Tag: society
The Deepness in the Shallow Pleasure of Gossip Girl.
In a world that has become superficiality first and morality and good ethics second, are what we view on the television screen as a source of entertainment, the new semblance of our selves? An all too common sight we...
Three days a year that you won’t get back – how facebook is eating up your time
I have been wondering lately exactly what it was that I did with the spare minutes of my day before facebook sprang into my consciousness.
I am more than a little concerned to find that I quite simply don't remember....
The Halloween Debacle and how you fell for it.
If you were anybody you were kicking it at the most exclusive party. Where that party was only you know (and us of course). There were exclusive parties and even triple exclusive parties. You were crooning in the background,...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder- Restaurant Edition
How to behave in a restaurant...
While taking in the New York Times this morning, we saw a list of fifty essential rules for all waiters, waitresses, baristas, and other employees of the seventh circle of hell known as food...
JANE HOTEL – A VICTIM OF BEING TOO COOL?
What is happening to our lounges these days in New York? Let’s get away from the Las Vegas, Dubai or Monaco/Southern Euro Trash feeling with bright lights, shiny shoes and music that makes you want to settle down and...
Museum of Modern Art Host the 12th Annual October Ball.
The beginning of the night started with a very attractive female server dropping about 4 glasses of wine on the floor. I thought we were at a Greek wedding for a second as she had dropped all but one...
A checklist of the most unacceptable behavior while sitting front row at Fashion Week.
A checklist that they ought to be dispensing before people even dare take to the front row.
Bad behavior is bad behavior, but bad behavior in public and on the couture circuit is malicious behavior and is appropriately punishable with...
A Good Girl’s Checklist for a Man…
There comes a time when going out and coming home at 4 am to the apartment paid for by your father just does not cut it anymore. You’re entering your mid 20’s and reality is sinking in. Things are...
Happy Birthday to you Michael Krans!
The moment I walked into Michael Krans' birthday party at the newly renovated W hotel penthouse suite, I was treated with such kindness and generosity I almost forgot I was in Manhattan. Luckily the brightly lit night sky illuminating...
Socialite Kristian Laliberte is called a fag and a jew- the horror!
When Kristian demands that the brute be thrown out…
According to Guest of a Guest fellow media pundit and revered socialite Kristian Laliberte was shocked and horrified to find himself vilified by a supposedly ‘wealthy brute’ this weekend at Matt...
Notes on a Dandy: Grounded on the principles of leisure, performance, and good taste rather than mere lineage
Elegant, fashion-forward, and constantly in the know about the latest designer, Kimball Hastings is averse to the term ‘dandy’. At 28, Hastings is the wunderkind editor of Teen Vogue ; homosexual and effortlessly chic, Hastings is nonetheless utterly against...
Marginalization. You, me, them, and the ‘beautiful’ outcast.
In essence marginalization is like standing at the gas pump alongside with everyone else but because you have been deemed in perpetuity to be an outcast or simply irrelevant or too difficult to ingratiate (ie transgender, non conformist or...
The top ten most unimportant people this week in the Hamptons.
The social pecking order that you thrive off…
As we find ourselves fully immersed in the summer sweepstakes called ‘Hey look at me I’m in the Hamptons and I’m more important or nearly important game’ that goes on we decided...
Slaughter in Williamsburg.
Saturday Night in Williamsburg- the hipster's are starting to look more like Taliban with their 12 inch beards and track bikes (bikes without brakes.) There is no stopping the influx of these pirates blindly plowing down Bedford, just hoping...
Polo: The Sport of Socializing
I must admit that before this weekend, the extent of my knowledge about the sport of polo revolved around what I’d discerned from the Ralph Lauren logo—I knew there were horses and mallets involved, but that was it. ...
