I’m not big on weddings. But this one, oh!
Favorite moment: Just before 1 minute in, the lady in purple being a tiger. Is everyone this attractive at British weddings? Sign me up.
Via A Cup of Jo, who is wisely cornering the wedding/relationship market writing about 30 somethings.
That Zach Braff 2.0 line is from Hipster Runoff, which analyzes the hipster points of the movie. I don’t know what it is, but Maya Rudolf’s face always looks weird to me. It’s another movie by Dave Eggers (Where the Wild Things Are is also written/adapted by him). Do I want to watch a movie about babies where strollers take up an entire scene? Not sure. But that John Krasinski is cute!
I have several of these baggu bags in wild colors (without the mom heart) and I love them. Canvas tote bags are so lame, heavy, and easy to forget. These little baggus pack into a tiny pouch and turn up magically in my purse or jacket pocket right when I need them. I also bought myself several of the mesh veggie bags so I can stop coming home with twenty plastic bags wrapped around each tomato. A few of those are on the way to the momers also.
My mom lives in Paia, Maui and shops at Mana Foods–one look at the goddesses and dolphins on their website will tell you that my mom and her reusable bags are about to be a big hit.
What happens when you and several of your friends volunteer for a swanky literary event with an open bar?
You commandeer a bidding number and decide that you’re each going to pitch in $100 to have a truffle making party for 30 people, hosted by a local chocolate shop.
It’s no wonder I’m always strapped for cash.
Thanks for the pic, Brian.
Holy cow. Did you see this New York Times article on Neverland Ranch being auctioned off? MJ is apparently trying to block it, but this site has everything listed and the bidding has begun. Some hot stuff in there folks. And yes, creepy stuff. The furniture section (ew) is almost entirely porcelain figurines of children (ewwwwww). But the weirdness, and, oh! the clothing. There’s a lot of broken links on the auction site, but click around. You can’t look away.
Here’s what I’d go for, with the starting bids and estimated going prices.
Paul Bedard portrait, above, $200-$300
Sequin jacket, starting bid $100, estimated $300-$300 (more…)
You know it’s true. (That’s studly Jack, from Pirates of the Caribbean. And have mercy, I made this with free image editing software with very few functions.) Original picture from Huffington Post. Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper says on his Twitter that “Ye Olde Queen’s iPod” contains (most recent first):
And finally, Engadget beat me to this one, by years, back in 2005.
She’s the one on the left, being a dork.
Telluride Daily Planet does a quote of the day, every single day. Here’s her’s, sort of:
“I will have nothing to do with husband or lover…I shall not lift my slippers to the ceiling…this I shall do to end war…Come see the reading of Lysistrata today at 7 p.m. at the Telluride Community Room.” —The women of Lysistrata
And then, there’s always Cop Shop, which she has (fortunately) yet to appear in:
March 16
JETTISON: Arizona residents that had hitchhiked through the area last year reported they “had too much stuff” and lightened their load by jettisoning the duffle bag in a ditch. (more…)
This will be funny only to Mad Men watchers. Highlights: Amy Sedaris makes an appearance at 2 minutes in (”I smell strips of bacon on your breath!), and shortly after Dan Draper lights a menorah candle like a cigarette.
I love yiddish. Even when I have no idea what is being said (that’s most of the time) I still want to wrap up each word like a candy and take it home to suck on later.
P.S. I totally want that peppermint ring.
Via the travel writer David Farley on Twitter.
My knee has been hurting lately, bad. As a quick update, my left leg was broken below the knee last year when I got hit by a car. The pay out was how I was able to go ride camels in Israel back in October. However, there are times when my knee aches and keeps me awake, and even with my daily bike commuting I haven’t built all the muscle back.
Yoga is the way to go for an injury like this, but occasionally I need a little extra push. These cheeky yoga mats ($85) caught my eye in an old issue of Bust Magazine. The grass is my favorite because I’ve always wanted to do yoga outside, but the linoleum floor with spilled pills appeals to the side of me that doesn’t want to go to yoga at all.
Right now I’m listening to DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid on Weiden+Kennedy Radio. They’ve just returned from India with some sweet Bollywood style music, check it out on the podcast. It just has to make you happy.
Namaste, Monday.
Ah, we return again to the perfect marriage of my favorite pastimes, drinking and reading. While perusing the latest issue of the Mercury, a small ad caught my eye. I have a nose for these things. Though it’s not advertised on the website, the Secret Society Lounge (on NE Russell next to the Wonder Ballroom) has drink discounts Sunday-Thursday from 5-7pm for library card holders!
Load up on absinthe and start staring at yourself in that fish eye mirror while reading John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (oh, snap, the library doesn’t have it).
The blog Things to Read, Drinks to Drink I mentioned recently hasn’t been updating, so we may have to form our own drinks and reading lists. The Secret Society Lounge specializes in classic cocktails, so start your planning. I love sidecars and absinthe, magic realism and travel writing.
I propose Reading & Drinking nights on Wednesdays, all in?
*I realized after writing this that the true value of this post is the introduction of a new tag, which has until now been a category in my blogroll: ideas about bourgeoising. Welcome to the family, bouregeoising. Ok, onward.*
Three posts back I was debating what shelves to put on the wall that divides my kitchen from my kitchen nook, aka my home office (where I swear I’ll pen some poetry in 2009). As you may recall (what’s that? Oh, you don’t care? I know, but it’s my blog), MOMA has these nifty floating shelves at $15 a pop plus shipping.
Well well, Design Within Reach has answered with this set of five Flying Vee shelves which they call “classics,” marked down from $130 to $79 with free shipping thrown in:
So my yuppie (or bourgeois, take your pick) self is a little torn. Here’s the pros and cons and a teensy confession of the inadequacy of my education: (more…)