I was in my local Cumberland Farms this morning. Not the one that cards everyone who buys a pack of cigarettes even if they look like they are 100 years old, and I know that they do that because I was standing in line some months ago when an older woman… Read full post »

I have a thing for search, generally, something which our esteemed Overlords have not yet seen fit to bestow upon us. (Correction: There is search on the site -- see the nearly invisible blue-on-blue box at the top, which I tried for the first time today. Oops. But the post remains… Read full post »

Why don't we just keep an adultery/infidelity/non-monogamy Open Call on the front page, so's we don't have to write new ledes all the time?

OK, so now we have to wait on Elizabeth Edwards, right? Will she do the "stand by her man" thing? Or divorce his ass? Wouldn't it be… Read full post »

The question makes me feel a little old, at 52. The Olympic Moments that stay with me, seem to mean something, are all from my youth.

Before I name them, I want to ask, in all seriousness -- is it normal for someone's interest in spectator sports to wane throughout their… Read full post »

I guess this one is just sinking in ... (PF, I see you weighed in, hiya!)

Anyway, we clearly have no difficulty, here on OS, talking about politics, religion and sex (or even the weather) but talking about money is truly dirty, the big taboo.

(Just look what happens when someone brings up… Read full post »

An Open Call for breaking news? I guess we will, collectively, hope that there is an OSer traveling with Obama in Florida, or hanging in  Tiananmen Square with a digicam, or  on a hurricane hunter plane going through the eye of Tropical Storm Edouard (Mind if we call you Eddie?)

 And… Read full post »

So, scoring 46 percent Evilness on the Evilness scale as defined by the Evilness test that Sally Swift so thoughtfully dragged in front of me, so that I might confront my nature (I know it was nothin' personal, Sally) made me, of course, examine every little nook and cranny of my… Read full post »

So maybe this is treading on the turf of our Salon Overlords, but I get the feeling they are fine, at this point, just as curious as I am to see what we do with their sandbox experiment.

There is some lovely writing here, by some great people. What's it all… Read full post »

(... looks around.)

I've been gone, like, a month. Don't lie and say you missed me.

Just tell me what I missed!

 As to why I've been gone ... well, I forgot how to log in. Truth. ForGOT it was email address+password, not userID+password.

I think I'd like to report a… Read full post »

The "first" Robert Benchley was the one I thought I sort of knew, as much as you can know someone who died 11 years before you were born. He wrote brilliantly and hilariously for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, won an Oscar and, by all accounts, acquitted himself/… Read full post »

Run away, run away ...

That's what "we" did for a few days. We're away from the 95 degree heat, bearing down on the interior Northeast like a pair of soggy dungarees, and we're out and across the water to a land where people still read the paper version… Read full post »

Dear OpenCall,

An Obama/Clinton ticket?

Why would she want the job? The description hasn't changed since John Nance Garner observed, in 1932, that the office of the vice presidency was "not worth a bucket of warm piss."

Neither is Dick Cheney, of course, but that's not the point.

(Before… Read full post »

I just spent the better part of an hour writing something terrific and hard-hitting and insightful and funny and even a wee poetic about the denouement of the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

And OpenSalon ate my homework. ^%$^*! It's the Overlords again, they've worked the tech t… Read full post »

I was just over on the "other" Salon site, reading "Wires," which is the Salon Overlords' catchy name for its compendium of news stories from wire services. And no, it is not my intention to try to get the phrase "Salon Overlords" into each and every pithy post I… Read full post »

OK, I get it. Not a bad idea; there's a lot of talent here, eh? Smart of you, Salon Overlords, to get us to want to do more work.

I don't even know how many social networking sites on which I have a profile, which means ... way… Read full post »