A friend recently reminded me that a new Lunar Year is about to begin: the Year of the Goat.
Wishing everyone health and prosperity in the New Year!
Image: Arthur Dove, Goat (ca. 1934), Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Passing Fancies: February 2015
Baby, it’s cold outside! I hope you’re keeping snug, wherever you are.
Reading: “Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s.” My era, my music.
Video: Mr. TC and I just started watching “Better Call Saul.”
Audio: The new Bjork album, “Vulnicura” …
My Passive-Aggressive Response to “50 Shades of Grey”
I don’t want to go on a tirade against “50 Shades of Grey”—really, I don’t. I’d rather completely overlook its existence. I tried to ignore the books when virtually every woman on mass transit except myself was reading them. I tried to ignore the rumors about film versions. But this phenomenon just WOULD NOT GO AWAY, even in New York, where I somehow thought that readers and moviegoers were more sophisticated…
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Quick Reads: Betsey Johnson in The New York Times
I’m a second-generation Betsey Johnson customer—my mother wore Johnson’s original Alley Cat line, and my own attachment to the designer’s stretchy floral-print miniskirts, lacy tops, and corset-waisted frocks began twenty years later. I started wearing Johnson’s designs when I was sixteen, and I still haven’t quite stopped…
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Image: Charles of the Ritz ad from The New Yorker, February 8, 1946, via Vintage Ad Browser.
TINSEL CREATION 