todd

todd

www.myspace.com/customtailor

06/18/09

rummy rosetta?

Kennan thinks those numbers refer to a gin rummy game.

Tim Russert burns it up with the Queen of Soul.

Tennis dress (style no. 6604) from Brunswick Worsted Mills knitting manual entitled New Dreams, volume no. 668 (1968). I am ready to play.

Dear God please don’t forsake me to a hell of hanging around women who would carry bags like these.

I’m still trying to tighten up my business card game. My plumber, Marx, runs a bar called Gene O’s Lounge in Hayward, CA with his girlfriend.
I must admit, the first thing that struck me about Geno’s card was image of the woman standing behind the bar and cocktails. I believe she is ready to take [...]

I am FROM Arizona and I have never been to the Grand Canyon. God
damn it; I should get a Hoveround!

It’s been a while since my last post and I want to apologize to the other salon residents. During the absence I acquired a wife, that’s a picture that I took of the two of us the morning after the wedding.(insert aawww here)
For our honeymoon we drove to San Francisco and stayed for three nights. [...]

Victor, typical of his back-seat business adviser habits, has convinced me to create some custom tailor business cards for myself. I’ve started to examine other local entrepreneurs in Oakland to see what flies here. Example one is from T. Jazzy’s hair shop on East 18th. My area of town, Park Blvd and East 18th, is [...]

My friend Adrienne posted a great photo she took of a gutted drive-thru menu from the shuttered Kwik-Way hamburger joint in our Oakland neighborhood. I recalled learning about someone else’s affected nostalgia for this spot that was, for me, just a wrinkled old rhino near its end.
Over a Thanksgiving weekend a few years ago, I [...]