On the HBO show Girls—the second season premieres this Sunday!—the characters wear gorgeous, crazy and awkward clothes, depending on the day. Costume designer Jenn Rogien is the mastermind behind it all, so I was thrilled to ask her my 9 most pressing questions. Her answers were eye-opening...Read More >Tuesday, January 8, 2013
On the HBO show Girls—the second season premieres this Sunday!—the characters wear gorgeous, crazy and awkward clothes, depending on the day. Costume designer Jenn Rogien is the mastermind behind it all, so I was thrilled to ask her my 9 most pressing questions. Her answers were eye-opening...Read More >
Tattly, the Brooklyn-based collection of temporary tattoos, just came out with friendship bracelets! Designed by Julia Rothman, each $5 pack comes with two: one for you and one for your buddy.P.S. Thank you so much for your sweet comments yesterday. It was so fun to share the news with you:)
Monday, January 7, 2013
After holding my tongue for months, I'm really excited to announce that Alex and I are expecting our second child! We are completely over the moon. I'm three months along, so the baby should arrive around July 3rd. Toby has requested that we have a "glurl" and name her "Thomas," after this friendly guy.Pregnancy and new motherhood felt both wonderful and disorienting the first time around, so I'm curious how different it will feel the second time. Funnily enough, this pregnancy already feels much more real. With Toby, my pregnancy felt surreal and was hard to wrap my head around, but now we know more about what to expect. My friend Sari and I were talking about the experience of expecting a second child, and she said, "Because I knew what it felt like to love Jude, I was able to tap into this deep, true kind of love for Teddy from the very instant I knew I was pregnant with her." I loved that.
How mindblowing to think we're going to experience a newborn again along with all those sweet steps: growing a belly, finding out the gender, giving birth, choosing a name, cuddling a newborn, breastfeeding, doing tummy time, acting a little crazy, waking up early, swapping drool-y kisses, trying to figure out a good work-life balance, standing up, taking first steps, saying first words....
I can't wait. :)
(Photo kindly taken by our friend Shannen Norman. Thank you again, Shannen!)
Friday, January 4, 2013
What are you up to this weekend? I'm excited to take Alex to this swing art installation, and other than that, we'll be straight-up chilling. Next week, I'm looking forward to sharing our California photos. Have a great weekend, and here are a few fun posts from around the web...A song for your weekend.
Would you ever do a juice fast? This documentary looks compelling.
If only all clothing stores could be like this!
This book looks adorable.
The neuroscience of pickpockets.
Holy smokes! This bed is awesome.
What would you do if money were no object?
A bike bell that sounds like a car horn.
Cool way to get the look of wallpaper.
Apple cake looks delicious.
I've been eyeing these rad sunglasses for winter.
And I did a round-up of favorites at Darling Clementine. Thanks for having me!
(Beautiful winter style from Citizen Couture)
As you may know, the Up series is a series of eight fascinating documentary films that has tracked the lives of fourteen English schoolchildren since 1964, when they were seven years old. Every seven years, the director Michael Apted releases a new documentary that checks in on their increasingly varied lives (when they're aged 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49...). The children all came from very different socio-economic backgrounds, and the director, Michael Apted, wanted to see how this would affect their futures.The documentary films are wildly compelling—you follow these people as they graduate from school, move cities, find jobs, lose jobs, have children, get married, have affairs, dash their dreams, find happiness, lose their way, face whatever life brings. Each episode, you think you know where their lives are headed, but I've been shocked, thrilled and devastated to see certain updates. The most recent installment—56 Up—came out in England this past May, and I've been waiting with baited breath for it to reach the United States.
Well, 56 Up is finally released today! (Right now I see showtimes for just New York, but it should be hitting more cities on January 18th.) Film critic Roger Ebert called the films, "Brilliant! The 'Up' series is on my list of the 10 greatest films of all time." He also wrote a great overview here.
Will you see it? I highly, highly recommend the series.
P.S. 19 more fantastic documentaries...
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Did you guys read the recent New York Times Magazine interview with Jerry Seinfeld? What surprised me was how obsessive Seinfeld is when writing his jokes. His stand-up feels effortless, but actually "Seinfeld will nurse a single joke for years, amending, abridging and reworking it incrementally, to get the thing just so," writes Jonah Weiner in the article. Seinfeld looks for funny words ("chimps," "dirt, "playing" and "sticks" are all funny, he explains). The joke can't be too long or too short; he'll go so far as to shave off letters or syllables from a sentence to pare it down. Seinfeld also avoids four-letter words, which he thinks are a crutch: "Guys that can use any word they want—if I had that weapon, I’ll give you a new hour in a week," he says.Here, Seinfeld dissects a Pop Tarts joke he's been working on for two years...It reminds you just how hard it is to make something look easy.
P.S. Have you heard of Seinfeld's online series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee? Including Alec Baldwin!
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Welcome back from the holidays! Hope you had a wonderful, relaxing time. So, I'm curious: Are you making any New Year's resolutions?Here are my five resolutions this year:
Write regular letters to my grandmother in England
Learn how to blow dry my hair well, like they do in salons
Stop biting my nails like a five-year-old (have you heard of this stuff?)
(Try to) get over my subway phobia at long last
Learn to tell a great joke
What about you?
Alex jokes that his resolution is to spend another year talking about starting yoga. I think he can do it!
(Photo of a snow crystal by Mike and Doug Starn)
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