Despite the confusion the New York Times brought to this issue, I’ve decided after much deliberation and observation that the official How Not To Act Old dictate should be “Don’t Dress Up.” The Evil Young are much more likely to go out looking like they cleaned the basement, got drunk, danced all night, had sex […]
I went to the cemetery today with my badass friend Mary Jean: historic Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, not that far from where we met and became friends as young moms 25 years ago. A few minutes into our old people-style trolley tour, I looked over to find Mary Jean had put on her sunglasses: How freaking […]
How Not To Act Old turned two a few weeks ago, and all this time I’ve been pussy-footing around the issue of clothes. Why? Well, mostly because I didn’t want to step on the toes of my old Glamour colleague Charla Krupp, whose excellent book How Not To Look Old deals with stuff like fashion […]
Everything boomers do is bad. You know that, right? Not only are boomers selfish, greedy, boring, and disgusting, but, worst of all, they’re deeply unfashionable. Witness today’s incredibly offensive piece in the New York Times Style section on Dressing for Success, Again. It wasn’t enough for the writer to make the point that young men […]
Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Seinfeld Reunion finale may have attracted 98 percent of the viewers in the uncoveted 45 and over demographic. I was watching, though I couldn’t exactly tell you what happened or even whether the episode was any good. I was too busy checking out Larry David’s clothes. That’s right: Larry David is my […]
Sometimes I think the young live in a different world from you and me. Not just, you know, one with lots more sex and lots less confusion over how to turn on the television, but a land where they watch, listen to, and know about people and things hidden to the rest of us. For […]
So Chelsea Handler, my rival for the title of Bestsellingest Female Humor Writer, has upped the game by posing naked — yes, I mean totally nude, as in without any clothes — for Playboy. She revealed a Godzilla-sized picture of herself on the magazine’s cover on Leno the other night. Chelsea is obviously so desperately […]
Dear Grace, I just saw The September Issue, R.J. Cutler’s documentary about the making of last September’s issue of Vogue, and I’ve fallen in love with you. Absolutely head over heels. Before I count the ways, let me feature a picture of you in all your gorgeousness. Look at the excitement and energy in those […]
I had one of those dreams last night like people have in the movies — you know, dreams that so perfectly symbolize everything they’re doing and feeling that they can only be made up. But this one was real. In the dream, I came upon this old, rusty, leaf-filled Model T parked on a city […]
Tomorrow the How Not To Act Old book officially hits the stores, but our woman somehow managed to snag an advance copy and read it cover to cover. Well, she read all the good parts. While also leaving a voice mail for her daughter, sending mass emails to her friends, and cooking a pot roast […]
