swarbles.
sometimes i sing.
sometimes i make things.
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i’m at my psychiatrist’s office and somebody upstairs is playing a very difficult piece on piano and they’re making small mistakes but i want to...
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Music makes the people come together
Holy frack! After lamenting over the absence of one of my most valued creative outlets, I am incredibly happy to...
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there's nothing in the constitution that says a dog can't design and regulate a currency system
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sometimes i name animals i see at the park or on the street and then wonder how they are months later
there is a duck named jimby who i have to...
xmas post office truck
look at the adorable maine coon cat who suffered through me putting a red bow on her head very admirably this christmas day! her name is daisy and she is so fluffy and nice!
i met this cat today. this picture does not do her fluffiness justice. look at her pretty mittens!!!
We finally went to bed. And Louis was still laying up in the bed watching the tree, his eyes just like a baby’s eyes would watch something… So finally I said, “Well, I’ll turn the lights out now on the tree.” He said, “No, don’t turn them out. I have to just keep looking at it. You know, that’s the first tree I ever had.”
Well, I hadn’t realized that you know. Louis was 40 years old and it seems to me that in 40 years a person would have at least one tree. I was all swollen up inside when he told me that. We were to leave the next day for Kansas City. I figured Christmas is over; today’s the 26th now I’ll leave the tree. Louis said, “No, don’t leave the tree; take the tree with you.” And he had me take the tree on those one-nighters. Before I even unpacked a bag I had to set that tree up, his Christmas tree….
I kept that first little tree until way after New Year’s, putting it up every night and taking it down every morning, in a dozen hotels. And then when I did take it down for the last time, Louis wanted me to mail it home. It was a real tree, not an artificial one, and I had to convince him– I really had to convince him– that the tree would dry up.
Merry Christmas!
Winter Lights, 1909
“Mid-winter carnival, ‘storming the fortress,’ Upper Saranac Lake, New York.”
Merry Xmas from Shorpy
nypl:
“I iz Santa Claws.”
Here’s a festive Caturday for you, courtesy of our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection. We thought this 1914 photo - entitled “Xmas Shopper” - was appropriate for Christmas Eve. It also just may be the funniest photo we’ve ever posted. Happy Caturday and happy holidays! By the way, NYPL is closed today, tomorrow and Monday for the holidays, but you can still download our eBooks!
