seriously, deliriously

I just have to tell you about my "new friend with a new blog", TTAGG You're It!!! (Short for: That Tall Alaskan Guy in Georgia) It's my new favorite blog! Until tomorrow when I post about another friend's blog and then I'll have to say that it's my favorite. Which, of course, it will be. But for today it's definitely TAGG You're It!!! My favorite bit so far is when he describes "the Last Bag" and what that means. He's kind of a riot, like a little riot of funny.

You'll have to check it out, but if you only have a second, here are the TTAGG cliff notes:
1. The one about bingle
2. The one that introduces you to knack
(which, in turn, introduced molliegreene)
3. The one with the cucumber and tomato pasta salad

roll over

this tempts me to try sleeping in a twin. it would add 7 sq. feet of floorspace.
but maybe i've already been spoiled by the delights of diagonal sleeping.

this american life

I've been watching This American Life on Netflix instant watch. When I first heard a couple of years ago that they were putting the radio original onto the small screen, I had my doubts. I imagined it as embarrassingly less than pure aural form. Totally lacking. A flop, for sure. Well, good thing no one asked me because as it turns out, they can tell a story just as well with documentary film footage as with audio-recorded interviews. How about that? Who knew? But seriously. And I hear other people are into it. It's won prizes or some such. People who listen to the radio also dabble in television watching apparently. Weird. Anyhow, this week has been a good reminder of all the things I love about documentary work. I'm working on a documentary project right now, but with the parameters currently set, I think it's going to be a little more abstract than Ira Glass' three act themes. (say that 3x fast) So, anyways, that's what's up. Don't say I never post nuthin'. Next week I think I'll make it a point to post about all my old friends with new blogs and all of my new friends with old blogs. That's something to do, right? Is "old blog" sort of an oxymoron? In any case, maybe I'll think of something else to post about and surprise you.

{Ira Glass finger puppet by abbeychristine. click here to see more.}

new to the blogroll

saint verde digest, the image blog of Neville Trickett, just rolls and rolls of cool images, traveling in pairs.




There's even the occasional recipe which is, of course, beautifully illustrated.



{via} ...look for saint verde's "eye view," a weekly guest blog at Elle Decor: SA.

chair whore

if you fancy yourself a design geek, or if you just really love to sit upon things and then think upon those things you are sitting on, check out the blog chair whore, it's all "about chairs and nothing else".

the image above is an ad for the aluminum Emeco Navy chair which has been in production since WWdos, has four-times the strength of steel, is designed to endure torpedo-blasts, and comes with an 150-year warranty. Buying a shotty ikea knock-off would be an insult to all that is good.

to further that point: check out these videos created by Weiden + Kennedy to demonstrate the chair's durability by first repeatedly catapulting it against a wall (as seen below) and then by tossing it out of a third-story window (follow the link). It's a funny and entertaining way to advertise a chair. We are encouraged to try this at home.

shiney

So, I'm finishing up the first season of Dexter today. Watching Dexter -between sleeping, eating, and maintaining the illusion that i'm a functioning adult- sufficiently sums the way I've spent my days off this week. Not a terrible choice, considering it's turned out to be a pretty adorable show. Plus, it reminded me of images I once saw of a Showtime House that lives in a Gramercy Park brownstone, but it had been so long since I'd seen them that trying to describe was..um.. eh.. you know...um..not cutting it. (get it? cutting it? meh. nevermind. i've been over-saturated.)

In any case, now, one google search later and we can play...

Name that Showtime series!
Possible answers include:
The Tudors
Dexter
Californication
Weeds
The United States of Tara

A.

B.

C.

hint: grass cloth

D.

E.

F.

G.
O.aky, this isn't a room. It's a stair case. The Credits Staircase, actually. The name of every single player - from writer to editor to caterer to golf-cart driving bottle water fetcher - is hand-written on the wall. Pretty neat. Took about 3-days...and a lot of hand cramps, I'd imagine.

answers:
a. the tudors
b. dexter
c. weeds
d. calfornication
e. the united states of tara
f. dexter
g. the credits staircase