appropriately groomed or...
The Girlfriend Experience finally hits a Nerve.
Everywhere you look these days you could say that America’s values have taken a turn for the worst—something beyond what is occurring in the current economy. From the American Apparel billboards on the street (displaying a sultry teenager her...
Tia Walker- Observations of a Celebrity Blogger.
According to Tia Walker, girl about town there was a time when admitting you were a blogger, and celebrity blogger at that required quick hushed intonations. These days it’s the desired vocation of the glamorous set, assuming you are...
Class with the Countess, lessons in Etiquette.
Manners, etiquette, where do they come from, can they really be learned or is one just born into it? With that in mind we dropped by Thursday night to partake in the festivities (with tact and acumen to be...
The unraveled etiquette of publicists in New York City…
If one spends enough time in New York City one will come to find that one’s eventual ascension in society requires the discreet efforts of a clandestine publicist. It of course has come to the point where now publicists...
How To Tell If They Are All That, Plus More: A Guide To Assembling The Clues.
I had a dream recently in which I was in a relationship.
It was one of those dreams that I have infrequently but that I enjoy claiming my subconscious has trademarked: The First Crush Dream. The First Crush Dream invariably...
The curious affairs of women who marry for money.
Gold-diggers (women who marry for money and status): they’re much savvier and smarter than they lead on. How hypergamy, the seeking of money and higher status informs women.
There’s something to be said of gold-diggers (is that what we’re calling...
The guaranteed etiquette to misery and social climbing for young girls.
So you’ve arrived in the big city from 'who-knows where,' Idaho and you want to meet the people that will plug you into that coveted social pipeline. Hate to break it to you, bright eyes, but that's much...
The Curious Affairs of Psychotherapy.
I fired my last therapist because of a poorly-photo shopped advertisement in the back of one of those tawdry, overly glossy gay magazines. By this, of course, I do not refer to the larger gay publications, such as Advocate...
Chuck Bass in Colored Lipstick. XOXO. Gossip Girl.
It seems that Chuck’s rainbow is missing a color.
Gossip Girl is part of a vast right-wing conspiracy promoting a uniquely Christian agenda. In this highly disappointing season, the Sex and the City refugees, soon-to-be single mothers currently in Junior...
Aliens with Cheek Bones: Talking Shop with Model-Manager JJ Cortez
What is beauty? Why is it commercialized? What makes it so important and is it really in the beholder’s eyes? We sat down with world-famous model manager JJ Cortez, who discovered Nikki Taylor and all sorts of other famous...
Why the Yuppie is finally on the way out.
There is an idea in American culture that one can be who they want to be, or rather who they should aspire to be. Such desires are often informed by the things one sees in department stores, fashion magazines...
The Economics of Fame: Has the Celebrity Bubble Burst?
To fabricate celebrity costs money. To exploit it costs even more. The more money in the industry the more it seems are the numbers of celebrity. So what happens to the conveyor belt of mass talent in a bad...
