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Internal Confessions of a Dieting Mind
I’ve been on a pretty strict diet for about a month now. It’s known as the very popular, widely practiced MIHOW diet. You may have heard of it. After reading the Southbeach Diet book about six months...
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My Mistress: A long story about how I met The Times
(If a woman keeps a mistress is it then called a “Mister” because I’m not keeping a lady. Come to think of it, I’m not even keeping a man.) The New York Times has become my evening lover. After Toby...
View ArticleDevine
Last night, I ventured out to see Kevin Devine at South Paw in Park Slope. While I was watching him play, after having just consumed a meal made up entirely of sushi and chasing that with a glass of...
View ArticlePace. (yourself for this is like reading a boring marathon.)
If there is a God, he’s either heartless or he has a sick sense of humor (literally). About two weeks ago, Toby and I decided to dump an excessive amount of red wine into our trash chutes, right after...
View ArticleDays of Yore
Sometimes, life is weird. Last year, I was dreaming about moving back to New York. Now, I actually live in New York, after having moved from DC to San Francisco and then back to New York again. Who...
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Los Angeles
Well, just when you thought our lives couldn’t get any more insane, Toby Joe is offered a transfer to the Los Angeles office for the company he works for. I’m besides myself with freak. We would have...
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Cellular Nightmare
This weekend, Toby Joe and I finally changed our numbers from San Francisco to New York City. We walked into a store on 5th and 14th, which sported a HUGE sign that proudly read: T-Mobile Authorized...
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A year ago today we were driving across the country, moving to San Francisco. That’s totally insane. Related posts: Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 63) Moving Pictures. NowBlowPoMe: The Forgotten City?...
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ReWrite RetroShock
I really don’t have much to write about today. Actually, I feel like I don’t have a much to write about at all anymore. It’s funny what happens to someone like me when they’re happy; there tends to be...
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The Wojcik Curse
Many years ago, after my grandfather passed away, Toby Joe and I inherited his couch. The couch is (forgive me, mother) sort of ugly. While it’s comfortable, it’s also a little homely. It’s green and...
View ArticleiTunes
I knew my constant job hopping would eventually bite me in the ass. I just downloaded The Outfield’s “Your Love” because I have been singing it for two days now and I REALLY WANT TO HEAR THE DAMN SONG....
View ArticleIn Retrospect
A year ago today we were in San Francisco minding the heart. I didn’t write two years ago today or three years ago today. I must have been recovering from all the fireworks. Related posts: Tuesdays...
View ArticleThe 41st Annual National Apple Harvest Festival
Last year, we were in San Francisco at the time of the Gettysburg Apple Festival. This year, I’d like to attend. We went to the one two years ago and had a great time in spite of the fact that we had a...
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Hurricane Isabel Arrived Two Years Late
Yesterday afternoon, Toby and I heard thunder rolling in over the city. I love thunderstorms. One of the reasons I wasn’t able to embrace the West coast - more specifically, San Francisco - was due to...
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Leaving On a Jet Plane
My Toby Joe is heading to San Francisco for business this evening. I hate it when he leaves. I don’t like to be away from him. I know I have issues and am high maintenance, but I guess it’s better than...
View ArticleI’ll Have a Side of Boob Job with that Mango Lassi.
I have always wanted to go to India. I have told Toby Joe that for years and years. Let’s go to India!!!! How the hell are you going to survive a 20+ hour flight to India? You sobbed on the way home...
View ArticleIs This Really Necessary?
This morning there was a dildo riding a SEGWAY on the elevator. I’m sorry, did I just say “dildo”? I meant perfectly able rich man. He’s now second in line in receiving the award for the biggest ass....
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A Month of Visitors
Tonight, both Nico and George are coming into the city to see Antony and The Johnsons at Carnegie Hall. I’m going to try and see it with them, if there are tickets still available AND I can leave work...
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Gay Dot Com
Did I ever mention I worked for Gay.com? I did. I worked there when we lived in San Francisco. While I worked there, the below scenario took place. I put the image up then and said it was funny but...
View ArticleThis Is Not My Beautiful Life. Or, Is It?
It seems like lifetimes ago that Toby Joe and I were living in D.C. It seems like a lifetime ago we then picked up everything and moved to San Francisco. And it seems like not so long ago we were...
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Oh Ford.
When Toby Joe and I lived in San Francisco, I worked for Gay.com. I wasn’t there long, but I was there long enough to discover how important it is to have such a site for men and women who are gay,...
View ArticlePublic Transportation: Can We Own It?
Well, the MTA didn’t go on strike. Yet. That’s a very good thing for the city. Last night, as we watched the news people salivate over any possible new breaks, I couldn’t help but wonder. What if the...
View ArticleScent While Dreaming.
I stood in the closet next to Soung. We looked around at her clothing. They hung from hangers, sighing. The great contrast between aged skin and aged clothing became painfully clear: One becomes...
View ArticleOn Dieting, Losing Weight, and Feeling Good About Oneself.
This time last year I went on the South Beach Diet. We had just returned from vacationing down in Florida. When I put on my bathing suit, I looked like a big, mid-baked, fluffy ball of cookie dough. If...
View ArticleNew York City Wins at Everything Weird
First there were the Mole People and now this. New York City was named the cloggiest city in all of America. Seattle was named the least cloggy. Top 10 Clogged Cities: 1. New York 2. Miami/Fort...
View ArticleAn Incurable and Necessary Sorrow.
I woke up at 3:30 AM to the distant sound of cats fighting. We have three cats. And although one might immediately assume that the sound was coming from inside the apartment, I can assure you, the...
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Heather and Derek, The Papa, Snakes on a Babe, and Bonnie Prince Billy.
Tobyjoe and I met up with Heather and Derek yesterday for brunch at the Coffee Shop on Union Square. What was supposed to be just a brunch ended up with a visit to the Beard Papa, the Leica gallery,...
View ArticleNowBlowPoMe: The Forgotten City?
I understand why people move to New York. I moved here at age 27 because I always loved it. I decided to move to New York when I was a kid and my father took us to our first ever Yankee game. He drove...
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Moving Pictures.
The year was 1998. I was living in Washington, D.C. in a small, one bedroom apartment on 16th Street. I had just broken up with my boyfriend of 2 years. In less than 24 hours, our apartment was nearly...
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Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 63)
When we lived in Washington, DC. I took pottery classes at a studio in Adam’s Morgan. I studied with Jill Hinckley and threw pottery like this, this and this. I wasn’t great at it, but I loved doing it...
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