Current Obsessions...

Summer is always full of promise and guilty pleasures. Guilty pleasures like big-budget blockbuster movies, bad television, and huge discounts at summer sales. The promise of course, concerns the many luxuriant days we're heading to in just another few weeks with the advent of Fall. So, with that in mind, here's some current obsessions...

Heirloom tomatoes... I LOVE these summertime gems of culinary delight. Their odd shapes, striped colorations in every shade from deep plum to ochre, and the intense tomato flavor. Just a dusting of Kosher salt and a teensy bit of extra virgin olive oil and...pure bliss!

I Survived a Japanese Game Show... Okay, so forget Wipeout which precedes this show on ABC and transport yourself directly to the madcap mayhem of a Japanese game show called "Majide" or "You've Got to be Crazy!" Anything on major-network primetime in an Asian language with subtitles is risky programming, and this is good shit. Velcro walls? penguins versus moneys? tricycle dunk tanks? wind tunnels? a Mama-san in the group house? "Big Splash!" Oh, and there's "Judge Bob" too - let's just say that as far as emoting big words goes, Bob Barker has a new competitor...

Chanel Couture for Fall 2008... Wow, what a collection! Gorgeous, wearable, tailored, chic... Kaiser Karl brought it home big-time with this collection and I cannot stop going back to look at the runway pics again and again. Coats, sheaths, tweeds, little kicks of fur, and incredible evening gowns. The promise of Fall...if only it came with the promise of couture in my closet.

Project Runway 5... Begins next Wednesday! Can you believe it? I'm blocking out the entire evening and popping a bottle. Who will be the next Hot Mess Ferocia Tranny? The suspense is so exciting... If you want to join me at my place, you're welcome but...no talking, bitch. 

Cinema Supper Club at the Legion of Honor Museum... The Legion reissues its Thursday night film series with a set of San Francisco films for the summer! I swear, someone in the museum world is totally in tune with my mind. Beginning this Thursday with a sold-out evening of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (period dress encouraged,) the series continues every Thursday until the end of August with other stalwart SF films such as The Conversation, Harold & Maude, and Bullitt. Of course, I would have thrown in Petulia and Dark Passage for good measure, but that's just me.

Mad Men... Another case of bottled promise: Mad Men returns this summer for season 2! Get your double-dose of mysogyny and mid-century modern in one place! People think that Gossip Girl is the most stylish show on television, but I would put GG at a close second to this fabulously designed and meticulously styled television masterpiece. After all of the broadcasting dreck this summer, this will be a sight for sore eyes! The costumes, the furniture, the upholstery on the furniture, the bar glasses, the booze bottles, the tie clips holding back the ever-so-thin neckties... Not only well-written, mysterious, sexy, masculine, rife with cigarette smoke and Brylcreme, this show is just a shight to behold. New episodes begin on July 27th - catch up on season 1 episodes On Demand!

Michelle Obama O-Rama... Lest we forget, this summer is promising a fall election and it's time we all brushed up on the issues! Remember how the style of Jackie Kennedy helped her husband to the White House? Well, a new blog is likewise devoted to the sartorial presence of one candidate's stylish wife: Michelle Obama. The site? Michelle Obama O-Rama, of course! This site is just getting going, but there's good stuff up there and surely more to come through November and beyond... 

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[jill @ trend de la creme]

I totally got sucked into the first episode of 'I Survived a Japanese Game Show,' I crapped myself every time they face planted the treadmill and went flying into the flour.