At 98, Zeisel’s design influence comes full circle (The Boston Globe)

the organic style of Eva Zeisel, one of my favorite mid-century designers, is finding a contemporary clientele (Crate and Barrel has just reissued some of her pieces, and the dishware and glassware in the Incredibles feel like copies of her work)

no… wire… hangers… EVER!!

elfintech posted a photo: Mommie Dearest on a giant inflatable screen in Stead Park near Dupont Circle, the first Screen on Stead offering this summer to benefit the DC GLBT Center [ geotagged: see this photo’s location on a map ]

paying a steep price

I just got my first car insurance bill since my accident back in April. In 3626 [thanks to Gene for noticing the error in my math] years of driving I’ve never even gotten a moving violation (update: I just remembered that I did get one ticket a few years ago for turning red on right […]

north port, florida and olive, new york?

Don’t get me wrong; I absolutely love Google Maps, especially the incorporation of satellite imagery, but the default-level U.S. map strikes me as a bit odd. OK, so the West seems pretty straightforward, with city dots pretty much where you’d expect at this high-level view, where we find dots labeled San Francisco and Los Angeles, […]

striatic does dc

Yesterday evening, Jeff and I met up with two other DC Flickrites–Tampen and Finiky–to welcome striatic and emily ann as they breezed through DC on their way to Virginia Beach and beyond, during the striatic does america tour. It was a fun hour or so, walking around Union Station and the Capitol, chatting and taking […]

a weekend in the country

This past weekend we made a quick visit (down on Saturday morning and back Sunday evening) to see my Mom and the rest of the family. Between Father’s Day on Sunday (the first since Mom’s dad’s death, and only the second since my dad’s), Mom’s birthday on Monday, and some other family troubles, I knew […]