maude and golden girls’ actress bea arthur passed away today at 86. i’m sorry to be bearer of such sad news but be assured that ‘dorothy’ is staying golden elsewhere. her shining sarcasm will glow on in lifetime reruns forever.
thank you for being a friend.
rip bea arthur
may 13, 1922-april 25, 2009
there's only the sun and a feeling that you're simlutaneously doing all the right things and completely wasting your life.
04/25/09
stay golden
04/24/09
high level VIII
who’s coming to my party?
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04/23/09
feeling nostalgic
time tough
times may be tough but life is good.
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04/19/09
SAN FRANCISCO IS BURNIN’ UP!
HEATWAVE. everyone’s stripped down to their summer dresses and (god help us) flip flops showing off their winter pastiness. it’s wonderful. just wonderful. (minus the flip flops)
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04/17/09
dessins animés russes
during the cold war, a time when the US was building bomb shelters and having their children dive under their desks on a regular basis in school, as if some wood and metal would protect them from a nuclear blast, evil red communist russia was creating beautiful cartoon; the same stories our parents were reading [...]
04/16/09
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD
i’d like to draw everyone’s attention to a very special man: my father. today is his birthday.
his birthdays are more special to me every year. about 10 years ago he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma– bone marrow cancer. i was 13 and my brother, ian, was 2. he told himself he would see his daughter [...]
you should all think twice when designing your next business cards. you may as well just toss that stack of 500 you’ve got sitting in your desk, RIGHT NOW and create a POP-UP BOOK BUSINESS CARD.
i don’t even have business cards. what does that say about me? doing some serious re-evaluation of my effectiveness as [...]
04/14/09
art shows
art shows this week that you should know about if you’re in the bay area. you have no excuses. be there.
featuring a dear friend of mine from high school. trevor girard is an artist living in LBC and is absolutely worth checking out. here’s the myspace page for his line METASAURUS. links to online shop.
and [...]
thanks to hollister hovey, brooklyn’s lovely lady with a penchant for hunting regalia, riding helmets and velvet slippers, i’ve been turned onto the impossible project: re-inventing insta-film. they’ve purchased polaroid’s machinery and leased their building in the netherlands to create a new instant film that is fully compatible with polaroid cameras. they need your help. [...]
for my favorite stars of the show
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