And now, your moment of zen.
It’s aliiiiiiiiiiive.
My Halloween costume: Slim Goodbody.
Hand-painted fabric paint on poly-cotton blend dance unitard.
Stephen Hawking, oil and gold leaf on wood.
By my good friend Beecher Trouble Smith-Stackhouse. (His middle name’s actually Trouble. No joke. It’s on his license and everything.)
Puplight sent me this plush dog as a demo of sorts for their product, which is more or less a headlamp for canines. The included literature says its handy for making your pet more visible on nighttime walks, as well as for lighting whatever path/sidewalk/dark forest trail you’re walking the furball along. Dog owners in the office seem pretty jazzed on the idea. I only have a cat, so…useless. Make me a KitLight that mounts to the cat’s head so that the feline looks like a miner (see mockup below), and we’ll talk.
As for the toy pup, I plan to leave it on the floor of my cubicle, alternately tossing it scraps from my lunches while loudly and repeatedly telling it to sit. SIT. SIT-uh. SIIIIT.
Love Lost by The Temper Trap
If you’ve never heard this Australian band, listen now. And if you’ve never seen them live, do so as soon as you can. Last Thursday’s hoedown at the Music Hall of Williamsburg was one of the most forget-where-I-am, jumping, clapping, shout-singing-y good times I’ve had in a while. Almost made me forget I was watching a show in New York.
Jewelry designer Erica Weiner posted a sneak peak of some upcoming products on her blog. These earrings read “All’s Well” and “We May Be Happy Yet” backwards (I’m guessing that, like her Forget Me Knot ring, they were cast from wax seals). Someone — maybe me! — will be getting them for Christmas.
Note to Erica Weiner: make these into cufflinks, and I will likely buy them.
