February 2012
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On your mark...
Get set… I’m taking a leave from FrED for a few days. Total marathon-related tunnel vision, and all I can think about is food, food, hydrating (and, consequently, beer), more food, wrapping up loose ends at work, and not dying. Consider yourselves spared. Till the finish line, check out my first post on St. Louis Magazine’s style blog The Good, the Bad & the Lovely.
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Anonymous asked: I'm looking for a simple but classic horizontal striped top like Jean Seberg wore in Breathless. Any ideas where to find such an item?
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“In victory, you deserve Champagne.
In defeat, you need it.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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TGIF.
Me: So what are your plans for the night?
Kofi: Um, guzzling vodka into my empty stomach.
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From T Magazine: "On Beheading Bubbly" →
Why would anyone take a blade to Champagne? Well, frankly, it allows you to embrace your inner jackass under the guise of being dashing, with the entire drippingly elegant historical pageant of Champagne to lend your puerile posturing legitimacy and panache. I still can’t decide if sabering Champagne is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of, or one of the greatest, but it’s precisely that tension...
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“All sorrows are less with bread.”
– Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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Anonymous asked: I admire your suggestion of taking your lunch to work, but it's just such a bore to do! What does a stylish girl like you bring for lunch? (And more importantly, what do you bring it in?)
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From HuffPo: "The New Moneyed Art" →
Made of 81,895 pieces cut from 1,121 U.S. Dollar bills, Mark Wagner’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” — a 17-by-six-foot decoupage homage to the Statue of Liberty — directly answers the question of what Americans can create with their money. Originally commissioned in a larger format for an unnamed heiress, “Give Me Liberty” — a smaller version...
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“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two...”
– Will Rogers
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abcdefghiloveyou asked: A topic I don't believe I've seen FRED delve into before: financial health! How do you keep your bank account in shape?
January 2012
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“Remember, I’m the one who had to call my mom and ask her for the...”
– Mom
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Tuesday blues.
Recently: standing at the kitchen counter, attempting to peel a hardboiled egg. The white kept coming off with the shell until there was hardly any left, and I stood there, pissed off, late, a million things to do, thinking, “How am I going to do this when I’m a mom?” That’s the question I ask whenever these mundane tasks don’t come easy, like removing an egg shell in one deft maneuver, the flat...
canttuchthis asked: may i ask what type of running shoes you prefer? i'm in the market and am not sold on my old asics. thanks!
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Irving Berlin: “Count Your Blessings”
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Fresh stuff, every day.
Stuff I have and am totally wild about (as opposed to stuff I want because a girl needs to count her blessings once in a while):
1. Dad on speed-dial
2. Full fridge
3. Great-grandfather's sterling silver pocket knife
4. Montauk seashells on my desk at work
5. New running shoes
6. Street-facing bedroom window
7. Stack of good books to read
8. U.S. passport (It's empty, but it's there.)
9. Vintage Ralph Lauren Blue Label floral high-waisted mom jeans
10. Wake-up calls from Chicago
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“Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that...”
– Plutarch, Moralia
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Anonymous asked: Why do you think you're friends with this one particular ex and not the rest? Not to trivialize the relationship, but did you feel romantically stronger for the others? What I'm really asking is this: I loved a boy and I cannot be friends with him even after it's been forever since we broke up. Is this okay?
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Usher: “U Got It Bad”
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Anonymous asked: Hi! I'm going to SXSW for the first time ever this year. And I'm spazzing a little (already) ... what do I wear?! I'll be there for four days. I want to be comfortable and I also have to be able to pack everything up in a carry-on bag. Help!
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Fresh desires, every day.
Summer.
Summer.
Summer.
Summer.
Summer.
Summer.
Summer.
Summer.
Summer.
Summer.
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Anonymous asked: are you friends with exes? i mean, REALLY friends with them? lets say hypothetically one of them wrote a book. and you kind of want to buy it on your kindle and check it out. is that creepy? note that there are many unresolved odds and ends with said ex, he still is interested, you're also still kind of interested, etc. oh and he never told you about the fucking book!
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Frank Sinatra: “My Kind of Town” Via.
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“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire...”
– William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene VI
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Why else?
Coworker: He shaved.
Me: I think he's seeing someone.
Coworker: Why do you say that?
Me: Why else would a man shave?
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Fresh sounds, every day.
Between the bloodies, the Brut, and the Blue Moon, Chicago was a whirlwind of boozy socializing, but nothing compared to the time spent pre-party, dancing with the dog, mixing old fashioneds, and debating my footwear. (Forgot to pack even one pair of socks, and there were six inches of snow on the ground. But never mind that.) These are the jams that got us groovin’.
Aaliyah: Back and Forth
Solomon Burke: Cry to Me
Crystals: Then He Kissed Me
Four Tops: Baby, I Need Your Loving
Love & Rockets: So Alive
Jay-Z: Can I Get a…
Dolly Parton v. Jay-Z: Jolene Is Mine
Timbaland & Keri Hilson: The Way I Are
Kanye West: Touch the Sky
Howlin’ Wolf: Moanin’ at Midnight
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Anonymous asked: I'm starting a new job soon and am wondering if you have any recommendations for someone looking for a new office wardrobe. I don't want to be completely boring but need it to be appropriate for a business casual setting. Thanks!
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Anonymous asked: Huge fan of your blog--particularly your relationship/commitment to running. I have been asked to run my first half marathon this April, and I am very excited about the idea but nervous about the follow-through. I have never run more than 2 miles in one swoop, and I'm afraid of not being able to do it. Also, I am in pretty good shape, and I enjoy varying my workouts. I am afraid that running...
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“Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.”
– Cindy Crawford
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Jay-Z with Babyface & Foxy Brown:...
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Fresh itineraries, every day.
With Chicago just a day away, I've narrowed down the culinary/cultural goals:
Afternoon martinis at the Signature Room
Chagall's American Windows at the Art Institute
Charles James exhibit at the CHM
Club sandwich at the RL Grill
Cocktails at the Aviary and the Office
Late-night dance party at Danny's
Milkshakes at Eleven City Diner
Morning run along the lake shore
Pilgrimage to Ikram
Well-rounded (pun!) breakfast at the Doughnut Vault
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Killers: “Read My Mind”
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“A good book should leave you…slightly exhausted at the end. You live...”
– William Styron, Writers at Work, 1958
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Anonymous asked: I'm a college student bored of skinny jeans. What should I wear with a loose-fitting pair of green wool slacks?
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“In the time I’d been away, Nick, the former pasta guy, had gone to Italy...”
– Bill Buford, Heat
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