FINLANDIA!!

Ahhh great news...PC and I have been selected to go to Helsinki, Finland this summer for a "cultural exchange" through Hart House at UofT. 

Basically, we're taking over....EUROPE.

Man's Best Friend

Two of the craziest chicks I know (they're from Vancouver, naturally) came up with this devastatingly hilarious concoction. Don't ask questions...just barf.

Props TS and GB...you give me the creeps.

Guinness Is Good For You

I have an absurd amount of weaknesses when it comes to food and beverages. Cheese, ice cream, cookie dough, uhhhh cookie dough ice cream = death to my bod. When it comes to beverages, any sort of alcohol poses something of a problem...but Guinness beer acts as both a food and beverage, and has DANGER DANGER written all over it in terms of destroying my self-dignity AND my hourglass figure. But indulging in Guinness can be ever so much more healthy and ummm pleasurable in a different kind of way...

Behold Daphne Guinness, the 40-something heiress to the Guinness brewing fortune and recent  divorcee of Spyros Niarchos, himself an heir to the gigantor Greek shipping billions. She's famous for her daring sense of style, and as I'm sure you can judge from these photos, she is an absolute nut-job...hot-mess styles. PERFECTION. A little side-note...The New York Times reported that Daphne is very "interested" in the use of armour in fashion...kinky bitch?

NM- one of Daphne's children, Nicolas Niarchos, is 19- might I suggest that while in New York you try your hand at another member of the Niarchos family? Maybe this one stays away from those Rose Bar bathrooms and half bottles of Belvedere in one swig. And hey, when you two socialites run into each other, be sure to put in a good word to Daphne for me!

teNeues

Basically the life I am going to enjoy in the near future has been documented already!! Boutique publisher teNeues specializes in the fabrication of beautiful tomes that illustrate all things amazing: from fashion and photography to travel and architecture- indeed, I'm sure many of the books can be found on most of the Louis XIV coffee tables pictured in the books themselves!

Especially coveted by me- ummm, all of them. Can't wait until every teNeues book ever published line the bookshelves of my own Luxury Houses (yes, plural)...

*Public Service Announcement*- Spadeena, Not Spadeyena

Okay so I need to clear up something that has been confusing this city for ummm approximately a century. This matter has even tested one of my great friendships (thankfully, we were able to get past it- but my friend still insists he's right. He's wrong.)...a Toronto thoroughfare most of us are ever so familiar with- Spadina Rd.-has been mispronounced essentially since its inception.

 

A little background- William Warren Baldwin named his country house "Spadina", derived from the Huron espadinong, which translates as "sudden rise of land" (the house was located on the Davenport Hill). The property was eventually purchased by James Austin, founder of the Dominion Bank (now TD). Austin tore down the existing house and built a larger, more luxurious manor- the present Spadina House (albeit now with some additions and alterations).

Spadina House

ANYWAY, eventually Austin decided to sell much of the land surrounding his house, including a generous amount of the southern portion of his estate. He divided his land into separate plots, and constructed a road leading from the hill all the way to downtown- he named it Spadina Road.

Traditionally, the wealthier, more educated populace resided in the Annex, north of Bloor (think Timothy Eaton), while the lumpen workers resided south of Bloor. Those living on Spadina north of Bloor knew to pronounce the street "SpadEEna", while the simple, impoverished masses simply looked at the word and thought "oh, it's SpadEYEna."

So here's the deal...it has become acceptable to call Spadina south of Bloor "Spadeyena", and north of Bloor "Spadeena". I would like to recommend, however, that from now on we all pronounce the street in its entirety SpadEEna- please, for your own sake, don't catch yourself following in the footsteps of those lumpens of years past.

...Confused?

ALSO: please visit the Spadina Historic House Museum!! 

All I Want Is All I Need (Part 4)

Just when I thought I'd changed my ways and I would never lose any of my belongings ever again in life- I lost something.

The biting wind and extreme temperatures of late made me want to break out my trusty old Hugo Boss parka...naturally, it's gone. Where, who knows!! Just another one of my expensivo goodies to add to the list (that JM has been all too thoughtful to compile. Look here.)

Since I am winter coat-less, I've been on the prowl trying

 to decide what my next one should be...and I think I've found it!

When I was in Paris two summers ago (yes, I wanted alot of things in Paris...) I walked by the Moncler store near my hotel on the Faubourg Ste-Honore, and decided that I needed one...what's better in a winter jacket than warm and obnoxious?! I want the "K2", so...I'm going to get one. The end.

Smug Smirky Suri

Ummm am I the only person who thinks that Suri Cruise- the offspring of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes- is kind of like hmm well uhhh i don't know ummm a stuck up b***h???

Yes, she's like 3 or something. But come on, her photos are all over the place...doesn't anybody else notice the smug little smirk on her face all the time?

Hell, I don't blame her. If Roger Vivier sent me a custom pair of shoes and my mother took me for an afternoon of shopping at Hermes, I too would probably be a little snobby monster (even worse than I already am, some might say). But hey, I love stuck up bitches...in just over a decade, little socialite Suri is going to be something else.