Thursday, January 06, 2011

THE PRINCESS & THE GIANT (PART II)

KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

GIANT: "Huh?"


PRINCESS: "Count Frisbee! Is that you? You're early!"


COUNT FRISBEE: "Yes, darling...I couldn't wait any longer!"


COUNT FRISBEE: "I just had to see you! I was going out of my mind!"


COUNT FRISBEE: "I couldn't even think without you! I didn't get any sleep last night!"


PRINCESS: "I know how you felt, Darling! I couldn't sleep either!"


COUNT FRISBEE: "That silly quarrel we had...it was all my fault! I'm so sorry!"


PRINCESS: "No, no! It was totally my fault! I feel so ashamed!"


COUNT FRISBEE: "It's so good to be together again! Maybe...maybe it's time we made this permanent."


PRINCESS: "It always was permanent, Darling. It always was. Let's find a grotto somewhere and hold hands!"


PRINCESS (V.O.): "Giant, clean this place up while we're gone, will you? It's a mess!"


Tuesday, January 04, 2011

SHOPPING FOR CHAIRS WITH MIKE

I recently went with Mike to shop for chairs for his living room. Mike likes modern stuff, and we we ended up at some pretty weird places. If you thought this kind of furniture was replaced by something else, think again. There's a lot of it out there and it still sells!

Mike rejected furniture like this (above), but only because it didn't come in leather. 


Is there really gender specific furniture? I did see a couple of chairs with separate cushions for each buttock. 


Hmmmmmmm.



50s modern is still out there. I wouldn't be surprised if you could get chairs like the ones above at Ikea. 


Maybe I was too hasty when I said that all modernism is still with us.  Box furniture like the example above is gone forever.  It used to be popular. You could even buy box beds. I guess people were so taken by their TVs that they wanted to live in them.  This style was ridiculed by later modernists who preferred to live in eggs.

Poor Mike couldn't get this (above) in leather either.

Thank God none of the stores had one of these (above). If they had, I'd have had to buy one, and my family would have moved out.


Ditto this chair (above). Some things must be acquired regardless of the consequences. 



I used to like chairs like this (above), but I didn't see them this time around. Can you still get them?

Monday, January 03, 2011

REST IN PEACE: DENIS DUTTON

Nothing special to post today. I'm bummed out because I just discovered that Denis Dutton, the founder of "Arts and Letters Daily," died. That was one of my favorite sites on the net. Free, too...The Chronicle of Higher Education picked up the tab.

Denis was one of the Los Angeles Duttons, a super achieving family that ran an indispensable chain of used book stores in L.A. I wish I knew more about them. 

The Arts and Letters Daily site: http://www.aldaily.com/