Itinerantdaughter's Blog

Thank you, Google, for alerting me.

I’m really into paintings of circles these days.  Yep.  Just circles.  See also: drawings of Richard Serra, Blinky Palermo, Gidon Bing, and me.

We publish a visionary author/architect/artist here named Les Walker, who wrote a book (basically just for me) about tiny houses.  In the spirit of rejoicing over what is small, here is a tiny house just for you!

Wee!

I’ve been looking for an image for a while because I’m so into graphology and text and I realized that maybe it was all becoming a little dull (as maybe no one but me finds writing the same word over and over again fascinating and/or aesthetically provocative) and voila!  Today I discovered in Vogue (I admit this with a slight degree of shame) the artist Dasha Shishkin, whose garishly colored and gleefully macabre paintings are sooooooo up the alley where I live (it’s a weird place up there.)

Title of this is "With the dark comes dinner, I hope"

I also adore in this article about her that she claims a few years ago her New Year’s resolution was to “be hilarious.”

Doesn’t “re-blogged” just mean “stolen” or “plagiarized”?

Thanks, JG, for "Overheard on the Titanic"!

My boss’ former secretary recently came over for a “visit” (word used lightly, as she spent half her time filing papers and the other half driving me absolutely crazy) and occasionally took dictation –– in SHORTHAND –– in the evenings.  Here’s what shorthand, for those of us under the age of, um, sixty looks like:

Let's play a fun game called WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS SAY!?