In the Season One finale of Mad Men, back when the agency was just Sterling Cooper, Don Draper made an advertising pitch to Kodak for the new slide projector carousel (ironically something that my dad still owns and rarely uses). His pitch (which you can see in this video) drew on the premise of … [Read more...] about #EndOfAnEra
I live in music
The other day I had a yearning, very specific in its musical nature. I wanted/needed to hear “Dance me to the End of Love,” à la Leonard Cohen when he first recorded it. Maybe not an anthem song in the way “Hallelujah” is, but there must be a reason his last two tours opened with that number. It’s a … [Read more...] about I live in music
A Super Bad Hair Day
There is nothing quite like a bad hair day. You never want to HAVE to wear your hair up, right? I mean it’s one thing when your hair looks bad because of weather or how it dried or a new product that isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It’s way worse when the culprit is your hairdresser. We’ve all … [Read more...] about A Super Bad Hair Day
The things we do for love
Saturday afternoon finds me in a crush of people at the Brooklyn Museum, the next to last day of an exhibition already extended two weeks by popular demand. Clearly I’m not the only one with a curiosity re: the cultural place/history of high-heeled shoes. Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled … [Read more...] about The things we do for love
S.A.D. but True
In the obnoxiously lyrical and catchy “Shake It Off," Taylor Swift sings, “…the players gonna play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate." She’s probably not referring to the abundance of overly celebrated and commercialized American holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, … [Read more...] about S.A.D. but True
Lost on the River
Tucked on a shelf in the back of a closet we use mostly for ‘overflow’ is a white cardboard box filled with old 45s. This is not my complete collection, mind you, just what has survived the decades since I last played them. In my adolescent years I had a classic storage box, with a lift-up lid and … [Read more...] about Lost on the River
