Diane Sawyer has interviewed a chimpanzee, made Britney cry, and talked crack-quality with Whitney Houston. If that’s not worthy of a listicle video round-up, I don’t know what is.
![This is Dewey. My sister is currently fostering this adorable mop of a dog. But he needs a home. In her words:
Dewey was found wandering studio city last week. He’s (we think) 6 months old…was totally matted and we are looking for a home for him….I will be the foster until we find his forever home.
Dewey is neuteredFully house-trainedPlays fetchLoves peopleOther dogs And kids! It really is unbelievable. He’s the FULL PACKAGE!!
She’s in LA (Laurel Canyon) so I’d love it if we could pass this around to some of the LA Tumblrs. If you’re interested, or know someone who is interested, email me! verenasays [at] gmail [dot] com.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpbd3awAgN1qz6jyzo1_500.jpg)
This is Dewey. My sister is currently fostering this adorable mop of a dog. But he needs a home. In her words:
Dewey was found wandering studio city last week. He’s (we think) 6 months old…was totally matted and we are looking for a home for him….I will be the foster until we find his forever home.
Dewey is neutered
Fully house-trained
Plays fetch
Loves people
Other dogs
And kids! It really is unbelievable. He’s the FULL PACKAGE!!
She’s in LA (Laurel Canyon) so I’d love it if we could pass this around to some of the LA Tumblrs. If you’re interested, or know someone who is interested, email me! verenasays [at] gmail [dot] com.
Doing some jungle move that seemed right at the time in Jamaica.
If I may make a recommendation - go to Strala Yoga. It’s the most laid-back, down-to-earth, no om-ing, free fruit-having, ass-kicking studio I’ve ever been to.* If that’s not enough, the owner and main teacher is my buddy Tara Stiles, who may or may not be kind of a big deal. (At least Vanity Fair thinks so…) And if that’s not enough to get you there, then at the very least, follow her Tumblr. She’s a ball of fun. She’s also great at handstands. (And taking hot bikini photos.)
*I’ve only been to like 2 yoga studios in my life, but the fact that I’ve found myself dedicated to some form of physical activity should speak mountains. (Is “speak mountains” even a saying? Or did I just make that up? Whatever, you get the point.)
Last night.
Verena and I had a phenomenal dinner at The Smith, where we ran into Daniel Meade, Kelly Reeves and Jeff Baum. I had beer, corn on the cob and mac & cheese. Verena had beer, baked beets and fried chicken & waffles.
Following our meal of champions, we took it downstairs to the Photo Booth. This was only my second time in a booth, and we succeeded in a major way.
Then we met Sarah down at Donnybrook for a nightcap. It was a great night.
I may be the world’s most inconsistent blogger, but there is no doubt in my mind that this deserves a reblog. Also, I said it before (like 3 minutes ago) and I’ll say it again: I will own my own photo-booth.
And it will only show up sideways. WHY.
How am I supposed to share his Disney-level cuteness if I can’t get the photo to upload correctly? Help please.
So, yesterday, I wrote this. And, as some of you may or may not know, I used to work here. And knowing how these things work (because I used to work there) and knowing the platform HuffPost offers and knowing that because it’s my piece and because neither Air America Media nor HuffPost care whether or not I’d published it on their respective sites, I chose to re-publish the aforementioned piece, in its entirety, on HuffPost. Then I promptly went on with my day.
Until I got a Google alert directing me to ASSME.org - you’ve heard of them, you might be going to their fundraiser next week, and heck, like me, maybe you actually worked with one of its editors over here - to see that Drew Grant had written a post about my cross-published piece.
Her post reads:
So lets see: Air America’s website published this story about how you can actually learn stuff by watching how Lauren Conrad navigated her career on The Hills …and the Huffington Post thought that this was so inspirational that they did one of their patented copy-and-paste deals and took Verena von Pfetten’s entire article to reprint on their site.
I’m not sure why I’m coming to the defense of my previous employer who, most undoubtedly, does not need defending, and to be fair, Drew’s post seems to, in a somewhat condescending way, be coming to my defense, but here’s the thing: why was there no effort to get the facts straight?
Would it have been so difficult to email me to, I don’t know, just ask if HuffPost had stolen my content?
Because the answer - if anyone had actually cares - is, in fact, no.
That’s all.
