Carriage House, revisited
In the December 2008 issue of 'This Old House' magazine is one of the most elegant conversions I've ever seen! A former 1916 Carriage House ( ... ? They built in the walls with insulation and paneling. So beautiful!!The library at the front of the house [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 05:05:00
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The Simple Woman's Daybook-Week of January 19th
FOR TODAY (January 19, 2009)...Outside my window...it's dark, with a cold breeze.I am thinking...of work tomorrow morning.I am thankful for.. ... , a Spanish interiors magazine, and Gynaika (Woman) an old women's magazine I grew up with and worked ... to do her justice. All the best for the US, too.I am hearing...my son blubbing.Around the house...the trea [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 18:16:00
Answers
Back in August I saw a door knob in Old House Journal that was identical to one I owned. I wrote to the magazine to see if they had any more info. on the hardware. They didn't, but printed my letter in the magazine. Well, I had forgotten all about this when I started to browse thought the February issue. I was reading the Letters section [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:30:00
Comment on A better bathroom
Add Comment One of my favorite features about our old house was our master suit ... like it was clipped right from one of those home decor/interior magazines! And I mean ... , and their bathroom suites look wonderful - whether you’re into the more traditional styles [more...]
Date: 2008-10-18 21:48:00
Miley’s Devlish Behavior in Church.
Miley’s Devlish Behavior in Church. 0 votes January 19th, 2009 by Charley A Montrose, CA snitch recently reported to Star Magazine that Miley Cyrus and her 20-year-old underwear model ... , not in the house of the lord! Bookmark to: Add 'Miley’s Devlish Behavior in Church.' to Del.icio.us Add [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 00:24:10
Madonna’s Puss is for Sale
madonna-naked-pictures A (NSFW) thirty-year old full-frontal photograph of Madonna and what appears to be a small yak is now available to the ... highest bidder, thanks to Christie’s auction house in New York. People Magazine says The head of Christie’s photography department says Madonna was a financially strapped 20-year-old dancer [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 15:30:34
Is there anything but fluff in her head?
On February 17th Paris Hilton will turn 28-years-old ... with British magazine, Fabulous courtesy of Celebitchy: Halitosis or hideous dress sense are a given ... best friends! Oh, and I’d paint the White House pink and build a cute doghouse for the First Dogs.” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 16:19:46
DRAW ME A PONY
I want a pony and a tree. Courtney turned me on to someone who can do the tree but now I want a pony as well. In my old Los Feliz house I had a famous painting with cherubs painted on the wall behind my bed. It was gorgeous. I wonder if it's still there? I also have the original Life magazine with the edie [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 21:35:49
Ten Things Tuesday - The Cascade Effect
Life at my house changed dramatically when my washing machine vomited water all over the floor and down into the basement ... . 1. As I have mentioned before, I got rid of so many boxes of old musty and verging on moldy magazines [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 17:39:51
Courtney Love On New York Move
Singer dreads living in Big Apple American rock singer and blog-aholic <strong>Courtney Love</strong> ... . "The house that Francis wants the most, it is not a co-op board. It is two old people ... refuge in rehab. In a new interview with Heeb Magazine the singer reveals "I'm dreading moving to New [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 10:36:16
Rumer Willis says dad Bruce’s macho act is a put on
Star Magazine has a new interview with Rumer Willis, the 20 year-old oldest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore ... had her first major movie role in the comedy The House Bunny, which was out in late August. The film did ... the Hollywood mold.” She also admits to having a crush on her stepdad. This is similar to a quote [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 14:50:10
Paris "I'm not a airhead"
In an interview with Heat Magazine Paris Hilton has admitted that she just pretends to be a bimbo ... : "I have a room in my house where I paint. I've been offered an exhibition, which I might do next year." Paris ... they have to go through. I'm very old fashioned really and I'll make them have, like, a million dates before [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 10:25:01
How Your Celebrity Sausage Gets Made
A friend who saw Amy Winehouse in the street in London described her as looking like a deer at bay, surrounded by bastards ... ' wretched site or read one of those Daily Mail "Kate Winslet steps out of the house with stubble ... with her nine-year-old daughter from shop to car. One pap says something so filthily misogynistic [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 10:07:00
All There Is to Be (is Green)
All There Is to Be The convenient truth: taking better charge of what we already have By Dwight Young | From Preservation | January/February 2008 ... . Didn't one of the Three Little Pigs build his house of straw, And didn't it make the Big Bad Wolf ... to go ahead and repeat it: If your whole house is made of hay, what happens when a cow decides to [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 00:51:11
An Updated Kitchen
We starting building our house when our daughter wasn’t quite 3. She’s almost 18 now. We were young (well, not that young, we married late), and had just moved back to Houston after living a year and 1/2 in Ft. Worth for Ben’s job. We bought a lot in West University to build our dream house on and in order to save money on architects, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 16:45:00
Why I cannot stand Gary Tygert Pennington
I was sitting in the huckablazer waiting on The Husband to return the rental car, The Son was carrying on a very detailed conversation with a rubber dinosaur and a plastic comb. Bored, I began to idly flip through the February edition of Parents magazine (I get this free, and would never pay for this vapid excuse for parenting advice (( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 22:43:13
Sophisticated Paris
Paris Hilton with blue hair looks hot in Heat Magazine It’s been a while since we had Paris Hilton open up about her life ... from Benji, who I was with in the past year. On her secret hobby: I have a room in my house where ... ? Related posts Paris plans to be mom (0) Paris is single… again (2) Paris is a muse to Benji (0) Paris [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 07:46:27
The World According to Fatwa
From Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair:These are among the things that have happened, and have become depressingly taken for granted, ... before you are hurt. There was one American magazine (the secular Free Inquiry, for which I write ... s youngest and favorite wife, the nine-year-old Aisha (aged six at the time of her betrothal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 02:08:00
10 reasons to purchase new hardware during a recession
It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware. But IT consultant Erik Eckel suggests that trying to coast on failing or outdated equipment will cost you more in the long run. It’s no secret. Many organizations curtail all possible spending in a recession [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 19:58:39
Re: Finished the first draft on my e-book
That is wonderful news. The best of luck to you Deb. I understand the time involved. Last year I wrote my book and it was 5 months of 10 hour days ... and needed magazine writers. A lot of writers that frequent this site applied and everyone ... with the magazine covers contained pictures from other magazines. I contacted Rolling Stone after [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 13:11:28
Pet Advice - Pet News - Pet Photos
Dog's Destructive Chewing May be Separation AnxietyBy Steve Dale - Tribune Media ServicesAnswers to pet questions about problem chewing, feline AIDS and mast cell tumors.Q: Our 16-month-old Miniature Dachshund is housebroken — if we keep her in her kennel. Left to roam free, she'll chew on the bottoms of doors or on woodwork [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 11:47:00
Andrew Wyeth Passes at 91
I was saddened to hear the news that my favorite painter, Andrew Wyeth, passed away yesterday morning. Growing up not too far from Chadds Ford, Wyeth was a legend. I first discovered him on an elementary school field trip to the Brandywine River Museum. His attention to detail was dumbfounding, his mastery of tempera unparalleled [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 18:30:31
California To Delay Tax Refunds Due To Budget Crunch.
Although I don’t live in California or ever get a refund anymore, I would not be too thrilled with this: ... Friday. Controller John Chiang, who is responsible for managing the state’s cash flow, plans to delay ... people who cannot help themselves. Meanwhile, the state plans on keeping a $2.5 billion cushion [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 14:00:32
The rehabilitation of John Maynard Keynes
Continues. The Right and esp. the libertarian Right were always attacking a straw Keynes, some sans "we are all "defict making assholes" now ~ Nixon" ... 18th November 2008 Poor old Lord Keynes. The world’s press has spent the past week blackening ... it was thrown out, Geoffrey Crowther - then the editor of the Economist magazine - warned that “Lord [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 02:25:04
The Globe and Mail's Graeme Smith (et al.) on Afstan
The Globe's main person at Kandahar for the last two and a half years gave a talk January 16 at the University of Ottawa, "Never Kick a Hornet's Nest: ... magazine--both of whom have also spent some time in Afstan, participated in a forum at Carleton ... , to considerable laughter, as a "29 year-old dropout from Ryerson.- Was almost proud [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 20:58:00
Ask Not What Your Banks Can Do For You…
O! Bama! Today's the day…the whole world turns its weary eyes to you. "Obama's moment arrives," says the International Herald Tribune. "World needs Obama to succeed," begins an editorial in the Financial Times. "The Hope of the World," says one Paris-based magazine…with a photo of Barack and Michelle on the cover. Never before [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 03:56:12
Dog Training Tips
Training Tips For All Dogs Dogs do not get the name “man’s best friend” for nothing. Dogs make excellent hunting companions as well as pets ... he is a year old. But training should begin long before that. As a matter of fact, training your dog should ... him to wreak havoc in your house. Hunting dogs do not have to be relegated to the outdoors [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:54:21
Housewifery
brought to you by the shove-it-in-and-hope-for-the-best schoolof home managementI haven't forgotten about this blog, ... you get a snapshot of someone's home and it looks like something out of a magazine. I'm a little ... on this drawer yesterday. Inside, I found no less than 3 chargers for old mobile phones. And a lot of balloons [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 20:25:00
More "Control It" at the "Organize It" Party with a Box4Blox giveaway
Welcome back to today's' "Control It" at the "Organize It" Party. Let's begin with some organization ideas for those crazy, messy kid's playrooms ... are hardly contained in a single room of the house. Most families can find Legos, Polly Pockets and other small toys in just about any part of the house. Every once in a while, it is a good idea to sift [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 01:00:00
Barack Obama and the Masonic Martyr
If I had to guess, I would say that Barack Obama is a Freemason, possibly of the Order of Prince Hall, or more likely, in one of the many clandestine or affiliated Masonic orders. We have no documentation on that as yet, but it is certainly interesting that the Freemasons are holding their first-ever (public) inaugural ball in his honor [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 22:45:00
Sepinwall on TV: Diablo Cody talks 'United States of Tara'
In the first of today's columns (which actually won't be in the paper until Sunday), I talk with "United States of Tara" creator Diablo Cody about the show, her quick rise to fame and Academy Award approval, and the backlash that resulted from it. When an interview is particularly lively, I like to run the full transcript, so after the jump, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 07:03:00
Re: What is your working day like?
Fifteen years ago, right before having my first child, my husband and I vowed that there would be a parent at home for that child no matter what ... unless you are working for a newspaper or magazine (and even magazine pay is low), but I got free books ... me is 22 and just had baby #2. Right next door the 17 year old is a father and the 19 year old [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 19:47:24
Equal Pay for Equal Work
Yesterday's feminists are at it again - the Equal Pay Act of 1963 is being revived with the old claim that women still make roughly 78 cents to a male colleague's dollar, according to this "Intelligence Report" in the January 18, 2009 issue of Parade Magazine. There are two problems with this meme: 1 - Maternity leave: The report sort [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 04:35:17
The End of Hypocrisy: Crime's Gleeful Abandon in Gaza
More and more, comment on Israel's savage attack on the people of Gaza seems superfluous. The facts -- even the modicum of facts that can be gleaned through the deadly wall of Israeli censorship and the perverse and sinister distortions of the American media -- speak loudly, with horrifying clarity, for themselves [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:44:14
The End of Hypocrisy: Crime's Gleeful Abandon in Gaza
More and more, comment on Israel's savage attack on the people of Gaza seems superfluous. The facts -- even the modicum of facts that can be gleaned through the deadly wall of Israeli censorship and the perverse and sinister distortions of the American media -- speak loudly, with horrifying clarity, for themselves [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:44:14
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Yes they are! As I sit here watching Obams take tha power while a marching band plays Kool and the Gang in the background, ... I really want to hang out with its characters. I don’t care one it’s an old man who came to die to Brooklyn where he was born, and the other is an 27 year old loser. They own a bookstore [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 22:28:08
her father helped pick out this outfit….
Good Lord… Try to control yourself you fuckin’ pedophiles. I shouldn’t even be posting these pictures ... encouraging her to take her top off is “okay” for a 15 year old to pose on the cover of an adult magazine like that. No kids are reading Vanity Fair [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 19:53:20
Date: 2009-01-16 03:54:41
Kayaker-Turned-Philanthropist Brad Ludden, Help Salute Other Adventurers Giving Back
Editor's Note: Today, all eyes are on Washington, D.C., as Barack Obama takes office ... preparations were made on the National Mall, Obama visited kids at the Sasha Bruce House for homeless ... for winning Cosmo magazine's Bachelor of the Year Award. His cash prize will go to support First Descents [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 13:49:28
PRESIDENTIALLY YOURS: A NEW DESIGNER-IN-CHIEF FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
Today we gained a new President of the United States, First Lady, VP and Cabinet. We also gained a new White House interior designer, Michael S ... energy and style to the residence at the White House," Smith is quoted on his publisher's home page ... and the American public, but he’s no stranger to the design world. The 44-year old Californian has been [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 20:38:00
Lincoln Behind The Myths - The "House Divided" Speech
American History magazine is kicking off a year-long series in which it will attempt to "humanize" Abraham Lincoln ... "House Divided" speech he gave in Springfield, Illinois on June 16, 1858. In that speech, of course ... politician. His only term in the House of Representatives in Washington was unremarkable, save [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 21:29:00
Inauguration appearance updates! Venue ideas; Blog; Odds and Ends!
Send article links and scans and afternoon news and tidbits to beckyfansofdavid@gmail.com. Inaugural/Ibiza Ball Updates here! ... !! UPDATE #1: FOD Fran found this! HILARIOUS! Click on the graphic to get the entire New York ... Archuleta judging the new American Idol judge?” And that’s “REAL!” They proceed to show a clip [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 23:59:45
How the Nouveau Riche Live: A Rambling, Angry Post by a Bitter Holdout
For the past week, the media has been awash in stories about the incoming POTUS’ expensive tastes. We know he likes waffles, argugula, and $100 a pound ham, and that he shops at Whole Foods Markets, but that’s not the half of it. His obscenely expensive Inauguration celebration is going to cost about $170-$180 million [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 03:01:18
Laughter Lives Tuesday! Where Once a Week You Can Come to Have Your Heart Lifted by Laughter!
Our blog is "...where laughter lives." That's not a marketing gimmick, it's the truth ... a few to kick off the party: Landis Changes His Mind Landis, two years old, was sitting ... year old brother), and Landis bellows out a command in our direction: “I said BE quiet!” I looked [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 08:03:02
Mags: Choose your mag (Vogue vs InStyle)
Celebrity-obsessed InStyle versus venerable modeliser Vogue. Who wins in the February glossy style stakes? ... about leisurely home activities: cue the obligatory sofa shot, the disheveled bed shot, the inside-my-messy ... to flow" and "When I get home, I relax. I draw or play the guitar...".Meanwhile, girl's girl Kate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 23:14:00
Need Sulfur in That Ointment?
Need Sulfur in That Ointment? life - No Comments » - Posted on January, 21 at 12:33 am Today was an interesting day. For one thing, INAUGURATION (which I missed but thank god for the Internet). For another, first day of class on a shitty-weather day and I got lost, twice. Third: [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 04:33:08
Lanvin Spring/Summer 2009 Footwear | Sneakers, Satin Trainers, Deck Shoes
It is just incredible what Lanvin has been able to achieve in recent years. They went from an old school, boring French luxury brand to being one of the most innovative brand in the market place. Recently we came across an article in a reputable fashion magazine [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 00:47:08
House Purge 2009
“A small house can hold as much happiness as a big one.” Recently after eating Chinese take-out, my fortune cookie held that statement ... came at the tail end of a week long culmination of house cleaning and organization I’ve since dubbed “ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 09:00:19
Taylor Momsen For Page Six Magazine
In this week’s Page Six Magazine – Gossip Girl star Taylor Momsen has earned a reputation as a sophisticated It girl-about-town, ... . Page Six Magazine catches up with NYC’s biggest little lady. On gossip column rumors that she was tipsy and making out with her 23-year-old co-star Chace Crawford at the Gossip Girl holiday bash [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 21:22:00
PARIS HILTON DOES ‘HEAT’
Paris Hilton goes from heiress to hairess in the new issue of Britain’s Heat magazine. Inside the mag, the 27-year-old star addresses her bimbo public perception. “I think a lot ... m always really hard to get with guys. There’s a process they have to go through. I’m very old [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 15:33:27
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