The V&A seems to have a little bit of an Eve fetish! MoMA has nothing and the Met has a couple of depictions but no sculpture. Apparently Rodin liked her though.

Eve? Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a statue of Eve. All the Greek and Roman goddesses and muses and quite a few wives of emperors, and Catholic saints and Mary of course, but never Eve. I wonder why? You would think, being considered by many to be the mother of us all, she’d be more widely…

It’s a convention and it’s mandatory. I don’t think they’ve changed it. And there is a definite placement order of info, and divorce always goes last. “The bride, who attended Harvard and Harvard Medical School, was honored for the discovery of the cure for cancer. Her first marriage ended in divorce.”

There is a minor thread that runs through the “Wooster and Jeeves” comedy series (early 90s with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, almost all episodes available on YouTube, watch it now) where Jeeves belongs to a butlers’ club. As a condition of membership everyone has to record their employers’ peccadillos in a huge…

I was on vacation once and a friend called me and said, “You’re getting the New York Times, right? Does your [Sunday] copy have the wedding section? Good. Take a look and call me back.”

I read the fb posts and noticed that at least one person mentioned they drove up from Miami with miserable results. I don’t suppose you did, did you? I go to Miami fairly frequently and I’ve given up on eating pizza there. Every place takes half an hour at least and the results are watery and bland. You wouldn’t have…

Lots of organizations produce all kinds of materials that require skills beyond the knowledge of Excel. I would start by asking anyone and everyone I knew how they create their PowerPoint presentations and sales kits and advertising campaigns. The public sector generates metric tons of informational stuff every day.…

This is a random and probably very stupid question but:

I doubt any of the parties involved read Jezebel so here’s my very specific story.

It would be exciting and not really out of the ordinary for media people, especially in California, to go into politics. I didn’t fall for it because Takei is 79 and seems to have a very happy life. It would be very noble of him to do a double gainer into the cesspool that is the current Rep.-led House of…

My dog does the same thing, first dog I’ve ever owned who does an almost surgical incision, removes the squeaker, leaves it around somewhere obvious for us to find and admire, and then never looks at the toy again. We have a whole huge basket of squeakerless toys just in case he has a change of heart and would like to…

Ours was a basic black model that came with the house, which was built right after the war. The rotary dial was indestructible. You couldn’t use it during thunderstorms because we had overhead telephone wires and lightning could strike and travel through the device. Oh, and it was leased, there was no other option, so…

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I fell into a management role at the ripe old age of 28. The budgeting aspect was always the worst.

If you like maximalist fiction, big sprawling epics like War and Peace, you might like Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon. It may be the funniest book I’ve ever read, with hundreds of scenes that made me chuckle or burst out laughing. It is from M&D that I learned of this:

“I don’t like to read. Besides, I have kids,”

Off topic but I think wealth among college students used to be more hidden or unavailable from the parents in the 1980s. I knew lots of kids from very well-off families whose parents paid their tuition and meal plan and that was about it. Everyone I knew had at least one part-time job, and we all lived in really…

You don’t need a comma before every “and.” I am a commenter and I live in New York. I am a commenter, and while living in New York I replied to this comment.

I should have guessed, I think 2016 was somehow even more divisive than the 2008 primaries.

He was a Chime! Many years ago I saw the Chimes perform at a pub-like place in Georgetown, I think they had a standing gig or something. Maybe our next Congressman from Georgia’s 6th once sang “Uptown Girl” to me, but my memory is hazy. The only thing I remember is asking an enthusiastic fellow patron, “Are these the…