i never really understood the physics of your eye turing the world upside down. [single lens relflex.]

my grandfather, who i called bop pop, passed away this summer. he was many things i will never be- a doctor, a republican, a captain on the water, a hunter, a frequent flyer on the concorde, a kinda mean person, +a member to many clubs ....but he was two things that i can so deeply relate to on a daily basis..: he was a dapper dan and a shopaholic.

as a dapper dan-he taught me about-the delights of unexpected bright colored socks, the fit of hand made saville row suits, the appeal of thick round rimmed glasses, the idea of accessories or print as an accent that pulls it all into the next level, the class (+point) of a delicious gin martini....

as a shopaholic...well, he didn't actually teach me this. (he wasn't really generous actually.) but i believe that, like martini's, the shopaholic blood runs through me. i collect and want so many things-clothes, trinkets, jewelry, +well-as those who really know-pretty much everything..

i mention this because of this tiny alligator in a hand made sailor suit, a real one, in a jar.
i just found this old iphone as i was cleaning out my iphoto (i'm up to july 2009 finally! i love my 4 terabyte drive by the way) taken at his house in georgia a year and a half ago.
mostly you might think..wait, wtf?! why on earth would you buy this? why would you make this? where do you get such a tiny well dressed alligator? and wow, that's ridiculous.

i'll tell you why, he bought this because he was a shopaholic and a compulsive collector.
i can relate to that.
the point of this story is to let you know that i reallyreallyreally hope to inherit this teensy taxidermied alligator....
+guess what!? i might just get to cause as my mom says, "nobody but you would want that but you."

so RIP bop pop i hope you have your martini, hinkley+huntsman suits up there.
in honor of your passing, i'm going to start getting rid of things this fall. cause frankly, i don't need this much stuff+c'mon, i need to make room for this mini gator sailor.
p.s. taz, i'm going to try to start channeling your minimalist ways more, i swear...at least when it comes to packing..

he kept it hidden until i pressed play on the recorder.

i know i'm supposed to be a grown up by now but c'mon, giant donkey weiner's are hilarious...especially when you're just aiming to take a nice documentary photo+unexpectedly-woosh-there they grow...

click to enlarge!
(sorry i can't help myself from these bad jokes..i'm claiming jet lag:)

weird science.

spotted on a back country wander in the woods: crazy coral funghi, tiny toadlette, toad stools, +more more forest coral.

we played the penis game at the dinner table.

in other words-my sister+i had experienced some major regression over the weekend.. on vacay in martha's vineyard....(it really freaked our mother out--given that we are nearly 30+just 37 respectively;)

also, thanks mumsa!!!
we had a great time.
xobz

real maine steal

such an oddly specific code.

that i decided to share.

simply irressistible..on las ramblas.

this guy made kat+my afternoon.
wow.
he's got very specific tattoos, so intense but radically succinct..
partial shoe/partial socks/fake bottoms from behind...
wow.
bidness in the back, party in the front.
HIlarious.

i can't help myself from my guilty pleasures.

Lindsay Lohan's eHarmony Profile from Lindsay Lohan

my fingers are crossed for miss lady lo...the ronson's may have dropped her but at least will ferrell likes you,that's gotta mean something in the scheme of things.
(thanks for the tip-off miss KBB)

watch it twice...

seriously.

bizarre brilliant

i've fotographed both of these oddities before. i think the horse in the top pic is so wild..it's right down the street from suze's house in silverlake+whenever i visit, the owners have moved it to a different area on the lawn..i might start a collection of pics now, and after a couple more years, send them a series..(sidenote, i've done some research and life size horses don't come cheap-at least a few grand)..as per the blue tree..well, i don't even know...

i'm just saying...

it's tooooooo F-ing cold!!
east williamsburg.
2:35 am.
8 degrees.

fyi: there's currently a plane in the hudson river..

turner alerted me to this story from location in miami..all i have to say is-holy shit. this is too many crashes..too close to home....apparently it went down due to a bird strike. damn canadian geese at it again. luckily none of the 150 odd passengers were hurt. thankfully the pilot, who's known as sully, was talented enough to actually (+apparently expertly) land the plane in the water..below is the flight tracker...

+in a mildly related fashion note..i'd like you to know that this jacket is my new obsession:
proenza schouler is killing me with this blue bomber..PLEASE make it mine...it would be so wrong for it not to be..

godspeed to all y'all.

shuttle cock

shell station.
downtown anguilla. b.w.i.
1/12/09

song for a future generation.

*group therapy: best board game EVER..can't believe i just lost in on ebay by 50 cent..fuck!
**ese obama: at la superior (get the cochinita tacos--i dream about them!)
***tied up--wayyyyyyy too giant-weiner..was walking by some kids at lucy's who were looking at this on a cell phone. i had to take a picture to believe it.

a little room+a lotta practice...

he's throwing down some moves for prop 8+then some.

even japanese dogs are smarter...

Amazing Japanese Dog - The funniest home videos are here
charlie is looking for a dog and cedez recommended a japanese dog she met at marlow...turns out it was a shiba inu, but this is what we found before we identified the breed..double dutch dogs...yowza.

weiner wonderland

seen all weekend from chelsea to bushwick.

what happened...

when i left my computer in the kitchen, while staying in a house, mostly occupied by boys..
you'd think the dude would at least think to close the window??!!

*we thank our lucky stars*

tuesday night, while on the phone with suzeQ, i got a terrifying phone call that xabi had gotten hit by a car, wile riding my bike on driggs and metropolitan.
i met the ambulance and my blood soaked friend at woodhull hospital (which i hugely recommend never going to). he was brought into the trauma unit on a gurney, i filled out all the necessary paperwork, trying my best not to freak the fuck out.
all of the sudden, while looking at my loves broken self, i started feeling really woozy. i walked to the other end of the gurney to go sit down. next thing i know, i wake up under the bed. i have fainted from stress.
all in all, he got stitches over his eye, staples on the back of the head, and sustained a grade 3 concussion. i was admitted into the trauma unit an hour and a half later with a grade 1 concussion and a much more mild but still bloody dome.
it's been quite a hellride but mi senor is quite the trooper, and mostly this was a true life lesson in not taking anyone or anything for granted.
bless to all my loves and please ride and drive safely.
also if anyone knows who participated in this hit + run, let me know..once i stop being dizzy, i'd like to give them a piece of my mind!
xL

miucca modified

8th ave, 14th st. subway stop