Dorothy Parker meets James Thurber meets Eleanor Roosevelt meets Mel Brooks meets Mel Gibson and punches him in the nose. That’s me.
Hello, (imagine me walking over to an overstuffed chair in a booklined study and gesturing to you with my pipe), I’m Lenore Skenazy, a syndicated columnist hard at work in TV, radio and print – and yet, we’ve only just met.
Well, I’m glad you’re here now and I hope you’ll have fun reading my columns about things like Hairanoia (the feeling that everyone is secretly laughing at your new haircut), and useless surveys like the one that found people care more about sex than work), and Amtrak’s safety card (it specifically recommends NOT exiting a moving train. Not even when it looks safe and fun.).
You can also watch my TV clips from CNBC and the Food Channel where I interview a potato, teach office workers how to exercise using file cabinets, and explain the origins of fruitcake bashing. Since I was recently on the Bravo reality show, “Tabloid Wars,” you’ll find some clips from it, too – including one of an underwater wedding I covered in Harlem.
My radio commentaries come from National Public Radio where I muse aloud (which is important in radio) about everyday life.
And the Funny Songs section is just what it sounds like. Feel free to sing along with my latest crop of Christmas Carols, including Silent Night, Foley Night (I know – a cheap shot) and Taco Bell Rock. Anyone celebrating Passover will want to hear the Exodus Rap.
That’s it. My entire career in front of you, minus the layoffs. I hope you have as much fun poking around here as I did in finding these stories for you. And drop a line. I’d love to hear from you!
I love it .. and forwarded some columns to the immediate world. You will note from the forwarded material that the apostrophes and dashes aren’t picked up in “cutting and pasting” — it depends on the material itself; articles from the New York Times evidence this problem but those from the Wall Street Journal and Daily News do not.
Much success and holiday love,
John
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Yep, you are one of my favorite writers. Have been for years. And I just discovered your website! You’re my inspiration for writing again.
Best of luck with everything, Ms. Skenazy.
Thanks,
Melanie
lenore u r pretty and i would quote “your” p-po-poe-poem to you only it is about a dead girl and i fear you might think this is a death threat
actually i have read your columns in the local paper of talla-haile-selassie, florida and especially the one on loners was like, totally kool with a “k” as in “kool aid”
which reminds me of the jonestown massacre, it started out as a party with hunch punch, but someone spiked it with cyanide, and i would cite that as a prime example of the phenomenon of “socialopathy”
but i am not a loner i have plenty of friends and chicks dig me too oh there’s one now at the door sorry gotta go