I am really crushing on this Taschen book, based on the NY Times 36 Hours feature the book outlines the best weekend getaways in the US and Canada and sports some fab graphics to boot. Go add it to your xmas list pronto.
Drinking red wine and listening to music at the Sloanes tonight I discovered that Neil Young not only wrote, but covered one of my favorite songs from the ’70s. Now for your hearing pleasure I give you the Nicolette Larson version of Lotta Love. So many amazing things about this video…the hair, the flute, the sax, INCREDIBLE.
Posted November 20, 2011 at 11:20pm
Thanks for everything @OfficialRegis @Regis_and_Kelly just won’t be the same without you!
Posted November 18, 2011 at 2:57pm
I was really LOLing (on a plane no less) reading @mindykaling new book. You must buy this book and not just because the title itself is hysterical or that she perfectly captures my feelings about Irish Goodbyes (which I am a HUGE fan of):
“The reason I pull Irish exits is not because I think I’m too busy and cool to be bothered with pleasantries. It’s that when there is a gathering of more than thirty people I don’t want to waste your time with hellos and good-byes. I think it’s actually the more polite thing to do, because I’m not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. Then other people feel like they have to stop what they’re doing and hug me, too. It’s time-wasting dominoes.”
I’ve been a fan of Roz Chast ever since stumbling across this comic year ago. She’s got a new book out called “What I Hate from A to Z”. Must check out.
Posted November 18, 2011 at 1:35pm
Currently obsessed with my new necklace from Vale jewelry. And the two designer sisters behind the line couldn’t be nicer. Go visit them at the independant designer pop up shop in Chelsea Market.
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:25pm
Bella DePaulo, a Harvard-trained social psychologist who is now a visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, is America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience. In 2005, she coined the word singlism, in an article she published in Psychological Inquiry. Intending a parallel with terms like racism and sexism, DePaulo says singlism is “the stigmatizing of adults who are single [and] includes negative stereotyping of singles and discrimination against singles.” In her 2006 book, Singled Out, she argues that the complexities of modern life, and the fragility of the institution of marriage, have inspired an unprecedented glorification of coupling. (Laura Kipnis, the author of Against Love, has called this “the tyranny of two.”) This marriage myth—“matrimania,” DePaulo calls it—proclaims that the only route to happiness is finding and keeping one all-purpose, all-important partner who can meet our every emotional and social need. Those who don’t have this are pitied. Those who don’t want it are seen as threatening. Singlism, therefore, “serves to maintain cultural beliefs about marriage by derogating those whose lives challenge those beliefs.”
From this long, but thought provoking Atlantic article, All the Single Ladies
Posted November 17, 2011 at 2:22pm
Birchbox: Hunger Games Nail Polishes Announced, World Stops
For the second time today, the Hunger Games has caused us to stop everything we’re doing. First, there was the debut of the first full-length trailer, which proved what we’ve all known: this movie is going to be bonkers good. And now, some late-breaking news: China Glaze will release a…
