We were driving into Scarborough to visit Lenny, the world’s only life-size chocolate moose and largest chocolate animal, when I made some kind of grotesque “pththththtbh!” sound and Janaka expressed one of his reserved “heh”s. He turned to me. “Memory lane is a dead end?” “So great!” He pulled into a gas station to turn [...]
“We joke that you can always tell by the length of the nails.” I looked down at my own, which had become long (and thus, dirty) simply out of neglect. “But I’m mostly straight,” I said, “and my nails are mostly short. I mean, they’re long now, but that’s not on purpose.” “Adrianne. Think about [...]
A month or so ago, Black Cat Burlesque teamed up with Big Moves teamed up with a bunch of awesome solo performers to create an entire show around Beck’s “Midnight Vultures” album. It was one night only, and conveniently, I just happened to be in town. “Oh man!” I said. “I’m going to bring my [...]
Every now and then, as I’m blow-drying, brushing and hair-spraying my bangs straight, then moussing, scrunching and air-drying the rest of my hair curly — I like to envision myself at a party twenty years from now, smacking a tabletop in glee. “Oh God, 2010! What were we thinking, right?”
The most surprising thing about the strip club was how similar it was to any other club. The music was loud. It was difficult to talk. The women were dancing and the men just sat there. The women were smiling and the men just sat there. “Seriously?” I cried. “That guy is getting danced all [...]