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Rules For My Unborn Son

My new favorite blog: Rules For My Unborn Son! It includes practical advice and great standards for living and style. This guy quotes Steve McQueen, FDR, and Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl. Umm, marriage?

A few highlights.

New Favorite Hobby

My new favorite thing as of today: collecting stranger's old family photos! The Thing in Greenpoint is a big old store full of literally crap: piles and piles of random photos, postcards, and letters from estate sales of everything from a butt at an office Christmas party to a couple of married art teachers you wish you could sit down with and have tea, and let them tell you how to unleash the fire inside yourself and to have another cookie. It's amazing because they pretty much keep the photos together from when they were acquired, so you are looking at someone's 5th grade class photo and then a note they wrote to someone in a high school typing class, and then a string of weepy never-sent "I still love you but this isn't working" letters. You're taking this beautiful tour through someone's life in a way that you could never have seen even if you knew them.

At first I was apprehensive about actually buying the photos, but then I realized how happy it made me feel knowing someone lived this. It makes the world feel very big and yet you can relate to their experiences: I have always wanted to live in the woods and be an art teacher!

Cinnamon donuts and watermelon at a birthday party? What an excellent idea! What is this cave? I want to visit that, too! Henna tattoes and a black turtleneck maxi dress? What a great idea!

Love you guys. Enjoy!

THANK GOD

MRI=Monitoring Rad Ideas!

I had an MRI this week (no big deal) and it's true, it's just as scary as it looks. But I surprised myself with how quickly I turned being stuck in a plastic tree log for 20 minutes into a fun game. No one mentions the crazy sounds that happen when you're in there. Each different sound was a steady beat, but kept changing tone and rate. That and the electronic quality of the sound made me feel like I was at a Knife concert, and I'm sure I made the technician laugh more than once trying to sing along with the beat or harmonize with the piercing notes. The whole thing was a bit like this Animal Collective Video.

Anyway, it turns out I can do anything. You can, too.

love and goodnight!

Steven Alan makes killer clothing

Yay. Summer is here. Celebrate or don't with our new serial killer collection at Steven Alan. Look, here's one modeling the new collection now.

If you're a pyscho, or just want to dress like one, shop here for more.

Happy Birthday to Little Richard (in 172 days)!

Little Richard is like if Elvis, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Waters had a baby. And that is basically his essence. Tutti Frutti indeed. God love him.

Enjoy.

What do you suppose this ad says?

"Get back at your child for pouring sand on your floors with Ripolin lead-based paints."

Oh, it's getting so cold. Will you hand me my jacket?

Shake Your Bunny Baker

I'm back on the scene of creating stuff with this shirt I made for my friend Isaac of the band Pomegranates (a must-listen). I saw them play here last fall and loved how much they moved around and shaked and shimmied. I was inspired to make something that moved with you. Also, I love the idea of something looking pretty average from the front and then you turn around and people are like NO WAY.

I Love Hot Dogs! Don't you?

Oh, hey! Check out this film blog called I Love Hot Dogs. This cool lady takes time to choose excellent film stills from movies she recommends. The stills are fabulous! A few selections:

Boyz N The Hood (Sassy Summer!)

And God Created Woman (starring Brigitte Bardot!)


Two For The Road (Albert Finney = Celebrity Crush of the Week! Would you believe he's the guy from Erin Brockovich?)

We Tried

It's Here!

My excitement for Spring is best captured in this crudely-drawn graffiti! Somebody was so excited for the sunshine and buds exploding that they had to express it as quickly as they could on the nearest thing.

Unless perhaps this truck is from Spring Flowers Air Fresheners, the company whose "thing" is that they have a 5 year old doing all their branding.

Anyway, SPRING!!

Samone Turnbull

I really love these paintings by Samone Turnbull. I feel like I haven't seen this style of painting in a long time, like since van Gogh? Also, congratulations on having such a cool name, SAMONE TURNBULL.

See more here.

Spaces

Artist Lina Jaros. My favorite is the umbrella piece. How does it make you feel?

Original source here.