January 2011
14 posts
let it dough...
See the full gallery on posterous via the NYT Abstract City Blog Niemann’s clever baking blog LOVE baking LOVE Niemann’s stuff very clever (check out the entire thing: Abstract City Blog ) Posted via email from s@lly l-j | Comment »
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diaries and journals and notebooks...
See the full gallery on posterous There’s this cool exhibition on: The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives. (At the Morgan Library til May 22). The journals and notebooks and diaries of famous and not so famous people. Diaries and Journals. Do you keep them? I used to when I was writing frightful moaning poems in my teens and twenties but no more. (Thank Heaven.) Some write to...
What I wore ... (the writer edition)
In the What I Wore Fashion & Style section of the NYT last week they had a writer on. “Fashionable Chick for Library Life” all about what she wore each day as she wrote. Strangely fascinating. I read it as if I might pick up secret tips on the ever illusive Perfect Writing System(s) … perhaps it’s not about having just the right notebook and the perfect pen and the...
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dramatic lemur
and finally, the last episode in our scary animal series… (I’ve posted him before but he needs to be seen again) Posted via email from s@lly l-j | Comment »
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dramatic chipmunk
continuing the dramatic scary animal series… Posted via email from s@lly l-j | Comment »
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dramatic chipmunk
continuing the dramatic scary animal series… Posted via email from s@lly l-j | Comment »
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hope, love, forgiveness
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. … Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is...
dramatic cat
in the scary animal series: the second one… via Susan Isaacs Posted via email from s@lly l-j | Comment »
scary horror eagle
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adding + subtracting + sculpture + writing
I don’t usually like anything to do with adding and subtracting—but for anyone else who is allergic to math/maths, happily this post has nothing to do anything of the sort.The novelist Jonathan Safran Foer was interviewed by Vanity Fair recently and said something interesting about sculpture and adding and subtracting. In answer to the question: “In cutting away are you creating...
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adding and subtracting and sculpture and writing
I don’t usually like anything to do with adding and subtracting (serious math/maths phobia). But for anyone else who is allergic to math/maths, happily this post has nothing to do anything of the sort. The novelist Jonathan Safran Foer was interviewed by Vanity Fair recently and said something interesting about sculpture and adding and subtracting. In answer to the question: “In...
woman goes back to work after 30 years...
(it’s only 4 seconds and incase you didn’t see it yet… it’s FUNNY) Posted via email from s@lly l-j | Comment »
women laughing alone with salad
salad is hilariousvia kottke See the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from s@lly l-j | Comment »
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animal voiceovers...
very silly and very good for a monday back to work… Posted via email from s@lly l-j | Comment »