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Tonight, Upstairs

As regular readers know, one of my major projects is working on Barnes & Noble's Upstairs at the Square series. Tonight's guests are Badly Drawn Boy (Born in the UK) and Dana Spiotta (Eat the Document) and they'll read, perform and discuss their work with host Katherine Lanpher. It should be pretty brilliant and I hope you'll join us if you're in the neighborhood! It's at the Union Square store, fourth floor, 7pm sharp (doors at 6), FREE.

Windowlicker

Everybody wants a pony!

[DOMESTIC WALL VINYLS - DOMESTIC HORSE by Ana Mir + Emili Padros, $220 at greenergrassdesign]

Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST.

The Smart Set: March 5 - 11

In this week's edition of The Smart Set for MaudNewton.com: eleven paths over the table and under the chandelier. Which reminds me -- I like to have a martini... Et toi?

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Feline of the Board

From the looks of this graffiti, snapped with my cameraphone on the Lower East Side tonight, even Ol' Blue Eyes knows how to "Dress Like a Cat Until You Get What You Want."

Previously: Cat Power.

Everybody likes to Cha-Cha-Cha

Weekend highlights:

• Friday: Lunch with Ms. Litwit at Les Enfants Terribles, splurged on a ticket for Jarvis Cocker in April; received surprise delivery of gorgeous potted orchid from Takashimaya, courtesy of everyone's favorite venture capitalist.
• Saturday: Upstate, acquired singular spring wardrobe staple -- a double-breasted grey and cream striped coat (spotted less than an hour later in Vogue) by Proenza Schouler for Target, watched The Illusionist (v.v. good), started reading Off the King's Road: Lost and Found in London for pleasure.
• Today: Driving an unexpectedly cute rental car back to the city, spring cleaning, getting ready for a big week work-wise, flipping through First Garden and listening to Regine Crespin, enjoyed lovely takeout dinner from Zucco (merci beaucoup Bryan) plus my favorite cookies for dessert, musing on travel as always.
  
• Looking ahead: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor." -- Mark Twain (via Hip Tranquil Chick, p. 48; do join us Thursday!).

Whatever the next song that plays is, that's the title of this post, or, Ode to Divorce

This week has been a blur of meetings work, brilliant things and sparkling coincidences and let's just say I've been putting my time in, paying some dues, punching that clock, and things are looking pretty good from here. I wanted to tell you all about at least a dozen charming people and projects I crossed paths with this week but then my internet connection went on the fritz this morning and so instead I'm at a cafe and need all the juice in my laptop for work correspondence.

In the meantime, hot tips: the best free wireless access downtown can be found at IniAni and 88 Orchard, both on the Lower East Side. And L&O Framing is unbelievable -- I'd never go anywhere else. Also in Tribeca, the shoe repair shop on the southwest corner of Duane & Broadway; I took my beloved black boots there, so beloved that I wore holes in them, and now they look like new.

Two events next week in New York that I hope you'll join us for if you're in the neighborhood: Upstairs at the Square (see here for the latest, best take on January) and the Hip Tranquil Chick Party.

Also on Wednesday, New Jewish Fiction at Makor and Tuesday, Writers as Visual Artists at the Merc.