no(t)stalgia

You want to know a strange feeling?Opening a box that’s been shipped to you from the other side of another country and finding it full of objects from your childhood–Objects that made up your immediate world as far back as forty years ago and were part of your day-to-day for years, that you haven’t seen …

New York, Yup It’s Still Home

I walked around Manhattan during September. It’s true. It happened. I was there. Never made above midtown. I did go the the Hudson Yards a lot though.  Because the Armory Show was being held there.  It also happened to be NY Fashion Week. That meant I all at once found myself as close as 50 …

Lemuralia, It’s Halloween In May!

Happy Halloween, biz-nich-izzles! It’s May. It’s spring! It’s time to celebrate Lemuralia! Wut?Is that a kind of lemur party? Well, no, not quite. Before the Catholic Christians messed around with the dates- as they always seemed to do- the month of May was the time when some ancient Europeans would turn their thoughts to lemures or the dead- the …