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OMGLOLWTF.....Mood: Humored

2010-01-07T19:03:00.000-08:00

“When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.” -Alan Alda

Year in Review: 2009

Many situations went awry during 2009: terribly awkward job interviews, bad dates, oddly cryptic and misconstrued personal exchanges, whose results mirrored an unrelenting frustration that was broken by one simple gesture: laughter. For me, 2009 was about learning to have a sense of humor in the face of life. Although 2009 didn’t yield a job, it proved to be a good year. The time off from work allowed me to cultivate many new and interesting relationships, and delve into a great deal of longed for fashion research, and I hope the near future will incorporate all that I’ve learned and enjoyed recently. I look forward to 2010 being a year filled with laughter; the giddy silliness that reminds us of our child-like hearts holding hands with the world.

September 2009

September was insanely busy. At the beginning of the month, I flew to Vegas to hang out with Liz, Michael, and Gabriella while they attended the Magic/Pool/Project trade shows. It was also a wonderful coincidence that it happened to be Restaurant Week in Las Vegas, which was good news for my budget, as it allowed me to enjoy a great 3 course pre fixe menu ($65) at Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill. The highlight of the meal was the appetizer, a blue corn pancake with barbecued duck and a habanero chile sauce (basically a duck taco wrapped in a blue corn tortilla).

A week later I was in New York for Fashion Week, which was a really spectacular trip. Supershuttle, which is always an adventure in itself, (for less than $25) took me from JFK to my hotel, The Sheraton (811 7^th Ave. - Times Square), which I swear is haunted. Although my stay in the hotel was just a few hours, my laptop screen was somehow destroyed, and one side of my favorite gray summer flip flops mysteriously vanished.

Quite serendipitously, Kira and Aaron were going on vacation the day after I arrived, so I was able to stay at their place in Hell’s Kitchen for the duration of my trip.

The first night of this six day trip was pretty magical. I took the subway to meet up with Kira and Aaron at the 3LD Art Center for their Why Aren’t You Naked HD video exhibition, where I met Donald, who acted as a catalyst in the creation of my latest artistic endeavor, LITTLE MAGAZINE. (See LITTLE MAGAZINE's post regarding entitled Divinity Puff)

And the tents at Bryant Park were crazy as always. I completely missed the Christian Siriano show due to being pushed by a ridiculously impatient mob, however the Vivienne Tam show more than made up for the mishap as I was uber lucky to have a seating assignment, and was able to meet and interview her at the show’s afterparty thanks to Sarah Conley of StyleITOnline.com. (See M.I.S.S. Vivinne Tam post regarding and see MMODANY/4Eyes post – originally posted on M.I.S.S. but is no longer on the site, so reposted on MichellePlex)

And within the tents of Byrant Park’s Fashion Week, there is a particular din of chitter chatter that waves in accordance with the celebrity hierarchy. At one point it was audibly clear Russell Simmons was there, although I did not see him myself. However, I ended up around Ando Masahashi from Heroes and his annoyed looking girlfriend for quite some time. It wasn’t until after I consulted a reliable TV source that I knew it was him, (since I don’t watch very much television and am pretty much out of the celebrity loop), but I could tell from all the ruckus and commotion and people asking for photos that he was supposed to be some kind of famous.

My favorite sighting though had to be of teenage male model, Shaun Ross, a dramatic albino with an almost just as dramatic entourage.

And I had to snap a photo of these fabulous guests of the 4 Eyes Presentation (taken outside of the New York Public Library).

Was also lucky to snag one of YSL’s Fashion Week Manifesto for F/W 09-10 Bags (See the M.I.S.S. post about its acquisition)

Hanging with Gee and Gabriella from M.I.S.S. and Natalie from Coquette at the Glam mixer was great fun. The Four Eyes show at the New York Public Library was delightfully chill, and the Hautelook Lounge atop the Bryant Park Hotel was very much appreciated on those not so fashionable, long, rainy, and horribly humid NYC days.

H20 and Diet Cokes meet Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton in the Park (Bryant) - Ts’ photo from Life/StyleTimes

Ts and my brother also happened to be in town, so it was awesome being able to hang out with them in the city that doesn’t sleep. The trip also included touristy stops at the Observation Deck of Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Station’s Oyster Bar (best half-shell oyster of the day there was the Shinnecock oyster from Long Island), and the MoMA, where Monet's Water Lilies exhibit ion was absolutely breathtaking.

Upon my return to the Bay was my sister’s 28^th birthday party, where she accidentally got locked in handcuffs by an unseasoned male stripper, which was hilarious and quite mortifying to say the least.

October 2009

I don’t know why I ever thought October was going to be a quiet, restful month, and by now I should definitely know better to assume such things. With the launch of LITTLE MAGAZINE on October 10^th, it was an exciting, productive, and personally fulfilling month. The Curator store opening party (LITTLE MAGAZINE has a post on their She-bible merchandise) with Stacy, Jessica, Megan, Amedee, and Ts was an absolute champagne blast, Anna’s Grey Gardens themed birthday party was fantastically orchestrated complete with Little and Big Edies abound, and Halloween partying with Jess and Megan at Elbo Room’s goth night, Shutter, was the utmost perfect way to end the month.

November/December 2009

I just wasn’t ready for the holiday season this year. A tree didn’t work logistically, so that was ixnayed, and somehow my plans for making homemade gifts like I usually do didn’t pan out either for some reason. All together, Thanksgiving and Christmas seemed forcibly rushed, and it was more or less like an outer-body holiday experience for me, meaning in layman’s terms that I severely lacked the holiday spirit this year. I can’t complain too much though, as some really awesome meals were consumed during this time. Most memorable was the cheesy shrimp and grits at Brenda’s, which was absolutely to die for and the perfect remedy for a cold, foggy San Francisco day.

Socially, December included: seeing Ts DJ at Oakland’s new spot, the Layover, Stacy and Amedee’s happy hour DJ gig at Casanova, Liz’s karaoke birthday party at Do Re Mi, EpiscoDisco with Jess, Megan, Katie, Noel, Seth, and Glenda, Brooklyn Circus’ holiday party at Yoshi’s SF with Liz, Michael, and Errico, Zeitgeist with Jesse and Sophie, The SuperTaster, who gave me the most delicious homemade fig/orange/cardamom jam and saffron/almond and parmesan/black pepper biscottis for Christmas. Spent New Year’s Eve in Polk Gulch at Encore karaoke with Dee, L., Joey, Anna and their crew. Was a blast, met up with everyone late, but still made the countdown thanks to L.’s swift taxi hailing skills.

On my mind this week:

1. In 2009, parts of my life were like this…

and like this…

2. Was all giggly in 2009, thanks to my new favorite TV show…

3. I like 2010 so far…

4. And I hope the rest of the year works out something like this…

5. Someday.

Missed: NYFW S/S '10: 4 Eyes In the Sky with Diamonds at MMODANY

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*A MichellePlex Repost. Originally posted on M.I.S.S. in October 2009, but no longer on the site.

Close to the tents of Bryant Park, four Spanish designers: Juanjo Oliva, Duyos, Carmen March, and Ana Locking for MMODANY (MadridFashionNewYork), showcased their talent at the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New York Public Library. Rather than models strutting down the catwalk, each of the designers showed only a few looks from their Spring 2010 collections.

The New York Public Library, which happens to be one of my favorite places in the city, was the perfect venue for the presentation. Its domed ceilings and Neoclassical architecture provided a dark and dreamy and backdrop for the collections, a nice diversion from the bright chaos at neighboring Bryant Park.

This was the New York premiere of the 4 Eyes collections. Models were teleported to the library via video shot with a Phantom HD camera, which captures 1000 frames per second, creating a very visually hypnotic effect.

Juanjo Oliva’s waxed cotton African printed cocktail dresses are fabulous creations inspired by the 1950s; total studies in shape and texture.

Duyos presented a play on hand and shape with his soft silhouettes made from organza and bold cotton Polynesian prints.

Ladylike dresses are brought to life in fine leather, metallics, and textured cotton in Carmen March’s collection.

Ana Locking’s Antidoto collection included ensembles in deep red dupionis with pleating in unexpected places.

My absolute favorite piece from the 4 Eyes project is Ana Locking’s latex and duchess satin party dress.

Using natural latex, Locking created an asymmetrical ruffled shoulder bustline that implemented reverse princess seams. The necklace is brilliant too, and yes, is also made from latex.

The 4 Eyes Spring 2010 Collections are playfully exuberant. It’s quite a breath of fresh air to still see designers making art in this economy, versus guaranteed pieces to sell. What’s especially evident here is the Spanish designers’ keen attention and love for detail: pleats by surprise, delicately appliquéd silk flowers, futuristic shapes, and a reverence for the past, and so much texture and personality that could truly, only be, Made In Spain.

Fire and Ice........Mood: Chill

2009-09-29T13:58:00.000-07:00

Looking back, I would say June was a month of coping. With the political strife in Iran, and the death of Michael Jackson, destruction, violence and mortality very much persisted on a psychic level. What I found particularly interesting was that with these two occurrences, I observed how social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook have changed the current of news and its existence in real time. Their usual mindless chatter was replaced by real sentiments and ideas, and for a couple weeks, I felt people’s consciousness was united through the collective sharing of information. During this time, I couldn’t help but to feel just a bit uneasy about the world and its future. I suppose one just trudges on, hoping to do your best, be your best individual; with the other option of being swallowed up by the futility of it all, which really is not an option, especially when it comes to shoes.

Socially, the first month of summer began with Christle’s visit from Wisconsin. Was great cause she was my date at Deathguild, now at DNA Lounge, which is a good, practical (has a taco bar), divey venue but just doesn’t have the same grown and sexy appeal as it’s previous location, the Glas Kat. We also saw Peaches at the Regency, a beautiful venue with not so great acoustics, with Dee. Peaches was great, she climbed the balcony of the main ballroom, incorporated some gyration moves, and pseudo-married two gays on stage. However, someone threw a waterbottle onto the stage which had hit her in the head, so she was quite vocal in letting SF know she was not amused.

Joey’s birthday party at Quinn’s Lighthouse was great fun. Who doesn’t love eating peanuts covered in hot sauce and then throwing their shells on the floor?!!! Lindsey’s birthday party at the Tonga Room was fabulous fun as well; sad to think the place will turn into condos if is not considered a historical landmark. Seeing Rye Rye at 330 Ritch with Hottub was AMAZING!! For a little girl, she packs a lot of energy and just puts on a SHOW!

Rye Rye’s Hardcore Girls

The Bird Flu show at Space Gallery featuring Amanda Lopez‘s photography was fresh as usual. Liz and I also stopped at Bootybassment that night, making a pupusa run as well at 3:00am, before returning back to the east bay. The month ended with the Alameda Buddhist Temple’s Summer Bazaar, which was a fun and food filled family event, and where I was a volunteer.

Liz, Amanda, me (in front of her photography) at Space Gallery SF – Bird Flu Show

JULY 2009

Rocket at July’s Oakland Art Mummur

I’m always extremely excited for my birthday month, and this year was no exception. Started the month off going to the Oakland Art Murmur with Liz, Errico, and Rocket. Was a good time, love that the galleries and live music (DJ Brandon Gobi), provide a fun, safe, and artistic setting for those in its city.

Installation by T. Joseph Enos – Artificial Nature – Autobody Fine Art

Also art related, Joey’s installation at Autobody (gallery) in Alameda was phenomenal. Every part, every color, every concept, every nerve of it – was absolutely awe-inspiring to me. He is truly one of the most talented artists I know, which is demonstrated in the quality and depth of his work.

Went to the Renegade Craft Fair at Fort Mason to check out friends, Handmade Whimsy and Nora Aoyagi, and although I didn’t buy anything crafty, it was nice to be out amongst the crafters in the beautiful, balmy SF Marina. Mid-month, took a family trip to Las Vegas, where we stayed at the Wynn, and where I ate an insane amount of really, really good food, including a delicious and very rare 20 oz. ribeye steak from the Steve Wynn Steakhouse.

20 oz. of Pure Love at the SW Steakhouse, Las Vegas

Seriously, I think in terms of my eating habits in Vegas, the saying should go, “What happens (on my plate) in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” And despite the dry heat, which I’m actually getting used to now, I had a really fabulous time, and am ever so grateful for having such an awesome family.

So the big day came, July 23, and it was one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had. The party was at Life/Style at Beauty Bar SF, where friends Tony and Raul DJ and where Liz was guest DJing that night for my party. She decorated with balloons and a Hyphy Birthday banner, and my sister baked homemade red velvet cupcakes. It felt like a really great wedding reception, sans the husband of course, with friends and family, all dancing and mingling, and just having a hell of a good time.

AUGUST 2009

Family, friends, and good food was the prevalent theme for this last month of summer. There was the Surf n’Turf Ladydate at Amedee’s, (potluck style while we watch Top Chef). Her seafood stew was perfect, (the seafood wasn’t overcooked, and it was well seasoned with a bit of a kick), and Jessica’s homemade ice cream and sorbet were absolutely heavenly. August also happened to be the month in which I lost my nettle virginity, as my friend Sophie, The Supertaster, hosted a grilled pizza (my favorite way to eat pizza!) dinner party, which included sautéed nettles as a topping. Her fresh figs stuffed with mascarpone and marcona almonds were incredible as well. More dinners were eaten at Puerto Alegre and the Front Porch in the Mission. The Kwan siblings took a field trip to the Academy of Sciences and of course made stops at Tartine and Mitchell’s Ice Cream too that day. That night, met Liz and Michael at the Silverman Gallery for an art show featuring new SF designers. And later that week, my sister and the Barneys (Liz and Michael) had a garage sale at my aunt’s house, where I had nothing to sell, but kept busy by making conversation and lemonade.

Speaking of Barneys, I went to the Barneys Warehouse Sale and ended up getting my birthday present to myself: a pair of AMAZING Manolos (Cuerta) for a very good price.

I also bought a new pair of glasses for $3 that I'm very excited about!

With an abundance of fruit in the house, I also started experimenting with sorbet recipes based on this one I found from Live2Cook. The first was plum/Chambord. My second was cantaloupe/honey/lavender, and my third was plum/Chmabord/Godiva Liqueur, which appears to be the winner. For my cousin Paula’s birthday it was girls night out at Asia SF and Slide, complete with my first bottle service ever. Cheers!

On my mind this week:

Two of my favorite people in one of my favorite songs!

1. If we don't start to look for a better life, the whole world will be destroyed in a time zone...Seriously.

2. June 25, 2009 - The day pop music in America died....For M.J. R.I.P.

3. We used to rock out to this in my high school Espanish class...

But this Frenchy made it famoso first...

4. Isn't her hair AMAZING?!!!!!!!

4. I ADORE her. I should have gone to Paris this summer!! There is always next year...

5. The summer of 2009 will forever be my “Picasso Summer”.

Where the Wild Things Aren’t ........... Mood: Wondering

2009-06-04T14:35:00.000-07:00

April started with Saks/Sugar Publishing event, where I was happy to snag a Marc by Marc Jacobs tote and one of the very large Shepard Fairey designed Saks shopping bags.

Saks Shopping Bags Designed by Artist Shepard Fairey

Later that night Liz and I stopped by Le Cirque(The Brooklyn Circus) at Yoshi’s Fillmore, hung out with Cas and his friend from Steel Closet, and then danced the night away at Beauty Bar’s Life/Style. Went to 111 Minna for Jay Alexander’s birthday party to see Ryan and Dylan dj, no one asked me if I was a tranny that night thank god, cause that’s what some moron did two years ago at the same event! Later that night met up with Natalie and Lindsey at Bar 821 and then had a late night corned beef sandwich with Liz and Josh at Tommy’s Joynt.

“World Walking,” by William Kentridge

Checked out the William Kentridge exhibition at the MOMA, which I liked, was dark and charmingly grotesque. However, the Nick Cave exhibition the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts absolutely blew me away. It was colorful, textural, fun, and really just brilliant.

From Nick Cave's Meet Me at the Center of the Earth Exhibition (Mar 28 -
Sun, Jul 5 2009 YBCA Galleries)

Stacy’s birthday BBQ at the SF Skatepark was a blast, and included burgers, chorizo, and some drunken playground gallivanting. Lee, Dee and I had a dinner and theatre date, went to Cav for dinner, since Zuni was closed for remodeling :(, and then saw Wicked. For the majority of the month, I experienced a horrible intestinal bug, which I believe was healed by the probiotic properties of Dannon Activia yogurt. Hallelujah for that cause it was NOT a cool time!

May always signals the official start of birthday season for me, and the month got off to quite a spectacular start with its first birthday party being Jessica’s. The night included dressy pre-partying at the birthday girl’s house where we sipped on deliciously concocted Manhattans and Aviations. Dessert and champagne were had next at Bix, and drinks in the Russells Room at Bourbon and Branch followed making for an ingenuously fabulous night, and the perfect birthday party.

The following weekend Liz and I saw Hottub at Vessel, and checked out Amanda Lopez’s art show, where The Park put on a pretty impressive performance as well. The next day was Brandan’s birthday brunch at Dolores Park, it was a decadently fun time, this classy braud brought Jello-shots, a Brandan birthday tradition I’ve been doing for a couple years now. But Teddy’s homemade jumbo coconut shrimp were absolutely beautiful, and therefore stole the show; receiving an initial gasp and then clapping as he lifted away the lid of the serving tray. Alex’s homemade salt caramels were absolutely to die for and Dan’s scones, and Dee’s savory bread pudding were certainly hits as well.

Too Much Fun at Dolores Park – Eric spent at least 3 hours being pregnant that day!

At PST at 330 Ritch Liz provided Jesse Boykins III with his stunnas for the show, and I couldn’t stop singing Pantyhose. Oh, and by the way, one of my new obsessions is vintage dead stock pantyhose! Okay, so I digress a bit.

Jesse Boykins III – Pantyhose

Then, for Errico’s birthday we hung out with him and the boys at the house, eating tacos and shootin the shit with the A-town crew. That Friday was Adrian’s birthday party which started at Badlands, moved to Toad Hall, whose DJ was so on it that night, followed by late night Nizario’s (I actually brought my Escape from NY Pizza into Nizario's cause I like their crust better, but had Nizario’s Castro Special earlier that night for dinner). The following night went to Bootybassment with Jessica, slumbered partied with her, and then had to run through the Bay to Breakers to get Sunday brunch. We had a really nice lady date that afternoon, walking through downtown SF to Hog Island at the Ferry Building, where we had our own beer and oyster festival, since I didn’t make it out to the O’Reilly’s one that day. Sara’s birthday party at Buck Tavern was nice and chill, as was hanging out at the Forbidden Island (Alameda tiki bar) with Christle, Dee and Enrique.

The mixer at Foreign Cinema with the SF Chapter of Ladies Lotto was full of female bonding fun. Was great hanging out with Natalie of Ladies Lotto, Jenny of Acrimony and Terry of Evil Monito. Liz, Gabriella, Christle and I went to Beauty Bar after, and the next night went to Vessel again with the ladies (Liz, Gabriella, Katie, Lin Lin, Sarah) to see Jubilee spin at their happy hour, went to Osha for dinner, Rickshaw to catch her again, and ended the night with Hottub at the Uptown in Oaktown. Was a nice relaxing day catching up with Jesse and Sophie (foodie - writes The Supertaster) at the Ferry Building’s Farmer’s Market, and I’m really excited to try the Rancho Gordo yellow eye beans she gave me. I’m totally gonna cook them up with a with a ham hock. Mmmmmmm I can already taste it now!

On my mind this week:

1.

I LOVE this 90210 intro!!!!

2.

Speaking of 90210, my sister first showed me this video...HILARIOUS! BYEsies!!

3.

I can’t wait for the show tomorrow night!!! :)

4.

The company of wolves is best.

5.

So simple, so perfect, so lovely. Refreshing to see true talent still exists out there in the world of new-ish music.

Dragon Ladies, Pillow Books, China White...Mood: Fiery

2009-04-21T18:11:00.001-07:00

The rest of January consisted of the first ever Bootybassment at Oasis in Oakland, where the BB crew: Errico, Liz, Danny, Moshe, Stacey, Tracie, Ryan, and Darcy shut it down literally. (Reina, Liz, and I had been there a few weeks earlier, was super crazy packed that night, like a hip hop video.) Then Amy’s birthday party at Encore Karaoke was way out of control, so good I can still hear Rick Astley...Never gonna give, never gonna give, give you up...

The Hottub album release party at Loaded at Rickshaw Stop was a really good time, helped the folks get ready, and was designated the official confetti thrower.

Dessert with Amedee, Nate, and Liz at Candybar was delightfully amazing, my faves included: Hennessy mango and sea salt smoothies, the 50/50 soju creamsicle concoction, and the sesame ice cream.

Some of our sweet treats at Candybar: Lemon Tart with Black Sesame Ice Cream, White Sangria, Choc. Creameux Cake with Thyme Ice Cream

February started nicely with me and Peter taking the fairy to Sausalito, then returning to the city only to find ourselves engulfed by the Chinese New Year parade, which quite a fun surprise for two people who had never been. And despite my tendency to get over stimulated, the floats, firecrackers, kids, and crowds were enjoyed to the fullest.

Spent most of February with a terrible cold, and then cold and all, was off to Vegas with the M.I.S.S. ladies for the trade shows: Project, Pool, Magic, and Guild. Even with the congestion, and the cold medicine brain fog, it was a good trip, and always a blast hanging out with the crew: Liz, Gabriella, Stacy Pants, Amedee, Radio Rose and Skinny Pants. And the parties: Stussy/Camp Lo party, Adidas party at the Peppermill, Fruition/A-Trak party at Planet Hollywood, and the parties that we arrive too late for and missed: Diplo at Ghostbar, another at the Encore.

Me, Gabriella, and Liz at the Project/Adidas Party - Las Vegas February 2009 courtesy of Hypebeast.com

Highlights of the trip included trying on one of Chanel’s most beautiful and most expensive bags thanks to Ruby at Encore's Chanel boutique, (diamond encrusted and white gold black alligator handbag over $260k!) – see the M.I.S.S. post here about it and also Forbes’ article.

One of the world's most expensive handbags: Chanel's "Diamond Forever" tote

Thrifting in Vegas with Liz was so much fun that I missed my flight home, but luckily the airport gods were looking out for me that night, and I was home only 45 minutes, and without any additional fees, after my original flight was scheduled to land. And thanks to Hyphy Wifey, I somehow acquired and for little money: 1 very large chinchilla stole, 5 pairs of shoes – 1 of them being ultra buttery Casadei thigh high boots!, 2 purses, 1 leather jacket, a belt, and a Dior wallet.

March was a blessed month featuring decent health and some pretty fabulous parties. The Shotwell/Jasko after party at Gallery Arcane with Spank Rock was a blast, Hottub at Detonate was out of control, and Computer Rock’s 2 Year Anniversary Party at Laszlo’s was great fun too.

Spank Rock performing at Gallery Arcane SF -
March 2009

Hottub at Detonate – SF March 2009

On my mind this week:

1. A shop in Vegas had the Samsonite Black Label/Alexander McQueen hero pulley in silver, and god knows it took quite a few minutes, and a whole lot of will power to walk away from it, and still my mind contemplates, for I am totally, uber-utterly haunted with browser’s remorse. Big sigh.

2. I’ve been cooking up all sorts of homey comfort foods lately, and have been working on perfecting my Chinese salt fish pork (a Cantonese peasant food - they usually don’t serve this kind in Chinese restaurants) a.k.a. Hom Yu, or harm you as I like to call it, which ironically seems to be the case, as studies show it gives you throat cancer when eaten in excess.

3. Speaking of things Chinese, acculturation at its finest.

4. Here’s some random family trivia: He passed away before I was born, but my Uncle Howard was married to Anna May Wong’s sister.

5. Before Amanda Lepore, there was....Amanda Lear. Doesn’t get more fabulously chinois than this!

Non-Collige Virgo Rosas...Mood: Flower Powered

2009-01-17T16:56:00.000-08:00

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eye are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye.” Plato's The Republic, in Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon

Year in Review: 2008

2008 played out like a Broadway production; lots of set and costume changes, music, dancing, starts, conclusions, and the confusion that accompanies any theatrical endeavor. It was a quirky year full of random changes; good, bad, transitional, and not so transitional, propelling me into a state of instant adoption – or just needing to go with the flow.

Met many interesting new people through M.I.S.S. in 2008, and attended New York Fashion Week in September, covering fashion shows and events for the blog, which was an amazing experience in itself. Working in advertising at MNI Time Warner had been going pretty well until they decided to restructure in October, so I was laid off, which turned out to be somewhat a blessing in disguise, since I was already feeling ready for another opportunity. Dating in 2008 was packed with rapturous highs and then some abysmal lows, but I suppose that’s just the delicate nature of romance in today’s modern world. So far, 2009 has been a seemingly odd, but fun year. I keep telling Liz it’s a “year to try new things”. I’m going to stick to that mantra as well, so hopefully the following months will be filled with beautiful and wonderful things and events and states of mind, more perfect and fulfilling than ever assumed, and of course, lots of flowers too.

December 2008/Early January 2009

December had a busy start. Kira and I spent a day at the SFMOMA catching up, where Martin Puryear’s wood sculptures were the happiest I’ve ever seen, and Matthew Barney's wall drawing might have been slightly more exciting if he had incorporated greasy sandwich fingerprints or something into his work atop the walls of the SFMOMA.

Matthew Barney SFMOMA - As you can see, I’m getting better at taking pictures sans a flash. Kira’s bf, Aaron, gave me the wonderful advice to exhale deeply while snapping away.

My favorite of the day though was Katharina Fritsch's sea of black poodles/baby installation, kinda silly, kitsch at its best, with just a dash of insane - which is one of my favorite combos btw (yum, Combos, remember those delicious dog food like junk food crackers/chip things). Okay, so I digress a bit.

Anyhow, my second favorite was Robert Gober’s chest – such a gem, especially considering I’m strangely attracted to amputee looking art…

Liz, Reina, and I checked out the new Joe’s Jeans store opening downtown, and then randomly hung out with the Nike Skateboarding Team brigade (Hunter, Reese, Joey) at the Hotel Monaco, where after the longest night ever, not so great bacon cheeseburgers at 4am never tasted, well…so good. Liz’s and Trent’s karaoke b-day party at DoReMi was super fun. Afterall, can’t go wrong with homemade cupcakes, Lambic floats (Liz’s invention), and boozed up group karaoke. Scott and I saw Milk, which is an exceptional film on many levels – Sean Penn's performance, the story of Harvey Milk and the Castro, and the dire importance for the continuation of the Civil Rights Movement to secure equal rights for gays and lesbians in our terribly homophobic society. Hung out at the Attic after, where the most intimidating, yet freakishly intriguing bartender ignored us, served us, and then ignored us some more.

Julia’s wedding at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay was a pretty spectacular event; fire pits, beautiful views of the ocean, Asian junk food, 90s/00s hip hop wedding jams, Frette bedding, orchid and antique shopping with Dee and Adrian, and killer blueberry French toast brunch at original Johnny’s (their cook randomly belts out opera!) made for a very eventful weekend.

The holidays with the Kwans are always a two-month celebration filled with parties, activities, and insane amounts of good food. My gingerbread house brothel was complete with gimps and slaves thanks to my brother, Jeff, and John. Christmas was spent at four family parties, which consisted of cooking, eating, and then crashing. My homemade Christmas gift for 2008 was home brewed Kombucha tea, something I’ve been doing since the craze started in 90s.

My jarred Kombucha Christmas gifts (left), Kombucha fungus brewing process (right)

Engulfed by a wedding, two births, a death (my grandfather, who had been dealing with cancer for the past few years), and a multitude of holiday parties with friends and family, December was a month pervaded by reflection: mortality, coupling, family values, traditions, and legacy were all topics of relevance tapping around in my head lending to the most conspicuous headache; the kind whose dull omnipresent pain is later regarded with joy and appreciation, having the same likeness that of a love hangover, but respectively erring on the side of a life hangover. My answer: Ibuprofen.

New Year’s Eve was really fantastic this year. To start, Jessica cooked up the most amazing spread for us, which included: Tater tots and caviar (a really superb combination btw), a leek confit tart, stinky cheeses, champagne, and Lambic. Then Liz and I headed off to Sophie’s where Patrick threw the most seriously awesome hyphy hip hop party I’ve been to in months. I had sooooooooo much fun, despite my hair getting soaked with champagne at midnight, though I didn’t get as drenched as hyphy wifey Liz. Thank god she was wearing leathers that night! Lex had hooked it up for us at 1015 to see Diplo. (Thanks Lex!!) Then at 4am, we ended up in Oakland, in front of a house where Hottub and the Official Tourist DJs had been, but it was all dark, and everyone was gone, so at that point we called it a night, both agreeing we had brought in the new year pretty damn right.

January started with Paula’s Poker/Ornament exchange cousin party (Christmas doesn’t end until Chinese New Year in my family). Card games make me really nervous, poker in particularly, so I channeled my inner Jennifer Tilly to help me out, which somehow worked, since I was ahead for half the game, and then won the second place pot of $30. Christle, Dee and Sara and I went to Addis for Ethiopian food, which was a great way to catch up, but not so great was almost getting caught up in the Oakland riots. The Brooklyn Circus Le Cirque event at Yoshi’s SF with Liz and the Hasans was a bizarre, but fun night, and all I have to say is going to Beauty Bar to see Tony DJ with the ladies, (Liz, Jessica, Stacy, Tara, Amedee, and Ritz) should have been called, Thirtysomethings (but not Jessica yet) Gone Wild Night. Highlights included: Jessica and I serenading each other with interpretive dances to Pulp’s “Do you Remember the First Time” and working it out to George Michael’s Freedom. We also stopped off at Amnesia, and then at House of Shields to check out Louder than Bombs’ Morrissey night, where their aggro bartender was unnecessarily rude to me and Ritz. Whatevs.

So this week, thanks to beautiful weather from scary global warming, was able to spend Sunday at the flea market with the fam, and spent yesterday afternoon with Liz eating ceviche at the beach and opening Christmas presents. La dolce vita indeed.

On my mind this week:

1. After months of contemplating a new eyeglass purchase, I finally got the Oliver Peoples Ari frames, and I'm hoping their new presence will further enhance my vision and hence, powers of observation...

2. Speaking of visions, this is quite an extraordinary one.

3. So in 2008, parts of my life were like this:

and like this...

4. It would be nice if 2009 plays out like this:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=177916

5.

Yeah, Welcome to the Jungle pretty much said it all at this point…
(my video of Liz and Trent’s karaoke party)

6.

This is so beautifully awesome. God Bless Pete Burns for this and for just existing.

7. In the wee morning hours of New Year’s Day, Liz and I saw this sign when she was dropping me off…

Totally "A-town Story".

Hmmmmm, maybe god will find me too this year.

Cheers to divine intervention's magical signs in 2009!!!

President Gas......Mood: Vigilant

2008-12-04T21:28:00.000-08:00

It was an amazing forty-eight hours as the world awaited the naming of the next U.S. president. For someone politically jaded like myself, there was a stir of emotion equivalent to the discovery of a promising new technology; part fascination, part naiveté, and wholly imbued with an infectious joy towards an uncertain, and of course, a much anticipated, brighter future. Like the rest of the world, I am curious to see how the Obama/Biden/Clinton Administration will set out to improve the country’s failing economy, and reestablish effective government leadership.

Speaking of the former, the economy’s downturn also caught up with me in October as I was laid off from Time Inc. Publishing, advertising, marketing and all relevant industries have been hit hard, this article was recently published about layoffs at Time Inc. and Conde Nast. Getting laid off was a surprise, but ended up to be one that wasn’t so devastating. Hell, life takes its twists and turns, so naturally there will be more opportunities in the making. At least now I can have more time to write and plan out my next career move, hang out during the day with my freelancer friends, and run my errands during the week. It’s not so bad. The best part though, is I can stay up late without feeling like Tyler Durden the next day. Hallelujah.

October was also a hectic, but socially abundant month, half of which was spent coming down from the New York Fashion Week trip. Lindsey’s house warming party was a delight, and Anna’s ice skating birthday party was great fun, except this Michelle Kwan did not hit the ice, and instead hit the dancefloor at Bootybassment with Liz and Reina, and then hit up Jeremy’s 50% off sale with Liz and Pauline a few days later. The Ladies Lotto meeting at Ver Unica was fabulous, since the guest speakers were Liz and Gabriella, and the main topic of conversation was their foray into M.I.S.S., and most enjoyable was being able to spend time with some of the other M.I.S.S. ladies, since it’s such a rarity. Oh my god, and the preview of the YSL exhibition at the de Young was incredible. I was extremely excited to do the M.I.S.S. write up for it, since Yves Saint Laurent has always been my favorite designer, and I was able to see his partner, Pierre Berge (who was wearing an Obama pin) speak, which was superbly impressive as well.

November was interesting and quite social as well. Started with PST’s election celebration party at 330 Ritch with Reina, which was way totally off the hook. Saw the Official Tourist DJs at Pink with Liz, and was absolutely shocked but of course happy to run into Joe and Jason at the LW, since I hadn’t seen either of them for like two years. Hanging out with Theresa was also great fun, since her visits from Hawaii are so few and far between. Computer Rock at Laszlo’s to see Liz (who rocked the freestyle jams that night), Ryan, and Dylan DJ was a blast, especially since I got to see my homies, Errico and Pauline too. Hung out with Scott at Zeitgeist and then we saw Emo Philips at the Punchline. Sheng Wang opened for him, and it was a bit uncanny, since he totally reminds me of Errico, but in Asian form.

The Hamsters
Thanksgiving included the perfect spead of Thanksgiving-ish treats Kwan style (turkeys, sides, ham, prime rib, taro shrimp - we call them “Hamsters” cause that’s what they kinda look like, chili, lamb stew, lumpias, spaghettti/meatballs, tamales, fresh crab salad, coffee cruch cake, flan etc.) My contribution this year was a sweet potato pie – completely from scratch, and super loaded deviled eggs (topped with bacon, scallions, and dill).

I’ve also been able to catch up on my list of TO SEE movies, and have gotten some reading done as well (and no, I am not a part of the Twilight cult like some others I know). I haven’t felt this wonderfully relaxed in a very long time. It’s a pretty awesome karmic package that I am so thankful for, and I’m really looking forward to more holiday visitors, including: Kira, Christle, Christine and Sergio, and their newborn, Isabella, and to the rest of the holiday season. Cheers to good food, friends, and family. There ain’t nothing better than that…well, a little YSL Y-mail clutch under the tree would be nice too! ;)

On my mind this week:

1. I found my favorite hot sauce of all time, and let me tell you, it’s been like the quest for the mf-ing holy grail. It all started back in 2003 when I discovered it in the lunchroom fridge while I was working at Enterprise Corporate. Then a few weeks ago, I was in Smart and Final, and lo and behold, there it was, and only a dollar! Florescent green and hot as hell. It’s sooooo good. I’ve been putting it on everything!!

2. The Tuesday PST (Pacific Standard Time) party at 330 Ritch is so much fun! For anybody who loves to dance to good hip hop music spun by great longtime Bay Area DJs like Sake1, (not obnoxious DJs spinning bad medleys flocked by suburbanite chicks wearing barely any clothes and too much makeup), and sans the meat market and hipsters, this is the place.

3. So before I was told by the specialists that my right breast is filled with fibro-cystic tissue and not cancer, I’m lying down on the examination table in my hospital gown, when the doctor says, “nice boots”, while she is examining my boobs (these Kitson Ugg boots embroidered with “LA” really big on them and studded with Swarovski crystals - the ones Hyphy Wifey Liz hates). The Freudian slip happened only in my head thank god, causing my jaw to drop for just a millisecond.

4.

This was so rad. At the last Computer Rock at Laszlo’s, Dylan hooked up a Nintendo to the projector, so Super Mario Brothers 1 was like super ginormous Mario brothers. And oh my god, I can’t believe how great Liz’s memory is, can you say Warp Zone!!! Crazy…

5. I’m selling my organic cotton heated muscle packs/eye pillows and a small selection of vintage on Etsy. Here is the link to my Etsy Store, FLESHandBLOOD, if you want to check it out!!!

6. Aw ma gawd, the latest Mama collection, “Mi Vida Loca” is so fabulously badass. I’m hella esta loca loving it!
Check it out: http://www.missomnimedia.com/2008/12/mama-clothing-fw-08-la-vida-loca/

7.

So we find life imitating art…and to Skinny Puppy too, nonetheless. Ahhhh Metropolis.

8.

This Yelle video is sooooooooo cute, and too funny! ;)

9.

But this, THIS is the funniest shit I’ve seen in a long time…sigh, what the hell happened to teen movies?!!!

October 12, 2008 - Over the Rainbow…Mood: Focused

2008-10-12T22:06:00.000-07:00

I thought life after thirty would change considerably, and boy was I right. However, it wasn’t quite like the way I had envisioned. I thought I would have all this time to clean, sort, and organize, maybe write a novel, grow vegetables, and at least get all my dry cleaning done. Instead, the opportunity to go to New York for Spring 09 Fashion Week presented itself, so of course I had to go. Although before I left, I did manage to organize my three closets, shifting shoes piled in the kitchen to photographed marked boxes, and to these great ones Ikea has right now for $10 for a pack of 4.

Also prior to leaving, I hung out with Jesse at the SOMA Magazine’s G Star Store party for the launch of Men’s Underwear line, where I had been expecting models to be modeling underwear, but only were presented with fully clothed ones…Cash Gift’s birthday bash was great fun too, and those El Presidentes…well that was quite a night…Lee, Dee, and I had a Zuni Café date, which was a very fine time of catching up over their delicious One Hour Chicken, and Sophie’s birthday dinner at The Front Porch was so much fun (after getting the plans confused, I showed up two weeks early), but when I made it on the right night, I discovered the place is crazy cozy, like if Beauty Bar was a restaurant/Cuban social club - and their Spicy Crab Grits and Fried Chicken are culinary feats of rustic perfection. We went to the Attic after, and their blonde DJ that night played such a good set of the saddest New Wave songs ever, that I was transported right back to my teens...Then I had gone to Vegas where I took bubble baths, drank poolside at the Wynn, went to bed early, watched cable TV, gambled a bit, and went snackless; eating 3 excessively large meals a day.

A week later, I was in New York for Fashion Week with Liz and Gabriella. Liz and I took the red eye out of Oakland to JFK, and once our feet hit the ground, the madness started, lasting 11 days.

It was an insanely busy trip, but also a fabulously fun trip, with a large portion of it documented on the misscrew blog, (see the the LINKS below).

Highlights of the trip included: The New York Fashion Week opening party at Saks, chronicled on misscrew.com, where 19 designers made 19 pairs of their interpretations of Dorothy’s ruby slippers using Swarovski crystals. I saw Betsey Johnson there, and leggy Lizzy was our paparazzi photographer, since Gabriella and I are such shortaaays. Gap/Colette pop up store opening was intense. Gabriella is so hardcore, 2 ½ hours she waited, I came around hour 2, and left with the most impressive Gap items I’ve ever purchased. We have her to thank too, as she scored Liz and I the coveted secret fashion week YSL totes.

The Oak Bond Age Party at the Eagle was a surprise, funny cause had I realized it really was a bondage party, my outfit might have been a little different.

The NYEuro techno rave at the WAD Magazine Party at Hiro was so much fun...and with Gabriella dancing in heels too! I can still hear Salt n’ Pepa…

Saw Uffie at the MISSHAPES/MISSBEHAVE Magazine party, where Radio Rose spun a pretty amazing set, and since Dov gave the Heartschallenger Truck a jump, we all got free candy! Checking out the MOMA’s Dali exhibit, the gothic exhibit at FIT, and Koons’ latest installation at the Met was totally amazing and inspiring, but eating hot dogs and shootin the shit in Central Park with my homegirl Kira, eating 2am tapas at Carrera and with Liz and Lex, eating street cart falafels at four in the morning with Gabriella and Dov, and eating a steak at the Algonquin after getting lost, these were the best!

Coming back to California was much anticipated, for as wonderful as New York is in terms of shopping and its social aspect, I'm not quite the type who does well living out of a suitcase, or with humidity. When East Bay life resumed, celebrated with a Juanita’s homie jam session with Liz, Danny, and Errico, which was just like old times, full of giggles, cackles, and cracks. Had sushi with Cash Gift and then went to Kitty’s for Dee’s b-day with Trang, Julia, and Edwin, which involved shots on a Monday night and some extra hyphyness...It’s so nice to be home, back to tepid Bay Area weather, real Mexican food, and my own bed, and of course, the Babette.

On my mind this week:

1) Did anyone else notice, New Yorkers have an extreme fondness for black cars, and it goes way beyond car, government, or secret service vehicles.

2) The tents at Bryant Park were crazy, now I understand why they have an open bar.

3) The line at the Whole Foods in NY’s Union Square is CRAZY!! A man walks around the store with a sign indicating where the end of the line is, wtf?!! And the lines are color coded corresponding to a monitor that hangs from the ceiling, which then indicates when it’s your turn, by a dropping dot. I felt like I was at a cattle ranch, and naturally I got confused. I mistakenly took someone else's turn, and screwed up the flow and timing of the lines, and at that point, how could I look back at a crowd of irritated New Yorkers?!! Can you believe all that just for 10 pieces of brown rice sushi! Oh hell no.

4) Being in New York on 9/11 was strange. It was a silent day, no one spoke about the Twin Towers, but spotlights beamed up to illuminate the New York sky with the phantom edifices. It was beautiful, alien, and all together chilling.

5)

Me, Dee, and Lee had a Bullets Over Broadway date at the Castro Theater the other night…so hilarious! Oh when Woody Allen still had it in him…Pause!!!
“I never play frumps or virgins!!” heheehehee...

6) Sonogram and mammogram say breast lumps are non-cancerous, but the needle biopsy, which I am scheduled for within the next couple weeks, will be a better confirmation.

7) Me, and my wifey Liz, went to hang out with Jessica at the Agent Provocateur store party the other night. Champagne, lingerie, and macaroons; so overstimulating and fantastically french, always want everything in the place, but really, I think I'm gonna die if I don't get these soon. Sigh, we're so lucky she takes such good care of her ladies. :)

8)

Kinda reminds me of our current ridiculous state of affairs...did I hear someone say "mavericky"?!!

8)

Too bad mine is on vacation....

August 2, 2008......Hot Mess – Mood: Raw

2008-08-02T23:34:00.000-07:00

With real summer weather lacking, July’s summer fun had taken the form of a month long birthday party for yours truly. This year I turned thirty, so of course there was no other option than to celebrate this momentous occasion. July, I decided was gonna be the month to do it up, and to do it up proper; a final farewell to my twenties, which has been a decade of enduring challenges, valuable lessons, and enriching relationships.

Oh the parties.…..there was Reina’s birthday party with DJ Zita at Vessel. There was the Best of the East Bay Express party at the Oakland Museum with me, Liz, and Ryan, which was utter over the top over stimulating fun and included performances by Hottub, a breakdance competition, booths of every festival thing imaginable, and mysterious metaphysical elixir testing. There was the Hottub Addias store party and insanely fun impromptu jam session afterparty at Jen’s. Spent Bastille Day at Death Guild and hula hooped at Annie’s Social a week later. The Illiteracy It’s Pop It’s Art art show with the Miss Crew ladies, Gabriella, Liz, and Alex at the Gray Walls Gallery was good lady-bonding fun, followed by some outrageous behavior and hysterical dancing at July’s Bootybassment.

The CB2 Store opening party with Dan, Dee, Teddy, Adrian, Alex, Vince, Wheeler, and Arthur David was a really chill and happy event, felt like we were kickin’ it in someone’s very well lit living room.

Finally, there was my work event at the W. All the festivities have left me feeling good, but a little tired, and have been somewhat stressed, since I found out I have two cysts in one of my breasts, hopefully and probably non-cancerous, but won’t know more until I have the mammogram and sonogram next week. Interesting enough though, Dan F. is doing research on the aging process with worms and says in his lab findings; the microorganisms actually live longer when subjected to stressful environments cause their survival skills are forced into protective action. This theory is interesting, maybe with all the stress I will live to see 3 more dirtaaaay thirtaaaaay birthday parties!

On my mind this week:

1. Just got the memo: The amber colored wall art in Out the Door SF is actually panes of glass filled with honey. Who would have known…hmmm, I wonder if they ever get ants...

2. God is sushi. The Ritsu Roll at Blowfish Sushi TDF

Paula took me to Blowfish Sushi To Die For, and their Ritsu Roll was indeed TDF as was their oyster shooter in sake, and Peach Nympho Nigori sake cocktail. For dessert, we headed to Citizen Cake where we munched on a variety of sweet confections, my favorite of the bunch was the molasses ginger cookie, since I tend to have a Japanese palate (not partial to super sugary tastes).

3. My mom used to always say in the nineties, “Nirvana is playing, why don’t you go see them.”

I feel slightly nauseous when I watch this, only because this performance is so amazing, and I know I’ll never be able to experience what no longer exists.
Sigh, if only I had listened to my mother.

3. Um, these ladies rap in Tagalog, wtf can beat that?!!!

Hottub at the best of the East Bay Express party was off the hook, but even more of the hook was their show at the Adidas store party, Liz has that footage...

4. This reminds me, I’ll be in Vegas in just a couple weeks.

5.

hehehehehe….I would like to eat these for breakfast tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after, and the day after that, just like I did the day before…

6.

Not quite this pastel, but epic nevertheless. Thanks again to all my homies, Hottub and PJ Pooterhoots, and the Uptown for making my birthday party at Le Heat so damn awesome last week. I’m very happy to have made it to thirty, and feel so lucky to have such wonderful friends and family and multiple birthday luncheons, parties, and dinners. :)

Sex and the City....June 25, 2008 - Mood: Smoky

2008-06-25T20:53:00.000-07:00

Over the past two months, my feet have tolerated the worst of vanity pains as my stiletto collection got reacquainted with the outside world. And this dizzying time in heels was spent doing the following activities: Dance – Bootybassment with the BB Crew, Deathguild and Type O Negative show with Colin; Birthdays – Gemma & Gia, Brandan, Aimee, Danny; Miscellaneous – O’Reilly’s Oyster Festival with Wes, Steve, Adrian and friends, All Night Mission Jazz Rave with Elizabeth, Derek, and the Frenchies, Laney flea excursions, Computer Rock, Ruben performing with Gamelan Sekar Jaya at Yerba Buena Gardens, and Faith and Kevin’s wedding. Joey’s birthday party at Heinold’s First and Last Chance in Jack London (the really really old bar with the slanted floor) was an uber fantastic day of a birthday bonding in custom made “Nards and Bewbs” pics of Joey t-shirts for the party. It included a group cheeseburger attack satiated by ¼ lb. Burger Express on San Pablo, me having to regulate once again on some fools….well that is, one geriatric fool in a very inappropriate booty shorts jogging suit trying to steal the ice cream cone birthday cupcakes, then attribute his greed for taking two of the dwindling cupcakes to a retarded girl. Cupcake nazi perhaps, but then again I am Rodney’s daughter.

I randomly saw the Olympic Torch, which is particularly strange cause I don’t do sports and would never even stop to think about Olympian sports, but that day before I went into work, I just somehow knew I would see it. Jesse and I were standing on a corner of Van Ness talking when I turned and there it was. And I’ve eaten some very decadent meals in the past two months as well. Visits to Waterbar, Two, Townhall, Paxti’s, Mocca, and then ate 2 delicious lobster sandwiches; a lobster roll at North Beach Lobster Shack and a lobster club at the Rotunda. Yes, the past couple months have been so full of decadent delights…which are of course my absolute favorite.

On my mind this week:

1. The strangest thing happened to me the other day, but then again, I’m really never surprised by what happens to me. So while walking out of the bus terminal, and minding my own business of course, a homeless man lifted his leg and slowly nudged/kicked me with his foot. Stunned and speechless, I went about my commute.

2. Errico, the club is just not the same without you.

3. Sex and the City. You must go see the new Sex and the City movie if you haven’t done so already. The script is consistently funny, the story line is predictable, but capturing, and Patricia Field’s styling skills are stronger than ever.

4. Sex and fiction are most inspirational.

5. Sexless genius is irreplaceable. R.I.P YSL. Yves Saint Laurent, my favorite fashion designer of all time, died at the beginning of the month in Paris. The world of fashion has suffered a terrible artistic loss. Yves Saint Laurent, master of the modern cut, keeper of class. We are only so lucky to have his legacy.

6. “Don’t touch them, they’re Chanel.”
He,he,he, he....so funny, Miss M.Editrix has said that one a few times...

7. And what is fashion without sex and what is sex without fashion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0z2TWkwD6M
8. But sexual tension and fashion is the best.

Comfort Food...March 13, 2008 - Mood: Antsy

2008-03-13T20:54:00.000-07:00

(She's my favorite R. Crumb character)

February was super low key socially, and all about self help...I helped myself to
some new Chanel glasses, a Marc Jacobs bag, a 1920’s celluloid hair comb with blue crystals I picked up at the White Elephant sale, and some tops for spring here and there. Also helped myself to a couple massages, which did wonders for my back, neck, and shoulders. March so far has been absolutely insane, but really fun, and somehow I have the flu again. So before getting sick, went to the Stork Club with Dee and Anna to see the Belles du Jour burlesque troop and the Gomorran Social Aid, and Pleasure Club show, and oh my god, it was such a good time, guess sometimes you just can’t really beat brass and burlesque, ya know. At the LW caught the Up and Down and caught up with my lovely lady friend Tee, who is moving to Hawaii at the end of the month. I’m sad to see her go, but am happy for her new adventure. Speaking of which, I’m quite overdue for one of those myself.

On my mind this week:

1. Tee I will miss you! And thank god, we are in the same network. I just got some new sunglasses, so I can come visit you on the island and not get blinded by that insane Hawaiian sun, and I’m counting on you to find all the good island eats….

he, he, he….Us on the beach in Hawaii, will be like this, sorta like us in the bars here….he, he, he…;)

2. Vitamin B-12 in liquid form is so amazing. Put it under your tongue for 30 seconds, then swallow. (kinda makes me feel like a teenager again) I highly recommend for anybody who is stressed or whose nervous system may be strained.

3. Yikes, the dirty thirty is coming up in a few months, and I have no idea what to do this year for my b-day…

4. I swear to god, I think I saw R. Crumb two weeks ago. It was a Thursday evening around 7:00 pm, and I had just gotten out of a massage…. So I was on the bus on my way home, when at Post and Montgomery a man caught my eye. In a sea of generic business suits and neo San Franciscan work attire, I saw this older gentleman with a rather large, but well groomed moustache wearing a boater and glasses, and a light colored suit. He definitely looked out of place, but it didn’t seem to faze him.
I was awestruck because the peculiarity of this person and of the moment, it was all so intense, and all together 100% voyeuristic; so selfishly stolen. It maybe lasted for 3 seconds, but it felt like slow motion. Then the thought struck me very randomly, two weeks later: That’s R. Crumb. I mean, after all he was a San Franciscan for many
many years…

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BmeodrEjpvo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlT4QZchxQw

Funny how most people think he’s a total dirt bag, and he very well may be. I think it’s fascinating and somewhat endearing how his sense of blatant honesty is so childlike in its defensiveness...It’s interesting. Sorta reminds me of Dov Charney.

5.

I found this the other day...I love it! My favorite Suede song of all time..."I’m never alone now cause I’m with her and her and her and nobody knows..." :)

speaking of Marilyn, Dee and I love what's about to happen next....

6.

I’m certainly not as moody as Pee Wee when I’m sick…Sick time for me is the only time I have NO appetite, use IM, am quiet, am somewhat docile, and watch DVDs…I can’t wait for my health to improve, life is so boring when you can’t taste or smell it!!

7.

Funny how being sick elicits a regression of the palate…
Comfort foods this week included: Lots of instant noodles (asian kind), Corned beef sandwiches on rye with kraut, pickles, island dressing, mustards and cheese (my grandma used to send loads of these home for us, and I kept seeing pictures of corned beef sandwiches since St. Patty’s day is Monday), cravings for Ramiro and Son’s bean and cheese burritos (Liz and I have been very upset cause they have been closed for a week for repairs), and of course pizza.

Are you there God, it’s me Miss Michelle…February 15, 2008 – Mood: Writer's Guilt.

2008-02-15T21:26:00.000-08:00

2008 started out with a bang!! Brought in the new year at Bootybassment at Casanova with Errico, Julia, and their crews. Was a super fun party, definitely got my dance on hard enough for the next month or so. Then me, Dee and Christle had a good time running around Telegraph…felt like teenagers again, especially when I bought this lion hat at the Hat Store, inspired by Christle who bought a kitty cat version. Japanese New Year was filled with a great deal of family bonding and cooking, and catching up at La Pin with me, Dee, Liz, Danny, and Errico, was a hoot. The fun came to an abrupt stop as the January rainstorms catalyzed a most horrific flu, as one afternoon I spent four hours working in sopping wet clothes. However, just hours before getting sick, I enjoyed a superbly delicious chacuterie plate at Spruce with work, and enjoyed Anna’s Moving/Lars’ Welcoming party, which was cheery mingly fun.

Between coughing attacks and foggy brain activity due to being overmedicated with cold medicines, made it out to the Tiki Bar to celebrate Tee’s birthday, and made it out to LA to visit my dear friends, Christine and Sergio in their new North Highland Park house. LA was fun of course, but low key, and a bit challenging considering we were all sick. We did make it out to see the Murakami exhibit at the MOCA, which was on the level of mind blowing incredible. To see his artwork in person and to be able to appreciate the scale, and immense detail, and the genius colorization of his pieces was absolutely awe inspiring. My favorites being, the Reversed Double Helix sculpture and a study on his work process pieced together with scotch tape, swatched with color chips. Tried Pink Berry frozen yoghurt which made me violently ill and then vomit. So it was definitely a trip of artistic highs and health related lows. This past weekend, finally made it out to the LW with Dee and Gerald, and then Sophie cooked an amazing dinner of chili with a subtle, yet strong heat, a green salad with persimmons, and pistachio rice pudding infused with rosewater. I’m totally my happiest when eating, and I’m so lucky to have such good friends to share their foodie love!!

And lunch food seems to be this week’s theme. Dee and I had Petite Robert the other day (best French onion soup ever!) and Jesse came with me to a tasting for work at Ducca today (ambiance and service great! Food, okay).
So after an entire month of being sick, I’m happy to say my health is fine now, my hair is feeling nice as it’s a little cooler and darker, freshly cut and dyed, and I have a couple new pairs of shoes, and some new fancy glasses in transit, so I’m good…well for now. ;)

On my mind this week:

1. Since people hustling me on the street for money has become such a problem in the city, I’ve adopted an Ugly-Betty like approach when it comes to commuting to work; nondescript parka, comfy shoes, an odd head covering…Yep, as the economy gets gradually worse, my outerwear outfits are gonna have to get worse...and more creative as well – hello hobo chic – or should I say hello, “Derelicte!”.

2. There is this new Southwest commercial that has a really amped up dog chasing it tail. When our dog hears this commercial, she goes get all riled up, and lets out these quick territorial barks. It’s really funny, and even sillier to think a million other people must be experiencing something like this too…come to think of it, that is a very strong weapon of mass media. Hmmmm…some crazy person will invent a way to have animals turn on human beings through subliminal messages implanted in TV commercials and internet pop-ups. Yep, mass media and our pets could potentially destroy us all.

3.

And so he butchers the lyrics a bit….but only Trent Reznor could cover Billy Idol and do him proper justice. I think it’s perfect just as it is.

4. Public transit yesterday, (Valentine’s Day), was like a breeding ground for sketch comedy writing.

I saw a tranny that looked like Kelly from Shoes, but somewhat taller. She stood on the bus with a desperately bored expression. She even had the fingerless gloves on, but red and pink striped ones.

Then, within minutes, I was subjected to the most unpleasant auditory experience I think I’ve ever had. From the back of the bus, came a LOUD, wet, nasally voice; a tone of voice with an inappropriate emphasis on each word’s last consonant, and whose carriage was as banal as the words being formed from it. It was creepy and drooly sounding, and people were turning around to see what kind of human being was responsible for the horrible sounds they were hearing. Now during this woman’s painfully dull conversation with her mother I heard, “Oh there are tents pitched in the park at Union Square. They must be having an event there. Yes they must be serving dinner in the tents….. People are gonna start asking me if the store sells fly swatters soon cause it’s that time of the year, and I always tell them we don’t have them. No one really sells fly swatters anymore….. My parents, oh my Mom will cook for my Dad and they’ll eat dinner in front of the TV for Valentine’s Day, catch some late night television and go to sleep…..I’m going to Borders for the next 2 hours cause I LOVE Borders.” And with that, right in front of Borders on Powell, she was gone and the #2 bus was filled with silent relief.

I totally took the asshole card on this one as I tried to capture her voice on my phone’s video camera. Was a failed attempt, and for karma’s sake I’m sure. It’s just crazy how they make people like that.

5. Watched Jesus Camp with Sophie, Jesse, and Patrick the other night. Super disturbing….Like the Hitler Youth, but sloppily dressed.

See, church should be fun, not filled with scared, crying children…
(not really a big Valor fan, but still love this song, it's so dancey, I couldn’t resist!)

6. “Big Louis Vuitton”….limited edition purchase, I did not make at the Murakami exhibit, my willpower was tested, and it was incredibly hard…and while I was looking at the bag, it just didn’t feel right. I told Liz, “It had pink lining, and flimsy handles, and I would destroy it.” I would totally kill this kawaii piece of wearable art….hmmmm, would that classify me as a performance artist?!!

“Smiling every morning, that is life, it is hard job.” And yes, I certainly agree with that statement. :)

Eternal Sunshines of Less Spotted Minds…..December 31, 2007 – Mood: Golden

2007-12-31T12:35:00.000-08:00

November came and went faster than a blink of an eye. Started with the Surface Magazine Avantguardian party, pre-Thanksgiving drinks at the LW, Computer Rock at Laslzo’s with Liz to see Ryan and Justin spin. Melinda’s cocktail/Capp’s birthday party was fun, then sat for two photoshoots in Marie Antoinette gear for the Dee. Went to the FIDM alumni Holiday party at Etiquette, had my work holiday party/event at Azie which included seeing Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza. Bought a cool and creepy (my favorite combo)
Pinocchio Sculpture by Alexander Bell at the Creative Growth Art sale. Saw the Up and Down and the Struts play a show, and made gingerbread houses with the fam. Liz’s annual karaoke birthday party was riotous fun as always, and Christmas was full of holiday cheer and good eats, great gifts, and more karaoke. Also got a new mattress this month, and am getting the best sleep I’ve had in many years, which I feel is an excellent way to end 2007. Speaking of which, it was a productive year. My job works, my shoe collection has doubled, dated a bit, and being the Misscrew Beauty Editor has been great fun, so things have made a nice progression. Hopefully 2008 will be a copious year full of happiness, good luck, love and well being, and also of course, smiley faces, unicorns, rainbows, Marc Jacobs and cashmere.

On my mind this week:

1.
It’s not the Christmas holiday for the Kwan girls without some of this:

2. Started the “Ah my Gawd Files ” on misscrew.com. Waaaaaaah! It’s pretty wrong how badly I want the new Chanel earmuffs!! http://www.misscrew.com/blog/?p=1422

3. Liz came over and helped me trim my tree and apparently, according to her, I have naughty ornaments that like to twist around, and not face forwards, and apparently we need “little mini ornament whips” to keep them in line...he, he, he, I’m so lucky to have silly friends!!

4.

I really like this video. And it’s one of the few DVDs I actually own set to two of my favorite artists.

5.

Dee reminded me of this the other day….ha, ha, ha... Gotta luv dem B girls!

6.

I don’t lust for people very often, but ah my gawd….he is god AND a side of muscles.

7. Parts of my life were like this in 2007:

Maybe 2008 will be like this:

8.

American cheese at its best. Cheers to a glorious 2008!!

Ode to...Peanuts....November 3, 2007 - Mood: Diurnal

2007-11-03T23:12:00.000-07:00

Did lots of catching up the past few weeks. Started with drinks at the Tiki bar with Ruben and Ryan, then later with Jenny, Matt and Darrel, and drinks also at the LW, and some La Pin with Tee. Anna’s birthday party at Joaquin Miller was a good time, learned how to play croquet despite the rave going on next to us (they actually had a PA system! Wtf?!), which decimated Joey’s plan for croquet and picnicking to 60’s French pop. Bootybassment that same night with the homies, Danny and Errico, and then more late night Lapin. Did a tasting at Azie for work with David; all I have to say is their Kobe beef skewers are like heaven on a stick, and then went to the glam.com event at Etiquette with Misscrewers, Gabriella and Liz. Went to the LW’s Halloween party as Rachel from Bladerunner, deciding Barbarella will get her debut next Halloween. The earthquake a few nights ago had me and Dee hugging in my bedroom doorway like two scared orphans. Hmm, maybe next year we can be Siamese twins or something for Halloween……Went to the De Young with Dee and Ingrid to check out the Nan Kempner exhibit, my favorite pieces included her gold Yves Saint Laurent bubble cape, the Gres dresses, the Halston feather jacket, and a harlequin leather jacket trimmed with mink.

After had tea at Ritual and then ate dinner at Luka’s for the first time in ages. The Chow Nasty house costume/birthday party was a blast and included a dance party, and an impromptu show. One more birthday party to go and I’m officially done birthdaying for this week...Okay, I’m ready for silent retreat time and my aromatherapy now.

On my mind this week:

1. Was so glad to make it out to the last Bootybassment! Always a great party and always guaranteed to run into familiar faces!! I got my dance on hard, thanks to Dimitri, and the homeboys, Danny and Errico, and as evidenced by the condition of my shoes the next morning…and my shirt (bartender split three drinks on it, which usually gets me kinda riled, but I was having so much fun I wasn’t even trippin’!!)

2. The Dee and I and Danny too apparently got caught up watching the PBS documentary on Charles Shulz the other night….by the end of the documentary we were both in tears..... The man was the cleverest storyteller and an absolute genius when it came to dialogue, and his sense of humor was extremely sharp as well. It’s unfortunate his personal life had been so problematic.

3. mmmmmmmm, good ol’ Beethoven.

4. Our Juanita’s sessions are the best! Errico, Elizabeth, Danny, me, and now my sis all converge in the back of the restaurant for our meetings far, far away from any children…I swear, if those walls could talk.

5. I ordered new business cards for myself the other day and was totally reminded of this…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y

6.

This performance of Heartbeats is so incredible...even better than the recorded version….what the hell was I doing, why didn’t I go to this show?!!!?!

7. Not a bad horoscope for this week:
You’re a star—and so am I. I’m a genius—and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power. Your victory doesn’t require my defeat, and vice versa. Those are the rules in the New World—quite unlike the rules in the Old World, where zero-sum games are the norm, and only one of us can win each time we play.

In the New World, you don’t have to tone down or apologize for your prowess, because you love it when other people shine. You exult in your own excellence without regarding it as a sign of inherent superiority. As you ripen more and more of your latent aptitude, you inspire the rest of us to claim our own idiosyncratic magnificence.

Thieves Like Us…October 15, 2007 - Mood: Curious

2007-10-15T21:36:00.000-07:00

Being sick put a quick halt to the type of serial socializing I had been
doing the past few weeks. Was feeling all stir crazy; indoors, congested, and coughing for days on end, so when I started to get my sense of smell back, went to Lanesplitter and the Parkway with Sara, Jason, and Dee to see Fightclub. Later that week, ended up out with Julia, Trang, and Dee at Easy, then at Lucky Lounge in Lakeshore, and then did late night at La Pinata, again. Wellness saw me off to the Folsom Street Fair with Dee, Gerald, and Steven. Last week was a very intense and busy week, work was crazy and my Dad’s 60th birthday party planning took up any free time I had in between. The party itself was a definite success, a Chinese banquet with 50 birthday song party poppers, leis, gummy worms & Swedish fish goodie bags, and life-size sea creature toys. My Dad and the family had a blast, and I was happy that they had such a good time. This past week saw taco truck and brown bagging bonding with Danny and Liz. Worst part of the week was when I pulled a muscle in my shoulder while sleeping, so bending my neck and using my right arm was pretty much out of the question for a few days, but I'm bck to better now, think I was healed by the power of the homemade churro....Hallelujah!! I’m back.

On my mind this week:

1. Sorry to have missed Sophie’s back to School party. Lungs weren’t giving out hall passes that night. Homemade cookies, milk, cocktails…..wahhhh! :(

2. Tee and Dee think I’m gross cause I revealed my secret crush on Criss Angel to them…Yes, so I have a thing for magical wizards…used to have a thing for Houdini too when I was a kid…and yes, a magical wizard to pack my travel bags would work out nicely…

3.

The pressure is on!! Eeeeeeeeeakkk, Halloween is only a couple weeks away!

4.

This looks intense…Oh my god, I can hardly contain myself…hurry and come to SF!

Absolutely nothing contrived about this at all. Pure loving perfection, as sparkling and beautiful as the first time I heard it, twenty one years ago.

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ndoIgeBZww

I’m a firm believer that things have feelings too…

Beyond my Control…Sept. 23, 2007 – Current Mood: Sickly.

2007-09-23T21:38:00.000-07:00

Started with the Olafur Eliasson opening reception at the MOMA. The exhibit was 10,000% amazing, and a good reminder of how lighting can make or break a situation, my favorite being the “Room for all Colors” . Actually come to think of it, it sorta reminded me of that scary Bill Viola exhibit they had back in ’99, but without the sound element…wow, a reference to nineties art…someone is getting old. Besides all that, the installations were great, however falling down the MOMA stairs while trying to say hi to Sara and Leia in front of hundreds of people, and getting scolded by the docents was not so great. Think it’s time I reassess my dwindling habit of stiletto wear, and get my act together. Then there was the Roadside Distractions photography art show at the Hideo Wakamatsu Mission Store opening, with Kissui in abundance (and not usually a rice alcohol drinker) and no dinner, apparently brings out guest appearances from hers truly, M.Editrix, according to Dee, Adrian, and M.I.S.S. Liz. Later that week with M.I.S.S. Liz was the Emily the Strange art show, where the Bride of Ozzy performance was inspirational. Again, I swear 111 Minna is just a vortex of weird energy, there we were stalked by a guy who told me my glasses looked like they cost $2, and Liz got her nameplate necklace out of a candy machine. Hmmm Let's see, negative attention, scary eye contact, and sarcastic remarks, wow what a charmer. Bet he beats his ladies too. Drinks at the LW and breakfast at Mama’s to welcome Christle back for all of 48 hours.Tamale making night hosted by Joey and Anna, where it was once again reiterated that bacon and cheese make everything delicious, and Carlo Rossi is like a biting hug from a long lost friend. Dee’s karaoke birthday party at Do Re Mi was insanely wild fun, highlights include dancing on the table, Brandan’s delicious red velvet and fresh berry cake, Adrian the party animal, and 30 people packed in one karaoke room the size of small college dorm. Flea market last Sunday, plus this week’s Chicken and Waffles with Liz, Carlo’s birthday party/Up & Down show at Annie’s Social, then hanging out in the back of the LW with the folks and a puppy has left me violently ill, but I suppose I kinda earned this one.

On my mind this week:

1. “Elizabeth darling, oh how I LOVE this hot sauce…mwah, kissy, kissy…” , oh Kissui…

2. It’s really wrong…I ate La Pinata three times in two weeks, and I think I’m gonna die if I don’t get a chile relleno from Mexicali Rose soon...

3. We (myself, Dee, Joey, and Cash Gift too apparently) are patiently waiting for someone on the Youtube to upload some of the old Streetlight Records commercials….Please hurry cause “I’m bored with Madonna.”
Speaking of Madonna…

4. This is by far the funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet in a while, it’s even funnier when the Dee does an interpretive reading of it. Found it on Amazon while researching Swedish Fish for my Dad’s 60th Birthday Party we’re planning.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Chewy Perfection, February 11, 2007
By C.P. Cavafy - See all my reviews

I used to purchase Swedish Fish at the CVS Pharmacy for many years, but the store switched to the smaller fish, which are not nearly as good in texture. When evaluating a Swedish fish, the most important thing is freshness. You want fish that are as fresh as possible, i.e., furthest away from their expiration date (you can check the expiration code through the manufacturer Cadbury Adams). Well, Candy Depot just delivered the freshest Swedish fish I ever had -- just the right chewiness and bursting with flavor that no other gummy candy can match. Older Swedish fish get a bit stiff and are harder to chew. The intensity of the flavor diminishes as well. The assorted fish flavors are lemon (yellow), lime (green), orange (orange), and berry (red). Many people prefer only the red Swedish Fish because its flavor is sublime and difficult to describe; some people think the flavor is strawberry, others cherry, and even loganberry. No matter what, the Red Swedish Fish are the Holy Grail of non-chocolate candy. Although you can purchase a bag with just red fish, I prefer the assorted variety because I like the contrast in flavors, and you can progress in taste up to the red. When eating a Swedish Fish, no filleting is required; however, there is an art to it. Personally, I like to nip off the tail and then eat the body. Sometimes, I will roll up the fish from the tail end and eat it like a miniature jelly roll. But my special technique is reserved for a pair of red fish. I sandwich the two fish belly-to-belly, then I bite off the double tail, then I pop the double body into my mouth for a full burst of flavor. Delicious. Yes, I may seem strange, but I come from a competitive family where we used to have jelly bean wars. We would pair up the jelly beans, then we would "go to war" by holding each jelly bean between each forefinger and thumb, then smash the two together until one end of the losing jelly bean would cave in. These battles would continue in a single elimination tournament until one bean emerged victorious. I hope you enjoyed this review and your Swedish Fish from Amazon.
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5.

Maybe it’s cause I’m sick, but I totally get the chills when I watch this....yep, I think Friday’s red shoes are surely to blame...

Word Processing…..Sept. 8, 2007 - Current Mood: Spunky

2007-09-08T12:54:00.000-07:00

I’ve been in my head a lot the past few weeks which explains the misplacing of keys, phone, clothes, scarves, and plans. My sense of direction has temporarily worsened due to a weak eyeglasses prescription, which clearly wreaks havoc on my already weak sense of direction and perpetual state of dishevelment. Yet despite everything, I managed to do a hearty amount of well manicured socializing, mostly in the east bay setting. So my new place to nerd out is the Hob Nob, which used to be a kind of bizarre jazz bar/restaurant in Alameda, but now is a mecca for young and old nerds alike, providing a healthy supply of booze and board games within a semi-nice local setting. The Kwan kids rather like it on Thursdays since they have a $3 drink happy hour from 10pm to midnight, and last week included an intense game of scrabble, arm wrestling, and extreme connect four. There were a couple visits to the LW and Radio, and a pillaging of the popcorn machine over at the Lucky 13. Back in the city, enjoyed a delicious dinner at Maverick for Sophie's birthday with her, Jesse, Dan, and Gail, and I have to say, my fried chicken was cooked to perfection; tender, yet crisp, and impeccably seasoned, and on a bed of mashed potatoes. I told Miss Liz the next time we get our thrift on at Thriftown, which is kiddie corner, we have to have a lady date there. So the Labor Day weekend included some home redecorating and TLC, babysitting, couple BBQs – pretty low key cause the next few weeks will be action packed.

On my mind this week:

1. Everytime I see my friend Carlo, he says, “I know you’ve got to be at least one of the three: hungry, tired, or having to pee.” I am realizing now these are the effects of me always being in a constant state of over stimulation.

2. Yet another person on a bike took me by surprise on Market Street this week…

3.

Legos are so the new black.

4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX4aM3y3ZRY
And they say computers are dangerous…

5.

My Dad makes up words too…my favorite of late is poisionated, e.g. “I don’t want to get poisionated by that confetti." (that had fallen onto a piece of cake during a Kwan Family birthday party).

Pandora's Boxed...August 19, 2007 - Current Mood: I miss the crew.

2007-08-19T21:11:00.000-07:00

I would definitely say I had a pretty good past few weeks. Started with the LW and breakfast at Mama’s, then dinner bonding over too much red wine with Edwin, Dee, Sarah and I at La Mediterranee. There was the Glam.com SF blogger mixer at Bacar, where myself, and Misscrew founders Liz and Gabriella met a variety of other fashion bloggers including Natalie of The Coveted, http://thecoveted.blogspot.com/, and Janine of Coquette coquette.blogs.com/ , and Stephanie from Stiletto Jungle,who were all very kind and interesting. Popped over to the Stork club with Liz and Errico for the Oakland Art Mumur to see Hottub who put on an awesome performance, with Errico doing it right by joining in with the girls. There was cousin Steph’s wedding, and Kira’s west coast visit. Thanks god, we got our dog Wing, Wing back. Turns out some neighbors had borrowed her for a few days...Anna made Dee and I a very tasty breakfast Sunday complete with a frittata, freshly squeezed orange juice, homemade coffee cake, and a trip to the flea market. Just got home from Vegas a few days ago and can’t tell you how happy I am to come home to lukewarm weather. Hallelujah!!!!

On my mind this week:

1. My stylist tried something new with my color, it now has these pieces that have an old-lady type purple tint to it, but then again I think it’s quite fitting cause my friends and my mom have always called me an old lady…

2. Surely there are laws against the amount of red meat I’ve consumed in the past two weeks.

3. Misscrew is reprazentin on Miami Ink. http://www.misscrew.com/blog/?p=989
Peep it!

This is so exciting, like they say, “eyes to the sky, ears to the streets, MISS is everywhere…”

4. The Bay Area is so small. It’s crazy and kinda amazing how you run into people….expectedly and unexpectedly.

5. M.I.S.S. Liz delivered by birthday present the other night. And it was so good that I’m not having my raincheck birthday party anymore…well, at least not for now. Thanks, you really are the bestest life partner!… ;)

6. I know about Hamburger Eyes, but I heard the funniest reference the other day to hamburgers and the part of the female anatomy above the waist.

7.

More than just a hairstyle.

LA is Pandora’s box.

Jewelry does this to me too…

Animal Control….July 24, 2007 - Current Mood: Snacky

2007-07-24T22:59:00.000-07:00

It’s been non-stop since the 4th of July – and the month is already almost over! Started with Drew’s 4th of July BBQ and mini D.I.Y. fireworks show. Then Reina’s b-day party at Levende with Errico & the Misscrewers, and Liz and Danny joining in at 3am for Mexican breakfast bonding. Then there was Sara’s Planes, Trains, Automobiles themed housewarming party – where I observed a cycle of very young almost hipster kids trying to be too cool for school but desperately an uncomfortably not quite making the mark. Low point of observation is when I heard someone state they had to go “check on their playlist” to make sure it stayed with the theme of the party and would be devastated if a mismatched song made it in ……There was Kevin’s 30th b-day BBQ, and the most interesting part of the night happened to be when James was walking Kelly and I to Bart and Alfie the Troll Window man at 18th and Valencia waved to me and opened his window and gave us a private 10 minute interview, which I found absolutely fascinating. http://www.sftrollwindow.blogspot.com/ . Watched Grey Gardens a documentary made in the 70s about the ever reclusive and eccentric mother/daughter duo, the Edie Bouvier Beales, living in their dilapidated East Hampton 28 room mansion. The Chow Nasty album release party at the Independent was incredibly fun, and then Chow Nasty kick off tour BBQ at the house was a good time full of good eats (chicken apple sausage stuffed with gouda and bacon wrapped jalapeño poppers were the hit dishes). Did a lot of shopping this week, had a happy birthday massage. My Vessel Hip Hop birthday party got postponed due to a change in plans, and my cousin’s bachelorette party was a great celebratory time, nails did, dinner, dancing, perks being a room at the Clift and some large Hermes gift boxes I’ll use for storage that I found in its hallway.

On my mind this week:

1. I had no idea lap dances were given at the Independent. I was seated on a chair after the Chow Nasty show, when my sister yelled out jokingly, “This girl needs a lapdance!” and a Sam came over and gave me a pretty good one.

2.

How does your garden grow?

3.
From this………….

To this…

To this……

…….is genius at work. God bless Malcolm Mclaren.

4. The Kwans are sad cause our family dog, Wing, Wing is missing. She got out of the yard Friday night and hasn’t been seen since. If anyone sees a half Rott/Terrier mix with a flippy tail running around Alameda, please let me know.

5. I truly have awesome friends and family. Thanks for all the birthday wishes and treats!

Das Boots.....July 4, 2007 - Current Mood: Pink, Cream, & Cerulean

2007-07-04T15:52:00.000-07:00

Lots of family related stuff going on the past couple weeks. One family bridal shower, father’s day breakfasts, brunches, birthdays and dinners, then hung out with my cousins and their baby. There was Lindsey’s birthday party then Melinda's house warming party – the place is cavernous, full of massive stained glass windows, and some even being rumored to have come from the Liberace estate…..It’s really very otherworldly, and it ate my car keys and made Tee and I completely lose track of time, the sober chatter going way into the wee, wee hours of the morning. Saw my hair stylist Edwin at Hermosa in Berkeley, then me, him, and Dee went to see Shrek III, which was very much on the cute side as expected. Puss n' Boots used to be my favorite, but I think Gingy has taken the cake….Stayed home this weekend to do my chores and rest up for the next month or so, which will be absolute mayhem, but of the most positive kind of course.

on my mind this week:

1. Where the hell am I gonna do my birthday party?!!!! Need a place on specified dates with no cover, not too bourgsie, with a dancefloor, good music, in a reasonably safe location, with enough space to accommodate the party…. So please any suggestions are very much appreciated!!!

2. I see a lot of interesting things on my commute. Lately I’ve been fascinated by the following:

The Skeleton Lady - You can tell she is a professional of some sort, I see her on my bus ride in walking up Sutter. Poor thing, she clearly has an eating disorder. Everytime I see her, it reminds me of why it is okay to eat and even justifies some of my overindulgent eating behaviors. Her skin looks like it sliding off her face and her body – it has nothing to hold onto. She wears white orthopedic sneakers and carries a Louis Vuitton Alma bag. I wonder what she eats for lunch. I wonder if she even eats lunch…

Highlighter Boy - Every morning he looks like he is on a scavenger hunt. It never fails; he fervently crosses off items on a notepad while walking up Sutter, and ALWAYS with a highlighter. Sometimes pink, sometimes yellow - guess it depends on his mood. The day he uses a black Sharpie, I’ll have the fear of God in me, or something like that.

3. This is why I need to take my ass dancing………

4. Gosh, I really miss my wifey Liz!!

5. I’ve had this terrible obsession with slutty 90’s pants for a while……

6. Oh snap, I forgot all about this until the other day...

7.
Speaking of which, I got the most beautiful Coach boots on sale the other day ($400 off!!!)Couldn’t be happier about the start of my winter wardrobe!!! :):):)

Party Mammals & Mythical Creatures……June 13, 2007 Current Mood - Leotarded

2007-06-13T22:41:00.000-07:00

Being sick kept me in for a weekend, so last week was nice and chill. Lost my cell phone for 12 hours earlier this week, but was lucky enough to have a very kind stranger pick it up and return it to me, which was such a relief. This past week was oodles of fun, and the party was definitely not over at The Party is Over, Joey and Craig’s art opening and Joey’s birthday celebration at Mission 17. Mosied on over to the Coppola’s house party across the street, remembering that I do indulge in Malibu Rum and cokes once in a while, then headed over to 111 Minna to see Misscrewer DJ Zita (who played a really awesome mash up set!!) spin at the Juxtapoz Magazine party with the Misscrew posse (Liz, Gabriella & Ali, Reina) + Danny, Errico, Jake, and Josh. So kinda fucked up shit has been happening to me at 111 Minna lately, whose selection of DJs and security I’m more of a fan of compared to its bizarro crowd, a mix of 40% decent, 20% cool, and 40% absolutely horrible patrons, of which I will spare you the gory descriptive details of cause it’s not worth the time, and I’m sure you’re already quite aware of if you go there. So anyhow, the other night we went to support Misscrewer DJ Zita, and while dancing a couple things happened to my dismay…….firstoff, this total tool of a dude asked if he could wear the fluorescent surfer printed vintage Speedo jacket I was wearing, I told him no, then I felt bad, so I let him dance it in for a brief moment, but then his drunk ass had the audacity to go into my purse, a complete stranger!, and wear my jacket again after I had asked for it back, which is when I lost my patience……I’m generally a very nice person, but when provoked, all hell will break loose - I had to punk him for having no manners, and his female friend for allowing his totally disrespectful behavior, and I would have really tried to beat his ass if further agitated. Thank God Errico stepped in to regulate….So it’s been an interesting week full of better and restful sleep (been making myself work out again), insightful observations and thoughts, nonsensical bedtime conversations with my homegirls, Tee and Liz, and psychic dreams about jewelry.

On my mind this week:

1. It’s really not cool, and very rude and assuming when complete strangers, and total douche bags at that, barge their way into our dance circle, when the boys leave. Oh hell no.
2. Food poisoning from deli Tabbouleh salad is not a good party.

3.

(Part starts at 5:07)- Haahhhaaa, leotards rule! Think I just seen Sporty Spice.....

4. I have a friend named Gerald, and every time the Dee and I see him, we now use our 1920s voices and hand gestures as if grappling a speakeasy martini…..”Ha ha ha…..Gerald…”

5. Damn, what is cooler than Jeff Bridges, I dunno...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCZhAPMfZAU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieDBRuk8yaY

M.I.S.S. Demeanors……May 30, 2007 Current Mood – Unruly

2007-05-30T17:31:00.000-07:00

The past couple weeks have been filled with marathon socializing. Started with the O’Reilly’s Oyster festival last week, really wonderful to have our annual visits from Steve and Steph, and Wes and Jessica, and so good to finally have met Brie, and to hang out with Jesse and Sophie, Adrian, Dan, Edwin, and the Dee and the rest of the crews. It was a crazy good time, starting with the car ride over, and included some intense establishment hopping, karaoke and dancing, and ended with last call at the LW. Later in the week, I went to see the Giants for a media work related event, and then Dee and I did sister bonding at the De Young, catching the Vivienne Westwood exhibit and purchased some very cute earrings (Swarovski crystal skull and crossbones) of hers as well. Had drinks at the LW with Tee, and then Danny’s Dirty Thirty/Moving Away BBQ party was pretty hardcore, like 10 hours straight of hanging out and catching up with old friends, and then finally catching the office cold I’ve been dodging for two weeks now.

On my mind this week:

1. I think I should be allowed to enjoy my Friday afternoon and talk excitedly to old friends on public transportation, however there is a bus Nazi who thinks otherwise.

2. There is nothing more awkward than a very drunk person trying to kiss you that you’re not really sure you want to kiss. Closed eyed, lips puckered in the air approaching like bombs on televised radar. Not good.

3. I’ve started the planning for my birthday party. Hope it will be at least this much fun!

4. I almost cried when I saw the Vivienne Westwood exhibit, but stopped myself out of the fear of looking like one of those crazy Michael Jackson fanatics, but now I think I kinda get them...anyhow, you must see it before it leaves the De Young on June 10th, and pssssst! It’s only $5 when you show a BofA card!!!

5. Tee told me last night she is convinced I’m gonna marry some sort of royalty and become a European socialite, but I think I’m much too much a rebel for this sort of behavior. I’d take the shoes though any day. Anyhow, I’m more like these guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWiilrBq9vw

6. Although, I think I’m just about due for one of these……

Mi vida loca…..May 16, 2007 Current Mood – Earrings not jingling at the moment :(

2007-05-16T20:05:00.000-07:00

The Chow Nasty show on Cinco de Mayo at the WC was a good time. Sugar and Gold were really good too. I was impressed. Good to see old friends and new – hadn’t been there since that crazy Halloween party in 2004 when me and Brandon dressed up as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, and then the other Ghostown happening was not so happy. Someone totaled my Dad’s car in front of his shop on MLK – he had to dive out of the speeding car’s way, and then the jerk took off on foot. It’s amazing he wasn’t seriously injured, and just another reason to buy a trusty Camry. Then on the other side of Oakland, Liz, Errico, Danny and I did taco truck bonding, over ceviche and lengua tacos. Brandan and Chris’ birthday BBQ extravaganza at Dolores Park was ever-so-much fun, and happy to know my blue raspberry jello shots were a hit among the fellas! Then Evelyn’s wine tasting party after was a hoot and very educational, learning that Red Truck pinot noir is an extremely versatile wine at a good value ($10 for 2005 bottle)…..So I’m pretty tired this week, and apparently I have highly allergic tissue in my eyes, and I will soon have some not so attractive Calvin Klein riveted lens titanium computer glasses to help them out, and that you will never ever see me in, thank god - but I will also have me some new stunnas too, so I’m pretty excited, and excited for this weekend’s Oyster festival!

On my mind this week:

1. So many Taurus/Geminis and so little time!!! I’m really trying, I promise!!
2. I love it that Tee is a like a little baby! Oh honey, your poor ears!! Kooo, gurgle, gurgle…
3. The M.I.S.S. Crew got a hot new look for summer!! Check it out: misscrew.com
4. Muni is an interesting place, especially when you’re trying not to make eye contact with someone who was with the ninny who thought you were a man. As you can see this is still a very sensitive subject.
5. Goat milk brie is absolutely delicious at room temperature, and is only $3 a wheel, so get it fast before your local TJs sells out or discontinues it.

6. Too bad the narration on this trailer is kinda horrible, but it looks like it’s gonna be an excellent movie. I love Edith Piaf, I’m so excited!!! It will be hard to wait until it comes out June 8th!!

7. Hell yeah! Ladies Love Cool J….and the earrings will be jingling soon!!! :)

8. What’s your sign? he,he,he…anyone else hear Streetfighter in the background…Oh shiattt!!!

The Freaks come out at night…April 30, 2007 - Current Mood - winky

2007-04-30T20:33:00.000-07:00

In the past couple weeks I found myself at Emily’s art opening at Transmissions Gallery, where the pieces were dark, whimsical, and charming, and the band, Continental, was skillfully jamming away. That night I wore my red leather Thriller jacket and hoochie red leather pumps with 90’s bling buckles, so my attention span was not happening cause my Michael Jackson dance moves in inappropriate places were,..,..Went to the Mallard for a sec after, then ended up at the LW for last call….Liz and I decided to get lunch at the flea market Sunday, which for me consisted of a pork tamale, a lengua taco, and two scoops of Mexican ice cream in a waffle cone. Ran walked Denise’s two very hyper, Beagles, and got a house tour, and finally got to bear witness to the Robles’ “million dollar” bathroom. Ended up at the Hush Hush the other night night with Dee, Sara, Jason, Ida, and Kelly, which was kinda like bizarro night there. First, I walked in on a group of unfriendly fortysomethings doing coke in the bathroom cause they didn’t bother to lock the door. Then these same people were celebrating a birthday with full on, bare buttocks on the bar, birthday spankings...it was a bit of a disturbing sight - total birth control!!

On my mind this week:

1. Coincidences are weird and sorta funny....and so many lately that it’s kinda spooky...

2. There was no Michelle and Liz booties at this month’s Bootybassment, so come May there will be some double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple trouble on the Knockout’s dancefloor that’s for sure!!!

3. For someone who is quite cryptic, I take what people say very literally because I am extremely gullible.

4. Despite yesterday’s snack with Dee and Joey, I’m still having my Wienerschnitzel attack!!

5. I forgot Beyonce had a last name...Dee thought this was funny...

6. Theresa and Liz, you ladies are throwing off my schedule!! See what happens when
I miss you guys!!

7. Opening sequence to The Hunger

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Hats are so hot right now...

8....umm I actually own a couple versions of this outfit....

I found it, and it’s more fabulous than I had even imagined! Thanks Joey!! ;)

Real trannies don’t have hips…April 17, 2007 - Current mood: Content

2007-04-17T00:27:00.000-07:00

The past couple weeks of extreme socializing have left me exhausted, but very happy and strangely somehow healthy. Started with Moua’s birthday party, then 111 Minna after where this random guy decided to sit next to me, and what happened next still has me feeling a bit traumatized. (Keep in mind here I was wearing a very fitted vintage sixties cocktail dress, in silk crepe, a kind of fabric that clings to the hips, and the same amount of make-up I always wear.) So he kept asking me how old I was, which I told him, then he kept telling me I looked 22, said I had a nice face, then asked me if I was a girl…and THEN proceeded to buy me a drink that I didn’t ask for, that was 50% correct in body because he didn’t let me finish my sentence. And then kept saying over and over that we should go to Vessel…then this guy got freaked out by Ryan, thought he was my boyfriend, saying he gave him the evil eye….This is when Liz and I kindly made our escape to the dancefloor thanks to Dylan the DJ who saved us with New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle, which was actually quite representative of that very awkward and ill-fated moment. Later in the week there were drinks at the LW with Theresa, Ryan P., Jenny, Jeff, Dee, Melinda, Amy….Then Gia and Gemma’s bounce house Tinkerbell birthday party across the street at Dean and Rene’s … Actually had to do the party in 2 shifts with a nap in between. On Easter, decorated Easter eggs with the fam, enjoying Easter brunch, and Easter dinner and ate, and ate and ate. After Easter more amazing meals followed, and included a wonderful dinner of Chinese Oxtail soup and Toro (fatty tuna) and Korean BBQ in West O with the fam, Thai Osha with Mei, and Ruby Skye for a media work related event (Harrah’s/ Harvey’s Lake Tahoe) and enjoyed a nice mini cabaret show and buzz that I took with me later to an art show in Jack London.

On my mind this week:

1. I have yet to go there, but Vessel does not look fun. Not my idea of a hyphy time. For work however, David and I are considering maybe planning a corporate event there.
2. People slang all sorts of stuff at the Laney college flea market, but last Sunday was the first time we were approached with Chiuauas….so painfully cute, and a painful $250 a pop…er a pup! Have you ever met my friend corny Collins…..
3. Bootybassment is sooooo on on Saturday!!! Yess!!! I’m so EXCITED I already know what pants I’m gonna wear!!!!
4. The best part of the week though was when M.I.S.S. Liz informed me of a write up my Sunday M.I.S.S. Crew Beauty blog posting received on the Around the Way Girls blog, which is awesome and informative in the ways of fashion and pop culture. Really feels good to know people enjoy and appreciate what I do. Thanks so much Radio Rose!! 
http://aroundthewaygirls.blogspot.com/2007/04/vapor-rub-for-your-feet.html

5. The flea market was crazy yesterday. Something funny I overheard was:
I had said outloud to my sister, “It smells like pot right here.” Passing right next to us was a middle aged couple. The wife said, “It smells like a skunk.” The husband replied, “That’s not a skunk, that’s grass.” Guess you had to be there.

6. Jungle juice and the bounce house are a very fun, yet tiring combination, and is best when you live across the street.

7. I LOVE this video cause it’s so cute, and Peaches is so much fun, and our Joey is in it too…And JD from Le Tigre, now she is a fo’REAL tranny.

8.

Funny how things don’t change much….There will always be Bunny Bixlers and Muriel Peuses, but there is only one Auntie Mame….a favorite of the all the Kwans.

Slapsticky hair........Thursday, April 05, 2007 - Current mood: I love oven baked turkey sandwiches

2007-04-16T22:27:00.000-07:00

The past couple weeks have been pretty silly, but ever so much fun…Started with the Chow Nasty show at Thee Parkside, which I was really excited about cause I had vowed to get my dance on once again…great until I pulled a muscle in my tender loving buttocks while trying to do a fancy dance move. Then pulled a muscle in my neck while blowdrying my hair earlier that night, so I was very sore for a few days after to say the least. Then Pho, dim sum and flea market with the fam, and Mexican dinner with Denise and Mei, and drinks with Hansel. Shared a very disturbing, yet mindblowing, thrifting high moment with Liz at Buffalo (Zodiac taupe suede/leather knee high boots in perfect condition, vintage Betsey Johnson velvet corset dress with red tartan plaid ballerina skirt with black netted petticoat, and some insane red pumps) and then at Thrifttown (let's just say my 80's shoe collection has grown extensively with the help of ELB). Then the M.I.S.S. Crew ladies (Liz, Gabriella, Reina, Pauline, Alice) and Ryan and Ali, under Gabriella's supervision, pitched in to make an amazing dinner of homemade chicken soup, garlic knots, meatball appetizers, and a very refreshing mint salad, (the recipes for these will be up on misscrew.com soon), while we participated in Craft Corner (can't reveal what the project was cause it's not up on the website yet, but was way cool and involved potatoes and kept us busy till 4:30am that morning.)

After a drunk patron spilled his beer on me, enjoyed a scrumptious lunch at Swan Oyster Depot with my cousin, and ate $63 worth of assorted oysters on the half shell, fresh clam chowder, shrimp salad, crab salad, and smoked salmon, everything being absolutely delicious. Went to the Alameda Point Antique fair, bought an assortment of 80's wide band belts and a kettle corn/caramel kettle corn combo, which I highly recommend, and got yelled at and ditched by my sister cause I had lost an earring of hers for a couple hours, which I later miraculously found thanks to desperate prayer.

On my mind this week:

1. I have a horrible aversion to overly manicured facial hair, except for maybe this guy's…

2. I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm totally lying cause I'm fascinated by:

3. FOR THE BARGAIN HUNTERS: Bargain Bank on Polk has the perfect snack size packets of assorted organic dried fruit, 2 for $1.

4. I love running into my friends on the street late at night while I'm slightly loaded as they do their manly jobs.

5. These almost got me into some serious trouble…

6. the voice of angels…my absolute favorite DCD song, plus I like Lisa Gerrard's hair here.
Dead Can Dance - Sanvean

7.

lots and lots of all sorts of peachy hair here…….Love it!!!...the best dancey slapstick I've seen in a long time!!

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thank your lucky stars...
Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 at 9:20 PM

Spring training...Saturday, March 24, 2007 - Current mood: i need breakfast right about now

2007-04-16T22:18:00.000-07:00

March has been great fun!! Started with a wonderful German inspired dinner party at Sophie's with the main course being a very tender and delicious pot roast stewed in orange slices and Frangelico soaked currants. God, so good!!! Then did lady date night at Stacy's with the girls and Ryan, enjoying Jessica's Chicken Adobo, Ryan's fancy pants thin mint/homemade kaluha/coffee bean sundae, some good ass trashy reality TV shows, and then impromptu dance party…Shari Vari and JT…sooooo good! Drinks for Jenny's b-day at the LW, Cristallette fashion show at Lulu's where Liz and I ended up buying matching crazy awesome 90's Ujena dresses, brunch buffet with the fam., health food shopping and sushi with the Dee and Evelyn, Laney flea with Liz and Dee. Completed my first Beauty Tip blog posting for Misscrew.com and Liz and I snuck out to Laszlo's earlier this week to see Ryan and Justin DJ.

On my mind this week:

1. Yayyyyyyyyy for nice weather!! I think I can retire the flannel now….
2. Neiman.
3. Neon is the new black.
4. For sure Foreign Cinema needs to kick Laszlo's down with some fancy bar snacks.
5. Did you know baby coconuts reduce blood pressure?
6.

I promise I will participate in the dance line next time!!

7. If I see you drop your gun on Bart, I'm just gonna pretend like I didn't see.

8.I realized today that I'm kind of old fashioned.

9. Just some oldies……but goodies…….

10.

(Original version no longer available - so had to upload the instrumental version)
Can you tell? I have dance fever again!!!

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Yeeeeee for Dance fever!!! And yeeeeyeee for all the liz/michelle action as or late! more,more!! Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 9:08 AM

If old fashioned means not telling someone when they dropped their gun on BART, well... I think you're awesome. dance dance dance!
Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 10:10 AM

ahem. frangelico currants were in the hazelnut risotto dessert! the pot roast merely involved raisins.Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 6:16 PM

My gosh, that's right! And I had asked you too, now I remember...and that dessert, should have been called Hazlenut Risotto Heaven! So good!!
Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 6:21 PM

Have you seen my rabbit? - Wednesday, March 07, 2007- Current mood: sensitive teeth

2007-04-16T22:14:00.000-07:00

Before going back to work…President's day consisted of an all day tour of SF for Ingrid visiting from Portland. Started with an amazing Pacific Heights breakfast of yoghurt pancakes, omelets, bacon (the bestest!!) and mimosas and bloody Marys, compliments of our fabulous chef, Adrian. Shopping followed in the Fillmore and in Union Square, topped off with Kitty's that evening as well. Then started my new job, which I really like so far. It's so nice to be back and working in the city again, and especially nice to not have to pay out of pocket for health insurance anymore….The weekend had included Anne's and Eric's big hotel crashing birthday bash, which was wildly entertaining to say the least, and really a lot of fun! Watched Hollywoodland with the fam, which was slow and depressing, but was quite interesting, especially since Time Warner is now my employer. The incestuous relationships and power struggles between the actors, studios, agents, etc. within the television/film industry, and in old Hollywood in particular, are absolutely twisted and insane to me…all politics…and grotesquely fascinating…anyhow the White Elephant sale was a spectacular time with the Dee and Amy, saw Ryan's head race through the accessories section, greeting Liz freshly off her NY plane, with a pink velvet turban. Found a lot of rad day glow pieces, and more accessories than I needed to buy, but the best part was the delicious chile and cheese tamale during our snack break, and fresh squeezed Myers lemons lemonade too! Oh gosh, then saturday was crazy fun! Went to the Royal Oak, an engagement party, then over to The 500 Club (where Sophie accidentally cozied up to a Jesse lookalike), and then Zeitgeist ($2 homefries are so great at 1am) with Jesse, Sophie, Dan, Matt, and Alan. Dee and I went to the Oakland carnival beside the freeway yesterday. …I munched on a hand dipped corn dog and nachos while she shot photos….Does it get any more fun than this?!! Well, I have a little feeling that summer glee will come prematurely this year with the early arrival of daylight savings…

On my mind this week:

1. It seems that working fulltime always increases my appetite.

2. Cement

3. Help!! I'm addicted to soup!! Hot n'sour, noodle, menudo, wonton, shark fin, bird nest, tomato, turkey, clam chowder, porridge…

4. Vicks Vapo-Rub is my new best friend.

5.

This is so funny…well they do call it the happiest place on earth!!

6.

Psychedelic man!! Love it!!

Sweet battery acid...Sunday, February 18, 2007 - Current mood: well fed

2007-04-16T22:05:00.000-07:00

The past couple weeks have been full of feeding frenzy fun. Started with Liz and I having our Swedish pancake breakfast date at Marty's, then went to a tasting with Isis and Chad at Dragon Rouge, a new Vietnamese fusion restaurant in town, where they had the most delicious spring rolls made with traditional spring roll ingredients, but also included: sliced boiled egg – gave it a creaminess, combined with what seemed like another small fried roll that gave it a very nice savory and crispy texture. Then dinner and drinks at the Tiki Bar with Denise, Aaron, Mei, Steve, and the Dee….and that Tiki bar makes some really strong drinks….half a tropical drink later, I was feeling a bit woozy, and later ended up on water at the LW. I can't remember what the concoction was called, but we all know it now as, "Sweet Battery Acid".

Got manis and pedis with Denise and then raided Tapioca Express twice this week for boba and fried goodness. Watched Darkbeat, one of the SF Film festival's movies with Jesses and Sophie. Was about the history of electro music focusing on the Detroit scene. Very educational, but not the most thrilling movie. Also went to a store opening on Leavenworth and Sutter that sells cute and quirky men's and women's clothing and accessories, including Jesse's severed plastic animal head necklaces, which are way too cool for school. Hit up and insanely packed LW last night for Sara's visit and Melinda's birthday, and got a job with one of Time Warners advertising agencies, so I've been enjoying myself lately…and definitely enjoyed tonight's family birthday and Chinese New Year dinner of prime rib and Chinese/Japanese foods...And of course, Gung Hay Fat Choy everybody!!!!

On my mind this week:

1. I watched Pan's Labyrinth with my mom. It made me nervous and there were some moments where I forgot to breath. It's a good mother/daughter bonding movie.

2. Mends.

3. I forgot all about this Kurosawa movie, Dreams, used to watch this with my mom too.

4. Interesting how Divine Intervention always strikes up conversations with me on public transportation.

5. The Youtube's copyright claims really bother me.

6. I looked at some of the fall collections for New York Fashion Week, and sadly, wasn't really all that impressed. None of the collections were very strong, most felt sloppy, and a bit redundant. Would have liked to have seen the Heatherette show though, lucky Ryan!!

7. When you are a chipper morning person at Trader Joe's at 10:00am and some Chinese ladies look familiar, don't assume they are distant relatives, and ask them if they are your aunties when they really work at the lamp store around the corner from your house.

8. Lucky to see Afrika Bambaataa at Club Six a few years back, and there is no party or energy comparable to how it is like when he is DJing…For reals!!

9. I LOVE THIS!!! He is so fucking awesome live…and it's amazing when Carlos Santana just happens to pop up on stage with him…Shelia E too reprazentin the East Bay!!
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As we were headed out the door last night for top dogs, Nate said, "I bet there's an awesome spread at the Kwan house tonight."
I'll have to tell him it was confirmed.
;-)

PS- Divine Intervention on public transit? Classic.
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 12:29 AM

I love your #7. I can just see you doing that too. Thanks for the intro to the wonderful world of Tapioca Express! Yum! I'm so jealous that you go to have Swedish pancakes. We'll have to go together one day for breakfast because Aaron refuses to pay $10 for an omelete! Happy Chinese New Year and long live the Sweet Battery Acid!!!
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 10:24 AM

Hey, that's how we met! You asked me if I was one of your aunties and the truth was we had a class together. The weird part was you asked me that while we were still in class. Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 6:19 PM

That ain't Lake Minnetonka…Monday, February 05, 2007 - Current mood: i like purple

2007-04-16T20:03:00.000-07:00

Amazing how time does fly when you're having fun. Started with going to Milk to check out Oxy Cottontail with the ladies, Liz, Gabriella, Reina, Pauline, and with Errico, Ryan, and Justin….Was a good time of course, and a good set by Vin Sol. Did some thrifting, and alterations, and good granddaughter deeds for my elderly and terminally ill grandparents, and for random strangers at Longs. Had movie day with Tee and Janey in Fremont, watched an uncomfortably slow, Taiwanese film called Three Times, which was about three different love stories, somewhat tied together, in three different time periods, incorporating the same actors. It was okay, liked the soundtrack, seemed a bit culturally awkward to me….Then drinks at Casanova with Hansel, drinks at the LW with Dee, Joey, Anna, and Gerald. Briefly partook in DW's welcome home committee, got a sneak peek of some muscles, and the latest Undrcrwn designs, and let me just say, flaccid Otter Pops and vodka is not so bad….Some pretty good potential job stuff in the works….Shopping party at Liz's, resulted in hot pink leg warmers, some incredibly beautiful vintage Charles Jourdan russet colored tie front ankle boots with matching shearling trim, and two black sporty jackets, and a pixie (which Dee kidnapped from Liz's toy collection and has named Wilfred). J

On my mind this week:

1. The club, flaming hot cheetos, and my Cape Cod drinks are not a good late night combination.
2. I will only refer to Janey as Neve, as is Neve Campbell, from now on.
3. Mentholated.
4. Theresa, you are a brilliant illustrator….yes still anal retentive and perfectionist in execution, but absolutely, positively, and wonderfully on the money.
5. WTF!!! It's been impossible for me to find a Chinese egg custard the past few times!!

6. This is why trailers and the Youtube work for people with ADD like myself.

7. My favorite Beatles song of all time done just right. My god, Prince is the man…

Speaking of Prince…
Prince vs. Charlie Murphy

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WOW!! That is so sweet of you! I know when it's a compliment coming from you that it's fo reals. I'll take you to find some egg custards. And Vietnamese sandwiches. And spicy cold noodles. And drinking within walking distance to a Neiman's. And dancing to follow of course. Love ya girl! =o)
Posted on Monday, February 05, 2007 at 6:54 PM

apparently I need to come here more often! Lady you one sexy muthafucka!
Posted on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 at 5:28 PM

fried chicken head... Monday, January 22, 2007 - Current mood: caffeinated

2007-04-16T19:52:00.000-07:00

This week included an impromptu sushi dinner with Kevin and Faith, me being scary red eyed and sick for the majority of the week, wild lunch conversations with my Enterprise focus group, one job interview, some no good shopping, Jesses birthday party at 222 was a good time – so good to catch up with him and Sophie and his crew, and Booty Bassment at the Knockout with Liz, Ryan, Errico, and the ladies, Alice, Staci, Amedee, Pauline, was super, spectacular booty shakin fun in very obscene tiger print pants.

On my mind this week:

1. H & M, you need to carry more of size 2 and XS.
2. My hair came out really blonde this time, so pardon me in advance if I experience a blonder Michelle moment in your presence.
3. Men....hmmmmm
4. Sometimes it is not a blessing to be mistaken for 24.
It is however, a blessing when your father, Rodney, has a NY steak and filet mignon hook up.
5. Mall culture is very interesting. Strip mall culture is even more better interesting.
6. Oh my god, how I used to love Gregg Araki movies!……Parker Posey at her best….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b1-hhN6oA4

idle gossips....

Nothing like a good before hyphy dance party to top off the week!!

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=29235371

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damn baby you hella exotic lookin'. you blonde asians always do it for me...what school you go to? you 24? wanna be my sugar mama?
Posted by on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 6:32 PM

Hahahaha!!!!! Like dejavu Tee, and of course it's always like, "Do I look like the bank?"
Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 6:47 PM

Is that a banana phone in your pocket? - Saturday, January 13, 2007 - Current mood: tropical fruity

2007-04-16T19:45:00.000-07:00

Coffee talked and shopped with my cousin Jen this week, had drinks with Kim, Dan, Ricky, and Louis at the LW prior. Popscene security banned me from the Chow Nasty party last night cause they found my Cape Cod stash (me trying to be economical) in my make-up bag, sad cause even the band couldn't save me from this one... the situation worked itself out and instead, hung out with Jesses and Brian at 222 – the pizza there was a tasty bonus, and at Edinburgh. So working part time again, which is always nice for the social aspect, and have some other stuff lined up for next week, so all is looking well in that area so far for 2007. Lots of birthday parties, potential ski trips (3) for someone that doesn't snow anything, on the agenda, and hopefully I will shake this cough off soon.

on my mind this week:

Test results for a leg blood clot are positively negative, so surely something else is killing me.
Samantha the cat is uber cute!! J
Dementia.
"Is that a banana phone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" It is indeed a banana. Just another one of my portable snacks…
Filipino buffet is the best on a cold day.

I can't help but love a good party!!!

I definitely need some R & R, think I'll get a massage this week.

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In response to #5....where's the Filipino buffet at and when are WE going? I've been craving some Filipino food! In response to #7....wow, life is so tough when you're unemployed huh? ha! ha!

In response to your response to #5 - Filipino buffet is in San Leandro at the strip mall by the old office...Do you wanna meet up for lunch during the week? Let me know...and to #7, my early retirement has been interrupted - my presence was requested, so I'm temping a couple days a week back at the old E!! It's funny how it's like vacation there now...
Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 6:37 PM

#1. Yes, something else is killing you indeed. It's called hy·po·chon·dri·a.
Posted by on Friday, January 19, 2007 at 3:58 PM

What's the flan? - Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - Current mood: carmelized sugar

2007-04-16T19:39:00.000-07:00

The holidays were intense. Christmas parties and visitors, hospitalized relatives, dinners, birthdays, Japanese New Year and cooking for all of these all while having a chest cold…and still have a pile of gifts under the tree to disperse to those I have yet to see. Portable bar, sparklers, champagne, dancing, chips and guacamole, and cupcakes with built in poppers all made my New Year's Eve at the Chow Nasty house party wonderfully silly fun. I got home that night and realized I had taken home some of the party with me – popper streamers still clinging onto the back of my jacket and hanging off my purse. And am doing some brand consulting for them too this week, and the awesomely nice people at my old job offered me a part-time temp position yesterday, so 2007 hasn't been too bad workwise so far, and so at least I'll have a bit of an income while I continue my job hunt, and won't have to sell off any of my prized possessions.

on my mind this week:

Nyquil is amazing.
leg sonograms are cold and kinda weird…
Menapaws
Can someone check this month's SOMA Magazine and see if me and Jesses are in the Benetton party pictures?
I'm back on chips and salsa. I'm not sure why, but we took a long break from each other.
Flannel sheets are extremely comforting when you have no heat in your home.
Don't let your head run into a parking meter when talking to old friends while walking to La Pinata.
Buy their new album and spin it for Christ's sake!!! Comes out on the 9th!!!

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i checked for us. we aint in there. i think it's cuz our style was too advanced for those squares.
Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 at 2:01 PM

Merry Christmas!!! I want COOKIES, I want CANDY!!! LOOK The Runaway Pixie!! - Monday, December 25, 2006 - Current mood: Christmas-ey & geeking out

2007-04-16T19:15:00.000-07:00

These are sooooooooooooooo funny! Love it!!

The Kwan Christmas is never complete without a little of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poxthfG109o

Hope Santa is good to everyone this year!!

I wish people sang karaoke while playing DDR…someone please invent this!!! Friday, December 22, 2006 - Current mood: Hippity Hoppity Happy

2007-04-16T19:02:00.000-07:00

Transitional would be the best way to describe my 2006. An internship, multiple jobs, lots of socializing, and some adventures and excursions in between. 2006 saw the birth of Misscrew.com and M.Editrix, and my contribution to ponderthis.net, all projects I'm very happy to be involved in. Met a lot of interesting people, and made some great friends too. Mastered the self portrait, spring roll rolling, and flea market bargaining. Learned how to use a video camera, how to cut video, and about Google's internal site evaluation criteria and techniques. Discovered the Youtube, DHC Cosmetics, and Netflix, which have been life altering for me. Flats were introduced to my wardrobe, and silver was allowed back in it as well, so it has been a year of many, many cha-cha-cha changes!!!

So Liz's and Noel's party dress and stunna shades pizza karaoke b-day bash at Do-re-Mi last night was insanely way too much fun. Some highlights of the night included: Liz working Missy Elliot, Errico's and Reina's singing, Jessica's Kylie Minogue dance moves, Rob's very wild pink air guitar solo, me borrowing Danny's party dress, somehow ending up at someone else's karaoke dance party, then closing down the Mint with the group rocking out to Def Leppard…Was the best time, I'm still beaming!!! And so looking forward to the events of the next week or so!! Whoohooo!! J

on my mind this week:

I love receiving Christmas cards and Christmas card magazines in the mail!!! Thanks everybody!! : )
Always make sure to thoroughly read your Google HR e-mails, so you don't miss their non-extendable deadlines.
I like bearded men and am obsessed with bearded ladies.
Car service and I must be telepathically linked cause when I get tired, limos seem to magically appear to drive Miss Hazy.
"That's just Michelle being Michelle." A very common phrase amongst my friends.
my life felt a little like this this year…

Maybe 2007 will be like this…

7. Just a recap of last night's madness!!! : )

Nutcrackers and muffs... Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - Current mood: chocolate addiction

2007-04-16T18:53:00.000-07:00

The FIDM alumni mixer at Rye was a good time. Liz and I did some mixing, thoroughly enjoying the overabundance of chocolate confections and the goodie bags. And apparently the TL loves me so much, that it didn't want me to leave that night either. In front of the Arrowbar, a trap door type of grate thing in the sidewalk decided to attack my foot, the heel of my stiletto getting completely wedged and therefore stuck between its doors. Shoe damaged, but I was okay, after figuring out removing myself from the shoe, then removing the shoe from the grate was the best way to proceed….Then VIP to the Faint show, thanks to Steven. So good to run into Beth there, in the ladies room of all places, which I suppose isn't that unusual since I tend to spend a lot of time in ladies rooms. Liz has become my eye candy date partner for the holidays. She and I put up my tree the other night. She's really good at tree decorating. I was so impressed cause ornament placement does require good legs and a very skillful eye!

So no cavities, but found out I have a blood clot in my leg, and will have to have it sonogram-ized soon. It's not a fatal one, well obviously, since I am writing this, but it probably will be someday thanks to the old Michelley's lifestyle and bad genes. Those naughty genes....Potential job stuff still in the works…learning all sorts of interesting computery/internet stuff…and my home has turned into a Christmas sweatshop since I dabble in homemade gifts. Super duper excited cause of all the visitors I will be having for the holidays, and especially happy to start a new year!!!

on my mind this week:

I've decided Tee is one of my missing personalities, which explains my cell phone bill.
Wasn't it just Thanksgiving?!!
Men in 2006 were interesting.
Decorated the tree to this:

and this…
Merry Christmas!! I love this!!! Ahhhhh, childhood Sanrio memories of the Nutcracker…

6. I need somewhere special to wear my new muff!!!!

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Good thing we share the same network! -your missing personality
Posted on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 8:23 PM

dressing in excess for suc-cess - Monday, December 04, 2006 - Current mood: hyphy

2007-04-16T18:32:00.000-07:00

It's fucking cold! I am wearing Betty Boop pajama pants, an army green parka, a t-shirt, a sweatshirt, a scarf, wool socks, a tan beret, and the most repulsive Uggs, as I write this. I look homeless, and a tad bit crazy, like I'm wearing a get up from Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. clothing line..... So how do I keep from getting hypothermia in my Victorian home? Well, for one, I drink lots and lots of hot beverages. I also light a ton of candles and cup my hands over them, (as DW witnessed the other day), or I walk over to my space heater, sling one leg over it, and sort of sit and hover until I need to rotate a limb, or I sit in my bed with the bed warmer on the ninth setting. I would set it to ten, but it feels especially immoral at ten, since I suffer from post traumatic stress, a result of my time spent in Catholic school. I am maybe almost employed, but won't know until I am critiqued on my first assignment, so…My neighbor had his roof ripped off in one day…kinda thought it was loud, didn't notice all this was going on a few feet away from me cause I was in sewing mode once again. Making a red wool dress for the holidays, sixties maternity pattern that looks like…well a sixties maternity pattern, so I will have to alter in the very near future. Watched Borat with the fam – thank god that naked hotel scene went quick….I elected to have my eyes closed while the fam screamed in hysterics. Did alterations this week, some e-bay, and ate like a mother bear about to go into hibernation. Worked on perfecting my fried springroll recipe as well as the bubble hem sewing technique. Went to the Alameda Antique Fair yesterday, and bought a Victorian seal fur muff and a hot link. Think I will buy my Christmas tree next week…….

things on my mind this week:

headgear = ski mask vs. beret….vs……in private vs. in public…plus retainer = scary? hmmmm….
my gosh, so many holiday parties!!! I LOVE it!!!!
Amen!!
I want these shoes so sooooooooooooooo bad…to wear to some of these holiday festivities!!! And they are on sale!! Wahhhhhhh!
http://www.saksfifthavenue.com/main/ProductDetail.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=282574492703631&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524446141541&R=403246964424&P_name=Giuseppe+Zanotti&sid=10F3F3573BB1&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395222441&bmUID=1164996619590
Borat is really pale and has no tan lines whatsoever.
which reminds me, I have a dentist appt. thurs………..

Eskimo pie.........Saturday, November 25, 2006 - Current mood: blonde

2007-04-16T18:26:00.000-07:00

P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">What a way to start off the holidays! Faith's birthday was super fun!!! Drinks and shaking a leg at Bruno's, and her kick ass Korean BBQ recipes were a delight….Then me, Tee and Barry did some southbay booty shakin at Victim, which was a riot and totally needed, since I've been eating like a machine the past couple weeks. Dim sum lunch with the Enterprise crew, job stuff here and there, some ebay, the LW a couple times - funny conversations with the Diaz's about boating, plumbing, and boyfriends, and perfecting my spring roll recipe and rolling (ha! like cigarettes which I used to love doing!!) And international Thanksgiving was a blast with Liz and Joey joining in the Kwan festivities…and the day after was absolute mayhem shopping in Union Square…Wow, I had no idea being unemployed around the holidays could be this much fun! Who knew?!!

things on my mind this week:

Lobster stuffing is the bomb!!!!
Please do not distract me when in and around airports cause I could potentially end up on the freeway or in another country.
Men at work.
Having to dress like an Eskimo in your own home is not a way to bring sexy back.
People singing ukulele duets on Bart about bottles of wine during the holidays is really quite sweet.
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She has a good point….2007 is gonna be all about feung shui…

(Underwear Drawer video by the Voluptous Horror of Karen Black unfortunately no longer available on the Youtube)

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i'm gonna call you and sing this song to you right now.....
Posted on Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 9:27 PM

Shopgirled.....shopped. - Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - Current mood: cheery

2007-04-16T00:41:00.000-07:00

So my career as a Neiman Marcus Shopgirl was a brief one, all of exactly 4 days on the store floor plus 3 days training. I decided retail just isn't for my head and my feet, and have a new appreciation for the millions of people who do it daily. My Mom says I can't be on my feet all day cause I'm flat footed, (my feet have seriously been hurting for 24 hours a day since I started that job - I used to have to wear corrective shoes that looked like big red Doc Martens when I was a wee little girl. The kids called them clown shoes, and I always tripped over my feet, and still kinda do…not quite Forrest Gumpish, but sorta…) Think this explains a lot…my shrink would say the desire to become a fashionista and my shoe fetish stems from this childhood trauma. I did get my Louis Vuitton Petit Noe bag before I left, so I'm actually quite content, despite the fact that now I have to find a new job.

Happy to hang out with Jesse and Sophie at the SOMA/Benetton party, which was typical - no food, dull and dead SF fashion, our MO being the open bar of course…..and then fell asleep on the last train back to the east bay, missed my stop, then had to spend $80 on a cab to get home from Pleasanton…Dee's cocktail party with Tee and the boys was nice and chill, and kept me fed for a few days.Was especially excited to see Lee, since it's been a year, both agreeing we are bad people, since we only live a few cities away from each other, and Joey has given me the assignment of finding him some Cazalesqe stunnas since he soon will be joining the rest of us in the four eyed crew....Unfortunately missed Wes, Jessica, Steve, Stephanie in Sonoma for baby Jocelyn's birthday…Helped Liz style a fashion show at Macy's, and just been trying to stay warm and cozy.

on my mind this week:

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I LOVE this!! Guess I'm much geekier than I had possibly imagined…

Don't fall asleep on BART Michelle!!!
Men are funny bunnies.
Chow Nasty sounds good in Spanish.
I'm addicted to breakfast foods.
Absolut Kurant is really gross.
According to Tee, I have no air in my chart, which means I don't think with my brain.
The Babette is looking mighty fine in her new winter coat.
Uh oh…I'm feeling all dancy…
Taking it back to the old skool……Dance move inspirations……. ; )

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AGREED on the Absolut Kurant.
Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 2:55 PM

absolut mandarin and absolut peppar is where it's really at.
btw, saw marie antoinette this weekend and loved it- and thought of you : )
Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 3:31 PM

What a great song....Juicy....brings back ol' school memories. I really hope you'll bust out some of those dance moves the next time we find ourselves around some music! By the way....did I notice a Corvette at the beginning of the video....
Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 at 4:46 PM
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Oh DMM, or DMMR....those dance moves are just dying to get out!!! Think they made have made it out briefly at Mei's reception....plus, my East Bay pride always has me reprazentin...and I knew you'd like the Corvette action! ; )
Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 at 4:49 PM

"Think this explains a lot…my shrink would say the desire to become a fashionista and my shoe fetish stems from this childhood trauma. I did get my Louis Vuitton Petit Noe bag before I left, so I'm actually quite content, despite the fact that now I have to find a new job." Did he say what kind of trauma. Mine said that my lack of fashion comes from a too-happy childhood with my father.
Posted on Thursday, November 23, 2006 at 3:12 AM

To Shopgirl or not Shop girl... Sunday, November 05, 2006 - Current mood: wintry

2007-04-16T00:27:00.000-07:00

Ironically, last week was my last week of freedom before going back to work, yet somehow it felt like I was in finals week, back in college, with all the scrambling to get my Halloween costume done. I finished it of course, in between being dreamy, and hanging out for a couple days in the southbay with Tee and Jenny and Darrel. Ate a lot in southbay….enjoyed a delicious Eggs Benedict on polenta at a diner and a hearty eggs and bangers at a pub while out there. I went to a very fun and silly passion party, a Chinese wedding banquet for my dear friends Denise and Aaron, and unfortunately made it out to only one place, the LW homebase, (despite the all too many invites!! Eeeeek!), donning my Michelle Antoinette costume.

So I started my new job at Neiman Marcus this week. I'm a Shopgirl, which is kinda endearing and humbling, and kinda funny at the same time. My first retail job. It's interesting from a sociological and psychological standpoint (it's totally like its own country, and the rich people that frequent the place keep me amused), and makes my feet hurt, but the discount is rad at least, and I've made friends with a ton of the staff… Good to get me off my ass and away from a computer I suppose. Well Coco Chanel started as a shopgirl…definitely will be interesting to see how this pans out!

Speaking of Shopgirl…that Steve Martin, such a rad dirtbag!

Stopped by the Vogue/Nine West event last night at Macy's, since Liz was styling it…drank 3 flutes champagne, had 3 chocolate covered strawberries, and 3 other appetizers…Ran into Becky from high school who was one of the models, and was nice to catch up with her as well.

http://www.zuca.com/store/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=105&category_id=98569bd9077fa97ea398493ef5f27dc6&

People love the Zuca so ended up doing a demo of it for some of the guests. All topped off with a burrito at good old Ramiro and Sons when we got back to Alameda.

On my mind this week:

A job and Daylight Savings has saved my internal timeclock.
It is awfully difficult to sit on a barstool while in full 18^th century costume.
I rather like men.
I miss Napoleon the most awesome elevator operator at Tattoo…you'll see him if you ever go to the Regency Ballroom for anything…
The Babette is refusing to eat her tuna catfood, and so I'm currently working out a compromise with her.
When I was sewing my costume, my sewing machine gave me a bruise, as I hit my head on it while understitching the lining to the bodice…see what I get for being so detailed oriented!!?!!
The Kohler toilet has been purchased, now just needs to be installed…
I've always liked Das Ich, but could never get the dance moves right to this song…

Do you do Rococo........such a good name for a pet or a tranny - Monday, October 23, 2006 - Current mood: closet hippie

2007-04-15T23:33:00.000-07:00

It was an odd week filled with all sorts of strange and deviant bubbling energy – Sara's visit from Portland really did end up getting a little out of hand, in the best way way possible of course, as I predicted….good thing I was the DD that night…

So this week I got a job at Neiman Marcus, my favorite store (well, tied with the Salvation Army), had my hair cut and colored, worked on my costume (on Watteau {cape} part at the moment) and had movie and burrito date night with my girl Liz.

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And Marie Antoinette was amazing. I wasn't the least bit disappointed, as some critics thought Sofia Coppola's rendition of the Marie Antoinette story was a poor one.

She really does an incredible job of capturing the mental and emotional essence of human suffering, which I feel is her most outstanding strength as a director. Visually it was great too. Love all the easter pastels, everything looked like petit fours, but I suppose that's just 18^th century Rococo fashion for you…one day they'll be saying our current fashions look as dull as computer monitors or something of the like…And the soundtrack, sooooo good. Siouxsie's Hong Kong Garden with the strings intro is absolutely incredible.

I like weeks with pleasantly mild weather, weird conversations, and giggles…and cackles…So glad to have the love of my homegirls!!!! : )

Things on my mind this week:

1. The new Bloomingdales part of the mall is quite overwhelming.

2. Falafels are best with pickles.

3. Funny how ex-boyfriends "borrow" my shower.

4. I'm so going to Bat's Day at Disneyland next August!! I'm so sad I've missed the past three years of it! It's so much fun!! I LOVE it!!! All the Goths meet at Sleeping Beauty's Castle at 1pm and The Haunted House at 8pm for group photos (the video is kinda hokey, but you get the gist)….And weekend of LA goth clubbing prior to with Shoptaw de Chavez Bear. It's the best time!!!

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5. Most comfortable shoes are devastatingly ugly.

6. I have become one of those annoying people talking on their cell phones on the steps of Union Square.

7. Dresses are badass. I promise I will make more of you!!!

8. The Babette has some mad hops!!!! ….she jumps over me in bed all the time, (she's like a foot tall, but can jump about three times her height), and it's really quite awesome cause she's so graceful and pretty, and she kinda looks like she is flying…and then after you can tell she's proud of her very impressive performance. I swear, so cute, it's painful!!

9. I want candy!!!!

Snickers or Teuscher truffles or Fauchon chocolates….ooooo sour power…so yummy!!

10. Trick or Treat?!!!?!!

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Treat, I vote treat!

Good to hear Marie A. isn't as bad as the critics have panned it...

Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 at 1:25 PM

loveletters and the most interesting mail...Friday, October 13, 2006 - Current mood: splendid

2007-04-15T23:28:00.000-07:00

This week was productive. Did the typical job hunting stuff of course, but really just kinda chilled with myself and my isolation (in the creative zone – do not disturb cause runs in phases), which always lends time to nurture the designer tucked away in there when she is not too busy being bossed around by her ADD (see costume photo). Hung out with my grandparents, baked more banana bread. Think I've perfected my recipe. So my next task should be the bread machine I've had for like two years, but haven't used…and I LOVE homemade bread, I just DISLIKE programming anything. The VCR age was long ago, and I still don't know how to tape off TV…and probably never will… Yes, I'm a technology/gadget phobe in addition to being phobic of midwestern fashion and freeways …worked in my garden, split my orchids…so this is what retirement feels like, eh?…Robles taught me how to install my future Kohler toilet at Mei's wedding, and with our seating arrangements, we somehow turned into the party table thanks to the open bar policy…Sara is visiting for the weekend from Portland, so things will probably get a little out of hand, surely in the best way possible of course.

On my mind this week:

1. My grandparents have a very sweet, but HUGE black dog, it's like 200 lbs and three feet tall, and they said it was a Chow, but I think it is a Shiloh Shepard… I very well like dogs, and it kissed me (it was as tall as me sitting down), and I was terrified for a few very lengthy seconds…

2. Shearling is a wonderfully luxurious material, in black of course.

3. Men are crazy

4. I don't care who is doing coke, please stop.

5. I need some lumpias!!

6. It's so overwhelming…next Friday Marie Antoinette AND Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D both come out!!!

7. I LOVE HALLOWEEN! And people, please stop planning EVERYTHING for the 28^th!!!

8. whoa, I just had an 8-track flashback, I totally forgot all about bidis…I used to smoke these instead of cigarettes for "healthier" reasons back in the late nineties…reminded cause I just saw a really hot rhinestone cigarette holder in the latest issue of NYLON …and damn, it would look so good with a pack of rainbow Shermans…..I think I'm gonna start bringing gum candy smokes to the bar so I don't feel left out in the smoking section, and then I can use my vintage cigarette holders again and reclaim my vanity.

9. WTF?!!! What has this world come to when you can't find whips of any sort, not even a riding crop, or even guns at the Halloween store!??!!

10. My cat snores and snorts, and it's the cutest thing ever…now only if she talked in her sleep like boys do.

11. Greetings from Italy (from Jenny and Darrel's trip) arrived in a very, very phallic form this week…

12. A garden wound is a rather noble wound (slice left hand rose pruners)…the battle of the girl and garden continues…

13. the youtube is dangerously funny and addictive, my kind of companion…

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Oh no.....Aaron tried to teach you how to install a Kohler toilet? Can I be there when you do it just so I can watch the chaos that will occur? Ha! Ha! Actually, maybe I'm better off staying at home. =)
Posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 at 3:44 PM

out of pocket... Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - Current mood: hungry

2007-04-15T23:24:00.000-07:00

Somehow being unemployed makes that Louis Vuitton Petit Noe bag seem so much more attractive…and so the job hunt continues…Friday at the LW was a roar of a time with Dee, Roco, and Julia…will be so sad when Roco goes back to Japan, which will be in a few days….it occurred to me I still have my teenage crush on Henry Rollins, found a ton of his material on the you tube, and then I realized he really has just gotten better with age, and that he is really funny….. width="425" height="350">

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Completely useless on Saturday due to the most wretched hangover, I spent the day in a ball on my couch, and sadly missed Tom's Grace Jones themed b-day party : ( …So I am on my way to wellness, which makes me happy, since the past couple weeks were slightly miserable in terms of my respiratory system lending to a horrible lingering lethargy thing. Got to hang out with Christine and Sergio, and their fam last night. So good to catch up with CDC Bear, and learned all about Sergio's Youtube favorites including Hocico (so excited about them, they are really, really good!!!) and Criss Angel. So birthdays, weddings, and lunches this week to follow…

on my mind this week:

1. Dr. Bronners, what do I do?….my lungs like you, but my skin hates you…

2. Marie Antoinette costume is pending…where are my fairy godmother and my mice sweatshop?

3. funny remarks about nakedness from funny people

4. My uncle insists I buy a new Kohler toilet…

5. I'm suffering from Vietnamese eggroll withdrawal…

6. So happy it's fall and my fur collection can come out of hiding…

7. I miss burritos…

8. Suspenders and garter belts rule!!!

9. unemployment sends me into a very intense phase of internet fashion history research……today, I think I will look up 18^th century pockets…

10. I like watching cable at other people's houses….

hairballs and tea bags... Monday, September 25, 2006 - Current mood: congested

2007-04-15T23:23:00.000-07:00

Last week marked the beginning of Dee's B-day celebration, including dinner at Catch in the Castro. She and I both enjoyed an excellent seafood stew there, then ended up at the LW twice, once with Dee's crew and then with Jenny and Darrel and Matt, since they just got back from Italy…so nice and bearing gifts too, brought me back a very pretty amber colored beaded Venetian glass necklace….Laney flea market, where I proceeded to eat a chili cheese dog, part of a churro, and then a cerviche. Then for dinner that night, hot pot with Joey, Dee, Jenny, and Jeff. A very fun and cultural day, as my Sundays usually are. Like all things good, the fun eventually had to come to an end, and alas, I got the flu on monday…So between job hunting, I slept a lot this week, watched the most amazing documentary on PBS about Warhol, went into to the city to speak to 24/7, caught up with Jesses for a quick sec, ate German food with the fam for Dee's b-day, and baked Banana breads for the fam as well and went to a baby shower…sadly, I missed all of SF's Loveparading due to degenerate lungs. Tee was back and now she is off again to Japan, and happy cause Christine and Sergio will be visiting at the end of the week and hopefully then I will be back to my old hearty self….This week's obsessions include: red lipstick, green nail polish and making my own potion for beachy tousled hair…

Cake baking and stir frying are not the same as making spaghetti - Friday, September 15, 2006 - Current mood: sore

2007-04-15T23:21:00.000-07:00

Tee is back, thank god. Back to job hunting, and making a very elaborate Marie Antoinette costume for Halloween. Nice to see friends again, Liz and Matt the other day..Danny and I did our neighborhood update for a quick sec, and then Dee's crew last night at Popscene for her 25th b-day. Makes me feel sooooo old, but in the most endearing way…The kids are cute, much not nearly as well dressed as they were in my prime Popscene days in college…It's a shame San Francisco doesn't appreciate fashion all that much. It's a town too busied and preoccupied with being politically and technologically correct to actually savor real aesthetics or even have a sense of humor about it. It does have the best metropolitan skyline though. So I've been a stay-at-home mom of sorts the past couple weeks..spending lots of time with the fam and the animals, still waking up extremely early for someone who doesn't have to be at a job, been cooking up a storm for everyone, and eating up a storm as well. Looks like Pammy may be returning shortly…I dislike gyms and practically all types of exercise, except for maybe hula hoping, so I've resorted again to jumping/dancing around my house for an hour to my fave dance tunes in my workout regalia…thinking about starting a blog on blogger.com, deciding on its logistics…Watched Wood Allen's, "Play it Again Sam" a few nights ago. Liked it, always liked his movies eventhough he kinda annoys me, but actually was more inspired by the late seventies fashions of the movie..hello handlebars!!! Then watched Casa Blanca and was floored…that Bogart, such a brute of a man, a total defense mechanism on legs. Love it. I made more stir fried chicken and broccoli, chicken and snow pea mushroom stirfry, and split pea soup, and fancy cupcakes from Magnolia's, and just baked another cake for my sister. Would like to see Chow Nasty open for the Suicide Girls Show, bummer cause heard sold out…tried to get fee tics from Independent…would be nice. Less addicted to the youtube this week, and more addicted to stir frying and cake baking, and other mystical things.

Method Acting & ReCreation.…Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - Current mood: satisfied

2007-04-15T23:18:00.000-07:00

I did some things out of character within the past week. Firstoff, I quit my job last Friday without anything lined up. I decided, after falling down on Market and 1st with all my equipment (divine intervention I should say), that my time with the company had come to a close, so I quit the next day, imbibing coffee with Sophie, and a fairly expensive, celebratory mimosa lunch with myself shortly thereafter. In the process I had reclaimed my happiness, my health and my social life. Never again will these three entities be sacrificed for a business endeavor not owned by yours truly.

The second thing I did out of character was that I joined Netflix. Im not against it, but I just thought it would be rare for me to watch a ton movies since Im not in a state of coupledom, but I'm rather enjoying this bonding time with myself and my nail polish collection.

The third out of character thing that I am experiencing is an uncontrollable craving for tomato based products, which normally only reach palette heights of mediocrity for me.

Im getting kinda excited about all this new, spontaneous behavior. Not related, but I'm also excited cause I learned all about Damascence the other day at the Alameda Antique Fair, since I had picked up a couple jewelry pieces of it here and there. Apparently it is made in Spain and Japan, and the process includes tiny pieces of gold and silverleaf that are placed into small carvings on a piece of jewelry, then heat sealed, often in a landscape or geometrical design. Its so cool, and Im totally intrigued cause now I have a new thing to collect and hunt for.

I guess I feel a sense of accomplishment. I got out of a very unhealthy job situation before it entirely consumed me, and now Im moving forward towards another phase in my career. Not quite sure what it is yet, but I am hopeful, and now I have time and the heart to enjoy and savor the things I really love.

Halleluiah! I'm back and my appetite is back as well!! (Just ate Lucky Charms, a caprese sandwich, a cinnamon raisin english muffin, and some shrimp cocktail). Whether I have to lie, cheat or steal, I will never work myself out of an appetite again!! Okaaaaay!

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Good for you! What you've done takes guts.
Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 at 9:45 AM

QC..........Current mood: thoughtful - Wednesday, August 30, 2006

2007-04-15T23:15:00.002-07:00

My life has turned into my job. Love the job, but miss my sanity, or the bit of it I had at one point. Vegas was a good time. Saw the most grossly fascinating boob job on a sixty year old woman at Mandalay Bay. They were like dribbling basketballs underneath her shirtand had a 2lb. corn beef/pastrami sandwich with the DeeCame out even, and yes, I did use my slot machine feeling technique. Looked at Louis Vuitton Petite Noe and some Judith Leiber, very 18th century sunglasses, but turned them both downbeen so disciplined lately by intuitionsorta funny or ironic I suppose. Had a wonderful birthday meal at Hana Zen with Sophie the other night and a delicious chocolate raspberry cocktail concoction at XYZ bar to top off the delicate sushi and sojou dinner, and I think sojou with ume is a divine drink. I love it!!! There are so many things that I miss these daysfriends, an abundant social life, shopping sprees, a overly healthy appetite, creative projects, sacrificed, and yet its been quite an educational experience to see how much you appreciate these things when their presence is severely lessenedLessoned: What doesnt kill you makes you stronger, and what doesnt satiate you furthers your graciousness.

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mandalay bay: a mecca for the strange.
Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 11:35 PM

Pammy on hiatus.....- Sunday, August 06, 2006 - Current mood: indescribable

2007-04-15T23:15:00.001-07:00

The past few weeks have been a little insane, which I should totally be used to I suppose, as the past 3 years of my life have been likewise. Working about 7 days a week, finishing up my last weeks at Enterprise and working lots and lots OT at Tattoo. Anyone wanna be in a focus group this Thursday about luxury hotel travel in "classy " Las Vegas?!! Let me know, seriously...Estatic to have finally gotten my haircut and colored, same, but turned out a little darker this time..just a little less Pamela Anderson, which has been the Dees pet name for me the past couple months. Not feeling so Pammy as I lost 4 pounds this week without even trying, from working, thus losing part of my Pammy assets. And I will be going to Vegas soon, a 2 day trip with the fam, so should be fun, a much needed vacation! Made it out to Christle's going away party last night at the LWfun, but sad, and fit in a little shopping todaythe pink Ferragamo tiger striped goulashes I bought today for winter are killer!!! September awaits, and so happy to get some friends back: Pacey and Kevin are moving back from teaching English in Korea, Liz will be coming back from her bi-coastal lifestyle in NY, T will be flying back from Portugal, and Joe is coming to visit, so it has been rumored. The fall/winter fashions for 2006 look really, really good. This makes me incredibly happy and slightly sick, er, or maybe just a bit over stimulated.

Roses are read……Monday, July 24, 2006 - Current mood: hot

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My Birthday week has been so much fun! Got manis/pedis and dinner with Mei and the Dee the other dayall excited about my fuchsia low-rider color nailsFriday went to Joeys art opening all in my nineties style gear think rayon and bright contrasting prints - above the Mission Thrift Town..His installation was the best for sure, absolutely loved it! Very Joey-esque with the mini piano, the green foam stuff and the scooter .Then headed to Cassanova and Delirium afterdidnt drink that much, but still ended up with a hangover Saturday morning prior to going back into the city to work for a few hours at TATTOO. Saturdays heat along with todays has been unbearable, with me existing in an overheated, mentally exhausted state from doing nothing. My birthday party at the Hush Hush was uber duper fun! Thanks everyone for making it out! The car ride home was a little intense, 1 ½ hours of traffic before the bridge, and I was astounded to find out Jack in the Box was actually closed at 4:30am this morningJust got back from dinner with Danny, my oldest male friend (known him 16 years!!!), and some nice, delightful person has left me a dozen red roses on my coffee tablehmmm, I wonder who the culprit is. Think a palindrome might have something to do with this mischief...

Blame the heat…..Tropic of Capricorn…. Monday, July 17, 2006 - Current mood: amused

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The past couple weeks has been a little nuts LW with Kim and Ricki last monday, so much fun and just CRAZY!! Ha! ; ) Absinthe with Ashkan on wednesday, chill and delish. Popscene with my sis thursday was super fun, and the DJs were really good that night..played lots of old stuff..well, was fun until I heard the next day one of the party got attacked..ouch!! Friday was so, so, so tired. Saturday was Wan Shens Housewarming/B-day BBQ Watching drunken slip and slide was a little scary, but funny..the Remy was a nice perk and the sake mojitos were excellent.and oh the conversationsjust hilarious!!! Everyone in Wan Shens clothes, was like Being John Malkovich, err Wan Shen for a few hours. Planned my birthday party the other tonight, and am super excited and went shopping . got some really cool prada-esque shoes, a pair of electric blue Burberry sunglasses, a cashmere sweater, a bag, and some silly pink tiger print cole haan nike clog commuter things.. Then swooped by Mighty the other day for their BBQ with Jesses and Dan. the bratwurst was great, the ice cream and coffee at 11pm, not so great. Ran into one of my high school dance dates on the train..funny how he recognized me, blonde hair and all, the antithesis of my high school self, half-sleeping on the bart train. Weird. Hung out with Isis, Chad and Josh yesterday.ate a hella good sandwich at Genova and discovered how good us girls are at the World Series of Pop Culture.so sad...Ate dim sum with the fam this morning (where I randomly ran into skater Simon from the old school and my cousin and her husband) followed by the Laney college flea market. Got the most pimpin jacket there. has real fur CHECKBOARD collar and cuffs. its AMAZING!!!! Oh my god, what am I going to wear to my party?!!!!? Got some real serious issues to tackle this week! ; )

My Serious Issue List:

What to wear to my B-day party on Saturday that will be feline-esque
Work Stuff
Passive aggressive people that wanted me to ask them something, but decides to publicly insult my taste in movies instead of being nice to me.
New haircolor?
Finding a movie I havent seen before that I wont have to stop watching midway because it is so god damn boring.
Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola Hurry up and come out already!! Im getting totally ansty!
My car is dusty and needs a good washing, but I know it wont get rinsed until it rains again.
One of my best friends is going to give birth any day now.
Thats right, Im going to Vegas next month and will die of spontaneous combustion there.
I like bananas and I never did before. This primal behavior scares me, Im totally regressing

i miss the 1990's!!!!!! all nostalgic and shit this week! - Monday, July 03, 2006 - Current mood: nerdy

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I realized I was officially old this weekend. Had drinks friday night at the LW with Jenny, Darrel, Matt, my sis, Amy, Drew...the end turned into this silly hugging session...yes, even I am quite the hippie sometimes, and then saturday morning realized the alcohol made my face puffy...ick. and sad...Missed Kim's b-day mission bar hopping cause feeling under and then I watched Pride and Prejudice last night while I manicured/pedicured myself. Thought it was cute, in that Jane Austen, dramatic twist of fate sorta way...slightly annoyed by Kiera Knightly's awkward, longingly glances..she was so cute as a soccer player in Bend it Like Beckham, not quite Austen material, and actually she really reminds me of Wynona Ryder....Working on feng shui-ing my purse collection this week and successfully organized my magazine collection last week, so i am quite the happy camper. yes, Tee, you are right. I really have been feng shui-ing since the ninties...and I'm totally going through a nineties phase this week. Remember Atari Teenage Riot?!! God, they were so rad!!! Yes, I'm totally ready for some violent music to hit the scene again. So tired of everything being so lacy...Good violent music and a clean house top the wishlist this week...oh yeah, totally addicted to the youtube too. Have Sergio to thank for that one...

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Have you ever seen Kiera Knightley interviews? That girl is on crack! She does have the Wynona Ryder eyes though. Where's Wynona at? Come on back girl, we forgive ya!
Posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 at 3:17 AM

Sweatshopping...Monday, June 26, 2006 - Current mood: cheerful

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LA was so much much fun! Was great hanging out with Christine and Sergio in LA LA land...Really, really good and fucking spooky ghosts and witchcraft stories, lots of humping attention from their mini doxson, Hercules, lots of thrifting, she took me to this humongus Aadvarks in Pasadena which was cool. Found some great 80's and 9o's pieces, and for sure the best find though was the gold mesh fanny pack! well, actaully the tiered cotton/lurex rainbow/leopard skirt I found is pretty rad too!! Went to a B-day party at the Crescent in Beverly Hills, which was very pretty, and had great food, yummy smores, but soooooo very west LA...then ended at up the Brass Monkey (karoke bar) in K-town for hella crazy ass fun karoke. Shopped in Chinatown and Olvera Street, and then was glad to come home to decent air quality and bearable weather. Was really hot and humid in LA this weekend. Christine's and Sergio's house is immaculate, so I am inspired to feng shui my house this week!! So I am going to organize my magazine collection right now I think...

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Feng shui is neat.
Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 at 3:54 PM

Hon, you've been "feng shui-ing" since 1998...
Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 at 2:36 PM

abuse of the....Sunday, June 18, 2006 - Current mood: giggly

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I think my social life has a life of its own sometimes...I'm going to LA on friday to...do more socializing, ha! I will miss you Tee when you leave me for that natual Portuguese place. You are such a doll! Very fond of plaid and carbohydrates this week! And Liz and Eddy, I will miss you guys so much too! Bastards! Happy Father's Day to all BDs.....Tonight was fun with the crew. Sometimes you just have to do La Pinata late night syle...There goes my no midnght snack rule...I'm so BUSTED!

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AAwwww that is so sweet of you M! Did you get my voicemail message? Give Christine my love and have loads of fun in Hell-A. I will see you in a few months. Yes, it is all about plaid this fall/winter06. Mr. Furley did it proper!Love ya xxx
Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 11:48 PM

234...i should be sleeping! - Sunday, June 04, 2006 - Current mood: energetic

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My god, today has been a really long day...shopping downtown, Christle's grad party at Jillian's, Hosue of Shileds and then Stork Club to see The Chow Nasties...i totally can't spell rtight now and i can't read either..how funny...was a really fun night! and still have the rest of sunday thank god. hope it's not too hot...i should be sleeping, but i think the emergency i just took gave me a tenth wind..or something like that. fuck it. i'm going shopping now. Need clothes for Vegas....Christle, if you ever read this, just remember: Sandy Vagina! ha, cackle...Ciao Bella!

Theresa, don't talk to strangers.........Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - Current mood: sick

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Wow, D Dubs and Ericcos b-day party was sooooooo much fun! So much fun that I left Lukas that night in quite a state with jacket lostand it's still lost. Ended up at across the street for the Wilson/Coppola afterparty and was back in my bed (across the street) sometime around 5 am that morning, waking up with a little hangover from Heathers bomb ass sangria....The Chow Nasty/Lovemakers show at Bimbos was a good time as usual cause of CN of course. Sorry to have missed CN at the Onion party, sounded like so much fun, but our Dee was nursing a bad cold. Got my hair did the other day by my sweetie Edwin, did a little shopping on Tgraph and ate some good, but messy (was in my car) naan and curry . Isis' baby shower was amazing. Great food, best collard greens I ever had, and super cool too cause they had a henna tattoo artist doing mendhi. I couldn't resist, got my hands done, traditional mendhi bands with floral and leaf motifs. I think it's so beautiful. It's really fucking cool, and I've always wanted to do it, so I'm super satisfied. Finally went to the tiki bar with Tee the other night. I LOVE it!!! Reminds me of Disneyland inside, really cool. Was bummed that they dont serve their drinks in pineapples, ( I had to ask cause there were rumors) but I guess like they say, if its too good to be true, it prolly is, right? They close at midnight, so we ended up at LW and then Juanitas. it was a long night, think I went to bed around 4am, but so much fun, and just great to be able to kick it with Tee before she runs off to the Azors(think thats how you spell it).BBQ b-day party yesterday with the family and was stood up as I typed this cause I ate way too damn much. ribs, sliders, potato salad, green salad, chicken, bratwurst, empanadas, chow mein, deviled eggs, chips dip salsa, fried bananas, ice creamand had a night cap of some more of it about 30 minutes ago.met one writing deadline, working on another and am totally sick now, knew Dee's cold would eventually get me and busy doing my usual busy things like cleaning my house that never gets clean.Watched Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russel one of course) the other night to unwind, one of the Kwan favorites. Funny cause I think us children all sorta turned out like her: Eccentric. Can you imagine, one day I'll be someone's auntie! Hope the kid has earmuffs.

i heart japanese chins....i heart the dee...i heart fun...i heart mis amigos(as) ......i heart....Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - Current mood: giggly

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The past couple weeks have been a little crazyShadowplay at the Stud on Cinco de Mayo with Jennie and her crew, the Alameda Point Antique Fair to visit Misscrewers, Liz and Alice, with Joey and Dee such a hoot.oh brother, and sister, such good times with these two! why did I find two pieces of kettle corn in my bra when I came home that day? And visiting the chow nasty house, always a pleasure of course, and witnessing funny human habits of staring into space at a computer when nothing but music is playing on it. guess you had to be there...Sounded really, really good though! Went to a Giants game with work last weeknot really into sports, but into sports arena food, but damn, with all the Barry Bonds commotion, that was the best and most exciting baseball game I ever went to thats for sureand the bratwurst was so good that day. yum! Lots of familia activities for Mums day and Ive decided my sister is at the top of my favorites list right now for taking phone pics of a Japanese Chin doggie for me in the Castro yesterday. Youre the best! I love you! Mwah! : ) writing stuff and doing more other stuff. Super excited about the D Dubs and an Erri-cos b-day party!!! And Errico, sorry about almost running you over the other day. You know I cant drive! Yes, chow nasty is right. This is gonna be a fun week!!!

Pretty weather & cabin FEVER & DANCE fervor!!!! - Wednesday, May 03, 2006 - Current mood: mischievous

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Been diligently writing, since last week, I swear! Working on the sephora assignment and some others. And in between, had drinks in the Mission at Casanova with Jennie and Kim, and a good time hanging out with the posse after. Sad me and Kim missed the dancing, if only Bart ran all night like the subwaywas great fun nevertheless, then shopping with Dee and Trang downtown on a hot sunny day in wine velour (common sense, where? Not here for sure!) then House of PR and Ladytron show with Derek. Fun, but silly me, forgot my IDthen Misscrew dinner at Gabriellas with the lovely ladies of the misscrew. So much fun, an abundance of mimosas, such good food, and good company of course! The ladies are so cool. I feel really lucky to know them! More writing and some serious thrifting. Two pairs of glasses, a fox? stole, 3 pairs pants, 3 jackets, a vest, a shirt, 3 bracelets, and a barrette, and a really, super duper cool vintage Levis velour track suit. Im in love. Its red, white, and blue. Really fucking cool. I feel uber Japanese-ee in it. So its been a pretty good week and this week I just have to focus on meeting my writing deadlines. All work and no play makes Michelley a dullboy. Or a more like a cranky girl!!! But i'm super excited about this good looking weather!!! Been feeling all beachy lately. My god, see what the rain did to me!! I'm totally out of line....

happy easter...and just happy to be here! - Sunday, April 16, 2006 - Current mood: happy

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last night's party was so much fun. i shouldn't even be up this early, went to bed after 4am, and my stomach feels like I ingested battery acid (actually ingested la pinata), ouch, but happy its easter....Pump it up was awesome. No ball cages, but bounce house everythings and slides, and great i pod tunes. the best was when there were like 10 of us in the big circular bounce house (the one for boxing) singing Age of Consent while jumping., was quite a sight!..Then we got kicked out of that one cause there were too many people in it, but it was so much fun while it lasted Adrian broke the news to me that Flicka is leaving our little islandand the tired folks (cause jumping in those bounce house things is exhausting) ended up in shifts in the party room, then bounced on over to Saras and the LW for drinkys. Dee made red velvet cupcakes for the night, and I was so happy to find out that my friends actually do read my column! : )

So many good conversations last night. Lets see, I think the best was the sexually charged comment Zac made about Chow Nastys music, and somebody elses story about thinking they were preggers via immaculate conception, hilarious!! So before all this madness had an incredibly productive and busy week. So no PR internship, launch of misscew.com (amazing response) and waiting on certain editorial projectsvery exciting to say the least. Hung out with Jesses and Kim from Surface the other day and had a blast and went to Popscene on thursday, saw a funny smiths/Morrissey coverband there and danced my ass off with Brandan, Christian, Sara, Dee, Ieda, and Michael. So much fun there with the right people! Can always count on them to play the stones paint it black, so awesome to dance to and was pleasantly surprised by Supergrass We are Young. Was a very successful dancing night, paid for it Friday at work (left at 2am, got home at 4am due to bridge traffic), but not as bad as Christian did Im sure (he was double fisting at one point!). And I think now, there are like 30 pics floating around of different folks at different times wearing my new crazy vintageDior Stunna shadeswould be funny to make a book of these!! Got confused about Dean and Renes party for the girls (typical of me) and missed it againA really long but superbly fun week. One of the best weeks Ive had in a couple years. So Happy Easter Everybody, hope the easter bunny brings something delicious today and some nice weather! All smiles and morning indigestion! : )

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So excited! Have spotted 2 pics on the internet with the glasses so far!!!!
Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 5:29 PM

ADD & Writer's block......Saturday, April 08, 2006 - Current mood: working

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I swear, life just gets crazier!! Busy week, dinner with Eric and then Drinks with Jenny, Darrel, and Matt at the LW on wed....Nice to see Eric since it's been like almost six months. Hadn't seen him since that day he bought his Prowler, and he's doing some very exciting things right now. Great creative exchange and totally inspirational! So I should be doing top secret job related stuff , which I can probably reveal after next week, (and M.Editrix too, yikes!) and totally have real writer's block in the meantime. Such a pity. Times like this are when I wished I still smoked cigarrettes. I could be curled up in my bathrobe in bed with a smoke and my computer and the Babette and just think..........how smelly the cigarrette would make my house, ick. bad thought...and I have way too many shoes. I wish I had more space for them, they are taking over my life, but they are so damn cute, I just can't bear the thought of giving them up! I should have gone out, but I have a small sore throat. damn. I am having one of those nights....watch the Queens of comedy and manicure or work? put away the shoes blocking the path from my kitchen to bed to my bathroom, surely a fire hazard, or keep rambling on the internet? Download more music on my sister's computer or take some meds and go to sleep? Will it rain tomorrow? Will there be a Laney College flea market? Work, work, work. Why didn't our parents tell us that life is work. hard work is life. fulll of drama and lots of strife. alas, I am spent, and there I go and then I went.
I'm going to read Edward Gorey now!!! : ) Really i am, Ciao!

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I did read edward gorey that night then fell fast asleep. Recommend the story: The Pornographic Couch, very, very silly and funny illustrations!
I manicured and watched the Queens of Comedy last night, and now I know about the hula hooping joke...haven't laughed so hard in such a long time. yes, i totally need to watch stand up more for sure...
It did not rain sunday, but there was no Laney College flea Market cause there was an Easter Carnival, don't worry dear, we'll get the glasses and homemade churros another day!!
i did download a bunch of music on my sister's computer while she was in colorado, some old skool oaktown 357, (see dj babette's page) and some new yeah yeah yeahs and remixes, and new stereo total, and some other random stuff..anybody have that gang of four "man in a uniform" mixed by the yeah, yeah, yeahs, it's like impossible to find to download?!!!
...and my shoes are still strewn all over my floor, although i managed to move 2 pairs of boots and 2 pumps over the the floor by my closet in the living room.
..still not put away though...an my throat still hurts kinda...

Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 10:19 PM

april fool.....Saturday, April 01, 2006 - Current mood: happy

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OMG! How can it be April this weekend already? And so crazy already too for that matter!!! Dinner and drinks with Monique the other night was a blast and it was sooo good to see her! I Swear we turn 15 again when we're together. Love it!! And I love catching up with the folks and discussing all sorts of potential advice column subjects! The Chow Nasty show at Du Nord was awesome, then drinks at the Transfer, and finally dinner at Sparky's and then hung out at the Chow Nasty house in Emeryville for a bit. Had a funny conversation with Zack about health and exercise, and excess. Maybe we'll all learn our lessons somedayand I swear, me and Eddy really are the same person sometimes."he looked ummm sober, yeah" so funny!!! Was really nice seeing everyone last night! : ) So I'm off to the O'Reilly's Oyster Festival today, and cupcake party at Carlo's tomorrow. Really excited about this cause I'm making red velvet ones and his and Rebecca's parties are always so much fun!!!! So happy it's spring! Oh shoot, what am I wearing todaySuch big decisions!!! : ) and I'll have to make sure to beware of those darn tricky ones! ; )

too goth for my own good...Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - Current mood: thirsty

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Last weekend's dinner party with Sophie and Jesses was a lot of fun. Incredible food and conversation, lots of champagne, got my wish afterall......An insane week. Bowled a 30. Got to see Eddy, my cosmic twin, which is always a good time, who always does an AMAZING job on my hair at Sole in Berkeley on College Ave. Drinks at Lost Weekend last night...and lost it!! Oh funny times, but I do feel really bad for the other party involved...sorry about that total lunacy. Well, I'll have a great biography someday... The things I do...Oh and M.Editrix is doing well, and has been kept very busy by the curious and confused. So onto another week...

end of an era..............Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - Current mood: giggly

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had three drinks, a nice buzz, yess,..a Wish...dinner no, a good week yes, a good happy hour yes, things are good...the Babette is hungry, and so hold on ------ best conversation tonight with my newest best friend, and new projects, and magazine events to attend, and shows and events ito attend in costume or not...I believe in Depeche Mode, do you? You should. I had Dave sign my arm in 2003 or 2004 I think...He looked tired and small, but full of perk, and enjoys himself ---that's what's important, right? Food is sooooooooo good. so is life. Good fortunes and fun and food. Happy Wednesday.....

dangerous...Sunday, March 12, 2006 - Current mood: awake

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Holy Hell, Slightly intoxicated, 3:osomething in then morning...just ate mole. yummy. trying to decide my future plans....So many things, engagements, plans, before next time this week. Guess i only get religious and type slow at these times...I better pray for what seems nice.....So I smell like cigarettes and a pretty french perfume.. so 2004...I don't smoke, but sure miss it sometimes! Slightly poetic and kinda sad. At least I can appreciate the randomness in this state.....no tinted glasses tonight. In my pimp gear. Gold vintage..jewelry, and jewelry and rings to welcome admiration and juicy couture product development to thank for free...322 am and I will sleep prolly for like 3 hours cause insomnia enues cause I revel in thinking.....next week will be fun, bu then again I make sure all my weeks are fun with hard work!!!!!!! ; ) 3:31 am - M.Editrix wll give me shit for this in the morn, so feel lucky if you got to read this in its pure, unedited, sober state...it's reallyt fucking co9old in velour sweatsuit without chanel earmuffs. I swear, what was I thinking tonigt!!!! The bed and the Babette await...hot. literally.

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Well, I wacthed my drinks last night. Didn't get drugged at least. and I slept like a baby for 7 hours....
Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 8:57 PM

SUCCUBUS - In folklore, a female demon thought to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men. - Thursday, February 16, 2006 - Current mood: silly

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INCUBUS - A spirit or demon thought in medieval times to lie on sleeping persons, especially women, with whom it sought sexual intercourse. SUCCUBUS - In folklore, a female demon thought to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men. I LOVE THIS SONG ON MY PROFILE. ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES. HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE SINGING ABOUT…I'M SURE IT'S WHOLESOME IN ALL ITS GOTHY GLORY THOUGH!! Does this make any sense?!!?? ; )

The rollerderby match was really fun, although we had no idea what was going on, I could gather in my downed PBR state that the girls skate in a circle and chase their opponents and sorta knock them around to get points…I do know the burrito before was so tasty, (the tasty part - that's for Joe – eventhough I know he'll never read this in Chile).

Had drinks with Dee, Christle, &Wan Shen at Lost weekend last weekend, boy, the things you find out from random inebriated guys you went to high school with….Pizza BBQ at Carlo's Sunday - so much fun, really, really good pizza, stiff cocktails, scary palm tree raccoons, and a trampoline = good times. Yesterday had an interview with Tom Hartle, publisher of 7x7 magazine and Tim W., head of Hartle Media's production dept., and after had drinks with Jessica at the Westin St. Francis hotel bar and at a nearby strange, but friendly Irish pub that had a hof brau inside…Going to Vivienne Westwood and Heatherette fashion show with Jessie Fashionista and Jennie Saturday night, supposed to have drinks with Jenny and Darrel tomorrow at Lost Weekend. Got bit twice at work the other day, god damn it, but got a Thai massage too!!! Fell in love, but resisted, with a purty Valentino bag my flea market handbag hookup has and had the best churro of my life there last weekend : )

Things aren't so bad. Would be really nice if I get this job. Feel like going dancing too. It's been too long, well guess 4 weeks is long enough for me….Heard the Hush, Hush just reopened, wonder if it is any good. Used to be so much fun!!! The DJs need to play some Sparks for Christ's sake and ANYTHING remixed by Outhud, okaaaaay!!! Excited cause spring is getting nearer, which means, SF festival time is approaching, staring with the O'Reilly's Oyster festival in April (gosh, this will be our third year), and all the other mad fun SF festivals thereafter…..Spring makes me so excited!!! Oh my god, the idea of wearing skirts and dresses and light weight fabrics soon, yes, it's the texture, the lightness of fabric, oops oh my, yea….. ; )

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fuck...i wanna daaaaance
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 5:42 PM

Let them eat cake and steak - Sunday, January 22, 2006 - Current mood: cheerful

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Have spent the past couple weeks supporting my rockstar buddies. So the Chow Nasty video release party a couple weeks ago was incredibly fun until I came home and blacked out because some motherfucker decided to slip me GHB or a roofie. I woke up in a puddle of vomit that I have no recollection of creating and had to miss my hair appointment! Karma is a real bitch, so I'm sure that asshole will get his/hers somehow. Yes, I am really glad to be alive these days.. Saw Absinthe Academy the other night in Berkeley. Was a lot of fun, got to see my homies, and they were super awesome. My mom even came with us to show her love! Then had drinks the other night at good old Lost Weekend for Theresa's B-day topped off by La Pinata after of course. So wonderful to see my lovely friend Lee on his birthday a couple weeks back, and bought myself 5 pairs of shoes the other day and I finally, finally got a new wallet, a cute little peach w/silver hardware w/ pink topstitching Marc Jacobs number...Saw Memoirs of a Geisha, was okay, but I went into with low expectations. Think a Japanese director and cast would have been more appropriate! Saw the Chronicles of Narnia, cute and charming, but seemed a bit lacking in the special effects area...but absolutely loved the SNL Narnia video! Can't wait until Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" comes out. All I can say is that trailer was amazing. Think I died and went to heaven, New Order and 18th century France together! My God!! And then I realized the Power Exchange is up the block from the magazine. I knew that area had a lot of weird sexual energy in it! Oh yeah, and someone shit all over the entrance of the building on Wednesday and Thursday, Liz got into a car accident while we were talking on the phone, Thank god she is okay...So Happy Chinese New Year everyone! It's gonna be the year of the dog!

COMMENTS: Posted by on Monday, January 23, 2006 at 1:21 PM

That's crazy! You're lucky you were at home when you blacked out! Saw Geisha a couple of weeks ago. I didn't really have high expectations of it from the previews but I really liked the book. So whatever- saw it, didn't really think much of it. And then a couple of nights ago I was talking in my sleep and said to my husband: "You know, Memoirs of a Geisha really should have been a much better movie than it was. It had so much potential and they really didn't do the book justice." I then flopped back down on my pillow and went to sleep. He was confused, but I guess it's just about the most honest movie review anyone could give : )

Posted by on Monday, January 23, 2006 at 1:21 PM
Megan, I think you are the only sleeping movie critic that I have ever met! We should conduct an experiment, have you watch a ton of movies, and then see if you do it again! Love it!! ; )

Rainy November…ooops, just remembered that GnR song , oh well…Wednesday, November 09, 2005 - Current mood: busy

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Halloween was a lot of fun and a whole lotta work. Was Michael Jackson from Thriller and transformed the office into the set of the Thriller video. We did the “Thriller” dance for the Halloween contest judges and won $100 for the department. Good Shit. And Better shit is that we’ll get a third luncheon out of the pagan holiday. Gotta love big corporations for that reason…Then went over to the Fillmore to see Bauhaus. Was soooooooo fucking, fucking awesome. A 30 minute version of Bela Lugosi’s Dead! Sounded like they had a full orchestra accompanying them, but of course I couldn’t see a thing…did manage to see Peter Murphy in a vampire cape for a second though. Classic. Remember the Hunger? Oh yeah, I was an anime superhero…whatever that means. An excuse to wear something weird and gothy on Halloween without feeling like a freak…I was rather fond of my pink circle cheeks though. Been busy with the jobs, Enterprise (40 hours worth of work done in 24), Surface/Intersection (30 hours of work done in 14), clothing alterations (accurate and fair labor here) and tomorrow I’m helping Liz style a fashion show at Valley Fair…Was a bridesmaid in one of my best friends’ wedding somewhere amidst all this...So I haven’t really gone out that much the past two weeks. My body keeps telling me “no, please no more!” but my id says “yes, please take me out now!” Being balanced is such a challenge, I swear!!!! Been spending loads of time on the tele. I’m sorta afraid to see what my cell phone bill will look like next month…and then I found out yesterday there will be no Surface Avant Guardian party in San Francisco cause Lexus did not think it was viable here. Sucks for Lexus. See if I ever buy one of their hoopty cars…anyhow, I’d much rather have an old, curvy benz with a driver. God, having a chauffer would be so rad….The Chauffer, now that’s a video! I heart Duran Duran and Barbarella too…

You’re not on the list…..Thursday, October 06, 2005 - Current mood: dorky

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So I’ve officially been an intern at Surface magazine now for 8 working days…It’s a very high stress environment, but pretty cool and I’ve learned more there in the past 8 days than I have at Enterprise in the past 3 years…The other four interns quit, so I’m basically going to be doing all the work until they get some more...Worked the guestlist of the G-Star store opening party that the magazine was sponsoring a couple weeks ago. Open bar, free appetizers, Dan the Automator was DJing, so it wasn’t too shabby, except that I had to turn away tons of very excited looking people that weren’t on the list, so I felt totally bad…Ended up at Popscene that night for the first time in ages, and felt really, really old. Liz, Theresa, and I were gonna hit up the Benetton party last week, but plans for that one didn't quite work out, and I heard there was no food! Such a shame...Then was supposed to go to the D-Zine party (new Italian furniture store in SF) the magazine was sponsoring tonight (pretty exclusive, by invitation only), food by Chaya, free sushi, and drinks by Bombay Sapphire, but the logistics and the planning just weren’t in my cards tonight either I guess. Watched a bootleg copy of the Corpse Bride. It was very sweet, in that Tim Burton Way. I liked it, what can I say, I'm an ex-goth, so I course I like all his stuff....The sewing/alterations business has been going well, so I’m very happy about that, and I’m very impressed with my hangbag dealer from the Laney College flea market. He just called me tonight to tell me he got a new shipment of Chloe bags…so awesome, fucking rad customer service skills, right? But what I really want is a new wallet, so if it’s not the black Chloe Paddington wallet to match my bag, or a Marc Jacobs, or Gucci, then he’s just gonna have to wait, since they’re not on the list…I’m going to eat a truffle now.

Abuse of the baby coconuts....Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - Current mood: sick

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Hung out with Kira two Saturdays ago. She had been in town from New York to surprise her Dad for his birthday. Such a good daughter… Did some light shopping downtown and both Kira and I got suckered into buying a bunch of pore shrinkage products from a very nice Clinque lady, who absolutely loved the fact that I have the same name as a sports celebrity. She even hooked us up with free eyeliners. Bless her heart! Let’s hope the pore shrinkage products work. How wonderful, kegel exercises for pores in a tube sans the work…Oh and thank god I don’t have some fucked up name like, that other ice skater, Tanya Harding. Ick!

After shopping, we met up with Lia and her friends Umbi and Brian for drinks on Haight St. and then had dinner at Blue Plate. All I have to say is that you must try their pork belly BLT, so delicious and decadent. Yum! Then we were off to Lia’s new bar, the Shamrock, where Kira proceeded to film us discussing relationships for her latest project, Alpha-girls.com, where she has a live documentary style blog…Had an absolutely outrageous cab ride home from a Tunisian rocking out to Egyptian pop. It’s kinda scary when you’re in deep fog and your cabbie is not using his hands to steer cause he’s too busy clapping to Egyptian beats…Fun and entertaining nevertheless…

So Kira’s boy Ryan is doing very well. His Shopdropping project is getting national exposure, Cnn.com just wrote an article about it http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/19/news/funny/shopdropping/index.htm and the New York Times just interviewed him as well. So in a nutshell, he purchases canned good, takes the labels off, replaces them with his own artwork, reapplies the barcodes, and then he and Kira sneak them back into the stores to be resold. I think the idea is ingenious and I’m so happy for the success he’s had with it. You can even send him your own artwork to be applied to the canned goods.
He’s at Relasped.net

Applied to an internship for Surface Magazine’s fashion department. Then I spoke with their director and she told me they just moved it to New York last month and all they have here are not-so-great internships in ad sales. She said my info. looked good though and if I was thinking of relocating I should submit it to their New York office…..tempting, but definitely not ready to move yet…Also waiting to interview for another position at Conde Nast, it’ll be my third time going through this process with them, but maybe I’ll have better luck this time around…Bought some really, really hot black platforms boots from the 70’s from my girl Liz…I love them! They are so fucking sexy and they actually go over the knee…That Liz, what a girl! She is so cute and sweet and awesome, and tall too. She’d be a great model. Some cute, nice, tall boy should make her his muse. It’s so wonderful to have a close friend who is a vintage clothing/accessory wholesaler…It’s like having a personal shopper. My friends rock! And are really just amazing people!

Last Friday was a lot of fun. Went to 33 Grand with my sis to check out an art installation Joey had there. It was really cool. A bunch of tires glued together and stacked onto each other in florescent colors on a bed of popcorn. So awesome! He told me that Chow Nasty is gonna film their first video and that the people who do the Volkswagen commercials are gonna produce it, and that he wants me involved with the styling, so I’ve been stoked and brainstorming on their new “look” which I’m totally excited about. Then me and Dee met up with Brandan and Lee to hear the White Stripes from the back of the Greek theater at the “free spot”. They sounded amazing. Too bad I couldn’t actually see them. And the free spot had all this security, it was like Footloose back there, all tense and quiet, with cops no dancing allowed…After the show we ended up having pitchers of beer with the college kids at the International House and I got to bond with my boys…They’re all going to 84 on Thursday with my sister and I was planning on joining them, but I came down with the flu on Sunday, so it’s probably not the best idea…I’m supposed to go to Tahoe on Friday with work too, but I probably won’t go if I’m still sick…

Been eating baby coconuts for the past two weeks cause they’ve been on sale at Albertson’s…It’s so funny cause me and Dee will split one when we get home from work and she has this special cutting technique with the cleaver to make the first hole to get the juice out of and then I cut it in half …and my Dad has a fit if we eat them late at night cause cutting them open makes so much noise, since my parents live nextdoor…I think it’s hysterical! I just cut one open outside a little while ago and probably looked like a lunatic in the dark with a huge meat cleaver hacking away at a coconut…I don’t think my behavior shocks my neighbors anymore though…I think the funniest for them was a few winters back when I would jump rope with my ski mask on…

Zen-ing Out - Thursday, August 04, 2005 - Current mood: happy

2007-04-14T23:36:00.000-07:00

Been doing the Zen master thing for the past month...trying to simplify my life, regroup reassess, and get plans B, C, D, etc. ready…..Interviewed and was rejected a second time by Conde Nast publications. The position was for an assistant to the SF corporate director (she used to work at Vogue in NY) and to the Sales Manager for Self Magazine. Surprisingly, I was actually only mildly disappointed when I found out they picked another candidate. I figured that so many other people applying for this position had more experience than me…Oh well, I’m sure I’ll land a a job that is decent and desirable eventually, especially since I’ve been actively applying to them for a year and a half now….. I really do appreciate the fact that I am employed, I know things could be a lot worse…Went to a few shows: The Lovemakers/ Chow Nasty (to support Joey and the Boys) and Outhud at Lobot, then ended up at a Chic Chic Chic/ Chow Nasty free show last night at Mezzanine after a very disappointing Hotel des Arts opening. I think we got there too late and so the hotel was starting to close the rooms to the public. So sad cause the one in May was so much fun...: (

So my birthday party was very fun and I think I only had six of the numerous drinks bought for me. Now that I’m almost thirty and I’m a recovering ulcer patient, I just can’t put them down like I used to..although I did somehow managed to drink 16 oz. of vodka at a party in July??….Saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I thought it was so cool and psychedelic. I was on visual overload that’s for sure. If this had come out when I was a teenager I would have been all over some hits of acid before the movie…oh, the good old days…..God, I’m such a closet hippie…oh yes, and participated in an overwhelming amount of family related functions. Got a hair cut and color. I’m now a light chestnut brown with blended blonde streaks. Eddy does such a wonderful job. He really is the best!

But the best best though was the Chloe Paddington bag (so real, the Nordstrom tags were still on it!!!) bag I bought at the Laney College flea market. It was like a total drug deal. I brought my pusherman the cash and he delivered the bag to me at starbucks in Alameda. And apparently the bags had to be escorted by security when they were being dropped off to stores in England (according to Theresa) because they are so highly coveted. It's so rad!! It even has its own article in Vogue, which proclaimed the brown one to be the "It" bag for Spring 05. It was pretty sick how good I felt after I bought it. The adrenaline rush from these kinds of deals feels so good! It make me feel a little dirr-tay! I love it!!!!

So plans B, C, D, etc. I’m not quite sure yet as to they will entail, but I would like to quit my job, do an internship at a magazine here, and live off of the profit sharing money/unused vacation time /credit card/part-time job, until I am able to get a full-time job in the industry. Or Conde Nast can call be back to interview for another position in their sales office and pick me this next time.
We shall see. I suppose I just have to remain patient and optimistic, and keep working at it, and to make sure to have fun all the while. Guess that’s life in a nutshell. Damn, spoken like a true Zen Master...You see, the Zen-ing out is really working...

@rt attack!!! - Monday, May 02, 2005 - Current mood: peaceful

2007-04-14T23:35:00.004-07:00

The past few months have been so hectic. Spent most of February working on my portfolio for Cosmic Debris, the company that makes the Emily the Strange stuff, and was able to get an interview with them though Liz and my aunt. Internally they are kinda whack, so that was that, and it ended up being better for my sanity in the long-run, so I was told by quite a few…Then I interviewed via referral from my cousin’s fiancé and was in the top two for an Advertising Coordinator position for Conde Nast for Vanity Fair and Allure, but was beat out by an internal candidate. I was crushed as you can imagine, since I’ve been dying to get into Conde Nast since last year. Luckily, I made buds with some of the people at the company, so hopefully they will keep me in mind if anything opens up. So I’ve basically been busy job-hunting and just hanging out. Within the past 4 months, I quit smoking, gained a few pounds as a result, got a new haircut – auburn still, but with sorta thick layered bangs, got a really bad cold, and was on the Atkins diet for two weeks. Thank God that is over! And purchased a small “lateral” stepping exercise machine. Oh yes, and got some new Chanel glasses too. And the Oyster Festival. Oh my gosh, it was sooo much fun and so good to see Wes, and Steve, and Patrick, the ol’skool airforce clan. It was a really, happy, fun, good time. : ) Takes me back to what feels like another lifetime…guiness and dollar oysters, mummm, so good! Went to so many art shows this month. Let’s see, there was:Hotel de Arts - it was very cool and there was an open bar and appetizers! The hotel commissions artists to paint and decorate the rooms. Lots of different types of artwork from graff to whimsical, to psychedelic/black light stuff. Brandon and I will have to definitely stay there one night.First Try - Warehouse in Potrero Hill. Dean had a photography piece and Danny had one of his character pieces there. Lots of different and interesting types of artwork. My favorite, and Liz and Danny will agree I'm sure, was the Dr. Phil/sumo wrestler/illuminated designer, like bling, bling piece. The Labyrinth at Lobot - I think it's the coolest interactive installation I've seen in the Bay Area yet. Mostly done by Eric Groff, who is so nice and just amazing. Really is a labyrinth sans David Bowie - strange, kinda eerie, but uber cool, lots of secret rooms and passageways, and dangerous. You even have to sign a waiver before going in! Saw Bruce Lynn there. Funny cause I was in the Labyrinth and someone was complaining that they got bong water spilt on them and it turned out to be Bruce, which reminds me to go check out some of his photos at the Port of Oakland office/gallery. Friday, art show and Battle Ax at Club 6. Just let me say this: The Atkins diet doesn't quite agree with alcohol. Had drinks with Jenny and Darrel and Matt at Lost Weekend on saturday. It was good to see them. It's been too long since we've all gotten to hang out at the bar together. Last week, Elle called me, and then didn't return my phone calls.... then I applied to for an Advertising Coordinator for AOL’s media sites, and tonight applied to jobs at PaperCity and Surface magazines. In the process of writing letters to find local fashionista mentors (surprise, suprise, and thank god some important fashion people do live in the Bay Area). Now let’s just hope they give me the time of day. I’m feeling pretty happy right now and am trying to just “go” with this limbo period in my job life. Thanks Joe. The heart to heart worked! I guess it’s not so bad right now. Well, at least I am employed, and have the luxury of having money come in as I look for another job that is more relevant to my career interests. Also, read “It”, a book on how to become famous and successful by New York gossip columnist, Paula Froelich and am almost done with a bio on Anna Wintour, the chilly Editor in Chief of Vogue, whose job I’d like to have someday.

I heart skirts - Sunday, January 02, 2005

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I'm so happy it's a new year! I've been so busy since Thanksgiving. It's like that for me every year, and I guess I should be used to it by now. I'm just glad the hustle and bustle is over with for a few months. Oh yes, then my wallet got stolen a few days before Christmas, so I've constantly been on the phone trying to get my credit and bank account straightened out. Yep, they managed to clear out my checking account and buy thousands of dollars worth of merchandise on my behalf. Guess they had a good Christmas, but I'm a firm believer in karma. Maybe they'll have a really bad allergic reaction to one of the 20 bottles of men's cologne I bought them at Macy's, who knows. I do know that Karma will kick your ass eventually though.I had a really nice Christmas with the family, got some really cool gifts, but the best part was just being able to hang out with everyone and being able to catch up with old friends. Went to Radio thursday to see Brandon DJ at Riff Raff and had a lot of fun with him on New Year's Eve at the Cellspace party. Too bad it was raining that night, I wanted to wear a skirt and open toed shoes with my fushia sequinced bolero sweater, but had to make do with pants and boots. Oh well, what can you do when the weather has its own agenda? So my new thing is skirts. Sounds weird, but since I haven't worn them in years, I'm just fascinated by them these days. The sad thing is though, I only have like 3 of them. Guess it's a reason to get some more. Must have more skirts!I still have the annoying cough I picked up about a month ago, and so hopefully it will run its course soon. I had these fake nails put on the other day, you know, long and pointy merlot colored, the scary kind from some old film noir movie. They're so cool, but really make it hard to type, so I think I'm gonna have to cut them down tomorrow so I can work. And my hair! I'm so tired of this amber color, and was thinking of going back to black, cause you know, you never go back ; ) but I haven't been inspired by anything quite yet, so I guess I'll wait for that divine moment of inspiration.But really, looking back, so many catatrosphic things have happened in 2004. It's so crazy how these events just open your eyes, and make you not take life for granted. Those poor boys in Iraq and the people affected by the tsunami. My heart really goes out to them. I know what it's like to have someone you love taken away by the sea. She's just so merciless sometimes. Makes you realize how precious life is. So this year I'm determined to work on my 26 year-old life; to make the job hunt pay off, and to maintain good health and a postive outlook, and to get more skirts, not bite my fake ass nails, and to be nice to my boyfriend (cause I always am). I think 2005 is going to be a good year.

I heart skirts - Sunday, January 02, 2005

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Holiday in Cold Ass Alameda! - Monday, December 06, 2004

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The past couple weeks have been sooo crazy! Did the Thanksgiving celebration with both sides of the fam and then went to 1984 with Dee, Christle, and Wan Shen. Then shopped like a madwoman the following 3 days. This past saturday went with my mom to buy a nice realiable Toyota Corolla, then Brandon and I stopped by his lil bro's house for a little get-together in the Loin, then went to Lobot, then checked out the hip hop party/art show at his place with Nolan and Therese. Sunday went to the antique fair with my sister at the Alameda naval base, then went back to the Noodle Factory, where Brandon was showing his work for his thesis, then we watched Kiss Me Deadly, which was kinda slow at the beginning, but had a great ending. Been nursing a cold since last friday and still have lots of Christmas shopping to do, and I know this month is only gonna get more insane! Don't you just love the holidays?!!!

Thank god everyday is NOT Halloween! - Thursday, November 04, 2004

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Thank god Halloween is over!!! What a crazy week! The madness all started at work. Each year the different departments have a Halloween costume theme and compete against eachother for a free luncheon. It looked like our department wasn't going to partake in the Halloween frenzy, but last minute I came up with the idea to have the department dress up as characters from Pac Man. So we bought sheets to be ghosts, some people dressed up as fruit, we had a Pac man and a Mrs. Pac Man, and we used paper plates on the floor leading into people's cubes to look like the maze in the game, and had the music from the game playing in the background. I made a Pac Man poster and coin slot/ joy stick to turn our front door into the arcade video game. It ended up being really fucking cool, but we lost to the Egyptians, who included Cleopatra, a Pharoah, and a cube turned pyramid with real sand. Then Isis had her Dia de los Muertos party on saturday, and I found myself at her house on thursday making sugar skulls for 4 hours, and then saturday preparing the icing to decorate the skulls for another 4 hours. The party was great, i decorated 2 sugar skulls and a hand mirror, and the food was amazing, but I was so tired since I had only slept three hours that day...On Friday Brandon and I went to a wharehourse party on San Pablo, which was a lot of fun, but very tiring. We dressed up as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. The Protection and the Lovemakers both played, were really good, and Brandon DJ'd. Sunday we were at Radio for a bit and then headed over to New Wave City's Halloween party, which was okay, but we were so tired from everything that we went home around 1:45am. So I voted on tuesday, and now it's thursday and i'm starting to finally shake off the depression from the whole presidential election fiasco. And to top everything off, been having computer/cell phone/ microwave problems this week, and missed a e-mail from Elle magazine (got it about 2 weeks late!!) stating their interest in me. Hopefully it's not to late and the position is still open.Now I'm off to have drinks with Donna and feeling pretty damn good!

the normal - Tuesday, October 19, 2004

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Whew, I barely survived the ulcer. I've been seriously out of commission for the past 2 weeks. I finished my medication on saturday, so I'm slowly getting back to normal. Have had to make quite a few lifestyle adjustments though. Okay, let's see, no more caffeine, no more heavy meats, no more red sauces, citrus or dairy, etc., etc. My George Foreman grill has never gotten such a work out until now, and I can't tell you how sick I am of chicken. Despite the ulcer, hung out with Wes and Veronica on friday and saturday, which was a lot of fun. It was really just wonderful seeing them and Steve, so many memories, good and sad all at the same time... Saturday night went to 21 Grand for their last show with Brandon, and have been battling internet/computer problems up until a few minutes ago (something corrupted all my internet desktop shortcuts). I'm just happy I don't have to take those horrible meds anymore and my internet connection is working. I guess I am easy to please....sometimes. ; )

it's an ulcer! - Wednesday, October 06, 2004

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I'm heavily medicated with antibiotics. Turns out I have an ulcer. Before taking my meds, I had drinks with Theresa at Lost weekend on friday...which was a very interesting night as I'm sure Theresa will agree; ) So saturday, I started taking the dreaded antibiotics, which consist of 8 pills per day. They're causing me a lot of grief, and I'll be so happy when my two weeks of digestive hell is over with. Saw my spirtual counselor yesterday, who told me Elle magazine kept popping into her head during my reading. So I researched Elle all last night and today, found out they are owned by a publishing company called Hachette Filipacchi, who just posted an ad on craigslist today for an advertising assistant in their SF office. A very strange coincidence I should say. but I'm stoked nevertheless, and applied for the position, and hopefully I'll get an interview with them. So at least the job hunt is looking up, and I know I'll feel much better all around once this ulcer thing is taken care of, which should be in 10 more days. I think I'll survive this one...

new season = new hair.....Wednesday, September 22, 2004

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Kira's visit was insane. We had planned on a nice peaceful day at Moss Beach...Iomi was late picking me up cause she went to help a friend whose car was broken into the night before in West O, I forgot my wallet at home, we kept driving in the wrong direction until Lea called us and told us Kira had to take her mom to the emergency room. While in plan purgatory, we waited in good old Hayward, where we were harassed by panhandlers and other riff raff at a stripmall. And then Iomi locked her keys in her car. Luckily there was a gas station/car wash nearby and the attendant helped get the keys out. So she dropped me off at home, and went to check on one of her East Bay Rat buddies who had been hit by a car driven by his friend the night before...Total weird drama on 9/11...Finally, we were all able to hook up for dinner at Bocce in North Beach that night with everyone and all was well...So last week was the official start of my sister's 23rd birthday celebration...On wednesday, the girls and I took her out to The Townhouse in Emeryville for dinner and friday was the big party at Adrian's. I wasn't planning on getting drunk wednesday, but the bartender at The Townhouse felt otherwise...Same story friday with Adrian's absolutely amazing sangria. The party was great! I contributed a carbonera pasta dish, and Lee and I were finally able to get our bonding time. We had the best conversation about the banned book section at his work, the B & N, and about our ongoing job searches. Got new hair on saturday. It's now chestnut brown with short Audrey Hepburnish bangs... Spent lots of time cleaning, and on the phone, little time going out. Starting reading the Da Vinci Code too. It's been a great book so far. Reads much faster than the Devil Wears Prada. God, looking back, that book was so poorly written. Reading it was like torture! So in all, it was a pretty constructive weekend. I for sure need more like these!!!

hot, hot, hot....Wednesday, September 08, 2004

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What a week! Was so great to have a three day weekend. Spent most of last week brushing up on my interviewing skills as I was fortunate enough to get a phone interview with Conde Nast Publications (publisher of Vogue, Allure, The New Yorker, etc.) last thursday. The job is for an advertising assistant in their SF office. Now, I just have to wait for a position to open up so I can move on to phase II of the interviewing process. This is so my ideal job. I get sooooo excited just thinking about working for a publishing mogul in a beautiful location (it's on the embarcadero). I hope somehow that this is the "one". Who knows, maybe resume 20 will have some lucky results... Besides my job obsession, had drinks with Jenny, Darrel, Ruben, and Matt on saturday night and went to a family BBQ on sunday. The heat has been quite a physical and mental challenge for me and "The Babette", so we've been spending most of our time just sorta lounging about the house trying to do as little physical activity as possible. Been able to catch up on a lot of missed sleep because of it. Brandon's back from Burning Man and Kira and Ryan are flying in from New York on friday, so it's a good thing I've been able to get a lot of rest cause I know this weekend is going to be off the hook!!!!

camera obscura....Sunday, August 29, 2004

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Stoked cause I bought some new music today. Got the new Miss Kittin, a mix CD of various electronica songs selected Ladytron, & Scissor Sisters. Went to a rummage sale yesterday. Found a cool vintage handbag from the 80's (I love it! Looks like something right out of Naked Lunch), some slouchy beige suede boots, a crocheted shawl, and some jewelry. Then today at good old Target I decided to buy a new digital camera, since I broke mine a few weeks ago. Got a memory foam mattress topper as well, which is absolutely heavenly. Went to new Wave City last night with my cousin and Sophine. Quite an interesting night. A very nice guy visiting from Oregon offered his Nike discount to the 3 of us, and a very drunk girl offered her body to me and my cousin during a potty break. Was happy cause they played my favorite Front 242 song, "Don't Crash", which nobody plays anymore! So nostalgic, reminds me of the good old days at So What at Maritime Hall. Crappy Venue, but had the best music ever! So many memories there. The kick it booths, the Christian Death show which promised Rozz Williams. There was this very dramatic intro and then Valor jumped out on stage, everyone gasped in disbelief, and vacated the place to the club. So fucking funny! The Creatures show on Halloween 1999 when Christine was dating Anshuman and I had to sit in the back of his teeny ass sports car on top of a speaker, my ass in pain the entire way there and back...oh, such good times...and Thursday at Radio was crazy. Met Brandon's little brother visiting from Irvine who plans to move up her next month, Phil locked Brandon's keys in his car - so I had to call and wait for AAA with them, and I turned and drove for quite some time in the wrong direction from a one way street on the way home. Brandon is off to Burning Man w/ Phil, so for the next 9 days or so I'm gonna clean, clean, clean, organize, and portfolio! Sent out resume 20 to Conde Nast Publications for an advertising assistant, which is pretty entry level, and good for me cause I have neither a degree nor work experience in advertising, which makes me the perfect candidate! Excited cause Kira and Ryan are visiting from New York in a couple weeks, and Wes is gonna bring Veronica out to A-town when she comes to visit from NY in October. Feeling good this week! Have new music, new accessories, and a new camera, but what I really want is a new job! Hopefully the wait won't be too long! They say good things come to those who wait, right?

beware of deep tissue massages! - Thursday, August 12, 2004

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So much for the birthday massage. Guess I had too many toxins stored in my body and I ended up with very realxed muscles and the worst summer cold...In the last couple weeks, saw Miss Kittin, who was absolutely adorable and really fucking good live, watched Brandon DJ at Radio, and went to my cousin's wedding. Been making a lot of progress on my design portfolio and am still on my Sex and the City kick. My health hasn't been the greatest, so I've been trying to take it easy, and just get stuff done around the house until I perk up. Hopefully the perking up part doesn't take too long....

26: 6 drinks, and injured foot, & 1massage later.....Friday, July 23, 2004

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July has been quite a month! Saw the "Beautiful Losers" exhibit at Yerba Buena Center with Brandon, which I really liked. Had lots of cool art inspired by that good old clean fun skater lifestyle. Was very nostalgic for me, brought me straight back to 1993, such fun times....Saw the first version of Napoleon Dynamite, so fucking hilarious, and have been fitting in episodes of the first season of Sex and the City here and there. Finally starting working on my design portfolio last week, which has been going really well, and am so grateful that I've somehow tapped into this amazing surge of creative energy that has been lacking for so long. Went to 1984 last night to celebrate my 26th b-day and got pretty intoxicated...had a good time with the homies except for the part when I decided to take my plastic porn shoes off and walk down the street barefoot. Somehow I managed to get a piece of glass lodged into the bottom of my left foot, and luckily Brandon and a very nice homeless man, who offered to cure the pain with pot and cocaine, took care of me. I declined the drugs of course, and opted for a # 15 at Jack In the Box instead. So for my birthday today, I treated myself to an hour massage and now I feel absolutely incredible! Life really isn't too bad.

the simple life - Monday, July 05, 2004

2007-04-14T23:28:00.001-07:00

Went to the Art Deco exhibit at the Legion of Honor today. Saw some cool stuff from the 20's and 30's. Thought the exhibition would include more pieces, so I was a bit disappointed, but it was pretty cool seeing authentic Paul Poiret cloth samples and Chanel, Vionnet, and Jean Patou evening gowns from that time period...which I had only seen in fashion books before today. The Cartier jewelry was pretty nice too. Those Art Deco folks, now they really knew the meaning of BLING!!! My favorite piece though was the carved silver canopy bed with silver velvet bedding. It was breathtaking! One day I'm going to get me one of them and an opuim den (off topic, but I've always wanted one) to decorate with. The electrocalsh warehouse party in West O was fun, but crazy, (electrical and band problems ruled the night) and Pink Saturday in the Castro was chaotic, so I spent this nice, extended weekend just kickin back and cleaning so I could rest and clear my mind. Finally finished reading "The Devil Wears Prada" tonight, which is poorly written, but a good, interesting, sneak peak into the fashion magazine industry...So at least this week at work will be a short one, the right side of my brain has been stimulated by art and bad literature, and my house is getting cleaner...Three very simple aspects of my life that make me a very happy and content person at the moment! : )