What's In Your Driveway?

Outside of Ocala, Florida lies what is called a residential 'aviation community' a.k.a. my worst nightmare. The community is officially named Jumbolair, and it is designed around one very large runway. Each of the 38 lots consists of about 2+ acres, and every home-site has a street and driveway in front, and a taxiway in the rear for your plane(s). John Travolta actually lives there....the pic is of his estate. He owns a 707 and a Gulfstream jet, and employs a cockpit crew of six, who along with him wear navy blue uniforms and jaunty white caps. He uses the 707 as the family van and the Gulfstream as his sportscar.

I can't imagine living here. It's an interesting concept, if you love flying and are the owner of a private plane, which would make you filthy stinkin rich. It's not that obsurd, sort of the same thing as living on the water with a boat or two.

We have a Ford in our driveway. I bet Travolta doesn't have a Ford....

Have A Seat

This Yves Saint Laurent chair stunned the auction world when it sold for $28.3 MILLION US DOLLARS - more than seven times its pre-sale estimate of $3.8 mill USD. The piece, designed by Eileen Gray, an Irish architect and furniture designer, and dubbed 'The Dragons', sat in Yves' sitting room.

It was sold by Christie's Auction House in Paris on Tuesday. The chair was made in 1917 or around there-in by Eileen Gray, for her first commission as an interior decorator.

Christie's just wrapped up their three day auction of the late Yves Saint Laurent's 733 piece collection.

I am finally getting around to decorating our bedroom. Unfortunately (or, fortunately?) this chair is not in my budget.

Stop It !!!

I don't know why this bothers me so much! I feel like Oscar should be put in a special velvet lined, stainless steel, bullet and flame proof case if you are going to carry it around with you. This woman friend of Sean Penn is barely holding onto Oscar, she clearly has a better grip on her cell phone which is in the same hand that is holding Oscar. Who does that?!? And she is holding Oscar with her ring and pinky fingers, and EVERYONE knows they are the weakest in the finger family. This is an injurious treatment to a sacred object. And I would never do it.

And if I did I would hold it with all my fingers, including the thumb....

Welcome # 10!

TEN! I have TEN followers!! Am in the double digits my peeps!!! Welcome, blog follower #10. I know who you are, my little Slumdog friend (and by that I mean we went to go see 'Slumdog Millionaire' together).

So, as I did for Follower #9, I will do the same for #10, which is list famous 'tens' or things with 'ten', etc etc. Here goes:

• The Ten Commandments (holla!!)
• Alexander Hamilton is on the $10 bill
• 10 Downing Street, where the British PM lives
• '10'....the 1979 movie starring Dudley Moore & Bo Derek (hey #10, you might want to consider getting beaded braids in commemoration of this significant event!)
• Eli Manning, NY Giants
• A decagon has 1o sides
• LL Cool J and Pearl Jam both had albums named 'Ten'
• The 10th month of the year is October, my birth month
• Ten Lords a Leaping
• Anything listed as 'top ten'
• Jabar Gaffney, NE Patriots
  

I 'ten'd to think that is it for now.

Kaaaaatttte........

WE STILL KNOW WHAT'S UNDER THERE KATE!

(she clearly reads my blog.....)

This Doesn't Work For Me

I always have wanted an Oscar. Always. I have been trying to figure out a way to get one for years now. Best Documentary Short? Or Best Adapated Screenplay? I mean, those seem like the easiest categories to win for. The short only has to be 14 minutes long, and then BAM....Oscar. I can forget about Best Actress, unless I get discovered which will never ever / might happen. Fingers crossed.

I've always thought that if / when I do win an Oscar, that I would carry it around with me every where I go. Just be all "see I have an Oscar", like when I go for a jog, or run an errand at CVS or the post office, or when I go to Zume's for my most delish large sug free hazelnut mild roast. But now that I see this photo of Kate Winslet taken Monday morning while she enters a studio with her Oscar in hand sans ball gown, I realize it doesn't look right. The Oscar NEEDS the glitz and the glam......Harry Winston Chandelier earrings and Oscar de la Renta at the Vanity Fair Party or the Governor's Ball is the way to be photographed with Oscar. NOT wearing black skinny jeans and a blazer whilst getting out of an SUV in a parking lot while it's raining.

So if / when I win an Oscar I have decided not to carry it with me wherever I go. Because it looks funny.

Red Carpet Versus The Runway

Frieda Pinto's dress last night at the Oscars was gorgeous! It suited her so beautifully, but thank goodness she opted for those added layers. The dress isn't nearly as pretty with the 'see everybody look at me I am wearing blue lacey granny panties' feature. No thank you.
I always thought that actresses wore dresses that were specifically designed for them, but apparantely I was wrong. I haven't decided if I am disappointed about this or not.....