Tag: Money
Culture for Camera…
There’s a scene in the seminal movie ‘La Dolce Vita ‘ (directed by Federico Fellini)where the eponymous hero and obvious dilettante Marcello must decide between his love for the jealous girlfriend and the gorgeous star – played by Swedish...
A Bohemian’s Guide to Surviving the Recession.
The big bad Recession is everywhere you look these days and those who least expected it, are feeling the pinch. While normal middle class families are struggling to make ends meet with everyone in the family needing to...
How to tell if she’s a Gold Digger.
There comes a point in every man’s life, well every well to do man’s life to be precise where he has to ask himself the crucial question- ‘is she here because she loves me or because she loves my...
Floozy Girls and Dopey Goombas or something like that…
“I think the title of your article should be ‘Floozy Girls and Dopey Goombas’,” said Mark, our photographer, as we shoved our way through a sea of orange spray tans and expensive push-up bras. We managed to slip in...
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...
Why we love Super Heroes and why we wish we were one ourselves.
Next time you walk down 5th avenue or anywhere along Broadway, stop for a moment, put your hands by your side and look way up to the sky. What you’ll see wont really be the sky scrapers and the...
Reassessing Self-Worth Via Comparative Discount Shopping:
There has been no assuaging my pain these past eight days. Few of my "friends" have tried offering my broken heart condolences, but mostly, they've not cared to hear me whine and complain which I totally understand, and therefore,...
Now that you’re Unemployed what are You Going to do with Yourself?
It’s true being bereft of employment and income can be a very painful experience. What you haven’t considered paradoxically is how liberating the whole thing can be as well.
According to common dogma (isn’t that an amazing word?) we’re all...
Tits, Lips and the Life of Glitz: How Perfect Works until it Doesn’t.
A Christmas visit to the Ritz Carlton on the Mexican Riviera doesn't leave a girl much to think about. Surrounded by very big rocks and even bigger racks, it's hard not to see the lips and tits correlation: the...
Confessions of a Celebrity. “Why I’m making More Money than You’ll ever make.”
You'll be amazed if you really take a good look at what's patrolling your supermarket these days. In fact you'll even be more flabbergasted when you realize who's not only patrolling your prime Tv but also your graveyard shift...
Trophy Wives. Why They Exist and How You Can Become One Too.
We here at Scallywag and Vagabond do love to terrorize. So we sat down with the impossibly lovely“How to Get a Rich Man” author (former Playboy model) Donna Spangler to see what this so-called trophy business is all about. Biological...
The Demise of Joie de Vivre…
We here at SCV have been reading with great concern about what has come to happen to a certain habit that for a generation of ‘bohemians, intellectuals, sleepy sods’ and other irascible souls of the leisured class have come...
The Culture of Status and How It Undoes Us.
We’ve been wondering about the media’s preoccupation with status lately (and by default ours too) and what this portends. The trophy life styles, the well appointed celebrity poster boys making their late night tv rounds, the dazzling cars and...
Party Tricks, Smashed Birthday Cakes and the Ideological Hangover.
We’ve all been to them, lavish house parties where the guests begin to resemble the liquor bottles that they’ve been imbibing since early evening, where toilet bowls no longer flush, the birthday cake unfortunately falling off the ledge just...
The Culture of Fat Cats, Fast Cars, and the Dreams That Sometimes Go Bust.
We've been watching them lately, those gentlemen in finely wrought suits, whispered dispositions and gaunt expressions careening out of control. Once ubiquitous masters of the universe, chagrined expositors of fast cars, fast women and even...
