Mimi Perez

Mimi Perez is a freelance writer and photographer for CandysDirt.com who lives in the Elm Thicket/Northpark neighborhood located in northwest Dallas.

Graffiti Art And Animation Liven Up This Las Vegas Home Fit For Gen Z

By Mimi Perez / May 3, 2023 /

Two things I really enjoy are comic strips and graffiti art, more specifically, bathroom graffiti. If you are lucky you can find the secret to life written on a bathroom stall. Needless to say, I was thrilled when the description of the house featured in this week’s column started off touting, “Spectacular Walls Of Comic…

No Spicy Meatballs at This Olive Garden-Style Palace Built For Adult Films

By Mimi Perez / April 26, 2023 /

So you say you love Olive Garden. So you say you love porn. Well, saddle up partners because we are going on a ride to a home decorated like an Olive Garden and set up for an adult video shoot. All you pearl clutchers out there, throw them pearls in the saddle bag. I do…

Why Settle For a Man Cave When The Whole House Could be Covered in Tools And Old Spice?

By Mimi Perez / April 19, 2023 /

My Pop was never happier than when he was in his workshop, with his tools, rebuilding a motor to a lawnmower. Our mowers, much like our cars, could outrun anything on wheels.  The rule was that if we came across a mower being left out for heavy trash pick up, we had to pick it…

Harlan Crow Continues Legacy of Exclusivity at Camp Topridge in New York’s Adirondacks

By Mimi Perez / April 18, 2023 /

In the 1990s, the makers of Pace Picante Sauce came up with a brilliant advertising campaign. Cowboys sitting around a campfire asked Cookie for more picante sauce. Having run out of Pace Picante Sauce, Cookie hands them a jar of sauce made in New York City. The cowboys get upset and threaten to hang ol’…

Barbie Has a New Movie And Her Own Dream House With This Michigan Condo

By Mimi Perez / April 12, 2023 /

As I was surfing the interwebs, I came across the trailers for the new Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling coming out July 21. Lord help me, I watched both of them. Those are five minutes of my life I will never get back. I am not completely sure if Barbie is geared…