Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   Bah humbug! So I asked some Parisians for gift ideas and they gave some pretty Parisian answers, God love 'em. [Check me out]( in my Santa hat & ugly Christmas sweater bothering the locals! Need more suggestions? Don’t forget about the [MessyNessy gift guide](. Oh and psssst! [Order 2 books or more]( from the MNC boutique by next Friday 16th December and get FREE Express Shipping with DHL. To ensure your books find their place under the tree in time, just enter the discount code “FREEDHL” at checkout. And while you wait for Santa’s delivery, put your feet up by the fire and tuck into this weekend’s conversation starters. Stay curious, [Nessy]   [The Fantastical World of Mingering Mike, the Imaginary Legend of Soul](  [collage-background]( When you were young, what did you want to be? An astronaut, a princess, maybe a superhero or president of the world. Mike Stevens dreamt of being a soul super star, he wanted to tour the world, to write and produce award-winning albums and run his own record label. He would star in, write and…  [Continue Reading](   [Hollywood’s own Dark Angel was an Indian Actress Playing the Biggest Role of her Life](  [tumblr_c2b4a66f31408b9803376e6467953f3f_eff8b2ea_1280]( Merle Oberon, the Hollywood actress who to this day remains the only Asian actress to be nominated for a Best Actress award at the Oscars, was born in Bombay, India in 1911. Merle however, would have you believe that she hailed from Tasmania, Australia and was born to Caucasian parents. The family, she claimed, moved…  [Continue Reading](   [Hunting for Harold Lloyd’s Legendary Christmas Ornaments](  [collage-background]( Besides the movies, there’s something else that Harold Lloyd’s name is synonymous with – the Christmas tree. For all-year round, Lloyd kept the most magnificent tree in the land, standing in the orangery of his Beverly Hills estate at 20 feet tall, 9 feet wide and almost 30 feet around, covered in $25,000 worth of ornaments collected from around the world...  [Continue Reading](   [Check Out When You Die: Varanasi’s Death Hotel](  [mukti-bhawan-varanasi]( Where is the best place in the world to die? According to Hindus, dying in the sacred city of Varanasi brings liberation –mukti– no matter your faith or religious denomination. If someone needs a place to stay before embarking on their final journey, they’ll find it in Mukti Bhawan, Varanasi’s “Death Hotel”. Varanasi is one…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DCXXVII)](  [127459650_3585130711556410_5852367420816382032_n]( [Continue Reading](  Interested in Becoming a MessyNessy Keyholder? [Apply now to unlock the Vault!](    [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog]( [To read more from MessyNessyChic visit the Blog]( and make sure you keep getting these email by adding contact@messynessychic.com to your address book or whitelist us. Our postal address: In a Café, Paris 75001 Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](.