Take it with one.

 

Sorry, it was either this or this, and I think John Mayer already did the latter.

It ain’t all been in vain for nothing.

A reader tests a Heartbreak Soup recipe and confirms that at least the soup is good.

I love Liz Phair.

It’s not my job to review the Liz Phair ‘Exile’ show, thank goodness.  But one of the people I was watching it with was a professional music critic type, though he was off-duty last night, and he said that in a hypothetical review he’d talk about how her lack of stage presence makes him uncomfortable [...]

Two more days!

An Elle interviewer asked Liz questions about what her Guyville-era self would think of her recent career moves. And Liz was, as usual, completely honest: “She’d probably look at [Somebody's Miracle] and think, ‘How come you’re not living in a better house? Why aren’t you richer?’”

Also: “What Guyville teaches me right now, what I’m trying [...]

The Best/Worst Bathroom

It’s in Brighton Beach, a few block down from the Brighton 6th St. entrance to the boardwalk.

The music is audible from fifteen feet away– on our first visit, it was an extra-bombastic instrumental version of  “My Heart Will Go On (Theme From ‘Titanic’), which seemed appropriate to the seaside setting.   The smell is also smellable [...]

And She Dances On The Sandbox

In Williamsburg yesterday I met a photographer whose four year old son has preschool classmates named Forest, Tristan, and Rio.

Congratulations

to Bennett on finally getting his own MTV scripted reality show, and also on having the gayest moment of his life.