Cruel Summer: G.O.O.D Music

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Falling Short: Pixie Cut

This fall a lot of celeb's have been cutting their hair short which pixie do you fancy most?

Halle Berry

Keyshia Gibson

Rihanna

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Lest we Forget: September 11, 2001

Lest we Forget

 2012

Today, I've posted primarily about New York City but I've saved the best for last.  I'd like to take this time to remember the significance of September 11 also known as 9/11.  Eleven years ago the Twin Towers came down after hijacked planes came crashing into each tower.  Nearly, 3,000 lives were lost that day and some continue to this day from the healthy issues that arise as being the first responders; police officers, fire fighters, health workers, volunteers and clean-up crews.  Alongside, the people who lost their lives on American Airlines flight 77 into the Pentagon and United Airlines flight 93 into a nearby field.

New York Fashion Week Fall Trends 2012: Fifty Shades of Grey Inspired?

From advertising to latest trends, see for yourself why I think that Fifty Shades of Grey has had some influence on New York's Fashion Week Fall 2012 Trends: 

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#1

Top 5 Trends of NYFW2012

#5 - Earth Tones (Christian's Red Room)

#4 - Pointy Shoes (Ana's Louboutins)

#3 - Harness Belts (Christian's grey tie)

#2 - Bright Red Lips (Ana's lip biting)

#1 - Leather (Christian's whips,canes & flogs)

Do you agree with me? Now, which trend(s) do you like? And, will you be incorporating some of them into your fall wardrobe?  I love your comments!

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The Concrete Jungle: NYC

Labour Day weekend I packed up and headed out to New York City to visit my family and act like a tourist.  I've gone to New York on many occasions but I have yet to participate in the tourist activities of NYC.  So, this trip would be the beginning of my exploration of the BIG Apple.  I journeyed thorough 2 of the 5 boroughs (Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, Queens & Manhattan) making up NYC. The borough of Manhattan being the most interesting to me.  From Spanish Harlem to Seaport my travels introduced and re-introduced me to why I love to go to Manhattan when I'm in NYC.  From indulging in peach jamboree's at Magnolia Bakery to having a traditional Italian meal in Historic Little Italy, then expanding my Fifty Shades of Grey knowledge at the Museum of Sex, to seeing Chicago the longest running show on Broadway (get rush tickets you can see more shows that way), to visiting the new home of the Brooklyn Nets at the new Barclay Center, and experiencing the subway rush when fans pack like sardines to get off at 161 St to watch the Yankees at Yankee Stadium just to mention a few places. I have to agree the borough (last two places in the city but not of the borough) named for it's once-upon-a-time "Many Hills" now flattened and gridded is one of the best places in the world.  I definitely recommend "hopping on, hopping off" of one of the double decker bus companies and go to SOHO for shopping if you don't want to spend your life's savings on Fifth Avenue. Lastly, don't forget to wear your walking shoes you're going to need them!


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Women Words & Wine: Fifty Shades Of Grey

I belong to book club called Women Words & Wine.  Each month we discuss a book and for the month of July we decided to swap out The Pilmgrammage by Paul Cohelro for the reasons of, .it's summer why not read something hot, steamy and downright seductive during this heat wave...and downright seductive it is!  So, The Pilmgrammage got placed back on the book shelf for Fifty Shades of Grey. 

Dear Readers: *SPOILER ALERT*

Now, this trilogy begins when Anatasia Steele becomes the substitute interviewer for her roommate/bff Kate who falls ill.  Anatasia who likes to be called Ana stumbles (awe struck and clumsy) into the interviewee office of Christian Grey to carry out this interview for the university paper.  Unknowingly, Ana has captured the attention this very young entrepreneur (he'd definitely be Forbes list quality....$100,000.00 an hour).

Christian not one to let things, people or places he sees fit to pass him by, he embarks on the challenge of contracting Ana.  Contracting Ana?  Yep, you read right!  Christian mesmerizing to all the senses; sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch requires you to enter into a contract and one that at first needs you to sign a NDA.  Again, NDA what's that you ask?  Non-disclosure Agreement, what could be required of you that you need to first sign this paper before you can review this contract....well, a man of his nature...oops! I mean, a man of his stature definitely wouldn't want to be all over the tabloids. He does have a business to run and I see no fault wanting to separate his business life from his personal life.  But when the personal life has hard limits and soft limits, requires you to eat from a listing of foods, accept being lavished with gifts, to sleep in your bed in your own room at his place every weekend (no week days), have a personal trainer with a set amount of training appts....the list goes on.  Then you really begin to question???...Caning, flogging, whippings, spanking, plugs, ties and more. Really there's more?  Yes, there is!  Frequencies, thresholds, locations and the details are not left out.  I would love to be the fly in the room when the lawyer has to prepare this document for his client and the fly on the wall for the psychologist sessions too!

That there is the ENTIRE hype of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy because after that it's just a love story of a naive girl Ana who happens to catch the eye of a filthy rich young man, Christian Grey.  He does his best at courting her although, he's very much of a control freak and very honest about it.  However, his childhood past, adolescent relationship interferes with his ability to love, understanding that love is a give and take reciprocation.  If you're going to be honest you have to be honest about everything! Ana, on the other hand needs to understand that you can't keep pushing people...sometimes, they just need a little bit of time especially, if you can recognize it.  Eventually, she leaves him his requirements are just too much for her.  But then she realizes, she too, can try new things, if it keeps her with him but with a few adjustments. Flaws and All!

All in all, he has unfortunate dark secrets that come one after the other and she likes to be controlled under her own parameters. Am I beating a dead horse...yep, because that's what it's like reading this book.  E.L. James is an amateur writer at best who shockingly became a success with Fifty Shades of Grey. I've read novels by many other authors whose "vanilla" sex scenes could actually leave you breathless, throbbing and shocked that you've read about 10+ pages of pure, jaw dropping sex.  And the S&M....what S&M??!!! I believe mainly by re-introducing people to master and submissive, which is tame at most. She's single handedly captured audiences. Yes, there are many sex scenes but when description is so few, you have to put in more.  Besides, the writing is pretty bad at best. 

Let's just say if I ever got to meet E.L. James I need to ask her "What's hooded eyes?". 

Just for fun!  Who would you like to see casted as Christian Grey:

Ryan Gosling


Matthew Bromer

Alex Pettyfer


Let me know what your thoughts of the book?  Did you just read Fifty Shades of Grey or did you do the trilogy as myself.  I covet your comments!

P.s. I only continued to read the trilogy because I'm a hopeless romantic....it was a predictable love story *embarrassedface*

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Forbes: Cash Kings 2012 Top 20 Earners

Looking to see whose talk isn't cheap.....

Forbes has put out there Cash Kings 2012 and Dr. Dre is #1 with
 $110 Million thanks to Beats by dr dre. This listing is compiled between May 2011 and May 2012 and is pretax, management, agent and lawyer fees. 

1. Andre "Dr. Dre" Young ($110 million)
2. Sean "Diddy" Combs ($45 million)
3. Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter ($38 million)
4. Kanye West ($35 million)
5. Dwayne "Lil Wayne" Carter ($27 million)
6. Aubrey Drake Graham ($20.5 million)
7. Bryan "Birdman" Williams ($20 million)
8. Nicki Minaj ($15.5 million)
9. Marshall "Eminem" Mathers ($15 million)
10. Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges ($12 million)
11. Pitbull ($9.5 million)
12. Rick Ross ($9 million, tie)
12. Wiz Khalifa ($9 million, tie)
14. Snoop Lion ($8.5 million)
15. 50 Cent ($7.5 million)
16. Swizz Beatz ($7 million, tie)
16. Pharrell Williams ($7 million, tie)
16. Young Jeezy ($7 million, tie)
19. Mac Miller ($6.5 million)
20. Akon ($6 million, tie)

Let me know who surprised you on the list and who you expected to see but didn't make it.  I covet your comments!


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