This just in:

 Today it was reported in the New York Times (no byline) that a gang in the remote jungles of Lima, Peru has been kidnapping and killing people to siphon off their fat, selling it to cosmetic companies in Europe.

Gang members have told police that the fat… Read full post »

I'm no artist but I thought the captions sort of wrote themselves.  Please forgive me if this is distasteful.  I just hope they're kind of funny...  Read full post »

I haven’t been invited to any Halloween parties at least as yet, but I anticipate this eventuality with the same dread every year.  What costume should I wear?  What can I dress as that does not make me look; 1) fat, 2) like a whore 3) like a fat whore 4)… Read full post »

HOROSCOPES FOR PEOPLE WHO REALLY WANT THE TRUTH.

(chick-leaning) 

1) ATHENA - the Smart One Who Never Got The Guys Until She Got Contacts (March 21-April 19)

It’s the end of the summer and you find yourself obsessing about the 14 pounds remaining from your goal to lose 15… Read full post »

I said yes to: seeing him.   Seeing him again.  Moving from the couch to the bed.  From sitting to laying down.  From talking to kissing.  From kissing to touching.  From touching there to touching there.  To unbuttoning my shirt.  To him pulling his over… Read full post »

I’ve been wanting to blog on this topic for a while and haven’t had time but OS writer Walter Blevins’ interesting blog on newly “supersized” uniforms for flight attendants (http://open.salon.com/blog/just-walt/2009/07/12/northwest_flight_attendants_demand_bigger… Read full post »

Well kids, it’s happened again.  Forget all this twaddle about people going broke and losing their homes and living in tents and not having enough money to buy milk and bread and Tall skim frappuccinos.

On Monday of this week the New York Times reported (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/… Read full post »

T'was a date that I wanted to happen and did

With a man whose attentions for which I did bid

 With sweetness and batting of eyelids so coated

In make-up I easily noted

That I couldn't life up my own eyelids to see,

The person across in… Read full post »

According to Freud, men have forever been asking, "What do women want?" and let me be the first to tell you.  It's very simple.  They just want a guy who can dress to go out without looking ridiculous.

Guys go out in outfits that could only be attractive to fetishists… Read full post »

Well people of OS – Here is my reportage on the Soiree, aka The Salon, of Salon that took place last night, Thursday, April 16, 2009 in New York City, from approximately 6:30pm to 9pm (or at least that’s when I left to go to work – half in the bag… Read full post »

Pure joy.  I had to share it.  I'm teary-eyed.  Wish I was adept enough to link it to the word "joy".  

Reminds me of my favorite scene in "The Fisher King" - waltzing in Grand Central Station. 

Hell, why not add that Fisher King scene while I'm at it?… Read full post »

In keeping with my theme of not being able to understand anything anymore, like, your shower: (http://open.salon.com/blog/dcvdickens/2009/01/01/um_i_dont_know_how_to_operate_your_shower), my thong: (http://open.salon.com/blog/dcvdickens/2009/01/14/i_put_my_thong_on_sideways_again)), I explore the Ame… Read full post »

You read a lot about how stupid and greedy these people were who bought homes they couldn't afford with money they didn't have, resulting in bundles of "toxic" mortgages that, when they ballooned in cost, began the collapse of the house of cards it turns out the U.S.'s and in fact,… Read full post »

I’m going to have cheat to be included in this “best movie” thread.  I just can’t do it without naming movies that I think were “best” for certain things they offered.

Best scary movie would have to be divided between sci-fi/supernatural and earthbound/ p… Read full post »

FOX news was first on the scene early this morning to report that a woman in northern Minnesota has given birth to 167 babies, or more accurately, is still actually "in childbirth" with 54 little infants left to recover from her distended uterus.

Apparently (it has not been confirmed)… Read full post »

My 25 List:  (the hardest thing I think I’ve ever been “assigned”)

1.  I am completely turned off by photos of men in sleeveless T-shirts no matter how lovely their bodies are (the one exception being Marlon Brando).  On the other hand, a man in a uniform, an… Read full post »

 First of all, lest I be accused of jumping on the “Lost” bandwagon – and the cover page OS, I was busy writing this piece while other posters were posting.  Story of my (writing) life.  Even so, I think my take on that show is different and so I’m taking… Read full post »

I recently went to see “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”.  Not bad, but not memorable.  A little too saccharine for my tastes, but special effects were well done (although that’s really truly not what I want to care most about in a film). 

But throughout… Read full post »

I don't have anything to say and I'm on my way out the door, but I'm just yelling here on my own and had to join my voices with those in the crowds I'm watching on CNN.  Hooray!  Yes, America, you did it!  "A real sense of national pride!" (per reporters)… Read full post »

This one's for Mungular in particular, but for also for the rest of the writers here (that's everyone I suppose), employed or not. 

God don't you wish you could just disappear to a semi-tropical island, with or without your family or boyfriend/girlfriend (depending on the s… Read full post »

You'd be surprised (or I suppose men would be surprised; not women who wear these things) how easy it is to do.  This happens to me fairly regularly, me with my undies on sideways, and sometimes I catch it before the jeans go on, and sometimes I 'm… Read full post »

 I'm one of those who travels for the holidays; not to anywhere interesting but to the homes of friends and family who put me up in the spare bedroom, on the couch, or who kindly kick their small children to the floor so I have a place to sleep.  These small… Read full post »

We’d all like to think we’re not cruel people. We give to charity, we hold doors for strangers, we think appropriately sad thoughts when we read sad things in the paper. But the truth is, we sometimes are, and the people to whom we are most often cruel are the ones with… Read full post »

"I consider it cowardly. It's not true. That's cruel, it's mean-spirited, it's immature, it's unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news that's not fair and not right."

(Sarah Palin, responding to attacks… Read full post »

What am I like?  Well, let me ask myself.  What are you like -- oh, sorry, I didn't know I was on the phone - sorry, I'll wait. 

OK, now, let me ask you if I may: What are you like?  Are you like, some kind of a… Read full post »