A message from artist Alexander Guerra of plastiquehouse: I'm playing on the idea of "what if Ken dolls/GI Joes were more humanized? What if they had a real human torso? What would they look like nude? What if you stripped these guys/dolls down and you didn't end up disappointed? What if you en...

Covering any part of the positives in this market has been literally as rewarding as jumping in the bear cage with the bears at the zoo.  We have been refraining from doing as many stocks which are on 52-week lows as the list is just too many companies.  But after the close we perused the ...

I think it's because half of our furniture--including the television--is piled in our bedroom and that for the first time in our married life we've had a chance to watch movies in bed we've turned to our Netflix account more than normal. We've been whipping through the DVD rentals and let me tell yo...

I had a very strange dream last night. In it, Lola and I were competing on THE AMAZING RACE. Apparently the leg of the race we were on required us to race to one of several vans parked at the mall and drive from Sears to Macy’s. A distance of about 150 yards. After parking the van by the clue ...

Business is crummy, but at least the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a go. It's hard to believe, but the day of thanks is upon us. Despite the struggling economy, a near depression, and what is expected to be a long recession, we do have much to be thankful for. What started as a pricking of the s...

Messrs. Friedman, Victor and Kohr,On June 4, 2008, Barack Obama said to you and a huge AIPAC audience: "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided." Now that it is apparent that the President-Elect has broken his promise, and not just "clarified" his position, when are...

I'm buying a new purse. I bought one in the summer, from Macy's, which fell apart after a month. So this is a better option! Environmentally friendly as it's recycled material, tough, cute, no animal parts, and it's black rubber.. And it costs less than the cheap piece of crap I bought at Macy's.....

My parents came to visit for the weekend. That was fun. They got in around 7 on Friday, and we said goodbye at 3 on Monday. They used two excuses to come out 1) I go to school here, and 2) Phil Lesh and Friends had a residency at the Nokia Theater in Times Square. Being Dead Heads, they could hardly...

Oh man, there are just too many cute things to buy these days, and too great a need in my life for retail therapy right now. After I left work on Saturday (yeah, I know...WAH!), I went to Stanford Shopping Center to unwind and see if I could use my $35 worth of gift card at BR--I ended up not using ...

Today I had an hour and a half to kill while waiting on kids at piano lessons. Since piano lessons are across the street from the mall and since I had the baby boy with me, (which means no nice jaunt to the library) I decided to see what the mall had going on this afternoon. I rarely, if ever, go to...