the dog days are NEVER over

chicks. and dogs.





jayne mansfield and her chihuahuas 1956




billie holiday and her dog mister 1947



ebony by erté


gloria grahame and poodle, 1946


mole's new sweater october 2010

aloha means love

back from hawaii, where everything was gorgeous and perfect and idyllic and amazing. and i swam with a sea turtle.

lax

yes i know i have been lax. in the words of kurt vonnegut, busy busy busy.

thought of the day:

do what you have to do
so you can do what you want to do

plum.

burberry prorsum fall 2010.

dead on.

yes, they are rings.

sometimes j'adore dior

drawn.

i posted these images from h&m magazine today, and not everyone was loving the illustrations by Lisolette Watkins. i think they're amazing. i went to the tim burton exhibit at moma over the weekend, and what burton and watkins have in common is a defined style. when you look a tim burton's stuff, you know it's him; same here. do i have this in my writing, i wonder? do i need it? anyway, visual stimulation is always good. i used to read drawn! all the time, maybe i should start up again.

more from Lisolette Watkins here.

they say the neon lights are bright on broadway the LES

the space above the television has been just a plain white wall for the past 11 months we've lived in this apartment. the rug is a rectangle, the TV is a rectangle, the couch is a rectangle and all the of the framed pieces above the couch are squares or right angles. i really wanted something with curves to go above the TV. at first i thought i might do something round, but gradually realized i was dying to have my own neon sign -- in a curly, cursive script. there are tons of sign stores in this neighborhood, and it's expensive, but not as expensive as i thought it might be. once our custom sign was done, the boyfriend and his handy drill made it happen.





















it's amazing. and it looks better than it photographs.


all i have to decide now is whether to paint the wires white.

as for the bedroom: no progress.

mcqueen is dead, long live mcqueen

I'm pretty sad about alexander mcqueen's death. i wrote something here and here. i regret not buying all the things he made that i really wanted to buy, including the damn skull scarf. i hate that being a creative visionary so often goes hand-in-hand with being tortured. and i'm sad that whatever future projects he and gaga were cooking up won't come to fruition. today sucked.

janelle monae in teen vogue

teen vogue continues to be way more fun and way more diverse than vogue. i don't care that i am twice the age a teen vogue reader should be.


anyways, janelle monae is adorable.

"i want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares."

oh. how i love saul bass. more here.

progress

we moved in almost a year ago. progress has been slow. but it's happening!

office then:



office now:







living room then:




living room now:



bonus! view of dining table:



the bedroom still looks like crap.

wish list.

i love doing this!


white widow hair clip



wizard of oz ring



do it with grace tee



giant crystal cocktail ring




I love you ring


i hate you ring





gin and titonic ice cube tray



onyx flower ring


ceramic skull with gold tooth



dior silver purple nail polish



fuji instax camera



betsey johnson kazan heels



more later, most likely.

oh yeah…

…i got a dog.

fall.

it really is october -- at least for a few more days.
lately time seems to have sped up; days seem too short and weeks fly by.

it's a good thing; better than the mind-numbing monotony of a day that's too long.

on the other hand: stuff gets pushed back to next week, next month, next year.

overall: happy!
but i want to try and write for myself more, so i am gonna try.

consider this part of the effort.