The whole notion of a "celebrity artist" inspires a knee-jerk reaction in me that makes me want to dismiss said artist out of hand, complain that said artist is famous thanks simply to having landed on a successful gimmick and then go on to list a litany of reasons of why said artist is overrated. […]

I am preparing (once again) to relocate. Once again I will not be bringing any furniture with me, just some clothes, a decorative pillow or two and some chutzpah. Naturally, there are upsides and downsides to the state of extreme brokenness that prevents one from taking one’s furniture with one when one goes. Con: No […]

This being the "Best Of" issue and all, I got to thinking about all the many wonderful things about Charlottesville that make it The Best Town of All Towns in The Universe to me. I love Charlottesville. Probably more than is healthy and certainly more than is necessary. The list of what makes Charlottesville rock […]

The other day a girl I know came up to me and asked, "Are you still writing that column about websites?" I said that indeed I was, flattered and astonished that she even knew I wrote a column about websites at all. She then proceeded to tell me about this website she had started about […]

Two thoughts on the subject of trees: First, when I lived in Aspen, my constant argument against all those people who kept gushing over how beautiful Aspen was amounted to, “Beautiful? But it only has three kinds of trees!” (aspens, cottonwoods and pines). I would then treat these poor people who were so unschooled in […]

Last night, I was sitting around drinking a pinot grigio that tasted like a chardonnay (does that sound obnoxious?) with a few of my favorite people, when our idle chitchat turned to one of my favorite topics of conversation: real estate. This discussion, however, differed from previous conversations about real estate in that this conversation […]

O.K. So. Everyone knows that Rosie O’Donnell blogs, right? Everyone has heard tell about her weird blogging style that often involves what some might refer to as “poems” (e.g., “a book is not a blog/a book has very few strict rules/so does singing/and comedy too/you never know to…what?”), right? Well, you may have heard that […]

I think I’ve spoken before in this forum about my childhood wish to go into advertising. How, thanks to ads like Play Station’s 1998 classic pedaling Metal Gear Solid and the Tiny House ad for Geico, I am convinced that the advertising business is full of the coolest, smartest, funniest people in the world. While […]

Vague memories from the Food & Wine Classic that recently wrapped up here in Aspen from where I write: the girl at the table next to me telling her companion that she used to have sex with Bobby Flay in the bathroom of the restaurant at which we were dining; me getting so drunk on […]

The thing about the Internet is that it keeps getting more and more ambitious. Bigger and better and more and lots more. This is what we call “progress” in cliché moments of cynicism when we are using that word to denegrate that same word. I, however, am not using the word in this way in […]