Rainy Day Blog Browse

This painting,"Paris Street Rainy Day" by Gustave Caillebotte may live in Chicago, but it seems appropriate for today...definitely make the rain less dreary! 

Greetings from a rain-soaked San Francisco! I'm doing all I can to actually get work done this week, between making my Halloween costume and preparing for my best friend's wedding this weekend. So, nothing new from Ms. P&C, but I have you covered. There's a lot of good things out in the blogosphere these days - I'm embarassed because my busy days have not only taken me away from my writing, but also my reading of my blogging colleagues' work! Shame on me... So, I've spent some time catching up on things and here's what I've found:

Being one who tends to opt for the shorter hairstyles, I love the round up of chic cropped 'dos on Modern Girl. Makes me want to schedule something with my stylist toute suite! 

Miss Chic & Charming found these completely insane tattoo sunglasses by Ed Hardy and posted them a few days ago. I'm utterly entranced. They're so over-the-top that I can't say "no" - I may just need to go make an extravagant purchase. I do have a birthday coming up though...hmmmm. For more on the biker-bitch fashion front, Winona at Daddy Likey posted about some very dangerous-looking Louboutins on Monday. What can I say? Even I have a proclivity to look tough every now and then...

Julie Fredrickson has packed her Birkins and headed west - to San Francisco, to be exact, where we don't dress up and are suspicious of designer labels. (Clearly these are the San Franciscans not reading P&C!) She's chronicling her entertaining sartorial confusion on Almost Girl.

San Francisco lost one of its icons last week, Enrico Banducci of the famed "Enrico's" in North Beach. Michael Mattis wrote this wonderful piece about Bandooch with his own tales of bartenderdom at Enrico's. And as far as men-about-town are concerned, Dandyism's Nick Willard wrote this piece about the galavanting Jimmy Walker, former mayor of New York City. The role of Mayor is an interesting one, oftentimes based more on good PR and personal branding than actual politics. San Francisco has, and has had a few of these types of mayors: Gavin, Willie Brown...going all the way back to the days of the Barbary Coast and Emperor Norton. Personally, I think if a mayor is larger-than-life it bodes well for the city they represent. Fun mayor = fun city. That's how it works.

If you didn't get enough of an earful about Marc Jacobs from my previous post, Andrea Tung over at Making Things is previewing the spread on Jacobs' Paris apartment that is coming in the November issue of W...tres jolie! 

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