To all Arlington or Lexington Residents:
We are a nice young couple, very responsible, and we don't make a lot of noise except for a few hymn harmonies from time to time, and Dan with his trumpet but never at ungodly hours, and really I've never heard him practice in the house but he must once in a while because he plays so well at church, You see we go to church regularly because we're good folk like that and we are never awake past 9:30pm, or if we are we're lying in bed quietly watching the Nick and Jessica show, and never anything inappropriate, and we don't broadcast our amourous encounters through the walls of neighboring units, like some downstairs occupents, and we'll be married in September, well really at the beginning of september, so if you're worried about us living in sin it won't be for too much longer and anyways we're comitted for the long run and we like babysitting for neighborhood kids and Dan bakes cookies and Leah likes cookies and altogether we're very nice and friendly so in conclusion PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE invite us to move into your neighborhood! All we want is a roof over our heads and a place to raise our way eventual way unborn children. I know there's a good little house in your area for under 340 that we'd be perfect for! Please let us know, preferably soon, and God Bless America.
celery + gravity = art
I'm sleepy after a dinner with the families A-------d and Bernstein so I won't actually write anything this evening, only point you to a wonderfully amusing site that you may not have seen before. celery + gravity = art is a collection of pin-up images from (mostly) the 1950s, which feature a rather strange fetish: women whose underwear falls down around their ankles while they stand helplessly with their arms full of packages. Words can not do it justice. Go look for yourself.
The site is done by a gentleman, James Lileks we presume, who takes cultural artifacts like these odd odd pinups and presents them together with hilarious commentary, to great effect. Other examples (besides the porn) include '70s decorating magazines (Interior Desecrations) and comic books from the '40s. Most notable, and what brought Mr. Lileks to the attention of the world some years ago, is his work on ancient, disgusting food. It should not be missed.