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Writing Day at SB Apartment on Martin Luther King Holiday: SB Symphony Recap, Fun with Caulking Gun (Sort Of), Patriots Defeat and a Cheeseburger Sans Ketchup
I’m in my cold Santa Barbara apartment for the first time in almost a week. I remembered to turn the new heater off when I left for LA, which doesn’t sound impressive but after 3 years with no heat, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Health & Beauty, Relationships, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged christopher commission, family, home improvement, LAPD, Macbeth, Martin Luther King Day, Mendelssohn, Mozart, new york city, Nir Kabaretti, Patriots, pets, Red Sox, relationships, SB symphony, sex, Takemitsu, the Granada Theater SB, yale, Yankees
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First Blog of 2013: Victorian Chick’s Reflections on Happiness, Social Media and Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Happy is good. I’ve always been a fan of happiness.” –Marsha Mason to James Caan in Neil Simon’s Chapter Two. It’s been two weeks since my pre-NYE blog as I have intermittently been working on my monster blog for … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Literature, Relationships, St. Augustine, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged chapter two, choices, Cliff Baldridge, daphne merkin, elizabeth wurtzel, facebook, feminism, friendship, gwyneth paltrow, happiness, harper's bazaar, hope Steadman, James Caan, Jewish, jezebel, Joe Bologna, katie baker, lynn beisner, marriage, Marsha Mason, mel harris, memoirs, money, New Years Eve, new york city, new york magazine, polly draper, private school, psychoanalysis, Role Reboot, secular jews, st. augustine, therapy, thirtysomething, yale
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How Diamond Nexus Fulfilled the Dreams of a Lifelong Jewelry Lover
I was not a little girl who played dress-up in her mother’s things. This is odd, given I am the quintessential girly girl who derives profound joy from designer resale and consignment stores both on the East and West … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Uncategorized
Tagged diamonds, engagement ring, family, grandmother, jewelry, simulant, synthetic, yale
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Happy Pre-Thanksgiving Week Blog: Victorian Chick Enters the 21st Century with an iPhone 5!
I’m at Enterprise Fish Company on a sleepy, cloudy Sunday in SB, eagerly anticipating my chicken club (minus bacon) with avocado and aioli after having eaten nothing all day except superlative vanilla birthday cake at T’s 9th birthday party at … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Music, Travel, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged 1992 election, 1993 blizzards, afghan whigs, apple store, bedtime stories, cafe majestic, enterprise fish company, fillmore theater, greg dull, hotel majestic, iphone, los angeles, madonna, new haven, roxy, rue epic, san francisco, santa barbara rock gym, toad's, upper east side, yale
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“The dear woman is having an orgasm over a bracelet: Get her a man!” [Meditation on Money, Inheritance Tax, and the Deeper Aesthetic Pleasures of Jewelry]
My eccentric, literary, retired lawyer/economist FB friend, sailing around the world and currently cruising the American Samoa, does not understand many things in life. He has done everything from climbing tall mountains to biking long distances to riding champion dressage … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged aesthetic pleasure, bernard williams, diamond nexus labs, ethics, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, inheritance tax, jewelry, kant, orgasms, poverty, psychology of money, sex, Swarovski, third critique, yale
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Happy Fiesta Weekend from Santa Barbara! (Plus Preview of “To Rome, With Love” Rave and Reflections on Victorian Chick’s “Rarefied” Life)
I am back from New York (and the Cape/Barrington, Rhode Island), happily ensconced with J and the animals on a stunning, sunny Saturday after a morning of clouds and drizzle. I didn’t plan to return on Thursday, August … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 1%, 360 State Street, amy waldman, big law, deconstruction, fiesta, graduate school, harvard westlake, husbands and wives, kathy reich, literary theory, manhattan, midnight in paris, new haven, o'melveny and myers, post-structuralism, taft apartments, to rome, upper east side, upper west side, west los angeles, westlake school for girls, with love, woody allen, yale, Yale Club of LA
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The “Vulgar Charm” of Mob Wives: A Reality Show Which Does Not Induce Nausea! (Posted en Route to the Cape on Bus)
Ed Note: I have a backup of blogs on Ben Vereen at 54 Below, the end of Luigi Jazz Dance Intensive and the traditional galavanting of Victorian Chick in the city but will leave those for the weekend at … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Philosophy, Television, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Barrington, Ben Vereen, cape cod, Carla Facciolo, cultural studies, deconstruction, Drita D'Avanzo, Essex County, geoffrey hartman, Housewives franchise, Housewives of Beverly Hills, Jacques Derrida, John Milton, John Rogers, Karen Gravana, los angeles, MA, Mob Wives, Montclair, new jersey, new york city, Nicole Miller, orange county, osterville, paradise lost, post-structuralism, Renee Graziano, RI, soap operas, Staten Island, TWice the Style, upper east side, William Wordsworth, yale, Yale English. Paul de Man
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Goodbye to the City From Santa Barbara: Yale, New Haven, Luigi Pictures (Minus “Remembering Shakespeare” at Beinecke Library) with Captions
Ed. note: WiFi spotty on American Airlines so I am posting this after a great re-entry to Santa Barbara with J, Emma and Ollie. I had a terrific brunch at Cafe Stella: crab/avocado melt with fontina on rye with Pays … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Theater, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged American Airlines, amtrak, Basta, berkeley college, Bloomberg, cafe stella, Claire's, English, la, luigi jazz dance centre, metro north, Mory's, New Haven Hotel, nyc, Owl Shop, Psycho Therapy: Couples Counseling for Three, sb, taft apartments, upper east side, Vanderbilt Hall, yale, Yale Repertory, Yale School of Drama, York Street
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Victorian Chick’s Anthropology of West Los Angeles Real Estate (Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Bel Air, Westwood, Malibu and Santa Monica–North of Montana)
I knew this iTunes thing was too good to be true. I have had the Macbook Pro about three months (used, a great deal on eBay) and it tells me there is a security breach and I cannot purchase … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged bel air, beverly hills, brentwood, college, elyse walker, entertainment industry, harvard westlake, high school, hollywood, holmby hills, lawyers, malibu, marina del rey, pacific palisades, reagan estate, real estate, shawn colvin, The Cottage, ucla, venice, wendy plumb, west hollywood, west los angeles, westlake school for girls, westwood, yale
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Prelude to Victorian Chick’s Ode to Santa Monica on a Cloudy Monday Night: Vidiots and Flying Saucers: Caffeine and Art
N.B.: This began as a blog about Santa Monica and two places Mom goes every Saturday after her ballet class for the week’s DVDs and treats for Dad, along with a latte and soup for herself. But it turned into … Continue reading
Posted in Family, School, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged californication, colleges, flying saucers, harvard, orange county, penn, private school, santa monica, swarthmore, uc system, vidiots, west los angeles, westlake, yale
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