It’s been a craptacular year and I thought I would try to improve Christmas with a video. Please enjoy.
Archive for December, 2020
Merry Christmas and and I Hate Willy Wonka.
Sunday, December 27th, 2020My dream tile.
Monday, December 21st, 2020I collect art nouveau tiles. I’ve talked about my Wall O’ Tiles previously. I periodically buy new tiles and swap them out with tiles I don’t totally love. I usually spend somewhere between $25.00 – $65.00. I’ve found some real treasures but there have always been a few I knew I could never have. The primary one is a flower that shows up in every “check out these baller tiles” collage.
One day I was hanging out on eBay looking at tiles when… there it was. For sale. With 14 people bidding on it. So I decided that’s it, I’m going to bid on it, and I did some aggressive soul-searching on what I was willing to spend on it. I went with $350.00 and walked away. I would let the eBay gods decide if I won or not. I cannot convey to you how psyched I was to get the “You’ve won!” email. The bidding ended at $306.00.
I own it, guys. I own the dream tile. I also found a the same tile with a different glaze and it was like $55.00 because you totally can’t see those sweet little flowers in the background. I wanted to have the lesser version to show why the great version is so great.
Dribs and drabs of awesome stuff.
Saturday, December 19th, 20201. I joined a group on Facebook called Crustacean Memes for Crabby Fiends.
I love when a someone invents a pleasant but irrelevant meme and out of nowhere it catches on and then it becomes its own thing. That is how we got Reginald.
Seems pretty innocuous. But he seemed to touch people’s hearts and a Life of Reginald was born.
Update: The Crustacean fan group is at war with the Ant fan group! And now the Snail fan group is getting involved!
2. When I worked at Publicis I walked past the H&M store on Fifth Avenue. Their window displays were well-designed. However, there are always choices made that are, I don’t know, odd. Counter-intuitive. Allow me to present you with an example.
Wrapped gifts! How nice. Oh, ice skates and a robot!
And a globe! Globes are a great gift. So round and informative.
Wow, a motorcycle!
Musical instruments!
And an enormous cactus. In a bathtub. Wrapped. Like gifts.
That threw me for a loop every time I saw that.
Also in the Rockefeller Center is a Cole Haan store. Cole Haan is pleasant, I loved a purse they had twenty years ago and I loved their summer lobster flip flops a couple years back but that’s pretty much it. Again with the however, they were doing some all-over approach with spikes and I am here for it.
Those shoes are great. If they come in black I will struggle not to buy them. So minimal but then spikes.
3. I don’t know what I’ve clicked on to get Facebook to get these news articles but I am a-okay with it.
4. Billie Eilish is a musician that’s very popular right now. Someone did a cover of one of her songs on a variety of pumpkins and I might like it better than the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlzqHmUqrfM
5. I saw a man walking his chicken on a leash in New York. It was a very good-natured chicken.
6. And finally, at first glance I was CONVINCED this was someone massaging legs that were horribly broken in a car accident, not someone making bread.
