looking up
nokia store, michigan ave.
I’ve officially swapped out the whole verizon/LG enV for the higher tech of the nokia n78 (since chris can’t seem to get out of his city blackberry)– went in for training on the spanky little device and am doing my best to handle it with care and not drop it a gazillion times as is my wont. pretty spiff.
beautiful horrific awesomely curious
from curious expeditions:
including a delicious reading list.
mm, cabinets of curiosities. that is what I would like to build, after a fashion. with the wooden boxes, I mean– of course it’s rather what the blog pursuit is about (not an original observation, I know)– but there’s something in physical agglomeration and arrangement toward juxtaposition and harmony and dissonance that pleases. it seems a greedy, squirrelly inclination, of which surely the sources are inherited, but for all this “explanation” it still appeals to some deeply gratified part. the more abruptly associative, colliding together victoriana and happenstance, textural and poetic, the more inexplicably enrapturing. it’s playing with nostaglia and torquing it here and there toward it’s cousin, novelty. it’s engagement at that border with the weird and unsettling and the beautiful or sad or ridiculous.
She’s Hot
I love how librarianship is the new sexy.
I’ve always thought so. but then I’ve had good models, like librarians who’ve played in rock bands and had twins.
the view from here
lakeside
whoa
more urban wildlife
today
things I hate:
my end-of-day commute
hunting for parking
so-called friends who are not
squishy, flavorless american “gummy bears”
narcissists, users, and the self-righteously prideful
relentless political campaigning
irregardless unsensible languagistic usage
ugliness
anyone meddling with my teeth
being the only person at work in a halloween costume
teutonic network admins
nostalgic regret
things I love:
haribo gold bears (aka the original gummi baren)
birds, especially ones that talk or cause mischief
clanky radiators
strong coffee
that man who makes me laugh & swoon
tights + boots
vintage raincoats
my art table
happenstance adventuring
kneading bread dough
naps
tinkering & pottering
my niece’s cow saying “mow mow”
