Great stuff from Amsterdam

Check out this gorgeous tulip vase I bought in Amsterdam. Beautiful colors, finely painted. And since I usually have tulips in the house, so obviously USEFUL! These shoes were another matter. Perhaps, perhaps I didn’t NEED them in the same…

links for 2006-05-13

Boing Boing: British farmer supplies gallows to totalitarian governments News you probably won’t read anywhere else. (tags: UK) National Geographic Magazine’s Sights & Sounds: The Empty Quarter Ever since I read Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian Sands, I’ve been obsessed with the…

In Amsterdam

I might have bought something that looks sort of like this. Today. In Amsterdam.

links for 2006-05-12

102 movies everybody should have seen I haven’t dared to count up how few of these movies I’ve seen. . . . (tags: films) Boing Boing: Revolving “Circular Kitchen” puts entire kitchen into a cylinder Especially for those of us…

links for 2006-05-07

A Guide to Yahoo! Social Media Tools Ways to jazz up this blog, if I ever have time to figure them out. (tags: blogging technology)

links for 2006-05-05

A Shrine to Southern Literature, Slightly Frayed – New York Times At last. Can’t wait to see this in person, that is, if they’re ever open, if they ever answer the phone, etc. Bit of a long story behind this…

links for 2006-05-04

Powell’s Books – Deep South Staples: Or How to Survive in a Southern Kitchen without a Can of Cream of Mushroom Soup by Robert St John This guy MUST be kiidding. HOW are we going to make that green-bean-fried-onion-ring casserole??…

links for 2006-05-02

Sudoku – New York Times For the addicted among my readers. You know who you are. (tags: hobbies) How to find anything Whoo boy, do I need this. As do SOME PEOPLE I KNOW. (via Rebecca’s Pocket) (tags: howto organization…