What I’m reading: How Did You Get This Number?

For the first time I understood why people come back from Alaska with fifty pictures of glaciers or return from a honeymoon in Tahiti with fifty pictures of the same sunset. The world is so beautiful in these places, it is impossible to register that there will be more, more, more. Surely this is it. Negotiate with your ailing camera battery. How can it not stay alive for this? How can you believe that twenty minutes from now there will be an even taller forest, an even wider waterfall? We are only as good as our most extreme experiences.

(A paragraph I particularly like from Sloane Crosley’s new book, How Did You Get This Number?)

Leave a Comment February 15, 2011

Classic reads

Heading to the cottage this weekend and looking for something to read?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always wanted to read the classics I’ve never gotten around to reading — think Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare — so I’m kind of excited about the new 100 Classic Books, which includes such novels as Pride and Prejudice to be read on any of the Nintendo DS systems.

(now if only the DS could emit that musty weathered book smell — I kinda like that scent, it’s oddly comforting…)

1 Comment June 30, 2010

Twinkies turn-off

This may be enough to turn you off of Twinkies forever: Just discovered this on GOOD, some select shots from Dwight Eschliman’s book 37 or so Ingredients in which he photographs the ingredients of some packaged foods. Take a look.

Red 40 — yum!

1 Comment June 11, 2010