Funky, Fresh and Local

After a recent yoga class at the new Exhale Battery Wharf, I exited the locker room into a packed lobby of fashionable wine swilling hardbodies.  Dear lord, I’ve been upping the gym ante to avoid those tempting tannins – the last thing I needed is for this place to start handing out free booze.   I managed to avoid the alcohol but couldn’t avoid the merch – a lovely lady was selling some pretty edgy jewelry in the middle of this mayhem.  While I was falling fast for the necklaces I chatted with the designer and learned that she worked right out of my neighborhood!

So I purchased myself a funky skullie necklace (see above) and decided the lovely Christie Melene Kent would be a lovely subject of my next Stopping by this Life column. So do check out the column, and do check out Melene Kent Jewels – they’re fresh, funky and local.

Fall Into Chanel

Swoon.   The photos above are from Chanel's Fall 2011 ready-to-wear collection as presented as part of Paris Fashion Week earlier this month. Let's be honest, I don't know what I'm wearing 2 weeks from now but, whenever I need some fashion inspiration, I like to see what Mr. Lagerfeld has come up with and go from there. 

Not only is Lagerfeld a fashion genius - he also loves Gossip Girl as much as I do, or at least it's star Blake Lively.  Check out Ms. Lively's new Chanel ad above.   

Obviously my budget is a little more Club Monaco than Coco Chanel, but it's all about inspiration my friends - and god knows I love a dress over pants, nevermind a leather cummerbund.  And how excited are we about the official return of the pointy toed heel? Those round toes never did anything for these tree trunks.

Watch the entire Chanel runway here. 

Duck Hunt

Thinking about re-careering? Well, Aflac is hiring. After very stupid quack Gilbert Gottfried took to Twitter (#fail) to make jokes about the tragedy in Japan (not cool) got fired, Aflac decided to get creative. They’re looking for a new voice for the duck and they’re holding open casting calls.


From today’s NYT… “On Wednesday, Aflac will air a commercial on prime-time television, a silent movie featuring the duck in a classic damsel-in-distress storyline. At the end, the company will direct viewers to the Aflac duck’s Facebook page for information on trying out for the role of the mascot’s voice. The commercial is set to coincide with a job posting on the Web site Monster and a new Web site, quackaflac.com.”

Personally, I hope all those who audition have to upload a video to some website so we can waste time laughing at them. Or, better yet, maybe they can make it into a reality show called, “Duck Hunt.”

File Under: If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

My Heartless American Idol Re-Cap

Years ago, before Facebook, Tweeting and the evolved social networking of the internets I used to do an American Idol re-cap via email with some friends. It was pretty freaking hilarious. I know what you’re thinking, gosh I thought Rhi was way less “middle America” than this. Nope, I’m totally lame, sometimes I even shop at Market Basket before I watch.


Anyway, so last night, I invited an American Idol newbie to watch with me. Here some of our commentary…

Speaking of Market Basket, is it just me or did all this music remind you of something that would be playing in one? Or as Newbie put it, “all these songs remind me of the music you’d hear in the lobby of a Crowne Plaza Hotel after just waking up in a stranger’s bed with a raging hangover.”

Naima – Trainwreck performance. Girl’s going home. She’s got some urban Ani DiFranco thing going on where she wears every brightly colored accessory in her closet. Giant earrings. Newbie on Naima, “Do you think her earrings are bigger than her brain.”

Paul McDonald – I don’t get the whole voice thing, I’m not into it. Plus, the kid dresses like Chris Martin lite (Coldplay) He kind of reminds me of what would’ve happened to Chris Martin if he never made it and was just some dude that drank all day and then bothered people with his “demo tape” outside of subway stations.

Thia Megia – Someone once told me never to trust someone with two first names (Justin Bobby) but I’m going to expand that warning to people with names that rhyme. Or to people whose parents wear matching leather jackets. I almost fell off my couch when the girl started singing Pocahontas for the “year she was born song.” Yeah, 1995.

James Durbin - Is that a scarf hanging out of his back pocket? Ughhhhh – you’re not making it to the finale sweetie. Leather studded bandana shoe covers? Really?

Haley Reinhart - sang Whitney Houston but it reminded me of Anita Baker. My mom used to listen to that tape like someone was going to steal it out of our Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera if we didn’t listen to sides A and B twice a day. I think this girl is a contender but man, weak song choice.

Stefano Langone - The kid that closes his eyes, the kid that looks like a Jersey Shore cast member, the kid that’s actually decent.

Pia – the girl that seemed like she could sing anything and look hot in anything. Looked pretty brutal in her pantsuit.

Scottie - this kid dressed up as Elvis his entire life.

Seth Rogan – Kid sang Smells like Teen Spirit. First time Nirvana has ever been on Idol. Courtney Love must need some $. I like anyone that takes a risk and tries to appeal to the Gen X-ers. I’m rooting for him. Wait; is this the same kid writing Bethenny’s food blog?

Lauren - Dear Lord. I think Lauren’s parents are like 27. And is her mom wearing a plaid scally cap and a matching fuchsia t-shirt? This girl can wail, but Melissa Etheridge, really? What songbook were the Idols allowed to choose from, a dive bar jukebox in Montana?

Comments below please. And yes, I know I missed a few contenders. They bored me.

Visions of Tiger Blood Danced in her Head

I’m really not surprised that I’m friends with such a visionary.

Back in the summer of 2006, my friend Whitney started making funny t-shirts. She's a funny gal, so why wouldn’t she make silly shirts? I obviously purchased one of her screen-printed masterpieces, “The Charlie Sheen shirt” back in the day. The design is fashioned after an old Rage Against the Machine album cover and reads “Rage Against Charlie Sheen”.


Now, I’ve been wearing this bad boy to bed and to the gym (bed more than gym – let’s be honest) proudly for the past 5 years. The other night as I was gazing at my hot self, clad in the worn-out Charlie Sheen Hanes t-shirt, and I thought to myself, “Holy mother of warlock, this t-shirt is so hot right now”.  I immediately got on the horn (and by horn I mean email) and demanded that Whitney start selling these things, because you know, they’ll sell like hotcakes (whatever that means?)


Anywho, these shirts are hilarious, and you should by one at Whitney’s Etsy shop – PlainWhitTees.


http://www.etsy.com/shop/whitney9780

The Week Tommy Hilfiger Retweeted Me

If you don't understand Twitter, this post will mean nothing to you. So, if that's the case please carry on with your day. If you're not in a rush to get back to pretending to do work,  maybe check out one of my earlier blog posts? The one below about Charlie Sheen may give you a chuckle on this casual Friday.   But, if you do tweet, and are down with the twitterverse please, please, please see below:

RT @rabbitholerhi: I really hope heaven looks something like the @TommyHilfiger Spring 2011 ad campaign http://bit.ly/fGzDsq --> great post!


Yes, you read that correctly, I was retweeted by Tommy Hilfiger.
 
I'd like to believe that Tommy himself was sitting at his computer reading my blog and laughing so hard that he had to retweet to 16,000 followers.  So let's go with that, ok? Social Media intern? PR team, what's that?
 
http://rabbitholeindustries.blogspot.com/2011/02/looks-like-my-country-club-heaven.html

Livin' Life on a Mercury Surfboard

Honestly, I cannot tear myself away from the Charlie Sheen media circus to think about much else. This guy is one freak-out away from shaving his head after a night of touring SoCal 7-Elevens.

I honestly hope the guy is okay, but I have to give it to him, crazy or not, he is really bringing back some phrasing and words that I love! I mean can you honestly say that we use the term “warlock” enough in regular conversation? I know that I definitely do not.

Here are some of my other favorite words, phrases and quotes that Sheen has made mainstream:

• Tiger’s Blood, umm…#tigerblood was the most used #hashtag on Twitter today. I don’t think I’ve spent more than three minutes my entire life thinking about tigers. Never mind what sort of blood might be running through their veins. But, the words “tiger” and “blood” together? Pure magic.

• Speaking of “magic” – Sheen has it in his fingertips, and I want it in mine.

• Then he had to go and utter the phrase that I’ve wanted to say every day of my life, but I just didn’t know it until I heard it. “Look what I’m dealing with, man, I’m dealing with fools and trolls.”

• “Winning” -  this should be the new response to “How are you?” You could answer, “I’m winning,” or if you’re feeling extra sassy maybe “I’m bi-winning”

• “Goddesses” – Forget playmates, it’s all about “goddesses” now. No more aspiring to live in the playboy mansion with Hugh – it’s straight to Silver Lake Lodge with Charlie.

• “Mercury” – Charlie on life, “It's been a tsunami. And I've been riding it on a mercury surfboard." Honestly, who wouldn't love to go to work every morning on a mercury surfboard, or any surfboard for that matter.

If this dude starts talking about unicorns, my life will be complete.

Oh, and just one more reason to the love the interwebs, the folks over at Medium Large decided the only thing that could make Sheen’s quotes even better, were pictures of cats - http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/cats-quote-charlie-sheen/, and I couldn’t agree more.