Summer Break

29 Jul

At Grey Gardens

I’ve been having a great summer vacation on the East End. Highlights include visiting my friends who rent Grey Gardens in East Hampton, hanging out in Montauk with my favorite people, surfing, working out with Tracy Anderson at her new Water Mill studio, swimming in Gardiner’s Bay, clamming, visiting Jackson Pollock’s house, drinking a lot of rose and eating lobster for at least one meal a day.

Glossy Wedding

21 Jul

I wrote up my Feb. 26 wedding in Palm Springs for C magazine’s wedding issue that just came out.

Cafe Gratitude in NYT Styles

20 Jul

I wrote about L.A.’s new Cafe Gratitude in my hood for the New York Times Thursday Styles section, out tomorrow.

Art Imitates Life Again

19 Jul

Chris Abbott, Lena Dunham and me on set


Today I shot a cameo for an episode of “Girls.” I was playing a New York magazine editor at a book party at the Jane Hotel for a novelist played by the hilarious and sweet Jenny Slate. It was a blast! The show is slated to air early 2012 on HBO. It’s all very exciting.

6 Jun

It’s summer and I’ve got some time off at last. I’m going to do some traveling back east to visit the NYC set of “Girls,” and I’ll be spending some time in my beloved Montauk. I’m also going to hang out with my husband in Northern California for some long weekends. We’re thinking Napa, Sonoma, Calistoga, Bolinas, Tahoe, SF…We’ve also got some weddings and we’re planning our honeymoon to the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily. Life is good.

BYE NYC, HI LA

1 May

I’m back in L.A. after a very fun 2 months in NYC working on the Lena Dunham’s new HBO series “Girls.” The show is slated to air early next year. Here’s a picture of me on set last week, wearing one of my friend Julia Chaplin’s new Gypset Galactic Weekender dresses. (The concept is you’re supposed to be able to wear them for 36 hours straight, like to the beach, a party, bed, etc.) I’m standing in front of a glittery Panda painting by artist Rob Pruitt, which is on display at the art gallery where one of the characters works. I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to work with the wonderful, smart, funny, sweet, amazing, i could keep going with adjectives here but you get the idea, “Girls” team. Now I’m going to hang out with my new husband and make some wedding weekend photo albums.

Party Circuit

15 Apr

This week I reemerged into the NYC benefit circuit. On Monday, I went to the Art Production Fund birthday party and on Tuesday I went to a benefit for Marfa. My friend Jen just emailed me this WWD story that has half of my picture, with my friend, fashion designer Cynthia Rowley in the elevator. Seems to display my insider/outsider status.

Mormon Tweeting

10 Apr

Last night I went to see the new Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon.” I loved it! I usually get a little bored and annoyed during musicals–I hated “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” which I saw around Christmas. But this was hilarious and fresh the entire time. I think it was the best musical I’ve ever seen. William H. Macy and John Waters were also in the audience, which was cool. Oh, and I’ve decided I was wrong about Twitter. It’s not just for self promoters and single people. Follow me @dschoonthego because now I’m obsessed with gaining followers. Just like the Mormons! And you thought this post wasn’t cohesive…

Wedding Pictures

29 Mar

My great wedding photographer, Laura Layera, has posted some pretty pictures of my Feb 26 Palm Springs wedding on her blog. Considering I’ll probably never be that thin again, I really want those pictures to get around.

Girlhood

10 Mar

This is a cartoon that Bruce Eric Kaplan (aka BEK), one of the writers on “Girls” and a prolific New Yorker cartoonist, drew today. It’s for a character semi-inspired by me. I’m into it. My new gig is great. We’re writing in the former “Sex and the City” writer’s room which is a former 80s bachelor pad at Silvercup Studios. There’s a huge jacuzzi where Lena keeps threatening to hold meetings. It’s all very exciting.