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What makes a party perfect?

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Over the weekend we went to a party hosted by a couple of fabulous lesbians who live in the most exclusive building in all of South Beach. Their designer had just finished working on the place for a full year, and it looked amazing. They had an enormous spread set out on a kitchen island roughly the size of Manhattan, and they pulled out bottle after bottle of delicious, interesting wines.

(For what it’s worth, we took a Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc with one of our Thom Loafman prost!cards. That earned us a good laugh … and hopefully a return invitation.)

We thought everything was pretty close to perfect, until one of our friends complained that the music wasn’t loud enough and the lights were too bright. Then someone chimed in that the crowd was too gay, and someone else, whom I didn’t really know, said there wasn’t enough seating on the enormous, oceanfront balcony.

Wow, tough crowd, I thought, making a mental of note of three people who definitely won’t get invited to our next party.

But more than that, with the holidays approaching and multiple social events scheduled every weekend, I made myself a promise: Not one negative word about any party I attend. Politics and the economy are still open for criticism, but no negative party talk, including the:

  • Food
  • Drink
  • Setting
  • Crowd

Call it my pre-New Year’s resolution. I’m going to spread only good cheer and good vibes this year.

Unless there’s no wine. Then all bets are off.

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This guy draws circles around the competition

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

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Cher. Madonna. Prince. Some artists are so distinctive they only need one name. And here’s one more to add to the list: Nemo.

Both of the principals at Prost! Productions are art lovers, though one can’t even draw a smiley face while the other regrets a long-ago choice to forsake art and study law. Given our own personal frustrations, we both get excited when we find an artist with an instantly recognizable style.

Nemo is one of those artists. Since he was a kid, he’s had a bizarre gift for drawing perfect freehand circles. A lot of guys with that talent would just disappear quietly into an accounting career, doodling circles in the margins of their spreadsheets while quietly going insane.

But Nemo chose another route. He’s turned his circles into a full-time art career, transforming them into dogs, cats, bugs and other images that leap off the vellum. When you see a work from Nemo, you recognize it instantly — and we recognized the perfect artist to create our first holiday wine cards.

Keep an eye on this guy. With a pop art style as distinctive as Warhol, Britto or Rodrigue, we think Nemo is going to be huge.

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