STUD!

This is how not to begin an email to me:

"HEY STUD!!!!""

Knock knock

This is a knock-knock joke that my friend Matty and I made up. It's one of those things that people either "get" or, most commonly, "don't get."

It goes like this:

Alexis: Knock, knock

Matty: Who's there?

Alexis: Alexis!

Matty: Alexis! Come right in, I've been expecting you.

Trompe L'Oeil Vey

I was very excited about my new trompe l'oeil canvas saddle shoes that I got at Urban Outfitters over the weekend. But a sad thing happened. The first day I wore them (yesterday), it decided to torrentially downpour, and now they are all kinds of scuffed. I've always hated super-duper white new shoes, but not anymore. Am I growing up? (Actually, the other day, I had a similar thought when I realized I had not bought a T-shirt in like three years. Don't want 'em. Don't need 'em anymore, I decided. They're for kids. But now that I'm thinking about it, I also spent about 20 minutes on eBay the other day searching for "adult vintage overalls." Nevermind.)

Speaking of trompe l'oeils, my friend Carol is the queen of them. She has this amazing trompe l'oeil cigarette pin by Teddy Willoughby's clothing line Bland:

And the other day, I found this:

It's a pin designed by a line called Hartog & Henneman. It's so rude and funny!