OMG it's Sara Katherine!

‘MERICA!

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:27:25 -0400

‘MERICA!

Champy drinking, line cutting, couch dancing, sailor sassing,...

Sun, 27 May 2012 16:33:39 -0400

Champy drinking, line cutting, couch dancing, sailor sassing, DJing, roofdeck lounging, 2AM Katz’s Deli eating. That is what I like to call a successful Saturday night.

Kendra Morris // Don’t Cry

Sun, 27 May 2012 13:09:00 -0400

Kendra Morris // Don’t Cry

Celebrating my belated bday the RIGHT WAY with my newlywed BFF.

Sat, 26 May 2012 23:36:00 -0400

Celebrating my belated bday the RIGHT WAY with my newlywed BFF.

Becoming a bronze less pale goddess in my big ass backyard.

Sat, 26 May 2012 15:24:00 -0400

Becoming a ~~bronze~~ less pale goddess in my big ass backyard.

Is it terrible I kind of want this well-known reporter to quote...

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:01:00 -0400

Is it terrible I kind of want this well-known reporter to quote my inappropriate jokes in the New York Times?

"Vera said: ‘Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?’ So I told her..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:26:00 -0400

“Vera said: ‘Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?’ So I told her why. Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn’t hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.”

- Nora Ephron, Heartburn

Uh, oh. Looks like New York City is, once again, covered in...

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:50:00 -0400

Uh, oh. Looks like New York City is, once again, covered in seamen.

Book + Booze Club @ Cask Wine Bar! Just had a nice little...

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:19:00 -0400

Book + Booze Club @ Cask Wine Bar!

Just had a nice little discussion about ‘Fifty Shades’ (of Crap Writing) and now we’ve moved on to #boyproblems and #firstworldproblems.

We’ll get back to classics next month. No more assics for this club.

15 Thought-Provoking Discussion Questions Every Book Club Should Ask Themselves

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:30:00 -0400

15 Thought-Provoking Discussion Questions Every Book Club Should Ask Themselves:

5. Jane Austen was one of the first authors to examine the effects of socioeconomic pressure on personal relationships. What kind of grown woman brings Yellowtail to a book club comprised of professional women? We’re all trying to save money, but what are we, 17-year-olds in a suburban basement?

9. Compare and contrast the different relationships between the main characters and their parents. Or, if that feels boring, maybe talk about something personal. Like, maybe, how many times a week do you and your boyfriend have sex? Just spitballing.

10. What foods or beverages did you spill on the book during the course of reading it? Anything good?

View from the 44th floor of Viacom @ an MTV Movie Awards...

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:54:00 -0400

View from the 44th floor of Viacom @ an MTV Movie Awards meeting!

Feeling like a pretty lucky gal right about now.

Finished 'Fifty Shades' last night

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:49:00 -0400

…and my thoughts beyond the initial ‘God, can I please have those few hours back?’ and ‘God, I’m sorry you had to see me Google that one thing’ are that I never want to hear the following words ever again:

double crap
holy cow
murmur
inner goddess
sex (as a body part)
grey/gray
flush/scarlet
twitchy palms
oh jeez
red room of pain

If you haven’t read it yet, let me save you the trouble: just copy + paste those dozen or so words 10,000 times and it’s essentially the same thing (perhaps a better version?). Of course I know it’s mindless recreational reading, and trust me, I like a steamy/bizarre sex scene as much as the next pervert, but lord help us all when lackluster/elementary/empty writing like this continues to make bestseller lists.

At the very least, our Book + Booze Club discussion tonight will be highly entertaining and I look forward to being those classy ladies in the bar drinking wine and discussing BDSM.

“…if you can’t be selfish in your twenties, when on...

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:09:00 -0400

“…if you can’t be selfish in your twenties, when on earth can you be? Certainly not in your thirties, when you’re too busy helping to spawn another generation of narcissistic so and sos.” - [via]

Celebrating SIX years in New York City today!...

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:04:45 -0400

Celebrating SIX years in New York City today!

“…years from now, when people ask you, ‘Where did you grow up?’ you will think twice about the answer because while your childhood was spent in Houston, Texas, you did a lot of growing up in New York City, too. This island is your home, your muse and your lifeline – it belongs to you and you belong to it. Never forget what you came here to do. No matter how your future in New York unfolds, know that everything you do will lead you to stories. Stories you must write. There are no regrets if there’s a story to be told…”

(Read past anniversary posts here.)

Sunday sunset in Central Park. “The sky over New York...

Sun, 20 May 2012 20:22:41 -0400

Sunday sunset in Central Park.

“The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?” — Ayn Rand

The Edge of Rebellion

Sat, 19 May 2012 12:42:00 -0400

She felt like she was on the edge of a rebellious phase. She could feel it in her bones, that anticipation, the possibilities… her thoughts were tangled up in the kinds of trouble she could get into now that she had no one to worry about and no one to worry about her. She liked being with him, coming home to him, but she liked coming home to no one too, having secrets, making foolish decisions. It wasn’t so much selfishness as it was a recharged independence. Summer had just arrived in the city and long, warm kisses from the sun made her forget everything she was tired of explaining. Longer days meant longer nights and this was both an exciting and exhausting notion. But the thrilling vagueness of not knowing what was next propelled her out of bed each morning — she thrived on mere possibility. That urge to do whatever felt right came over her in waves, during moments she felt closer to 22 again, when guilt did not weigh her down. Maybe she didn’t want to think twice. Maybe she didn’t care what the outcome might be. Maybe she was ready to dull the ache in her chest by rediscovering what made her happiest before he came along. And while she has a tendency to make things sound carelessly sexual, this was not that sort of rebellion…it was simply an urgent awareness triggered by the need to once again dive headfirst into beautiful experiences and people and stories, as writers (and wannabes like her) are wont to do. It was a time to pick up the pieces and inadvertently scatter them all over New York. But she would do so with discretion and patience and shrewdness because she would have to watch him do the same. She put on heels again. She did her eye makeup just a shade darker. She went with red instead of pink, only because it made her feel stronger. And on days she found herself struggling with loneliness or uncertainty, she would stand as close as possible to the edge of the subway platform and wait for the train to roar into the station, letting the rush remind her that she was alive and fulfilled and capable of shaping this city into whatever she needed it to be to carry on. Manhattan and all of its clichés were her heart. The summer sun, the sleepless nights, the sadness of knowing too much and the thrill of starting over again added up to something she couldn’t quite explain or define, nor did she have to. But the desire to thrust herself into all of it at once, the good and the bad, kept her teetering on the unknown, unsure of when to let go, but ready to find out.

Big day for Facebook! When my kids ask me years from now where I...

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:40:00 -0400

Big day for Facebook!

When my kids ask me years from now where I was on FB IPO day, I will say shhhh mommy’s hungover.

At the live filming of Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Artists...

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:47:00 -0400

At the live filming of Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Artists Den’ concert! <3 (Taken with Instagram at Episcopal Church of the Ascension)

My Best Friend’s Wedding Personal highlights (because the...

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:27:00 -0400

My Best Friend’s Wedding

Personal highlights (because the day was about me, you know!):

The beautiful, sweet, flawless 24-minute ceremony.
Catching the bouquet and IMMEDIATELY throwing it on the floor in disgust. (Then getting a grip and hesitantly picking it back up. I guess I’m next, bitches.)
Giving a HILARIOUS speech. (I was told I should be a stand-up comic at least a dozen times, mostly by the bride + groom’s deaf relatives.)
Never leaving the dance floor. (Should have worn a sports bra.)
Drinking somewhere between 11 and 6,000 vodka lemonades.
Leaving the bouquet + a cocktail on a street corner. (It happens?)
Meeting tons of wonderful new people.
Watching my absolutely gorgeous best friend ‘start’ her life with her new husband.

Perrrrrfection.

Just had to write quick headlines for a...

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:52:00 -0400

Just had to write quick headlines for a ‘Punk’d’ episode that involves balls stuck in a zipper.

This is basically my dream job.