Tuesday, January 29, 2008

The Beekeeper on Mars















Is it a female sasquatch, a naked alien or a Victorian beekeeper in peril?
Infuriating fun is trying to find the figure in the original panoramic view from NASA.
BTW, the image is already four years old, and I really have no perception of its scale.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Ladies

People are always telling me that I would love LA - in the same way that they might not care for a movie but think I would love it - thanks. I haven't been yet but there is an invitation to a very luxe wedding in May, may be difficult with the baby...
Anyways, while doing a search for Flannery O'Connor I came across these two bloggers - Tarnished Lady & The Moldy Doily - who would be my ideal friends if I lived in LA. They represent to me the combo of smarts with the I don't take myself to seriously mystical magicality fun of an invented oasis.

I was searching for Flannery O'Connor as I read an excellent quote by her (pointed out by my friend Heather M) in our last book club book Out: "The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience..."

The book Out was a gory but good read, I would not have picked it out or read any crime fiction if it weren't for book club (why I love book club). I now feel as though I too have been a dreary woman working in a depressing boxed lunch factory in Japan who has both murdered and been an accomplice to murder - Natsuo Kirino is good with the details.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

The Dress


































My favourite vintage Gunne Sax dress that is pulled out summer after summer and always seems to fit just right also belongs to my favourite singer - Joanna Newsom. Incroyable!