I'm on MTV!

Okay, so it's MTV's Political/Social Website and I'm on for like 2 seconds. But it's a cool piece on my company so you should watch it anyway.

Fakhr El-Din

Check out this article in the New York Times on restaurants in Amman, Jordan.

I wonder if they went to restaurant Fakhr El-Din and had the crispy sparrows dish on my recommendation.

Undecided

The Iowa Caucuses are tomorrow and I have to admit I'll be following the results closely. I (who normally has a strong opinion about everything) am for once an "undecided voter." It's weird, but I can put up great arguments for all 2 (and even 3) of the top Democratic candidates (which I'll spare you from).

But I won't spare you from Andrew Sullivan's compelling piece in the Atlantic on Obama, which if you haven't read yet, you definitely should. My mom made me read it over the holidays. And honestly, I was leaning one way, but after this article I am now standing up straight.

If anyone knows of an equally compelling article for any of the other candidates please let me know!

I Invested!

We've also gotten some great press coverage of today's launch:

New York Times: Mutual Funds for Political Giving
SF Chronicle: Mutual Funds Tailored to Political Philosophies
Daily Kos: Invest in Progressive Future...

We Launched!

My company's new website launched today.

We figured out a way to help organizations articulate the value of their work.

Then we package the organizations into NPC's "Political Mutual Funds."

So if you're interested in Health Care for example, you can donate to our Health Care "Political Mutual Fund," and know you are contributing to a portfolio of researched and evaluated organizations that will create the political change you want.

It's very exciting. We've already been picked up by the AP and the SF Chronicle.

I hope you'll check them out and tell me what you think!

Cool Schiavoni Files Stats

If you do a google search for "hardcore wedding," a schiavoni files post is #7.

If you do a google search for "hipster wedding," a schiavoni files post is #15 but more impressively (or sadly), it counts for 10% of my referred traffic.

I guess I have been to some interesting weddings this year. My friend Lauren is getting married next August and she has a couple tough acts to follow!

Steven's Shoes

I still run into my friend Steven Lurie at a ton of events.

Every once in awhile I blog about a different outlandish piece of clothing he's wearing. Today, I want to point out these white shoes he wore to the Gen Art Fresh Faces fashion show a couple weeks ago (Sep's line Distilled was one of the fashions featured).

Ouch, they are loud.

Now everyone knows I'm no fashionista (you should have heard what I said to some reporter who asked me what I thought about the lines in this year's show), but I sure appreciate Lurie's love for the outrageous.