Thursday, June 30, 2005

HOME SWEET MANOLO...

Manolo salutes a shoe-oriented cupcake built in my old neighbor...saluted by a cupcake blog where I have appeared. It's really Manolo's world. We're just living in it.

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Monday, June 20, 2005

MANOLO'S MORNING CAFE....
Is the sight of the swollen-nosed, but still ugly/beautiful Gerard Depardieu. May god forgive me, my sexy no longer young vintner and still-great artiste, but it is possible to be alluring and sober at the same time...and I am sure in France they still let you smoke at AA meetings. see: Manolo's Shoe Blog: Shoes, Fashion, Celebrity, and Manolo!

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Saturday, June 18, 2005

...because neatness is not enough...

I had a decluttering coach who said that you never kept things neat unless you had answered the question for yourself: “What am I making room for?” It wasn’t enough, she said, to just “be neat.” You had to be making space for a dream, a vision.

And while the cynical side of me wants to scoff, the dreamy side of me…has begun to pull it together. I didn’t start to lose weight until I replaced some of my not so hot habits with some better ones; now, I’m going to experiment with fixing up the apartment with a Tropical Vision in mind.




So that’s my idea: to declutter our very cluttery home by turning it into Key Largo, New Jersey; my husband and I are both big fans of the Florida Keys, and I never met a pink flamingo I didn’t want to buy. Wish me luck. I would love to hear from people who have managed to transform their clutterish habits into their versions of paradise….

See more progress on: make my home a tropical paradise in the middle of New Jersey!

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YET ANOTHER REASON TO LOVE THE MANOLO

The Manolo weighs in on flats.

And the Martha remembers, with fondness, the Geoffrey Beene tuxedo flats she had resoled four times in the Reagan years because they gave her such pleasure

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMY BLOOM

Read her. Start with "Love is Not a Pie," which still takes the top of my head off when I read it. And in a six degrees of John O'Hurley separation kind of way, I learned from her Web site that...she wrote for the J. Peterman catalog. It's all one, baby. Amy Bloom.

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Friday, June 17, 2005

JOHN O'HURLEY IS MY NEWEST IMAGINARY BOYFRIEND

And this is why. Slate's Dana Stevens reviews that ABC undesperate unhousewife summer hit, "Dancing With The Stars"--teaming B-list celebs (like the silver-haired, black-browed O'Hurley ) with A+ professional ballroom dancers to learn a tough dance to win a...trophy?

My own personal pick to win DWTS's no-doubt dinky trophy in this first six-episode run: John O'Hurley, Seinfeld's J. Peterman, who navigates the show's lurid magenta dance floor with Shatnerian aplomb. O'Hurley seems to have a healthy sense of his own ridiculousness, and he also evinces a gentlemanly affection for his pro partner, the Danish dance champ Charlotte Jorgenson. As they stand around backstage waiting for the judge's ratings or the results from the impossibly complicated audience-voting system, O'Hurley likes to give Jorgenson's upper arms a comforting little rub, as if protecting her from a chill.



Note to self: time to switch to TypePad. The Imaginary Boyfriend category doth grow huge.

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I TRY TO STAY OUT OF MEDIA KERFLUFFLES...

Who am I kidding! I love media kerfluffles!

Not quite sure what's going on here...Did Dakota just win a thumb wrestle with Tom Cruise?

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Thursday, June 16, 2005

YET ANOTHER SIGN THAT THE BROOKLYN HIPSTER THING HAS GONE A LITTLE TOO FAR AND THE END TIMES ARE UPON US.

Yesterday, while I was dropping off my books at the fantastic Hoboken Library, I noticed a guy signing up for his library card. He wore a t-shirt that read "Park Slope"--my old neighborhood. I greeted him like the old neighbor I thought he was. Nope, he said. He just liked the way the shirt looked. "I bought the shirt..in L.A."

Bummer. On the other hand, he was signing up for a library card.

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SIMON DOONAN: MY IMAGINARY BOYFRIEND, NOW MORE THAN EVER

Window dresser, bon vivant, and just goddamned smart Simon Doonan says:


I think all writers should get jobs in retail. They should do their writing, and then maybe on the weekend, go work on the pantyhose counter at Bloomingdale's or maybe the MAC counter, 'cause it would make them less pompous, and they would interact with people.


I think I'm going to make all of my writing students do this. Hell, I'm going to do this.

The wit continues:

village voice > nyclife > Fashion Forward by Corina Zappia

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Monday, June 13, 2005

Because You Can Never Have Too Much Chocolate, Coffee, Or Pictures of Cute Dogs.

Now, this is what I call content amalgamation: The Doggy Woggy Photo blog.

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Sunday, June 12, 2005

IF I CAN MAKE IT HERE, I'M PAYING LESS SALES TAX

Hoboken rules the earth. Or at least the New York Times Style section today. Front page: cute young skateboarder zipping around our lovely skate park, part of an article about the mainstreaming of skateboarding. Inside? The Vows column features a New York City couple who actually had their first "non date" in Hoboken, at an event that was supposed to be a relaxed, "non-dating" experience. It's actually a very sweet story--more Jane Austen than Candace Bushnell. Shyness is actually very sexy, folks. Let's try a little of that this year.

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Wednesday, June 08, 2005

It's A Shoe Thing
Back in the day, when I had a regular job, and was not a published authoress, one of my more interesting projects was to help create, and I kid you not, a hip temporary sales environment for a cool brand of shoes. I actually spent some serious time pricing blimp rentals, because: who doesn't want to buy a shoe while riding in a blimp? Still, I wish I had had this fantastic shoe blog to guide me: Manolo's Shoe Blog: Shoes, Fashion, Celebrity, and Manolo!. Check out The Manolo's take on TomKat, the love that dare not shut up.

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