December 2009
A1, B2, C3,…Z26! →
I’m 26. Here’s what I look like. Happy new year! Editor’s Note: If you like big dogs and family Christmas albums, look no further.
Dec 31st
For Christmas, I got a new job. →
If my life is going to be like this every sixth months, I am going to have to sign up for some intense meditation sessions. (Though I probably should anyway.) Half a year ago I was promoted,…
Dec 28th
OOH, A SPARKLY! →
I have been wanting a vest like this BCBG business ever since I saw Peter Dean Rickards’ Afflicted Yard shoot, “Drunk in Miami.” (Two years ago?) Definitely one of the tamer photos,…
Dec 26th
The Germart experience. →
Covered Germart for Groove Effect a couple of weeks ago and have had particular fun replaying “Ride That Booty,” but it’s really all about their live show….
Dec 26th
Side note. Of sexy. →
Put up my first post for MADE Jewelry on Monday! Covered last week’s FLAUNT lingerie show thanks to Booty Parlor and Visual Image Salon. The rest is here. Santa…
Dec 26th
My first eighth night. →
Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to take any photos of the homemade latkes. But my hands did continue to smell from grating onions six days later…
Dec 26th
A pagan holiday. →
Our fairy, Yvonne, during her fireside dance. She lent me her feather boa for the night. One of my hopes in life is to collect random experiences. Last weekend the usher of my…
Dec 26th
Just a buncha renegades. →
Great idea for holding jewelry. Painted bunny sculpture mounts! Saw a lot of screenprinted wraps at SF’s first Renegade holiday weekend. Makes me wanna bust out Billiam’s…
Dec 26th
There is hope for a non-skanky spring! →
The New York Times, a paper that is often months or years late in identifying trends on the streets, reports mannish looks are in for ladies and frilly pastel stuff is out. Women prefer…
Dec 24th
In rainbows. →
look how beautiful this painting is… – Rainn’s posterous.
Dec 24th
So much betta. →
Love Lady Gaga. Do not love her choreo. This’d be preferred.
Dec 24th
When the going gets good. →
You know it was a good run when the departure is bittersweet. Good-bye balloons! Thanks for wrenching my heart, soon-to-be former coworkers. One day more…
Dec 24th
Well said, Eric Ribellarsi. →
Here is where I have my differences with identity politics (and in this instance, a very dogmatic application of identity politics). Do white people really need to stop making movies like this?…
Dec 23rd
G-Star. NYFW. I want to go to there. →
Kay, so I just realized I’m slated to be in Hong Kong from February 7th through the 18th. Oops! Guess we’ll see what happens. ::smile:: G-Star’s running this actually not lame but…
Dec 23rd
Smurfahontas. →
Before a bunch of fanboys/girls come raging down the aisles, lemme just say that I liked Avatar. Yes, it was good. It was downright beautiful to watch. (Even on fake IMAX. Damn you, AMC.) I am…
Dec 22nd
Bye-bye, ID. →
ID is a five-time National Magazine Award winner (under then editor-in-chief Chee Pearlman) that has covered the evolution of design for decades. Along with the IDEA awards from the IDSA, the ID…
Dec 19th
Holla, 90s! →
Duncan Robson has put together “Let’s Enhance”, an awesome tribute to those ubiquitous “enhance” scenes in tv shows and films. Via Tribute To “Enhance” Scenes In Film & TV.
Dec 19th
It’s definitely the Friday before the week before... →
Workin’ hard at the office. Workin’ hard. All Of Them!: A What Beer To Drink Flowchart – Geekologie.
Dec 19th
Empire state of mind. →
Hobbes and I hit up New York last weekend. It was quick. It was packed. It was good. Urban Camping Friday morning we were both still on the west coast, not knowing where we were…
Dec 19th
SO CUTE I DON’T BELIEVE! →
How is this real?? no description, humbug, hedgehog uploaded by humbug.
Dec 18th
Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury on a Lifetime... →
S.S.: Did you have eyes on a club career? Angela Freakin’ Lansbury: No! I’d just come out of drama school, I was 16 years old, and I needed to work because we had no money. When I got the job,…
Dec 18th
This looks delicious. →
Via sosupersam.com.
Dec 18th
Is it cause for alarm that I think this is kind of... →
Regretsy – Don’t Look Now.
Dec 18th
Recapping Chillin Productions. →
Fought the Mezzanine crowds at Chillin Productions to deliver MPR some soup and pasta. Am totally getting these paperclip earrings. Meg makes all of her jewelry. By hand. And not just…
Dec 17th
Dec 17th
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What time is it? WORDPRESS TIME! →
Hello, I need this. Check email. Watch some YouTube. Update Twitter status. Make some Facebook friends. AIM your crush. This watch is for those who are highly networked and proud of…
Dec 17th
Mayka MADE. →
Get it?? Abigail, AKA: FirstLadyofMADE, just put up my intro to the MADE Jewelry family. Too much fun! Yippeee our MADE family is growing! World meet the one and only…
Dec 17th
DON’T SEND ME PANDA PHOTOS AT WORK. →
Billiam. You know me. You live in my house. You fix my dinner. (Thank you.) Why did you send me this. I put in my two weeks last week (More on that later.) and it seems like the…
Dec 17th
Renegades hit San Francisco. →
Hitting up Renegade this weekend with Rose and Sadie and Hi Risk. And Billiam, if he’s good and does not continue to send me pandas (or these??) while I’M tryING…
Dec 17th
Christmas in New York! →
posted via Maykaphone.
Dec 13th
New glasses! →
…That I actually don’t mind being seen in public with! Yes, they are purple and teal. Unlike these guys: I mean, these guys: …
Dec 12th
What the WHAT? Invisible shoes. →
Via Hi Risk. Newsflash! Invisible Shoes Invented and We’re Sufficiently Freaked.
Dec 11th
Yeah, I still want this. →
Two years since date of discovery. Gimme, gimme, gimme! Lowercase Scarf | Little Factory.
Dec 11th
Every Friday should have a puppy haiku. →
Prosh pal punchy, pooped? Popping power pill provides Plenty pep for pup Friday Haiku: Puppy Uppers! — Cute Overload.
Dec 11th
Maverix Studios tonight! →
Via Maverix Studios: NEWS: ROOT BRANCH WINTER ART EXHIBIT 09.
Dec 11th
Ultrasound booked. →
One step at a time.
Dec 11th
Go now, and live. →
Via Kimberly Grace So Love.
Dec 10th
Dogs in Vogue. →
If the dogs they featured weren’t so prissy and small, I’d probably buy this book. (Good job, Kate Moss-great dane combo, though!) Via What the Hellz?!! » Dogs In Vogue.
Dec 10th
Food for thought: I hope medicine is never... →
Must-read, not just for Asian American women, but for all minority diaspora: “Cancer from the Kitchen?“ Take breast cancer. One puzzle has been that most women living in Asia have low rates…
Dec 9th
A-cups forever! →
A couple of weeks ago I was changing into my pajamas when my hand brushed against something firm in my chest. “That’s odd,” I thought. “I already took my bra off.” I checked my right breast more…
Dec 9th
Gargyle x Bykenyan Pop-Up Shop II. →
Okay, so since I can’t hit up R&R, maybe I can get some spending done in NYC. …How nerdy would it be if I showed up in my Gargyle raincoat?
Dec 8th
Rock and Republic’s first SF sample sale. →
I know it’s bratty and ingrateful-sounding to whine about traveling to New York when things are going on in San Francisco. In both cases, each city should be considered a gift of a place to be…
Dec 8th
Gargyle →
Okay, so since I can’t hit up R&R, maybe I can get some spending done in NYC. …How nerdy would it be if I showed up in my Gargyle raincoat?
Dec 8th
THIS is why print is (almost) dead. →
George Lois, the designer behind some of Esquire’s most iconic covers (38 of which reside at MoMA), has some choice words for the magazine industry. He tells BlackBook in a lengthy rant: “Look…
Dec 8th
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Countdown to the 70s. →
THE HARD, AGGRESSIVE EIGHTIES INSPIRED LOOKS THAT HAVE DOMINATED SEASONS PAST ARE SLOWLY BEING OVERTHROWN BY A NOUVEAU FRENCH SEVENTIES ROMANCE RETURNING IN FASHION. I apologize for Jak…
Dec 8th
“I like me better naked.” →
Do yo thang, Paddi: “I don’t mean that in a vain way… When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don’t have any clothes…
Dec 8th
Snowing! →
Okay, so, every December, I’ve set for it to snow on my blog. That’s generally as much falling ice action I get every Bay Area winter. But this year it snowed at my mom’s house! In Fremont! And…
Dec 7th
Reminds me of that Klingon dish, gahk.* →
*Gahk: serpent worms best served cold. Yeah, I know that. Illustrations by Koren Shadmi – mashKULTURE.
Dec 7th
Big things choppin’. →
Some pretty exciting stuff is coming ’round the bend: MADE Jewelry – Totally flattered that the ladies of MADE would ask me to become a guest blogger! We’ve been communicating…
Dec 7th
THAT skeleton dress. →
Currently taking bets on how many times you’ll see this dress pop up at the next SF indie-ish event. Via Ladylike » Rodarte for Target. Speaking of bones, I also want this!!
Dec 7th