Appropriate for Halloween:

I'll definitely be wanting to see this:

As always (but perhaps especially now), this is the place to be for all your insanity/drunken debauchery needs.

Happy Halloween!

Aren't these just gorgeous?


Laboradite bookend


Agate cheese plates (the petrified wood version is quite nice, too.)

Jayson Home & Garden is a dangerous website.

I'd been thinking about attending since the first time I'd heard of it. Before the exhibit closed (ahem, today) I knew I had to see it for myself.

Koons on the Roof:







It was totally worth it.

This past weekend, I did.

With the help of my friends.

Thank you so much.

it's never too late for greatness.

New Yorker article here.

field museum sue

Perhaps my first purchase from 20x200.

inspiration

The most beautiful dining room...

Just done in aubergine, instead.

I've become that person...

...the one that always has earplugs in their pocket en route to a show.

At least I'm about to. I was seriously regretting not having any at the Nick Cave show Sunday night.

I suppose it had to happen at some point.

One more book ...

From the mid-sixties, I'd guess - another of my favorite Bostonians.

An excerpt from the introduction (staying as true to the written word as possible):

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles:they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn,a human being;somebody who said to those near him, when his fingers would not hold a brush "tie it into my hand"-

nothing proving or sick or partial. Nothing false,nothing difficult or easy or small or colossal. Nothing ordinary or extraordinary,nothing emptied or filled,real or unreal;nothing feeble and known or clumsy and guessed. Everywhere tints childrening,innocent spontaneous,true.[...] Nothing believed or doubted;brain over heart, surface:nowhere hating or to fear;shadow,mind without soul. Only how measureless cool flames of making; only each other building always distinct selves of mutual entirely opening; only alive. Never the murdered finalities of wherewhen and yesno,impotent mindgames of wrongright and rightwrong;never to gain or pause,never the soft adventure of undoom,greedy anguishes and cringing ecstasies of in-existence;never to rest and never to have:only to grow.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question

September 2008 - the books.

The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie

Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Philips

Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman

Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett

A Natural History of Love, Diane Ackerman