The SUPERest week of the entire year for us: Super Bowl and Boyscout Sunday (ngg..?? *scratching nose*), Super Fashion Week New York City, Super Party and Hangover Monday, Super Tuesday, Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras, and Super Market Crash Tuesday, Get-you-act-together Super Something Wednesday, Super-red/rad Chinese New Year Thursday, Super Rich Again Friday and Saturday and Sunday, Super Sale Shop-till-you-drop Saturday, Super Holy Church Day and 'Souper Bowl'* Sunday

* Church FUNdraising icovention where church congregations fill up giant (soup) bowls held by 10 year-old boys with green bills. Souper!

Sorry Gisele, you are not going to feel Victoria this time. Maybe lacking of 'believe', she sadly witnessed her hunky New England boyfriend Tom Brady being defeated by the New York Giants in the Super Bowl XLII.
What to say, New York rules! (We guess that's the reason why she prefers Manhattan over Boston).

ps: Bowls means Giants, Tuesday means Obama. You know which one to vote: get up early and have yourself a shot of 'HOPE'.

Happy Giving Thanks!

What's weird in NYC is most likely be accepted in Austin.

The other day we wrote an article about replacing tinted with correction lenses on the Chelsea glasses. (Let's say, many) People have been staring and even giggling and pointing at us in obvious intrusive ways (and we're talking SoHo!). Magically, those glasses seem to be very much welcomed in Austin, Texas. No one seemed 'amused' by either the rediculous size or the 'possible dorkiness' of the look. It is miraculous: since when Austin is a lot more 'progressive' or even open-minded than NYC, we wonder?

Could it just be that Austin is living up to its slogan 'Keep Austin Weird' and its expected hospitable Southernism while NYC is not necessarily about the acceptance of a dictated idea (that would include the weirdness) and more about proactive opinions and the obvious discrepancies between the cultured and the non? And above all, NYC is not at all linked to anything warm.

A pair of clear lens Chelsea glasses reflects more than the personality of the wearer.
It's neither to correct the vision of the wearer nor the society, doesn't matter what size it is. It's not only to create a balanced vision, but to fairly judge and compare different 'civilizations' and general regional aesthete and politics.
It is a tool of social measurement.

Revive NYC Identity!

Let us rebel now. Seeing those many taxis with the new re-designed logo does feel like committing some sort of crime ourselves. It is embarrassing, no matter how effortful we are trying to justify (and to support) the (absurd) choice made by the folks responsible (and paid) to keep NYC wonderful and edgy.
The twisted logo is no doubt a product of some ill politics, and believe it or not, the new campaign really hurts the City more than revives it. The logo contains no dignity, no authority, nothing like the New York City we are familiar with and proud of: tough, respectable, and goddamn beautiful. We wonder, who in the right mind would choose this amateur design and proudly trying to redefine the classic NYC ego with some atrociousness.

Is this one of the things New York tax-payers are dealing with: a power struggle between the right, the left, and the no brains?

Please help to keep our beloved New York beautiful. Ban the bad for the man forever. And that should start NOW!

ps: And oh, don't forget the same logo on the 'I am a New Yorker. Welcome to our city' banners all across the town...
Just plain ugly.