People Watching vs. Rear Window

It's a fine line when you're at a party and one person says "I like to people watch" and then later that same night, someone else says "I like to watch people". Why does one sound very cosmopolitan, very chic, and the other sound very sly, very criminal?

I'm more on the former than the latter I would say, but I do also like to observe people's actions, behaviours and mannerisms. Which can take more than a few seconds. So maybe that's a bit of the latter.

One person who uses his watchful eye to great effect is a guy named Scott Schuman. He has turned his interest and passion into a career. If you haven't seen his site, GO NOW. It is like being transported to another city in the world without all the travel and liquid gel sacrifice at Heathrow. In an instant. Impressive.

Went out with Fin tonight, clearly an update on my foreign booty call in order, but also to put the world to rights... I think we did we did a good job - as usual (but we missed Tristan's dry take on things - no hint there then T!) - although without any clearly defined answers and only skirting round some of the true issues "status anxiety" played a big part in the conversation and lord does that get you thinking!

However, and this is clearly more related to my booty call than status anxiety, I read a piece in the Metro on the train on the way home - in between earwigging on all the future Engerland managers (!!) - : Cameron Diaz quote - "bonk me over the head, throw me over your shoulder. You man, me woman." This is my kind of girl, although I'd forgoe the "over the head" bit and just have the "bonk"!

AnnaK xx

Steve Madden and a New York address

It pays to know about both of these things for a happier life.

Just sorted out all the important women in my life almost on one site - Steve Madden's. I happened to meet the man a few years back in NY during the days when I was connected to rich Jewish people - alas now it is just pikey Anglicans - and was impressed by his take on how he saw himself and his fashions plugging into the needs of the New Yorker. It's less about pretending to be something you're not, or even something you want to be, and more about finding that person who was always inside your own skin. Or something like that. The champagne and roe was flowing at the time so coupling that with time, forgive me if the paraphrasing is a little out.

And having a NY postal address on hand makes online shopping that much easier. US Postal Service are generally happy to assist once you get a starting point of having a NY address...for this, leverage all your contacts possible at work etc to find branch offices, subsidiaries of branches, even quangos of government to make this happen. NYU students are often willing to provide a post restante service of sorts, for a little extra pocket money on the side.