Starshine Roshell
- Location
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Birthday
- August 10
- Title
- journalist / professor
- Bio
- Starshine Roshell is a syndicated columnist, and the author of "Keep Your Skirt On" and "Wife on the Edge."
MY RECENT POSTS
- One Tyke, One Teen
May 16, 2012 06:36PM - Indecent Exposure - Today’s
Kids Born to Porn
May 16, 2012 05:38PM - Mommy Porn: Fifty Shades of
Bad Writing
April 11, 2012 12:51PM - Good-Bye, Private Parts
April 11, 2012 12:44PM - ‘Om’ Em Gee: I Did Naked
Yoga
April 11, 2012 12:41PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “traveler, it's funny you
should mention that right now.
i've
volunteered at
Casa…”
December 15, 2010 08:27PM - “Thanks,
Heidibeth!”
September 23, 2010 01:17AM - “Thanks, Brinna! Good
points.”
August 25, 2010 11:14AM
Starshine Roshell's Links
- Also Available...
- SB Independent
- My website
We weren't trying to save the world. Let's face it: A hot beverage and warm brownies are token gestures, incapable of righting economic inequities or even staving off cold and hunger for more than an hour.
We only wanted one of those "shiny mom…
Well, excuuuuuse him!
Steve Martin bores audience with high-brow art talk
By Starshine Roshell
I met Steve Martin when I was a kid. We were
at a party and I shadowed the poor guy all afternoon, waiting for
him to crack me up, to slip into character. He never did.
Where was… Read full post »
Faux Ho Ho: Are Fake Trees Cheating?
One word comes to mind as I watch my husband and sons scramble over our extremely pitched roof, stringing lights over the precarious edge of our home: balance.
It’s hard to find during the holidays, isn’t it? I’ve yet to master the balance between magic and madness, that… Read full post »
Are Child Stars Doomed?
School’s out, wizards! After a decade of playing Hogwarts students, the cast of the Harry Potter movies has finally graduated. Part I of the final film installment hit screens last week, and Part II is set for a July release.
Stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint are said to… Read full post »
Vajazzling is Befuddling
I live to sparkle. To glimmer. To gleam. Blame it on my name, or too many formative hours spent draping Barbie in disco lamé (that’s lah-MAY, which, for the record, is the distinct shimmering opposite of “lame”). Whatever the cause, the result is that I wear sequined sneak… Read full post »
Love Among the Stars
We’ve all got a dirty little secret. A vulgar habit. A nasty pastime we strive to hide from others. Because if the world knew of our crude obsession, we’d be mocked. And rightly so.
I grapple with my secret as I stand in line at the supermarket check-out,… Read full post »
Slutty mechanic? Eek! Costumes get scarier ...
Forget the tombstones on your neighbor's lawn and the severed hand poking out of the candy bowl. The most frightening thing you'll encounter this Halloween is a middle-schooler dressed like Prudence the Naughty Pilgrim.
Any gal who's shopped fo…
Pet Care. Kickball. Archery. Cub Scouts earn a colored belt loop for each cool new skill they master. Strangely, the organization doesn't make a loop for the lesson that's being taught to the little boys in Pack 70 of University Park, Texas: Intolerance.
&n…
In Honor of MJ
My husband doesn’t dance. Doesn’t know how, doesn’t try, and doesn’t even stop to watch dancers unless they are, say, female and nearly naked.
Which is why it was so weird when he ordered an instructional DVD last year and dragged the whole family into the living room… Read full post »
She’s informed. She’s omnipresent. And she once called Ann Coulter a “horse-faced tranny” on MSNBC.
“Now I kind of wish I’d said something worse,” jokes Ana Marie Cox, the Washington journalist who serves up politics with liberal seasoning and a s/… Read full post »
Since When Does 'Adult' Mean Dirty?
Growing up is no rare achievement, but we did work hard to get here. Stumbling around the house in our parents' shoes, calculating our ages in cheeky increments of halves and quarters, scrutinizing that slow-growing height chart etched onto our bedroom doorframes in ballpoint pen.
In fact,… Read full post »
The Mythical 'Cougar'
Married, mid-thirties, and bereft of an urban feline's riveting "Rowrrrr," I'm no cougar. But I watched the season premiere of TV Land's reality show The Cougar, a Bachelor-style series in which a foxy 40-year-old divorcee and mother of four is wooed by 20 hairless, pec-flexing beauhunks.… Read full post »
Life is Laundry
Some of my friends are sending their kids off to college this fall and discovering, with some shame, that their offspring—who can build Web sites, play stringed instruments, and locate Latvia on a world map—are deficient in other life skills. Basic skills. Crucial skills.
The Art of the Come-On
The perfect come-on. It’s the Holy Grail of dating, the enchanted key that unlocks the glorious gates of Eternal, On-Demand Lady Lovin’. Many seek it. Many fail.
“Shoot, I seem to have lost my phone number. Can I have yours?”
“If I could rearrange the alpha… Read full post »
Our Kids Are Snitches
Running for office requires a hardy hide. Detractors lob accusations as easily as jugglers hurling torches; politicians expect it. But Oklahoma judicial candidate John Mantooth is being pelted by a particularly painful source: his own grown daughter.
Jan Schill (formerly Mantooth) recently t… Read full post »
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