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Tuesday

Brazil LOVES Obama, Safe Sex and Older Women

Brazil's annual four-day Bacchan festivities, CARNIVAL, is over tonight - the day before ASH Wednesday, when people are supposed to give up stuff they love - drugs, food, children - who knows.

Anyway, the Brazilians created this ubber-party to compensate for the delicious bubblegum they will foresake for the next long period of time. The tomfooolery in Brazil gets pretty wild, here are some highlights:

Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, threw condoms to the crowd (both racy and totally practical) in an effort to promote his AIDS awareness campaign:

Carnival Queen, Viviane Castro, body painted President Obama on her mostly un-clothed body (she is wearing sandals). Nice.

Departing from their usual youth-obsessed view of beauty, according to the Associated Press, two Brazilian schools chose women in their 40s as "Samba Queens" to lead high-profile parades during Carnival. You know WE love this!!!!

Avast Landlubbers! Drunkarilla!!!

The pirates invaded Tampa this past weekend as about 400,000 people watched from the streets of Bayshore and downtown. The Gasparilla Day Parade - a long-held Tampa tradition - attracts people from all over the country looking for a good time and, of course, beads. Oh yes, the much-coveted beads which send hundreds of otherwise rational men and women into tailspins - prompting them to knock over small children and bear their breasts for a shot at a strand of plastic pearls, all in the name of Jose Gaspar and a helluva fun time!!

La Florida Chic hit the pavement and captured Gasparilla fashion for you!

Monday

SILK. COTTON. LINEN. SPRING!

This weekend I spent a not-so-leisurely afternoon running through a mall to pick up one item before an early birthday dinner hosted by my folks - alas, I made one fatal mistake: I parked at Neiman Marcus. And their wonderful, playful, light-as-cotton candy spring line is on the shelves, people. (Which meant not getting to my dinner exactly on time.)Not that I have the budget to buy a full-priced Prada dress - off-the-rack and all, but it's lovely just to be among them. I have to say - though there were many gems, including one of my all-time favorite designers, Missoni (see above pic, SP 09 - can they do any wrong...ever?) there was a lot, a lot, of polyester. Ugh. Polyester is not the fabric that comes to mind when I think of "spring" - it seems more sweat-inducing than breezy and cool. Plus, I'm not sure how some of these designers get away with charging $425 for a formless polyester dress - even if your name does rhyme with Cory Lurch. It's polyester - the fabric equivalent to plastic plates. And even though you can find really cute plastic plates, they are still plastic.

Here's an homage to three of my fave Spring materials (and some of the cutest trends for Spring '09) - have fun!!! xo