(Photo by Caitlin Thorne)
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Make your moove
HE can’t afford the ring. He wants to quit smoking first. He hates the idea of tarnishing your sacred love with something as “common” and “legally binding” as a piece of paper.
Hooey . . . all of it.
“If you really want to get married, you deserve that,” says the happily wedded Lori Uscher-Pines, a 29-year-old public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University and author of “The Get-Your-Man-to-Marry-You Plan: Buying the Cow in the Age of Free Milk,” out tomorrow.
She doesn’t define “milk” as just nookie, either.
“If your ultimate goal is a ring on the finger, it’s not only about the sex,” she says. “Free milk is benefits that a man gets from having a wife.”
So The Post gave Uscher-Pines our own ultimatum: Give us the Top 5 mistakes women make, and the Top 5 strategies they get right – or it’s over between us.
She obliged, and it was better than snuggling. Plus, we felt really pretty inside!
Monday, October 06, 2008
Show update
Know how I said I was doing Sara Benincasa’s “Family Hour” at Comix this month? Well, I lied. Am doing it on Dec. 6. I also just watched Sara draped in an American flag on her YouTube channel and oh how I did enjoy that.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
I got a note this week from a regular reader
who wrote, “I have often thought that we could all benefit greatly if we had a screen in our foreheads that printed out everything that we thought. That terrifying notion would probably prompt all of us to buy a cap two sizes too big and pull it down over the screen. One day, someone’s cap would blow off and those who saw it would be delighted to see someone who thought like them. One by one, accident by accident, we would find out how much alike we are and it would be safe for us to be real. We would all just laugh our asses off. You are that window for the rest of us, Mandy. You do us a greater service than you can imagine just by being your wide open self.”
And it touched me so much and made me think of one of my favorite movies of all time, filled with love and tenderness and brokenness and completion. Here, is a trailer and my favorite scene from Miranda July’s “Me and You and Everyone We Know.”
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Oh how I laughed at this clip of Guillermo drinking tequila with everyone from Ricky Gervais to Cheryl Hines
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Know what the most adorable comment
From a former intern who still helps on an ad-hoc basis, but serves largely as an inspiration by fact of her very existence alone:
chickabam
7:31 PM on 10/01/08
every night before i go to bed i tell myself that one day i will become a 6′2, blond bombshell who tells people that they’re worth it. sometimes it’s really difficult when you’re Asian and 5′5 but Mandy is always there for me with a pair of stilettos a box of Loreal hair color- intern for Ms. Stadtmiller since 2005 (has it really been that long???)
(The hilarious and gorgeous Karen Ko, at right, above.)
Related: Did you know that Gawker now allows instant guest commenting? It’s true. If you’ve ever read my stuff and are inspired to respond like Ms. Ko did, then please, go on with your bad self.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Regis Reigns
GOODBYE, Conan O’Brien, Hello, Regis Philbin. The morning talk-show king will be announced today as the host of this year’s “Stand-Up for Heroes” comedy benefit on Nov. 5 at Town Hall, reports The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller. “We are honored to have Regis on board,” says NY Comedy Festival founding partner Caroline Hirsch. “He is the quintessential host.” Ricky Gervais, Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa along with auctioneer Whoopi Goldberg will also perform to benefit the Bob Woodruff Foundation.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Be sure to
1) Read about and then watch the amazingness that is Michael Buckley in today’s Post! (Plus be sure to check out some of his Web faves…and just for you, here is one R-rated rec I didn’t include that is hilar, bizarre and as I said, super, super NSFW. Ridiculous. Genius. Amazing. Like Buckley himself.)
2) And be sure to LOL *AT* me not *WITH* me here! Normally, I just stand there awkwardly and there’s a totally uncomfortable silence where people fidget and stare downward. This is like a ginormous step up for me!
Love you.
