I cannot see this without smiling: “Bathboat” by Dutch designer Wieki Somers, in epoxy lacquered oak and red cedar. She describes it as a vehicle on dry land where the mind can float away. Find yours at Galerie Kreo.
Archive for October, 2007
Tub Time
Posted in Art on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To Whom It May Concern
Posted in Literature, Music, Religion, peace on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“You’ve bullied the weak, you’ve robbed the poor;
The starving brother you’ve turned from the door
You’ve laid up gold where the canker rust,
And have given free vent to your beastly lust.”
“You’ve justice scorned, and corruption sown,
And trampled the laws of nature down.
You have drunk, rioted, cheated, plundered, and lied
And mocked at God in your hell-born [...]
A Mix for All Hallows’ Eve
Posted in Music on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Harry Potter Prologue – John Williams
Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon
The Imperial March from Star Wars – John Williams
Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr.
Funeral March Sonata No.2 in B flat – Chopin/Abbey Simon
Monster Mash – Bobby Pickett
Twelve Thirty from The Day the Earth Stood Still – Bernard Herrmann
Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives – Mel Tormé
The Forbidden [...]
Culinary Art
Posted in Food, Skaneateles on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I sing the praises of the Klondike Choco Taco, Fudge Grandé (for which the fine print reads, “Fudge Rippled Artificially Flavored Reduced Fat Vanilla Ice Cream in a Sugar Taco Cone with Milk Chocolate Flavored Coating & Peanuts, Artificial Flavor Added, This Is Not a Reduced Fat Snack”) which topped my last meal [...]
Freedom
Posted in Walking on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“If you can get away from the paparazzi and they don’t know where you are, you can actually walk, walk, walk.”
– Jennifer Aniston on walking 40 blocks in New York City without being recognized; quoted by Laura Brown in Harper’s Bazaar
Morning Sky
Posted in Skaneateles on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Moon and clouds over St. Mary’s of the Lake at dawn on Sunday.
Good Words
Posted in Literature, sports on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Gravity does what gravity does, you know?”
– Jake Brown, Australian pro skateboarder after sailing off the end of the Big Air Ramp at the X Games and falling 45 feet, hitting the ground so hard his shoes popped off.
Favorite First Lines in Fiction, 14
Posted in Literature, Religion on October 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it [...]
Politely Put
Posted in Literature, Music on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Here you could get the full effect of the calliope, an old-fashioned steam organ that let loose with melodious eructations whenever the ship left port. Its sound was exactly the opposite of a pipe organ’s: Where the latter rouses one with deep bass notes, the calliope thrills with piercingly high ones. It is, however, a [...]
More
Posted in Art, Literature, Religion on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“…when the words mean even more than the writer knew they meant, then the writer has been listening. And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.”
– Madeleine L’Engle in Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (2001). Thanks [...]
