image via Yay! Everyday

image via Tom Palumbo

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” -Ernest Hemingway

French Breeze (Gourmet, July 1961):

There are too few cocktails made with Calvados. And there are too few cocktails made with grapefruit juice. Here’s one with both. Unless you’re a big fan of bitter orange, go easy on the orange-flower water.

Pour 2 ounces each of Calvados and fresh grapefruit juice into a cocktail shaker one-third full of cracked ice. Add 2 dashes orange-flower water and 1/4 teaspoon fine granulated sugar. Shake the drink well and pour it into a chilled 12-ounce highball glass. Fill the glass with chilled Champagne and stir lightly to blend.

image via The Icon

I hope she didn't use an alcohol-based hairspray.

An exhibition of Hugh Kretschmer's photography--which I find really striking and hilarious--is opening tomorrow night at the Clark|Oshin Gallery on Wilshire.

There's something equally amusing and off-putting about his work that makes me think of filmmakers like Michel Gondry and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. I've never liked Dali's brand of surrealism--too serious--which is why I think I gravitate to Kretschmer's childlike-yet-macabre imagination.

In short, go look.

image via Peter Lippmann

This is my favorite image among many amazing images shot by Peter Lippmann for the Christian Louboutin Fall 2009/2010 lookbook.

Why is this my favorite photograph? It's not only because it features dripping candles, moldy old books and a foreboding skull. It's because when I first saw these shoes, they reminded me of something Pocahontas might wear if she landed a role on The Hills.

Genius.