I'm just happy to be on a plane headed for adventure. Many people have never had a proper vacation. Keep this in perspective, please. That said, I was bumped to first class once. It was the best 45 minutes of air travel I've ever had.

This is one of those cases where the big bucks spent by the folks in first class or those frequent flyers who get upgrades really does trickle down. Airfare is tons less expensive than in the glamorous days of classy air travel that are tiresomely idealized. If you want a cheap ticket ( I sure do), than stop grousing…

So, I'm a designer and I worked with a creative problem-solving team on this very problem, so I have some insight. This has nothing to do with class warfare or shaming or anything like that: airlines struggle mightily to sell premiere tickets (business and first class.) Very few people, even the wealthiest among us,…

a lot of photoshop here... not photography.

It never gets old. Literally.

Am i the only one who misses photos shot with technical skill and lighting know how? i miss photos taken before everyone photshopped the piss out of their images with impossible lighting and lens flares out the wazoo. I know they're still out there but it seems like all that gets love on car sites is shit…

By the power vested in me by the Black People Totally Secret Hideaway Club of the Midwest i hereby confirm that those are "black people shoes." You are owed 3000 cool points to be paid retroactively.

I have to admit...I bit my nails — sometimes until they bled — for the first thirty-four years of my life. Then...I started to see all these pretty nail colors. It was like being at Dylan's Freaking Candy Bar. And I went cold turkey on the biting in 2007. I have not chewed a nail in six years — this month, to be…

I fish. As a fisherwoman, I require a tackle box. Now, I could have gone to Cabelas and spent a ridiculous amount of money on a new one, but no, I had my mom mail me my pink Caboodle from high school. It's huge. It fits all of my lures, my knife, my line, etc. plus it has a mirror. Even my husband is jealous because…

fuck that- I want a bright pink one with SPARKLES!

The thing that really pisses me off is pink scuba gear. Wtf is up with pink scuba gear? Red/pink are the first shades of color you lose underwater & pink stuff looks like crap at depth, like a muddy, ugly mess. Blech. Plus, I hate looking like a cheap, gross free-food-night-at-the-bar hotdog out of the water. Just…

For some reason I'm reminded of the episode of Law & Order that was supposed to be the J. Lo./P. Diddy club shooting incident where the fictional J.Lo. was carrying fictional Diddy's gun in her purse for him.

I hate like hell that I had to do it, but I bought one of those little sets with the pink tools in it in hopes that my son would stop stealing my damned hammer. Little derfwang is outside working on a buddies car and he says "hand me that bitchin' pink wrench" and I knew that my hammer was eventually going to wander…

I cannot understand why more men don't carry bags. (I am a woman, and I call mine a bag, because that's what it is, and it's large and not remotely fancy, and I hate the word "purse.") It's the height of utility. I'm sick of having my male friends make me carry their shit like a fucking pack animal just because I'm…

Pink tools have an unexpected side benefit:

Not in this case - she's a gateway drug.

Gee, I'd really like to play this for them for inspiration, but under the circumstances I don't think it's appropriate.

For some reason, I just saw the second part of your question. For the most part, I never really delt with too many celebrities one on one and was glad too. They're typically really demanding and bad tippers, because they're so used to never having to pay. Also, many times, they will demand free alcohol in exchange for…

I do bottle service and yes that is possible if you hustle and work at a good club. Some places include the 20% and a lot of people will miss that and tip an additional 20%. Plus once you sell the first bottle it is much easier to sell more to that table. I always open the bottle and pour the first round and I keep…

It depends on the club. Most clubs have a 3-4 bottle minimum (around $1000) for the small booths, but if you work in nicer ones, or in the VIP VIP section, then some are $5000+. The more high end the club, the more people will go for the expensive champagne rather than the bare min. $250 bottle of grey or something,…