Ab Quest Week #13
I don’t like people who whinge and complain, but it’s excusable when I do it. It’s my website, after all. I paid to have my name in your URL. Still annoyed that somebody took benphillips.com, but...
View ArticleThings I Loved/Hated This Week #33
LOVE: One Pot Pasta from Martha Stewart Living: Whilst perusing the latest issue of my very favorite magazine, the greatest magazine in all the world, Martha Stewart Living, I was taken quite captive...
View ArticleAb Quest Week #17
I’ll skip my usual apologies to you, but they’re becoming so frequent that I feel as if I have written this sentence before in the past. I’d go back and check, but I just can’t be bothered. I didn’t...
View ArticleAb Quest Week #36
I realize that I could have a hot body and even drive a Bugatti…but I don’t want to work, bitch, you know? I don’t mind walking on the treadmill and I do it a few times a week, but doing anything else...
View ArticleAb Quest Week #38
HELLO READER! I’m back from my holiday hiatus and we have a world of things to discuss. First off, it’s effing freezing. Work has been cancelled for the past two days because the highest the...
View ArticleWhy Don’t You #19
Monday: Why don’t you get a job in a public school? It’s not always pleasant or fun, but it can be rather delightful at times and you get a ridiculous amount of time off. Tomorrow, I go back for the...
View ArticleThings I Loved / Hated This Week #57
LOVE: A Thousand Miles up the Nile: I’ve always felt that I was born in the wrong age. Each era of the past is deeply fascinating for me. Everything but the sixties through the eighties — no thanks,...
View ArticleA Word From Reverend Benjamin #21: On Visas & Turtlenecks
Holla Flock! Have you behaved yourself this past week? Prayed to Beysus and Baby Blue? I do hope so. It’s through them that we might find salvation and redemption in this cruel world. What do you think...
View ArticleWhy Don’t You #29
Monday: Why don’t you spend some time going through your Netflix queue and deleting the movies and shows you no longer have any interest in? The other day, I discovered that I had about a dozen...
View ArticleWhy Don’t You? #34
Monday: Why don’t you write a complaint letter to the writers of Saturday Night Live and demand that they stop putting a game show skit in EVERY EPISODE? I’m so sick of them. Tuesday: Why don’t you...
View ArticleWhy Don’t You? #46
I’ve run out of my stash of Diana Vreeland portraits, so I’m going to start these posts with a picture of ME for you. From the depths of my selfie stash, I give you this: Monday: Why don’t you buy a...
View ArticleThings I Loved/Hated This Week #24
LOVE: Florida: I’ve not been to a lot of places when you consider the globe, but I am fairly well traveled, though I’ve not yet seen California. Florida is easily one of my favorite places in all the...
View ArticleThings I Loved/Hated This Week #25
LOVE: Spring Cleaning: In the spirit of spring cleaning, I have decided to become a minimalist. If I am to be a world traveler and follow summer around the world, I can’t be weighed down by a lifetime...
View ArticleThings I Loved/Hated This Week #26
LOVE: Record Players: For my latest spring cleaning project, I’ve been organizing my CD collection and deciding what to keep and what to get rid of. Do I really need the Baha Men’s album? And more...
View ArticleThings I Loved/Hated This Week #111
HATE: Writing Only About Positive Subjects: I am bored to tears with trying to be perky all the damn time with this weekly post. It was a little experiment that I tried with myself. Oprah went on at...
View ArticleTHINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #193
LOVE: Something Rotten: I love the theatre. Whenever I’m in New York City, I see as many plays as I can. If I lived there, I would blow all my cash on play tickets and pizza and chocolate chip cookies...
View ArticleTHINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #208
LOVE: Set of Cooper Cookware: Remember back to Christmas when I talked about that copper skillet that I bought as a joke and fell madly in love with? I’m still kind of ashamed of how much I like it....
View ArticleWHY DON’T YOU #185
Monday: Why don’t you sell a kidney on the black market for some extra cash? I don’t really intend on doing this, but I’m curious if I could be a plasma donor. I’m already in town all of the time....
View ArticleWHY DON’T YOU? #209
Monday:Why don’t you spend the weekend binge watching British comedy on Netflix? Over the Labor Day weekend, I watched the entirety of Derry Girls, a charming show about an eclectic group of friends...
View ArticleTHINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #242
LOVE:Bad Education: I have been spending an absurd amount of time watching telenovelas lately, something that I am absolutely not ashamed of. I have learned so much more Spanish than before and I...
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