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If you love a cool Baja bordertown Cali-Vibe and tacos, you are going to fall hard for Bent Taco.

I am the Editor of the 'Embassy of Ideas'. Please visit it here: http://www.pattifridayphotography.blogspot.com

Carrie Prejean

Who said 15 minutes?

Roll Credits

Welcome to my Head Office.

I am the Blogger:

The Writer,

Photographer,

Illustrator,

Art Director,

Stylist,

Production Director,

Copy Girl,

Publisher & Editor -in-Chief of this International Lifestyle Magablog.

(Picture a staff meeting)

I publish my 'Gallery of Goods' (images & ideas) every day, so please come back soon.

Est. June 11th, 2007

I want to thank everyone for coming by in the last 14 days (or so) for 'California Week'. I thought it was fitting to end the week with 'The End' - ha! - I think I had some of you fooled - the header went black - the curtain fell - some adorable blog pals thinking perhaps it was some irrelevant blogging publicity stunt! Alas, it was not. I figured that the movie center of the universe was in Cali, so I better pay tribute to it in a very dramatic and award-worthy way.

I've been thinking lately. Yes, that was the cause of the smoke seeping out of your speakers. It was me....thinking. I started this blog almost 2 years ago with the intention of posting 100% original content. Somewhere along the blogging road, I veered off into the ditch; posting all kinds of content that wasn't (totally) mine.

So now Liberty Post, The Sequel begins. Every day. Same old me. But all me. If you get my drift. Hope you'll still stick around and continue to take this journey with me.

I love you guys. LP xo

P.S. You can follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pattifriday

P.P.S. April 25th is important. Check this out.

Roll Bloopers.

Mexican Groceries vs American Groceries

What the world eats. Very interesting.

Mexico Reconquers California

The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker Absolut promises to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border, but it could ruffle a few feathers in El Norte. The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA and now running in Mexico, is a colorful map depicting what the Americas might look like in an "Absolut" -- i.e., perfect -- world.

California: What A Recession Looks Like

"A road trip in California, the hardest-hit state by the recession: on the front lines of the U.S. meltdown. In a country that’s always done things bigger—bigger booms, bigger bubbles, bigger busts—California stands apart. Few other places saw real estate mania reach such feverish heights. Fewer still have seen their fortunes plunge to such abject lows that the decision over whether to buy a house comes down to five cents. With the world’s eighth-largest economy brought to its knees, Maclean’s took a road trip through one of the hardest-hit parts of California: the region encircling the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a ring of misery, where unemployment is nearing 20 per cent in some counties. In cities like Stockton, one in 60 houses are in some state of foreclosure. With shopaholic Californians hunkering down, retailers are shutting their doors, from exclusive boutiques to outlet malls in soccer mom enclaves like Elk Grove. One city, Vallejo, unable to pay its bills, has given up and declared bankruptcy. More are expected to follow. Even Silicon Valley, California’s most resilient region and its best hope to lead a recovery, is struggling. California has always been a barometer for the rest of the country. As the Golden State goes, so goes the United States. Now everyone is waiting to see whether the California dream can be resurrected. “People are watching California closely because what happens here is seen as an indicator of what will happen elsewhere,” says Alex Whalley, an economist who teaches at the University of California-Merced. “California is the leading edge of what’s to come.”" - Business - Written by Jason Kirby on Wednesday, April 15, 2009

La Belette Rouge (LA)

In this CALIFORNIA Blogebrity's own words:

Bienvenue à la blog, La Belette Rouge!!

Je suis la Belette Rouge ( which means “I am the Red Weasel" in French). I started La Belette Rouge in 2007 to write about all things French and how to live a French life no matter where you are. Then life happened and I started writing more about my life than about the life I wish I had.

La Belette Rouge is the humorous and not entirely sad autobiographical story of a somewhat over-educated, 40-something, happily married, childless not by choice, Francophile red weasel with a passion for red, red shoes, and writing who is temporarily stuck in Los Angeles and who would much rather be in Paris, New York, Chicago or any other major city and out of the suburbs of Valencia, CA. Le sigh!

On la blog, La Belette Rouge, I attempt to write painfully honest and hopefully funny creative non-fiction autobiographical posts about: writing, living in L.A., longing for Paris, what I want to buy at J Crew, shoes, clothes, how to get over heartbreak, disappointment and despair, my He-weasel( husband), the desires and disappointments of the past, present, and future, infertility and I sometimes even wax psychological and talk about sessions with my Beverly Hills psychoanalyst, Igor.

I write frequently about how I try to live my life post-infertility and without a baby. I have a weekly series called “Writing in Valencia” which is about creating a literary life no matter where you are and writing even when you think you can't.The goal of my blog is to make you laugh and if at all possible for you to do a spit take. I am sorry if I occasionally make you cry, I don't mean to do it. It just happens sometimes.

I also love to make lovely blogger friends and I am ridiculously happy when you leave lovely comments or just say 'bonjour' via comment or email. Then there is the goal of being discovered on the Internet and getting an agent and a book deal---and have very kind people say I am the 40-something year old version of Sloan Crosley or that David Remnick ought to be publishing me in the New Yorker. David, are you listening?I have published short stories, essays, worked as an entertainment editor and even had my own column in a small newspaper. I have a B.A. in Liberal Studies and a M.A. in Counseling Psychology. My graduate thesis explored the psychology of clothing on which I have lectured.

I have worked in the fields of art, fashion, and for the last seven years I have worked in mental health. I am presently focusing my energies on completing a book about coming to terms with infertility. I am also working on a curriculum for a course on blogging that I will be teaching in Spring 2009.

La Belette Rouge is on Blogs.com list of the Top Ten Blogs for Francophiles and is the proud winner of the 2008 Avant Garde Bloggies Award for the best "How-to"post.

Please email me if you would like me to review your book/products, are interested in link shares, or if you have questions, comments or pictures of weasels you would like to share with me.

Flora Grubb: If I lived in SF would you hire me?

I'd love to photograph inside your garden(s) all day long and publish books for you and create wonderful gouache succulent paintings for you to frame and sell. And I'd help you organize events and re-pot cacti and unpack books - I would do anything to work with you. Hey! I could be the editor of your new blog! I could do that. Can you get this Canadian a green card? No pun intended. Well, kinda intentional. (Pretty Please)

Hidden in France (But she's really in California)

Now, California Week would not be complete without featuring some Calibloggers! Corine, a passionate lover of colour, is one Blogebrity who writes like the wind - some times whipping, strong, stinging - other times breezy, caressing, softly - and then calm, windless, peaceful. I love her writing, her honesty and sense of wit and 'Corine Philosophy'. This blogger will be the next big thing to hit bookshelves. She is working on a novel, writes for several blogs (still waiting for her to admit which ones - she's so mean-spirited) and more....I think scripts perhaps for big Hollywood producer kinds...Twitter Gal...all in all, she is one very interesting woman; blogholic, wife - mother, lover of Zen Habits. Real. Authentic. Loyal. Coastal. (oh, did I mention she runs a cooking school too?) Take a peek inside her home here and see her growing collection of flower paintings here. Oh how I adore Corine! She makes me want to be a better blogger - perhaps I will work on that this weekend.

Here is her online bio:

Hidden in France
Biography: This blog is where I stumble, disoriented and out of breath from my crazy life, to rest for a minute and play. I love colorful things, places, people, words and thoughts. Whatever it is I probably have an opinion about it. Unfortunately, and due to wavering impulse control, I have to share that opinion immediately. With you. If something you read in this blog doesn't sound too English, it probably isn't. Don't run to your dictionary: It's not you. Really. It's me. I'm French. Interests: Everything interests me and there lies the problem.

Flowercraft Garden Center

Flowercraft Garden Center is an independent family-owned nursery established in 1974. They have been providing their customers in the city of San Francisco and the Bay Area with friendly, helpful and knowledgeable service for over thirty years. Their selection is lush, uncommon and extensive. It reflects the Bay Area's fickle climate, and specifically San Francisco's moody, unusual and abundant micro-climates. Their goal is to continue providing professional customer service, quality plants, and excellent gardening products that will make your home or business a happier place.

Admint One Rose Bowl Flea Market

Behold, the World's most unusual Flea Market - the shopping place of the Stars. Featuring over 2,500 vendors and 15,000 to 20,000 buyers every Month. The Rose Bowl Flea Market is one of the most famous markets in the World. Celebrating over 40 years of continued success at the world famous Rose Bowl in Pasadena California. I dedicate the scary doll heads to Beach Bungalow 8 - a truly famous Caliblogger and one who gets freaked out by doll faces! (click on the B&W doll image to enjoy the full eeky benefit...especially the doll head on the far left! Yikes.)