Ultra-trendy fashion retailer H&M, or Hennes & Mauritz AB, also known as the Ikea of clothing stores, will open a 43,000-square-foot West Coast flagship store on Powell Street in San Francisco next year, property owners at the site said.
I read somewhere that Mango is considering opening a store in San Francisco too. Could Zara be far behind?
(For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, these stores specialize in trendy-but-affordable clothing. We have nothing like it here currently.)
"I'm moving to Jerusalem to study for a year sometime in July. I plan on walking around in a t-shirt that says 'Niggas need to chill.'"
Mobius, author of the JewSchool blog, from his interview on JewGoo
From Newsday's website:
Paintings of President Bush and ex-President Clinton, accompanied by alarming messages, mysteriously appeared last week on the walls of two major city museums and reportedly at two other museums, in Philadelphia and Washington.
Harold Holzer, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said Wednesday that a cartoon-type painting of Bush against a background of shredded dollar bills was found hanging Saturday on the wall near an exit in the museum's Modern Art galleries.
"The Metropolitan is a repository for the greatest works of human creativity over the last 5,000 years," Holzer said. "It is not a bulletin board. For us it is clearly an unwelcome demonstration of self-aggrandizement."
There was also a label: the media used were "acrylic, legal tender and the artist's semen." Ewwww.
As my family says, "It's art."
There's a great view from the office here (not my office, my boss's). But our usual seagoing fare consists of ferries and container ships, with the occasionally sailboat thrown in. You don't often see a cruiseship, let alone a brand-new one. Actually, this one isn't exactly new; it's been redone and reflagged. I'm not completely sure, but I think I sailed on it in Hawaii when it was the Norwegian Star. Now it's the Pride of Aloha. And... er... that's about it. Procrastinating and wishing I was on a boat!
The image to the right is a rather blurry photo of the pendant I made for my mother in this jewelry class I've been taking. It's made of silver... specifically, a silver clay that you can work like any kind of clay, and then when it's fired, it shrinks, the non-silver material burns away, and you've got shiny stuff! Great class.
Those lovely Enron folks...
"Do you know when you started overscheduling load and making buckets of money on that?"
and these charmers...
In one transcript a trader asks about "all the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers of California."
The Enron trader responds, "Yeah, Grandma Millie, man. But she's the one who couldn't figure out how to (expletive) vote on the butterfly ballot."
"Yeah, now she wants her (expletive) money back for all the power you've charged right up - jammed right up her (expletive) for (expletive) 250 dollars a megawatt hour," the first trader says.
I hope they go to prison. I hope somebody makes them their (expletive) in prison. (Stealing from California customers is bad enough, but confusing California with Florida?)
