eBay brick-and-mortar opens tomorrow!

First Look: VMAN 16 Winter 2009

He hates Hershey's

"Hershey are the US firm responsible for two of the most egregious international crimes against chocolate: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Hershey's Kisses. For those of you fortunate never to have these confections so beloved of American kids, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups look like small chocolate quiches. The filling has a an abidingly awful flavour that only someone brought up entirely on a diet of bubblegum and Dr Pepper's could love. It combines nuttiness with a greasy, cloyingly adhesive quality in a way that calls to mind squirrel vomit. Hershey's Kisses are, if anything, worse. It's illogical to name a confection after osculation but terrifying in a deep, Freudian way to make them resemble individually wrapped poodle turds." - Tim Hayward in The Guardian

Look what just arrived in the mail!

Rob Pattinson and Taylor Lautner water bottles! Amaaaazing.

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Diddy on feet

From Andrew Goldman's interview with Diddy in the November issue of Elle.

ELLE:
> I hear you have high foot standards for women. True?
DIDDY:
> People are too loose with feet. When I look down, I don't want toes hanging over the front of the shoe, looking extra long.
ELLE:
> So, what if a beautiful woman has a six-inch-long middle toe but it is tucked into a nice pair of custom-made shoes?
DIDDY:
> I don't care if she's Charlize Theron. I'm definitely not messing with any woman with a six-inch-long middle toe.

From Maureen Johnson's NaNoWriMo pep talk email:

"Australia is comparable in size to the continental United States, but almost everyone lives on the coast. So it would be like having Los Angeles, and then New York, with almost nothing in between. Nothing except for monsters, that is. Because almost everything that lives out there in the middle of nowhere can kill you. 97% of the snakes in Australia are poisonous. The spiders are the size of washing machines, but it's the tiny ones you have to watch for. It's all teeth and venom out there. So just put a huge "here be dragons" in the middle of your mental map and you'll have a pretty good picture of Australia."

Munny Munny Munny

Kidrobot's Munnyworld exhibition opens today!

Armani

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Who says romance is dead?

me:
> (spotted the new wedding ring)
> david, did you get married?
david:
> yes, i got married on monday.
me:
> just this monday?
david:
> yes
me:
> where'd you get married?
david:
> city hall.
> she had an optometrist appointment downtown.

Hello Mr. Mushroom man.

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New Costco opens today at 116th and FDR!

I popped by yesterday for a walkthrough and it is amaaaazing.

Barbie Twilight Dolls hit stores December 12th

This is what I want for my birthday.
(I am totally kidding.)

Something is wrong with this picture.

This (above) is part of one of my friend's Facebook updates this morning.

In the last year I know tons -- at least a dozen -- of people around my age, mid-level professionals in media, who've canceled their cable or gotten rid of their televisions because they can't afford it.

I don't know why I find this so shocking, but I think it's crazy.

It's nuts that in the United States of America, mid-level professionals, people who went to top-ten universities, hold graduate degrees, and are well-known (and even a little famous) in their fields can't afford tv in New York. I mean, I know that there are greater crises in this country -- hardly anyone can afford out-of-pocket health insurance or healthcare, tons of people can't afford to feed their families, millions of people are losing their homes because they can't afford their mortgage payments... but what's crazy about the TV phenomenon is that it's, well, TV -- it's practically a national pasttime. And it used to be free.

Even in the third world, people can afford TV. And employed, middle-class New Yorkers with "good jobs" can't afford to make a cable payments every month?

There is something very wrong here. Either with salaries or cable prices or both.

I cannot even begin to explain the drama with an order I placed with Acne online.

It's been a MONTH of back-and-forth, back-and-forth.
What is going on.
I don't even want it anymore.

Carts carts carts

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The new Costco Harlem atrium

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A sea of shopping carts, brand new!

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Fashion Victim.

Raakhee's gingerbread man cookie cutter (left). My gingerbread man cookie cutter (right). Sad face.

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A Chat with Trussardi / VMAN

Manicure in Essie "Aperitif" -- a little dressier in preparation for tomorrow night's festivities.

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