March 31, 2006
I'm drunk.
Vickie has a show in Miami, check it out.
Its Linda's birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!
And here's my goddaughter - posing for a shoot to launch Royal Mail's Ice Age stamps collection in the UK...so cute right?
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And the Sleazies will be playing at CBGB Friday March 31 - get yer ass our there..
March 19, 2006
This no smoking shit is really too much. I'm cool with restaurants, office spaces, public buildings and stores being smoke free. I'm not completely down with the no-smoking bar/club thang...I truly do not think the kind of people who frequent such places are, or should be, primarily concerned with second-hand smoke (myself included)...But c'mon...If the people of Calabasas are concerned about their health, they should be trying to change national policy that continues to allow deregulated big business to pollute the fuck outta the country. Not worrying about the dude standing in front of Starbucks.
Speaking of pollution, right down the street we have a 20-year-old Exxon oil spill that, at one time, covered an area as big as "41 football fields and contained more petroleum than the Exxon Valdez spilled off the Alaskan coast." Well now Erin Brockovich has joined the cause. Thank god. (That was sarcasm...it doesn't read so well...) Anyway, the Riverkeepers are involved as well and I do have great faith in them.
In other somewhat ridiculous news, it appears Ambien can cause sleep-eating (formally knows as Noctornal Eating Syndrome.) So if you take Ambien in higher-than-prescribed doses and find your kitchen ransacked in the morning, for gods sake, stop taking it! I loooooooooove Ambien. I don't like to hear people talking shit about it.
Our cat Saget received a toy mousey from his cousins Lucie & Sparky in Virginia. And he has picked up very strange habit where he wanders around the house with the mouse in his mouth caterwauling on the top of his lungs, kinda like this cat. The most notable thing about the situation is that before the mouse arrived, we thought there was something wrong with Saget's vocal cords as his normal meow sounds like a cat meowing with a sock in its mouth...And now we find he has no problem screaming loudly if he so chooses...Anyway, I tried to show Anne last weekend, but I hid the mousey so well that even I could not find it anymore.
Anne arrived bearing clock - she restored an antique clock that has been in Jim's family. I don't know if "restore" is the right word, but basically she made it into a portfolio project, so we got to read the entire history of the clock, see photos of the interior when she took it apart, and obviously, have the clock back looking great.
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Isn't that cool? She is supplying us with PDF reports on it so we can all be super geeky.
And right now Jen is riding around Brooklyn with an antique rocker of ours too. I feel like I am running a episode of the Roadshow over here. But Jen very sweetly offered to pick up the chair from my Mom's place in Boston and drive it back to Brooklyn. My mom called me to tell me she had such a nice visit with Jen and my Auntie Kate - they all had tea and scones together. Bless Jen's heart, I swear to god, I'm not even brave enough to do tea-time with the Aunties. Yeah, so now my chair is somewhere in the neighborhood...hopefully resting in Jen's place temporarily.
BTW, we totally dream of going on the Antiques Roadshow one day. Who have we become?
A few weekends ago we went out to see Craig's new tatoo shop and get dinner with him and B. So we went to this very yummy restaurant called Picket Fence and then we went walking around the neighborhood looking at the incredible houses. The area is now referred to as Victorian Flatbush (or Prospect Park South) and as the name implies, there are these incredible Victorian mansions lining the streets. They are crazy to look at, it's hard to reconcile the fact that this spot is in Brooklyn.
Another awesome Tim Gunn interview. Plus one with Santino in the Village Voice.
Designer Oleg Cassini died yesterday.
In honor of my Irish roots and a little too late for St. Patricks day...here are 15 people who can drink more than you (but not me) Irish drinking jokes and a little history on Shane McGowan.
Very scary Kurt Cobain action figure.
Waterfront Preservation Alliance of Greenpoint & Williamsburg.
Muffy's World of Vagina Euphemisms.
Indie rockers turn down Hummer commercial. Lord, how I wish Iggy Pop coulda taken that stance on Lust for Life. I'm thrilled he was able to make a little cash, but the result is a song I once loved now only conjures up images of a cut-rate ghetto style cruise ship. So sad.
March 7, 2006
Ho-lee Shit! Lisa just posted that the Double Down is coming to NYC. Will it be the same without the planes flying overhead? Without the desert? What about the ass juice? You think they will have the ass juice?!
Apartment therapy is starting up its smallest/coolest apartment competition which can provide a glimpse into your fellow square foot challenged New Yorker's bedrooms. If you like this kinda stuff, you should check out Small Space Big Style on HGTV.
Oh, and I would just like to say: Punky Chip Ahoys. Oi! Oi!
...Ok, just can't leave it that way...here's some DKs to make everything alright.
March 5, 2006
We spent the weekend in the Catskills and it was massively fun. We went hiking with a strange unknown dog that kept biting us, and later, went drunken sledding. I think I bruised my coccyx in the process. I spent the rest of my weekend laughing my ass off and chilaxin'.
Good times...And of course, good pictures. See them here.
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