Larry David and Me
My life mirrors Larry David’s experiences in Curb Your Enthusiasm in so many ways. From getting into an argument with the Chinese restaurant about the amount of shrimp put in a dish, to his other problems and misunderstandings, it’s really unbelievable. Recently, I experienced an incident where this scene comes to mind: Oh well, what […]
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year – this is what it’s all about – take a look at my little slugger: Untitled from mbarnstein on Vimeo.
In The Wall Street Journal…And Some Great Spanish Food
Well, the facebook unfriending or de-friending fiasco has almost come to a close. The Wall St Journal found my blog post and interviewed me about this issue. Wow – and I even got a sketch in there or a “hedcut” – although I don’t like the chins they put in there – oy vey. Click […]
Gold and Platinum, Big Blue Diamond – Watch These Kids Play Phish
It’s been a while since I posted, but that’s a good thing because we are busy selling (and buying) diamonds. Now is the time. We have a lot of items on sale, and we are making some great jewelry buys from customers coming in to our store, and from all over the country. We are […]
A Crazy Facebook Fan Page
Well, the job of Facebook never ends. Here’s a good one. The jeweler that I talked about before who unfriended me has a son in his business. I created a group for jewelers and other people in the trade called the “Facebook Jewelers Network”. I get a request from this guy’s son to join. Well […]
Warren Haynes is Better with The Allman Brothers
Warren Haynes in my opinion is one of the best out there. I wrote about him earlier and posted a video of him playing with Trey from Phish. So I was really stoked to see Warren Haynes with Gov’t Mule last week. I have been watching him with The Allman Brothers Band for a long […]
Unfriended on Facebook – Compliment or Diss?
So I friend requested a jeweler in the Midwest, has a big luxury store, Rolex, Cartier, the whole deal. He also likes music and is a third generation family business, like me. I said that in my request and an hour later he accepted. Then I look on my page the next day and I’m […]
The Big Diamonds Still Sell
Check out what happened yesterday at Christie’s New York… NEW YORK (AFP) — Two giant diamonds sold for more than six million dollars at auction Wednesday to a Middle Eastern buyer, bucking a wave of gloom that has taken the shine off luxury sales. The Ponahalo diamonds, mined in South Africa and named after a […]
Diamonds as an Investment
Stocks are in the toilet, real estate is going down, and even the commodities market is too volatile to stay invested. Our positions in gold and other metals are short term, and I would not recommend holding gold at this point. So what about diamonds? There will always be a demand for them and it’s […]
Best of Baltimore
I got an email from a friend of mine today that we were chosen “Best Place to Get an Engagement Ring” by the City Paper. I had no idea. The crazy thing was that their write up was perfect to our brand. If I were to tell them exactly what to write in the article, […]
« go back
Connect With Me
My Companies
