Charice Live in Mandalay Bay

There are many reasons this girl is amazing. Yes, her voice is black belt and totally schools Celine, Whitney, Beyonce, and Mariah combined. She's also a kickass beatboxer and does some first-rate impressions. She has style, she has class. But most importantly, Charice is just raw. So if this does not, at the very least, give you the chills...

Soul Pancake #13

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. ~Sainte-Beuve

Aubrey Plaza in Lula Magazine

"I just love the idea of playing a magical bad-ass witch...a super-confident kind of femme fatale character. Like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction!"

I am loving this old Hollywood chic that Plaza has going on lately. 

She looks like a classy, savvy woman. Definitely femme fatale.
Full interview here.

   

HAIR: David Gardner at SoloArtists

MAKE-UP: Mai Quynh at Starworks Artists

PHOTOGRAPHY: Damon Heath

STYLING: Aya T. Kanai

All Clothes: Marc Jacobs, Glasses: Chloe Sevigny For Opening Ceremony

Dress: Karen Walker, Cardigan: Juicy Couture, Shoes: Aldo

Dress: Phillip Lim, Necklace: Janis Savitt, Boots: Laurence Dacade

Jacket: Ksubi, Dress: Catherine Malandrino, Shoes: Aldo

Dress: Marni, Boots: Laurence Dacade

Giant Ass Cookie

Today I made a giant ass chocolate chip peanut butter cookie. It was amazing. So amazing that I only got a photo of it before it went into the oven, not after. It's kind of like a pudding when it's warm, but it's even better when you put it in the fridge for a few hours.

1/2 cup coconut sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 1/2 cups peanut butter

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla 

1 cup plus 1 Tbsp. flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

lots of chocolate chips

Happy Thanksgiving!

And now, in honor of the gutsy Wall Street protesters, something slightly subversive in tone and mood...a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

I Am Waiting

By LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

I am waiting for my case to come up   

and I am waiting

for a rebirth of wonder

and I am waiting for someone

to really discover America

and wail

and I am waiting   

for the discovery

of a new symbolic western frontier   

and I am waiting   

for the American Eagle

to really spread its wings

and straighten up and fly right

and I am waiting

for the Age of Anxiety

to drop dead

and I am waiting

for the war to be fought

which will make the world safe

for anarchy

and I am waiting

for the final withering away

of all governments

and I am perpetually awaiting

a rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the Second Coming   

and I am waiting

for a religious revival

to sweep thru the state of Arizona   

and I am waiting

for the Grapes of Wrath to be stored   

and I am waiting

for them to prove

that God is really American

and I am waiting

to see God on television

piped onto church altars

if only they can find   

the right channel   

to tune in on

and I am waiting

for the Last Supper to be served again

with a strange new appetizer

and I am perpetually awaiting

a rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for my number to be called

and I am waiting

for the Salvation Army to take over

and I am waiting

for the meek to be blessed

and inherit the earth   

without taxes

and I am waiting

for forests and animals

to reclaim the earth as theirs

and I am waiting

for a way to be devised

to destroy all nationalisms

without killing anybody

and I am waiting

for linnets and planets to fall like rain

and I am waiting for lovers and weepers

to lie down together again

in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the Great Divide to be crossed   

and I am anxiously waiting

for the secret of eternal life to be discovered   

by an obscure general practitioner

and I am waiting

for the storms of life

to be over

and I am waiting

to set sail for happiness

and I am waiting

for a reconstructed Mayflower

to reach America

with its picture story and tv rights

sold in advance to the natives

and I am waiting

for the lost music to sound again

in the Lost Continent

in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the day

that maketh all things clear

and I am awaiting retribution

for what America did   

to Tom Sawyer   

and I am waiting

for Alice in Wonderland

to retransmit to me

her total dream of innocence

and I am waiting

for Childe Roland to come

to the final darkest tower

and I am waiting   

for Aphrodite

to grow live arms

at a final disarmament conference

in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting

to get some intimations

of immortality

by recollecting my early childhood

and I am waiting

for the green mornings to come again   

youth’s dumb green fields come back again

and I am waiting

for some strains of unpremeditated art

to shake my typewriter

and I am waiting to write

the great indelible poem

and I am waiting

for the last long careless rapture

and I am perpetually waiting

for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn   

to catch each other up at last

and embrace

and I am awaiting   

perpetually and forever

a renaissance of wonder

Soul Pancake #12

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you...This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. ~Rumi

Soul Pancake #11

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. ~Heywood Broun