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Salon Wants Gay Sons. Do You?
Oh gawwwd. The Observer notes today that everyone who writes for Salon, that online kaffeklatsch, wants a gay son. Well, OK, there are just two examples, but they're both infuriatingly dumb. One is the mostly crazy Ayelet Waldman's piece from March '05 about her son maybe being gay and how that makes her excited and how lesbians sorta scare her. The other example is the new piece by Sarah Bird, in which she curses the straightness of her 18-year-old son and wishes she had some swishy interior design guru who would just love and adore mama forever (and call her "girlfriend"). It reads like a drunk Norma Desmond channeling Dave Barry. More »
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Postcards to Someone Who Is Not My Mom
I've been having a one-sided conversation all week via email with my Mom. "Did you know that in New York there' s no licensing required to do laser hair removal?" one of my emails asks. Another begins with "I'm on YouTube!" and goes on to bitch about work. I also sent her a few pics of myself, as well as a LOLdog! She hasn't been replying at all. Whatever! I just emailed her more, with theories about imagined illnesses and questions about what I can or can't write off. Then I talked to her over the phone last night and she told me she hadn't gotten any of the emails. That's when I realized I had sent them to the wrong address. Not sure who got them! But definitely someone who is not my mom. [Internet Is Full of Moms]
stroller derby
Park Slope Hate Reaching Critical Mass
So yesterday the Times weighed in on everyone's most detested yuppie mecca, Park Slope. Today, the new issue of Time Out New York piles on! "Websites like Gawker and Curbed crackle with anti-Slope invective, hurled at the twin bugaboos of the 'Stroller Mafia' (pushy, indulgent yuppie parents) and the bleeding-heart 'People’s Republic of Park Slope' (headquartered at the Food Co-op)." Update: Via email from Maureen Shelly: "Hi Ian. I'm the EIC of Time Out Kids. Just wanted to point out that the Park Slope piece you turned up is from last year — not the upcoming June issue. Our piece was also by Lynne Harris, who penned the Times story. I guess she felt she had more to say on the subject." More »
Magical Brooklyn
'NYT' Explores Park Slope Hell
"To its detractors, Park Slope is both haunt and hatchery of New York’s smuggest limousine-liberal yuppies. It is, if I may further summarize the bad publicity, overrated and hypocritical. Its glorious brownstone blocks and jaunty cafes are awash in carpetbagger entitlement, ruled by snarling 'Stroller Nazis.' The neighborhood is a ground zero of all that is twee and lame. It is, God forbid, the suburbs." Well done. But what do the anonymous blog commenters have to say, New York Times? More »
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Gawker Alum Paid For Book Your Mom Wrote
The Observer's Doree Shafrir and Jezebel's Jessica Grose landed a book deal for "Postcards From Yo Momma," their beloved tumblr blog that reprints emails from readers' mothers, because we are all terrible children. Doree and Jessica "are said to have received a comfortable... sum," according to Balk, though not as much a the creators of Stuff White People Like. Of course the Stuff White People Like guys actually have to, like, write their book. Themselves! [Radar] Update: Doree says, "they actually want quite a bit of original content." Of course she'll probably make her mom write it.
The Internet Is Full of Moms
Gawker alum Doree Shafrir and Jezebel associate editor Jessica Grose started a tumblr made up of nothing but emails from moms. It's inspired reading, and also a fun ("fun") parlour game: match the mom-mail to the famous ("famous") New York media or internet personality! [Postcards From Yo Momma]
Gawker alum Doree Shafrir and Jezebel associate editor Jessica Grose started a tumblr made up of nothing but emails from moms. It's inspired reading, and also a fun ("fun") parlour game: match the mom-mail to the famous ("famous") New York media or internet personality! [Postcards From Yo Momma]
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Washington Post Not Brought to You By the Letter F
In a recent article about racy language on NBC, the Washington Post's Lisa de Moraes was forced to come up with new ways to express the letter F. It seems the crusty aristocracy at the Post deemed it too indecent to print the entire acronym MILF (stands for "Annoying Term That Needs To Go Away"), which features prominently in an upcoming episode of 30 Rock. So, unable to use the wicked sixth letter, de Moraes, rather amusingly, wrote around it: "...the staff of the late-night show 'TGS' has become obsessed with a new reality hit called 'MIL[letter that's been deemed too naughty for The Washington Post when it follows M, I and L] Island.'" Hah. [Radosh] May I suggest something more suitable to the dusty snoots at the WaPo? Perhaps MIWER: Mother I Would Enjoy Rogering. Or, even more proper, MWWIWLTTAR: Matron With Whom I Would Like To Take a Turn About the Room. Any other suggestions?
faux moms get coaled!
Moms In A Holi-Daze: How Would Santy Gift The Staff Best?
The holidays are a stressful time for everybody—estranged families, bourbon distributors, Chinese restaurants, poor people. How are the mommies over at UrbanBaby dealing with the crunch? Currently, they're trying to figure out the most appropriate—yet still demeaning—way to reward "the help" for their efforts this year. Let's take a look inside their minds (and their messageboards)! More »
Michelle Slatalla's Daughter Hates Her So Much Right Now
The Times' "families use computers now" beat reporter, Facebook-loving helicopter mom Michelle Slatalla, is having another rough week. One of her little ones is leaving the nest!
The Times' "families use computers now" beat reporter, Facebook-loving helicopter mom Michelle Slatalla, is having another rough week. One of her little ones is leaving the nest!
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