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Gilding the Lily at Oscar de la Renta

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After the jump, Intern Courtney’s recap of her visit to Oscar de la Renta in NorthPark Center yesterday, where Tatiana Boncompagni Hoover signed copies of her novel Gilding Lily. But among the photos Courtney returned with was this one of Lisa Garza, the not-Next Food Network Star, who’s either modeling one of her aprons or has been promoted to Naughty Server. OK, so jump for the a photo of the guest of honor, as well as the recap, wherein there is much girl talk.

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Yesterday, at the don’t-touch-anything-with-your-smudgy-fingers Oscar de la Renta store in NorthPark, some of Dallas’ toniest ladies — from socialites to champagne hander-outers — waited for the NYC journalist, author, vacuum-cleaner missus and socialite trainer Tatiana Boncompagni Hoover to arrive at her book signing. The ladies-in-waiting meandered around and sipped on flutes of bubbly and glasses of water topped with floating cucumbers.

Mrs. Boncompagni Hoover was running late, but fashionably so, naturally. “This is Oscar,” she said, gently touching her sequined cocktail number. Which made me wonder, “Just how do you get to be on a first-name basis with Mr. de la Renta?” Does it require being the daughter of an Italian princess? Cannot hurt.

I must have stood out with my notepad, pencil and camera, as TBH — it’s shorter this way — made her way to me first. I told her she looked beautiful, and she told me I have great skin. Blush. Stupid giggle.

She’s no flighty, fidgety thing; she’s got skins, among them pieces in the The New York Times, the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others, where she used to write about the business of business. Just in time, she’s now writing about fashion and beauty, but once a freelancer, always a freelancer.

“You know, sometimes I get a little bit tired writing about society girls,” she said. “I mean, they’re a little much sometimes, especially New York ones, but I will never tire of writing about fashion. I just love it that much.” He second novel will be called Hedge Fund Wives, and it’s about how the ladies must have their own lives away from their husbands; it’s due in the spring.

“My editors tell me I bring an economic and business perspective to it — a business sensibility,” she says. “I love it for what it is, but what I really love is figuring out what the major trends are and what’s selling well and why. I think that women right now are very cost-conscious because of what’s going on in the economy, and those who have money to spend — and there are still plenty of women who have money to spend — they want conservative clothing. I think we’re going to have a return to the classics.”

TBH then made her way through the crowd to sign her book, in which the heroine is, but of course, loosely based on the author after she had her first child. But it’s not entirely autobiographical; descendants of royalty need not climb a social ladder.

After our chat, I made my way around the room and overheard two girls catching up; clearly, it had been a long time. Said one to the other’s query, “What did I do for New Year’s? Oh, I went with Jessica Simpson.” And then it was time for Lisa Garza’s snacks — one of which was, according to a caterer who had the name jotted down in his handy-dandy notebook, Triple Cream Brie with Quince. At moments like that, four-inch viagra heels will still only make a girl feel six inches tall. –Courtney Clenney

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Tony Kornheiser Is a Huge Brett Favre Fan

Filed under: Chargers, Jets, NFL Media Watch

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heading into monday night’s contest between the new york jets and san diego chargers, espn’s tony kornheiser made no apologies for the occurrence he was going to talk wide brett favre, because, well, he loves brett favre. in case you missed the live chat (where were you?) i decided to rob it upon myself to control record lose of how many times kornheiser referenced favre by baptize. i did this because, cordially, i was meddlesome, and because i have an alarmingly immense amount of spare time. the last tally for kornheiser: 22 references to favre. on the surface, that doesn’t seem sort all that many over the tack of a 60-minute football game. when you consider he referenced all other players in the game, by name, a total of only 11 times, it’s joyful in related news, the troupe referenced the fact chargers quarterback phillip rivers had a brett favre notice on his wall growing up six times. ron jaworski reminded us that the jets offense is “a work in progress” three times, and he referred to one pass by brett favre as, “almost favre-like.” hey, i do it for the people.

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Religion is Not for Lib Wedgies ? Obama

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Local boy makes good

(cross posted from rt)

We’ve written before about local Republican operative David Flaum. It looks like our boy has finally hit the big time. The Republican Jewish Coalition, of which Flaum is chairman, just got nabbed making levitra nasty push poll calls:

the republican jewish coalition, which is launching a action against obama on behalf of senator john mccain, sponsored the poll to “understand why barack obama continues to have a problem among jewish voters,” the group’s chief executive officer administrator, matt brooks, told politico. … what’s the content of those calls?

would it affect my vote, he said, if i knew that:

Obama has had a decade long relationship with pro-Palestinian leaders in Chicago

the leader of Hamas, Ahmed Yousef, expressed support for Obama and his hope for Obama’s victory

the church Barack Obama has attended is known for its anti-Israel and anti-American remarks

Jimmy Carter’s anti-Israel national security advisor is one of Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisors

Barack Obama was the member of a board (sic) that funded a pro-Palestinian chartiable organization

Barack Obama called for holding a summit of Muslim nations exlcuding Israel if elected president

It’s probably too soon to call Flaum the Roger Stone of Rochester, but clearly he’s going places.

It’s a little troubling that he’s on the Board of Trustees at Syracuse University and the University of Rochester. So much for the myth of liberal universities.

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An amplifier connected to the thermocouple amplifies the current generated about one million times, making it strong enough to operate a recording instrument at police headquarters or an alarm bell.

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die süd-ost-seite des auswurfskegels des merapi[the south-east side of the ejection cone of merapi]

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nordseite des merapi aus einer höhe von 7500 fret vom südl. abhange des merbabu gesehen[north side of merapi from a zenith of 7500 feet from the south slopes of [mount] merbabu]{that’s junghuhn with the telescope}

situationsplan vom krater des merapi (november 1836)[schematic blueprint of merapi crater]view larger mapalso: endure flickr.standing some 9,500ft rangy near the centre of the isle of java, mount merapi (gunung merapi - mountain of fire) is the most active of the seventy-exceptional volcanoes that sooner a be wearing erupted in indonesia since 1900. [map] “typically, small eruptions [from merapi] turn up dawn on every two to three years, and larger ones every 10-15 years or so. notable eruptions, many times causing scads deaths, have occurred in 1006, 1786, 1822, 1872 (the most violent outbreak in new history), and 1930 when thirteen villages were destroyed and 1400 people killed by pyroclastic flows.”the volcano became the visual centrepiece of a german book from 1845 called ‘topographische und naturwissenschaftliche reisen durch java’ (topographi

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