The Transom

A Fistful of Viagra

A few weeks ago, I was in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for what was intended to be a week of golf, yoga, working out and general relaxation. Detoxification was also on the agenda. So when I found myself, after five margaritas, with raccoon eyes and wearing a sombrero, saddled up to a farmacia counter buying Read More

George and Hilly

We join our happy couple in the middle of a therapy session, just after Hilly has brought up that George left her at Bungalow 8 without telling her he was leaving.

HILLY: It might seem trivial to you, but we live in the kind of world where that kind of thing matters. And I Read More

World Cup Was My Aphrodisiac, But I Didn’t Score

Most women in New York, whether they want to admit it or not, know that dating here revolves around fantasy: the fantasy that the underwear model you’re eyeing across the room might possibly know who Heidegger is, or that the promising surgical resident you’ve been dating for two months won’t max out his Visa after Read More

The Cockpit: Hey, What About The Fishing?

An irregular dispatch from our men’s blog, The Cockpit: Gaping Plot Holes
Well, I finally went and saw that movie with the cowboys in love or the sheepherders in love or whatever. SPOILER ALERT: So it turns out they’re gays! It’s like The Crying Game, I guess, except they don’t try to fool you Read More

George and Hilly

Our ninth couples-therapy session got off to a bad start. I had been out the night before; two six-packs and two hours of sleep ….

DR. SELMAN: Who would like to begin?

HILLY: George didn’t read the article to me before it went into the paper this week!

GEORGE: I’m in Read More

Smell Her Misery! And Be Nice to Those Perfume Sample Girls

In the Soho Bloomingdale’s the other day, a young woman teetering on heels stopped me. “Marc Jacobs, Blush,” she said, proffering a perfume bottle, her finger poised on the nozzle, her face desperate and woebegone. You poor thing, I thought to myself. She earnestly, gratefully, spritzed my pulse points, and I nodded at her sympathetically, Read More