Food Christmas Eve / Feaster

Mostly that's what's happening today, a day of rain-soaked red carpet, India sadness, fresh bagels and laserlike focus on determining when it's appropriate to start cocktailing, which sounds more delicate than drinking. Only there is no muumuu. Yet.

Paint-by-Numbers Venice

Accurate? Hard to say. Fascinating? Definitely.

Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

Yes, it's supposed to rain. Boring old Weather.com says so. But is it iced-coffee weather?

May All Your Days be Circus Days

"Elephant husbandry" is an excellent pachyderm term. Sundara is an excellent brand-new pocket-sized pachyderm starlet, and will soon appear in the Greatest Show on Earth. Why, again, aren't we elephant trainers?

Stools I Have Loved

Apparently the best stools are like the best men: they're sleek and sturdy and they warm up when you sit on them.

See more of my Stools I Have Loved list at ThisNext.

Rei Kawakubo, Can I be Your Friend?

Untitled from Tavi G on Vimeo.

Also, Style Rookie, can I be your friend. Also, I want the genie pants, too.

Mom Was So Good at Jazzercise

Make Snow Angels Not War

Sun Valley '08 hotness. Nothing like a little conspicuous consumption and remote travel and overpriced lift tickets to ring in the new year. And global economic dissolution. Sorry friends from GM and Lehman Brothers and Yahoo! (That's their exclamation point, not mine... an exclamation point would be so gauche in these trying times. Not our style. We ski for peace.)

Fur Floats

Now all that is needed is a yacht and we'll take take our latent Dadaists on a cruise.

Creature Feature

Love a creature story: Venice, alligator, police, Gold's Gym. Everything. Next time will someone call us, please?

Bagel Wednesday

Apparently it's all in the barley malt (and the wrist) (and the oven being sort of broken).