1.  eye of the time clock stand. i have the clock, now i need the stand:

http://www.brassbinnacle.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=AU-GL000L&Category_Code=DT1

2.  palomino blackwing pencil and sharpener. this is a re-issue of the classic artist’s pencil.

http://www.pencils.com/palomino-blackwing-12-pk

http://www.pencils.com/palomino-kum®-long-point-pencil-sharpener

3.  uranium glass! i’m not even sure what piece i want most. a covered dish? a skull?  either way, i love how unassuming it is…until you get it in some blacklight.

4.  teen wolf soundtrack. not the sequel, not the tv show, the original teen wolf soundtrack. just impossible to find.

http://www.cd-dvd-vault.com/Teen.html

5.  leafcutter designs world’s smallest postal service tiny mail stationary kit

http://www.leafcutterdesigns.com/shop/wspskit.html

6.  underwood. a lit mag on vinyl. swoon! and the poster is incredible.

http://underwoodstories.com/#/records/

http://underwoodstories.com/#/poster/

7. a grown up wallet. currently i use a plastic bacon wallet. i want a grown up wallet. possibly  like this?

http://www.fossil.com/en_US/shop/men/wallets/bifold_traveler/estate_traveler-ml3014p.htmlparent_category_rn=247508&departmentCategoryId=30001&N=0&Ns=p_msc3%7C0%7C%7Cp_weight%7C0&pn=c&cm_vc=306583&rec=3&imagePath=ML3014345

8. record carrier case. so they can be protected from dust! and sun!

9. travel friendly noise machine with wave sounds. you’ll have to find this one on your own.

10.  slippers! fuzzy and slip-on. similar to….

http://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=55170&vid=1&pid=878470&scid=878470002

11.  i need waterproof shoes to wear when it rains, but that are also comfortable to walk a lot in. and are cute, too!  would these work?

http://www.simpleshoes.com/productdetails.aspx?g=w&productID=9026&model=Satire%20Flat%20Elastic

12.  what i really want are these!!!

http://www.camper.com/en/eshop/producto.xhtml?option=17665-060

13.  fat necklace. for real

http://definatalie.bigcartel.com/product/fat-necklace

14. a million bottles of heitz wine cellars ink grade port wine.

http://www.heitzcellar.com/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=view&category_id=33

now for some art:

#1 Yang Shaobin.

I turned the corner on the second floor of the SFMOMA one mild day in 2008 and was immediately assaulted by wall-sized red, dripping men biting eachother and themselves. I was immediately taken by the violence and the intimacy of this work. It’s a little twisted David Lynch dreamscape and a little split personality Fight Club. And a little I ate my twin in the womb. I’m constantly curious about the seemingly conflicting “hyper masculine” imagery blooming from soft lines and cloud-like graduation. Love it.

#2 Frederic Edwin Church

A landscape artist from Connecticut. Bo-ring, right? Um, not really. When I was a security guard at the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art (for all of 2 weeks), I would jump at the chance to guard the 4th floor. Because baby seagulls were being hatched on the roof and because of the F.E.C. exhibit.  Goddamn he can paint some light, huh? Homeboy traveled a lot and was taken by the different sky-scapes he came upon.  These pictures do bare justice to the real thing. 

#3 Shameless plugs of other pals’ blogs:

Adventures in Queer Pregnancy (and hopefully continued into parenthoood):

Boy and Baby

Jewelry and Inspiration Blog (for all things pleasing to the eye):

A Personal Landscape

Personal Website for Poet Donna de la Perrier (for all things curious, poetic, creepy, and black-n-white):

Reaping Wheel

Follow That Parade (for all things regarding the mobile music venue via old AC Transit bus):

The Bus

all for now! if you’re lucky.

1. Never, no matter how much you think you want it, get the inari. It’s merely a filler, and more delicious things await you.

2. Never get anything with salmon skin. It is fatty and metallic and makes you want to die.

3. If you eat too many rolls, you’ll fill up on rice. More delicious things await you, like spicy salmon wrapped in avacado.

4. Eat your afternoon snack at work so you don’t spend $30.

5. Keep track of the money you are spending so you don’t spend $30.

6. Always remember your Frequent Sushi Eaters. Free things await you.

7. Friday happy hour = free things await you.

8. The tamago is good and cheap.

9. If you are going to order off the menu, do it first. If you don’t you will leave wishing you ordered the baked salmon roll.

10. Do not eat more than one unagi roll. It is oily and the burps to follow will make you regret it.

11. Only drink water and / or hot tea. Soda will fill you up and make your burps taste like fish.

12. B R E A T H E

13. Always eat your ginger.

14. Only use light soy sauce. Or else you will swell up like a balloon.

15. Avoid the mayo baked mussels. Their texture is that of vomit.

16. If it doesn’t have a plastic cover on it, don’t eat it.

17. No one ever eats the edamame or seaweed salad wrapped in plastic. You shouldn’t either.

18. Never eat more than one fried thing. It’s like eating sushi fast food.

19. Never finish with a fried thing. It will negate all the fresh things you just ate.

20. Towards the end of your meal, if you think you can eat just one more, you really can’t.

An extra tip for post sushi consumption: Do not, I repeat, do not, drink a dirty martini. It will taste like the ocean and give you nightmares of a dead fish swamp in your belly.

Closing remarks: No matter how tempting it is to play with the chain of boats in the stainless steal river, it will only end in the drowning of very expensive food and very upset sushi chefs.

1. the cameliest camel-toe i have ever seen

2. a parking meter blinking “FAIL!”

3. fresh loaves of bread cooling on the sidewalk

4. spiders! especially notable was one spider creating a web above the web she spun as i walked to work. spider condo?

5. a man in a grey suit with a white can walking two bernese mountain dogs

6. my two kittens spooning in the window

Something to look forward to once Emm and I get our own place! Hopefully they will be sitting on a new, chip-free table!

http://www.raniahassan.com/

I declare the earth is hollow, and habitable
within; containing a number of solid concentrick spheres, one within the
other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees; I pledge my life
in support of this truth, and am ready to explore the hollow, if the world
will support and aid me in the undertaking.

JOHN CLEVES SYMMES

Of Ohio, Late Captain of Infantry.