sketch book

inspired by diary of a wimpy kid. he bought it with his own money.


cars, and more cars, and even more cars. the captions kill me.


wish this had one:

zoltar speaks

when i was in santa monica, i spent my last dollar bill to get my fortune told by zoltar. here's what he had to say:


no wishes for me though, you have seen big?

new york

in my dream last night i had a dog and was buying christmas presents.

here are some long overdue pictures from new york. this city - i want it.




subway stations are still so rare to me as to be exciting:


as are taxi rides:


don't they look happily ignorant of the surrounding world, safe inside a bubble of love in the east village? or something like that? they were so cute.


view from the hotel:


view inside the hotel:

this is my favorite ever donut. pity texas for not having dunkin donuts. (actually now that i think about it i have seen one or two. but not right next to my hotel.)

and, look, this is their k-mart. a kmart! if you lived there, people, even your kmart would be awesome.

santa monica

cotton candy and crazy waves and salty lips and sand castles and people every where.

i didn't know

wherever you go, you are still just you. i didn't know this would be this way. now i do.

magazine issues

wow, a blog dedicated to magazines... got to love that: glossed over [via go fug yourself]

i, like others, have had serious magazine issues. i now subscribe to 2 at a time (right now domino and jpeg) and resist the urge to ever buy any at the checkout lines (which i am rarely in, that probably helps more than will power.) my one exception is airlines, where i feel completely justified in buying at least 2 for each flight. i know i travel too much when sometimes at the end of the month, there is nothing new left for me to buy.

i also rip all the things i like out and save in a pile before throwing the mag away. i need to find some way to organize them.

soho versus san antonio

difference #1: everywhere we go in soho, random people comment on jack t-shirts.

he's developed a pretty awesome t-shirt collection, i take full credit as the t-shirt buyer of the family. don't believe me? witness exhibit 1, the facts about uranus shirt that i bought him yesterday from ClothMoth Clothing + Kindness on etsy:

(these pics are from their etsy shop.)

in san antonio, no one has ever once mentioned any t-shirt jack has ever worn in terms of how cool it is or where did you get that comments. not random strangers, not neighbors, not co-workers. nothing. except for ¿Habla Español? when he wears the hecho en mexico one. which is only awesome because although he was, mostly, made in mexico.