You know what time it is...

Yes, fashion week is a little over a week away (eek!) but no. It's election time, baby!! And as a confessed political nut, I can't help but revel in the thrill of this season.

*Bonus* My dear friend is running for Indiana State Senate this year! How amazing is that!? One of us - well, a super smart, ambitious, dapper one of us - is putting apathy aside and hitting the ground running. Ok, walking. Sans private interests and fancy fundraisers, Matt Colglazier is running a campaign the right way...on the ground with creativity, charisma and a LOT of legwork (all puns intended).


My buddy is walking 37.4 miles in honor of working men and women this Labor Day Weekend. Even if you don't live in IN - check him out, cheer him on, send him $$ :)

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Instead of sitting in posh, faux french cafe's talking about what should be done a la moi, Matt is doing something about it. And that's a lot more exciting than what's hot for Spring 2009.

HAPPY BELATED B-DAY JENNIFER PERRY!

A designer cupcake - the perfect gift for a special friend! :)

Have you ever...

...had a song running through your head? How about forever? And this isn't the same as being able to recall the lyrics and melody of a song instantaneously. As is my talent for the entire first verse of "I wish I was a little bit taller" by Skee Lo or "Shoop" by Salt-N-Pepa. No. This is different.

I've always been able to hum the melody to "The Morning Papers" by Prince. I swear. If I had a gun to my head, I know I could do it. It's always there...subconsciously. Weird. I know. I've even remembered the line, "Every schoolboy's fantasy she was..." but I've never (until today) known the exact Prince song it belonged to, or even if the song actually existed. For a while, I wondered if it was a figment of my imagination. Turns out, it's not. With the help of some creative googling and my new iTunes account, I discovered a long lost treasure just waiting to be shared with the world. Unfortunately, (or should I say fortunately?) I can't figure out how to post songs on my blog (a la Perez) and so I found this sweet video of a dude playing drums. It's still pretty rad. Dontcha just love Prince!?

Punctuation...

Can mean the difference between comedy & tragedy - compliment and insult. Right? So, as I was walking through my neighborhood today, I saw this poster of Alec Baldwin. It read, "I am a New Yorker who cares." In that first instant, though, I thought I read, "I am a New Yorker, who cares?" Ha!

Humor...

...is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
~Lewis Mumford

The current international crisis - I refer of course, to the situation in Georgia - is all over the news (great editorial by William Kristol, ps) and while I can't say I've been reading every article and catching every late-breaking news report I have paid some attention. Imagine my surprise when I discovered amongst pictures of mourning Georgians, devastated buildings, fainting women, this pic:of the Finnish Foreign Minister, Alex Stubb. Who just happens to be Super. DUPER. Hot. Right?! Oooooh, but it gets better. I googled him: www.alexstubb.com

This. Is. So. Good.
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Real Estate Porn

NY Magazine has become more valuable than my lip gloss. Well...almost. It's informative, useful (check out the dining guides) and best of all - entertaining. Focused on stuff I actually care about - Gossip Girl, fashion, politics, shopping, dining out (please don't judge me) AND of course, actual news stories - the highlights on well known (but obscure to me) artists and insights into cultural phenomena make me a better person. So. Look what I discovered today!! A section entitled Real Estate Porn. For someone who spends more time than they should perusing the "$3 million dollar homes" slide show on NYTimes, this feature, umm, lives up to it's title. A. May. ZING!!