Update: Orange You Glad I Said Banana?

I hope I didn't ruin the punchline for that knock-knock knee slapper, but it's late and I'm still hazy from all those martinis I swilled with Karlycakes until 3am last night. But I digress. Let's get down to blogging business, shall we? I broke my non laboring Labor Day pact because I felt the urgent need to foist this upon you:

Yep, it's yet another wall that's carefully crammed with identical objects.

What's going on here? Are we feeling a little nervous about our dwindling global supply of golden skulls, Mexican wrestling masks and bananas? Are we laughing in the face of our fears by puffing our chests out and putting on a display of conspicuous consumption?

Or has wallpaper just become too safe?

Trend Alert: Heads on Walls

Sorry to interrupt the long weekend but this is mjr.  heads on walls are running rampant throughout the east coast, which means we'll be seeing them here in Austin in about a year and Wal-mart will have head wall covering kits in about 3 years:

no, this is not a mexican wrestling mask shop or the dumping ground for a failed hollywood cliched comedy, it is a mask covered wall in Philly restaurant Distrito by Creme Design.  See more:

I have to say, when it comes to walls covered in heads, I'm loving the skulls over at Goldbar so much more.  This place is pretty cute when taken in context, though. I do think those tables in pic 3 are pretty presh.

Ok, that's it, resume long weekend.

I'll just take it for a little spin and maybe show it off to a couple of friends

Mamma's off to pick up a new set of wheels today, in honor of my big girl purchase, here are some pics of cars I had to pass up (damn those artsy scandinavians!)

even though I'm getting a volvo (my 4th one in 14 years thankyouverymuch) unfortunately it's not one of these ferociously patterned beasts.  If I had a million dollars and / or the ability to pirate a cargo ship from sweden I'd probably pick the diagonal stripped one, you know, for subtlety:

which would you choose?  come on, pretend you're lil Kim or Miriah Carey and really want to show the world your tacky side:

Because, oddly enough, I have not mastered any of the Nordic languages, I really can't tell you much about these gems, except that they're only sold in the Netherlands.  Of course.

I'm pretty stoked on the (not so new) volvo I'm buying today, but once Michael Phelps is done all his press appearances (thanks for the round the clock updates, Nerdy Fashionista) he promised to buy me this:

what's that you say?  You can't tell that this Lamborghini is totally tricked out in sharpie graffiti?  Here are some close ups:

photo's courtesy of VOD Cars flickr photo stream

Nerdy and I are going to look so hot when we pull up with Michael at the Goldbar (we won't even need that silly reservation)

PS.  Since you're probably procrastinating on this Friday afternoon,  you should totally check out the VOLVO site, they let you play decorate-your-car-party, you can pick patterns for the body, colors for the trim, as well as seat and rug colors... sort of like the vans site for people with money.