Anna DeStefano's Blog

This one takes the cake. And I LOVE cake. Chocolate cake (preferably red velvet with cream cheese icing). But I digress… If you’re looking for love and need a little help finding your mate–or at least not marrying your cousin–I give you a “fool”proof visual aid to keep you from producing heirs without extra limbs or digits or even more disturbing multiple body parts.

Click the image to enlarge and enjoy every deicion point in this “thinking” tree–BUT FIRST make sure your office door is closed, because you’re going to pee yourself laughing!!!

This is priceless. So valuable, I’m surprised there isn’t a patent.

No more thought required. Signs throughout this wall chart will stop you before disaster strikes. Date with confidence and ease. Know you’re safe from violating crimes of morality, nature, and civil governments everywhere, just by following these few simple steps to making your next “match” from the comfort of your very own double wide.

For more background on how this wacky guide to streamlining stress in your personal life came to be, go here.

Tell me you love this as much as I do!

I embrace clothes and bags and shoes as art.Those who design the creations that become part of my reality as I wear them, are as much artists to me as the painters and sculptors that mesmerize my imagination in museums and galleries. But… Sometimes, the art becomes an excuse to be an ass, and that’s just ugly. And me no like ugly, I don’t care who you are or how gifted your work might be.

Tom Ford hasn’t worked in women’s fashion in a while. He’s back, to the relief of many. His 2011 collection is amazing. But he’s an ass. Not just smug–that I can deal with.

See his profile in the December issue of Vogue for a flavor of an artist who’s full of himself but talented enough to pull it off (coincidentally, that issue also spotlights the plagued Spider Man musical as “rocking,” meanwhile it’s currently falling apart, literally, as the world watches, so consider the source when you’re turning to Vogue for your current events coverage).

But back to Tom Ford’s world view. Like I said, smug I can handle. Then there’s his January Harper’s Bazaar interview…

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Sometimes I read and hear something so crazy, it makes me wonder exactly what the person was thinking when they wrote or said it. And when the crazy things aren’t actually coming out of my own mouth for a change, I tend to write them down. On lists. That I keep in drawers in my desk. So when  weeks/months/years go by and I’m actually tidying up the shadowy places in my office that the best flotsam gravites to, I usually come across a surprise chuckle or two.

“Why don’t you blog your lists,” my husband said this morning, “instead of writing them on papers that are just going to lie around in your office waiting for you to get annoyed enough to dig them out?”

Good point.

Why don’t I.

From the August Herald
(Augusta, Georgia, we had to explain yesterday to our niece from Far, Far Away.  NOT Augusta, Maine.)
Day After Thanksgiving:

When a Marine goes down…

A computer was stolen from the Best Buys. No address given in the article, by the way, because there’s only the one in town. In Atlanta, there’s a Best Buys on practically every corner. Someone’s always trying to steal something. Big city journalists have to be more specific if they want anyone to care enough to read past their by-line.

Anyway, the thief was caught by the store’s Shopping Surveillance Team. Not store security. We’re now politically correcting our hourly rent-a-cops, so they don’t feel vilified by the thieving shopping masses. (more…)