Topic: Lies We Tell Ourselves

The Misanthropologist: Do You Wear Clothes When You Have Sex?

The Misanthropologist: Do You Wear Clothes When You Have Sex?

Since I’m such an unrepentant scumbag, I have pretty slim pickings when it comes to friends; decent, hard-working, attractive types don’t want to consort with me. I can trick them for about fifteen or twenty minutes by putting my napkin on my lap or some shit but then I end up in a dumpster screaming about injustice and doing whippets. And nobody wants to see that. Anyway, I know this girl who’s a More »

Lust Object: Lanvin Leather Gloves

Lust Object: Lanvin Leather Gloves

The temperature has dropped and New York City is getting cold. I didn’t know this before I moved to the five boroughs a few years ago but winter is brutal here (though I am an enfeebled Californian). Anyway, there’s a point about mid-January when everyone just stops giving a fuck and wears those North Face tube coats that go all the way down to the ankles and make you look like a sausage in a sleeping bag. More »