Salad Servers vs. Idol

Instead of blogging about Idol and tonight's result how, I thought I would post my new salad servers. Normann Copenhagen. Pretty.

Spring Shopping: Home Depot Overload

The arrival of Spring means one thing in our HH - multiple weekend treks to Home Depot (at least 3 - up to 10). Going to Home Depot means a lot of me kind of standing around while David reads every last word on any package we intend to buy. We also hit (<) Sprout - a very cool/more my speed garden shop on Damen and Chicago-ish. We purchased an amazing 3ft cactus for our deck.

When we got home, Maggie inspected the cactus and thought it might make a good weapon for Bogie spanking. She will weave that into her scrolls/plot for world domination.

Wow, I'm a Pathetic American Idol Junkie

It has been clinically proven that 'our' favorite word is our own name - (at least that's what I heard in some movie) - hence my desire for Brooke to win American Idol. While completely pathetic how into this show I am (David's fault), last night was a little dramatic and amazing. I guess our 500 calls (SICK!) went to good use - Go Brooke!

It seems like the press is up-in-arms that Carly got voted off (because she's so good???). And then Randy's moronic comment about last night being a 'bit of a popularity contest.' That's what freaking American Idol is?! That's America - one big popularity contest...this is why people like the show.

Cool Photos by Frank Relle

David introduced me to this cool photographer who has done album cover art for Greg Dulli's many endeavours.

His sort of eerie capture of New Orleans (Nightscapes) is quite amazing - the lighting is really dramatically subtle. Anyway, take a look: http://www.frankrelle.com/

Ode to Hector

I have not much energy left in me today after week 2 of work hell. So, I will rely on the wise words of a hero - Hector Berlioz:


"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."

And, TGIF...Mr. Belvedere Style...