feathers and pipe cleaners

my super talented friend jeff made this in his first semester at risd. hypnotizing.

inside

i want you
thrown right at me (there are about 35 versions of this duet on youtube—hard to pick one)

trying to decide if i want to go back out into the bluster.

MLK

some good listens in honor of MLK:

the new jim crow author michelle alexander on fresh air. the last part of the interview is especially powerful.

the latest this american life about apple (and other) products being made in china. storyteller mike daisy goes undercover as an american businessman in order to see what's going on in the factories in china.

wish one could listen online on alternative radio to the whole interview with richard wolff about occupy wallstreet.

the new bill moyers show is also about occupy. i have not yet listened to the whole first installment, but guessing it's pretty good since bill came out of retirement to make it.

this morning

in pictures:
1. cat is abducted by ufo (for being this cute)
2. year round roses in alameda
3. honey man showing off his bees at the farmers' market
4. fireside letters and light
5. green+green=green

skating

for the bookworms

history of sadness chapter: before language, the sea mirrors feelings of loneliness


history of love chapter: sexual, personal confusion
confusion or
confusion with thicker lines


scenes from 1955 chapter: oh shit
caption at the bottom: mcdonald's opens its first franchise restaurant, april 1955


history of love chapter: real problems in a relationship | imagined problems in a relationship

got this book of mike mills' drawings from the movie beginners (my favorite 2011 movie) for xmas. love it. so funny. bigger and more spreads here.

on my reading list for 2012

jeffrey eugenides' the marriage plot
ann patchett's state of wonder
salvage the bones by jesmyn ward
the art of fielding by chad harbach
something by oliver sachs
something by marcel proust
perfume by patrick suskind
doc by mary dory russell
under the banner of heaven by jon krakauer