Love it.

HERE.

One thing I love about Grant (other than his gorgeous apartment) is that as a blogger, he has a very unique way of name-dropping designers and general designerati without sounding like a self-aggrandizing turd. That makes it a pleasure to live vicariously through his adventures. Plus he's always so happy.

I would be too if my place looked as finished and pretty as his. So go see his place as featured in the New York Times, k?

The Gays.

I can't decide which part of THIS article is more shocking - - that 12,500 service members have been discharged from US military since 1993 just for being gay or lesbian... or that the Secretary of Defense sponsors a National Security Essay competition. Seriously, an essay competition. Who knew?

At least this feels like progress. Hopefully. Maybe.

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Moody kitchen.

Richard emailed me yesterday to tell me about this kitchen that he fell in love with:


He says: "It's by a Milanese design firm called Dimore. They're a gay couple, Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci, who own it together, and it's the kitchen of their residence. I looked online and found some pics, but none do it justice.

It's just this incredibly dramatic space. One rarely refers to a kitchen as moody, but this one is. The mix of antique and modern, girly and masculine, sleek and shabby, is absolutely masterful."

I agree. It doesn't even look like a kitchen, which makes it more interesting. Thoughts?

I finally decided on a light for my kitchen.

Ha! Just kidding. Like I have made a decision... it's only been since, I dunno, March.

Anyhoo, Heather B sent this to me, and I love her for it. It's true Decorno.

I love Margarita(s)!

Oh, Margarita. She cleaned the house. It smells like almond oil and lemons and little kittens and happiness and joy! It's clean here. For the first time.

This is liberation! (White, middle class liberation, but still...) I am already trying to figure out how much to pay her for a Christmas bonus.

If she's going to give me shit for living in squalor and if she's going to make me clean out my own trash can, I get to make her wear the Zoila outfit, right?


(And Sketch42, I didn't know they made little bags to fit my garbage can. I swear! But I am going to go find them right now...)

Old good things.

This is great. HERE.


“My father, before he died, told me, ‘I can’t stop these dreams — I keep seeing all the people I missed on the route,’ ” Mr. Backerman said.

...Mr. Beberman does not advertise, and his business is not listed in the telephone directory. The sight of his truck alone brings in more requests than he can handle, he said.

Still, the truck has its limitations. The rattling cases are so precariously perched that he will not risk driving over the Brooklyn Bridge to expand into Manhattan.

Mr. Beberman is choosy about whom he entrusts with his expensive bottles, many of which were hand-blown by Czech and Austrian makers before World War II. Each bottle holds 26 ounces. His customers must be serious about their seltzer and accept his rules. He refuses to carry cases up flights of stairs anymore. There are no half-case options. You order seltzer, you pay for 10 bottles. If you pay late, you do not get seltzer.