HOSTESS GIFTS THAT DON'T SUCK

You know how every single solitary time you get invited over to someone's place for dinner, or for a holiday party, or for a booty call, you always bring over a bottle of wine? Right, well that's kind of nice, but also boring as hell. Bringing wine is basically the equivalent of saying: "I appreciate the fact that you made me kale salad and artisanal tater tots, but I don't have enough time to think about an original gift, so here's the $25 bottle of wine that Max at that wine shop on 7th Ave recco'd cause he said, even though he never tried it, ppl were saying that "it was pretty good." 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Anyway, if you're looking to break out of your Hostess gift-giving rut, here are a few ideas that you can totally copy, and then take all the credit for thinking up. 

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JONATHAN ADLER KNOWS WHAT THE HELL HE'S TALKIN BOUT, WILLIS

Loved this talk from the 99 conference from interior design mega daddy, Jonathan Adler.

His basic advice: have a "fuck it" attitude about everything. "Keep other people's opinions out of your creative process." Do it your way. Do what you love. Mess up...it's ok. He didn't think strategically, or follow all of the rules, or "master" social media. But he's still rockin it out big time now. 

And though he didn't talk much about it, I would add: be original. Yeah, I know it's hard these days when everything has been done 8 million different ways till next Tuesday, but at least trrrrrry. 

Ya, dig?

WHY DO ALL RICH PEOPLE HAVE SUCH AMAZINGLY BAD TASTE??

You know, I started out just wanting to do a post of how totally fucking badass Elvis-n-Priscilla's old house out in LA was/is. But then I started scrolling through the pictures on Curbed LA. 

I started off with this pic above.

I mean, gorge right? 

All I really needed to see were those gigantic front doors with the hardware in the middle (wth is that called, by the way??) and I was pretty much in. Then I read that it was in Trousdale estates and I was WAY in. For those that aren't familiar, Trousdale was developed in the 1950's, and is basically a small area up in Beverly Hills where all the hot celebs of the time used to live. Translation: there are a bunch of killer, kick-ass mid-century homes there, that now all each cost a billion dollars. Case in point, Jennifer Aniston's house there that was listed for 42 millies.

But wait a red hot minute. Back to Elvis and Priscilla's house. 

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DEEP THOUGHTS WITH FRANK OCEAN

Yup x a billion.

Also this: 

And this: 

[I heart Frank Ocean]

CURRENT STATUS: LOVING THE SHIT OUT OF REVENGE

I totally need to do a TV catch-up post with all of you cause my head is about to explode with excitment over the Fall TV season, but tonight it's alllll about Revenge!

Ok, and The Real Housewives of NJ reunion! But mostly Revenge!

Nolan! And Emily! And even annoying Daniel! So happy they're back!

UPDATE: Ok, first ep was fab, though it was a little weird that we're all starting off on such a dark note now. At least last year it took a little while to realize how fucked up Emily is. Also, how much do you think Ninja camp costs?