marilyn reading

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Aren't these pictures just gorgeous? I had to seriously stop myself from including every image I could find of Marilyn Monroe reading in this round-up.

Aside from just how lost she seems in what she's reading (I love that picture of her on the couch with the books of the floor! It reminds me of some of the positions you find kids in when they're reading books that they're really into), I love that there are images of her reading everything from scripts to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, from a picture book to James Joyce's Ulysses.

Yes, indeed, these images make me happy.




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What's black and white and striped all over?

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It's the one thing I am lusting after for my summer wardrobe this year... a black and white striped dress in the style of any these old Hollywood classics...

I love this image of Jean Seberg from the French classic film "Breathless":





But doesn't this "Sahara Striped Dress" read like a stripey dress for the modern pixie?





I've long been in love with the cowl neck on Marilyn's sweet little summer dress:




And I like how this little number by marimekko is playing with the collar on its striped dress so nicely too:




Oh, Lauren you just might be the coolest lady in town in your striped dress and your record player:





And if this ModCloth dress gave me an ounce of your elegance - I'd wear it 'til it was in tatters:





Of course, I am willing to compromise. I would be willing to add a striped dress into my summer wardrobe in something other than black and white. I mean, I can bite the bullet and go for blue and white stripes too as in, I don't know, this super cute dress if someone forced it on me...
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Shirley and her girl

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I bookmarked this picture of Shirley MacClaine with her daughter on A Cup of Jo because I just thought it was so incredibly fun and goofy and just the kind of relationship I'd want to one day have with my children. Turns out that there are plenty of other pictures of Shirl and her girl, Sachi, hamming in it up in front of the camera which I adore just as much. Speaking as someone who has none, I know that having kids is hard and stressful and not always easy, but it also looks like some of the most fun you can ever have too. Maybe I'm being a little too romantic about one day being a mother, but these two make motherhood look so darn joyful.


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"Can I bring the lovebirds, Mitch? They haven't harmed anyone."

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This year's Halloween is a bit of a bust for me. I've been too distracted by work to come up with anything to wear. Last year I went as Tippi Hedren in Hitchcock's "The Birds" which was so much fun because all I had to do was wear a thrifted green wool suit and buy a couple of black birds on markdown at the local crafts store. I even got to work a pimple into a bird bite (of course one can't buy Hedren's movie star quality, but messy pulled back hair and black mascara likely to run? Check and check). Anyway, so here are some inspiring images of girl and/or swarm of birds for last year's look because I've got nothing but the tired grad. student look for this year...


The only Barbie I'd ever buy via Boing Boing



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"Vanity Fair" picture of Jodie Foster (via Chaos Theory)

ceiling design by Geremia Designs (via apartment therapy)

photo by Alex Prager (via BOOOOOOOOM!)

"rage in eden" by ~fernando (via inspiring creativity)

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I want to love like Paul and Joanne

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There are so many gorgeous and fun pictures of these two - I could go on and on. I love the ones where they are looking at each other or he is looking at her. They had some serious chemistry. But my favorites are the ones, like the last two here, where they are laughing together - those moments just seem incredibly sweet to me.



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