Facebook statuses as art?
These are silly but kind of beautiful. I’m not sure why I like Twitter updates and facebook statuses. Its something about the beauty in the short length.
Check out artist Stacey Williams-Ng’s wonderful paintings:
From here:
Michael Q. Maybe it's because your back seat smells like pickles
Tony R. could've died a superhero but instead he lived to become the villain.
Gardening
With spring having sprung (God that was too corny even for me), I have had gardening on the mind for a few weeks. I’ve even been dreaming about gardening! On a trip to Costco this weekend, I looked forward most not to the samples as usual, but to seeing what plants they had. So obviously, I have been reading lots of blogs about gardening. In this way, I learned about Terrain.
This image courtesy of Oh Joy!
How had I never heard of this beautiful store before, especially when it opened a year ago? It is the gardening offshoot of the Urban Outfitters family that also includes Anthropologie and Free People. They mostly feature plants, containers, and gardening accessories, but there are dishes and home items as well. So pretty, and of course much too expensive. A girl can dream.
Now I can only cross my fingers that they will make a move from Pennsylvania to California!
Great Depression Cooking with Clara
Now this is just the cutest woman ever, 93 years old and from the looks of it, doing great! She shares her mother’s Great Depression recipes, a very timely topic for us. Her site is here, and check out her YouTube series. I want her as my great grandma!
Valentine’s Day
Went on the most beautiful date for Valentine’s Day at Rose Pistola in North Beach.
We got:
Antipasti
Puntarella Salad with Dungeness Crab Meat, Cara Cara Oranges & Pomegranate Dressing
Jersey Cow Beef Carpaccio with 30-Year Aged Balsamic & La Tur Cheese
Pasta
Crab Ravioli with Oyster Sauce & Chives
Nettle Pappardelle with Porcini & Fried Garlic
Secondi
24-Month Aged New Zealand Lamb Rack with Salsify Potato Cake
Stuffed Hills Farm Pork Chop with Strawberries, Chestnuts & Sunchoke Puree
Dessert
Assorted Artisan Cheeses
Some other thing, I don’t remember exactly what it was, sort of a tart creme brulee with a really flavorful sorbet.
And a bottle of wine that neither he nor I can remember the name of. I really want to start remembering what wine we try so I can better figure out exactly what I like in a wine. Oh and they brought us champagne with dessert.
I’m used to the fancy restaurants giving you tiny portions, but not Rose Pistola. Basically, we could barely waddle to a tiny Italian cafe for espresso afterwards because we were so full!
Gosh, I am drooling just thinking about last night’s dinner. Not only was the food delish, but there were some funny customers there to look at, like a really drunk old couple. Oh! and they give a single red rose to all the women. 
Swoon.
Japan
After my trip to J-town with Monica this weekend, and with the resurgence of my bento-making due to a new semester, I am currently on a Japanese kick.
Me in a kimono, oh a couple years ago maybe. 
“Efeitos Realistas”
I love these pictures. My favorites are the ones that seem to occur naturally, although the ones where people are pretending to hold objects are interesting too. [ A couple of the images may be NSFW.]
Bacon
Seriously, what is it with bacon recently? It blows my mind how silly some fads are, especially one like bacon, which affects everything from the craft world to the dining world, to even fashion. Here are some great bacon sites:
- Bacolicious: This is a site that gives you a realistic-looking slice of bacon right on your desktop. Why? I have no idea, but it is fun nonetheless. Here is an example. Maybe I’m just crazy, but I can’t get over how real (and delicious) that strip of bacon looks.
- Bacon Tiara: Ew. I feel like my hair is greasy just by looking at this horror.
- I Heart Bacon: An entire blog dedicated to bacon???
Anyways, I don’t quite understand the bacon phenomenon, but I am in no way discouraging it.
Edit: Perhaps Salon can decipher this trend for us.
Zbigniew Libera
Zbigniew Libera is a really interesting Polish artist, creating weird and controversial objects, usually “toys”. A picture of his “shave the baby” is sweeping the internet right now, but I think everything in his gallery is worth looking at. I especially like the practice delivery bed for little girls. Whaaaaatt??!
Books
This winter break, I read:
Ham on Rye–Charles Bukowski
Post Office–Charles Bukowski
Women–Charles Bukowski
The Bell Jar–Sylvia Plath
Cat’s Cradle–Kurt Vonnegut
I like the fact that these are all quick reads, because it makes me feel accomplished to finish a book, no matter how easy it was to get through.
What should I read next? Quickly, before the semester really gets into full swing!
p.s. Bukowski is so gross. also, look at that bucket o’ cigs next to him!!
