Sacred / profane
NYCers, here’s a date idea for you: get lost in the stacks of the erotica & fetish room (and the rest of the archive) at Library180.
Microsoft Encarta world music shoutout!!! And on YouTube, it lives on!!
I’ll never forget how enchanted I was with the sound of that Egyptian oud at five years old.
David Lynch for Christian Louboutin, 2007
Tea for two
His ‘n’ hers
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: Tea light, soft boiled egg, toast & jam, crudités & dip, kiwi, bake a mini muffin, bake a mini apple tart, fig with mascarpone & honey~broiled, shrimp & cocktail sauce, dipping sauce/ mayonnaise, ring holder at the wash basin, salts, spices, nut cup, truffle cup, mini ice cream sundae, mouse in egg shell, sage sorbet intermezzo, display a favorite Ukrainian decorated egg, half lemon for squeezing, salad cream, pennies and cufflinks on dressing table, after-dinner-mints ~ and if God choose, I shall love thee better after death.
—product description of the Superfluous Cute Cup (Sold in Pairs)
F.F.D. 1/5/26
Une soirée au Crazy Horse
Teeny-tiny tack shop!
“There’s a kindness in your look. That’s the last thing I want.”
—Helmut Newton
“This lonely scene, the galaxies like dust, is what most of space looks like. This emptiness is normal. The richness of our own neighborhood is the exception.”