Fleet Foxes.
pic: Gemma Booth
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
On Ogden Nash, Daily. Courtesy of Naysan R.
The Duck.
Behold the duck.
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
It is specially fond
Of a puddle or pond.
When it dines or sups,
It bottoms ups.
-Ogden Nash
Behold the duck.
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
It is specially fond
Of a puddle or pond.
When it dines or sups,
It bottoms ups.
-Ogden Nash
pic: The Selby
On Crazy-Itchy Feet
I feel like everyone in the world is on one at the moment.
I cannot wait til mine.
3 weeksssssssssssss
pic: Anna Wolf
Friday, January 2, 2009
On 2009: International Year of Escapism*
*OOPS! Reposted. Acccidentally posted it unfinished.
Today, while i was ploughing through Russian magzines at the hairdressers pretending to look leisurely in the hope that i might feel it for an afternoon, the entire salon and everything around me suddenly quietened.
Hair salon apparatus in motion is unpleasantly symphonic; the snipping of scissors, the wheezing gust of blow dryers, the swoosh of the sweeping, the thrumming of the sink, the chirping of the chatter--everyone doing their little bit in a one giant orchestra of noise pollution. But today, a sudden diminuendo, rallentando, and then, silence.
Someone turned on a TV. Israeli news.
"What do you think of the war?", the Morroccan-Israeli hairdresser casually asked as he combed out my wet hair.
Even at the hairdressers, which is pretty much a mythological fantasia-esque place celebrated by women the world over for its can-do quick-fix approach to pick-me-ups, leisureliness and nonchalance, is, apparently, impossible. Day 2 of 2009, and it is becoming clear that this year will not be brought to you by escapism.
On a related note, the United Nations has designated 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope.
Related cos, as cool as that is (considering i use to want to be an astronaut from about age 9 - 13), on the issue of anti-escapism, it appears the United Nations would disagree. The celebration of astronomy amidst a crumbling world order seems curiously escapist to me. Especially when you compare it to 2008, the soberly deemed, "International Year of Sanitation".
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