bushwalking

3am walking home from the subway last night i accidentally kicked a rat

the sultan's annual tulip festivals

Each spring for a period of weeks the imperial gardens were filled with prize tulips (Turkish, Dutch, Iranian), all of them shown to their best advantage. Tulips whose petals had flexed too wide were held shut with fine threads hand-tied. Most of the bulbs had been grown in place, but these were supplemented by thousands of cut stems held in glass bottles; the scale of the display was further compounded by mirrors placed strategically around the garden. Each variety was marked with a label made from silver filigree. In place of every fourth flower a candle, its wick trimmed to tulip height, was set into the ground. Songbirds in gilded cages supplied the music, and hundreds of giant tortoises carrying candles on their backs lumbered through the gardens, further illuminating the display. All guests were required to dress in colors that flattered those of the tulips. At the appointed moment a cannon sounded, the doors to the harem were flung open, and the sultan's mistresses stepped into the garden led by eunuchs bearing torches.
pollan 82

beautiful kate

five of pentacles

The Five of Pentacles can point to a time of being alone, feeling abandoned, ignored and unwanted. You are in desperate need of support and comfort from those who actually care.The Five of Pentacles reversed indicates an end to difficult times.

graduation

first NY text from ma:

radio city music hall:

my new favorite picture of me and my pa:

Mps purchased

You may call me master now

Mom Skype

Skyped my parents last Saturday morning. Ma said, "Come home, get married, be my neighbor."

terrific

new york timekeeping

I mete out my weeks in Game of Thrones and my months in metro cards

Historical fiction

im here in a bookstore waiting to hear a reading by e.l. Doctorow. i find it funny that we're all over here waiting in the audience when i clearly saw him sitting in the cafe when i came in.

food diary

the things i've eaten today:

coffee

margarita

beer

beer

beer

cat eye comparison

i listened to that Lana - Never Let Me Go song 46 times today. it's not a sad song but it is sad-sounding and i think it messed with my mood.

i get the feeling that the human interpretation of a cat eye is pretty far off the mark from cat eyes

out in bushwick

It's a warm shiny mid-60s day out and the neighborhood is full of people. On my way to this coffee shop I saw a film shoot with men in swimming trunks posing with rainbow inflatable beach balls, passed the one tree on Starr that's in fluffy pink abloom, and heard the tattoo guns humming away inside of the parlor by the subway.

audrey and ip

Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer “Ip” in Beverly Hills, CA, 1958.

turkey bacon experience

turkey bacon. surprisingly not revolting. i'm a little disconcerted by how much effort they put in to make it look like bacon.