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October 31, 2007
Crrruzzzy
Not to put the cart before the hoss, or anything like that, but I think I may have just scored myself a pretty SWEET freelance position redesigning/rewriting an NFP web site. Which just may involve a trip to DALLAS next week to meet with the graphic team. I'll say "hi" to Bobby Ewing for y'all.
Yahoo!
Posted by Bree at 01:40 PM | Comments (0)
Hallows
One haunted corn maze, two pumpkins, four parties and countless mini-Butterfingers later, I am ready to bid adieu to my favorite holiday tonight with a two-hour candy pass-out followed by a spooktacular screening of the world's best horror movie: Halloween. (Duh!)
In related, my costume this year gave new meaning to the word horror. Yes, my little readership, I revisited the heady days of 1990 with a dashing ensemble of one (1) Cherokee brand pastel striped turtleneck sweater, one (1) kenya bag, one (1) acid-washed miniskirt, one (1) pair of glasses, one (1) pair of suntan pantyhose and one (1) clarinet. Still stumped as to the inspiration behind this dashing ensemble? Oh just a little thing I like to call Bree in the 8th grade. It - and I - was astonishingly sexy, rest assured. Coupled with my date, who went as The Dude from The Big Lebowski, we made quite an impression on Denver's Halloween Hoi Polloi. Let's just say: the calls for us to party naked were both frequent and insistent.
Smokin' hot - it's how "I do."
Happy Halloween, kiddados.
Now pass the Baby Roofs.
Mama's hungry.
Posted by Bree at 12:37 PM | Comments (0)
October 30, 2007
Bad Blogger
Nic-chick
I know. Ever since I got back from Europe, I've been a bad, bad blogger.
It's not in my nature to be so uncommunicative, but let's all serve up a big piece of slack for the Breegers: I've been sick as the dog. Three or four weeks now, I've been snotting and coughing and malaise-ridden and all the other good stuff that comes along with my smoking habit and the change of season. Gahhhhhhh! So irksome.
And, in other news, I seem to have procured myself a new boy. His name is Matt and he's awfully cute. But that's all you're getting.
So, in addition to all the excitement and glee and bonhomie that comes with a new "thing," I'm also trying to find a copywriting job, installing built-in bookshelves, a new fireplace and wallpaper in my library, and planning a baby shower for my darling Pifuka. Plans being so far: loads of booze, no games. Wanna come?
I'll continue to endeavor to update this as often as possible, which will probably be in direct correlation to how frequently I'm blowing off any and all of the above, but don't get too steamed if it's just randers links and youtube videos for a while. Girl's busy, and expecting to get a lot more so once skiing season starts in earnest. As for now, though, I've got to go rewrite my cover letter. Ghastly.
Posted by Bree at 01:33 PM | Comments (0)
October 29, 2007
This Really Might Be the Best Thing Ever
Buy it here, my little dog-loving brethren. Now if only they made it Deucey-sized, we'd be alllll set.
Posted by Bree at 09:35 PM | Comments (0)
The Grossest Tail
Feeling particularly iron-stomached this afternoon? Check out this Times article on perfume manufacturing my dear ole Da sent Denver-way.
Italicized excerpt:
“This is civet!” Guichard announced. Civet is a fundamental French perfume material, a historic girder of the industry and the quintessential scent of France. It happens to come, Guichard said pleasantly, “from the anal gland of the civet cat.”
The consultant stared at him. “What?” she said.
“Well, a sexual gland,” said an amused Guichard, who then hit a button on his computer. The large plasma screen behind him showed us a picture of civets. They look like house cats who’ve been painted to look like zebras. He explained that the perfume material from the anal gland is found in both males and females. And it smells — quite simply — like anus.
“This is in perfume?” asked the marketer doubtfully.
“Absolutely,” said Guichard. “My father was testing it. They were using small blotters, and they were scooping out the cream —”
“It’s a cream?”
“Yes, and my father was tasting it. Rolled the cream around in his mouth.”
And in related news...
Posted by Bree at 01:03 PM | Comments (0)
October 28, 2007
Swoon River
I think that I would love to have this wallpaper in a bathroom. Not my weird, slanty, tiny bathroom, naturally, but a bathroom all the same.
Posted by Bree at 11:35 AM | Comments (0)
October 26, 2007
Reminder
Buy the shirt here.
Posted by Bree at 03:04 PM | Comments (0)
Congratulations + Salutations
(c/o the fabulous Mr. Fox)
To Mike and Kristi, who are getting married this weekend in Virginia. These kids and their new-fangled devotion to everlasting love.
¡Viva la good times this weekend and fo'eve'mo'e!
Posted by Bree at 11:32 AM | Comments (0)
October 24, 2007
Zombie Love
Here's a little PSA for the National Resources Defense Council (a place I sooooo almost took a job at back in 2000!) made by my lovely little Margo and her budz.
If you like it, be sure to comment on Youtube as it apparently really helps with the circulation. If you don't like it, you're not invited to Thanksgiving.
Posted by Bree at 08:19 AM | Comments (0)
October 23, 2007
Ladies and Jints, We Have a Winner
Posted by Bree at 08:20 PM | Comments (0)
Heeeeee! Meeeeee!
I just found my "official corporate biography" for Wine Chicks, which I don't think was ever published. For those who really don't know what my o.p. (original path) was when I first got here, enlighten yourself with the following italicized remarks:
My name is Bree, and I’ve been sober for roughly ten hours. Cut me some slack here. I work in a wine bar. Or, more to the point, a coffee bar that’s fast in transition to becoming a wine bar. And when I say “fast in transition,” I mean “thinking of setting a cheese plate next to the Splenda.”
Regardless. After eight years spent as a fancy-schmance writer in New York City (you know, the kind that would have the derring-do, technical know-how and joie de vivre re: hyphens to use the word “fancy-schmance” in a bio), I recently relocated to Denver to work a bit in the wine-service industry and see how I feel about opening up my own bar out here.
The best part about Denver? You can join the Mile-High Club from the comfort of your own bed. Or your own bathroom floor. Or his. Depends on how much official business research you’ve downed in the past few hours, animal.
Speaking of official business research, there are many exciting ways by which I am officially researching my business. I will share with you the top six:
1. Studying “Wine for Dummies” and other such high-falutin’ mainstays of the literary canon
2. Asking questions, noting procedure, and sitting in smug judgment of many of the basic marketing and service mistakes at my place of employ
3. Drinking as much wine as I can get my hands on
4. Drinking your wine too, on the sly-like, while you’re in the lavatory
5. Writing about all the hangovers and grit encountered along this entrepreneurial path on my blog, Sweet and Bitter
6. Writing about all the wine and related effluvia encountered along this entrepreneurial path on The Wine Chicks’ blog, The Wine Chicks
And there you have it.
Now let’s get that waitress over here.
Oh! Dipsomania never fails to amuse/confound!
Posted by Bree at 03:02 PM | Comments (0)
Are These for Skiing???
'cause if so, howly crap I want them. (In black, Dad! xoxox!)
Militant design with 8-base lens curvature for vast peripheral view, durable PLUTONITE® lens material with 100% UV protection, Black IRIDIUM® lens coating for precisely tuned light transmission, stitch detailing, and rivets for attachment to leather skullcap (sold separately). For those who pursue defiance without restraint.
Er...wait...leather skullcap? Er...ABORT! ABORT!
Posted by Bree at 12:39 PM | Comments (0)
Sony Bravia Pyramid Advert
Better 'en bunnies, not as good as balls.
Posted by Bree at 08:04 AM | Comments (0)
October 22, 2007
Guest Columnist: Mike L. Previews Hong Kong's Bathing Ape Store
$350 shoes, $100 t-shirts... this shit is urban pimp for the limo set. The store is also mad cool. As you walk up the neon enhanced staircase into the showroom floor, there is a see-through plexi-glass floor, revealing a revolving track display of their latest kicks. Their newest gear is packaged in toy store packaging... think GI Joe figurine packs but larger. Awesome!
Posted by Bree at 09:18 PM | Comments (0)
I'd Like to Take This Moment to Reaffirm my Devotion to Cheddar Cheese Pretzel Combos
There.
Posted by Bree at 01:31 PM | Comments (0)
D-Sign D-Rinks
From Jaime over at designklub:
Whether you are in the field of industrial, product, graphic or any other type of design come on down for an informal gathering of Denver design enthusiasts. We'll share exploits from the recent AIGA conference, steal each other's Halloween costume ideas and generally have a good time.
Join us on Monday, October 29th from 6-8 PM at the Skylark Lounge, located at 140 S. Broadway. Happy Hour goes until 7 and it's a big enough place that we'll be able to hear each other talk.
Posted by Bree at 01:11 PM | Comments (0)
October 21, 2007
High Life
Uno maaaath, por favor.
I realize my posting quota has been a little on the deficient side of late, but suffice it: London and Barcelona were fabu fabu fabu (check pics here) and I came home to...well...to an exciting new thing. More on that later, as the jinx of mentioning ANY boys on this blog has been well-documented, but look for more updates this week as I finally get over my EVER-LINGERING jet-laggardness and, uh, stop the near-constant face-stuff booze-quaff responsibility-blow-off of the past few weeks.
As far as the overuse of hyphens goes, however, you can rest assured I'll remain your obedient servant.
Posted by Bree at 07:41 PM | Comments (0)
October 09, 2007
Out Como Trout
I'm off to Europa Europa tonight and won't be back 'til the morn. Or actually the eve. Of the 17th. Feel free to break into my home and molest my homesitter whilst I'm gone. I'm told she likes hunks and Kentucky bourbon - and not necessarily in that order. Just sayin'.
Posted by Bree at 02:57 PM | Comments (0)
October 08, 2007
F-f-f-foolin' With my Photograph (All I Got is a)
Fun! Take any image you've got lying around your desktop (like this one of Britney's delightful quad boob, par ejemps) and "Hockneyize" it into several different Polaroids over at the delightful Hockneyizer.
(via How About Orange...)
Monday morning bonus:
Posted by Bree at 09:50 AM | Comments (0)
Five Word Movie Review Monday
Marie's mid-film summary: "Die already!"
Posted by Bree at 09:22 AM | Comments (0)
October 07, 2007
Verbatim: Best. CSR. Letter. Ever.
Text of letter received (along with wallpaper swatches) from Tapenten der 70er:
Dear Ms Nee*y,in principle the view of our sample wallpapers does not mean a risk to health. For reasons of caution you should neveretheless use the wallpapers masured. After all, to switch from simple ingrain wallpapers to the patterns from the 70s is comparable with changing from VW Golf to Ford Mustang. Maybe you will lose ground by watching our overwhelming wallpapers.
Now all jokes aside!
Enclosed you will receive your order of wallpaper samples. As a result of the oversized patterns regrettably only a small cutout can be shown. The out of ordinary surfaces and the partly infatuation beautiful colors will make you crazy about our wallpapers. That's for sure!We look forward to hearing from you soon and remain with best regards,
[Signature block]
Doesn't this just make your heart go pitter-pat-THADUMP? It's GENIUS on many, many levels. Including, but not limited to, the German/American car analogy. And the use of the phrase "partly infatuating." My GOD, I need a bratwurst. And a dirndl.
So support copywriting of the flagrantly bizarre ilk and send any 1970's wallpaper business that's-a percolatin' in your cozy little nest their way. Who knows? A letter that seems to have been authored by a monkey on too many - or perhaps not enough - Psilocybin mushrooms might too end up in your mailbin. One can always dream.
Posted by Bree at 12:53 PM | Comments (0)
October 06, 2007
Choose Your Own Arcade Fire Video
Click around in here.
Posted by Bree at 02:37 PM | Comments (0)
October 05, 2007
Five Word Movie Review Friday
Now that's a good movie.
Posted by Bree at 11:41 PM | Comments (0)
Lovely New Sony Bravia Ad
(Stones?! Oh no you DINT.)
More here.
Posted by Bree at 02:32 PM | Comments (0)
Face Paint on the Cheap
I think I've forwarded this to every fallopian tube in my address book, but *in case you're just a rando lurker* - feel the bargainy love c/o my favorite Chicagoan:
Inventory closeout on makeup – I guess Nordstrom’s is buying e.l.f. makeup so they’re selling everything for $1.00.
Use the coupon code "Carolina" to get $7.50 off your order of $15 or more. Shipping is $6.95, but its well worth it when everything costs $1.
Go HERE!!!
It's true! It's all $1! Your lady in lip gloss (along with several of her cronies) have already ordered about a bazillo things for NADA so get going, ladies. Seriously. This is the most important thing you'll do all year. And that's not a slag on charity work - just the God's honest.
Posted by Bree at 11:54 AM | Comments (0)
October 04, 2007
Not Like I Ever Think About Baseball...
minus, of course, the fact that the longer the Sox stay in the running, the longer SOG is away from Denver (don't ask - boy is plum obsesso), but man! Go Rockies! Er...and Sox. 'course.
Posted by Bree at 05:00 PM | Comments (0)
Inbox
from: Mikey Macs
to: The assorted clowns
date: Oct 4, 2007 6:42 AM
subject: F Train
I was sitting on the F-train heading toward Brooklyn last night when these two thuggish looking teenage girls got on my car at Delancy Street. Wasn't really paying any attention until I hear one of them reading one of those 'Poetry in Motion' poems out loud, a Walt Whitman one from 'Leaves of Grass'. You've probably seen it.
"STRANGER! If you, passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?"
"Who wrote that?"
"Walt Whitman."
"Is he still alive?"
"Nah."
"Probably cause of some dumb shit like that."
Posted by Bree at 07:12 AM | Comments (0)
October 03, 2007
Denver Art Update c/o Mr. Fox
ARTISANS AND KINGS: SELECTED TREASURES FROM THE LOUVRE
Denver Art Museum
Oct. 6, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008
125 objects from the Louvre, including Gobelin’s 1775 tapestry The Loves of the Gods, Vertume and Pomone, a selection of Sèvres porcelain, and paintings and drawings by Rubens, Titian, Velazquez and Dürer
VIC MUNIZ IN DENVER (from artnet.com)
Artist and Zingmagazine publisher Devon Dikeou doesn’t only hang out at sports events when she visits her hometown of Denver, Colo. - she also organizes exhibitions. Her latest effort in that regard, "Muniz: Remastered," Oct. 4, 2007-Jan. 20, 2008, opens at the Museo de las Américas, Denver’s museum of contemporary Latin American art headed by Patty Ortiz. The show feature’s Muniz’s interpretations of famous works by Corot, Dürer, Rembrandt and other masters in a range of unlikely materials - chocolate, sequins, junk, peanut butter and jelly.
(Acc. to Mr. F., Vik Muniz is "awesome." And according to everyone around here, Ms. Dikeou is our city's most prominent pioneer of art-n-kulture. In a word? Sold.)
Posted by Bree at 10:08 PM | Comments (0)
Open Studio at INV/ALT
open studio at INV/ALT design this Saturday afternoon, October 6, noon-4 pm.
3100 blake street, denver colorado (enter on 31st)
MAGNETIC ceramics, upholstery, furniture
+ wii tournament
+ flipbook workshop
+ food and drink
more information at blog.invaltdesign.com
* feeling ambitious? download this picture, print it out, cut on dotted lines, and make your own flipbook!
Posted by Bree at 08:32 PM | Comments (0)
October 01, 2007
Fab(ric)
With a scoring assist from my *most famous* friend, I finally picked out a fabric for my kitchen curtains. Behold!
Amy Butler, Nigella fabric in Grey Passion Vine from Purl Soho.
Not that I have any idea how to make curtains, but I figure it shouldn't be too hard. A little modge podge, a little elbow grease, some peanut butter (or oleo) and things should fall into place easy peasy. Erk.
Posted by Bree at 07:50 PM | Comments (0)
Tonight in Craig's List
STD??? - m4w - 54
Would like to meet a lady who either has herpes or one who can enjoy safe sex with me. I'm 5 6", a bit of the chubby side, white, single, and will give oral and use toys instead of me if you're willing. Can host. Leave contact info and let's get wet together.
Posted by Bree at 06:50 PM | Comments (0)
Rodent Update
I'm such a damned softie, I bought a "catch and release" trap for Mickey. I plan on sitting back tonight with a snifter of scotch and waiting for the fun to begin.
Posted by Bree at 06:12 PM | Comments (0)
Looking Forward...
Ahhhh! Me DOMINATING the back bowls at Vail!
I bought my Colorado Pass yesterday. Unlimited at Breckenridge, Keystone and A-Basin; 10 days at Vail/Beaver Creek (with date restrictions). The famdam is looking to come out in February, perhaps, to coincide with Dania's school vacation. Ahhhhhhh! !!!! I'm also hoping to get down to Telluride and/or out to Utah this year for a lil more of that freshy pow-pow. Join me. I'll buy you a Tuaca.
Posted by Bree at 10:34 AM | Comments (0)