Who do you admire? Clamz edition.

Philip Guston: the year he died! his shirt, his face, and his hands looks like his paintings!

Dan Bejar: so gypsy chic! but I sing British blues music!

Joan Mitchell: I can fit in with all of those masculine drunks! and I love my dogz!

Fall Readz

Can't wait to get my hands on these!

~~FaLL DeCoRaTiNg TiPs~~!

So many other blogs are posting about home decorating for fall, and you can probably see the "fall decorating" we've done here at JoP (thanks Susan?), so I felt called to share my own plans for fall decorating.

Number one is fragrance. Right now is prime time for pumpkin flavors and scents, but just between you and me, I can only handle so much pumpkin! Candles that smell like vanilla, cookies, any gingerbread product, or toffee all make me wanna barf. I only want my food to smell like food, you know? My go-to scents for cooler weather fall more into the spice-and-herb category. Right now I'm into patchouli, which is a really nice compliment to a citrus scent too. Evergreen is also nice; cedar and eucalyptus will never let you down. So.

HOT: citrus and spice

NOT: cookie scents


Number two: windows. Everybody's changing out their valence-shade colors and hanging garlands of faux leaves, but I'll be covering my windows with shrink-wrap plastic for insulation. My windows may not be "festive," but my energy bill will be beautiful!

HOT: saving energy!
NOT: buying the same curtains in a different color just because the seasons change

Number three: It's what everyone is talking about! CENTERPIECES. Also mantlepieces. A popular idea these days is to cover some fall items (pumpkins, faux or real; leaves; gourds; brown and orange things) in a cake dish and toss leaves around. Voila! But that looks like crap. Another one is to arrange some things in a bowl. Replace your stupid boring old everyday fruit bowl with a...gourd bowl! Toss some multicolored authentic corn husks in for fun.
Just kidding everybody! Unless you run a country club, I wouldn't worry about making new centerpieces for fall. Nobody will notice or care anyway!

HOT: no centerpiece/whatever you already have!
NOT: spending hundred$ on decorative pumpkins and special leaf garlands

Good luck out there, everybody. We all know the next big decorating challenge is right around the corner...stay tuned for Christmas!

The (hypothetical) SITUATION

Do you ever have a day where you have an early morning doctor appointment so you'll be late to work? But you're committed to bringing your lunch so you pack your salad, yogurt (greek!), grapes, and avocados (so they don't get mushy in the salad!) in 2 small coolers (because the "large" one is only slightly medium). Then you get to work and your lunch is cold, but you've forgotten the salad dressing????!!!!!!

What do I love most:

Lyon, France ((arguably) the best city)?
the French teens in the foreground, smiling at the camera like any normal thing?
the French teens in the background?
the idea that pushing over cars and setting fires will promote legislative change?

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Dinnertime!

I just saw these over at Food in Real Life and couldn't believe my eyes. Look at the hilarious little wisps of photoshop steam! The disgusting marble of meat and cheese! The name Sideshots!

Would you eat these if they were free?
If they were $3.99?
If somebody gave you $3.99 and Sideshots on the house?

Sad Day

Solomon Burke died in an airplane on Sunday. Dirty Dancing would be nothing without his "Cry to Me". My life would be nothing without his music. Not even an exaggeration! RIP.

When he had a bit of a "comeback" with his album "Don't Give Up On Me", Sandy Cohen (aka Peter Gallagher) sang the song on the OC. I WISH I WAS JOKING. The OC will never leave my brain.

Now Courteney Cox & David Arquette are separating. Kind of sad about this one! Courteney and I have been tight ever since her Family Ties days. Granted- I even had my doubts about David- but I thought they would make it. WTH world???

Maybe Jennifer Aniston is rubbing off on her? J/K.

Song of the Fortnight

This one is golden for two weeks at least. If I'm late to this party, why didn't anyone tell me?

Tasty Tuesday

Mechanically Separated Poultry. YUM!!!

Fun Video of the Day