NYC MUSEUMS WITH BIG VENUES(c) By Polly Guerin

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There’s no end to museum attractions to satisfy everyone’s taste for the extraordinary. From comics to lip-reading puppets and a stroll down memories lane it’s the Best of New York, my friends the very best. Here’s the scoop!!!
QUAY BROTHERS at MOMA: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets is the first major retrospective encompassing the full range of work by the identical twin, Quay Brothers who have labored together in their London studio, Atelier Koninck, for over 30 years, creating avant-garde stop-motion puppet animation, live-action films, and graphic design. As filmmakers, stage designers, and illustrators in a range of genres, the Quays have penetrated many fields of visual expression for a number of different audiences including signature works such as films, The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka (2012) and the music video Long Way Down (1992). Unusual, provocative and worth your inspection their signature style, a mix graphic effects combined with sensual emotional content and intellectually stimulating subjects. MOMA, opens August 12-January 7, 2013. 11 West 53 St.
COMIC MUSEUM MOVES UPTOWN Welcome news!!! MoCCA, a museum devoted to the art of comics and cartoons and its superheroes has moved from its Soho location and is now part of The Society of Illustrators at 128 East 63rd Street off Lexington Avenue. In its tony uptown site the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art will have its own permanent gallery in a climate-controlled setting and continue to conduct educational programs. This should be good news to aficionados of this art form. “New York is important to comics and cartoons because it has been the birthplace of many artists and publishers,” said Ellen Abramowitz, president of MoCCA,”A lot of superhero stories are set in an urban environment almost identical to that of New York City.” What’s more the prestigious Society of Illustrators is a world class holding and exhibits the art of America’s most celebrated illustrators. A membership organization is boosts a fine dining room. Society of Illustrators, 212.838.2560.
BEYOND HUMAN is yet another museum ‘find’ in the city. This exhibit seems right in pace with people walking around attached it their machines. FILM/RIGHT appears in the new museum’s prismatic exhibition “Ghosts in the Machine,” which explores the ties between humans, machines and art leading up to the digital era. The curators organized the show as a Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities. The “curiosities” include recreations of exhibitions and lost works as well as fictional museums. Viewers can recline inside a re-creation to watch a hypnotic collage of overlapping films and slide projections as though their bodies are being swept away on a sea of images. Through September 30. New Museum, 235 Bowery.
JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL: MY WAY introduces one of France’s most prominent contemporary artist’s, features sixty-seven pieces that trace the artist’s career over the past twenty-five years. His organic and geometrical glass sculptures conjure historical and popular references while also evoking the fantasy universe of the fairytale. Works on view include Self-Portrait in Priest’s Robe; The Soul Molded in the Bottom, Black is Beautiful. A group of detailed watercolor sketches for large-scale projects and commissions realized later, include the Kiosk of Nightwalkers (2000), a Metro entrance that has become one of the beloved landmarks of Paris. At the Brooklyn Museum, 200 eastern Parkway.
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SEPTEMBER OPENS A MYRIAD OF CULTURAL VENUES (c) By Polly Guerin

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It’s the last rose of summer and the cultural calendar is brimming with venues to enlighten, entertain and engross every minute with museum, gallery and restaurant hopping. Only in New York, my friends, it’s the Best of New York. Here’s the Scoop!!!

DORIS DUKE’S SHANGRI LA Take a vicarious trip to Honolulu, Hawaii. The tobacco heiress, world adventurer and philanthropist was ahead of her time when it came to collecting Islamic treasures and the Museum of Arts and Design stages a remarkable tribute to the iconic collector. Amassing 3,500 objects spanning the Muslim world from Spain through the Middle East and into Asia she was a nonstop collector from the time she was just 23 to the time she died in 1993. Her acquisitions include objects dating from the early first millennium B. C. to the early 20th Century. One fascinating object the l8th century Indian rosewater sprinkler was once housed in her Honolulu estate, Shangri La. At MAD MUSEUM, 2 Columbus Circle, September 7 through January 6, 2013.
WE ARE HERE! Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship. This remarkable exhibition features the rich history and cultural traditions of the ancestors and the artists’ modern artistic approach to contemporary and modern life. The National Museum of the American Indian features five focus shows devoted to the artists who recently received contemporary art fellowships from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis. Alan Michelson works with moving elegies for the lost environs and traditions of dislocated Indians with channeling them in light boxes showing photographs of his great-grandfather’s farmland, models of log cabins and a video of the Hudson River shoreline. Bonnie Devine offers objects of sheer beauty that express the circumstances of her people. Downtown at 1 Bowling Green at Broadway. Through September 23rd, 2012. 212.514.3700.
THE BEARDEN PROJECT Day trip it up to Harlem and visit the Studio Museum where a year-long tribute to Romare Bearden features work by 100 contemporary artists, inspired by or made in response to Bearden’s genre including works resonating with the artist’s themes in mind such as Emma Amos, a contemporary of Bearden and a member of his collective, Spiral, as well as young emerging artists like Lorna Williams and Noah Davis. For the Bearden Project the Studio Museum sent each artist sheets of 22x30 inch paper and asked them to make collages. Bearden’s work is a kind of visual African-American history and this exhibit broadens Bearden’s legacy. At 144 W. 125th St., at Malcolm X Blvd. Tel: 212.864.4500. Image above by Emma Amos 708 yo man ray yo.
RED ROOSTER HARLEM, Polly’s restaurant pick of the week. Gospel Sunday at Red Rooster Harlem is a ‘must’ for Sunday, or go for lunch or dinner anytime you’re up that way in Harlem. Start off with a spicy Bloody Mary and you’ll be clapping and dancing in your seats at brunch on Sunday. The menu, courtesy of Swedish chef Marcus Samuelsson, is served from 11:30 to 3:30 pm, but the no reservation policy means you need to arrive at least a half hour in advance as it fills up early. Otherwise arrive on any weekday when there’s an impressive mix of artsy and professional types dishing the news and dining on the Yard Bird, fried chicken served on a bed of braised greens and mashed potatoes slithered with gravy and house-made hot sauce. At 310 Lenox Ave, between 125th and 126th Streets. 212.792.9001.
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FASHIONISTAS' HOLIDAY IN NEW YORK (c) By Polly Guerin

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Fashionable New York opens the season with stylish reasons to view the Fashion Week collections and revisit “Ivy Style” or tap into new documentaries or magazines that make the art of fashion the reason New York is the Fashion Capital of the World. Only the Best of New York my friends. Here’s the Scoop!!!

FASHION ILLUSTRATION gets its due venue at the Brooklyn Public Library where the never-before-seen illustrations of ANTONIO LOPEZ and works by Richard Haines and Samantha Hahn are among the rare collections on view Monday through Thursdays, 9am-9pm, Friday and Saturday, 10am- 6pm. and Sunday 1-5 pm. The exhibit also includes a fashion film series, panel discussions and author talks throughout the fall. For aspiring illustrators there will be fashion illustrations classes. Check it out a brooklypubliclibary.org, Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn. 718.230.2100.
IVY STYLE celebrates one of the most enduring clothing styles of the 20th century at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. From its origins in the prestigious college campuses of America in the late 1910s to the many reinterpretations seen in contemporary fashion, the “Ivy” League Look” or “Ivy Style” has come to be viewed as a classic form of dressing. More than 60 ensembles, both historic and contemporary, will be on display. A more in-depth study of Ivy Style will be featured in the accompanying book also titled, Ivy Style. Opens September 14 to January 5, 2013. FREE and open to the public. Museum Hours Tuesday-Friday-noon-8pm, Saturday 10am-5pm. fitnyc.edu/museum. The museum’s annual fashion symposium takes place November 8 and 9, 2012, in conjunction with the exhibition.
DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL an entertaining new documentary is in preview right now about the legendary fashion editor, Diana Vreeland whose amazing eye on fashion fascinates us even today. Vreeland’s voice seemingly pervades the film (an actress actually narrates) with her early years in Paris, London and New York and of course, we see her pages from Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, which she transformed into a pop-culture venue. The film opens in limited release on Sept. 21 and will be shown at the Paris Theater on 58th Street, opposite the Plaza. Two other new documentaries came out during Fashion Week, Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s and Versailles 73, which will be shown for one week only at the IFC Center, beginning Sept. 7th.
CHRISTIAN DIOR’S famous name launches its own print magazine, DIOR, to be published twice a year, September and March in nine languages and a controlled circulation to its best customers and prospects. French and English versions will be released first, around September 10th. The print issue follows the February introduction of online editorial at Diormag.com. Meanwhile if you are in Paris during the holidays Printemps’ public façade, starting in November, features mechanical windows with dolls dressed in exact replicas of iconic Dior outfits, created by its couture ateliers.
TA TA Darlings!!! I’ll vicariously be off to Paris to catch the fashion buzz and enjoy the sights!!! Fan mail welcome at pollytalk.com. Polly’s blogs are best accessed at pollytalk.com website, just click in the left hand column for a direct link to visionary men, amazing women, poetry or fashion.

NEW YORK, CULTURE CITY A MYRIAD VENUES (c) By Polly Guerin

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Arts and entertainment in the center of the cultural universe crowns New York with the title “Culture City,” for its diverse and myriad venues from pop to historical illuminations, there’s more than meets the eye for the inquiring public. Only in New York my friends, the best of New York, Here’s the scoop!!!

REGARDING WARHOL: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Give yourself ‘15 minutes of fame’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the Pop master’s influence on contemporary art by pairing his works with dozens of artists in a 145 work venue that casts new light on the icon artists innovations. Case in point; Warhol’s Popsicle-colored self portraits of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Kennedy Onassis are mounted alongside photographer Cindy Sherman’s glossy self-portraits and Karen Kilimnik’s portrait of real-estate heiress Paris Hilton. Not to be missed are the Warhol’s penchant for papering gallery walls with repeated images which helped to usher in the wall-to-wall installations so popular today. The event also celebrates the 50th anniversary of Warhol’s famed soup can art and the unique connection between Warhol and the iconic red and white label. Through December 31. 2012. At 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd St. For more information 212.570.3951.
CAMPBELL CELEBRATES To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Any Warhol’s 1962 famed work, 32 Campbell Soup Cans, Campbell Soup Company, is introducing limited-edition cans of Campbell’s Condensed Tomato soup with labels derived from Warhol artwork. The four specially—designed labels reflect Warhol’s pop-art style and use vibrant, eye-catching color combinations like orange and blue, and pink and teal. When asked why he painted Campbell’s soup cans, Warhol famously quipped, I used to have the same (Campbell’s soup) lunch every day for twenty years. In 1962 in Los Angeles, Warhol exhibited his famous paintings of 32 Campbell’s Condensed soup cans and each of the 32 canvases depicted one variety of soup, side-by-side like cans of soup on a grocery shelf. The painting helped to launch Warhol’s career and ushered in Pop Art as a major art movement in the United States. The limited edition cans were produced under the Andy Warhol Foundation, a not for profit corporation that promotes the visual arts. These soup cans could become famous collectibles themselves and are exclusively available at most Target locations nationwide for $.75.
CROSSING BORDERS; MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE BODLEIAN LIBRARIES On a more serious note over 60 works---Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin manuscripts—the majority of which have never been seen in the United States illuminate the dark interiors of The Jewish Museum’s galleries. England’s Bodleian Library at Oxford University, established by Sir Thomas Bodleian in 1602 and now the largest of the University’s group of ‘Bodleian Libraries,’ is renowned for its great treasures and among them is one of the most important collections of medieval Hebrew illuminated manuscripts in the world. A rare opportunity, this exhibition includes the Kennicott Bible; the most lavishly illuminated Hebrew Bible to survive from medieval Spain. In addition to viewing the actual illuminated manuscripts, visitors will be able to look at digital images of every page of the Kennicott Bible and examine details on touch screens in the gallery. Through February 3, 2013. At 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd St. More info, 212.423.3200.
ILLUMINATING PHILOSOPHY, The Illuminations of Girolamo Da Cremona, in Peter Ugelheimer’s works of Aristotle (1483) Why not make a day of it and visit the Morgan Library & Museum’s illuminated printed books. The works include spectacular decorative elements including gemstones set in gold, antique cameos, landscapes, seated animals, darling putti and some really eye-popping trompe-l’oeil effects. Of special note is the depiction of Aristotle and Averroes in animated conversation with architecture, jewelry and flora on a page with textural passages. At the Morgan Library and Museum, Madison Avenue at 36th-37th Streets. Through Sept. 23.
Ta Ta Darlings!!! I’m off to Target to get Warhol’s ‘fifteen minutes of fame,’ featured on the Campbell soup cans. Fan mail welcome: pollytalk@verizon. Polly’s blogs are best accessed at pollytalk.com just click in the left hand column for a direct link to visionary men, amazing women, poetry or fashion.

CRISP WEATHER BRINGS HALLMARK CELEBRATIONS (c) By Polly Guerin

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Such glorious days set us on a social whirl of events that make living in New York City the best place to be for entertainment and some Hallmark Celebrations. Only in New York my friends, so cherish the privilege and enjoy the show. Here’s the scoop!!!

THE ZIEGFELD FOLLIES Before all seats are gone reserve for the Tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld’s inspiration for The Ziegfeld Follies at the famous Birdland. With Sarah as Rice Anna Held and Frank Basile and a cast of 11 and Mark York at the piano, John DeMan on percussion and Eva Weiss on guitar, it’s going to be a spectacular costumed show. This production will have plenty of feathers and glitz, as well as, a cast of talented singers and dancers taking you back to the glory days of the Ziegfeld Follies and the Folies Bergere. Saturday, Sept. 29th at 5pm (doors open at 4:30pm) Cover Charge $5 members, $12 non-members, plus $10 food/drink min. Reserve: 917.37l.5509, ziegfeldsociety@aol.
TIFFANY & CO. LEGENDARY FOR 175 YEARS Celebrates a Brilliant Heritage while Tiffany’s blue box continues to make hearts beat faster for 175 years. Tiffany’s roots run deep in our nation’s history. Founder Charles Lewis Tiffany had an abiding passion for the most beautiful diamonds in the world and acquired a large cache of important jewels and New York dubbed him “The King of Diamonds.” He also acquired other sensational diamonds like the 128.54-carat diamond and the French Crown Jewels that confirmed his status as the authority on magnificent diamonds. In 1886 Tiffany introduced the Tiffany setting diamond engagement ring and it has played a part in the world’s greatest love stories. At the Tiffany flagship store Fifth Avenue and 57th St.
EDITH WHARTON’S NEW YORK CITY, This Backward Glance exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s most acclaimed authors, Edith Wharton at the New York Society Library, 53 E.79th Street, through December 31, 2012. The exhibition reveals exciting new information about Wharton’s world and the Library then located at 67 Livingston Place. On display are rare family portraits, Wharton letters to family members, and first editions of novels and short stories, including Wharton’s autobiography A Backward Glance. T-212.288.6900.
BEAUTY ENDURES An exhibition of elegance; contemporary photographs by Cathleen Naundorf and drawings by Paul Cesar Helleu are presented at Trinity House 24 East 64th Street, 11 to 5pm.Daily. T-212.813.0700. A rare opportunity to capture the essence of fashion and beauty on a scale of heightened beauty.
PRESENT LAUGHTER A company called Gotham Radio Theatre, whose intention is to revive the experience of radio broadcasts before a live audience puts on Noel Coward’s Present Laughter this evening at 7pm at the Arclight Theatre, 152 W. 71st Street. Call 886.992.9263 for ticket $20.
Ta Ta darlings: Don’t miss Edith Wharton, it’s worth A Backward Glance. Fan mail welcome: pollytalk@verizon. Polly’s blogs are best accessed at pollytalk.com just click in the left hand column for a direct link to visionary men, amazing women, poetry or fashion.

good date, good date, good date *

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i've always wanted a "half" address
pretty sister + fab food joint
jane's carousel
the best views of manhattan + brooklyn bridge are at brooklyn bridge park (dur)
the one where we look dreamy
kaleidoscope water tower!
who doesn't love a carousel on the water in a glass encasement?
serious and silly at the bus stop
and then i ate 2 whole pizzas by myself (...jk...)

*this one time, a while back when sister shayna and i were hanging out, one of us was on the phone too much during our "date" so the other said, "bad date, bad date, bad date!" ha...
needless to say, having sister here over the weekend was a GOOD date.

shayna flew in friday morning just in time for me to show her around our apartment and get her settled before i headed to work.
then it was...
a visit to the moma design store where sister bought me the nicest thing... the most perfect gift...
a rainbow umbrella.
we got our nails did. i am sort of addicted to this $20 for a manicure/pedicure thing (p.s. i HATE saying mani/pedi... sounds like a disease)
we ate
and then got ice cream
and sat in the park (with my feet up to avoid the rats... tmi? sorry.)

we woke up (not that early) and headed down to my least favorite place [times square] that has one of my favorite things [broadway shows]. got tickets
then got doughnuts and delicious beverages
then somehow managed to eat lunch shortly thereafter at the cutest little eatery -'ino- in the west village (delicious tooooo)
we saw chaplin on broadway. i think i loved it. oh yes i did. it was exciting and fun and heart-wrenching and i want to learn more about charlie chaplin and the shattered lives of hollywood stars
we ventured to brooklyn - just over the bridge - to see jane's carousel and find that kaleidoscope-like water tower. the water tower sits atop a building at 20 jay street in brooklyn (just north of the manhattan bridge). the water tower can be seen if you're standing under the mahattan bridge right near the water - or better yet, if you're on the bridge. the tower is in the southwest corner of that building. i thought it was gorgeous and i hope it stays. it would be a shame to take it down.
we then went to our reservation at spice market and had a 2.75 hour dinner - dinners that long make me so happy. it's just like a whole event within itself and that keeps me happy.
we came home and looked at photos from tropical vacations as my eyes were slamming shut

we went to church and shayna knew more people there than i did (ha)
we waited for the bus and went to patsy's pizza in east harlem (the original). if you want to know the story of ny pizza, i will tell you. later. (it involves lombardi's, patsy's and grimaldi's)
shayna and i went shopping but only to one place - uniqlo. the best place for japanese style basics. we both got much more than we needed but probably just as much as we wanted !
we went our separate ways since ben and i had a wedding to attend for the remainder of the night

and then monday morning, i went to work and shayna went to the airport. at the corner when i had to go east and shayna had to go west, we were about to say goodbye and i said, "this is when we cry" because many times when we say goodbye, we cry.
and i cried and then she cried. and then. i went east and she went west. literally.

thanks for coming sister. you were such a good date.

a wedding? i love weddings!

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the hudson... then jersey city
about to be married!
creative replies (rsvps) hanging from a ribbon tree
me + my looooveour newly engaged friends - tal + nathanme + jenn + ameliamargaux the rockstar (she sang us all a song)
margaux + me!
ben, jonathan, margaux, guess who that lady is? me.

on sunday we had the pleasure of attending margaux (mar-go) and jonathan's wedding. they had it at the chelsea lighthouse which is right on the hudson river.
as they were married, the sun was setting and boats were going by. birds were on the water. it was so romantic and picturesque.
no foolin'.

i started crying when i saw margaux walking down the aisle - she just looked so gorgeous and i also felt so much happiness for her because i know how much she loves jonathan (and he loves her) but also... she put sooo much work into their wedding. her creative and beautiful brain came up with so many of the little, lovely details of the wedding.
like the creative replies! i loved this. people drew pictures, wrote kind words, wrote jokes, told a funny story about the bride or groom. it felt very personal and like all the guests got to be involved.

the wedding, the whole thing went perfectly and was a whole night of fun. we would eat and then dance and then eat and dance again. we were eating dessert at literally midnight.
(let's just say monday was hard on all of us. sooo tired.)
but the wedding band was incredible and so into it that the guests had to dance the night away.

my heart just feels so happy for love birds getting married. i am so happy that margaux found such a saint like jonathan. such a great match. (thanks jdate)
and i also feel so much love for my marriage when i attend other weddings.
it's a win win for everyone!

you better be you and do what you can do

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jcrew // sugar + plumm // ice cream sandwiches with caroline // washington square park at night
pretty sister // brooklyn bridge // colorful water tower // seesters shopping
pretty apartment building // ben going back to school // red rooster // sweet potato doughnuts
shaved ice in the city! // ben's pretty school // sushi pizza // benny boo

i'm a little behind on the instagram photos... the photos that tell more about my everyday life than others.

sushi pizza isn't what you think or what i thought, which was rolls of sushi on a traditional pizza - it's like a crispy rice cracker crust with fish (salmon or tuna) and then those nifty little eggies. looove it. such a great little discovery.
and the city - this city that i love - does have good shaved ice! and it's delicious.

we took it easy over the weekend - meaning we went to a baseball game, trekked to brooklyn for church (to visit friends), ran errands and met friends for dinner. so that does seem like a busy weekend but somehow we got some relaxin' time. and studying time. the studying was all done by ben. i'm like sooo over studying *wink*

meanwhile we are jumping back into another busy week, greeted by rain and heavy work and school. in the craziness, i really look forward to the quiet moments that there are no phones going off, no sirens outside, no tv, no huge law school books, no emails...
just quiet in our sanctuary-like apartment in the city.

parentals.

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my sweet harlem.

my cute parentals have been here visiting the past few days. true to form, they have successfully attended 3 broadway shows (that's where i get it from) and explored the city from uptown to downtown and even added a somewhat accidental walk over the brooklyn bridge.

we found not 1 but 2 plant walls in an indoor public space near ben's school/lincoln center. coolest ever.

we were able to see jersey boys on saturday night. after some not-to-mention-totally-incredible thai food at pure thai cookhouse. confirmed the fact that we need to go back to thailand. BUT jersey boys was incredible. so much talent - all about the four seasons singing group - you know, the guys who sang, "earth angel", "you're just too good to be true", "walk like a man", "sherry, sherry baby", et cetera. loved it. it was so jersey too. lots of swears and curses and rad jersey accents :)

we visited the garden. hiked to the top of our local park (it's a huge solid rock).

on monday ben had class late so the parents and i had dinner in chelsea at westville, then 16 handles for frozen yogurt and a walk through chelsea market. i love little peaceful weeknight dates like that. it was fun to talk to my parents at dinner about how i'm their favorite child.

and other than that. we've just had a lot of fun. love you, parents.

holy nuggets

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a little rainy day project turned mobile // ben mr. fashionisto (at fashion week) // i heart nyc
out at a thai restaurant // a plant wall (no big deal) // chelsea market // my mom
fall mets game // thank you cupcakes

holy nuggets. i am tired. it was so nice to have my parents in town. but remember how we have had a ton of visitors very recently and even though i love every last one of them... i am just worn out.
don't get me wrong. i feel so lucky to be able to host so many great people and to try/do/eat at least one new thing with each person who comes to stay. it keeps things exciting.

other recent happenings. 
blogger decided to switch to the new blogger and there is no going back. i guess i'll have to adjust.

last weekend (err the weekend before) we saw madonna live (for freeeee). this was after it had rained all day and was still raining when we got to yankee stadium to see her perform. even though i was little bummed she didn't play more of her old stuff (still, she sang some good ones) - she sure can rock! she is not as young as she used to be but she still masters the stage. she was singing and dancing and performing all around the in the rain no less. in stilettos too. nbd (no big deal).

we went to a nice fallautumn mets baseball game last night with some friends. why do we keep getting together with people we-keep-meaning-to-get-together-with who are planning to move in the relatively near future? i feel like everyone is leaving! but not really. i just hate goodbyes.

i got some thank you cupcakes from some nice nice coworkers. it sure feels nice to be thanked/rewarded in sugary bombs of goodness and frosting.

and other than that...
i have come to the conclusion that having a clean apartment is one of the very best things in life.
i am so grateful for my job.
it's so cute how giddy ben is about attending law school. especially a school so cool as fordham.
do you know that song call me maybe? would you like to sing it in a choir? see here.
i love bow ties. and i love when people love each other and want to get married. i love this guy from modern family too.
phew.
i'm done.

Back to School with Elmo & Sesame Street

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Going back to school doesn't have to be boring. When you add Elmo and the Sesame Street characters, kids will love going to school and learning will become fun! I'm sure many of my readers are also fans of Sesame Street so check out a few items I know your child will enjoy.

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Elmo Story Collection

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Sesame Street Simple Science Experiments with Elmo and Friends

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Victoria's Secret Fashion Week Suite #nyfw

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During NY Fashion Week, I was able to get a sneak peek at Victoria's Secret's Fall/Holiday 2012 collections in their rooftop suite at the Empire Hotel.




During my sneak peek I learned about Victoria's Secret's lingerie, perfume and beauty products, and home items including their candles.





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