Thank God for TV this Halloween

This Halloween you know you will see some scary costumes. Most likely Jersey Shore references .

The Situation.

Snooki.

I'd like to see some Little People Big World (c'mon Kids)

or ShamWow Guy

My favorite, Sue Sylvester...

And what an opportunity with the Pregnant Trudy scene in Mad Men. Get your beach balls out!

It'll give us a break from the hundred of Lady GaGa's that'll be out scoring some candy!

Aveda to the Rescue

It has always been a mystery as well as an annoyance that, when Recycling a plastic bottle, the cap must head to the landfill. Most states do not have cap-recycling capabilities.

But I just found out that you can bring many Caps to an AVEDA store and they will recycle them for you!

They accept most shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles and pharmaceutical lids, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter.

Aveda is my new best corporation-friend! I am going to start collecting caps today and take a trip to the store when I have a nice collection.

BYOB- Just the Bottle

Some of the best wine I drank in France came from the supermarket. But I have never seen this. It's a wine vending machine. Bring your own container. Fill and Imbibe whilst cutting down on your carbon footprint.

Opinions Banked

British bank Barclays PLC spent $39 million to sponsor London's public bike-rental program. They planted their logo on the bikes. Then they woke up to find someone had affixed a special message above their logo. The anger toward the banking industry is still alive in England.

Surf Shots

Photos of surfers by Joni Sternbach

Wax On Wax off

No Doubt this is the cutest wax statue at the Venetian Hotel's Madame Tussaud's in Las Vegas.

Gwen Stefani is not Just a Girl- She's a wax figure!

Found! Radiator cover

After needing one for 4 years, I found a radiator cover on the street yesterday!

What my radiator looked like before:

Crocodile Rocks the House

Wow! Mockodile counters and walls made of Quartz! How rad! Caesarstone makes these textured quartz surfaces that t will give your kitchen and bath some bite!  I love it in black and in white! 

Paint Tip

DIY tip of the Day:

Store leftover wall paint in old, cleaned-out glass sauce jars. The paint stays fresh for years- unlike in paint can where it dries up. And it takes up less space.

Another Reason NOT To move to Iran

They men are forced to wear facial hair, women are not allowed to hail cabs and now there is a fatwa against Dogs! Iran's cleric Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shiraz has issued the fatwa saying these creatures are unclean and any Iranian that adopts them is following Westernized Culture.

All ads regarding pet food, pet care and pets is now banned. So technically, Iranians can actually keep pets, but clerics no likey.

BlockBuster Bites the Dust

The Evil Empire of DVD Rentals, Blockbuster will file for bankruptcy next month. Finally!

The mammoth monster should have been boycotted long ago for asking production houses to EDIT THEIR VIDEOS. Yes, for years those that rent from them have been watching movies with all scenes that are too sensitive for their Religious-Nut Ears and Eyes cut. In other words, all the good scenes.

Let's hope this teaches all chains that mess with other people's film art- I'm looking at you WalMart!

Why Mess With Perfection?

In an honorable attempt to hire models that eat bread, London Fog chose Mad Men's ULTRA SEXY ULTRA BEAUTIFUL Christina Hendricks as their 2010 Spokesmodel. Applause.

And then they screwed it up. They photoshopped the crap out of her curves. Bad!

She is one of the most beautiful woman in the world and that means she is beautiful as she is. Why mess with perfection? It makes me long for the days before photoshop. The days of Mad Men. Would Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Pryce have messed with such amazing images if they had this devil tool?

God and Shopping

Want to get some good deals on knock off fashion? What better a place than Forever 21. And if you're hungry after that stop by In N Out Burger for lunch. BUT ONLY if you hate the Jews.

BOTH those establishments proudly stamp a Bible Verses on their bags or cups. That Bible verse is John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." So the Jews will burn.

Religious freaks have hijacked Capitalism. This started with Sierra Trading Post, the online outdoor store. They state: "

Our business ethics must be consistent with the faith of the owners in Jesus Christ and His teachings.

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GOD HELP US if this is the state of retail today.

Happy Birthday Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lamai is 75 years old today!

He celebrated the day in Dharmsala India, his hometown-in-exile since 1959, the year that he fled Chinese rule in Tibet. He enjoyed performances from local dancers in traditional Tibetan dress, and was entertained by artists from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts at the Main Tibetan Temple in Mcleod Ganj.

As always wise, he said of his years: “I know my life has not been wasted.” Too true. Best Wishes for many more!

Followers in Tibet were not allowed to celebrate the day and Chinese officials claimed they do not remember his birthday. Screw China.

Must Wear Hair

Politics and fashion can get hairy when you live in an Islamic state. Everyone is aware that the Taliban force Afghans to wear beards and now Iran is going official with its coif choices.

Later this month, the country will parade its Islamic beauty codes in a "Modesty and Veil Festival". No doubt this will promote unprecedented fashion horrors for the oppressed women in their land- I won't get into the veil and burqa part of this because it will only make me tremendously angry. But the country's official hair police will release the only "acceptable" haircuts for the men.

In Iran's definition of "liberal" they no longer require a Taliban-esque beard to symbolize religious obedience and may even allow some hair gel. No long hair is allowed under the Ministry of Guidance's rules.

Please, Middle Eastern States and fanatical Religious leaders, heed this. Give it up.

It is my belief that NO religious book can govern the fashion of people unless, of course, that particular book is the fashion bible called "Vogue".

How to Destroy the Earth, Starting with the Oceans

As the Gulf Oil spill rages on, more and more people's attention is waning. It has yet to hit hard on the animal populations in the area. If the local news can't get video of some cute fluffy animals drenched in oil then viewers can't comprehend why they should care. What a perfect time for anti-ecological legislation to pass around the world.

Enter the International Whaling Commission. Recently it authorized the hunting of humpback whales for Greenland natives. I guess they think it makes more sense to protect the culture of a few.

Yep, it's better not to insult them or their ways. Plus, Japan allows whale hunting so how bad can it be? Grrr!

And here in the USA, the FDA wants us to eat genetically modified animals. Not quite Dolly the Sheep yet but the agency is leaning toward approving genetically modified Salmon.

The company that engineered the process describes it as taking a growth hormone gene from a Chinook salmon as well as a genetic on-switch from the ocean pout, a distant relative of the salmon and installing it into an Atlantic salmon. Mmm. Sounds tasty so it can't possible damage us or the ecological balance.

Good news on another front. The Oil Spill is probably not harming our turtles. What about all the dead turtes that have been washing ashore lately (23 most recently spotted on the Mississippi shore) you ask?

Well, more than half the turtles dissected so far, most of which were found shortly after the spill, had sediment in their lungs or airways, which indicated they might have been caught in nets and drowned. So it's not oil that's killing them- just shrimp fishers, so no worries!

Another day on Earth. Enjoy it while it's here.

Killing Flies in Style

How to get rid of these annoying bugs and still look kinda cool?

Creative types can kill them instrumentally.

Guitar fly swatters like $6 at strumhollow.com

Or for those who couldn't hurt a fly, vacuum the bugs up for a safe release outside where they belong.

$12 at perpetualkid.com

A Master in Fashion

Balenciaga bags are omnipresent on the streets. It is the only way celebrities carry their A-list invitations. (see Salma and Katie). But there is so much more to the brand.

Cristobal Balenciaga was called "fashion's Picasso" by famed photographer Cecil  Beaton.  That may be one of the worst ways to describe a man whose classic elegant style is by no way abstract.

Beaton must have meant that Balenciaga is a master in fashion, as Picasso was to cubism. 

Balenciaga's mastery will be celebrated from November 2010 to February 2011 in New York when the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute will host the first in-depth exhibition of his work.  

The exhibit will feature masterpieces such as his 1939 "Infanta" gown..  

...and the 1957 wedding dress of Sonsoles Diez de Rivera as well as 60 other of his gorgeous works. See you there. 

The New Domino

Domino is Back! Well almost. Two people that worked for the much beloved, now defunct design magazine (Michelle Adams, a former market assistant at Domino, and Patrick Cline, 34, a photographer and photo retoucher) have come up with Lonny, an online web magazine.

It opens and reads like a real magazine on your screen BUT the best part is, if you click on something you like it will bring it right to the link so you can buy it! No more little stickers to bookmark. Just instant gratification. "Subscribe" to Lonny online. It's free!

Food is Not the Enemy

Albert Einstein once said, "An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.” If he were alive today he could literally eat his words. A new concept in take-out has popped up in Philadelphia. It's called "Conflict Kitchen" .

Conflict Kitchen only serves food from countries of which the U.S. is in conflict. The type of cuisine rotates every four months until we run out of countries whose ideals we oppose. We know that will never happen.

Iranian food kicks off this gastro-political concept. The wrappers educate the eater on customs and U.S. perceptions of the hilighted nation.

Conflict Kitchen is a project by John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski and is funded by the Sprout Fund, Waffle Shop, and the Center for the Arts in Society.

Soccer Fashion Doesn't Score

Citizens of all countries but ours are afrenzy with the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Who is playing? Who knows. When is it? Sometime in June. Americans may get excited- maybe, but probably not- by the fashion coinciding with the Football games.

Ralph Lauren's Netherlands T-shirt looks pretty cool and is in this season's black- Orange. Don't know if Netherlands is playing but the shirt is $68 at Matchesfashion.com

The Havianas Flip Flops come in most team colors. Here are Brazil and Argentina I think. $22 each pair.

Designers Y-3 paid homage to FIFA with their sporty collection for Spring 2010.

But maybe us Americans will just look forward to Sex and the City 2 for our fashion fix.