Isn't Zac Efron kind of like a singing, dancing, baby Tom Cruise?
December 31, 2007
Raindrops on roses
Late Sunday night and I'm watching The Sound of Music on TV (while pretending to clean my apartment, as usual). It's definitely one of my all-time favorite movies, and I know that saying that makes me deeply uncool. When I was growing up, I probably watched this film several dozen times -- and I remember dancing around, pretending to be Liesl in the gazebo, imagining I was a patriotic Austrian fleeing from the Nazis, stuff like that. Maybe a lot of of ideas I had about being a grown-up came from The Sound of Music -- like, I really thought that when I turned 17, life would start happening, I'd fall in love, blah blah blah. And Maria and her fantastic convent sisters really made me romanticize the idea of, uh, becoming a nun.
December 30, 2007
Not blue
Anytime I'm blue, I Google-Image "Chow Chow Puppy." I like stocky dogs with big heads and short legs.
December 29, 2007
On my mind lately
I think (probably naively) that 30-35 will be a really life-defining period in my life. The next five years is going to be the five years I get my shit together and really start moving in the right direction. Right? Right.
Ugg mania
Flabbergasted.
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December 25, 2007
The train
Merry Christmas.
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Ms. Softee
Geez, another side effect no one bothered to mention.
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Class notes
After a lovely Christmas Eve dinner with the fam, I tucked up in bed to read the newest issue of my alum mag and I have to share with you this passage from the 1935 class notes, written by Edward Gerson, who'd just had his second stroke and who'd lost his wife that week. It's really heartwarming and inspirational in its own way.
"I have known Marv since grammar school. I have known Ed since 1926. I hope you all have wonderful old friends that you can still share your life with."
I mean, Gerson must be just about 94 years old now.
I hope I still have old friends to share my life with when I'm 94.
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December 24, 2007
The holidays
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Multi-tasking

Right now I'm watching the shot at Love with Tila Tequila reunion show and creating some new Shopstyle celebrity lookbooks all at the same time.
Where do they find these people? (And will I get cancer and fry my eggs because I've got my laptop perched on my, uh, lap?)
December 23, 2007
I'm Never Happy Anyway either
When I found out that the Sundance Channel would be re-screening the 2000 documentary Karl Lagerfeld is Never Happy Anyway this coming January, I just knew I had to see it as I'd missed it the first time around. So I begged for a screener and they were kind enough to oblige.
Made back before the big slim-down, this film portrays and entirely different aesthetic side of Lagerfeld -- this is the sequin, brightly colored, large silhouette design side -- this was back when Andre Leon Talley sat with Karl through fittings and Lagerfeld wore loads of Japanese avant-garde designers like Comme and Yohji. This was made in the age of the fan.
But it's remarkable how nearly identical his interviews are in this film to the more recent Lagerfeld documentary on at the Film Forum (Lagerfeld Confidential). Just like in LC, the mostly-German Never Happy Anyway explores Lagerfeld's zero-tolerance nature for betrayals amongst friends, his everlasting quest for new information, music, books, data, and an almost pathological workaholicism.
December 18, 2007
December 16, 2007
December 15, 2007
Holiday party
Belated Iceland Photo
December 11, 2007
December 10, 2007
The beginning of the end... okay, not quite, but
Like my friend C said to me today, 30 makes you feel like you're not young anymore.
I mean, it's not like a surprise or anything -- I've been 29 all year. And I've also been thinking a lot about what going to happen in the future.
Sometimes I feel like since I grew up in New York and I still live in New York now (albeit after spending several years in New England and then abroad), I haven't really made all that much social progress. More or less, besides living on my own and going to work instead of going to school, my life today is not all that different than my life was when I was, say, 13 -- I'm single, the friends I hang out with are single, I do the same stuff I've always done for fun. I wonder if growing up in and then living in New York as an adult has somehow left me emotionally stunted.
Anyway, I've realized my loosely-tailored five-year plan. And I've never had a five-year plan before, not ever. So it's pretty exciting. Big changes ahead or something like that.
I don't know how I will celebrate my birthday this week. Maybe it will involve drinking 30 glasses of champagne. Honorable, no?
December 08, 2007
Bad Santa(s)
December 05, 2007
Noise sandwich
Downstairs neighbor, an I'm-a-lawyer-so-breathe-on-me-and-I'll-sue-you type, keeps multiple dogs in a less-than-400-sq-ft studio apartment. The dogs started yapping it up this morning at 7:45. Most days they start at 8:40 and bark all day long, so today must be a special occasion.
I mean, come on guys. Get with the New York apartment-living program.
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December 04, 2007
Dear Upstairs Neighbor
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December 03, 2007
December 02, 2007
December 01, 2007
Scary
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Lemons
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On this morning's agenda
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