• A Clown in a Gown

    Here’s a video of Bianca del Rio’s opening and closing segments at last night’s Drive N’ Drag show in Tampa. It is distasteful and disrespectful and you’ll be a better person if you don’t watch it.1 1 The person laughing uproariously in the background is me.

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  • Yeah, It Makes Me Smile

    A few days ago, I wrote about how much I missed live music and shared a few videos from 2019. Here’s a clip from another concert I absolutely loved: Lily Allen’s No Shame Tour at Terminal 5 in New York on October 20, 2018. This is one of my favorite…

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  • Music Makes the People Come Together

    One thing I miss from the pre-pandemic era is the concerts. I can complain all day about astronomical ticket prices, crummy opening acts, and how much I hate waiting for performers to take the stage. But none of those really matter, because a concert is a chance to experience music…

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  • It Takes a Lot of Chutzpah to Write a Blog Post About Yiddish

    It Takes a Lot of Chutzpah to Write a Blog Post About Yiddish

    The other day, I felt a bit sick and told the Complimentary Spouse I was going to have a bissel of ginger ale. He knew exactly what I meant. At long last, the Yiddishification of my shaygetz husband is complete! Yiddish might be a dying language, but I’m not letting…

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  • I Will Always LV You

    Here’s a glimpse at the Super Bowl LV Experience at Julian B. Lane Park in Tampa last weekend. This is the only public event the Complimentary Spouse and I have visited since the pandemic began. Everyone mostly appeared to be following the rules, although people were closer together than they…

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  • Around the World in 80 Department Stores (Well, Actually Just 12)

    Around the World in 80 Department Stores (Well, Actually Just 12)

    Updated September 22, 2024: Added new photos of KaDeWe in Berlin. You can learn a lot about a city by visiting a flagship department store. You’ll get a sense of what people wear when they’re dressed to the nines, and when they’re just lounging around the house. You’ll see how…

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  • Haiku in the News

    USA Today: Opinion: Tom Brady Has Gotten an Undeserved Pass for his Past Support of Donald Trump Tom Brady is aPoster child for white privilege —But, hey, let’s go Bucs! NBC News: David Hogg Launching Pillow Company to ‘put MyPillow out of Business’ Sleep soundly each nightKnowing an unhinged liarDidn’t…

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  • Things Are Ruff Around Here

    As you can see, the first month of 2021 was filled with rambunctiousness and cuddles.

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  • The Case Against Passion

    Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life. I’ve heard that cliché for longer than I can remember, and it has always rubbed me the wrong way. To me — in fact, I’d bet, to a lot of people in the workforce — this saying sounds…

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  • Let’s Cancel the Ill-Conceived Concept of “Cancel Culture”

    There is no such thing as “cancel culture.” Oh, sure, the phrase exists. And the alliteration makes it memorable. But I’m putting it in quotes because it describes a fictitious concept that is intellectually dishonest. “Cancel culture” is deceiving because it attempts to recast the villain in a situation as…

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