Studs Terkel, who secured oral history as an essential form of documentation, has passed. You can get a brief rundown of his output in his New York Times obit, though I suggest you really get started with Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. The [...]
Entries from October 2008
10.31.2008
Lifelong Love Letters
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Super Dad Robert Guest, an exhibition designer from Brooklyn, has been getting up at dawn every school day for the past 15 years to write a note to each of his two children, Joanna and Theo. The fancy + lovely zine Esopus published a few of them in their Spring 2008 issue. Just think [...]
10.31.2008
Lee Hazlewood Tribute
This Sunday night, make your way over the Make-Out Room to catch our very own Lady Shopkeeper Nile Nash and her boyfriend, occasional Man of the Shop Sean Smith, as they pay tribute to the musical glory of Lee Hazlewood (and in this case, Nancy Sinatra). They’ll be taking the stage together, along with fellow [...]
10.30.2008
Polaroidification Application!
Visitors to the shop may have noticed that we like to maintain a Polaroid archive of our most satisfied, fierce-looking customers, with the prints tucked around the big turquoise mirror in back and stuffed in every drawer, nook, and wooden cranny. Many concerned visitors, aware that we are living in the End of Polaroid Film [...]
10.30.2008
Rainbow Country
Dutch tulip fields: Sure, it’s a monoculture, but it’s also a rainbow culture. Sound familiar?
Thanks, swissmiss!
10.26.2008
From Winchester with a Handgun
A heartfelt hey y’all from the Barack Obama office in Winchester, Virginia. Folks around here are just about the most “Pro-America” Americans you could find. Some of them are also totally committed to switching this state from red to blue for the first time since 1964.
Our office is on West Cork Street in downtown Winchester, [...]
10.24.2008
Mama Cass Love
Here’s an unexpected and masterful vaudevillian treat from Mama Cass Elliot and the one and only Man In Black. Those two really got it right.
10.24.2008
Mama Lion Love
This one goes out to my Mama Lee who has volunteered her house in Marshall, Virginia as an Obama volunteer staging ground and who just this minute is on her way to the Winchester field office to do her daily volunteering. Yay Mama! Yay Obama!
10.24.2008
In The Kitchen, Online, All Around Awesome
Three cheers for our dear friend Wendy Van Wagner, tasty chef extraordinaire, who has now turned her attentions to a fantastic food blog, localfoodtastesbetter.wordpress.com/
Wendy is a certified nutrition educator, cook, pot luck enthusiast, and founder of In The Kitchen. On her blog, you can read about what’s in season, how to prepare it, and local food events in [...]
10.09.2008
New Shop Hours
Due to our recent, ahem, casual residential move to freakin’ Bolinas, the Ladies have determined to switch some things up at the shop.
We’re now going to be open three days a week, Thursday through Saturday, from noon to 6 pm. Plus! By appointment.
And now I know this means big changes for us all, but [...]
10.07.2008
Join the Fleet!
I just received word from my friend McKay that The Greenhorns folks are offering a fantastic bike flag on Etsy, complete with reflective edges and a beautiful drawing by Brooke Budner. Today is your day to join the irresistible fleet of safety conscious bicycles! Plus, all proceeds will go toward the making of this good [...]
10.06.2008
Actual Interaction Toward Improved Assignation
ME ATTEMPTING TO WARM UP THE CUSTOMERS AT THE FLEA MARKET: (to the lady-shopper whose T-shirt valiantly strains to support an oversize rainbow and rhinestone encrusted parrot broach) Hey, that’s a great pin you got there!
BROACHETTE: Yes.
MATWUTCATFM: Scorsky, huh!
BROACHETTE: No, actually. (serious, I think, and very proud) It’s a Kenneth Jay Lane.
MATTWUTCATFM: Ah, yes I [...]
10.06.2008
WindWalkers: For Each Toe A World of Comfort Unto Itself, or, How Snails Do
We have been busy bees these days clearing out our shelves to make way for the amazing bounty of new-kind fabulousness at the shop. You know, out with summer, in with the summer weather, and right on with the shearling booties of your dreams.
This past weekend, Lisa and I had the great pleasure of visiting [...]
10.02.2008
Welcome Ian!
Aunties are pleased as punch to announce that our beloved Ian Caldwell was BORN AT HOME on September 28th, weighing in at a whopping 9 lbs, 2 oz.
Mom Trinity had a smooth, heroic and beautiful labor, with Dad Dalton and Grandma Mary, Auntie Nile, and her midwife Beah at her side. After 18 hours of [...]
