Top TV Grannies

Flavorwire lists the top tv grandma's - Betty from Punky Brewster!! Estelle Winslow! I had to highly disagree however with putting Lucille Bluth at number two, she will always be number one in my book, and Buster's.

wow/cool

Books for Christmas?!

Luckily my family members did not react in this manner to my gifts this year..all books!

Finally saw this

and yes I concur, loved.

Gah, Winnie!

so flippin cute

Haha this might be me this year

Saw this and had an unwanted moment of identification and then laughed at my own ridiculousness.

Sweet and hilarious moves

John Cazale

I really like that HBO is putting this doc out there, John Cazale is so interesting and tragic - dying from cancer at age 42, immediately following his role in The Deer Hunter. He was engaged to Meryl Streep, and acted in some of the most iconic films from the 70s. It's great to see HBO bringing him to the spotlight.

BodyRock.tv

I've been using this site for a couple years now for exercises, inspiration, and ideas on working out. She's progressively gotten super muscular, but don't be deterred - her workouts are totally manageable and effective.

The Sting, Robert Redford, and Paul Newman

I watched The Sting today, and wanted to call out that Robert Redford didn't actually see the movie until 2004, when his grandson suggested they watch it. So funny to me that he received a Best Actor nomination for his role but didn't see the movie until 25 yrs later.

Also wanted to share that a while back, I read a blurb from Paul Newman on the secret to his marriage - "We're respectfully lustful, and lustfully respectful." It stayed with me because it sounds so simple, and yet at the same time all encompassing.

Friends with Money

I was looking for more Nicole Holofcener and found this little gem from 2006. She does so well with dynamic female characters, very accessible and true in interesting ways.  Didn't expect to like this as much as I did.

Another cutie from Julia Pott

Holidaze

I came upon this pic at Apartment 34 and almost started drooling, can't you just imagine falling into this bed and smelling the newly cleaned sheets - given away by the wash wrinkles? And I bet it's insanely quiet there..with a steam shower close by and lots of sun. For some reason the holiday season has been kind of a grind this year, and I'm starting to feel burnt. Hoping for more cheer and less blear this coming week as we close in on the big day, Christmas with my family is always the best when it finally arrives.

Rifle Paper Co - do what you love!

Do What You Love- Anna from The Panic Room Videos on Vimeo.
Rifle is known for their really lovely stationary, and this little video on Anna is both sweet and inspirational to see the lady behind the biz.

Philippe Vogelenzang photog

Called "Girls". Really into the subtle masculinity in both gaze and style, click to see large.

Noted.

A Single Man

Finally saw this, and the chemistry and aesthetics were simply stunning. Towards the end I worried that it would turn cliche and result in a predictable storyline, but it was fully and completely redeemed in the final throes. And while the visuals are now notoriously beautiful, I was also struck by the human emotion that felt almost palpable, resulting in an overall sensory experience. It can be summed in my favorite line "The only time in my life that has mattered and that I will remember, has been when I've truly connected with another human being." Or in this case, a movie.

Johnny Cash to-do list

via

Really beautiful stuff

from Peggy Wolfe

Oh hello amazing photostream from Paris, 1962

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Never how I feel at Dim Sum..

check out more Mike Lowery.

Wow, new life guys!

NASA announced that they've found a new life form in Mono Lake, CA that isn't built from the six compounds that everything on Earth is made of - carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus & sulfur. This new wild and crazy guy uses arsenic to build himself, going beyond what scientists know to be true for all living organisms on the planet. What this means is that our understanding of how life can be created and grow is completely redefined, and scientists will now look for organisms built on other elements that may have been overlooked before. "It's like saying that we may be looking for new life in the wrong places with the wrong methods." crazy/exciting!

Cashmere Undies

Such a cozy idea, but you're committing to washing these babies by hand every time you wear..maybe not the worst trade off I suppose. Also the pic of the two girls on the toboggan is straaange..

Stella McCartney Resort 2010

Every look is killing me with perfection. WANT.

Heh.

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Cracking me up!!

Swedish Chef on brussels

Happy Shmanksgiving!!

I can't wait to stuff my face! Oh wait! I do it all the time. Heh. What I really can't wait for is all the delicious recipes my mom and I have organized, including this guy - kale and olive oil mashed potatoes. Enjoy your triptophanny all!

Photos

When I see this one of my grandmother, I see myself. I think it's the eyes..(note: she's the one with the dark hair). The woman in red is in fact my great grandmother.

On the boat last fall, although I think we have one from this fall, just with a different dog. Reminds me of clean air and crisp wind.

Wedge booties

Why are the perfect ones always the most expensive? I am biding my time for post xmas shopping in Soho..where dreams are made.

Fall Sundays

Someone near and dear to me said recently "I don't have enough time to learn all the things I want to learn." I agreed wholeheartedly, simple and overarching.

Satellites fall from the sky in Siberia

via middle ground.

Picasso with loaves, Dali with anteater

via lost.

"Leaving Home", making me smile

via little brown pen

So great

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

- Maurice Sendak, via lost

Lovey Dovey

How cute is this "love blog", with pics of loves? And how cute are these teens, I love them! And the way Boggie and Bacall are looking at each other, love!

Original Prototypes

These images from Wired are so neat, early prototypes for some of our most popular tech today. Here's Apple I from 1975: A 25-year-old engineer at Hewlett-Packard, Steve Wozniak was using his spare time to design a language interpreter for a new 8-bit microprocessor called the MOS 6502. But even though the motherboard he created was smaller and less complex than other kits on the market, and even though Wozniak gave away the schematics for free, hobbyists still found the board difficult to build. So Woz and his high school pal Steve Jobs, who was working at Atari, decided to sell preassembled boards—which they dubbed the Apple I. They built them at night in Jobs’ parents’ garage, paying Jobs’ sister $1 a board to insert chips. In 1976, they produced 200 units and sold 150 of them for $500 apiece, a tidy 100 percent markup over cost. The only drawback to the Apple I: It offered dynamic RAM but no permanent storage, so you had to plug in your own cassette drive to save anything.

And..the super soaker. 

Steve McQueen & wife Neile

This photo is so pretty to me this morning, posted by Lola is Beauty.

Blowing my mind with beauty

Yes to all looks. Yes yes yessss

eek, BPA found in receipts

NBC recently ran a feature claiming "human exposure to the controversial chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, is much higher than some previous estimates and likely comes from some sources that are still unknown." One newly discovered source they highlight is cash register receipts, with studies showing that BPA is rubbed off on consumer's hands when receipts are handled. And apparently companies worldwide use register receipt paper that's laden with the substance. BPA is shown to mimic hormones, and exposure over time is linked with breast cancer in women because our bodies have a difficult time completely ridding our systems of the substance once exposed. And as we continue to find new ways that BPA gets in our systems, I wish I had a better conclusion than awareness here, but, I guess that's where change starts. 

Murakami art installment at Versailles

This must be amazing in person, such an interesting amalgam of old and new.

Tim Burton's ode to Johnny Depp

I like this. Per Jezebel it was written in 1992 before they worked together.

Parks & Rec in the meantime!

Parks & Recreation was only renewed for half a season this year, sad face. BUT, while we wait for it's debut, nymag is posting weekly installments of content from the cast and writers..smiling face! This week's is Nick Offerman coming back from homelessness in order to play Ron Swanson, hilarious. My favorite is him being "professionally dried".