7.11.2007

Spinning Monkeys And Gangsters...Oh My!

I've always been into phone charms...Best believe when I shelled out $600 back in '03 for the Baby Phat i95 I had to decorate it and make sure everyone knew mine was different...Most people just ended up thinking it belonged to a teenage Asian girl due to the plethora of Hello Kitty charms dangling from it and the fact that back in '03 the phone charm craze hadn't completely caught on in the States even tho it was all the rage in Japan...

Since '03 phone charms have evolved into a whole new product...My 'kick is now decorated with felt Murakami charms, metal and ceramic Hello Kitty charms, a huge plastic Corpse Bride and a multitude of other Hello Kitty charms my good friend whateyesaygoes picked up for me while he was in Japan...Let's just say I really don't need anything else dangling from my phone...Then I saw these Mopods... They spin and flash when your cell receives a call or text...Now that's something none of my other phone charms do no matter how cute they are...They come in about 8 different characters (I'll mos def be buying the monkey) but if you really do some Googling you'll find some real interesting, hard-to-find ones...Like the gangster pictured below...

Thrillist vs Daily Candy

VS

My mom says I'm a wealth of useless information...I like to think I know a lot of things about a lot of random things...Sounds better that way...One way I get my useless information is from Daily Candy ...I've been a fan for years...I subscribe to multiple editions...the travel, the LA, the Miami (my home away from home), the everywhere and the kids (even though I have none)...They always have good tips and info and it really is one of the better e-letters to subscribe to...

A couple months ago I received an evite to join Thrillist...From what I gathered it was a Daily Candy for guys...Now we all know I like to embrace my inner tomboy and have a penchant for mens mags...I mean the only magazine I subscribe to is Complex...So I figured what the hell? lemme add my name to the distribution list...All I can really say is I was pleasantly surprised...It IS like a Daily Candy for guys but it's a lil more...it's a lil more fun, a lil more ill and seems like its a lil more relevant for younger ages...So props to the guys at Thrillist... I think they filled a niche that was lightweight barren and very honestly they made Daily Candy seem a lil less sweet...