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907 days ago
First, there was Madonna. They painted a huge image of her on a building on the corner of Broadway and Houston. She was wearing one her designs for H&M. Looking seductive and intense. It was an ad to promote her new H&M clothing line. Madonna lived there on Broadway and Houston for about a month, and her designs filled all the H&M stores for that same month. Then, one day, Madonna was gone. And in her place they painted a huge image of Kylie Minogue. She is wearing one of her designs for H&M. Looking seductive and playful. It is an ad to promote her new H&M clothing line. Is this more significant than H&M refreshing it's clothing supply and tapping pop culture icons to sell them? Is it a sign of things to come? - old diva out, new diva in? Next month, will Kylie be replaced with Avril...? Discuss.
923 days ago
My cell phone often gets lost in the sea of stuff that’s in my purse. Or sometimes I’ll leave it in a random spot in the apartment – like next to the cereal, or in my sock drawer. So the other night, when I thought I had once again misplaced my phone, I made Oliver play one of his favorite games, “Call Maya’s Phone So She Can Track Down its Whereabouts.” Oliver dialed. And the call rang and rang but neither of us could hear my phone ringing. Finally a strange man answered it. His name, it turns out, was Harry. Harry was the passenger who got into a cab on the Upper West Side earlier that night, right after I got out. Apparently I got out of the cab without my phone. I don’t know if he sat on my phone, or he just saw it there on the seat, all sad and lonely. But he took it home. I’ve lost a phone once before. And I did not get it back. I don’t have facts, but my gut tells me 99.999% of the time when someone loses their phone, it is never returned. So I was ...
1006 days ago
Oliver and I moved to Brooklyn this weekend! I'm very, very, very excited to be here. It's the top floor of a brownstone that's in really great condition. Compared to our Seattle place the apartment is quite small, but compared to NYC apartments, it's...almost medium. Below are pics of the living room/dining room (though I only got the living room part) and the kitchen, which is cute and quaint. One of the best parts of moving was being reunited with our things. We sold all of our furniture and put everything else in storage when we left Seattle, and our stuff sat in a container in some warehouse in Renton, WA for over a year. It's amazing what you forget you own in a year. It was like xmas every time we opened a box of things - there were boxes of books I forgot I owned, shoes I forgot I owned (I had no idea I owned so many shoes!), kitchen things I forgot I owned. But probably the item I'm most excited to be reunited with is the last picture below - it's a bed ...
1013 days ago
I've been feeling cheated all winter. It was too warm, then it was too cold, but never did we have snow! One night a few weeks ago it snowed a measely inch or two overnight, but by mid-day the snow had melted away. But last night it snowed for real! Still not the crazy winter storm I'd been hoping for, but something at least. Early morning the ground was kind of white, but by late morning things had turned grey. Tomorrow, everything will be dirty and sloshy and black. Unless it snows again tonight (please, please, please).
