This video is the pilot episode of a mockumentary series that my sister and I made about a recent Yale graduate, Haley, who is a bit too out of touch with reality and lacking in “office experience” to get a real job, especially considering the abysmal job market. Asperger’s anyone?
It’s a MOCKumentary, I swear.
- Haley [...]

Eat Pray Love is one of those formulaic, cliché, feel-good “women’s films” that nonetheless makes me cry the whole way through. And obviously it’s based on a book, which is based on some woman’s real life experience. The only part that really bothered me about it was the happy ending.
People complained that it was episodic, [...]

Even though I wasn’t old enough to form memories in the 1980s, I am now able to appreciate the not-so-subtle beauties of that lost era — mostly through campy ’80s flicks, like the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation, Less Than Zero, starring Robert Downey Jr. in his very early drug-addict days. Something about shoulder pads on [...]

I went to Newport for some beach time, since I am so in need of relaxation given that I don’t have a job, don’t go to school, and don’t even volunteer at some altruistic organization.
Newport, Rhode Island stirs up visions of Gatsby, the Jazz Age of overly large summer houses. Nowadays, Newport arouses images of [...]

At the club in my neighborhood on Thursday nights it is a scene of extreme dance-offs involving large, gay break-dancing men. I felt a bit eclipsed by their skills, but once I broke out my girlish jump split, I felt I had something to add to the evening.
Speaking of feats of dexterity, my new kitten [...]

The vilest married couple in Manhattan has turned to violence. TV producer extraordinaire, Sandy Frank, is now officially geriatric at age 81. But that doesn’t mean he can’t play the field, Hugh Hefner style. Sandy has been philandering around, and his 57-year-old former model wife, Brenda Frank, expressed her feelings toward him by throwing wine [...]

Without a job and without a place to live (other than my dad’s apartment, which doesn’t really count), I decided the only thing left to do was to throw myself into charity work. So I adopted a stray cat from the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire and was immediately gratified by my good deed [...]

The travel industry is branching out into straight-up brothels. A new resort in Australia, the “Lynx Lodge,” is set to be the “ultimate man-cation” spot where men can get every one of their itches scratched. You might think that since it’s an all-male resort, there would be a definite gay vibe: organic pistachio cake bake-offs, [...]

Looking for jobs in Manhattan, or in any city in America (or the world), for that matter, in this dismal economy, is almost as fun as going to get a pelvic exam. But a pelvic exam is a lot more satisfying. At the very least, you get your results back within two weeks. With most [...]

A day at Harvard Medical School is a less than surreal experience involving lots of eager type-A young adults with high IQs and a passion for very large text books.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t tough enough to handle the pressure, so I developed shooting pains in my stomach. Luckily, the lecture hall was a short walk to [...]