a SF weekend, for no reason. which, of course, is the best reason.

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tim seems to know that every once in awhile

it's important to drag me away from routine,

that even a few days out of my comfort zone

revives,

inspires,

makes things click again.

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so,

in may,

a jaunt to san francisco.

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by now, if you haven't figured out that virgin america is the ONLY airline

worth flying

(in other words, you don't feel like you're crammed on a bus with a chicken coop)

you're missin'.

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and their new sfo terminal?

have you ever seen an airline terminal that looks like this?

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it makes dressing up for a flight worthwhile again.

really.

it does.

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plus,

any excuse for white luggage.

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the city was alight that weekend.

crisp, bright, flawless.

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we did the retail rounds.

leather corset by jean paul gaultier from his last collection for the house

in the window of hermes?

schematic for a PEGASUS?

check:

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vintage jewelry on sutter street,

and the jewel of a menswear store, 

THE ARCHIVE?

check:

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can i tell you how much i love the archive?

i would wear every single damn thing they pick out that's how much.

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brunch at absinthe

for french 75s and the best burger in town?

oui.

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pick up green roses

and meet evie and her new beau, john?

of course.

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best part?

telling "big O"

that she gets to come home soon:

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and while there, of course, there was evelyn lee, and foreign cinema, and virtual "shopping", and a reminder of why we all kind of adopted each other so long ago.

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the charlotte russe blogger style-off and coctail frenzy -

so after tim launched the new website for CR,

evelyn created a live-feed fashion blogger style off for the brand,

that fell right when i was in nyc.

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imagine a room filled with new clothing,

fashion's little internet darlings,

an emerging brand,

coctails,

cameras,

and music:

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then mix in old friends like richard christiansen and sara fisher from chandelier:

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new friends like richard haines from whatisawtoday.blogspot.com :

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katy dickson, timmer, hilary super, and julie greenberg from chicago:

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shoes, clues, and interviews:

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no wonder the racks were left empty at the end of the night!

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birthday surprise in nyc - evelyn takes us to BASTIDE -

evelyn booked us into bastide,

a wonderful french restaurant in tribeca,

as a surprise for my birthday.

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as we were walking towards it,

tim and i stopped dead in our tracks.

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years earlier, after 9-11,

tim and i had wandered tribeca,

dreaming of living there.

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we had found an abandoned building for sale,

had dreamed of converting it,

selling units,

living at that corner.

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of course,

it was where bastide now resides.

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you enter into a room of fresh apples:

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and are candle-lit the entire meal:

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there was something in that lobster and crespelle terrine

that i would have married:

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and something in the evening i will never forget:

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exotic and delicious - the sf dining moments

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short weekend trip, but we ate well, as usual.

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evie insisted on driving us everywhere,

which led to this very hitchcock moment.

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and also, this very typically us moment at foreign cinema:

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that booth has seen far too much of us.

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then there was some time spent here:

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drinking and eating like this:

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that last dish is a buckwheat spaghetti with pork belly ragu, bacon, frizzled char, and golden raisins.

yes, drool.

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then tackling an old favorite:
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tim and i also got back to house of nanking:

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it's just a plate of mushrooms.  and yet so much more than that.

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but the best part of san francisco dining is always 

the "dining with evie" part.

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it pretty much takes, you know,

the cake.

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