It’s a simple formula.  A sincere kiss makes the recipient smile.  It makes them happy.  It’s free, it’s pleasurable and it’s easy.   You can be straight, gay, bi, black, white, purple or green.  You can kiss your dog, your baby, your lover.  It’s all good.
So I set about finding some of the most poignant and [...]

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As long as I can remember, I have always had my eyes open for something new to add to my collection. Usually the types of places I hunt for valuable finds are in flea markets and in old out of the way pawn shops, antique warehouses and used book stores.
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Gwyneth Paltrow has just launched a new website called GOOP. From the description and categories (Make, Go, Get, Do, Be, and See) it looks like a design and living blog whose as of now blank pages will eventually be filled with Gwyneth’s picks.
From goop.com:
“Whether you want a good place to eat in London, [...]

My wonderful incredibly  hot friend, Lesly Bernard, has opened a fabulous new haunt in the East Village called Mr. Jones.  I still have fond memories of Clementine where cocktails were as good as mine back when I was mixing at Marions.  I just got word that Mr. Jones has received the coveted New York Times [...]

If you’re like me, you love a good dinner party – but you hate the actuality of putting it all together.  And with the country at the beginnings of a very-real recession, what better way to save money than by inviting good friends to your place, instead of going out to a restaurant – where [...]

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Watch Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live’s take on the Vice Presidential debates. I laughed so hard my ribs still hurt!
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Let me cut to the chase. The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken. Make no mistake about it: After stealing a half trillion dollars to line the pockets of their war-profiteering backers for the [...]

It goes on and on.  I remember the honorable McCain.  Who the man today is running for president is a pandering liar.  Karl Rove recently said – yes ROVE – that McCain is going too far in stretching the truth in his ads.  His vice-presidency pick is cynical – the only thing that Sarah Palin [...]

This summer was the beginning of a major overhaul of the backyard.  Basically we have a huge chunk of land about 1/4 of an acre that is woods.  Not nice woods – just scrub oaks that started out as suckers that took over.  Most of the trees are either hollow, rotting or just weak looking.  [...]

Adhering to the ‘hit-back’ policy that dictates his campaign strategy, Barack Obama released a response ad Monday evening, declaring the Republican ticket a group of wanna-be mavericks.
Titled “No Maverick,” the spot replays the Obama camp’s go-to “more of the same” message, only this time bringing Sarah Palin into the equation. There is even the obligatory [...]

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Here is a man that I believe will help us. Protect Us. Give us Health Care. Bring Jobs back to the United States. Undo all of the abysmal things that the last eight years of Bush/Cheney did to the American People. We have a chance, people. I don’t want [...]

$427 million. That’s what the oil and coal industries spent during the first half of 2008 on lobbying and advertising. They’re protecting their interests – and hurting ours.
This ad is running on TV right now, but we need millions more to see it. The special interests will outspend us, but we can compete head-to-head with [...]

I was lucky enough to have a babysitter on Saturday so I could visit my favorite hang-out, Ikea.  In addition to perusing kitchen cabinets for my upcoming gutting of my microscopic kitchen, I took some photos of some of my favorite pieces.
I really love the way Ikea creates the vignettes of actual spaces.  Some of [...]

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Only one Congressman had the personal courage and the profound respect for our Constitution to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and exercise his right and his responsibility to bring Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush – Ohio Representative Dennis J. Kucinich.
Now, Americans who cherish our Democracy and the Constitutional [...]

Standing before a room of oil company executives in June, John McCain flip-flopped and declared support for coastal oil drilling. Now the Washington Post is reporting that, within days, oil and gas execs ponied up nearly $1 million to elect McCain.1 It’s another piece of evidence that in a McCain White House, oil [...]

Barack Obama Music Video – Hope changes everything.
Get the Barack Obama Music Video at www.obamavideo08.com and upload it to your own YouTube account to show support for America’s rock star candidate.
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During the pillaging of the East Hampton beachhouse, I was able to get a MASSIVE wood frame that was going to end up in the dumpster.  I took the graphics that I made of my favorite rocker, Pete Doherty (Babyshambles, the Libertines, Kate Moss’ ex-boyfriend), and made a ginormous museum-quality poster out of it.  It’s [...]

It is hard to find the words to express what a fraudulent, pathetic excuse for an energy policy President Bush’s new plan is.
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A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation’s CEO hires a troubled hit man (Cusack), to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, [...]

"The web is the force behind the most important innovation in recent history. We should be empowering individuals and small businesses to succeed in this new medium to the greatest possible extent, not taxing innovation. Introducing taxes now will severely cripple the web’s growth at this critical stage of early development." As a [...]

This is going to sound morbid or obtuse, but I can succinctly sense that I am on the threshold of somehow leaving youth behind. You know, that number that solidifies your mid-life. I think for me, it was turning 42. It isn’t sad or scary. It’s simply true. I’m 42 [...]

Just found this and now I don’t know where, but I thought I’d share it… LOL. So I guess these towels are selling out, particularly for Digg users who seem to live online and not in life sometimes. Enjoy!

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So the other day, my good friend (and goddess), Jenna Minardi, asked me if I’d be interested in pillaging a Hamptons house’s goods since it was being torn down. The good-hearted owner was asking people to take what was in the house before demolition began.
Jenna never ceases to amaze me. Besides being an insanely beautiful [...]

I’m making my annual trip to Ikea on Thursday. This post is mainly to keep track of things I need to get. The first three items are a choice I have to make for my son’s little bedroom. Not sure which one to get — any suggestions? Please help me!
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Not only is IKEA infiltrating ICFF , now the furnishings giant will officially launch a collection of furniture for your Sims. When we dabbled in Sims2, our favorite part of the game was designing and furnishing homes for a digital family. The IKEA Home Stuff pack would have been a welcome addition to the available [...]

Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. So, naturally, I started looking through the photos. I was stunned by what I [...]

Here is my husband, Kurt Wenzel’s third and latest novel’s book jacket, Exposure: A Novel . I love it! Can you guess who it is? I won’t give it away in case you read it some day. But I just love the way Little, Brown & Co’s design team pulled this off. The squares [...]

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This was my favorite cover of all of the versions for my book, Behind Bars: The Straight-Up Tales of a Big-City Bartender . It really captured my experience as a bartender on the Bowery before the rich folks took over. They captured my old look, [...]