I kväll: Fever Ray på Webster Hall. Direkt!

(they had requested gifts to help restore their 100-year-old farmhouse.)

Similarities versus simpatico…

With a ballpoint.

The handwriting of my high school history teacher, Mr. Beebe.

Avid fisherman, bird enthusiast, baseball player, coach, life guard, soldier, great war historian, Rupert Brooke aficionado, Mr. Chips successor, gentleman, Paul Robeson fan, organizer extraordinaire, quoter of Latin, humorist, collector, faithful correspondent, lifelong student, unusual individual, nice guy.

From the Mütter.

Turkish “evil eye” glass beads/amulets. Nazar Boncuğu. A little extra luck to some onna Monday.

Immediately impressed with the emotive handwritten typography on the cover of this old paperback.

(more…)

Designed for Marshalls. Dig the scratchy lenticular coating. In stores now.

Lovely set to top off the evening from CC. Always glad when Catherine returns to the east coast.

It was the first time I got to see the Chop Chop merch designed by Nicole of Coley Clothing. Really inventive and playful and pretty — much of it made from a kind of laminated paper printed with my drawings and designs.

The story about the branch of the family that lived in Havana involves:

an illegal numbers racket
jail time
Ted Williams
a chocolate factory
a tennis champion
a record store
murder
revolution
loss
a night at the Tropicana
and a woman named Fan