Instead of my usual (sort of) Wordless Wednesday post, I thought I would acknowledge the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Continue reading
Category Archives: Places
Georgia on My Mind:
In western Georgia (the country, not the state), there is a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture sinking into the rustic landscape. Continue reading
Zhero to Hero
Ischgl, Austria, deep in the Tyrolean Alps, may be lacking in vowels, but it is nonetheless home to Hotel Zhero, the sexiest ski resort in the world (according to me). Continue reading
The Real Glitteratti
On September 6, all the professional sometimes-ladies put on their best finery and walked the runway at the Ice Palace at the Cherry Grove Hotel in Cherry Grove, Fire Island, New York, and once again, my camera and I were there! Continue reading
Hey Kids, What Time is It? Wrong! It’s Drag Time!!!
Giant Klutz Goes to Glass Museum AND BREAKS NOTHING!!!
Mind the Gap
Australian Don Ritchie was a decorated hero, but his heroics were of a very unusual variety. Continue reading
Pretty Painted People
It’s turned out to be a body art kind of week. Continue reading
Forgotten New York (With Special Guest Star Typhoid Mary)
We are lucky enough to live in Broad Channel Continue reading
Getting Our Drag On!!
Professional Mermaids and Other Nonsense
Not Your Average Household Pests
In early March, I wrote about a woman who shared her house with a horse. That was cute and quirky, but it’s nothing compared to this. Continue reading
My Brighton Beach Memoirs
Today, my love and I went to Brighton Beach to explore and take pictures just for you lovelies! Continue reading
Come to Micronesia, the Smallest of the Nesias
Palau, Micronesia, is one of those places I’d like to visit before I die (which I hope will not be soon). Continue reading
Pedal Pusher
According to graffitimundo, self-taught graffiti artist Mart started his own street art movement at the age of 12 in his home town of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His poor mother. Continue reading
Really Little Boxes on a Hillside . . .
Hansel and Gretel Sold Separately
I Didn’t Even Know Stalinesque Was a Design Style

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“I decided I wanted to design the apartment in the style of a senior bureaucrat of the early Stalin period,” said the owner, antiques dealer Sergei Bobovnikov, 47. Continue reading
















