MARK GRAFF, CEO OF PLAYGIRL TV, COMMENTING ON EARLY VIEWER RESPONSE TO THEIR FILMS


"`Why is she wearing those shoes?' was a big thing. Not why was she wearing shoes or not wearing shoes, but why is she wearing those shoes? Shoes were like — a big deal."

DID YOU SEE THIS?

K-Y : A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND IN SO MANY WAYS

did you know K-Y prevents blisters? yes that's right my sweeties. when that shoe is rubbing your heel a little too hard, put a drop of K-Y on it and cruise through the rest of the day pain-free!

TOO MANY THINGS

as the illustrious jason campbell always says. anyhoo i will try to recapture the events in LA as best i can but you know i'll miss something. alison levy, (wife of andy kindler on signifcant others airing in sept) picked me up at the airport at the stroke of midnight. we zoomed back to her sweet little pad in los feliz which was where i made my home until i headed up to santa barbara for jason's wedding on sat.

thursday i got a chance to meet all the fabu peeps who work on savvy. ooh so fun! tina, lisa, david, latrice, joel and even maureen from WE! then i took off to silver lake where randy screened the jose oquando for me in his and amy's new house. a glass of white wine and a freak-out over amy's dining room later (think palm beach meets fierce 1970's chocolate wood dining room table and some orange and blue parrot wallpaper), wendy amy and i headed to harmony for mani/pedi, where we sat in giant black leather chairs with massage rollers. then to gingergrass with leslie for basil ginger lemonade and lots of steamed fish and ginger. friday was all about walking in LA. i headed into los feliz proper and hit my fave thrift store in all of LA, squaresville, where i promptly conjured up theperfect vintage pink silk chiffon fairy dress for me to wear to the wedding ($14. yes YOU HEARD RIGHT. $14.). then to fred 62 my fave diner where i proofed my FINAL PROOFS OF MY BOOK. yes you heard right. the final galleys!!! eeek!! they look so fab and chronicle is even giving me a pink metallic cover! can you imagine?

fri afternoon i hung on the stoop and then les and went back to harmony for her pedi and my mani. then off to tantra where jess landaw and leslie and speed and i devoured the largest lamb chops i have ever seen and lots of fruity drinks. speed also recited the poem about little hands and i cried. i love it when speed recites poems. jess and i did a quick stop into the 4100 club and checked out the car with the computer keyboard keys near where we parked. i learned one important thing about LA. NEVER EVER give up a parking space to look for another one.

sat we headed up with wendy and eric in the lancer to montecito. where we promptly landed at the four seaons pool eating elegant crab cakes served by cute pool boys on trays. the food was on the trays, not the pool boys you dirty minded readers!

sat night we relaxed in the garden at el canto by a lily pond and everyone made nice funny toasts. mark, joe, dave, and jim kept me in giggles at our table and i ate all of joe's apple flan. i also learned los feliz is proncounced LOOS feliz not LAAAS feliz. can i help it if my charming michigan accent is so cute it likes to pop up in my o's?

sunday it was sunny. the entire gang gathered poolside this time and while the boys played aloud game of water frisbee, i basked in the frequent evian spritzers mark our pool boy provided as well as a fruity pino loco in between trips to the whirlpool, saltwater pool with underwate r music, and spa for lemon scented chilled towels. oh yeah i also hit the best hair styling product in the world, the pacific ocean, and played with jnash and hudson.

sunday eve jay and jess got married with the sound of the ocean crashing behind us, we drank lots of cosmos, danced like it was 1984, and watched a red moon dip into the sea at 11 pm. i talked to bary, marta, max and steph and melissa between 5-courses of total foodie decadence and a heath bar cake. then it was time to go home and watch some more scary movie 2 with eric.

monday we were up and adam. except no one was named adam and we also were really hung over. buddha belly dinner with ali and morano made me feel better and i skipped the 9 pm and opted for the 10 pm red-eye. almost in first. next time.

OH MY PEOPLE

i have missed you so much! i just got back from LA and it was too too too much fun. got to catch up w/ all manner of fun people and even got to see an LA landmark which is this car that has been decorated in computer keyboard keys from the 70's. will post pic ASAP. i am going to give you the full 411 very soon but for now i say to you--can you believe payless is closing? and what do you think of the new round-toed phenom? check out my article in this month's zink mag to take the pointy-toe vs round toe girl for further insight. (its the sept issue, which is not yet up on the website. instead hit your nearest newstand or bookstore!)

kisses. miss m.

I DON'T LIKE THAT BANNER AD ACROSS THE TOP OF MY BLOG ANY MORE THAN YOU DO

in fact i am going to write in about it right about now. then i am flying to LA. i am going to walk in LA just like the song and maybe even take the metro for fun. kisses.

WHAT IS FUNNY

is the way ally sheedy juts her chin and calls matthew broderick an ass for not being able to swim in the movie with very big computers (so big that there is a woman who just walks around one of them and takes notes on what it is doing--i wonder when they casted that were they like we need a computer -watcher woman?) anyway you know the movie-- wargames. much reccomended is a green leather miami vice loveseat to watch it in to get fuly in the mood. and a teenage makeout session.

ps. can we all send rayray some love today? his computer got snatched by that bad mercury in retrograde.

THE HAIR

is very very blonde, very short and back to it's fabulous rayya bob-ishness. a little longer in front and shorter and sassier in the back. just how i am.

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BECAUSE I LOVE NEW JERSEY


i am going down the jersey shore today to get my hair done by the fabulous rayya. stay tuned for full descrip of latest hair incarnation.

MISS MEGHAN'S MENSTRUAL HUT

i want to be like the women of that tribe in africa who have a menstrual hut thay can go hide out in. except my hut will be decked out in 600 thread count cotton sheets, have a massuese and acupuncturist on hand, an extremely large tub with jet sprays and giant bottles of kneipp valerian & hops bath soak, a chef, and organic garden out back, on a very long beach for walking, every book i wanted to read but haven't, beautiful vintage nightgowns, a jar of 800 miligram motrins, and a large closet full of chocolate.

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF

krazy glue is not a girls best friend. this i found out whence i tried to repair my fave black calvin klein stilettos on the way uptown this afternoon. at first, at first, the krazy glue seemed to hold, then came undone twice. both times before the subway, giving passengers something to look at as i applied more glue and held my shoe and heel together in my hand with a look of decided concentration.

two bits of interesting info: one, when the heel came off there was an inscription "2003" on the shoe where the heel once was. and it's true what joe at sacco said, no one actually makes stacked leather heels anymore, they are all plastic.

NO LONGER WILL WE BE HELD HOSTAGE BY THE SICKLY SWEET SUGAR

smells that waft down bleecker and the cupcake bouncer and the lines of jersey tourists on the weekends around the block waiting for their fix at magnolia. because i have heard from a very reliable source that magnolia will be giving up their lease in one year and giving it over to CHANEL. thats right. you heard correctly. my street will now be home to a chanel boutique. in some ways this is kind of scary, in some ways kind of neat. i have visions of much lacquered hair traversing the street. but also a happy feeling that i will get to see all things chanel and make friend with the sales ladies.

IF YOU'RE LIKE ME

the words heart and sole conjure up the memory of patiently pinging away on the piano while your grandpa teaches you the notes to the easiest song for people under 6 to learn. HOW ever there is a new fabulous intrepretation out to the words heart and sole that is sure to put a tingle in your toes. jane eldershaw's heart and sole, the shoes of my life is a shoe MEMOIR. how savvy! how cute! how me. with chapters like the magic of red shoes: the power and the gory and platforms: the musical i do believe i have found someone after my own heart. she even talks about toe cleavage. yesssss!

ORANGE ROLLER SKATES AND LITERARY TUSSLES

so last night i checked out the boog city small presses event at ACA gallery where a whole bunch of fab presses got together to talk all about who they were and what they did. jordan gave a very funny 411 on the hat, the mag he edits with chris edgar, and i had a nice long chat with brendan lorber from lungfull about the bright day-glo orange roller skates he got and his efficient stopping strategy of crashing into groups of smokers outside office buildings. probably the most exciting thing was the fence vs. a-rest magazine tussle that happened out in the hallway. while i was hoping for a bona fide fightfightfight! i think they worked out the aesthetics question pretty amicably.


a-rest


brendan lorber

SOMEONE ELSE LOVES SHOES

I JUST ATE A FLIP-FLOP

no not a real one, silly. a beautiful little flip fliop cookie made by the cookie artist at once upon a tart here in the wv. pink with a green thing and little blue flowers on it. mmm mmmmm.

checked out ec's art opneing last night at her swank boutique. greg wilson a fellow aussie, displayed his paintings--all manner of wild oil paintings: iris and landscapes and women on settees. this of course was after the fab holly waterfield and i knocked back a few key lime vodka drinks, tore up my bedroom trying on all her new fabulous skirts and my new dusica shoes and watching mama gena bring her vulva puppet on conan o'brien. we just about fell off my bed laughing.

just remember life is not a flip flop but in some circumstances you can eat one.

DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME

just saw dusicadusica's new store at the corner of prince and crosby (everything is 50% off btw if you want to get your hands on a hot deal). it is really quite gorgeous. and got to take a sneak peek at fall/winter/spring as well. the open toe wedge heels made of champagne silk with a chiffon detailing at the heel or the chocolate brown pointy toe wedges with more chiffon at the heel. yep. you will see me in those come spring that is for SURE.

I THINK I MENTIONED THIS BUT MAYBE YOU FORGOT

miss meg on TV:


this wednesday evening, august 4th at 10 pm: VH1: Fabulous Life:Summer Spenders

&

this friday evening, august 6th at 10 pm, Savvy, a new show on WE (Channel 59 in NYC)

THE INVASION OF THE JELLY SHOES

for some reason jelly shoes are de riguer up in cambridge massachusetts. why cambridge, i could't tell you. all i know is that i saw plenty of jelly shoes. lime green, pink, clear, all shaking in their jelly way as their owners walked thru the streets with pride.

why was in cambridge you ask? for the boston poetry massacre of course. jordan read on saturday night, i read sunday noontime. was v.v. fun. james tried to fleece the crowd with stickers jimmy gave him, but i managed to talk him down from three dollars per "terrific job!" to a quarter each. i got mine free of course and got an extra one during my reading, just for fun. thanks, james.

but no trip is complete without a stop at the local secondhand store for a fabulous pair of black strappy sandals -- never worn -- for only 16$! they are very cha-cha-cha. as if i should be dancing a dramatic tango with a black ruffled skirt with a red underthingy. and the red underthingy would be ruffly and would show only when i did a fabulous turn. also a red hibiscus in the hair, don't you think?

then the fungwa home to terror central. ahem. as russell says, "the stock market is a TARGET? noooooo, REALLY?" exactly.

ps. griffin pls stop tearing your wee wee pad up b4 daddy gets home. oh geez. i just remembered griffin can't read.