Sweet! Twin Peaks rap:

Last week we saw Kanye’s apartment. This week in celebs apartments, we have a tour of Jane Fonda’s loft and hey, did you know you can live in Leslie Arfin’s apartment this summer?

Diana totes has to go see this crazy stack of houses hotel in Amsterdam.

How to make your old heels look Fendi-riffic with the additiona of some old tights.

Shameless Self Promotion: I relaunched my site this week! If you want to check out my other life of design intrigue, visit CODYmcBURNETT.

Sex and the City windows at Bergdorf Goodman, my absolute favorite department store in the world! Must get there to see them soon… And while I’m there, I’ll grab an over-priced cocktail at the Kelly Wearstler designed restaurant bar. One of my favorite things to do in NYC!

Liza sings Single Ladies:

You’ve just survived an oil rig explosion. Now follows us to this windowless room from which you can’t leave until you sign this statement saying you saw nothing. Thank you!

I take it everyone saw the Betty White SNL last weekend. Here she is playing beer pong with Jimmy Fallon:

And here she is in a deleted sketch:

Kayne West’s house actually pretty cool.

Uhuru Design’s Coney Island inspired furniture. I have to have that Cyclone Lounger and Boardwalk Console. Now.

Hey artists and creative types with no insurance… Brokelyn’s How To Barter Your Art for Medical Care.

Truman Capote’s Former House Is the Most Expensive in Brooklyn from Gawker. Hey, I’ve been looking to move myself…

Where do you fall on the anti-rape condom debate?

Ah, Kittens in Autotune. Why didn’t I think of this?

A couple of weeks ago, the Phoenix Suns basketball team dressed for a game donning jerseys that read “Los Suns.” They wore the jerseys to protest Arizona’s new and controversial immigration law. And there’s talk about moving next year’s All Star game out of the state.

Major league baseball is stepping into the fray too—their union warned that if the current law goes into effect, they will “consider additional steps necessary to protect the rights and interests of our members.” Hundreds of baseball players are foreign citizens and half of the 30 teams go to Arizona for spring training. The economic impact of teams going elsewhere is potentially devastating.

The very visible symbolic action of wearing the jerseys is important, and threatening to act with the pocketbook is one of the most effective tools around to influence policy and politics. Everyone knows that money talks.

But one of the best things about all of this, at least for me, is that these actions were a happy and eye-opening surprise.  Aren’t politics and sports strange bedfellows? Guess I’m guilty of some stereotyping about athletes and professional sports teams, some of it based on the highly publicized accusations about players behaving very badly. In this case, I give kudos and credit where it is due. Bravo to the Suns and to professional baseball for speaking out in an appropriate way and not being afraid to become involved in a controversial issue that matters to their players.

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Could this be the Brooklyn version of Jersey Shore?!? Please someone apply and let me know how it goes!

Since my entire apartment is done in blue and white, it’s no surprise I love this Apartment Therapy compilation of amazing blue and white rooms.

Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron? I’m intrigued by this stoner love! Dying for a double date…

The Esquire Survey of the American Woman. Do you fall within the majority on this list?

What would college be without the drugs? Reed College a “Crack House”?

Driving Deloreans. Hell yes!

KYLE KRONE “DRIVING DELOREANS” from Kyle Krone on Vimeo.

I love this woman. The new Beyonce video is ah-maz-ing:

“Why Don’t You Love Me” – Beyoncé from Beyoncé on Vimeo.

Diana and I went to see Hole at Terminal 5 Tuesday night:

This really creeped me out.

I love Tavi’s recent ode to Sassy.

SO much better than the original:

Can you make something fierce out of corn husks? If you have what it takes to make TIm Gunn swoon, head to the Project Runway NYC casting call on Monday…

From Cody:

Meet the Three-Year-Old Tattoo Artist from Gawker

Dogs as art… in the Sports section?

Mmmm-mmm! LOVE me some striped shirts!

And now, an octopus steals a video camera:

Yes, women still earn less than men. Do people really think this fight is over?

Chuck and Blair. The romance of our generation. Excited to see how this play out…

A sneak peek at the new iPhone from Gizmodo

Courtney Love has “come back” more times than I can count, but if the New York Times says this time is different, does that mean it’s true?

The volcano that paralyzed Europe has become Iceland’s biggest news item as of late, but let’s not forget that they are still dealing with the aftermath of financial collapse. In Iceland, Mostly Clear Consciences from the New York Times.

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After watching The Cove the other night, I was feeling pretty miserable and depressed: the slaughtered dolphins, the polluted oceans, the toxins flowing up the food chain and into our lunches… what hope is there for our rotting planet?! But Despair leads to Stagnation which leads to our planet turning into a toxic waste dump all the faster. Instead let’s focus on the little changes we can all make in our everyday lives to help slow down the rate of climate change and protect what natural environment we have left. Such as:

1. Use public transportation instead of driving a car. Better yet, ride a bike.

2. Stop eating hamburgers. The worldwide meat production industry produces more greenhouse gases than cars do.

3. Or at least, whatever you eat, eat organic. Pesticides are poison.

4. Recycle. We all do it, but it’s easy to forget why.

5. Support companies that use recycled and reused materials.

6. Live in a city. Cities are more energy efficient than suburbs and rural areas. Pat yourself on the back if you happen to live in New York, one of the greenest cities in the world.

7. Read more sci-fi. The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson will help you prepare for, and maybe even look forward to, your emigration to another planet after ours has depleted its resources.

From Cody:

The new issue of Lonny Magazine is out!

I live in the best neighborhood in NYC. I didn’t need New York Magazine to tell me that… But thanks anyway.

The closest I’ll come to being published in BUST: my ad for Isa’s Restoratives!

OMFG. Seriously?!? I was just celebrating the pending arrival of Barney’s Co-Op in my fair borough and the fucking Park Slope Coop is talking about SUING over the name? Get a life.

Interesting: Take Your Husband’s Name And Take A Salary Cut from Jezebel

From Diana:

The new KFC Double Down is the most disgusting sandwich of all time. Do they actually think people will eat this, or is just a marketing tactic?

Let’s think instead about the delicious Zucchini, Avocado, and Pomegranate Salsa I’m making this weekend.

From Cody:

Hilarity from The Onion: Republicans, Leukemia Team Up To Repeal Health Care Law

Check it out: Zac Posen for Target

Buy yourself an internship at Vogue

The Jersey Shore is returning to the Jersey Shore. Not quite sure why I’m so happy about this…

Google search tips from the New York Times

Another gadget we had no idea we needed that Apple has created a market for. The iPad’s out.

My inspiration for two weekends of moving rooms around to  create an enormous walk-in closet in my apartment. From Habitually Chic.

From Cody:

More feminist victories in the in Iceland’s post-economic crash climate. Maybe we could learn a thing or two?
Jezebel’s Iceland Bans Strip Clubs

How cute would this be in your non-working fireplace?
Apartment Therapy asks: Skitsch Fire Kit Lamp by 5.5 Designers, Hot or Not?

The smartest woman I know is teaching people like me to get more people to their websites.
I Don’t Care What You Ate For Breakfast’s new class schedule… Check it out if you’re a business owner. Do it.

I am ALL for using as much space as possible for clothes. It’s the reason I have a two bedroom apartment—one for the clothes. The beau and I are even contemplating moving the bed into the current “dressing room” in order to give the larger room to our clothes. Yes, seriously. But this is just gross. And not just because of the word “kitchenista.”
The New York Post’s Meet the Kitchenistas

Amazing.
Regretsy’s Regrebay Doll Haunted by Spirit of 15 Year Old Hussy from 1769

Of course they can!
The New York Times’ Can Animals Be Gay?

Barney’s Co-Op is Coming to Brooklyn…
Announcement from Fashionista.com

…And the Millionaire Matchmaker is coming to NYC!
Gold diggers with big boobies, apply here.

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