Tag: Social Commentary
Celebrities Gone Wild; ‘Do you Really want to Hurt Me?’
What’s in a scandal? What is a scandal? Coked up, cracked up, or hung up? Or just the center of attention? It seems today’s celebrities have redefined the drama they once fictiously starred in on stage, revving up the...
Doomed to be Cliche.
There comes a time in a woman's life, around the quarter century mark, that she has a quarter century crisis. Mine happened about a month ago, as I sat in a market bar, around 11 pm, sipping champagne and...
How to Behave like you Know what you are Looking at. Etiquette at the gallery.
"This is how you are supposed to stand," Umberto whispered in my ear as I took a sip of my PBR and stared at the painted and carved wooden slab on the wall. He slid apart his stance another...
Let’s Go to Chloé and Talk About Plato.
Katharine K. peers into Bobo culture to examine the undercover upperclass and their seamless sense of style.
Start with equal parts Bohemian and Bourgeois. Add a splash of Beatnik, a dash of literati, a pinch of pretension and voila! You...
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...
So you say you want a Revolution…
As the year comes to a close we here at Scallywag and Vagabond have been wondering about the degree of discord that we’ve all as a society have been subjected to; from mass unemployment, mass capitulations in the housing...
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...
Hanging out with Hipsters. What they do, Where they hang out and Why being one isn’t always Ironic.
If there’s one thing hipsters do believe in it’s the idea that you shouldn’t believe in anything unless it finally becomes perverse and counter intuitive to believe in. So if smoking is bad for you at some stage it...
You’re so Vain, You Probably think this Article is About You.
We here at Scallywag and Vagabond have been amazed and literally aghast at the advent of unrelenting vanity in the corridors of society. Every where you go you see pictures of tight peachy asses, (Pamela Anderson thank you so...
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 Etiquette of Dining Out. Arthur Schwartz Confesses His Sins and Preferences.
Like all great budding artists, we here at Scallywag and Vagabond like to know everything about the zeitgeist: it makes the rules more fun to break. So who better to explain the institution of dining than Arthur Schwartz, the...
Accoutrements & Alcohol and the Habits That Lead you to Them.
With financial institutions in sudden peril and the framework of free market capitalism in jeopardy, I resolved to watch the end of the first worlds’ misery alongside $30 cocktails and two patricians at the Gramercy Hotel’s Rose Bar. The...
The Scallywag and Vagabond Weddings Style Register. A Diatribe on How you too Can Announce your Wedding Even if...
We here at SCV have always enjoyed seeing who makes it in to the New York Times wedding registry. With tea and crumpets in hand we sit here every Sunday amusing ourselves, placating ourselves, wondering amongst ourselves. As...
The Politics of Being Politically Correct.
If we can't say what we think, how can we be who we are?
In a mass-produced media blitz of long, rich and blonde, it's hard not to wonder: is our sparkly pink bubblegum culture slowly gagging us to our...
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...
