It’s the end of the fake phone number on the nightclub scene. Because now when a drunken Vinny asks for your phone number, he whips out his cell phone and calls you right on the spot so he can test to see if you gave him a fake number or not. Uh oh. So I…
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Pond Skipping on the Cheap: $499 for a 7-Night Mexico Riviera Cruise
CruiseBrothers.com is offering a 7-night Mexico Riviera cruise from San Diego for only $499 a person! You’ll set sail on Celebrity Mercury, which was named one of the best ships in the world by Conde Nast Traveler, hitting ports in Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. Fun! You must book by June 1 for…
Roll Out the Barrel: 2004 Barrel 27 Syrah
Flickr Shot by Angelocesare My friend Beth was throwing one of her fabulous wine and cheese parties the other night where everyone was required to bring a bottle of Syrah, Riesling or a dessert wine along with cheese or dessert. But she specified that as much as we all love Two-Buck Chuck that we should…
Places I'll Never Show My Face in Again: Planet Blue
Flickr Shot by KamTM Planet Blue off Montana Avenue in Santa Monica is having a huge 50% off sale. That means their Diane Von Furstenberg, Citizens of Humanity, James Perse and other chi-chi fashions will be half off. That $600 sweatshirt you had your eye on is now only $300. BUT before you get all…
Places I'll Never Show My Face in Again: Shutterfly
OK, Shutterfly isn’t really a place but you get the idea. For Mother’s Day, us kids thought it would be an awesome gift for our mom if we took an old family picture, circa 1978, and got it blown up and turned into a canvas print a la Shutterfly. My brother even retouched the photo,…
L.A. at Your Fingertips: An iPod City Guide
Did you know that there are city guides you can upload to your iPod? It sounds like a good idea in theory. Anyone who has an iPod, which means everyone, can have bar, restaurant, event, etc. information at their fingertips. WCities offers free Pod CityGuides to 300 cities around the world. Besides popular destinations, you can…
Snorg Tees: They're All Gonna Laugh at You!
OK, you’re probably over the whole message on a T-shirt thing. I was, too, until I saw this one. Come on! Dat’s funny! It’s so L.A. Along the same lines as, “Don’t you know who I am?” Hmm, they SHOULD make a shirt about that. Anyway, Snorg Tees has all these great T-shirts with different…
My 15 Seconds in Today's L.A. Times
Photo by Lawrence K. Ho/LA TIMES Woo hoo! Caroline on Crack got a very brief mention in today’s Los Angeles Times because of my readers’ comments on a post I did about that after-hours club, Xenii. Of course it was all because of the readers but it’s a front page story, baby! (Thanks, readers!) Gatsbies and the…
Design-her Gals: Fun Customized Stationary
Just found this cool site, Design-her Gals, where you can make a cartoon version of yourself and then print it out on business cards, invitations, note cards, stickers, whatever you want. Unfortunately, it’s just for women right now but then again would guys be interested in something like this: designing a cute cartoon version of…
U Show-Off: Wonderful Graffiti & Custom Canvas
Cleaning out my shopping bookmark folder I came across some pretty neat things that I had wished I could buy for my “new” apartment but because of their expense they don’t rate very high on my shopping list of priorities. But once I win the lotto? Oooh, yeah. Wonderful Graffiti: WG let’s you relive that…
