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Did I want to see his house? Chaz lived in the East Village down the street from Crif Dogs. He wanted to show me something, something we’d been discussing the other night. Wearily, fully aware of the well greased trap I was walking into, I agreed. He showed me the very well cared for porch and little garden his housemate maintained, cleverly incorporating this trip into something I’d mentioned on our previous meeting about wanting to plant flowers. It was actually not uncool.
I was enchanted with the porch garden, clearly more so than Chaz had patience for because he kept trying to hurry me into the house, while I exclaimed over the nice little potted plants, the sunflowers and the plum tomatoes. He kissed me and it was kind of rock star and I thought to myself, well every girl should sleep with someone this scuzzy at least once, right? Read the full story »
Chaz. Not Charlies or Charlie but Chaz. I should have immediately understood this as strange and strange as impendingly awful. It was. The same night the apostle Josh was texting me about the …
Listening to your local album rock radio station is a lot like re-watching the classic Star Wars trilogy for the umpteenth time: surprise and better taste leave the building in favor of comfortable nostalgia. You …
Math rock is something of a loaded term, its blanket label seeping into many other corners and sub-sub genres of music. What does math rock connote exactly? Is it the instrumental spaceiness and stuttered rhythms …
**SPOILER: It’s “Kill Humans”**
Do you remember the pivotal events of the first couple seasons of Battlestar Galactica? The high drama, the gripping action, the captivatingly soapy relationships? If your answer is no, then …
A week later, Josh asked if I wanted to hang out, just to watch a movie and pick up some Thai food. I had nothing else to do so I took a bus to get …
Last week NBC announced that ‘Trauma’ will be canceled. They will finish production and air the original 13 episodes, but there will never be a season 2. The good news is, nobody cares. ‘Trauma’ got …
I met Josh in a bar in the LES. Is there any more classical way to begin a story of sexual misadventure? I was dressed a lot cuter than I usually dress. Huge mistake …
Does anyone else remember the time when vampires were old, sexy, cunning, and didn’t go to high school? When I was growing up, Anne Rice was the ultimate authority on vampires. In my mind, she …
