Andrea Rosen.

Paper menorah!

Dec 2nd

No two are alike!

Dec 2nd

Meta cookie

Dec 2nd

Dec 2nd

Dec 2nd

The 3 Faces of Tina Fey

Dec 1st

Christmas crafts for big kids

I’m hosting an impromptu cookie-decorating and snowflake-making session at my apartment...

Dec 1st

The fine line

me: how bougie is it to get a pedicure at lunch? on a scale of plebeian to yuppie scum
Julia: 8.9
me: ugh, what's an 8.9?
Julia: yuppie wannabe
me: is that better or worse than jappy?
Julia: worse

Dec 1st

Listen

Hey, it’s December!  For the next twenty-five days I will think of nothing but Christmas. ...

Dec 1st

White Christmas Appreciation

The 1954 musical is divisively campy and barely even about Christmas—but it’s been a...

Nov 30th

Listen

When you do your Christmas shopping online, it helps to set the mood with holiday music.  I go for...

Nov 29th

How to meet my soulmate

People keep remarking on how hard it must be to meet decent dudes in New York, but I think I can...

Nov 29th

Kids say superlatively endearing things

I have very vivid memories about the circumstances in which I learned some words in my childhood,...

Nov 29th

Things to buy if I escape a...

Just kidding, that will never happen because I’m too much of an elitist to set foot in a...

Nov 29th

Serious block play.

Nov 28th

Breaking: turkey on fire.

Nov 27th

Presentation!

Nov 27th

My sister

Nov 27th

Spotted at East Haddam, CT’s only bar.

Nov 27th

Nov 26th

Nov 26th

fusioned: Andrea has a small head, I have a big head. Here...

Nov 26th

“I found this pattern at...

Nov 26th

Corrections

My new roommate browsed though my blog for the first time yesterday, and though she recognized my...

Nov 26th

Shaq's Top Ten Tweets

Nov 25th

Poor, poor pitiful we

I was walking up Second Avenue last night, right behind an average-looking middle-aged woman.  As a...

Nov 25th

Julia and I, after enduring painfully long waits for...

Nov 25th

Next time I break up with someone, I’m wearing this....

Nov 24th

Teach them well and let them lead the...

me: Spencer and Heidi eloped! This is important I think!
Duval: How old are they?
me: Our age, I believe.
Duval: Jesus. The world, when we're all in our 40s and in control is going to be some kind of shit show.
me: Ugh, I know.
Duval: It's our children I worry about. Not like in the paternal sense. But like, that they'll kill us or put us in some sort of internment camp.

Nov 24th

What's on my mindgrapes (Thanksgiving...

I won’t be with my parents this Thanksgiving.  Instead, I’m tagging along with my sister...

Nov 24th

I’m a little worried that all the corporate cutbacks...

Nov 24th

Doing the Sunday crossword in bed with Anderson Cooper.  I...

Nov 24th

Listen

[Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)]

Nov 23rd

Is it too early for Christmas songs?

I don’t care, the Phil Spector Christmas album is the only thing keeping me from listening to...

Nov 23rd

“The Obama Presidency,” an ever-growing...

Nov 23rd

Good call, Denton

Alex Carnevale makes me want to start reading Gawker again with his epic post on Five Celebrity...

Nov 23rd

An ode to Julia: the Lily Tomlin to my...

I’ve been so bored today; unable to leave to house because I’ve lost my voice....

Nov 22nd

From the Canadian Hollywood archives

There are so many amazing things in this synopsis of The Paperboy on Netflix, the presence of...

Nov 22nd

STFU

I’ve come down with a serious case of laryngitis, and it’s getting worse by the minute:...

Nov 22nd

Bitches!

Confessions of a Shopaholic: another movie wherein a clueless woman simply falls into a job at a...

Nov 22nd

Silver linings in this dark, crappy...

Eating everything with sporks at the office. Somehow, Tumbltape still hasn’t been shut down. ...

Nov 21st

Listen

Went to see AA Bondy last night at Union Hall.  The opening act had a puppet, Bondy’s drummer...

Nov 21st

Suck it, Googlegangers!

Nov 21st

One thousand sporks were just delivered to the office.

Nov 21st

Ricky and I are starting a Kristen Stewart Appreciation...

Nov 21st

Listen

soupsoup: stalk: Chromeo re-mixing Vampire Weekend’s “Kids Don’t Stand a Chance” (via...

Nov 20th

I have a lot of feelings

And when I have a lot of feelings I like to read about and listen to the feelings of others. Good...

Nov 20th

Premonitions

This November (and maybe every November) feels like a deep breath before the tectonic plates shift...

Nov 20th

getthatlook: Mumma, puppa, bring my shit drawing to life

Nov 20th

Famous people on Twitter I have a crush...

John Hodgman.  The funny thing about John Hodgman is that he’s not a PC or a Mac; he’s...

Nov 19th

“I really opened myself up in ‘JCVD.’ I peeled...”
— Man of the hour JCVD to...

Nov 19th

Waiter, there's a pun in my bar review

Nov 19th

Cardigans with pockets.  Where else will you put your free...

Nov 19th

Business plan

The lighting in Sephora is so harsh and unforgiving I’m more inclined to buy a burqua than...

Nov 19th

How can I get Dustin Hoffman to only...

His victory line in Outbreak, “General, with all due respect, fuck you, sir,” is my new...

Nov 19th

jschwa: Creepiest thing I’ve seen today.  That’s right, only...

Nov 18th

Sick, I tell you. Sick!

I finally caught Julia’s cold and it’s the worst.  Anyways, I’m pretty sure...

Nov 18th

Nov 17th

Internet magic!

The stars are aligning for my first real startup idea: I got my first choice of domain name and...

Nov 17th

interweber: I don’t usually fawn over kitchen items, but I...

Nov 17th

DIY Calder

After seeing The Whitney exhibit, I want to take a pair of pliers to my wire hangers and sculpt...

Nov 17th

Go see the Calder exhibit at The Whitney so we can drink...

Nov 17th

What ever happened to Yasmine Bleeth?

From Wikipedia:  ”Bleeth met her future husband, strip club owner Paul Cerrito, at the...

Nov 17th

An open letter to Rahm Emanuel

Dear Mr. Emanuel, In preparation for your position as Chief of Staff, I encourage you to keep your...

Nov 17th

Watch

I can’t even believe how hard it was to find the video for “See You Around” by...

Nov 17th

Cinematic solutions to conservative...

This past September, Bush Administration fellow Howard Weizmann, frightened by the gay weddings (and...

Nov 16th

Amazing.

Nov 16th

Happy Friday from Andrea and R Kelly

Nov 14th

Woman fights serial rapist with iPhone...

Nov 14th

Deal of the century

Tremors is on Netflix’s Watch Instantly list.  Bacon!  McIntyre!  Kid that kinda looks like...

Nov 13th

Bedtime Helen Keller jokes

Q: What do you call a tennis match between Helen Keller and Stevie Wonder? A: Endless love. Q:...

Nov 13th

Nov 13th

Career Fair swag

Nov 13th

Decisions!

I’ve got a lot of important ones to make lately.  To stretch my deciding muscles, I’m...

Nov 12th

GPOYW, 1990 passport edition.

Nov 12th

Growing up fact: non-pediatrician doctors’ offices do...

Nov 12th

Why, yes, there is a whole webpage devoted to...

Nov 12th

A beautiful mindgrapes

Is making indecipherable, multipage flowcharts at work a sign of genius or a sign that I’ve...

Nov 12th

You can tell winter's just 'round the...

When I start blogging about food every other post.  I haven’t consumed anything but starches,...

Nov 11th

First Jacques Torres hot chocolate of the season.  The only...

Nov 11th

Andrea's uninformed guide to Las Vegas

I’m going to Las Vegas in a few weeks.  Here’s my official to-do list, as someone who...

Nov 11th

Heaven is a bottomless bag of kettle chips in bed.

Nov 11th

livin on south 3rd

itsbedtime: Just saw an epic street battle involving about 20 kids right in front of my building and...

Nov 11th

Today in phrases I coined

“Zach Braffian.”  Put that in your generation-defining indie film soundtrack and smoke...

Nov 11th

Urban Thanksgiving

Nov 10th

An open note to my mother

I’ll come home for Thanksgiving if you make a Turducken this year. Love, Your daughter

Nov 10th

Today in things I hate

Girls under twenty-five who get all philosophical and introspective about sex and dating....

Nov 10th

Keepin' it real!

Zach: She definitely met you. She described you perfectly.
Me: How? I want to know how people describe me.
Zach: Short brown hair, never smiles.

Nov 10th

interweber: FROZEN ANTARCTICAN BEARD

Nov 10th

Hey, that's my bike

In college, a friend of a friend told me that all men were, fundamentally, either a Michael or a...

Nov 10th

Evolution!

Back in the days of goat-bartering, girls like me were having kids around 15, 16 years of age....

Nov 8th

Gratuitous Picture of Your President Wednesday.

Nov 5th

Best hangover of my life

My head hurts, but my heart swells.

Nov 5th

Listen

Times, they are a-changing.

Nov 5th

Yes, we can.

Nov 5th

Tonight

The moments in my life that might be touchstones in history are many.  My generation, so-called...

Nov 5th

What Canadians talk about on Election Day.

Nov 4th

Today in phrases I coined

“Alt-Jingoist.”  Somebody submit to the Pretentious Urban Dictionary.

Nov 4th

FiveThirtyEight’s load time is slower today than...

Nov 4th

My voting booth might have been a Rube...

There were lots of levers and knobs.  If you vote for Obama, it kills a rat.  If you vote for...

Nov 4th

The issues

The lack of stickers at polling places in this city is appalling.  Also, lollipops.  I really would...

Nov 4th

Most degrading work moments

I celebrated my one year anniversary as Project Manager of a startup (my first real grownup job)...

Nov 3rd

Signs the economy is on the upswing: my bodega can afford to...

Nov 3rd

nickmcglynn: Man Builds a Tomb with TV, Food, Fresh Air Just...

Nov 3rd

Also, Dianne Wiest was sorely underused.

I saw Synecdoche, New York tonight.  I so badly wanted it to be great that not until the end credits...

Nov 3rd

Today in things you discover when you're...

Josh Holloway (Lost’s Sawyer) was the guy that stole Alicia Silverstone’s purse in the...

Nov 2nd

My only grievance with MTV Music?  The classic font is...

Nov 2nd

“If a man talks to you after 6pm, he’s hitting on you.”
— Commodore Duval Culpepper

Nov 1st