Gotham Digest

Two years ago, “shirt-dresses” really threw me for a loop. Is it a dress, is it a shirt? Do I have to wear leggings with it on a ninety degree day? On a hot day in Chelsea I chose to rock one, by itself, with a thong. It was fuscia with a key-hole neck-line and safari print. The bottom of the shirt ruffled like a skirt and when I tried the shirt on in the store, the sales-person assured me that the shirt-dress wasn’t too revealing on its own. I used to work in retail, so I should have known better.

Beth Ditto will sing at the opening of Alexander McQueen's flag-ship store in L.A. It's about time a designer brought plus-size talent to couture.

Moms, do your kids have epilepsy?  Stop forcing your kids to eat vegetables and start forcing them to eat fat right now! Carbs, the arch nemesis of good health, might be triggering your kid’s seizures.

Irvine Robbins, founder of Baskin Robbins, died yesterday at the age of 90.

Fashionista reports that Ally Hilfiger will not collaborate with Izzy Gold on a new T-shirt line. While we won’t be sporting another Hilfiger’s dreads in the near future, why not watch a few episodes or Rich Girls to get your Ally fix? Mmmmm, just watching her dice an onion makes me want to shove a burrito in my mouth. Ole!

Admit it, it’s difficult to open a plastic container of cool whip, refrigerate pudding, or spread cream cheese on a bagel.  And, finally, Kraft has found solutions to these plaguing problems.  Canned whip cream! Pudding packets that congeal as soon as you stir in milk! Pre-sliced bagels that are pre-stuffed with cream cheese!

Women, all around me, are settling.  Not settling down, not finding Mr.Right, but finding Mr. Right Now.  It isn’t about dating someone who meets your standards, it’s about fucking someone who meets half of them.  Or, casually seeing someone who is “perfect” but unavailable.