Adventures 2011 on Iphone (so far)

Featuring the Muppet exhibit from the Museum of Science and Industry, a Charlie Harper mosaic from Miami, and Rosie Red from a Reds game.

Etsy Spree

As promised, another wish list. This is all etsy stuff, but no jewelry. Maybe that will be its own post someday. Stone. Ship card. Spring Demon. Bottle opener. Hair tie. Push pin. Scarf.TV pin. Hankie.

The Future and the Past

The Future:
AT&T's really accurate commercials from the 1990s
100 Things to Look Forward to in 2011
2011 Midseason Shows
The Future of Alzheimer's Care
The Texas Omen by Paul Krugman

The Past
Young Johnny and Elizabeth Edwards. I find this unspeakably sad for all sorts of reasons.
James Tiptree Jr. in another era
Cigarette cards featuring Old Hollywood Players
Hidden Mother photos. These are deeply creepy.
Vivian Maeir. I love this genre of photography.

BONUS LINK: The Past of the Future also dealing with AT&T

Links

Sci-fi about each of the 7 planets
Tintypes and ambrotypes of Civil War soldiers
Interview with the writer of one of my new favorite comics
A Very Important Pyramid
I love tiny art and Alfred Hitchcock
The craziest story I've heard in a while.

Star Wars Art

I just posted some Star Wars art a couple posts ago, but I am continually impressed by the new clever things people come up with. From here, here, and here.

Amazing

These are so gorgeous.

I hate my teeth

This is the current condition of my teeth:


This is what I will replace them with:

Tat

These tattoos are gorgeous-especially the knot around her wrist. I have always wanted a tattoo and usually intend to get the Lisa-Simpson-as-Jolly-Roger she scratches on her desk here.

New to me

New book: The Moonstone. My favorite part is a cheeky slam of women's benevolence societies: "We had a meeting that evening of the Select Committee of the Mothers'-Small-Clothes-Conversion-Society. The object of this excellent Charity is--as all serious people know--to rescue unredeemed fathers' trousers from the pawnbroker, and to prevent their resumption, on the
part of the irreclaimable parent, by abridging them immediately to suit the proportions of the innocent son." It takes a huge dork to find this amusing. And I am that dork.
New music: XX. Stephan's favorite new album since adopted as my favorite new album.
New artist: Avercamp. I went to the Little Ice Age exhibit at the National Gallery of Art and fell in love. It turns out I love boring Flemish and Dutch paintings best. Then Spanish. Then the rest.

Easing back in

Sometimes I don't blog for a while 'cause I have nothing to blog. That has not been the case since I went missing a while ago. There's a ton of stuff I want to blog, and it added up and now it is overwhelming. So I am starting with something simple: a Russian animated folk tale. I found this video via Rare Bird who aptly calls it beautiful and strange.

(i heart) Where The Lovely Things Are

I love the blog Where the Lovely Things Are. Mallory always finds the coolest things. The (i heart) ART, Mary Poppins Picks, and Lovely Finds series are all great. But my favorite is always Etsy and a Movie. Brilliant idea, always well executed.

Embarrassment of Riches

All of November, in one post:
FDR probably died of cancer. Discovered by brilliant neurologist and journalist.

Gorgeous dollhouse.
The best movies et al of the 00s. I might do this soon.
Jezebel reminded me of this Lisa Simpson quote, which would look nice under my theoretical Lisa Simpson-as-Jolly Roger tattoo: "beneath my goody two shoes lie some very dark socks."
Five comics I'm not reading, but might read soon.
Another fascinating story on autism.
And more weird things about the brain.
Possible inspiration for twitter.

Umbrellas

I waited a long time to find this third umbrella. And then I spent forever trying to find these very very very old links. I especially like this Victorian postcard depicting life before widely available, affordable, and legal birth control.

Weegee

I think I've posted about how much I love Weegee before, but hearing his voice is awesome. Peter Sellers based his Dr. Strangelove accent on Weegee's, which this blog describes as "part Austro-Hungarian immigrant by way of the Lower East Side and part Elmer Fudd."

Most people seem to like the murder Weegee photos, but my favorites are the sex ones.

Look-alikes

Paige from Degrassi and Mia from Taking the Stage




Star Trek Enterprise by Amanda Vissel and Chris Craft Wooden Boat

Posing

These two images happen to be next to each other in a folder, and I think they look nice together.

Woodland bday

This blog has become an ongoing feature about how awesome R & T are. One, they made Stephan and I homemade pizza and blueberry crumble for our bdays. And they gave me this book (top), which just reminds me how much I love woodland creatures, especially bunnies. Thank you!!!!!!
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