Carousel -- Week Ending 24th October 2008
[ 24 October 2008 ]
Photo by Timmy Kern!
Welcome to Friday, gorgeous! Voilà, a bumper edition of Carousel for ultimate procrastinatory purposes!
Tina Su writes about How To Overcome Resentment. I love Tina! I want to give her a big hug! Come to New York, little lady!
On that subject… Overheard In New York: Well I’ve been trying to cut back on MSG, toughest granny ever & umbrella cheer!
I discovered a whole bunch of great new blogs on Sunday… Sex Work 101 is committed to educating the public about sex work in all its various forms. It’s super interesting & an awesome cause. From there I stumbled onto Do You Have Sex With Your Clients? (And other reader questions for the Dominatrix) as well as Sex Work: 14 answers to your questions.
fluo kids is a music blog, mostly in French, & I like it very much.
The BridgeMaker is a personal development blog with some great pieces like A Guide to Creating Success | 24 Essential Actions You Can Do Beginning Today, 7 Must-Have Personal Growth Strategies & 45 Tips for a Happier, Simpler and More Productive Life.
JAK & JIL BLOG is written in all caps, but features the best best best of model street style. I love it.
debauchette (& her tumblr): “I write about sex and I live in New York.” I especially liked advice for aspiring call girls. Oh, & by the way, NSFW!
Eyeliner at the beach — why not?
This photo is so cool: Just a Different Perspective.
Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour Book pictures. Honestly, these photos kind of make me want to join a gym.
I’m sure I’ve linked this before but I still love it… Online tarot readings for all!
The Top 20 Things Oprah Knows for Sure.
This made me laugh… New York Cheat Sheets.
Ctrl Alt Del Tea Set! Nerd-o-rama!
If you find mornings tough, you’re not alone. Thankfully, someone has come to the rescue with a daily roller-boogie mp3 emailed straight to your inbox! If that doesn’t start your day off right, nothing will…
10 Steps To Be The Brand You Want In Life is fantastic.
Melvin Sokolsky took photos of women in bubbles & flying over tables & stuff!
20jazzfunkgreats is an awesome music blog. LOVE IT. Subscribe now! I especially like this remix of Phil Collins’ I’m Not Moving. The description is what got me: “It sounds like Phil Collin’s under water / in outer space / inside a volcano.”
Pretty Much Amazing! is another music blog. Yay!
Beautiful & Depraved is a faaaairly pornographic collection of pictures found all over the web. So don’t click the link at work or if graphic depictions of sexuality upset you! Consider yourself warned!
Three of my favourite people in one article — Karl Lagerfeld, Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen — talking about family planning, tight jeans & models.
Flickr photos tagged “love note”. Add your own! (& if you don’t have anyone to write you cute notes — boo! — write them to yourself!)
Ben Westwood Stages Protest with Fetish Models: “Erotic photographer Ben Westwood, Vivienne Westwood’s son, staged a protest featuring bound-and-gagged models in fetish clothing at the House of Commons yesterday.” Awesome. Props.
Eye Heart Glasses is a brand SPANKING new blog started by my super-cute friend Jo. It’s all about, you guessed it, glasses! Cute ones, weird ones, hot people in them, & where to buy the best. (Plus there are photos of her & her glasses collection, & she is totally hot & adorable.)
For those of you who enjoyed my overview of Parisian style earlier this week, check out Paris Style Report – L’Automne from Une femme d’une certain age!
Influence by Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen is going to be AMAZING! Look! Squeal! Delight!
I found this via my beautiful wife/husband! 50 Ways To Improve Your Productivity As A Freelancer. Good for anyone who works from home or even anyone with a big project. So useful, love it!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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Wow, there’s loads to keep me amused at work today, thanks Gala!
I love the Ctrl Alt Del tea set, I really am just a big nerd at heart :D
IMPRESSIVE!
Wow Gala, you really out did yourself this week! Way to go!
Hahah. I know! I went on a bit of an internet binge this week! Hope you enjoy it ;>
awww, i have no idea how you have the time/motivation to find all of these! i love the variety on icing. you have lovely taste.
That “Just a different perspective” photo is amazing, but makes me nervous at the same time— it looks as though one gust of wind & she could have fallen right off the edge! Eee :S
Firstly, love that pic of you Gala! Secondly, I can’t wait to check out some of these links! Thirdly, thanks for a great week of icing, cupcake and carousel!!!
xoxo
Jo’s the best! I
love your site!!
ooh, lots of lovely fun! i’m glad i gave myself the day off now :3
So much to look at this morning! Awesome list again, this week, Gala. Thanksss! xo
Awesome roundup as usual! Thanks especially for the links to the music blogs; lately I’ve been in a bit of a rut musically, and was just the other day wondering if you had any awesome new music sites to recommend! :D
Oh: and I’d totally wear eyeliner to the beach! I usually will dab on some waterproof mascara before I hit the sand anyway, so it wouldn’t be too far of a leap to do eyeliner. :)
Best. Paris. Picture. Ever. You look like you belong there.
Thanks for the link!
a lot of greatness today! thank you very much gala. all of these links should keep me busy while i’m nursing my sore muscles from boxing training :‘D much appreciated, as always!
Oooooh, I looooove Carousel! :) There are some amazing articles there Gala, thanks for sharing!
hello, lovely distractions!
Hey Gala! On the topic of Mary Kate & Ashley, I just wanted to let you know about their new book
www.amazon.com/Influence
It’s supposed to a collection of them interviewing people that have inspired them. I wasn’t sure if you already knew, but I wanted to give you the heads up just in case!
Casey — I love music blogs, they’re my saviour!
deja pseu — Thanks, cutie!
robin — That’s what the second-to-last link is about! It’s previews of the book. It looks so great. They were on Oprah talking about it yesterday!
Oh man, i didn’t even realize you covered it a few times already in your entry :( sorry about that!
That photo if you in Paris is amazing! x
Can I just say that I love Carousel? At first I thought it was a little weird, but every week I end up clicking on almost all of the links and finding news things to love and laugh over.
I had never heard of Jak & Jil blog before, but I am so obsessed now. Thank you!
Gala – Do you have stumbleupon?
It really is amazing for finding links!
You get a little button that sits just up the top of your internet screen and when you click it, it brings you up a webpage you might like! Of course you’ve done a tick-the-box kind of survey beforehand to tell it what you like but there’s also other little buttons so you can search for just videos, pictures or even blogs! And there’s little thumbs (up or down) that you can press, press the up one and it will save the site to your stumbleupon home so you can find it again!
But by the looks of things you don’t need it! ;)
I have to say I laughed out loud on loads of these! Brilliant! thank you for making Friday go fast!
;)
The bubble photos are astonishing … as is that shot of you in Paris, Gala!
Oh I love that Different Perspective photo, but it makes me so nervous to look at it! I blame my own bad balance hehe.
I think I have seen those tarot readings on here before, but I forgot about it so thanks for the reminder!
I saw the things that keep me awake in New York poster earlier this week, I’D KILL TO HAVE IT ON MY WALL, its so awesome.
And im super excited for the olsen’s influence book woo
I love PMA!, I’ve been subscribed for years!
I now love Pretty Much Amazing! Thank you!
thanks for the linky-link and spreading the roller boogie word!
gretchen
ps your blog is top drawer. i love it here!
Thank you so much Gala!
That was incredible.
And I love how you still like Mary-Kate and Ashley.
I do too, but where I live everyone seems to shun them…
It’s sad, but they just don’t know what they’re missing…
:D
Thanks a bunch!
love this list!