Do or Don't: Low beds (and a Brooklyn update)

Since last summer, we've been trying our best to move from the West Village to Brooklyn, but the market is getting craaazy. There are so few Brooklyn apartments available that people are going nuts for them. (At a recent open house that our friends attended, 375 people had lined up around the block!) As you'd expect, prices have skyrocketed as a result. After much discussion, Alex and I have

Goats yelling like people

This is definitely one of the more random posts in Cup of Jo history (along with this and this), but this video of goats yelling like people made me die laughing. If you’re at all stressed out, you should definitely watch it. It’s literally impossible not to laugh.(Via Kottke)

Affordable art: Framing magazine pages

When I first moved to New York, more than ten years ago, I fell in love with a New Yorker magazine cover that arrived in my mailbox. The illustration showed a young couple kissing on a busy street. I felt like it captured my twenties—or, at least, how I wanted my twenties to be:) I contacted the artist to see if I could buy the print, but needless to say, it was out of my budget.That following

Car pillows

I know one cheeky little boy who would love this pillow. Made in Paris, the pillow has a music box inside that will play your choice of "Blowin 'in the Wind" by Bob Dylan, "Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" or (get this!) "Light my Fire" by The Doors. I think the word rad might be appropriate here.

Have a great weekend.

What are you up to this weekend? Thanks for a really fun travel week! I loved all your thoughts and comments. This weekend, Alex's best friend is visiting from Rome, so we'll be catching up (crazily enough, I barely know him!), and we're also going to take Toby to the Dumbo carousel. Hope you have a great weekend, and here are a few fun links from around the web...Jennifer Lawrence cracks me