Jordan bought this adorable assortment of doughnuts at Tastease on New Park Avenue in Hartford last Friday and she spent so much time photographing them, I’m not sure if she actually ever got around to eating any. They’re a bit too pretty to eat anyway.
For the holidays!
Spotted walking down Kenyon Street on my way to the Hartford Seminary this morning to vote.
For some reason, I started thinking about the koala lapel clips I used to wear on my jackets all the time when I was a kid. I went on the Ebay and found a small box of these little guys for something like $7.
I’ve decided they shall adorn my hair when I take off my jacket so they don’t get lonely hanging on the back of my chair.
Adam and I were grocery shopping at Shaw’s this week and I was like, “Hey, we need paper towels,” and he was like, “How about these?” and I was like, “Awesome.”
Image via Flickr.
Hot Stuff #1: Mommy’s Time Out white wine at Roger’s Liquor Store, 595 Prospect Avenue, Hartford, $9.99
I ventured back to Roger’s Liquor Store on Prospect and Farmington Avenues last night. I kind of hate going there because NO ONE is friendly or even says “hello” when you walk in and they make you feel like an idiot for saying it in the first place to them.
Anyway, “Mommy’s Time Out” Pinot Grigio for $9.99 was worth the trip. Love the illustration on the label:
Hot Stuff #2: Champagne fountain at CVS, 1044 Boulevard Avenue, West Hartford, $11.00 (see below)
I had been eyeing this plastic, multi-tiered beverage fountain in the “weird appliance” section of CVS for weeks, but couldn’t bring myself to buy it because it was $19.99.
Yesterday, it had a sticker on the shelf next to it marked $9.99, so I triumphantly took it to the cashier who promptly informed me that the sticker was misplaced. It was still $19.99.
I whined. I pleaded. I asked her about her employee discount.
In the end, I bought other necessities like coffee, snore gargle and cigarettes and the cashier told me that my receipt coupon had $9.50 CVS bucks on it which meant I got the fountain, after all of that, for $11.00. I think I got the big CVS bonus because I always donate $1 to ALS every time CVS asks me to do it. You should too.
Of course, I didn’t buy any liquor that could actually go through the fountain, but at some point in the night, Billy and Sam thought it would be funny to dump a bottle of red wine into it. It was funny, but I had bad flashbacks to The Golden Voyage of Sinbad when the fountain water turns into blood. That killed me when I was a kid.
And, yes, everyone takes off clothing when they party at my house.
Um, yes. MINE.
With my luck they smear, but I’m ordering some anyway. I wish they came in full-sheet size. Or maybe wallpaper.
Found at Monoscope via C-Monster.
I think it all started a few years ago with the Wadsworth Atheneum’s Collage parties. All of a sudden we were flooded with pictures of shiny happy people out and about, radiating ecstatic about being a “young professional” in Hartford. Cookie cutter shots all over Niche Magazine, all over YourHartford, all over the Hartford Advocate’s Lush Life. I’d include the Hartford Courant’s Java column, but I don’t read it anymore. In the words of Fantasy Island’s Mr. Roarke, “Smiles everyone! Smiles!”
Now it’s time to embrace the concept of “bershon.”
Bershon, defined:
the spirit of bershon is pretty much how you feel when you’re 13 and your parents make you wear a Christmas sweatshirt and then pose for a family picture, and you could not possibly summon one more ounce of disgust, but you’re also way too cool to really even DEAL with it, so you just make this face like you smelled something bad and sort of roll your eyes and seethe in a put-out manner. Kelly Taylor from Beverly Hills, 90210 is the patron saint of bershon, as her face, like most other teenagers’, was permanently frozen in this expression.
Michael Beirut’s article in the Design Observer tells you everything you need to know about bershon
Although bershon can be experienced and expressed anywhere, it seems to be especially associated with the act of being photographed. (”God, will you please just take the stupid picture?”) You don’t have to be an adolescent to qualify.
including a link to a NYT article which explains the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to crack down on bershon at airport security.
Hot Stuff #1: Lawn squirrel at CVS, 1044 Boulevard, West Hartford, $7.99
I bought one for a friend a week ago. After I gave it to him (and handed him tissues to help mop up his tears of gratitude), there was a real emptiness in my life that could only be filled with another squirrel. I think it moves (a la the Doctor Who “Blink” episode) when I’m not looking.
Hot Stuff #2: “Santos” figurines, at Dollar World, Kenyon Street next to Kinko’s, 50 cents each
There’s always random good stuff at this dollar store. This week, it was figurines of the saints and religious persona. Look for them at the exit in one of the gum ball machines. Bonus: Pope John Paul II !
Why can’t they just leave Britney alone?
Fashion “smackdown,” courtesy of today’s Hartford Courant.
Cindy Kuse is all “Hey, ladies–stop dressing like tarts! We live in Connecticut, for god’s sake. Forget about looking sexy–get your ass to a Talbots for a sweater set and a good bra!” in
“…No belly shirts!Stay away from Old Navy, Banana Republic, Abercrombie & Fitch, Mandee. There’s a reason the ads for these stores have teenagers hawking their clothes. They are YOUNG.
This is not an issue of whether we have Buddha bellies or arms that flap in the wind or butts fit for a Jell-O mold. (Wear those with pride, my dears; we have earned them.)
It’s an issue of dignity. And identity.
Teenage girls have something to prove. They need to explore their newfound sexuality, and they dress accordingly.
And so should we - dress accordingly.
And then Carol Goldberg in
So if you’ve still got it - or don’t, but think you do (or just don’t care), go ahead and flaunt it. Expressing your personal style is a form of free speech, …So get used to seeing not-so-yummy mummies with mushy midriffs and jelly bellies until this style becomes passé, which, like all the others, it surely will. Just look the other way if you are personally offended….
Wouldn’t you just love to take the two of them out for happy hour margaritas after work?
Fashion and style notes courtesy of Scary Bunnies:
● The 80’s haute slut look is all the rage right now, so start ripping those sweatshirts and trolling for dollar bills.
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● Deep Thoughts on being sexy by
“You’ve got to let your handsome work for you.”
“You’ve got to get your smell right.”
“I have a ‘man bag.’ … Just make sure that if you carry one, it’s very, very big, so it doesn’t get mistaken for a pocketbook.”
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