As Big As Your Head

This goes out to Murph - the biggest pork rind I ever did see, spotted in La Paz. A street-eats-why-not? Bet you can't eat just one......

this little gnome...

will be taking a little break. 

off to the sunshine (i hope) to warm up a bit. 

happy holidays, y'all! 

festive!

a little snap of a holly-esque bush, still covered in snow. 

there is no reasoning with a 2 year old

overheard at breakfast: 

"come on, lucy. have some pancake. you can't just eat butter." 

oh, amazon

you are getting like facebook now, insulting me with your recommendations. 

i am not interested in microwave pork rinds. and certainly not an 18 pack. 

ew! 

speaking of amazon...

i was checking on the status of some of my orders to make sure they arrived, when i noticed that you can review your past orders. 

i found ones from 1999. and apparently, i purchased not one, but two snoopy snow cone machines that year. 

one of them went to someone that i now have no idea who it is. am i getting that old?!

OPP, take 6

Not surprisingly, all she could think was, "it's HUGE!" 

quick question

who is purchasing used M&M's - peanut or otherwise?!

how about "me time"?

or, "engagement"? 

love this

if only this was how things worked. yum. 

city livin'

3 little snowmen on the sidewalks of new york. 

does anybody need these anymore?

there seemed to be a lot of page-day-calendars at barnes & noble. who is buying them? 

forget the staycation...

it's the paycation!

looks like payment is in WWF tchotchkes, but hey. 

agreed.

random bizarro finding

spotted on the corner of 76th & 2nd in the rain the other morning. do you think it fell out of someone's middle school binder? back in 1997?

debbie downer #1

this pretty much sums up the current state of things. while i managed to get a christmas tree, not a decoration in sight. couldn't even manage to get the christmas decorations out of the monica closet. sigh. 

debbie downer #2

is this what working life has come to? 

eight hour conference calls in a storage closet?

oldie, but goodie

OK, since even the librarian didn't like the oneword creative writing assignment, how about this old ad to bring TFAAF back to frivolity? 

table topic #24

holiday themed one this week...

24. What is your favorite holiday song?

hmm...i have a couple of faves. 

on the traditional side, joy to the world brings back fond memories - my sister & i getting the church giggles during mass from the cadence of the pew in front of us - when we were way too old to be caught laughing at church. 

as far as music videos go, you can't beat the ridiculous holiday attire and over the top facial expressions of the hall & oates version of jingle bell rock. on the contemporary side, i always loved christmas in hollis by run dmc - this is usually my #1. 

but, this year the top spot is going to christmas wrapping, by the waitresses. you mean you forgot cranberries too??

admirable, but coco loco (pet edition)

really? do pets get stressed? are we sure about that? what are they doing all day - lounging around, eating, sleeping, playing. sounds like the least stressful existence around. while admirable there is a natural remedy, coco loco to think this is needed. 

one word

here is an interesting exercise. one word, one minute to write whatever comes to your mind. as you can see mine was "held" this time around: 

i may have stolen this from one of my loyal readers, so apologies if i did! you can try it yourself here. 

oh, joseph abboud

i'm not sure that's the best place for 9 "men jackets".

happy birthday!

happy birthday loyal TFAAF reader The General! in honor of, maybe i'll let you win at scrabble this week. ;-) 

 

OPP, take 5

it's official. drug fair is the hottest spot in town. 

comfy

i've been to shanghai, but don't remember this. that said, i could really get behind it. how can we get this going in new york? 

not quite sure exactly...

this is my recent tag cloud from amazon. given that i buy a lot of gifts for peeps, i can understand some of the ones that are not quite me - beer, garnishes, hunting. but i am really stumped on the "qualifying textbooks". 

what is this?

a crib for ants? how can we expected to get a restful night's sleep when we can't even fit inside the bed?

Trans, the export conspiracy.....

You know how everything on food packaging says "0% Trans Fat" and you are thinking that´s great but what the hell does contain Trans Fat because I have yet to find this evil monster. Well my friends it´s alive and well in everything in Argentina. Turns out they shipped all that Trans here from the US and have been going gang busters ever since. You can´t swing a cat in this place without eating Trans. Couple that with all the steak, late night eating, dolche de leche (crazy caramel on everything of course including Trans) and empanadas....It seems the health craze has not quite made it to Argentina yet.

in case you were wondering...

here is proper dressing room protocol at banana republic. do note that my dude managed to follow only step one yesterday. no needs uncovered. no additional item to "complete the look". amateurs. 

is it just me...?

or did jetBlue hire future first lady michelle obama for their current banner advertising campaign? 

really?

this is what scientists are spending their time and resources on?? aren't there a few diseases they should be curing? 

 

worse still -- after all the hype -- the article didn't even bother to include a rendering. a waste on all fronts.

 

found it

 so, here is the pic of jim morrison @ 65 (left). he's looking a bit like don imus (right).

either way - age is not kind.  

Mall Cheering....Give me a ......

So I am reading an article about what lengths retailers are going to to get shoppers to spend, given it´s Xmas and all and we have this bloody inconvenient recession. Thanks dumbass bankers and stupid people buying stuff they can´t afford.

So the article does a quick wrap up around the globe, London has Sainsbury´s "Feed the Family for a Fiver" promotion, Australian retailer ´Just Jeans´ is givng away a plethora of prizes every week until Xmas. So nothing really out of the ordinary.

But apparently in the US "mall operator ´Macerich Co.´ is pumping scents through hidden outlets in decorative dispays and last week employees were ask to clap and cheer for customers as the entered the malls, to thank them for showing up."

"Good job you in the blue shirt, thanks for coming and buying stuff today." Mall Cheerleading, now that´s a Xmas job I want.

table topic #23 - interactive!

thanks to faithful reader yr. fav. librarian for suggesting this table topic - our first interactive, one! this will require a little work on everyone's part. it's called the "nearest book meme" (what a great word meme):

23. Here are the instructions:

*Get the book nearest you to. Right now. 

*Go to page 56. 

*Find the 5th sentence. 

*Write that sentence here in the comments (as adapted for this table topic). 

*Don't look for your favorite book or your coolest, but really the nearest.

here's mine:

"A gracefully time-worn mirror and round coffee table (an excellent foil for a boxy seating area) introduce some history and patina to the modern mix." 

from domino: the book of decorating. actually, i really need this sentence. i've got a nice patina mirror in my living room at the moment, but my black, rectangular coffee table is really sucking the life out of the space, particularly given the boxy seating arrangement i have. round you say? 

fun. i've already seen this pop up in a facebook status. will be very interested to see what everyone comes up with! 

she's a color scientist

i'm newly fascinated with the idea of becoming a "color psychologist". how's that for reinventing myself?

i didn't even know that the career existed until i came a cross an article a few months back in time magazine. it talked about companies like pantone and how there are think tanks that set color trends for the coming years. 

this year, the article pointed out, "purple is having a moment". forecast for 2009 - watchout for mimosa everyone! 

speaking of color...

pantone has teamed up with an astrologer for a book called "colorstrology." 

my march day ten birthday color is Pantone 12-0426, Mellow Green, which indicates that i'm "kind. deep. talented." 

aww, thanks for that. you can check out your own colorstrology here. 

ebay newbie

so, i never got into the whole ebay thing. and the one person i did know that used ebay was ripped off. (well, he was asking for it, sending a money order to a shady canadian PO box in the hopes of receiving a playstation.) so, i've always been skeptical. 

but, now that i'm on a retro/flea market style furniture kick, i've been poking around. i'm kinda loving this vintage clock at the moment. it's pretty bold-looking, but in situ, i think it works. 

  

bidding ends tomorrow - what do you think?  

happy holidays...or, not

totally stole this from last in london's facebook posting, but as you know i'm a fan of other people's pictures (OPPs) and they are too funny not to share. 

the chicago tribune is compiling "scared of santa" photos on its site. you can check them out here.  

fun fortune

i'm a big fan of my horoscope. and fortune cookies. normally, they are fairly standard. but, i quite liked the one i got tonight, replicated above - very intriguing, no? i'll keep my eye out and hopefully make the right choice. 

the king...of crap gifts?

oh, skymall. you continue to surprise and delight me with your fine offerings. 

last week on my flight to nashville i came across this bad boy - the singing & talking elvis. this animatronic bust croons eight tunes and even includes unique facial features like the king's curled upper lip. 

a great holiday gift for the low, low price of $199.95 

random bizarro pic

of locked locks on the sidewalk. 

oh, lean cuisine

i can totally envision the development of this ad:

"right, so we need to really boost sales of lean cuisine this quarter. we really want to highlight all of our varieties and demonstrate the breadth of our product offering."

"hey, can we tap into popular culture as well? like, iPods and iTunes are really hot right now." 

"yeah, but it's going to be during the holidays. how do we contextually tap into current timings?"

note: although, "in the biz" i am in no way related to the lean cuisine account. nor have i tried to crash any of their strategy meetings recently.