One suspects a preexisting need to make food more interesting than it is, more beautiful, more strange.
March 24, 2010

Christmas in Havana
Vacation, to most people, means the freedom to regulate one’s own body temperature at will. People from all nations go in the water and sun-dry themselves ten times in a row. Then they take hot showers and sit in an air-conditioned room, then take some more sun, then wade into the water and repair again.
January 13, 2009
Hefner’s girls were always girls, first of all, or bunnies— not women. There was no knowing gleam in a centerfold’s eye.
Playboy
Faking adhd is a cakewalk, but the testing process is expensive.
Kickstart My Heart
September 22, 2008
Some have ponytails. None of the women do. Waxed eyebrows are popular for both sexes.
Fashion Week 2008
August 15, 2008
The task of summoning a precocious young girl is a two-step feat.
Review: Elegy
January 23, 2008
In the case of Adderall, I came for the culture and stayed for the drug.