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September 27, 2007
Your Japanese BF
..A must-have for that special someone in your life. Not (yet) available at Azaleas. Sorry ladies, you'll have to get your friends in Tokyo to send them over!
September 22, 2007
mob candy
walking to work this morning, i saw a poster for this magazine called "mob candy"
according to wikipedia, it's the maxim for wiseguys. apparently, the first issue has a foldout poster of john gotti. what a hottie! not really, just wanted to add a rhyme. no comment from me - i was just interested in seeing what the heck this mag was all about. i'm still bumbed that Jane magazine is no longer being published!
hey, if this kinda thing floats your boat read further for wikipedia info:
The idea for the magazine came from a chance meeting in a Manhattan sushi bar between Tyrone Christopher, an African American from Milwaukee with a background in graphic design, and Frank DiMatteo, an Italian American from Red Hook, Brooklyn, and former magazine publisher and distributor of Screw magazine. The two developed the idea of a glossy magazine about Italian American Mafia culture. The name of the magazine comes from a line of mafia-inspired clothing owned by Christopher.
DiMatteo himself claims to have been brought up "in the life", and has been quoted as saying, "When I was a young guy I ran around with some people known to have a lot of contacts, let's put it that way."
September 21, 2007
one potato, two potato, couch potato
after having a summer hiatus from reality tv (i really tried!), i'm back in on tv. top chef, tim gunn (azaleas episode airing soon!), and now gordon ramsay's kitchen nightmares to name a few.
please please watch gordon ramsay's show, so we can talk to each other? this week's season premiere was too good, we couldn't even pause the tiVo to put the clothes in the dryer. that would've just taken too long!
next week is apparently an Indian restaurant right here in NYC. not sure if i can stomach that one...i can't live without my tikka masala!
September 20, 2007
come in today!
ok, we here at azaleas apologize for being soooooo busy and sooooo lazy at the same time.
We have TOO many majorly cute stuff in and i'm soooo not overusing my superlatives right now.
Seriously, we have been opening box after box in the shop of adorable fall merchandise. all you hear is, "oh my gosh, i want one of those" we're so busy tagging stuff, i haven't been able to put up new merch on the site. i apologize profusely to our web shoppers and will get working on this after this blog post...
in the meantime, if you live/work or are visiting the city, come on down! I sould like bob's discount furniture store, but i mean it!
here's a shot of our left-coast friend, Cindy, donning her newest purchase (a fleece coat from woo).
nice bag~~
This week is market week (the not-so-glamorous equivalent of Fashion Week for us smaller stores), and all the fashion peeps are in town.
any way, i picked up my new fall bag recently - the Matinee bag from Rebecca Minkoff and i noticed 4 different people carrying it. no problemo but i love how people react differently when they see someone carrying the same bag. it's either "hey, nice bag!" *Smiles all around* or you see the girl notice out of the corner of her eye and then inch away from you.
Me? i'm the one who inches away. ha!
falling down
man, what a sucky day...
not having to commute anymore (i live and work in the east village), i always forget about what the rest of the city has to deal with. i feel for you peoples. trying to get to the tradeshows to see all the new SPRING 08 stuff this morning was a hassle and a half. First, i got pushed off 2 trains (I used to weasle myself in there but dont' have the ballss to do it anymore). I then spaced out while trying to transfer to another train and then left the station altogether. (hey, this is before i had any coffee)
I finally realized i had to get back in but i guess the metrocard doesn't cover that mistake and i had to pay up again. all this to try and save some money and it backfires on me. but damnit, the taxis are way to expensive these days.
and then, i got some random racist remark from someone. hmm. why is everyone hating on me? or am i just being a baby?
well, i finally got some coffee and found my girlfriend in the shop - here to do some retail therapy. seems that i'm not the only one who needs consoling.
sorry for b*tching a loadful on the blog but this is my therapy.
September 07, 2007
i know my banker friends disagree but...
come on...
Bush has bad day at Sydney Opera House
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 7, 6:49 AM ET
SYDNEY, Australia - President Bush had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at the Sydney Opera House.
He'd only reached the third sentence of Friday's speech to business leaders, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, when he committed his first gaffe.
"Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Oops. That would be APEC, the annual meeting of leaders from 21 Pacific Rim nations, not OPEC, the cartel of 12 major oil producers.
Bush quickly corrected himself. "APEC summit," he said forcefully, joking that Howard had invited him to the OPEC summit next year (for the record, an impossibility, since neither Australia nor the U.S. are OPEC members).
The president's next goof went uncorrected — by him anyway. Talking about Howard's visit to Iraq last year to thank his country's soldiers serving there, Bush called them "Austrian troops."
That one was fixed for him. Though tapes of the speech clearly show Bush saying "Austrian," the official text released by the White House switched it to "Australian."
Then, speech done, Bush confidently headed out — the wrong way.
yadayadayada...
September 04, 2007
beerfest
a late sunday night dinner a couple of weeks ago turned out to be pretty busy for this place - in the back!
the bartender was filling up these plastic soup containers with beer and shots of Patron. didn't really realize what it was until later - the chefs were having a party in the back. no glass allowed in the back!
September 01, 2007
azaleas - closed for filming
check out these photos from filming Tim Gunn's new show. The air date will be kept secret until I say so!
We had to scurry the night before to make the shop look like we only carry lingerie. That may have been true about 3 years ago, but now our forray into clothing is well-known to all our neighbors and online shoppers.
That crazy beaming light was installed for the shoot. beam me up, scottie!
I wonder what jibberish is coming out of my mouth right here? Notice the height difference between me and Supermodel Veronica Webb. I hope the editors work on that.
Check out Tim Gunn's new show
