Am I Dating A Werewolf? And Other Questions For Francesca Lia Block

November 2, 2009 – You may scoff at the mere idea of a dating guidebook. You may almost certainly scoff at one that matches people by their mythological creature -type. I did too at first, and I have a professional astrologer on speed-dial. But Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur is by Francesca Lia BlockMore »

I Picked The Wrong Week To Watch Every Episode Of Sex And The City

May 27, 2008 – It was one of those cloudless late-spring New York days when the air is just a few degrees cooler than blood-temperature and the smell of blooming trees drowns out that of the garbage and exhaust. More »

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City), Day Three

May 22, 2008 – Woman checking Carrie and Samantha in at the 'Women in the Arts' luncheon that Carrie bought new shoes for in order to impress Natasha, who doesn't show but later misspells "there" in a thank-you note:

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City), Day Three

May 22, 2008 – Samantha: "Cum, spooge, jizz, joy-juice, fun-KEEE." Ringtone!

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City): Season Three

May 22, 2008 – It's midday on Thursday afternoon and Charlotte is confronting Bunny MacDougal about her prenup with Trey. She wins the fight! She rushes to tearily tell her friends about the win: More »

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City), Day Three

May 22, 2008 – Miranda: "I know what you mean. We whine when we don't have a boyfriend and we whine when we do!" Oh my god, it's like she's taunting me.

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City), Day Three

May 22, 2008 – Carrie to Aidan: "And I'm sure you have your bad traits." Well, yes. Like his HIPPIE SHIRTS. And his MAN-NECKLACE. And his POTBELLY. Aidan is the worst.

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City), Day Two

May 21, 2008 – Oh, ok, I take it all back. Carrie's column kills her relationship with the golden-showers-loving politician. How could I have forgotten? "Wait a second!

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City), Day Two

May 21, 2008 – Season 3: the season of the GIANT FLOWERS on ALL CARRIE'S OUTFITS. What do they MEAN? Do they have something to do with 9/11?

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City), Day Two

May 21, 2008 – Carrie: "I was like a woman frozen on the ledge of a building on fire ... I'd been so burned by my last relationship, I was afraid to leap off into the next one." Oooh...

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City): The First Two Seasons

May 21, 2008 – It's around 9pm on Tuesday night. I'm midway though the second season of Sex and the City right now. I mean, right now right now, like, as I type this, Big just held up a piece of veal and asked Carrie, "Is this a piece of veal or is this a piece of veal" and then she invited him to have dinner... More »

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City), Day Two

May 21, 2008 – Recovering alcoholic on Carrie's doorstep, trying to resist her sex-wiles: "You smell amazing. What IS that?" Carrie: "ME." Hee hee. Shudder. Well, that's one kind of signature fragrance!

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City), Day Two

May 21, 2008 – Yeah, yeah, the episode ("The Drought") where Carrie worries that she has ruined everything with Big via one dainty, ladylike fart is patently ridic. Worse, though, is the episode halfway through season 2, "Evolution," where she confesses to the gals that she did a "number two" at Big's for the...

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City)

May 20, 2008 – You know how, if you live in New York, you have kind of mentally made up lyrics to the 'Mister Softee' song? "This is the truck that's parked on your block, its name is Mister Sof-tee!

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City)

May 20, 2008 – Remember when Justin Theroux, as a bechokered character named 'Jared' (totally different from the later character he played named "Vaughn Wysel"!) announced that he was on the cover of New York magazine's '30 Coolest People Under 30' issue?

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City)

May 20, 2008 – "And then, just when I thought I couldn't get any higher ... he spooned me." This line — and the whole men-as-drug metaphor in the episode I'm watching now —

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City)

May 20, 2008 – Hour Four: I just sent an inappropriately flirtatious email in response to a totally banal work-related question. What's next, having sex with my bra on?

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City)

May 20, 2008 – Male model: "I just have, like, these really intense thoughts, but I can't seem to keep 'em in my head long enough to get 'em down on paper!" Carrie Bradshaw, utterly in earnest:

36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City)

May 20, 2008 – Editor's note: Remember how I said I was going to watch every episode of 'Sex and the City' between April 1 and the May 23 premiere of the film? Well, for reasons of time, energy, and impending marriage, I didn't do it. More »

Fighting Off Wig-Stealing Drag Queens At ‘Night Of A Thousand Stevies’

May 13, 2008 – "Sometimes, the most beautiful thing, the most innocent thing — and many of those dreams — pass us by." Well, my friend Bennett Madison and I were determined not to let the 18th Annual "Night of A Thousand Stevies" (NOTS) pass us by, and if you recognize the quote above as a line from... More »

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