March 2009

Thanks, Audrina…

for a couple of things. First, for strolling around Sydney and Bondi in black patent stilettos. Thank you for wearing proper shoes and not “thongs.” Thank you for looking squeaky-clean casual dressy, in classic California style, cause that’s what ya’ll do best. Below is my favorite photo of Audrina down Under, and no, I seriously [...]

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Pradalicious

Prada Fall 2009 RTW. Forget the clothes…this collection is all about the BOOTS! I’m crazy about the “garter” boots Miuccia showed. Just love them. Now, who wants to contribute to my Prada boot fund?

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Tough Love: Highly Recommended

Tough love is always wonderful…when you’re the administrator, right? Not so easy to swallow when someone’s cracking the whip on you. Anyway, this is all about VH1′s new show Tough Love, the premise of which is how tough love—and an inside track to the male mind—will eventually help correct eight women’s “flaws” so they can [...]

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Why am I always drawn to the (practically) impossible?

BCBG Spring Catalog. The whole thing is magnifique, but it’s the “Diva” shoes on Page 57 that have gripped my eccentric fashionista soul. Here they are on a model: I know, I know. They are precariously high. They are crazy looking, borderline ugly, if I do say so myself. They are so not conducive to [...]

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The Little Engine That Could

I don’t know why it always seems that the light bulb goes on, the sea parts, the realization hits, and the missing pieces fall into place only after the proverbial shit hits the fan. Why is that? Anyway, today I had a good result from my refusal to think about anything but a positive outcome [...]

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Gastronomics 101

We’re in lean times, there is no doubt about that. But the one good thing about all this recession-doom-and-gloom is there are some amazing bargains to be found. Right now you can actually enjoy fine dining for the same cost—in the U.S., that is—as trying to reproduce it (generally unsuccessfully) on your own. Certainly, there [...]

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