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On Tuesday, February 15, 2011
In the past we blogged about our favorite fashion blogs, The Sartorialist and Garance Dore-you probably heard of them? Hugely popular, their photos are gorgeous! It's one of those blogs that we read everyday along with our morning coffee.Anyway, here is a great article about the couple in New York Magazine if you are interested.It's so great when a blog with an original idea becomes hugely
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Tuesday, February 15, 2011
In the past we blogged about our favorite fashion blogs, The Sartorialist and Garance Dore-you probably heard of them? Hugely popular, their photos are gorgeous! It's one of those blogs that we read everyday along with our morning coffee.Anyway, here is a great article about the couple in New York Magazine if you are interested.It's so great when a blog with an original idea becomes hugely
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Friday, October 08, 2010
Did you see Gap's new logo? Isn't it a monstrosity? What the hell was Gap thinking? This looks like one of those fonts you download from the web for free because you're too cheap to pay the $39 or whatever to get a decent one.
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On Friday, October 08, 2010
Did you see Gap's new logo? Isn't it a monstrosity? What the hell was Gap thinking? This looks like one of those fonts you download from the web for free because you're too cheap to pay the $39 or whatever to get a decent one.
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On Monday, August 23, 2010
If you watch the news and read the papers, you can get reallly confused. One day the housing index is up, the next day it's down. One day the stock market roars for some weird reason, the next day it tanks for other weirder reasons.And you know what the best economic indicator there is? The Vogue September issue. We just got it today and it's nice and fat again. True, you have to flip through
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On Monday, August 23, 2010
If you watch the news and read the papers, you can get reallly confused. One day the housing index is up, the next day it's down. One day the stock market roars for some weird reason, the next day it tanks for other weirder reasons.And you know what the best economic indicator there is? The Vogue September issue. We just got it today and it's nice and fat again. True, you have to flip through
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Friday, July 30, 2010
The NY Times today has an article on The Selby. You probably heard of the site. It's about real people in their homes--some famous, some not. The article also went on to discuss how people can relate more to "real places" than professionally decked up places frequently featured in decor magazines, which contributes to their ever growing popularity. We love the Selby too but in a way, it's
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Friday, July 30, 2010
The NY Times today has an article on The Selby. You probably heard of the site. It's about real people in their homes--some famous, some not. The article also went on to discuss how people can relate more to "real places" than professionally decked up places frequently featured in decor magazines, which contributes to their ever growing popularity. We love the Selby too but in a way, it's
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On Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Okay, so we can't help wondering outloud, what the hell happened to our taste? What is it that make MTV's Jersey Shore popular? What is it that sells magazines that featured Gary Coleman's deathbed's picture? Worse yet, CNN's poll shows that 85% of people think that it's OKAY for his ex-wife to sell those pictures!!! Why, why, why we ask?And did you know, the White House crasher made the cut
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On Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Okay, so we can't help wondering outloud, what the hell happened to our taste? What is it that make MTV's Jersey Shore popular? What is it that sells magazines that featured Gary Coleman's deathbed's picture? Worse yet, CNN's poll shows that 85% of people think that it's OKAY for his ex-wife to sell those pictures!!! Why, why, why we ask?
And did you know, the White House crasher made the cut to the Bravo's series Real Housewives of DC?
Here's an excerpt from the Bravo site:
"Michaele Salahi
This northern Virginia native and model is a big part of the inner workings of the D.C. life. She and husband Tareq together founded America�s Polo Cup, for which he is the U.S. team captain. Through her involvement in the Polo Cup, which has become one of the largest and most high profile polo events in the U.S., Michaele has met numerous political leaders across the globe. Additionally, the two are involved in running the Salahi family vineyard, Oasis Winery. Always on the move and juggling multiple projects at once, Michaele is heavily involved in charity work, including being an advocate and fundraising for MS and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. A family girl at heart, Michaele loves spending time at the family vineyard with her stable of horses and beloved dog Rio."
No mention of how tacky these people are and how many lawsuits they are involved with
(check out the details here).
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Okay, so we can't help wondering outloud, what the hell happened to our taste? What is it that make MTV's Jersey Shore popular? What is it that sells magazines that featured Gary Coleman's deathbed's picture? Worse yet, CNN's poll shows that 85% of people think that it's OKAY for his ex-wife to sell those pictures!!! Why, why, why we ask?And did you know, the White House crasher made the cut
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Okay, so we can't help wondering outloud, what the hell happened to our taste? What is it that make MTV's Jersey Shore popular? What is it that sells magazines that featured Gary Coleman's deathbed's picture? Worse yet, CNN's poll shows that 85% of people think that it's OKAY for his ex-wife to sell those pictures!!! Why, why, why we ask?
And did you know, the White House crasher made the cut to the Bravo's series Real Housewives of DC?
Here's an excerpt from the Bravo site:
"Michaele Salahi
This northern Virginia native and model is a big part of the inner workings of the D.C. life. She and husband Tareq together founded America�s Polo Cup, for which he is the U.S. team captain. Through her involvement in the Polo Cup, which has become one of the largest and most high profile polo events in the U.S., Michaele has met numerous political leaders across the globe. Additionally, the two are involved in running the Salahi family vineyard, Oasis Winery. Always on the move and juggling multiple projects at once, Michaele is heavily involved in charity work, including being an advocate and fundraising for MS and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. A family girl at heart, Michaele loves spending time at the family vineyard with her stable of horses and beloved dog Rio."
No mention of how tacky these people are and how many lawsuits they are involved with
(check out the details here).
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Saturday, May 08, 2010
We saw this picture from Vanity Fair today and we just love it. It's under the slide shows titled "Oscar Moms". The picture is of a young Audrey Hepburn pushing a baby carriage (were baby carriages this big in the sixties?).We also just finished watching a couple of episodes of the "Real Housewives" series and thought about the contrast of how the women look there vs here. Enough with the
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Saturday, May 08, 2010
We saw this picture from Vanity Fair today and we just love it. It's under the slide shows titled "Oscar Moms". The picture is of a young Audrey Hepburn pushing a baby carriage (were baby carriages this big in the sixties?).
We also just finished watching a couple of episodes of the "Real Housewives" series and thought about the contrast of how the women look there vs here. Enough with the Botox, hair extensions, bad French manicures!
Doesn't Hepburn look so beautifully natural?
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Saturday, May 08, 2010
We saw this picture from Vanity Fair today and we just love it. It's under the slide shows titled "Oscar Moms". The picture is of a young Audrey Hepburn pushing a baby carriage (were baby carriages this big in the sixties?).We also just finished watching a couple of episodes of the "Real Housewives" series and thought about the contrast of how the women look there vs here. Enough with the
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Saturday, May 08, 2010
We saw this picture from Vanity Fair today and we just love it. It's under the slide shows titled "Oscar Moms". The picture is of a young Audrey Hepburn pushing a baby carriage (were baby carriages this big in the sixties?).
We also just finished watching a couple of episodes of the "Real Housewives" series and thought about the contrast of how the women look there vs here. Enough with the Botox, hair extensions, bad French manicures!
Doesn't Hepburn look so beautifully natural?
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Saturday, May 08, 2010
A friend of ours who runs a small drapery wrote us an email to vent about a particularly nasty client of his. The woman was referred to him by a friend. She insisted on meeting early in the morning, so to get to her house at 10am in LA traffic, my friend has to leave his office at 8am. He spent a couple of hours the night before picking out fabrics for her. Once he got there, she proceeded to
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Saturday, May 08, 2010
A friend of ours who runs a small drapery wrote us an email to vent about a particularly nasty client of his. The woman was referred to him by a friend. She insisted on meeting early in the morning, so to get to her house at 10am in LA traffic, my friend has to leave his office at 8am. He spent a couple of hours the night before picking out fabrics for her. Once he got there, she proceeded to tell him that she only wants to have someone measure the windows for her so that she can buy the window treatment over the Internet. Mind you, she wants to have the measurement done for free!
Another friend of ours owns a restaurant in San Francisco. We don't know if you know, but this is a particularly trying time for the restaurant business. Our friend is struggling to survive. At any rate, there was this group of four young guys. They ordered a noodle dish and the dish had a tiny thread (that was used to tie the dry noodle together). My friend apologized and made a new one. When the check came, they demanded that the whole meal, including 2-3 bottles of wine, be comped! My friend explained that that is not possible, but she would comp them for the appetizers. They proceeded to stomp off and left the waitress no tip. Then wrote a Yelp review about it.
One recent customer of ours ordered $4000 worth of merchandise, then proceeded to cancel/return/refuse 80% of them, leaving us with restocking fee, shipping fee and opened merchandise that we now have to salvage.
Which leads us to the question, is common decency dead? Do people feel that merchants exists to be abused and used? Is common courtesy only goes one way-from the merchant to customers but not the other way around?
If a customer experiences bad service, and we have many times ourselves, there are many outlets they can vent to.
Yet if a merchant gets used/abused like this, all we can do is vent privately. Yet the same customers will go elsewhere and repeat this deplorable attitute to other businesses. Most small businesses that we know, especially retail/restaurants are working fingers to the bone to survive day to day. Having this type of customers just kill us.
We wish sometime that people understand that businesses are people too.
PS We do have a lot of many good and amazing customers that we just love. To them, we say thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Saturday, May 08, 2010
A friend of ours who runs a small drapery wrote us an email to vent about a particularly nasty client of his. The woman was referred to him by a friend. She insisted on meeting early in the morning, so to get to her house at 10am in LA traffic, my friend has to leave his office at 8am. He spent a couple of hours the night before picking out fabrics for her. Once he got there, she proceeded to
Posted by MAKMU ta
On Saturday, May 08, 2010
A friend of ours who runs a small drapery wrote us an email to vent about a particularly nasty client of his. The woman was referred to him by a friend. She insisted on meeting early in the morning, so to get to her house at 10am in LA traffic, my friend has to leave his office at 8am. He spent a couple of hours the night before picking out fabrics for her. Once he got there, she proceeded to tell him that she only wants to have someone measure the windows for her so that she can buy the window treatment over the Internet. Mind you, she wants to have the measurement done for free!
Another friend of ours owns a restaurant in San Francisco. We don't know if you know, but this is a particularly trying time for the restaurant business. Our friend is struggling to survive. At any rate, there was this group of four young guys. They ordered a noodle dish and the dish had a tiny thread (that was used to tie the dry noodle together). My friend apologized and made a new one. When the check came, they demanded that the whole meal, including 2-3 bottles of wine, be comped! My friend explained that that is not possible, but she would comp them for the appetizers. They proceeded to stomp off and left the waitress no tip. Then wrote a Yelp review about it.
One recent customer of ours ordered $4000 worth of merchandise, then proceeded to cancel/return/refuse 80% of them, leaving us with restocking fee, shipping fee and opened merchandise that we now have to salvage.
Which leads us to the question, is common decency dead? Do people feel that merchants exists to be abused and used? Is common courtesy only goes one way-from the merchant to customers but not the other way around?
If a customer experiences bad service, and we have many times ourselves, there are many outlets they can vent to.
Yet if a merchant gets used/abused like this, all we can do is vent privately. Yet the same customers will go elsewhere and repeat this deplorable attitute to other businesses. Most small businesses that we know, especially retail/restaurants are working fingers to the bone to survive day to day. Having this type of customers just kill us.
We wish sometime that people understand that businesses are people too.
PS We do have a lot of many good and amazing customers that we just love. To them, we say thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
