July 2011
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“I am an ordinary woman who was called onstage at an extraordinary time,” she...”
– Betty Ford, RIP
June 2011
12 posts
Ocean Drive: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad (Fashion)... →
theoceandrive:
Okay, I don’t want to be one of those people, but I watched the very first episode of Mad Men when it first aired live on actual television. To say it’s been a longtime love is a bit of an understatement.
So I was just pleased as punch when The Coveteur dropped in on Sally Draper …
“If I had an orchard, I’d work till I’m sore”
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Things I Want But Cannot Have
Things I want but cannot have: the Edie purse from J.Crew. I practically drooled all over the thing when I was in the store last week. The red is so bright, and the structure so classic, it’s a miracle I managed to find some restraint and not buy the darn thing (trying to do the whole “responsible” thing and be more careful with my cash). One day, I’ll become rich famous...
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“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most
After three I’m under the...”
– the eternally quotable Dorothy Parker. I have this really wonderful edition of the Portable Dorothy Parker. Very highly recommended reading.
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Wait, Wait, Please Tell Me
Don’t forget to donate to This American Life! Yeah, blah blah, Stuff White People Like, we know, whatever. Is it a super obvious cliche that I can’t live without NPR? Sure. But let’s not let that cloud your judgement: the show is still home to some of the most powerful storytelling in America. So, okay, you could use your $10 to buy some local brews this week, or hops to brew...
“Picking apples for kings and queens of things I have never seen”
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Go West, Young (Wo)Man
Note: This post originally appeared on my OTHER blog, Ocean Drive. I just wanted it here, too! For some of that East Coast/West Coast lovin’, check me (and my lovely friend Corinne) out there as well.
I’ve been living in Massachusetts for five years, but I’ve somehow never made it out to the Berkshires. Maybe it’s all my Bostonian buddies who colored my thinking on it,...
May 2011
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Meditations on Divorce, Part I
Mr. Sheldrake: Look, I know you think I've been stalling you, but-well, when you've been married to a woman for twelve years, you just don't sit down at the breakfast table and say, 'Pass the sugar, I want a divorce.' It's not that easy. Anyway, this is the wrong time. The kids are home from school. My in-laws are visiting for the holidays. I can't bring it up now.
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Now Playing: Those Darlins
Those Darlins, Screws Get Loose
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Read, Worship, Listen To: Patti Smith
There’s a pretty good chance that if we’ve spoken in the last year I have insisted you get to Patti Smith’s Just Kids by any means necessary. I am eternally grateful that I don’t ever really have to review anything, because I don’t think I’m capable of terming just how breathtakingly wonderful it really is. Though the plot outlines Smith’s complicated...
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“Art offers the possibility of love with strangers”
– Walter Hopps, from the really wonderful documentary, The Cool School.
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Shop: Walking on Sunshine
Spring-y ballet flats the color of lollipops? Count me very in. I, for one, am going for the Poppy ones on the far left. Taste the rainbow (shoes) at J.Crew.
p.s. I’m obsessed with the song!
p.p.s. I’m also back here.
April 2011
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August 2010
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July 2010
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Happy Fourth, Everybody
June 2010
19 posts
Now Playing: Together
Together, The New Pornographers
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Give A Little, Shop A Little
Buy one of these super coolio handmade bags, and help the Wayuu tribe of Latin America pay for child care, hygiene programs, nutritional attention, education, and health service. And you’ll support the Wayuu Taya Foundation on its mission to keep the Wayuu cultures and traditions alive. Plus, you’ll be the coolest girl on the block and the luckiest, for you have found the perfect...
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Good Question: How to Relax
I am on a de-stress order from my:
mother
dentist
doctor
skin-care provider
Yikes! I am a very high-stress person. A teeth-grinding, meltdowns-in-the-middle-of-JCrew type person. I need help. So, any tips? Thus far I have bought a lavender candle and tried not to use my computer in bed. I was supposed to go to yoga this afternoon, but I have already had to cancel that. So, you know, this...
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Weekend Project: Herb Box
I love fresh herbs. They go a long way toward making pretty simple (read: cheap) dishes extra delicious. But to buy them pre-cut from the store always seems to be a waste of money. The solution? An herb box!
Apartment Therapy has great instructions for making an arugula box out of an old fruit crate. I am fortunate enough to be in possession of such a crate, but mine has extra compartments. So...
“You’re everybody’s satellite. I wish that you were mine”
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Don't Step on My Blue Suede Shoes
Aren’t you kind of totally obsessed with these Mary Janes from Camper? Yeah, me too.
Camper, $180. Via Refinery 29.
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Have Notebook, Will Travel
I’ve been really lucky to do some serious international traveling in the last year. Once as a student, once with my family, and once totally on my own. For two of those trips, I was totally responsible for my own finances, and was forced to make some tough decisions I would later regret (choosing a trip to the Philippines over one to Vietnam based on plane ticket prices, for example. They...
WatchIf you’re as obsessed with Karen Elson’s music as I am, you should probably watch this video. It’s a complete live performance from Third Man Records in Nashville. She honestly could not be any more cool.
p.s. make sure you get to 53:55 for a super rad cover of “Season of the Witch.” But you should probably just watch the whole thing.
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Amazing: BBQ in a Jar
Mouth needs to stop watering… now.
Giver’s Log via The Kitchn.
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Playlist: The Pill, Recreated
Paint it Black, The Rolling Stones
Bulletproof, La Roux
Zero, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Boys Don’t Cry, The Cure
Lisztomania, Phoenix
Kids, MGMT
It’s more or less a miracle that I could even remember these.
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Do Good, Buy More Shoes
Want, need, have to have. The perfect espadrille from TOMS. It’s kind of the ideal shoe to get you comfortably from work to the pool to the (prayfully outdoors) bar, no? Plus, there’s the added philanthropic benefit that when you by a pair, TOMS donates a pair of shoes to a child in need. So when you examine your credit card statement to find out where, exactly, all your money went,...
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Meditations on Proper Nomenclatures
The Dude: Walter, what is the point? Look, we all know who is at fault here, what the fuck are you talking about?
Walter Sobchak: Huh? No, what the fuck are you... I'm not... We're talking about unchecked aggression here, dude.
Donny: What the fuck is he talking about?
The Dude: My rug.
Walter Sobchak: Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!
The Dude: Walter, the chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill, so what the fuck are you talking about?
Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
The Dude: Walter, this isn't a guy who built the railroads here. This is a guy...
Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you...?
The Dude: Walter, he peed on my rug!
Donny: He peed on the Dude's rug.
Walter Sobchak: Donny you're out of your element! Dude, the Chinaman is not the issue here!
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Listen: Fool's Rush In
So cool. She & Him cover “Fool’s Rush In” as part of Levi’s Pioneer Sessions. Click here to download (for free) and watch an acoustic performance.
May 2010
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Read: NY Profile, Paz de la Huerta
New York Magazine has a really wonderful profile of actress/auteur/troublemaker Paz de La Huerta. De La Huerta has been vaguely haunting the public consciousness for years, as a muse to high school buddy Zac Posen and minor league actress in films like Cider House Rules. But she has a role in a new HBO series and enough diva in her to leave even Babs shuddering in her boots. (she also has a...
Now Screening: La Dolce Vita
Now screening: La Dolce Vita at The Brattle. 6 pm.
“Well,
Hot and heavy, pumpkin pie,
Chocolate candy, Jesus Christ,
Ain’t...”
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Dream Shopping: Summer Essentials
It’s a cruel summer, leaving me here on my own (it’s a cruel, cruel summer!). Though most of my friends have packed up and gotten the heck out of dodge, I have another full three months to say my goodbyes to Boston. Lonely? Possibly. But it’s also a chance to get myself to some of my favorite alone time spots, the kinds one normally doesn’t have time for when there are -...
