what are the chances?

one dining room, two dogs (irma here and ellie here), and two big cones...

katy's place

look what arrived in the mail yesterday, plush with tiny snickers and cocktail umbrellas. that annie is a keeper (you know what they say about friends who steal for you)!!

movie crush round 1: high school

one of my closest friends jenny moved here in may and i could not be happier. today i sent her this screengrab of my love blane, from pretty in pink...


she replied with adorable keith, from some kind of wonderful...


then hit me with smart, sensitive, bemused lane of better off dead...


so, i had to finish, for now, with the ultimate (sorry blane, i'll explain later) jake, from sixteen candles...

who will we sling next?

btw, this was all prompted by a work photo request for andrew mccarthy and an email about a sunday night showing of valley girl

and while we're at it, jenny and i have decided to up-the-old-school-scholastic-anti by embarking on a summer reading list of the secret history, followed by an even older favorite franny and zooey - i believe there is a male-oriented british blog that has suggested the same, based on a convo we had the last time i paid them a visit. let's all read them together.

summertime, you know what that means...

the kitties get their bad haircuts.
it's so bad, it's good.

annie get my mug

annie sent me this picture, courtesy of her cell phone, from chicago (i think). apparently the mug she is holding is from a restaurant in carmel, ca. i asked her to steal it for me...her reply: 'DONE!'

air mail

got a package in the mail a week ago from london.

when i was in my favorite store caravan style, i fell in love with these flying birds but was afraid they would break on my way home.

well they flew in via air mail and are now at home over my kitchen bar

and bed. a copy of emily's beautiful book table inspirations was also thrown in. yay!

Funky London Childhood

(pic: jason and mark in the garden, hackney rd)

day 4
millbank:
tate britain (pre-raphaelite heaven) **

shoreditch/hoxton:
murdock
spitalfields market: *
caravan style ** (owner emily wrote one of my favorite books)
sen
komodo *
brick lane:
junky styling *
stolen space gallery (word to your mother exhibit) **
al volo *

(pic: bush graffiti outside of shoreditch house)

day 4 (cont.)
hoxton/shoreditch (cont.):
cheshire street:
labour and wait **
hunters & gatheres *
mar mar co *
eve:
red lion pub *
cru
shoreditch house
the joiners arms

day 5
hoxton square:
cru
white cube gallery (matthew ritchie, ghost operator exhibit) **

(pic: notting hill)

day 5 (cont.)
notting hill:
portobello road market *
oxfam shop **
twenty8twelve *
tea palace *
carluccio's
toast *
agent provocateur
neal's yard

(pic: prudie relaxing on my london notes, echo park)

day 5 (cont.)
shoreditch:
tesco
today is boring **
eurovision --

day 6:
hoxton:
coffee me

heathrow:
harrods ;)