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Book Club: Shopping Under the Influence
I was determined to get back into my royal lady book posts today, but I seem to have misplaced the Empress Wu novel that I was working on. Plus, I’m feeling a bit flu-ish, which has sapped me of the energy necessary to tear through the house on a mad search for Empress Wu, especially…
Lucy Liu’s Clothes in Cashmere Mafia
Dear Googlers of “Lucy Liu and Cashmere Mafia clothes”: I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that you can’t have those clothes because a lot of them are one-of-a-kind vintage pieces. The good news is that if you’re in New York, you can shop for your own one-of-a-kind pieces at the…
Kneel Before Wendy Brandes
Superman II was the best of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies because it had three hot villains. Okay, it had two hot villains. The dude on the right was just some kind of Wookiee with slightly reduced body hair. But on the far left, we have Ursa. Behold the beauteousness of Ursa! Behold her fabulous…
We Tag the World. We Tag the Children.
If you weren’t sentient in the ’80s, you missed some interesting fashion. You also missed the moment when wealthy musicians from the U.S. and U.K. first started tormenting innocent African people with insipid charity songs. It’s bad enough to be starving. It’s worse to be starving while some craptastic song generates large amounts of money…
The Unique Style of Judaysia
I discovered Judaysia of A Hair Affair on teh Interweb and quickly realized that she has very good taste, so we got to talking. She has a private-clients-only hair salon in Malibu, but in the ’80s, she designed clothes that were sold at cutting-edge New York shops: Patricia Field, Ian’s, and Unique (my favorite). I…
An Exception to My Non-Posting Vow
My husband had a great Page 1 story in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal about his career in journalism and his forecast for the news industry. Check it out! From Paul’s surprise going-away-from-the-WSJ party People sent him some lovely notes about the story, though there were a few asshats, like the woman who said the newspaper…
Naa! Naa! Dog Looks Like a Lady!
I’d finally gotten that Aerosmith song out of my head when my husband took the dogs to get their hair did. Henry returned sporting some nice hair ribbons. Dog looks like a lady! Hey! Don’t judge! I love my cross-dressing dog! P.S. Happy anniversary to BarbaraB and GeorgeB!
Help Me! Mashed Potatoes!
As you may have noticed, I really love Geico car insurance commercials. Geico Mention #1 Geico Mention #2 But nothing beats the Little Richard ad. Well, maybe this beats it. UPDATED TO ADD: The story behind the ads, plus a tribute to real-life customer Denise Bazik where Denise commented back. I think Denise may be…
Show Some Respect, Bitches!
I’m another year older today and I think I’ve hit the age where I can scream at disrespectful youngsters and say things like “kids these days!” So mind your manners or you will rue the day I was born. Anyway, here’s a photo of Mom, aka BarbaraB, taken just over 40 years ago. I was…