sleeping around

Tuesday, dec. 5, 2006   |   0 comments

My little sleep book is spreading its wings! It’s busting out of its safe independent bookstore world and tearing right into Urban Outfitters everywhere, where it’s rubbing pages with the likes of Orgasms: How to Have Them, Give Them, and Keep Them Coming and Penis Pokey. It’s totally going to come home covered in hickeys and reeking of cigarette smoke, and it doesn’t even care!

The book is also making new friends over at Urban Outfitters’ older, wiser, but-still-able-to-squeal-over-a-perfect-skirt sister store, Anthropologie (thanks to reader Melissa for the heads-up!):

One sort of bad thing: the version that Anthropologie is carrying is a reprint, and it’s not quite as cute as the original run (as seen at Urb Out). The fabric is rougher, the bite of the imprint on the cover illustration isn’t as deep, the color of the end pages is off…it’s all just a slightly less than yar, which makes my stomach hurt. But still…Anthropologie!

oh my friends are all such gifts of giftedness!

Monday, dec. 4, 2006   |   0 comments

Good news is coming in fast from every corner of my network of golden pals:

Stephanie Vander Weide Lucianovic, also known as Keckler from Television Without Pity gives us CocktailSmarts: “It’s a booklet! It’s a game! It’s some brightly colored coasters! With recipes!” An educational drinking game that teaches you stuff that makes you want to drink even more? It’s like Quarters, only better. I KNOW! I’ve already ordered three: one for me, one for a Christmas gift for some secret special someone, and one just so I’m prepared the next time an emergency hostess gift scenario rolls around.

This past Sunday, dear Maggie appeared on NPR’s Weekend Edition show! Maggie was so eloquent, and her shopping advice so compelling, that half the world clicked over to Mighty Goods, creating a traffic storm so frenzied, it temporarily choked the site. And as a long-time fan of Maggie’s writing and sixth sense of style, I absolutely understand all the hullabaloo.

The Bellyachers (superfine friends Brian, Sandra, and Peter) have just launched a stylish little mini-trampoline of a site, lovingly designed to give you the jump on their new album, “300 Letters to God Found in the Atlantic,” which they’ll be releasing song by delicious song.

And friend-since-third-grade China Adams has assembled a majestic sampling of her tight body of work. Looking at her stuff all in one place like this, I’m awestruck by how smart and talented and inspired and funny and, wow, just so incredibly hard-working she is, and how lucky the world is to have her. (Back to me: though my photo isn’t one of the ones up on the sample site, yours truly was one of the ten people photographed for her Blood Consumption project — I donated a pint of blood and everything. I’m kind of a patron of the arts that way.)

How did I get so lucky to be surrounded by such a candy cloud of smarts and talent? I wonder.

the great flapping sound of dollars soaring out of my wallet

Sunday, dec. 3, 2006   |   0 comments

‘Tis the season for giving, I know. It really ‘tis! But I just keep finding more and more things that I want, want, NEED for myself:

Oh, mushroom shelving! This would be the perfect resting spot for so many treasures. My deep, dark green authentic emu egg? My nesting bird snow globe, handmade by Heidi Meredith? My delicate ceramic pony, courtesy of the great Fontenrose family garage sale of 2006? Yes, yes! YES!

The pinestripe cardigan would be such a classy way to cover up any post-holiday arm- and gut-chub. Plus I’ve been craving a top in this print for years now — I actually tried ordering a different top in the same print once before, but somehow in the moments between filling my shopping cart and clicking “buy,” the last one sold. A sad story, I know. Kind of like the one about the soft baby forced to sleep in that scratchy manger.

What wall doesn’t crave its very own inexplicable ceramic dot? I know if I were a wall (which I kind of am; a brick house is like a wall, right?), this would top my Christmas list.

Pretty much anything from the littleoddforest makes me shiver with glee and itch with gimme. Cloud pins, stump wristlets, and mushroom coin purses? Oh buy!

going to put a recap in your ass

Saturday, dec. 2, 2006   |   0 comments

My last Desperate Housewives recap of 2006 is now alive, and there won’t be another episode to recap until sometime in January, hallelujah, joy to the world, and jingle all the way! It’s a very special holiday episode, so I decided to celebrate with references to both herpes and crabs:

“Next Susan finds an ‘ADMISSIONS FOR COMMITTED PATIENTS’ form, dated 1981. And the reason for commitment is listed as ‘Psychological Depression,’ which just sounds so, so made up. I mean, isn’t the ‘psychological’ part implied on a mental patient’s commitment form? That’s like a general practitioner diagnosing you with ‘Physiological Herpes’ or whatever. So, so dumb. FYI: Orson’s birthday is listed as June 28, 1964, which makes him a Cancer. Really? Because all his persnickety cleaning habits totally stink of Virgo. And oh my god I’ve just fallen down a long, deep well of obsessiveness. It’s so dark in here! And I’m so cold.”

“Happy New Year, all you lovely Desperate fans! May the presents under your tree be exactly what you hoped they would be (versus, say, crabs, which no one wants down there, no not at all, especially not at Christmastime).”

Also inside: applied usage of two of my favorite manufactured terms, Bershon and P-Touched, plus a link to this photo!

THE TALLY
Word count: 7013
Hours: 9.5 (but it should have taken 12, I totally ran out of time, a yucky feeling, ugh)
Beers: yes
Coffees: oh yes!

are my plugs showing?

Friday, dec. 1, 2006   |   0 comments

Hello pretty friends!

It turns out I’ll be signing my book and maybe doing another little slip-slide-y show this coming WEDNESDAY at the Candystore (in the Mission) along with the funbulous Lisa Brown (author of the Baby Be of Use board books). Reportedly there will even be a sampling of cocktails on hand!

So please come on by after work for some sipping and staring. Bonus: If you’ve never had the pleasure of Candystore, it is the cutest place ever, full of fancy clothes, jewels, and other temptations, so you might just get some holiday shopping in, too.

Note: The event got a mention in today’s Daily Candy (?!), so it could be crowded. Come early to make sure you get plenty of booze!

I sure hope to see you there,
Evany
(Psst, pass it on!)

IN SUMMARY
Boozy book-signing
Candystore
3153 16th Street (at Valencia)
Wednesday, December 6
7-9pm

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I finally got hold of the November issue of Penthouse Forum, and boy are my hands…dirty. But it includes a nice mention of my book, in which they declare that it “has its tongue firmly in cheek.” Which, given the context, sounds unexpectedly titillating.

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The book is also supposed to be out in a smattering of Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie stores. (Yay!) I haven’t managed to visit either store in a few weeks, but I’ve been checking their sites and it’s not for sale at either spot yet, at least not online. Has anyone seen a copy in stores? Please let me know!