Tales from the wilderness therapist’s chair
For my first job after grad school, I worked as a therapist at a wilderness camp for troubled adolescent boys. I showed up for the interview at the camp in my “I’m a grownup” suit and heels, and was immediately introduced to the campus dog Murray. You’re always going to feel a bit overdressed meeting a dog in a business suit. I learned my lesson, and for the next year, dressed as if I was on a break from painting my house, or perhaps about to play some touch football. The last thing you want to do with emotionally troubled teenage boys with no outlets for their sexuality is wear form-fitting clothes.
Wheeeeeeeeew…..finally!
NBC keeps making the most amazing, forward-thinking, cutting edge decisions when it comes to their programming.
The last time Paul Reiser created a sitcom that was picked up by NBC, it was the major hit Mad About You and ran from 1992 all the way to 1999 on the network. So it’s understandable if NBC is feeling somewhat nostalgic for Reiser’s product. Now I’ve learned that last night the network picked up a Warner Bros pilot that was written by and stars Paul Reiser who also will executive produce. There’s no official announcement about this yet. But the deal for this single-camera filmed series is said to be “big”.
Ugh. Thanks Deadline.
For a palate cleanser, jump to check out my friend Nate in his Mad About You denim jacket.
Bodywash and Dinosaurs
I’ve had kind of a bummer day, and I have lots of blogging to do, but I would first like to share with you two things that genuinely made me laugh out loud today, and one other thing.
An Open Letter to the Girl From My Middle School Whose Sad Facebook Profile I’ve Been Stalking
Hi, yeah yeah, it’s me! Yeah, we were kinda friends in 7th grade! Remember? I remember you, because you were nice to me in certain classes, but in other ones you acted like I didn’t exist. Ring any bells?
If you’re in a horror movie, never look in a mirror
Rich over at fourfour has done it again, with this massive and impressive collection of mirror scenes in horror movies.
Comix is the best comedy club on earth
Lemondrop on in
Hi all! I have some new fun stuff up at Lemondrop lately, so go on over and take a gander.
This is my bathroom. It's at the Bowery Poetry Club.
Playboy’s Historian
Peggy Wilkins is a fascinating woman. Since her first encounter with a Playboy magazine in July 1978, she has been collecting every single issue, and they now take up an entire apartment above the apartment where she lives. She is obsessed with the whole pinup style, and I am now obsessed with her. Come and read about the mailing list she started, her relationship with Hef, and the database she started, which she calls…
…a “memory aid” of all the knowledge she’d accumulated about the Playmates—and then some. The searchable database (now at wekinglypigs.com) stores their names, the months they appeared in the magazine, their birthdates and birthplaces, and who photographed them, plus their height, weight, and astonishing measurements. She also created databases for the Playboy special editions—photo-only issues of Playboy models—and the Playboy Cyber Club Daily Doubles, new photos of Playboy models available only to paying subscribers of Playboy.com. “I used to have it all memorized,” she says. “Not to that degree of detail, obviously—but I was constantly wondering, has so-and-so model been featured in the Daily Double? It got to be too much to handle.”
Seriously, this article is amazingly charming, and a nice peek into the importance of some cultural icons staying the same. I nominate Peggy to be next month’s Playmate. (Thanks again Chris!)
