Recently a lovely girl came in to my store Chelsea Girl with her mom. She looked to be in her late teens or early twenties and was over-the-top effusive about our vintage merchandise. After…
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What Shall I Wear? A Fashion Game For Girls (and, sometimes boys!)
Selchow and Righer was a manufacturer of games and best known for distributing the original Scrabble and Parcheesi. The company was bought by Coleco (now there’s an old name) in 1989. Much less well-known,…
Flip Flops Invade NYC! Sensible Footwear at Risk
Though I am, like many New Yorkers, somewhat self-involved, I am also civic-minded and therefore feel compelled to take the time from the demanding shooting schedule of my new reality show* to issue an urgent…
LOL: It’s the End of Language!
This morning I received the following email: Hi David, I’m writing from buzzd (www.buzzd.com), the NYC based, award-winning consumer app that tracks activity across social media networks (i.e twitter, foursquare, etc.) to show the…
“Now That I’m Here, Now That You’re Near!” In Praise of Olivia Newton-John’s Wretched/Wonderful Xanadu
Last night I attended a Xanadu screening in Chelsea hosted by my favorite drag queen, Hedda Lettuce. Xanadu is a glitter-dusted turd that manages to be completely captivating in spite of the fact that…
Spring Snow: Warm Thoughts For Phoebe, A Singer’s Singer
“….talk to me some more, you don’t have to go, you’re the poetry man, you make things all rhyme….” Phoebe Snow is a true original and, for me, one of the very best female…
Laurel Canyon Vintage To Close June,15th
“…there’ll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty, before the last revolving year is through…” Joni Mitchell’s The Circle Game from Ladies of the Canyon, 1970 It is with great disappointment that…
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