POETS LIKE BRIGHT THINGS like pictures of pills and ameobas and all sorts of things. which is perfect because that is what mark bibbins treated us to last night at the series. claudia rankine read amazing pertinent work and te dmathys read long poems which i have to salute him for since no one writes […]

RAYRAY does painting your living room wall electric day glo green and then freaking out the next day in janovic to the nice sales guy who after i asked if painting my wall day glo green was a metaphor for my life and did i always want bold things but then when they were actually […]

ON AND ON is what i wsihed erykah badu would have went on friday night. even after 2 and 1/2 hours of being totaly entranced and often speechless by her amazing performance, i could have listened for another hour, day week. fortunately this is what CD’s are for i suppose. that woman is the epitome […]

AUGUST hit the new restaurant of the same name in my ‘hood on bleecker street last night. food was fabulous, owner, laurence was the epitome of a gracious host, wine was perfect. reccomendations: sea bass and tarte tatin. mmmm. and its going to be a solarium in the back in the summer! can’t wait. the […]

CHAUSSEURES gosh i feel so francais today. tres bizarre. so i havent written a thing about shoes this week so i must make an observation. ladies: while it is warm out, unseasonably so, this does not mean that we wear flip flops and sandals (unless they are designer stiletto sandals and that is a different […]

PROCRASTINATION ROCKS yep. let’s see. orderign shelves from pottery barn. eating out at my favorite indian restaurant and the ever-present cleaning. oh yeah. love to clean when that cursor is blinking on my laptop. at least i am not making pear tarts. just yet.

PARADOU not to be confused with paradise, or even le paradou the sweet little town in provence, mais non, my pretties. paradou is that cute little find in meatpacking bereft of meatpacking attitude and full of the nicest people ever. syl and i knocked back a glass or two of a fabulous organic french wine […]

COUSIN GENEVIEVE WRITES IN “My fave shoes are a pair of silver strappy heels. I bought them in high school and wore them to five proms. I danced and kissed many a men in those shoes. I also kissed the man that I will kiss for the rest of life in those shoes as they […]