Oh harro. This is my new blog. I can’t guarantee it will be all that funny or interesting, but you are very welcome to read it and send comments to me and stuff. If you want to know more about me or my work, please to go to the “about me” and “work” sections. (Clever, init.)

Anyway, I just found out that one of my dear friends (I just wrote a typo and it came out as “dead” friends) is the latest victim of the evil R. (“Arrgh”) He’s a fashion/beauty publicist and generally awesome, and not just because he has scored me a few free haircuts and celebrity quotes in the past. So if you know of anyone hiring cheeky, floppy-haired hipster fashion publicists, please leave their info in the comments sections. I swear, I only endorse the best.

So yes, the recession sucks. But in the spirit of Christmas and hope that it will be over soon and people in the print media will stop writing that print media is dead (is that ironic to write that in a blog?) I shall list some things I actually like about the recession:

1. The usually overpriced Anthropology is currently having a sick sale. Cute presents like homewares, mugs, candles, soaps, notebooks and dish towels are like $3 a piece. Recession special! However, a boring, gray, short cotton robe was still $130. Un-recession unspecial.

2. I like saying the term “Recession Special” for everything. This also works as an insult to your friends who are both cheap and retarded, or just being plain dumb. For example, when someone pushes on a ‘pull’ door, I usually like to say “School for the gifted!” But now I can say “Recession special!” You can also say it when you bring cheap magnums of wine to a party. “Surprise! Recession special!” (FYI: This will be happening at my friend’s secret santa party tonight.)

3. You can quit boring things like your gym and your therapist and claim you are too poor to go. (Though sadly I love my gym, and actually am too poor to stay a member. Recession chubs. Or, recession-stop being a loser and try jogging around the park.)

4.Gatherings are getting more intimate and fun. Our office holiday party was at our boss’s apartment and it was awesome, until I got his kid’s play-dough stuck in my hair. (I was trying to make her laugh by sticking play-dough moustaches to my face and things got messy.) It was at this moment the boss realized we were all pretty drunk and gave us the boot. Plus, the kid was bathed and in PJs and it was obvious we’d overstayed our welcome. But still, it was nice to see his home and discover that he wears plaid satin pants when not in the office.

5. Ok, so there aren’t many more things I like about it. But you know what I really hate about it? People who keep saying we’re going to regress to the ’70s and soon people will be robbing each other in broad daylight and graffiti will be on trains and hookers will roam Times Square again. That is annoying. Things will change, yes, but I guarantee a bunch of Tony Maneros aren’t going to suddenly come strutting out of the closet. Actually, he was played by John Travolta, who, for the record, also isn’t coming out of the closet anytime soon. Repression special!