Oh so entertaining! And there are many more where these came from at Sleeveface. I'm sure we can expect the coffee table book to be released soon. This site's been around since the '08. Update: book is out, of course.
"Many professional women are guilty of multiple fashion faux pas without realizing it, and their lack of judgment can sometimes lead to being passed over for a job or promotion."
Three words that can be used to describe the personality traits that many writers possess are artistic, enterprising, and social. These traits are also shared by many people who work as furniture designers, narrators, contestant coordinators, auctioneers, magicians, dance instructors, music teachers and intelligence specialists.
Today is the birthday of Zelda Fitzgerald, literary bad girl of the Jazz Age, also wife and muse of the F. Scott. Many of F. Scott's books featured passages lifted directly from Zelda's diaries as well as letters she had written to him. Like most creative weirdo couples, the two had a tumultuous relationship--both passionate and detrimental--mostly to Zelda's writing career, which was also sadly affected by her mental illness.
Zelda suffered from schizophrenia and spent the later part of her life in and out of mental hospitals. F. Scott Fitzgerald had first placed her in a hospital in 1936, after she had become violent and delusional. He wrote a friend, "Zelda now claims to be in direct contact with Christ, William the Conqueror, Mary Stuart, Apollo, and all the stock paraphernalia of insane-asylum jokes. … For what she has really suffered, there is never a sober night that I do not pay a stark tribute of an hour to in the darkness." She died at age 47 after a kitchen fire in the psychiatric hospital spread all over the building. She and other women on the upper floors could not escape because the fire escapes were made of wood and had gone up in flames.
--The Writer's Almanac
I should have told her I felt the same way about her van.
The Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico has long been a well-known retreat for many writers, artists and photographers. It is most famously the home Georgia O'Keeffe kept up until she died in 1986 and whose beautiful desert backdrop became the subject of many of her paintings. PS: She doesn't want you to know about it.
I just love New Mexico and Southwest imagery in general, specifically gleaming, sun bleached animal bones, succulents, turquoise, crumbling red rock and hot, pungent adobe, as did one of my all-time favorite writers, D.H. Lawrence. He lived in Taos, New Mexico for many, many years.
So taking "religulosity" into consideration, has anyone ever been to Ghost Ranch? How booming is the voice of God there? I wonder if this is still somewhere non-Presbyterians can enjoy without sermon-tinged God/desert/worship talks? Just curious.
Italian artist Maurizio Anzeri uses old family photographs as a starting point for his amazingly transformative creative process. The colorful weaving over seemingly quaint images morphs them into eerily intriguing portraits. Something about the eyes peering through makes the people in the photos seem more alive than they would otherwise appear. And the result is just lovely. (The kid ones kinda creep me out, though. I'm not gonna lie.)
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