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Wednesday, Julyu 20h ~ 10:34 PM
REUNIONS, IMPLOSIONS...

laura holder and dusti iler kugler in photobooth, 2005. One summer when we first became friends, after church camp was over, we decided to meet in the parking lot at IGA, sort of halfway between our houses. But first we talked about meeting in the park next to jefferson grade school. But i forgot about the switch in plans and went to the school instead of IGA. I hung out for a long time and she never showed up. Then after a really long time, my sister came driving up in the toyota corolla, with dusti in the passenger seat crying because i never showed up and she was really worried and had been waiting for me at IGA. She thought I'd been kidnapped maybe. Thankfully I just got mixed up... then we hung out and ate doritos and cheesedip

(me & dusti in enid's photobooth) 

My best friend from high school came to nyc for the first time... it was really fun, and i think her kids missed her a lot and probably her husband too, but having her here was nice, and we talked about old higschool boyfriends, and current boyfriends and/or husbands and church camp and... and... and... about living on tostitos and frito lay cheese dip after school and about singing 'stay for good this timmmee (wah waa wah waa wah waa waah waaaah)', and changing into eachothers' clothes in the car on the way to school every morning. I forgot to ask her all of my questions about having kids, but there'll be time for that yet.
(Dusti we forgot to laugh about 'das boot, das foot, das boot' and 'houston, france'.)
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+ The dorm I lived in my freshman year at Iowa State, known as "the Towers" was imploded along with it's twin yesterday. Good riddance i say, the place kinda sucked. The longest possible walk on campus was from Towers to the Design Center Building where most of my classes were. Unless I was carring a big portfolio with a large drawing pad in it. Then the gusting, farm-smelling winds could pretty much sail me there.

Wednesday, June 28th ~ 9:31 PM
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD-Y

+ "definitely time to move"

Notice how the shirt is in the "SET SALE FOR SUMMER" section, and not in the "TRENDSETTERS" section?

I'm a little embarassed, but I do have a "BUSHWICK" t-shirt, picked up during one of those emergency-tshirt-needed moments, because you can't wear a shirt which falls off both shoulders and shows your bra straps into an office of a global company where most everyone wears blue (or pink—the new blue) button down collared shirts. So after mistakingly putting on the shoulder-falling-off shirt one morning, I stopped at Brooklyn Industries on my way in, and then changed into my new "Bushwick" T-shirt . Classy.
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+ ezfolk.com/banjo


Jenni here he is!! He totally remembered me, even though he's in a new deli now up near 86th st. And he said to tell you hello.


Sunday, June 26th ~ 9:17 PM
SPRINGWISE... "SOLOPRENEURS"


"...In a world full of Free Agents, Solopreneurs, Freelancers, and a renewed interest in 'Small is the new Big', Springwise thinks this is a winner." read more»
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congratulations carrie + hop!


Friday, June 17th ~ 7:32 PM
NYC PHOTOBLOGGERS 4





red's flickr post of the cover of VanityFair.com, linking to nyc photo bloggers' page which features many of our various photoblogs.
(VF + rion).

+ nyc.photobloggers.org
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Sunday, June 12th ~ 10:04 PM
META~DATA


It is probably time to stop saying "Everybody needs a sidekick" in my Snoop Dogg voice everytime someone pulls out thier Sidekick.
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+ The week of June6-12 in cellphone pics on flickr




Friday, June 10th ~ 7:41 PM
LYXN and LINERNOTES



+ my navel gazing is filling in for content on bluejake today, as he traipses around japan.
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When you sneeze, when you're at work, or on the subway, and you have your headphones on, you have to turn the volume down for a second just after the sneeze, so in case people around you have said "bless you", you can say "thank you". So you don't seem rude.

And a post-script —and hopefully a post-mortem— on the shopping topic. You know you've spent way too much money on outfits when 3 days later you receive a personalized, handwritten thank you card in the mail from the sales clerk. plus 8 free perfume samples.
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OH MY GOD + STUFF ON MY CAT DOT COM: "stuff + cats...".
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art + leisure like hours and hours of material here. thanks, jack.
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Thursday, May 26, some point in the evening 2 glasses of red wine into things...
SHOPPING WEEK AT LH{NOT}COM


Gotham Equinox coming up May 28 & July 12, 2005. Too bad Spring sucks!

Now, Shopping. Shopping is fun when you have no money, when you don't need anything, when you aren't shopping on purpose but just accidentally found an In God We Trust necklace that perfectly suited you while you were trying to pick out a mothers' day gift.

It turns out shopping sucks when you have a set budget, purpose, intent, acutal garment needs, and dedicatedtime to do it, in between your several hours a day at the computer, the pilates, the banjo classes... in between the folks visit and boyfriends' folks visit (simultaneously actually), the babysitting, the watching of gilmore girls...

I've put seriously a lot of effort into shopping this week. I've bought only one item, (well two) and here's what I've learned:

Barney's skinny-mirrors on the Co-Op floor are an engineering feat to be marvelled at. Go on, sisters-of-Narcissius, stare, longer. Look from this angle and that angle, spare no angle. Whether you find it unnerving or just wish you had one at home, spend as much time as you want behind the curtain here with the skinny-mirror, but don't buy that new painted-on pair of white jeans based solely on what skinny-mirror tells you (or at least bring along a trusted friend). The skinny mirror is the other Bright Shining Lie.

But, how do you know when to cut your losses? After you've spent 90 minutes at Barney's, is it OK to leave empty handed? After so much effort trying on Marc Jacobs things you know you can't afford, there's strong desire to at least walk out the door with something to show for your time. Don't buy the gem-priced fishnet footies on ground floor. Probably better to just go home with your $85 still in your pocket.

Really. Good. Fitting. Jeans. (A moment of silence please, because we cannot find Adeli Katayone anywhere. Are the rumors true? Did the penultimate pants-maker go out of business? Please someone, tell me if you see her...)
Really Good Fitting Jeans now cost $200 ("but think how often you'll wear them...").
And you can now get your own jeans custom made-to-order, somewhere in the Meat Packing District, behind lock and key, at the Ernest Sewn custom jeans making shoppe. It used to be enough to face the tough decision: Which size to choose between the 2 sizes you inevitably fall betwixed?

Tight-fitted-slighlty uncomfortable-room-to-stretch-but never-throw-in-dryer
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Comfy-looser-baggyish-(saggyass?)-with-room-to-shrink.

???

But now in addition to size decision, you get to choose your own rivets, fabric, and pocket pattern (I haven't actually done this. I saved torturous decisions and $75 by buying mine pre-made at Steven Alan.) Turns out you can find Ernest Sewn jeans ebay too.

P.S. Women's pants' legs are all made for that common 7-foot-tall woman.

Blouses: The Indian-style shirt: in.

Despite the mistake it seemed to be a few years ago, the prairie look is evermore infiltrating. Resist!
Ah I'm kidding. That stuff is... nice. ...I guess.

But... that old skool Gunne Sax lacey shiny-satiny blouse I bought on the street last summer has sure paid for itself. Derivatives are filling up the first floor of Anthropolgy, for like a gazillion dollars more. Hit your thrift stores, ladies.

Everyone's sold out of United Bamboo in nyc. So don't even go looking i'm serious ... except for a lipstick stained blouse and an amazing heavily silk patterened dress at I Heart on Mott, which I can't imagine wearing unless my future holds an invitiation to attend a baroque Thanksgiving dinner hosted in an old abandoned house with tobacco-and-rain-stained walls and antique Eastern rugs so chewed and corroded you can barely makeout their patterns, and there should be trees growing in through holes in the roof --the shaggy kudzu-y kind of tree related to the willow but more sappy-- somewhere in LA (that's Louisana, not the other).... Hmm, maybe I will go back for that dress when it's marked to 70% off. Just in case.

Every store has more t-shirts than just about anything else in stock (except the prairie skirt, why why why?). Some trends reappear every few years or so, only to fade fast at season's end, like those pants... You know the ones, with the little drawstring ties at the ankles? This year's returning-5-minute-thing seems to be those-knee-length-trouser-shorts.

But T-shirts seem to be here to stay. T-shirts have become the new jeans. T-shirts are the new oxygen! Unquestioned. Givens. Requistite staples and canvases for creativity. Don't go wearing a blazer without one.
Seriously.

+ The last time I wrote about T-shirts was in 2002
(i apologized for the banality then, too, as i do now, below.
This post is proof that the Prairie thing was among us then, too. Since 2002 folks, 3 years ago! Can't mod come back, again-again, instead?)

+ I quickly followed up the Fashion-2002 post with a T-shirt slideshow:
tshirts and tattoos and artful hair


And speaking of T-shirts:
Defunker has launched, brought to you by the bustedtees guys. Defunker's tees are more artsy, less hipster-urban-outfittersishy. Oh, and jason kottke models: Seen here in the fetching Octopus t-shirt.

Octopuses are kind of the best thing going. And also flowers, and microscopic algae. And sunsets. And those giant squids they've discovered, with their parrot beaks, and their ink, and their electricity, and colors changing, and their angry emotions. Male octopusses (or Octopii if you please) mate by using their 'special purpose arm' -- it's a lot like one of their 7 other arms, but, you know, it's special.

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And speaking of sunsets:
May 28 and July 12 are New York City's Gotham Equinox days. Hurry! Someone create a new flickr tag.

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With apologies for all the vapidity. I probably won't go retail shopping again for another year, starting right after I get that heavy silk Thanksgiving-dinner-in-Louisana dress. Just in case.

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Thursday, May 19, 3:59 PM
MY BIRTHDAY IS ONLY 11 MONTHS AWAY...

File under RoboCat (or Good Birthday Ideas For Laura, 2006):
+ Necoro the Japanese Robot Cat, I love you. *Meow*
(quicktime) (also available in Flash or HTML)

Don't miss even more extensive robot cat content on necoro.com:
   anatomy of a robot cat
   sunset with a robot cat
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Recommended renting... or buying... strongly:
+ The Scientific Films of Jean Painlevé.
all i could find was this book. but you really have to see the films. amazing! aliens are among us. and they're called jellyfish. and octopuses. and sea urchins. and... seahorses.
If you missed it at Lincoln Center, Yo La Tengo is performing their score to the films of Jean Painleve, titled The Sounds of Science, live on July 9 at Mass MOCA, in North Adams, MA. Go, go, go.

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Tonight:
+ Massholia

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Upcoming:
+ Art+Commerce Festival Entry Deadline in 3 days, 7 hours, 49 mins...
(and counting, see site)

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I haven't read this yet but maybe I will:
+ The X Factor: Is the Art Market Rational or Biased?
(NYTimes)



interesting fact: boy seahorses give birth


Wednesday, May 18, 5:10 PM
NO SLEEP. SOME SLEEP. MUCH SNEEZING...

Tonight:
The Sounds of Science (audio soundtrack now available on cd). Yo La Tengo accompanying 8 short films of underwater life by influential French avant-garde filmmaker Jean Painlevé.
If you missed it at Lincoln Center, they're performing with the films, again, live on July 9, at Mass MOCA, in North Adams, MA. Go, go, go.

(relatedly ...have you seen The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou yet?
Go for the Bill Murray, stay for the smart story and le mise en scene and music.)
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+ tim's badly drawn cat site,
for hours of time-wasting.


Monday, May 16, 7:14 PM
HIPPO, BIRDY, TWO EWES





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Monday, May 9th, 4:14 PM
REBEL WITH A CAUSE...

+ rebel 1 in 8 jewelry
A rebel with a cause... from behind the pink.
"Rebel1in8" jewelry is an effort to nurture the awareness of breast cancer. The beading on Jacqueline's jewelry represents the current statistic "one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer".
Really lovely necklaces and earrings ...made in williamsburg, Bklyn, found on Daylo:
+ rebel1in8.pink.daylo.com
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