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Oh, hello

2008-07-20T21:22:00.001-07:00

Writing's up on the writing page, and oh look it's a video of some lady pretties!!! Just got back from a retreat with Amma and am in triple exclamation mark mode. Om Namah Shivaya, IT'S TRUE! ! ! Ha. Bye.

2008-07-03T09:35:00.000-07:00

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Oh the progress I have made, or what Kyle Smith told me recently at our editor's wedding

2008-07-03T09:23:00.000-07:00

Smith: You look glamorous.
Me: Thank you.
Smith: You're welcome.
Me: Yeah, when I moved to New York a few years ago I was kind of screwed up.
Smith: Huh. Now that I think about it, I guess you did look a little rough.
Me: Ha, thanks.
Smith: Like you used to do heroin.
Me: Wow - seriously?
Smith: Or like you knew people who did heroin.

2008-07-03T09:12:00.000-07:00

Art Basel (2007), #6

1st show (and tell)

2008-07-03T09:11:00.000-07:00

WANT to know the one question that unlocks the deepest, darkest secrets of someone's past?

Forget "Where'd you go to college?" (too obvious), and "What Strawberry Shortcake character did you most closely identify with growing up?" (too cliche, and obviously - Blueberry Muffin).

Forget "How many people have you slept with over the course of your entire lifetime?" (too subtle).

Next time you're on a blind date, try this question on for size: "What's the first concert you ever went to?"

2008-07-03T08:10:00.000-07:00

Art Basel (2007), #5

How to rock the reception

2008-07-02T08:05:00.000-07:00

1. Become BFF with the terrible deejay who likes to talk over songs and say things like, "Are we pushing it yet, people?" Tell him he either plays your super make-out mix or you kill his mother. Works every time.

2008-07-01T08:17:00.000-07:00

Me, Reed Tucker, Mackenzie Dawson and Billy Heller

Don't be alarmed

2008-07-01T08:16:00.000-07:00

turns out there is rest for the weary

2008-07-01T08:01:00.000-07:00

Me, Reed Tucker and Mackenzie Dawson

Super Preppy's ship has sailed--

2008-07-01T07:02:00.000-07:00

into calm seas

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(Photo by Mackenzie Dawson)

Super Preppy on being

2008-06-25T19:42:00.000-07:00

the Post-er Boy

George Carlin remembered

2008-06-24T06:04:00.000-07:00

Here's another great tribute by my friend Kyle Johnson.

And Joan Rivers' column on his legacy in The Post.

And finally, Richard Zoglin's lovely piece in Time Magazine.

While trying to find a YouTube video of Jimmy Cliff's "That's the Way Life Goes" I inadvertently discover the best thing on the Internet

2008-06-22T17:16:00.000-07:00

2008-06-20T07:47:00.000-07:00

(Photo by Caitlin Thorne)

Feelin' guru-vy

2008-06-20T07:00:00.000-07:00

The "Eat, Pray, Love" protagonist has one. Mike Myers' new movie, opening tomorrow, makes fun of them. But c'mon, unenlightened Western friend, admit it.

You totally want your own guru.

Full interviews with the gurus

2008-06-20T06:59:00.000-07:00

Stadtmiller: When do people go searching for a guru?

Vaswani: When the longing wakes up in the heart to realize the spirit, when man realizes that he is not nearly the body or the body-mind complex, that he is something more, when this realization dawns on man then he wants someone to help him realize what he is in reality. As it is, 99 percent of people feel that they are either the body or the body-mind complex. They don't go beyond the body mind, and they do not understand that the body is only a garment we have worn during our period on earth. The mind is an instrument that we have brought to do our work on the physical plane. When this realization dawns on man, that he is a spirit, then he realizes the need for a guru.

2008-06-12T07:50:00.000-07:00

Spotting
(Photo by Victoria Will)

Legs wide open

2008-06-12T07:45:00.000-07:00

IMAGINE all the comforts of the womb combined with the complicated choreography of "So You Think You Can Dance."

Add to that a few yoga positions more dazzling than the Kama Sutra, the childhood glee of a YMCA tumbling class and the ability to spin upside down like an astronaut, all using a hammock as a soft trapeze that can support up to 1,000 pounds.

It's "Wings" antigravity yoga, and it's as awesome as it sounds.

As a guinea pig, I took a 45-minute class taught by Crunch gyms' national yoga director, Jess Gronholm. To relate the full experience, I feel it is important to tell you a little bit about him.

He is crazy hot.

Even when you are swinging upside down.

I can't remember the last time I've laughed quite so hard

2008-06-10T21:19:00.000-07:00

Um, if you enjoy viral marketing and whatnot

2008-06-10T18:57:00.000-07:00

a pr person sent me this link, informing me about Internet buzz supporting my candidacy for president. It was enjoyable enough that I am linking it below. Viral. Buzz. Oh yeah.

2008-06-10T08:01:00.000-07:00

I am hereby modeling my life after this picture of my nieces

Feeling funky

2008-06-10T07:47:00.000-07:00

in the bad way

2008-06-09T08:39:00.000-07:00

Banquet