News from Paula!

Kevin Lee And Bobby Trendy: The Same Person?

2012-01-24T21:40:58Z

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, over the top gaysian wedding planner Kevin Lee (the inspiration for Martin Short’s wedding planner on Father of the Bride) kept remind me of someone last night… and then I realized who it was - Anna Nicole Smith’s old BFF - Bobby Trendy!

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Vietnam: The Rough Guide!

2012-01-24T20:46:01Z

My piece in Playboy on Vietnam finally came out. Due to weird Playboy-ness, it's not on their website, so here it is, copy complete - Best damn piece in the Lindsay Lohan issue!

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New York Neurosis

2011-11-08T19:07:46Z

And you think YOU'RE nuts? heh. Only in New York do you get that extra special, weird kind of crazy that comes when people are crammed together like cockroaches - bringing out their inner oddities, all in an attempt to mark some sort of boundary. Which kind of bonkers are you?

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Seinfeld had NOTHING on real New Yorkers

2011-10-25T15:02:55Z

My piece in the Observer on the modern day version of Karen Horneys original list of Neurosis. Yes, we are all crammed into this fair city like a bunch of roaches and its starting to make us crazy. The pic of of Nicole Young (Need for Self Sufficiency/wont ride the subway) and Tinsley Mortimer (need for Social Recogntion)

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Escape From Soho House!

2011-09-30T19:10:12Z

My piece in New York mag about my pal Mark Somen's move to Nairobi. He got me started on the whole Kenya kick.

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The Casey Johnson Piece

2011-09-30T19:09:01Z

The piece I did on Casey Johnson for New York mag. The only time i really ever talked about working at Page Six.

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My short lived Sundance blog

2011-09-30T16:51:35Z

It was fun while it lasted. Someone smoked something and decided they should have me write the official Sundance Channel blog one year. And then somebody sobered up and asked WTF??? She's not breaking news on films! She's just having a damned good time on our dime! But I will say, I gave myself a giggle. Jody Hall, Danny McBride, Elton John, it was worth it! PS: fun fact. After Elton John tells you for 30 minutes how five of his closest friends have been killed by Super Fans, do NOT, under any circumstance, lean in and say, "I just have to tell you - my sister is your biggest fan..." It doesn't go over well.

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Michael Kors

2011-09-30T16:48:37Z

You'd think MK would be a little easier to deal with. you'd THINK. He had to approve all questions, shied away from anything interesting... etc. But here's the piece in Modern Luxury. I did the best with what i got. I tell you, TV 'stardom" ruins a man. I think i fell asleep while he was talking about versatility.

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Halston Committing Harvey Carrie

2011-09-30T16:40:47Z

The cover story I did for the New York Observer on Halston - which the New York Times saw fit to rewrite a week later almost verbatim. Mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, thanks guys!

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My First Trip To The BP Spill

2011-09-30T16:36:50Z

So, BP wouldn't let me spend the night on any of the "Flotels" (floating "hotels" that looked like something out of "Lock up Raw") housing the clean up workers, as I wasn't going to be safe (their words). Apparently, a lot of these guys never left Grand Isles. They all had tear tattoos and gang loyalties - fit right in in the sleepy fishing weekend town!

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Down and Out In Baghdad

2011-08-12T15:27:59Z

My piece on Iraq in Playboy is finally out - in which i got on a tour bus with 16 strangers and waddled through the cradle of civlization. Fun fact: non natural fiber burkhas in 120 degree heat SUCK. So does an aging bus which broke down twice that had an AC system which felt like an old man blowing softly over a bowl of ice. But it was worth it!

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A Carnivore’s nightmare

2011-08-04T15:17:27Z

A place where all the tums, pepto bismol and zantac wont save you... Carnivore in Nairobi!

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Travel to North Vietnam

2011-07-18T17:39:14Z

If you're going to North Vietnam and want/need a guide - Lan Ng is the best and offers VERY cheap rates.

lanset1978@yahoo.com

he does tours in the mountains in the north, to Ha Long Bay, around Hanoi and everywhere else.

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Birthday Cake

2009-10-30T22:33:32Z

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How To Get Vaccinated For Life

2009-10-29T15:39:14Z

For any sort of exotic travel (you know, in countries where the USD still means something), go to Judy Shipley at the NY Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine.

50 East 69th Street
212 734 3000

She is the BEST. Funny as hell too - while she’s jabbing your arm like a pin cushion.

Shots

Africa, Nicaragua, Darjeeling - Here I come!

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