Repost: Christmas in Sweden.
This is a reposting of a guest blog post I did for Dos Family five years ago. I regularly receive emails asking for the link to download the Swedish Christmas record, so I will repost it here yearly!...
View ArticleFeeling prickly: The Cactus Album.
I don’t know if it’s because of the time I recently spent in Marfa with Daniel, or it has to do with all of the still-living (!) plants in my apartment, but lately I can’t get enough of cactuses....
View ArticleMoomin font.
Spotted this morning on It’s Nice That: Finnish creative agency Bond has created a typeface based for the Moomin brand based on Tove Jansson’s hand-drawn comic strip lettering. Given the success of...
View ArticleYeah, I could live there.
(A recurring theme on my blog is me posting things while thinking to myself, “I bet every other blogger and their dog has already covered this ground, but who cares, I’m going to go ahead and post...
View ArticleMint-green bathrooms.
Photo via 1st Dibs How happy does this sink make you? Those knobs! That chrome! The minty goodness of it all! This beauty was designed by George Saiker for the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary...
View ArticleRepost: Christmas in Sweden.
This is a reposting of a guest blog post I did for Dos Family five years ago. I regularly receive emails asking for the link to download the Swedish Christmas record, so I will repost it here yearly!...
View ArticlePrince.
Photograph © Robert Whitman, 1977 Sometimes it snows in April… About five years ago, I wrote a post upon seeing Prince perform in concert for the first time after waiting for many, many years. This is...
View ArticleHappy 30th birthday, Disintegration.
I was 13 years old in May 1989. I was finishing the 8th grade, which at that time was part of the high school in Rhinebeck. That’s a weird age to be, and I’m not the first person to recognize that...
View ArticleLizzo: Tiny Desk Concert at NPR
I’ll keep this post short and sweet because it’s really just to do my small part to make sure that as many possible see Lizzo’s Tiny Desk Concert at NPR. Amid a cesspool of trash and sadness in this...
View ArticleThe French Dispatch.
Every couple of years, there’s a tingly hum in the air that can only be caused by one thing. I thought I felt it yesterday morning over coffee, and sure enough, as I scrolled through Twitter, I saw...
View ArticleDownload: Swedish Christmas music!
I decorated the fireplace mantel for Christmas last week, and I really love the combination of classic New Mexican architecture, modern design objects, and traditional Swedish decorations. It looks so...
View ArticleRepost: Christmas in Sweden.
This is a reposting of a guest blog post I did for Dos Family in 2009. I still regularly receive emails asking for the link to download the Swedish Christmas record, so I regularly share it here....
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