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we hate your kids
Kids Should Be Abandoned in Bloomingdale's More Often
We talk all the time about how we hate your kids because they're spoiled and rich, taking over the city with their precious, organic ways! Now we have an ally in the media: Lenore Skenazy from the New York Sun. She wrote about leaving him at Bloomingdale's! "For weeks my boy had been begging for me to please leave him somewhere, anywhere, and let him try to figure out how to get home on his own. So on that sunny Sunday I gave him a subway map, a MetroCard, a $20 bill, and several quarters." It's like the Outward Bound of New York City! On the Today Show, mother and son explain his big adventure: "This is like, 'boy boils egg.' He just did something that any nine-year-old can do." Click to watch Skenazy get chastised: the subway is no place for children. More »
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By SheilaComment by MadamButterfloozy: Thank god there's at least one sensible mother in New York. more » | Other threads
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sports section
Lenore Skenazy Discovered Football
It took a day or so, but the staid and conservative New York Sun basically became the Post today, with no fewer than six stories on your New York Football Giants. Including one by beloved former Daily News columnist Lenore Skenazy. She has never watched football before, but now she has some sort of meathead son who declares that upon growing up he's "going to be a linebacker, or safety, or maybe a hot dog seller, because he loves the tongs." Ok, little Skenazy! Whatever. Then Skenazy and her husband eat "wings" and watch their very first Super Bowl ever on a "spanking new high-def projector so we can watch the game on our living room wall. We take down our French poster for the occasion." Mon dieu! Not their "French poster"! Andrea Peyser would eat these people alive. [NYSun]
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By PareeneComment by Stastibugger: "Instant, non-verbal camaraderie" is my favorite pick-up line more » | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
"No two ways about it—not with Labor Day prowling around, ready to pounce on the end of summer, skin it, pound it, and throw it on the grill so it goes up in flames like a chicken breast marinated in motor oil." Uh, we think this means Sun columnist Lenore Skenazy is depressed that summer's over? [NYS]
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Comment by josh speed: @k122n: I know what you Stolichnaya'd last summer. more » | Other threads
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our columnists
Lenore Skenazy, closet hipster? "I hate loving what hipsters love. That's why I can't bring myself to knit. Nonetheless, the same folks who conferred coolness on 'crafting,' Brooklyn, and cupcakes are doing it now for the worthy accordion." [NY Sun]
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Comment by Clevertrousers: I love Lenore. Seriously. She reminds me of my goofy-ass sister. more » | Other threads
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inside the sausage factory
Lenore Skenazy Finds Her Experts Online, When She Can
The New York Sun's Lenore Skenazy brings her a-game (sorry) to the Alex Rodriguez "busty blonde" story today, making the shocking observation that:...if you look up "busty blonde" online, you will find dozens and dozens of women thusly described by the tabloids this past year. Look up "Busty brunette" and you will find exactly two. Even worse, the search engine politely inquires, "Did you mean busy brunette?" As if we brunettes, inevitably concave, must be working, working, working all the time because no one is taking us out for steaks at the strip club.
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oh, yes, there will be rain in spain
Mean Lady Wants To Take Away Our Torture Porn
Writing in AdAge, former News scold Lenore Skenazy (the low-carb version of Andrea Peyser) takes on torture porn—"that new category where the star gets raped and disemboweled." Leaving aside the fact that Skenazy has clearly never heard of genre classics like, say, Titus Andronicus, the soi-disant "resident school marm" poses the following question about the "slippery slope" we've come to accept in violent entertainment: More »
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By balkComment by whatawonderful: Aw man, I'm named after Eliza Doolittle! You guys just totally ruined my life. Damnit. more » | Other threads
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columnists
Lenore Skenazy: 'Wicca Is The Next Yoga'
It's been nearly five months since Lenore Skenazy was ditched from her perch at the Daily News. Let's catch up with her recent work at the Sun! Wednesday's column, "Witching Hour In America," begins with a bang:Praise the Goddess and pass the magical candle—the Federal Department of Veterans Affairs has finally recognized the Wicca religion.
We also learn that "Wicca is the next yoga." God we so hope so! More »
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Comment by little_my: 'Make me,' that is. Also functions as a belligerent challenge! more » | Other threads
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new york sun
Against Didion: The Whine Album
So that recent Sun piece where former Voice editor David Blum tried to go all Arlene Croce on Joan Didion garnered what may very well be the saddest comment we've ever seen. More »
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By abalk2Comment by MikeGreenwell: How do these people get their jobs? This David Blum sounds like your typical faux-irreverent/secretly-earnest types of guys you always... more » | Other threads
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rumors
Irresponsible Rumormongering: Lenore Skenazy's Replacement Just Crazy Enough To Work?
So this is just crazy enough to be true, but still pretty frigging crazy: the News is going to fill its lady vacancy (created by the canning of Lenore Skenazy) by giving a columnist job to... wait for it... Dawn Eden! That's right, the professional hymen-regenerator herself. Our source on this sounded slightly dubious, and who wouldn't? If you know anything, send it in. More » -
new york daily news
'News' Needs Women
So asked the Post during their humble celebration of eclipsing the News in circulation. Apparently not Mort Zuckerman, who canned Skenazy after nearly eighteen years with the paper. Keith Kelly's crocodile tears fall thickly on the page this morning as he reports the dismissal:Even in the permanently demoralized newsroom, this one really upset insiders. They see it as one more move by owner Mort Zuckerman's minions to toss a loyal staffer to the wolves in order to meet his budget numbers. Although Martin Dunn is the editor-in-chief, the blood from this one probably rests with op-ed page Editor Arthur Browne. Browne refused to comment.
Kelly does make the interesting point that this leaves the News with only one female columnist, gossipeuse Joanna Molloy. Maybe Mort should consider hiring Alicia Colon away from the Sun; we imagine there'd be a significant savings in salary, even with the expense of hiring a translator who speaks crazy. More »
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