A few months ago, while visiting my cousin Jill in Boca, I had quite a start while mindlessly looking through her some of her old photo albums. I literally gasped when I saw this…
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Breath of Fire: My (mis)Adventures in Bikram Yoga Class: or, Sixty Minutes In Hades
In addition to being my Diva of Dermatology (Park Avenue Skin Solutions), Lauren Abramowitz is a dear friend whose yoga practice has, in recent years, truly transformed her life. As an enthusiastic proponent of…
What’s the Matter With Kids Today?
One of the most far-fetched, least believable moments on the first season of our show, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, was when Sarah “you-didn’t-know-I-was-so-hard-up-for-a-date-until-I-went-on-national-television-and-told-you-a-million-times” Rose actually did go on a blind date with a…
My Favorite Photo of Me: the Village Cigar Store, Christopher Street and 7th Avenue, 1984
Elisa asked me yesterday to write about my favorite picture of myself. It’s hard to choose just one image when you’ve been photographed for nearly thirty years by someone as talented as she, but…
Greetings from Ft. Worth, Texas!
It seems like fans of the show crop up in the strangest places! This weekend, I travelled down to Dallas Ft. to visit my friend Gus. We decided to drive to Ft. Worth to…
We Didn’t Need Dialogue, We Had Defaces!
As Thanksgiving gave way to Christmas and then to New Years, I began to notice that our Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys posters in the subways were being modified. I found this…
The Strangest Birthday Ever? My 25th Birthday Party at the Howard Johnson’s Motor Lodge, November 9, 1989
Oh boy. It seems like a million years ago and yesterday at the same time. It was (my dreaded) 25th birthday and I decided to have a party at the old Howard Johnson Motor…
“Elisa, meet me at the corner of 23rd and 6th, and bring me a bagel!”
Over the many years of our friendship, Elisa and I have spent more time shopping, picking, sifting, flea-ing and treasure hunting than just about any other activity. Wherever we go, our eyes are always…
California Girls, or, How I Met My Cousin
When I returned to California in 1981, Sandi became the first person I ever discussed my sexuality with or, rather, she with me. I will never forget that conversation: we sat down together on her rainbow bedspread and she told me in a gentle, measured and completely not-hysterical way, “David, I think you are going to be gay.”
What’s In a Nose? My Very Real Attempt to Secure a Fake Nose
Recently a lovely girl came in to my store Chelsea Girl with her mom. She looked to be in her late teens or early twenties and was over-the-top effusive about our vintage merchandise. After…
What Shall I Wear? A Fashion Game For Girls (and, sometimes boys!)
Selchow and Righer was a manufacturer of games and best known for distributing the original Scrabble and Parcheesi. The company was bought by Coleco (now there’s an old name) in 1989. Much less well-known,…
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