tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62097545138807401152011-10-06T11:37:27.140-07:00Fashion, Finance, and PhilosophySable Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305916817417537384noreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6209754513880740115.post-41716902390774464792010-11-08T13:45:00.000-08:002010-11-08T13:49:27.575-08:00

I still get asked about the symbolism of crows.  Here's a good reason why they make me happy.  I can't imagine a dog or cat figuring this out... Wild crows inhabiting the city use it to their advantage (David Attenborough - BBC wildlife)

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The days after Halloween can be very sad.  So I cheer myself up each year with the fall collections from Emporio Armani.  ;-)

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Dear Reader, I'm going to share with you something that's very important to who I am, and that I haven't shared in many years, nearly 20 actually. When Sable Crow was a boy, Halloween was always his favorite time. It was a time when that little gay kid could be--for just a night--a little closer on the outside to who I was on the inside. Of course I see that now; at the time I thought it

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First, a video.... To get us back in the mood... ;-)  

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I often mock the lowly penny, and frequently leave them behind on counters, or just drop them in the street. But this new design is really cool! And I think kinda a good excuse to get you thinking about our currency. It'll be a subject of discussion here, once I defend selfishness and capitalism. Some facts:The penny is 2.5% copper and 97.5% zinc. In 1857, it was 88% copper and 12% nickel. The

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I warn you, Dear Reader, this post is LOOOOOONG.  But it's worth it; Sable Crow promises.  In fact, I take some pretty heavy hits, and it's good reading..  First, some context.  One of my friends (The Instigator) on the Book of Faces posted the video below. As often happens, a string of comments was born (after the video).  But they quickly became something greater than that tired Democrat v

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Giorgio Armani's Partnership With Lady Gives Designer Creative Edge - WSJ.com: "Armani Hitches Wagon to Gaga" Fashion and Armani and Gaga in the Wall Street Journal! Oh my! Diabolina has been talking about this for quite a while. It's nice to see a designer as staid (I didn't say stale) as Armani get on board. For some more Armani--in this case my beloved Emporio--check out Gaga's Alejandro

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Loving "Kick Drum Heart" right now, by The Avett Brothers. Hope you enjoy! And "I and Love and You". Heartbreaking...if this old capitalist crow still had one, that is.

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Sable Crow loves some nostalgia. It's fall now, so the decorations can go up. The holiday is coming.

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Hello Dear Reader, You've probably noticed that I've been posting a lot of dour news about the economy lately.  And politics.  Necessary to all of us, but boring to some of you.  And certainly no fun for me.  But this blog isn't just Finance; it's Fashion also, which to me means aesthetics in a broader sense.  And few things in this world capture a crow's aesthetic imagination like a nest.  So

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Here's the full video of the President on CNBC yesterday.

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Everyone needs a refresh from time to time, isn't that right, Dear Reader? So at the request of a Reader, I changed the text color to make it show up better against the black, particularly from mobile devices. Squawk

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Dear Reader!Sable Crow is in San Francisco, but it's not just good food (dinner last night at Foreign Cinema--OMFG I recommend that if you like food). Yesterday I listened to PIMCO'S Vice President of Municipal Bonds, Stanford's endowment chief and Mr Charles Schwab talk about the the state of the market, where we're headed, and what we money managers should be doing to prepare. Oh, the arcane

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So I checked into my hotel, then hopped down the block for a quick dinner at Tyler Florence's Wayfare Tavern. Yum! With my favorite surgeon, Bone Cruncher.Jolene at work on our deviled eggs--we dubbed them Sympathy for the DevilBurrata and fig, courtesy of Jolene. Bone Cruncher says: "I want to pet it and name it. And then devour its heart."Magic kitchenJust for the...wait for it...halibut. Mac

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Carne Ross: An independent diplomat Video on TED.com Dear Reader!! This is one of the best videos I've watched on TED so far. In fact, for me it connects two concepts that I've never previously connected: 1) the role of the state in negotiating international relationships, and; 2) free-market style innovation, competition, and creative destruction. I can't recommend this video highly enough.

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My boss in my last job used to say, "It's the age of capital." In fact, I think he erred a bit. It has been, for about a generation, The Age of Debt. But now, the wheels have come off that Age, and we have a new era ahead of us. Here's the best article I've found so far on the subject... http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/

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I saw this in a Christie's ad in the WSJ, and it utterly capitvated me.  Some lucky private party bought it in June for $2.8MM.  It's HUGE, measuring 7.5 feet x 5 feet.  Sigh. By the way, not to be too weird, but...um...this Christ is pretty sexy. I'm just saying. That's gotta be deliberate, right? Those shoulders and arms? The abs? The look of...uh...religious...ecstasy. And does

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future - WSJ.com: "Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future" Few Californians in the private sector have $1 million in savings, but that's effectively the retirement account they guarantee to many government employees. Hello Dear Reader! Sable Crow is getting warmed up with the finance stuff! So I thought I'd share my latest finding with you.

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John Maynard Keynes - Wikiquote: "When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We

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Hope for Housing? - CNBC.comARG!!! Lower rates are NOT the solution to the home mess. That's been tried, and it's what got us here to begin with. The solution is plain: LOWER PRICES.Consumers have gotten wise to the rate-game. Giving them credit cards with lower rates isn't as good as lower prices. Same goes for housing!

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Hello Dear Reader, And by that I mean, "Hello to the four of you who follow me, and who will know that I've posted." So I often find myself posting things on the Book of Faces that I probably should write about here. But my distribution is so much bigger on FB, and it's so much easier to link an article to FB than to link it to the blog, and with Mercury in retrograde it's really not a very

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So it's time for a little vacation. And on the way to the airport I remembered I had a blog. LA at 5am is a wonderland. It's quiet, and cool. The streets are empty of our famous traffic. The hills that crown our city seem higher, while the promise of their mansions is less remote. So I'm off to the East Coast and a week of adventure! Maybe even a little writing. On this new little iPhone 4,

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I think perhaps Los Angeles has been my most significant relationship.Wait, says my Dear Reader. You take months to write and THAT'S your opening line?Yes, say Sable Crow. Hear me out.So I was thinking today. (Picture it: top down in the car, headed west into a sunset on Sunset Boulevard, headed to a random party. Mercury is retrograde, and if I've learned anything from Mercury retrogrades,

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Dear Reader,If you missed the last post, check it out. I've fixed the link. It's my Valentine's Day present to you, my Reader. If you wish something for this ragged crow, wish for me a vampire like the one in the video--handsome, smirking, dangerous.I had LASIK on Friday afternoon. It's Sunday now. I thought about writing on Thursday, dear Reader, but the truth was that I was too scared, and if

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012402996.htmlI've discovered a way to post blogs from my iPhone, dear Reader! So I can now address you collectively from time to time with my economic and political observations, the first of which is linked above. Did you know a flock of crows is a murder? When I think of you collectively, dear Readers, I think it's fair to

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You know, I really don't like to write. Actually, I loathe it. The honesty it requires, the effort. It's not easy, not clean. It's mostly not happy work, and it's mostly alone.Dear Reader,I haven't shown you the rest of my trip to Edinburgh because I don't want you to see. Or rather, because I don't want to have to do all the work for you. Go do it yourself if it's that important to you.I

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This may take a while. I've thought about this blog entry for a week, and decided that I would just start writing it, and give you control over what you read and when.I've been minding gaps lately, and found that my life is full of them. Not all bad, not all large, but full of gaps. My writing is a big one, as you might have noticed. But life happens in the gap, and whether or not the tales

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Good thing: Going to bed early.Bad thing: Because you don't feel well.Good thing: Getting a good night's sleep.Bad thing: Waking up at 5:45am on Saturday, fully refreshed, and wondering what the hell to do on a Saturday morning before 6am.Good thing: Weekend Edition on NPR, at 6am on Saturday.Woke to Paolo Nutini serenading me in the early morning hours. Can't believe he's Scottish. His

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From this morning's NPR, as I drove into work. Happy happy happy.Sable Crow...The Crow Paradoxby Robert KrulwichJuly 27, 2009Here's a surprise: Wild crows can recognize individual people. They can pick a person out of a crowd, follow them, and remember them — apparently for years. But people — even people who love crows — usually can't tell them apart. So what we have for you are two experiments

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Spend enough time in Los Angeles, in my case 15 years this August, and you will see many things. If you are smart, or clever, or beautiful, or cunning, or cruel, this great city has much to offer. It is also, for that same reason, treacherous.I went to an amazing pool party today. It was in a beautiful house overlooking the city, with a beautiful pool filled with beautiful men. So much to

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You know it's time for a post when you unthinkingly check your own blog to see if you've said anything recently.

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Last Friday I had lunch with a very special friend. An octagenarian, he is famous all over the world and has written songs that you've sung many times. When I met him and his lovely wife a decade ago, I was a green shoot in the money management world, with an overdeveloped sense of responsibility and the confidence that I was equal to anyone. When I first went to his home, it was to help him on

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Whoever You are, Holding Me now in HandWalt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.Whoever you are holding me now in hand,Without one thing all will be useless,I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,I am not what you supposed, but far different.Who is he that would become my follower?Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?The way is suspicious, the result

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What lover are you,stirring in the pre-dawn dark?I can taste you still.

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For those of you attuned to the irony of my last post, I offer this: a balm.This is what I've been asserting for last year; that the economic downturn would provide us opporunities like the dinner I enjoyed last night.Some fancy restaurant? A concert? A cocktail party? A black-tie benefit?No. A dinner at home, with the most perfect breaded chicken I've ever made, and friends dropping by to

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I have recently been considering the idea of leaving this city of mine, and abandoning this once-Golden State. Afterall, its livelihood rests on the shoulders of affluent taxpayers like me, not the mealy-mouthed many-childrened who suck at the teat of state resources.There is precedent for this: Atlas Shrugged comes to mind. For those of you who haven't got the time to read a 1200 page novel,

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My Dear Reader,Hello! I hope you've been well. I've been very busy beating myself up. It's funny how so much time goes by, and recently I've had some things going on around me that have reminded me of something very important: My life is passing each and every day, and it's up to me to embrace it now before more of it is gone.In light of that, I stopped with a friend today at an art fair in

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So it's late, dear Reader, and I need to sleep. But before I do, I wanted to give you a little prep for our next discussion. This is Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist who had something extraordinary happen to her.Her story is powerful to different people for different reasons. But as the astute Reader will recall, I am somewhat hard on myself. For me, Dr. Taylor's speech below is a path

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"Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger."Psalm 8:2This beautiful little angel goes by the nom de guerre of Davey Wavey. He's pretty extraordinary, no? Young, charming, and preternaturally positive. He's also a good reminder for this old crow that not everything is gloom and doom. There

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Not much to say lately. In a pretty dark place.Like space.Like the final frontier.

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This is my new favorite game. Check it out, throw some acorns, scare some crows.

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Tonight's prelude begins HERE.One of my favorite shows, other than Battlestar Galactica (which ends tomorrow!!), is Damages. It's got Glenn Close, lots of drama, and it's essentially the story of a whole lot of people with control issues.Lawyers are particularly good at control issues. Not surprisingly, the lawyers in this show find that they are most often pitched in mortal combat with business

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See this poor crow? That's your Sable Crow today.My major holding? Down 67% year to date. The good news: just kidding, there isn't any. I've been adding to it on the way down, which will probably turn out to be a good idea, but for now feels foolish.A little like getting run over by the market.I even went back to my staple, gray and black, after a fabulous weekend being styled by the

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So, Mr. Armani posted some guest blog entries on the NYTimes blog, The Moment. Check them out, they're molto bene.First Genius Armani PostSecond Genius Armani PostThird Genius Armani PostFinal (alas!)I learn at the feet of a master: designer, philanthropist, entreprenuer, visionary.Not everybody likes him, but everybody wears him, or is influenced by his vision of the way the world should look.

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So, I have a friend--one of my best--who didn't talk to me once for six months. He later explained that he'd missed my birthday, and then was so afraid that I'd be angry that he didn't call me for a week because he was putting off dealing with the consequences, and didn't know what to say. The week became two, then six, and months became two, then six.So I kinda know how he felt.At first, I was

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'Nuff said. Hi peeps. Thinking of you, and my gay role-models.

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A year ago today, I bought a little trinket.Dark and gorgeous, she's a little British, a little devilish, and a whole lotta cat.When I use the paddle shifters and that engine purrs, she is every bit her namesake: Her name is Eartha.Which leads me to a recent passing that cannot go unmentioned. My dear Eartha Kitt. Every time that engine growls for all the years I own that car, I will think of

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...The Perfect Leather JacketSagittarius is the seeking sign. Bow drawn in the heavens, we are a divided lot--half animal, half man--elevated above the beasts but not quite fully human. This time of year, our time, is particularly hard for Sagittarians. Our sign rules us as the days grow shorter, headed into the Winter Solstice, when Capricorn will take over. We become introspective, a little

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Dear Reader,Some of you who read my blog regularly might not be too surprised by the title of today's entry. But I've tricked you! It's not what you think!It's another Dear Sable Crow!!I was asked a question by an esteemed Reader, and I love questions. Dear Sable Crow, What is the difference between a recession and a depression? Depressed But Well-DressedDear Depressed,To quote a

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Dear Reader!Hello. I've missed you. I haven't been well lately. Very distracted, a little angry, perhaps a little dimmed by storm. But don't worry! I am undaunted. I've hoisted up my sails and, safe within my quarters, I'm determined to ride out the storm.I have a little treat for you. I'm not going to lecture you this time, not on hunger, nor hypocrisy, nor politics. No. For tonight, as rain

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I spend a lot of time deciding on the allocation of resources: financial, human, political, and social.Consider this: The Wall Street Journal today reports that 691,000 children "went hungry in America in 2007."And activist churches spend $40,000,000 to see that I can't marry?Disgraceful. Who's protecting children now? And what does that REALLY say about the family?The WSJ goes on to point

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We are one. Plain and simple.

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Dear Courageous Reader!To those of you who have not read me before, Welcome. Please read here to orient yourself to the task before us.On Thursday, a rally of thousands gathered at the corners of Wilshire Boulevard and Westwood Avenue in Los Angeles, just blocks from my sparkling glass office. I watched from my computer screen as they gathered, and could hear the helicopters hovering outside my

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Hello, dear Reader! Did you miss me? I've missed me, too.Sable Crow has been fighting on the front lines of two wars--one financial, one civil--that have left his feathers ruffled and his beak a little scratched.Later, I have pictures from last night's civil rights march (What do you wear for a civil rights march, Diabolina?), and more thoughts on where we're going economically.For now, I have

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These are terrible times. Period.

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I missed out on something today that would have meant a lot to me. Not for what it was, but for what it represented: adulthood, pride, accomplishment, the part of the American dream I still get to have.I've thought a lot about shame lately. I'm reading a book by Dr. Alan Downs called "The Velvet Rage." In it, Dr. Downs poses a thesis that, in reading, reminded me of that little boy I thought I

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So the pictures below are my favorites. Little glipses into the way I see the world. I hope you enjoy them. With all the tough stuff happening right now, sometimes a pretty picture and a happy memory makes all the difference. Hang in there, folks. I hear it gets better.

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Or at least, I would have if I'd had the time in the last 9 days. Those of you know me know I've had a handful to deal with in the last couple of weeks. Ever since I got back from Peru, it's been conference calls at 5am for the pre-market, and lots of CNBC on the weekends.I'll break it down for you. We're damned if we do and damned if we don't. The bailout, I mean. If we don't, you see how

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Okay! Before I start on the economy, I thought I'd give you what you really came for: RUINS! This is what our civilization would have looked like if our government hadn't bailed everyone out. Inca stonework is flawless: no errors, no mortar. The double gateway, representing the physical and spiritual world, is sacred in Inca architecture.Sacsayhuaman. Not Sexy Woman. Sacsayhuaman. The road

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Sable Crow has been very busy this week, presiding over his little corner of the world, marvelling at the INSANITY that is the financial markets. More this weekend. I have many opinions, all of which are right: why this problem happened (the real reason), what's coming next, and what we should REALLY be afraid of.News from the vanguard of capitalism.

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For me, the value of travel comes from observing other people going about their lives in ways that are different than my own. Sometimes it's the glimpses into these "other" lives that help explain my own. Here are some of the people I saw, from guides to shopkeepers.

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I thought I'd break up my trip to Peru into several sections. Over the next few entries, I'll blog about various parts of the trip. I think it'll be more of a sensible narrative for you, and then you can better pick the part that interests you most.I tried to be pretty adventurous in Peru, and the food there--which is influenced by Chinese and Italian cuisine--was a good way for me express

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So I´m writing this from Peru, where I crashed the VIP lounge at Lima´s international airport.Let me tell you, no one crashes a VIP lounge like Sable Crow.  One of my new besties, Florence, was flying fancy-class back to NYC and she had a pass, so we just pretended like we BOTH had passes and now I´m eating chocolates and drinking free water like the rich kids do.I feel a bit like an interloper,

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Here's a great article that shows what I've known all along. Duh.Some of you--even my closest friends--may not understand why crows resonate so strongly. The answer, like any good answer, is multi-faceted and rich with connections.The noble crow was the child of Apollo, god of wisdom, prophecy, art, dance, and masculine beauty. He once sent the crow--who was originally white with a beautiful

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There are times in a fashionisto's life when he gets to see and do remarkable things: getting to walk the red carpet at a gala honoring Giorgio Armani in Beverly Hills; going to Roberto Cavalli's Halloween party; hosting his family at a swank benefit.Sunday was such a day.I had the distinct pleasure of having lunch with both Diabolina and Weezer Monkey at a fabulous restaurant: Gordon Ramsay at

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Comrades and Brothers!There is a long tradition in this country of civil disobedience to protest practices we believe are immoral, harmful, or just plain irritating. My latest cause: those stupid cards that fall out of magazines.Surely, they irritate you too?! They are a waste of paper, and it's never made sense to me why one magazine would have six subscription cards! Are there six buyers? Did

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A new feature, dear Reader! In this section, we'll play one of those memory games, only it's not a hard one: I'm not going to play it with those little cards you have to turn over to remember what's where. No! Instead, I'm going to show you pictures of what I like, and then you're going to go out into the world and think about it when you see it. And you'll think: "Oh yeah, that guy I was reading

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Dear Readers:Ms. Peace Corps (not Americorps) has kindly redirected your humble Sable Crow, who is now flying in roughly the right direction--as the crow flies, of course.Dear Sable Crow:I did Peace Corps not Americorps. Americorps is for poor people staying in the United States who make a liveable salary and get something like $5,000 per year for tuition. Peace Corps is for middle class American

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My first "Dear Sable Crow," wherein a boy asks what's okay to wear, or a girl asks me to justify what she's already told her boyfriend...Dear Sable Crow,Is it ok for a man to wear a black suit to a midday wedding? Does the black exclusion apply to men? I almost just bought a b-eaut-i-ful Canali suit about 5 minutes ago for my cousin's wedding in September but it's black so I became insecure and

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When the going gets tough, the tough get tougher. So last weekend I went to Joshua Tree and spent the night under the stars. Yup. That's right. Tarp. Sleeping bag. Sheet. No tent. No bug repellent. No padding.Take THAT Nellie Olson.I went with my friend Mr. Adventrepreneur (that's gonna really hurt when I have to type it again and again) and we arrived late on Friday night. It was very Blair

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So I promised you yesterday that I'd bring more fashion to your attention, so I begin with this:I want to eat this boy alive. See that dark alley behind him? I’m waiting there, in the shadows, teeth bared, like a vampire. Those shoes! Just after this photo was taken, I jumped his beautiful bones and left him dizzy and clutching his neck in the shadows of the grand archway to a Florentine

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Ben Bernanke ruined my dessert. He did. Imagine it: I'm innocently living my LA life, filled with parties, and dinners out, and Sundays on the beach, and I decide, "Well, it's been a tough Monday, I'm going to reward myself with a roasted chicken, some mac-and-cheese in a tub, and some Dreyers Premium Grand Rocky Road Ice Cream." It's my favorite. I've worked hard in my life, and I deserve it.

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I was doing an interview today and asked if he had any questions for me. We'd been talking about college, and I'd talked about how much I enjoyed my undergraduate experience. His undergraduate experience had been incredible, and was the subject of much of our conversation. "Yes, I have a question," he said. "Are you happier now than you were in college?"It seems to be a theme lately. When my

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Such a rough time. Go go go, from work to social engagements. I've started several blog entries, only to have them become irrelevant with the passing of a few hours (or days). So I'm putting this down now, before the next 12 hours have the chance to render it irrelevant, too.So dispirited lately. The stock market really has been in the crapper, and the self-doubt has been slathered on thick and

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So as part of my self-flagellation, I subjected myself to the Emporio Armani fall season collection on Wednesday afternoon for a little recreational asset destruction (RAD). Those familiar with the Cold War will remember MAD, or mutually assurred destruction, which was the philosophy that no one would use nuclear weapons because it meant that all parties would be annihilated. For me, shopping is

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You know the curse I'm talking about... the one about "interesting times?"So I thought I'd take a squawk at my favorite subject--no, not babies--the macroeconomy, in light of today's spectularly riotous market action and equally spectacular bank failure. IndyMac is dead. Long live IndyMac.For those of you who have asked me about this stock in recent days, you'll know I predicted its failure by

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I'll post a new post soon. My goal of writing weekly has been SABOTAGED! by a stomach flu that would really like me to sleep 12 hours a night. Sentient stomach flus. What's next?

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I am Sable Crow, and I shall begin at the beginning.Ten years ago, I was studying creative writing at USC. Times were good: my professors spoke highly of my talent, I imagined a bright and creative career, and I was in love. I still remember the day he came over, it was a Sunday in May, ten years ago last month. The golden afternoon light poured in the western-facing windows of my small studio,

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So I was thinking today that with the Dow down 358 points, it might be time to brush off my writing skills and prepare for a new job, since the market is determined to go to zero.I believe in the power of manifesting our worlds, so I'll use this first post--before I learn how to put up pictures, or what negative criticism feels like--to constitute this blog for myself and my several readers with

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