Goodsh*t: Thom Browne for the Ladies with the Champagnes

Photos courtesy of Jak & Jil

Thom Browne is one of my favorite designers EVER. With his Moncler Gamme Bleu collaboration sealing the deal. Pardon me while I camp out at Barney's until SS 2011.

How can I not love a man who rolls in formal shorts? Thank you Thom Browne, thank you.

Bullsh*t: The OVER-Stimulus Package

Now I know why I took a hiatus from all this glory: NOTHING NEW TO REPORT. The internets know what you're going to do before you even do it. Stalker. Everything has already been posted, plugged, plucked, purported! This is why I shut off Facebook, decreased my activity on certain sites and have been trying to read more books and enjoy some physical fitness and some letter writing and some phone calling.

I NEED SOME NEW SHIT.
(Give me a minute)

In the meantime, enjoy some old shit:

Cheeseball!

Before Erasure! Old.

Scissors. Old.

Kimchi. Old.

I was gunna post the oldest profession in the world, but my mom reads this.
Instead, Jerry Blank. Old.

Actually, according to the webz, ARCHITECTURE is the world's oldest profession.

Flatiron. Old.

Beer. Old.

The first Women's size 7. Real old.



Lanvin. Le old.

Goodsh*t: I Am Always In the Kitchen at Parties

It's closer to the booze.

Goodsh*t: Girly (i.e Obscure Watch-It-Nows On Netflix I Am Pretty Sure NO ONE Watches)

Follow Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly while they spelunk the wilds of random parks in London picking up homeless drunken blokes only to lure them back to their decrepit mansion for a deathly game of cat and mouse. If this movie is wrong, I don't wanna be right. These people are batshit, but I can truly appreciate Girly's school girl wardrobe of short dresses from Liberty of London. If I actually wore skirts and dresses I might base my whole look on this film alone. What's not to love? Huge silk flowers, headless dolls and dead bodies!

*While on netflix it's listed as a slasher film, this is not a gory movie. It's just freakin' weird!

HOLY SH*T!: I'm baaacckk!!

Seems I was on hiatus! Seems I was missed! It's back to school people!

After a bit of a bumpy summer, self reflection and some unwanted character building blah blah blah's I am back! I hope to truly not flake out this time and be able to provide constant entertainment during the workday and of course free pizza every friday!

What I Learned on My Summer Vacation
by Kaelea Ann Sim

1. Fire Island is my prom queen!
2. Communication is everything, it's true and it's hard.
3. Insects are waterproof and do not die when they get wet. (I have been under the assumption since grade school bugs disintegrate when water is applied.)
4. Eggs in Purgatory (Shakshuka) are good for my allergies.
5. I like to run, I like it so much I ran 162 miles.
6. Libations aren't as fun as they used to be i.e. I am too old for this shit.
7. Apparently I really like overrated/underrated book series. (H-pot, Twilights, VC Andrews, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
8. I had to destroy the last books of Twilight and VC Andrews they were so bad.
9. More accepting of GASP! CHANGE!
10. I am apart of a couple, but I am also an individual and so is my mate.
11. I like having people over for dinner.
12. There are a lot of blogs out there that only feature the following: pensive staged photography, cupcakes and weddings that look like children's birthday parties. WTF. And of course TMI, some things should remain sacred people!!
13. I like to turn on Paula Deen, Giada, Man vs Food or Mario Batali and cook all day in my kitchen on Sundays.
14. I don't care as much about fashion as I care about the process and how we got to the finished idea.
15. If you are unsure, always ask questions!!!
16. Count your blessings!
17. Oh who am I kidding? I learned way more than all that! BAH!

Here is a RARE child sighting on TRM. Meet KK and CC. Ahem, I mean Princess of the Peacocks and the Wicked Witch of the Midwest. It's almost Halloween, time to make sure your costume looks kickass.

Goodsh*t: Pimp My Ride

Pimp My Ride

by Jennifer L. Knox.

Probability, like time, is its own dimension.
The ’86 Chevy Suburban laced by rust,
pocked with bird poop, antenna wiggling
in its Bondo-clogged hole is only one way
the story begins. In another, we never
bought the blue behemoth—we bought
a ’63 Oldsmobile from a lady named Dolores.
In another, Dolores drove into a tree before we
were ever even born; in another, we owned a house
with a garage that kept the rain off, the rust out,
and the paint nice; in another, it was all mine,
we’d never met; in another, yours and someone else’s.
Likewise after the ride is pimped—metallic flames
in red and pink unzipping across its sparkly black
body, blitz of chrome, titanium woofers, enough
silver satin inside to line nine caskets—this
is only one story: another’s bright white
and blinds like an elephant made of sunspots;
another’s plantain-green and full of gold;
another’s purple with a sink in the back,
where we’re arguing; in the back of another, high
and high-fiving; in another, going at it
like two teens made of monster truck tires.

As they say, if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but I say let's up the ante! If you can make it in The New Yorker magazine you can make it anywhere! To my dear friend Jennifer L. Knox, you're the shit and this was so very much deserved! Congratulations!!!!!!! (And enjoy some wonderful covers from years past while you're at it! Can you spot the Saul Steinberg??)

Hell Yea!: WE DID IT!

I am the color of a hotdog! This is what happens when you run all over Brooklyn for a couple of hours! I made it to the finish folks, now I need a walker to get down the street! (Here's the finishing results, uh, the winner in the men's division was booking 5 minute miles!!!!!!!)

Holy Sh*t!: Queue the Rocky Theme

7AM (HOLY SHIT!), May 22, 2010 the Brooklyn Half Marathon will be attempted! Pray to the Universe me and my awesome group of running gals all make it to the finish with no injuries and more importantly no runners trot!

Goodsh*t: V.C. Andrews

Oh hello (looks down at floor guiltily), I have been seriously slacking, no excuses, but really I have been running so much I haven't had a lot of brilliant ideas as of late, until now! The summer is almost here and I am lucky enough to work for a company who has always bestowed upon us the coveted "Summer Hours"! Generally, this involves longer work days Monday-Thursday and a half day on Friday to get ahead of the crazy NYC traffic in case you are traveling. But this year we get the WHOLE Friday off! HOORAY! So in honor of my new found freedom, I figured I better have some good summer reads on hand. Of course I went back to my older sister's stash when she was in junior high, the infamous Dollanganger series! The design nerd in me totally had a say in picking these and while I did not quite understand the content at the time my sister had them (uh, seriously, BARF!) I always LOVED the covers!

Awesome covers, trashy stories!

HELLO SUMMER!

Goodsh*t: WHOOSH!

Since my better half is having a rather militant intense semester (uh, I am looking at YOU, Head of the Department of Arch!) I decided instead of being sad that I only get to see The Foo maybe once a week that I would dust off my shoes and start giving exercise in general a go. ENDORPHINS PEOPLE! ENDORPHINS! I started training with a friend who is doing a triathalon in July, just for fun. Coincidentally another friend then offered me a little running spot in her group to conquer the Brooklyn Half-Marathon in May! I am very excited and I am in week 4 of training, and I am actually starting to keep the pace! So of course I need gear to track myself so I went out today and bought the nike+ sportband! It tracks your distance, time, calories etc, and the face is actually a USB so you can hook up to Nike online and track all your runs! So far I am down to 9 minutes per mile! Wish me luck!

Me on May 22, 2010

Goodsh*t: Musical Earmuffs

It's 16 degrees out and my headphones suck. Killing two birds with one stone.

Goodsh*t: Coralie Bickford-Smith

OH. MY. GAWD. Jane Austen? Check. Oscar Wilde? Check. Louisa May Alcott? Check. All swaddled in colorful linen bounded pattern? Check. Christmas present to myself? Check. Why I didn't see this much earlier? Slap on the wrist. Penguin has done it again.

PS
Here's a sweet little interview with the designer Coralie Bickford-Smith. Oh she's good, really really good. Also the first set is on amazon, but for whatever reason Madame Bovary and Crime and Punishment are not available yet. Not sure if the 2nd set has been released.

PPS
I hope you are all enjoying the holidays and what-not! See you in 2010!