manna from brooklyn

September 23, 2009

Bear friends

Greg went to Toronto on the weekend, and I was all by myself.

I was lonely, so I got these guys out. We had some good conversations.

Today they're having a lie-in.

Gonna lounge around and whisper and giggle all morning.

I believe they call that "semi-hibernation."

Supper

I cleaned the greenbeans last night.

Yep, our table is also our desk and a kitchen counter, because until Greg gets his studio set up he can't build me a desk or build our extra surface in the kitchen.

SOON!

(PS: Giant beans!)

Sniiiiff, ah!

You know that awesome smell where you can't tell if it's food or sweat?

That's what 53rd Street smelled like yesterday when I left work.

Yum yum!

(Barriers: not because of the smell. The UN is in session, and lots of motorcades passed today.)

Worst book ever written?

I found this first edition on the sidewalk last year.

Just sold it for twenny bucks! Aw yeah.

September 22, 2009

Found a brick!

There were a few of these in a little stack by a restaurant on Meeker Avenue.

This will be a great wedding present some day, for a couple with initials P and M . . . who are rilly into crappy old bricks!

I know they're out there somewhere!

Bought

Whenever I see Vintage Contemporaries I have to buy them (remember Dancing in the Dark?).

These were fitty ("fiddy"?) cents each at a thrift store in my neighborhood.

Oh

That looks confterbul.

Sometimes don't you just want to crawl back in there andZZZZZZZZ . . . ZZZZZZZ . . .

. . . —HUH WHAT? Oh, I fell asleep just looking at it.

September 21, 2009

Found: old-school textbooks

I grabbed these and several others from a box on the sidewalk.

OMG skorls! "They are always out looking for a meal," the book explains, because they are too stupid to remember where they hid their nuts.

And, um, this is frightening:

"Owls have big eyes." Also: big talons.

Keep this page away from small children.

Blanket progress

These are going to be hexagons.

It will be amazing!

Found!

This is an interesting book about Conceptual art; I had not seen it before.

Published 1973.

The cover is pretty awesome—a fake artwork! They don't do that kind of thing any more.

September 18, 2009

Delivery

Do I need to explain why I am looking forward to the weekend?

I Like / I Hate

Notebook.

Ree Morton at The Drawing Center.

September 17, 2009

Found: the most awesome thing ever!

Omg check out this turquoise trolley! In front of a house on Kingsland Avenue.

Big wheels, rolls good, shelves, sturdy, INCREDIBLE!

I saw it there one morning as I biked to work, and it was still there when I came home that evening. I told Greg about it and tried to convince him that we should go get it that night, but he wasn't having it (it was eleven o'clock).

On my way to work in the morning I saw it was STILL THERE! We walked over that night and Greg agreed it was awesome. But we got freaked out—was it trash, or just hanging out in front of the house? There is a bad vibe on that block and we were kinda afraid of rubbing anyone the wrong way.

But it was still there the NEXT day (some people don't know treasure when they see it!), the day before yesterday, so that night we grabbed it and rolled it home. No one seemed to care.

It weighs, like, 150 pounds, so we were having a bit of a "tough time" getting it up the stairs in our building. Luckily the landlady's husband came out, and he let us put it in the garage.

It's going to Greg's new studio!

PERFECT!

My new thing

Skipping!

It's hard! Especially for someone who trips on her feet just doing regular stuff.

Greg bought me this awesome wood-n-leather number. EVERLAST, yeah!

Found!

These were in a styrofoam cooler on the sidewalk. I am reading Number the Stars right now. Virginia Woolf is next.

(Also: check out our new rug! [not found on sidewalk {unlike our last one}])