Entries from November 2008

November 30, 2008

Weekend Recap

Happy belated Thanksgiving! Hope you all gorged on as much food as I did!

Our Queens household were gluttonously overloaded with traditional dishes gone awry. No turkey, but yes to three whole chickens and a dozen fried wings and legs, soggy but scrumptious stuffing stuffed with bacon, mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes with crispy irresistible marshmallows, [...]

November 25, 2008

Daily Aphorism

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November 25, 2008

Disentangle at Andreas Grimm

A while back I saw what is definitely one of the best shows this year (which isn’t saying much since I haven’t really seen too many shows this year) at Andreas Grimm in Chelsea. It was titled Disentangle and all the works in some form or another focused on hair. Hair. HAIR! It was quite [...]

November 25, 2008

Keltie Ferris at Sunday

Aviator, 2008, oil, acrylic, spraypaint on canvas, 80×70″
Last Thursday I attended the opening of artist Keltie Ferris at Sunday gallery in the lower east side. I was lucky to meet her and her work last year through a previous gallery stint and am was very excited to experience this new body of work.
Keltie seems to [...]

November 24, 2008

Weekend Recap and Goulash and Seeds

I spent the majority of the weekend preparing for Thanksgiving and catching a cold. I was satisfyingly productive with the first task and begrudginly annoyed and anxious about the latter. The idea of nasal and chest congestion induces uneasy nerves, especially when there is rain and clouds looming over, further suffocating and thinning my oxygen [...]

November 21, 2008

Aphorism of the Day

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
Rumi

November 21, 2008

Logan Grider at Thierry Goldberg Projects

At a recent gallery hop through the Lower East Side I fell upon the paintings of Logan Grider at Thierry Goldberg Projects. I was attracted by the color and size of the paintings, small and manageable, playful with a tinge of conservative. There are references to modernist abstraction but with an energetic rambunctiousness that is [...]

November 19, 2008

Sites of the Day

I’m completely drooling over Design*Sponge lately.

They have sections that peek into people’s beautifully designed and furnished homes, a section for DIY home furnishing craft projects, of which I’ve hit inspirational moments (I will put up a peg board in my kitchen to hang my pots and decoupage my ugly white cabinets as well as my [...]

November 18, 2008

TWD swap again: Sables

This week’s TWD choice was Arborio Rice Pudding and I just haven’t been feeling it the last few weeks with TWD choices so I took the freedom again to bake something I felt was more desirable and appropriate for me.I baked the basic chocolate chip cookies again as well as Dorie Greenspan’s Sables.

These rich tender [...]

November 17, 2008

Weekend Recap

Friday night was my friend Catalina’s birthday and this is an yearly event where I get to get all teary eyed with laughter and nostalgia as all my Hunter folks gather and bask in memories. This is also the time of year where I spend the most money on a single meal, only because Catalina [...]