Summer Saturdays are for Living

I had a big, Saturday lady-date with Malaika. We met at Minetta Tavern. She's always wanted to go, and I'm doing all this NYC Bucket List stuff since we're leaving in a few weeks.

Minetta Tavern is old and cute. We had big fat, juicy burgers.




I lied- Minetta wasn't exactly on my NYC Bucket List, but I got the idea when Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls tweeted that their new, summer 2012 location is across the street from Minetta Tavern, and I was interested because of that Fran Lebowitz: Public Speaking documentary I saw on HBO.

What a convenient, wonderful meal plan? I thought. Malaika signed on without hesitation.

And Sno-Balls came after burgers because we are geniuses.


Half pear - half peaches & cream


Then, we biked up 6th Ave... 

...And got rained on a little. 
But we arrived at our third destination - The Museum of Modern Art, to catch one last intriguing glimpse of the Cindy Sherman retrospective. 

We both left feeling full and inspired. Good Saturday!

New Bikes, New Tricks

Saturday morning I left the house at 6am to grab coffee and vol. at PP. 

It was rainy and I had to wear a backpack because this bike doesn't have a rack situation...yet.
At the store, they tried to give me some fugly rack but I'd rather suffer than put ugly accessories on this bike. I'm also never trying to put a front basket because it's just too beautiful and tidy up there. 

Sunday I got wise and put this L.A.M.B. neon pink satchel with short handles on the short handlebars of this bike and it went much better than the sweaty-back-inducing backpack of Saturday.

I also put my lock on like this and I'm not in love with that placement.

Despite feeling lazy throughout this weekend, it was actually big and full. 

1. Volunteered at the Planned Parenthood. Pretty uneventful shift. That's a good thing!

2. Rode the new bike to scope out exactly where but I'm still not sure I'm going to hold my Bike Month Ladies event. Save the date coming soon! 

3. Gave Matt a haircut. 

4. Rode the Viva Bike to MoMa to meet Josh, the sweetheart who runs the best John Waters fansite.

5. Took in the magnificent Cindy Sherman exhibit and utilized the audio tour. 

6. Sewed a bunch of my old necklaces. The Martha Stewart ones. 

7. Rode the Viva Bike to meet Matt and friends for our anniversary dinner. 7 years! 

I'm so happy there's a giant Cindy Sherman banner that I get to see every evening on my ride home because I never ever make this red light. 

She's so fresh and bright, she sticks out. 

Sticking out at Astor Place Saturday in the foggiest fog. 

Films at MoMa - !WAR: Women's Art Revolution

I finally saw Gloria Steinem in person! I missed seeing Gloria S. at the Planned Parenthood Rally for Women's Health last weekend because she simply wasn't there. She was under the weather. So sad. 

Luckily, my Mother-in-Law loves us and got us the coolest present ever for Christmas- Membership to MoMa! We don't live too far from it, and Matt had never been before we got started on our membership. We are going to go 

I opened our monthly member calendar and BOOM! Gloria was introducing the new Lynn Herschmann Leeson film: !WAR: Women's Art Revolution. The girls who I asked to go with me were busy, so Matt agreed to go. Matt is really progressive, but I still worried about taking him to a feminist art film on a school-night. 

We saw Gloria, whose comments  I think I would have better-appreciated after the film. But she was so gorgeous and tiny. I'm so glad I saw her. 

We also noticed who I'm almost certain was Sofia C. there. It made sense to me why she would have been there. If it was her; also very tiny. A wavy-haired bird. 

My movie review: I'm glad I saw it. It was important, but depressing. There was footage of the filmmaker trying to get people on the street to name THREE FEMALE ARTISTS and no one could do it. All of these female artists basically said "Fuck the system" and started their own galleries and art collectives and that was awesome of them. It taught me to be mindful of how many female artists are in galleries and shows I visit. I need to pay attention and support more female gallery shows/artists. 

Hair/Buying Stuff/Wearing Stuff

My hair was uncooperative Friday evening, but I didn't want to wash it and start from scratch. It looks much better in these photos than I felt wearing it. I did not fully believe in this hair.



This is MAC Full Fuchsia Lipstick- But it's from a seasonal collection and is now discontinued. I was going to say you can buy Amplified if you need a color just like this, but Amplified appears to be discontinued too.

But wait- my skin looks AMAZING! I've been using Pond's Cold Cream (Seriously and I started using it before it was a story line on Mad Men, so I've been using it for months. My grandmother uses it and I think she's had the same beauty routine since she was 35 and her skin looks great, and she's now 87, so I'm going with her plan.

I don't let "soap" or anything soapy get on my face, and Ponds is like $7 dollars and it's got the goods to dissolve all my crazy mascara and eye-liners. I'm using this Olay Moisturizer with SPF 20. I rarely wash my face at night. Sometimes I moisturize my dirty face at night. Yep, I just admitted that.



So yeah, the hair is all back.

Then today it's all, like, down in the front. I felt more confident with this, but it looks crappier in pics.

Thursday was my last shampoo and Monday will be my next. 


Saturday mornings lately, Matt plays basketball with a motley crew of scientists. This is a great time for me to do whatever I want.

My itinerary went in this order with great success at all points:
1. MoMa - Film Screenings of: Nine from Little Rock, which was awesome because it was 4 years after the big show-down and it showed that they all went to college, Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - It was cool to learn about him and see his cool house he built by himself, and A Year Toward Tomorrow, about the VISTA volunteer program of the sixties.

2. Andy Warhol's Polaroids of Celebrities at Danziger Project.

I went through another small gallery over there in Chelsea, but I didn't notice the name.

3. The MAC Wonder Woman pop-up store.

4. Unplanned SoHo shopping at Roxy/Quiksilver and CB2.

I saw a sale sign at the Quiksilver store. I don't see many girls/ladies wearing Roxy in New York City, but I've loved it for a long time so I do- Even though I've clearly read articles stating that they expect my age group to grow up and start buying the Quiksilver Womens line, but they don't seem to have that at the Quiksilver stores in the city.

I got this Roxy Nick of Time coat for much cheaper than they have it online. I paid $40.  I already have so many coats but I'm able to retire two coats because of what this one does. This one is a CHAMPION Dime Piece because it's going to provide major visibility when I ride my bicycle! I swear I notice drivers being nicer, less aggressive, and more polite when they can clearly see that I'm a girl.

On the Roxy website, the color is called Rose and looks like a demure pink online, but this thing is bright and its going to have me feeling extra safe on the bike.

This awesome GUESS Jeans Sweatshirt marked 1990 is an Arkansas Thrifted/Goodwill piece, that I got on my last/December trip to Arkansas. I'm so happy I did such a great job cutting the neck out of it to make it more girly-sexy style. It's little kids size.

All day through my movie, galleries and shopping I almost always had on all my coat, scarf, etc., so I almost forgot what I had on under there.

I also wore my Sugarbunnies McDonald's Happy Meal watch to show that I'm serious.

Too Cold to Live

We are sitting on this couch-

-Watching the Golden Globes!
I love Claire Danes so much, and her and Kyra Sedgwick's outfits are my favs.

See the gossip bench? He's hangin' over here.


This weekend New York City is so cold! It's not even freezing. It's like 20's or in the teens. So sad. Definitely no bicycles. Bus/Subway/Taxi/Feet were used.

Friday night I came home from work to find out apartment without electricity. We have warmth from our radiators. It was just boring because of the darkness and lack of TV, but our friend Gail came over and we talked & talked gossiped until bedtime.

Saturday morning I had to whoop some ass on the electricity situation. Matt played basketball with some boy-friends while I took care of biz'nazz. After I got our power back on (with the help of emergency electricians) I got dressed and headed down to Chelsea to catch this little Robert Rauschenberg show. It was very nice. I feel inspired to make some fabric/sewing/cardboard art.
-But we'll see if I get around to that. 


I realized I was not terribly far from the FIT Museum, so I walked. I saw these 2 exhibits and it was GREAT.

I read about the museum because the Japanese fashion exhibit was in something I was reading, but the "His & Hers" stole my heart. I love clothing exhibits. I was listening to Feist on my iPod. Just a lovely time.

Saturday night we thought we were going to pick-up tacos and watch our Netflix movie, but we got invited over to the Upper West Side by our new couple-friends. We rode the bus over there. We tried out Dive 75 and Cafe Frida. I had a really fancy Chile Relleno with pumpkin seeds and all kinds of stuff in it. We took ourselves to the bus stop to head home and dear god it was freezing so we jumped in a cab.

Today/Sunday we rode the bus to MoMA! This was our first time using our new membership we received for Christmas. We caught the Andy Warhol video portraits thing and did a few floors, got exhausted and left. We are going to burn a hole in our membership cards come spring & summer time!