That Party Last Night Was Awfully Crazy; I Wish We Taped It.

Photo by Stephanie Caine.
When I was in college, my friends and I used to occasionally remark that we would make a great reality TV show. We had the boy drama of “The Hills,” the petty friendship squabbles of “Sorority Life,” the airheaded comments of “Rich Girls,” and drank more liquor than several “Real World” casts [...]

Hey Citrus, Hey Liquor.

Photo by sidewalks flying.
For three years, I worked in a chain restaurant straight out of Waiting. You know, the kind that only ever appear in mall parking lots.  The kind with random collections of tacky 1970s memorabilia adorning the walls, with automatically flushing toilets in the bathrooms, with a drink menu full of sticky-sweet cocktails [...]

Like Searching for Meaning in a Pauly Shore Movie: Why Clueless Is One of the Best Comedies Ever Made

Six reasons why Clueless is one of the best comedies ever made:
1) You may or may not know that Clueless is an updated adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. Updates are tough. Adhere too slavishly to the source material, and the new version seems stilted. Deviate too far from it, and you might as well not [...]