Dear Misanthropic Bitch: I generally rely on you to be an equal-opportunity blamer, so what gives with planting the responsibilty for inepti...

Hallelujah! My dog is eating breath mints.

In defense of Kate Moss... What follows is not a defence of drug use, but a serious question about whether the fashion industry in general s...

I really wanted to laze about today and do nothing, but the sky is that wonderful pre-fall color it always seemed to be on old-fashioned cal...

Today was another nicely cloudy, darkish sort of Monday, which I always love, as you may have noticed. I went to my favorite Indian restaur...

The clangor of bashing president Bush at every opportunity has reached such a pitch that it now sounds a one-note symphony which makes liste...

New Orleans in the wake of Katrina is in a dire state. Let it be said there is plenty of blame to be shared for the human tragedy that has o...

[Happy 100th post to me] Pity party: Table for one.

Kind of weird. Sometimes, if you really pay attention, you can see in someone's eyes they've gone in a completely different directio...

This Big Hush Is there a fire in the sky? Is there a moon up there? Is anything alive now? This darkness is what I hear This is a breathless...

Hurricane Katrina I wish I'd seen New Orleans just once before it got completely shredded. I fear it will be a very different place tom...

Unshockability and awelessness... I started taking an anti-depressant daily in late April. I had been feeling listless and depressed and ho...

HE: You're looking smarter every day. ME: Why? Because I'm not involved [in the big project at the office] like the rest of you? HE...

I depend on me. Brilliantly illustrated by the band Elbow and the clever bloke at rathergood.com