Love: Areaware's Alarm Dock. You lay your iPhone down on the ledge (the power chord threads through the back so it can recharge at night) and with the Flip Clock app you have a readable clock during the night which will wake you in the morning. It's a beautifully simple design that's beyond genius.(I got mine at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Store.)
Like: A twist on the classic panzanella salad. Oakland's Pasta Shop is now featuring an Autumn Panzenella, with shallots, butternut squash and brussels sprouts and shaved parmesan. It's so lovely, I could have it for lunch every single day.
Discovery: I still remember clearly the first time I saw Blue Velvet and how strange and amazing it was. The newly issued 25th Anniversary BluRay DVD, with its 50 minutes of found extra footage, will surely be on my Christmas list.
Obsession: Downton Abbey, the PBS Masterpiece Classics series, which will start its second season in January. I'm watching the first season now and can't get enough. It can get me through 30 minutes on the treadmill with nary a glance at the clock. Gosford Park intertwined the perspectives and stories of those residing both upstairs and downstairs in a grand English estate, and this show, also written by Julian Fellowes, picks up where that left off, with the drama of a family whose estate will be entailed away from its daughters to a distant male cousin, and everything that subsequently ensues. The house and the period clothes could not be more stunning.
Complaint: Working on Haagen-Dazs' advertising is starting to get dangerous, what with all the free ice cream tastings. During a meeting today I was forced to try the Caramel Cone flavor. With its crunchy bits of chocolate-covered cone and burnt caramel chunks, it's ridiculously good. Which is bad.
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