When I was in first grade, I read Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll and was confused by the passage where Alice was rowing a boat with a sheep in it. I wasn’t disturbed by the fact that she was in the boat with the sheep, or that the sheep spoke and knitted….
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Quatorze Juillet
Yesterday was our second Bastille Day in Paris. Of course, I shouldn’t say “Bastille Day,” as an asshat called “Carlux” ranted on a Fodor’s forum last year: “Once again, THERE IS NO BASTILLE DAY IN FRANCE. When you are here no one will recognise the phrase Bastille Day. It’s an Anglo Saxon invention. In France…
July 12 Activities and Outfit — in Verse
A play I saw in London was in rhyme So you get an iambic post this time. La Bête employs Hyde Pierce of Frasier fame And Lumley who from Ab Fab earned acclaim. I can’t list every cast member right now — I tossed the program after final bow. At least I do recall the…
Pimm’s, Peekaboo and an eBay Pick
Traveling to Europe? Here is my advice: When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in London in July, spend five hours drinking Pimm’s with gorgeous blogging bitches. The latter has become an annual tradition for me. Pimm’s Fest 2008 Pimm’s Fest 2009 Pimm’s Fest 2010 took place Saturday, July 10. My partners-in-crime were…
Holla, Bloggers in London, Paris and Mallorca
Are you a blogger who will be in London, Paris or Mallorca this month? Wanna get together and par-tay? If so, holla at me in the comments or email me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com so we can put something on the calendar. Make sure your liver is in good working order. Last year,…
What Wendy Wore: California Three-Peat
While I was packing for last week’s trip to Los Angeles, I remembered that I had unintentionally worn the same outfit and posed in the exact same location on L.A. visits in March 2008 and December 2008. This called for a three-peat, so I packed my Black Halo top, black Acne jeans, 16-year-old Karl Lagerfeld…
Greetings From Los Angeles
I’ve been in California for a very quick visit. Luckily, I squeezed in a dinner with some of my West Coast blogger bitches. This picture was taken outside Malo in Silver Lake. It’s hard to see, but everyone is wearing a pair of my silver Cleopatra earrings except for me. I’m wearing the gold Cleopatra…
Book Club: A Distant Mirror, Part III
Welcome to Part III of my report on A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. Read Part I and Part II to get yourselves oriented. On Saturday, in my second of a series of posts on the book A Distant Mirror, I listed the disasters of the 1300s. Those included what Tuchman…
Wangsta Shoe, Purchased in Phoenix
My old K. Jacques wedges were so stretched out that they were falling off my feet, so I got these to replace them. I discovered that my summer shoes were in a bad way when I sneaked off to Phoenix for a few days this week. While I was there, I saw gorgeous blogger Practical…
Up, Up and Away in Wine Country
Something I did in Napa Valley: Hot-air ballooning. Something I didn’t do in Napa Valley: Grape stomping. I Love Lucy grape-stomping episode News reporter grape-stomping fail Family Guy’s Stewie imitates the reporter’s grape-stomping failure UPDATED TO ADD MORE PICTURES: Here’s one from the air. After the flight, we had breakfast at a Tex-Mex place, where…