Year: 2015

My Favorite World #35

One of the great things about living with an artist is that you get to watch ideas journey from a-borning to fully alive. That also means getting to watch the struggles, the anxieties, the process, and finally, the realized piece.

That piece up there – Here Today – is by Judy Rushin.1Full disclosure…she is married to someone who wears my clothes every day. Early ideation began about 7 months, followed by a lengthy design phase, with most of the heavy duty labor completed this summer. It has been a blast to watch it unfold. You can see some in-progress photos here. read more

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Who Will Rid Me of This Meddlesome Meddling?

A little over a year ago, Daughter was assigned Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore for her high-school literature class. I love this book.1Heck, I pretty much dig all of Murukami’s work. So I was excited about reading along with her and hearing about how the book was discussed in class and what she thought about it all. But about halfway through the book, one of the parents discovered that the book “offended” her, so she pressured the school administration to stop teaching the book. And just like that, the kids were told that it was no longer part of the class syllabus and the teacher was admonished to please not discuss it with the students. read more

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My Favorite World #34

Life is busy in the bloggy vineyard, with overlapping deadlines combining with ridiculous hot weather to sap my precious bodily fluids, leaving me weakened of my essence, Mandrake.

But I would be remiss if I failed to share this photo from daughter’s soon to be stomping grounds. Apparently, I have the sense of humor of a 14 year old. I am unashamed. read more

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My Favorite World #33

Hung like a goddam robot.
Hung like a goddam robot.

Amy Shumer is funny as shit. She’s bawdy and profane and smart as a damned tack. And apparently, she’s pissed off the Disney/Lucasfilm monolith with her parody photo shoot of Star Wars icons. That alone is enough to earn her solid hero status.

I wouldn’t bother to post about her because she is literally everywhere in the media these days, but a friend the other day declared, “I literally have no idea who this person is.” So on the off chance that one of my 7 readers is one of the 13 people in the world who aren’t hip to Amy, here goes. read more

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