Saffron?

For less than $5?

...

Oh, SNAP!

I Never Met Thomas Jefferson...

...but you, sir, are no Thomas Jefferson.

Checkmate

Chess is smart, sexy, and vastly underappreciated. I've learned more about dates by the way they recklessly use their bishops and undervalue their knights than hours of conversation. You learn a lot about your companion--friend, lover, relative, mortal enemy--by watching him or her think. It also makes for portable entertainment, and outdoor chess is one of life's many treasures. I'd like to think it is the stylish thinking woman's game.

If you've never played or are a bit rusty, online games are as good an entree as any.

Half a Foot, for the Sake of Half-Decency

Washingtonians,

On rainy, sleety, wintery-mix-y days such as today, please to be adding an extra half-foot between yourself and the person walking up the platform, escalator, or street in front of you. I promise we'll all get where we're going eventually. There is really no need for you to investigate the presence of freckles on the back of my neck at this precise moment.

"Half a foot, for the sake of half-decency."

Just pretend that our pedestrian walkways and travel patterns are traffic byways and travel patterns; you know how you add an extra car length or two when the weather is bad? Oh, wait...never mind. But...sigh.

Inimitable Sex Appeal is a Blonde Wig

Other than an utter lack of unstudied jouissance, easy humor, artless vulnerability, effervescent charm, and timeless appeal...




La Lohan looks eerily like Marilyn Monroe in New York Magazine's re-creation of the "last sitting"!