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*As in, sour/tangy, not the euphemism for a promiscuous woman…

Acid yellow-green with deep plummy purple.

This color combo was being rocked hard by South Asian girls this week.

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I met up with Shannon again last week, and she was rockin' the earthy vibes with this amazing embroidered tunic. I also love how she pinned a Celtic knot brooch to her jeans.

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I went into Office Max the other day, looking for a very specific kind of binder clip. Of course they didn’t have what I was looking for, nor did they have a couple of other things I was looking for, thus confirming my opinion that Office Max is completely useless.

That did not, however, stop me from picking up some things I did not know I wanted or needed. Exhibit A: Blue and white fleur-de-lis and brocade patterned stationery from their trendy “DiVoga” line.

Images via Office Max

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Or, how to be a museum ninja.

NOTE: This article was also picked up by The Mercurial. Thanks Amanda!

1. Plan your visit for a weekday, preferably early in the week.

Weekends are definitely a bad idea – in addition to regular tourists from far-off regions of the US and the world, you will be competing for line space with local and regional visitors who are in town just for the weekend.

2. Buy your ticket online ahead of time.

You’ll still have to wait in line, but you can print it out and take it to any information desk or ticket counter to check in. And it will save you about a minute of cash- or credit card-processing at the counter.

While you’re at it, print out a map, and note the bathrooms, and the location of the exhibit, so you don’t waste time looking for the floorplan and asking where the exhibit is.

Of course, if you are a museum member, you can skip the line entirely.

And if you’d like to contribute 2x the usual suggested admission, you can see the exhibit on a Monday, when the museum is usually closed.

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Ch. 1

This building greeted me and Hubz as we pulled off the highway into Philadelphia last weekend. It’s located on Vine Street, just north of Chinatown.

I can’t tell if it’s actually very well-preserved wall paper from the adjacent building (now a parking lot) or a more recent addition of very creative street art. I have my spies working to find out more about it.

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*Not at all exhaustive.

Thanks to my husband’s employer, my vacation this year was a  long weekend in Philadelphia. That is not a complaint, in any way, except that he was working most of the time. So it was a weird solo-trip-together… But a much-needed change of scenery.

I was able to revisit some of my favorite spots from my first trip to PHL with my sister about 4 years ago?? (That seems like a long time, but it’s probably accurate.)

I also got to visit some parts of town that were new to me (which was easy, because Sis and I didn’t venture too far on our mini-trip back then).

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(Red 40 Lake was also a band in the '90s-'00s in central Connecticut, fronted by a former classmate of mine – anyone else heard of them or remember the glory days of Radio 104?)

This ice cream truck is so well-dressed, it has no idea.

My photo. Main Street, Danbury, 20 May 2011.

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By special request…

You may have heard that the world as we know it is going to end this Saturday.

Stylewise, you have 2 main choices:

I. The Saved

I think you can go 2 ways here:

A. Monastic

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Outfit highlights from this past week.

Wednesday, 11

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Random Review is a monthly article reviewing something– books, blogs, movies, art– who knows, really? But it will be fashion related, some way, somehow.

A couple of weeks ago I treated myself to another dreamboat William Powell movie—I watched him last year in My Man Godfrey with Claudette Colbert (hilarious lady!), in which he was utterly charming.

As the title indicates, The Kennel Murder Case had a very different feel from the light comedy and social commentary of Godfrey. But in true old Hollywood fashion, the—um—fashion did not disappoint.

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