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Geo i fashion (www.geoifahion.blogspot.com)

Geo i fashion (www.geoifahion.blogspot.com)

Geo i fashion (www.geoifahion.blogspot.com)

Geo i fashion (www.geoifahion.blogspot.com)

The Guild of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles Presents Accessories for Success Spring Luncheon and Fashion Show

LOS ANGELES, April 23 /FashionNews/ — The Guild of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles presents its annual Accessories for Success Spring Luncheon and Fashion Show featuring fashions by Neiman Marcus, April 27, 2010 at The Beverly Hills Hotel.  Financial management expert Laura Lizer and philanthropist Joni Berry will be honored.  Amber Valletta emcees, Shirley MacLaine and Norm Crosby will present.  Jackie Collins and Joanna Poitier are Honorary Chairs, Mary Willard is Event Chair and Rochelle Maize and Brock Moseley serve as Luncheon Co-Chairs.
Prior to the luncheon, a boutique will be conducted offering high-end accessories donated by retailers, spas, salons and jewelers including Beverly Hills’ Nelson J Salon, Sherman Oak’s Blue Medi Spa and the eco-aware accessory company Make Love Not Trash. An Accessories Boutique will feature fashionable vendors donating a portion of proceeds from their sales.
Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine will present the Excellence in Mentoring Award to Laura Lizer, founder and president of Laura Lizer and Associates, a wholly owned financial management firm for entertainment industry professionals. Managing both legendary veterans and new industry leaders, Lizer currently handles assets worth more than one billion dollars.
Comedian Norm Crosby will present the Sterling Award to philanthropist Joni Eichenbaum Berry.  Berry is president of the Eichenbaum Foundation and has touched the lives of countless people through her generous giving and volunteer work.
The Guild was founded in 1986 and is dedicated to promoting awareness and raising financial support for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles. The Guild has raised over $8 million to support the one-to-one mentoring programs of Big Brothers Big Sisters. The Guild hosts its primary fundraising event, Rising Stars Gala, which will be held on October 29, 2010.
For more than 50 years, the agency has assisted boys and girls in achieving their highest potential as they grow to become confident, competent and caring individuals through professionally supported one-to-one relationships with caring men and women. Their work is as elementary as putting an adult friend in a child’s life, and as essential as putting hope into a child’s future. Big Brothers Big Sisters have proven successful in creating and nurturing relationships between adults and children.

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What the kids are wearing now

What the kids were wearing then

I appreciate your concern for the health of my gag reflex, Russ, and I’m happy to report that it’s working splendidly.  No danger of consuming anything posing an obvious choking or poisoning hazard here, my friend, because I know for certain that I have no problem puking when puking is called for.  So yeah, you can quit it already with the VOMIT-INDUCING Facebook PDA in good conscience, knowing that your efforts have not been wasted.
Speaking of which, how’s India?  A little ironic that you’re there and I’m not, seeing as how I’ve always wanted to go to India, have been fascinated by Indian culture and religion and you — well, let’s just say that historically, you haven’t.  Take some pics for me, why dontcha?
Alright already, on to topics of more general interest (“HA!” says the Viennese man who stumbled on our blog while looking for Gerhard Richter jpegs).  I agree that we are due to post our various Best Things of the Aughts.  I had, in fact, been giving the topic a good thinking over prior to reading your post.  I’m trying to take myself back to the dawn of the millennium so I might better recall all the miraculous changes and improvements to my daily life that have since occurred, but it’s all a little hazy.  Lots and lots of time in a beautiful, if somewhat dilapidated painting studio at Penn.  An obscenely cheap apartment — seriously, I think it was $450 a month  — that was sort of collapsing around us, but was on a super-nice block in a great part of town.  It really is true that you get a little nostalgic for the shitty places you’ve lived once you start moving up in the world, isn’t it?
OK, so in the spirit of getting with the spirit, I’ll begin by offering up some of my favorite things from the Aughts.
1) TV
OMFG.  And I thought that the 90′s were the Golden Age of television, but then this decade came along.  Here is just a partial list of TV’s Aught Awesomeness — I’m sure that you have more to add.  The Sopranos*, The Wire, Deadwood, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Battlestar Galactica*, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office (both of them), Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, Mad Men, 30 Rock, Mythbusters, Glee…  An embarrassment of riches, right, Russ?  TV is no longer merely superior to being alone with your thoughts except for the hour or two a week when the show you care about is on — it’s where the action is.  Saying “I don’t watch TV” now is like saying, “I don’t read novels”.  An amusingly quirky comment when uttered by the right sort of eccentric, but certainly not a sign of intellectual superiority.
(*overrated, but still good.)
2) OBAMA.  Frak the haters.  We’ve dreamed about electing someone this awesome since we could vote.  We thought it would be Clinton.  We waited, we canvassed, we went to 2000 Gore “Victory” parties (the memory of which still make us a little teary).  We got a health care bill, you lunatic lefties, so just shut up because I LOVE HIM AND STILL CAN’T BELIEVE HE’S OURS.
3) Teleportation.  I don’t get it, but I think it’s gotta be good.