He did it again, obvi.  Christophe Decarnin is a living legend and I love him. He makes the prospect of next Fall -when we are barely through winter- almost exciting!

see more HERE

xoxo,

coco

I love looking at photographs, I spend far too much time on this site…. thecobrasnake.com

fantastique!

check it:

thecobrasnake.com

xoxo,

coco

love always,

the coco & lowe fam

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

Walter Winchell

With love in the air, I wanted to share another mix just in time for Valentine’s Day

New Lov Songs Mixed by Agile

Listen and Download Here!

xoxo,

Venus

I want a lucite grand piano

Alicia Keys tinkles on this bad boy in her recent video ‘Doesn’t Mean Anything’

Learning how to play it properly would be the next hurdle, but let us worry about that when we get there…

xoxo,

coco

As many of you know in December the flowndering Toronto Transit Commission (the TTC) refused a $200,000 ad campaign from website AshleyMadison.com.  Now Bay St is having a hard time backing Avid Life’s bid to go public – Avid Life is A.M’s parent company that also owns CougarLife.com and EstablishedMen.com.  If you’re still confused as to why a broke TTC and a money hungry TSE would even consider denying money from a booming business, I’ll give you a little background.  The proposed purple wrap that was to cover the Streetcars in the ad campaign read: “Life Is Short.  Have An Affair”

AshleyMadison -named interestingly (and intentionally) after the two most popular names for girls- is the brainchild of Canadian Noel Biderman an ex-lawyer and sports agent.  Essentially a website created for cheaters, or as they like to call it ‘The World’s Premier Dating Service With Over 5,180,000 Anonymous Members’ AshleyMadison.com is a place where people in committed relationships can hook up with other people in committed relationships.  Novel idea in principle I guess….  What is that quote that people always say when it comes to cheating… “make sure the person you’re cheating with has as much to lose as you do” or something like that.

This is a topic that I’ve personally seen friendships almost sever from, relationships teeter on and family dinners come to abrupt endings over.  Most of the time the arguments come down to two sides.

1 It’s obvious that it’s happening, I mean the site has 5million plus members, seems like a viable business to me.  I’m not cheating, so let em be.

2. It’s immoral.  Just because people cheat doesn’t mean there should be a place not only encouraging it but profiting from it.

The thing I find interesting about the whole argument is that the more it’s discussed the more popular the site gets.  Noel Biderman will voluntarily get vilified by Elizabeth Hassle-whatever on The View or get threatened to a ’smack down’ on Tyra because he knows as soon as the show airs, registrations go up.  Biderman even stated that even without the TTC running the Ad, all of the media attention that surrounded the bid gave him just the amount of attention he needed….

Maybe I shouldn’t be writing this post…

With that being said, I would love to know how you guys feel because to be totally honest, I’m torn.  Something inside of me says, ‘If people are going to cheat, they’re going to cheat with or without AshleyMadison.com I’m more annoyed by the portrayal of the women in the ads than what the ads are actually selling….

While another part of me says just because it’s done doesn’t mean we have to applaud it, welcome it and visibly accept it into our daily lives…..  I have to admit that more and more I’m troubled by so many things that our society just passes off and accepts.  The ‘N’ word, misogynist lyrics in music, the over-sexification (admittedly only a word found in the ‘urban dictionary, but I like it) of pop music and pop culture itself, human disconnect…. I can go on and on but I’m just not sure where my blah, blah, blah-ing will get me.  Therapist and author of ‘Monogamy Myth’ Peggy Vaughn says about 60% of men and 40% of women will have an affair at some point in some marriage’ so is this something we as a society want to spend time, energy and emotion stopping?  Is cheating inevitable?

Leave a comment with your two-cents because I’m stuck at a penny and I need some  perspective…

lots of love,

coco

p.s. check out Noel on The View and Tyra below