Recommended reading.

Moisturise more.

And post more regularly.

2009 was a strange year of highs and lows, and I gather from facebook and my google reader that there are many many people out there very glad to put it behind them. I wonder what 2010 will hold. I hope to make headway with personal projects, and not get so lost in work. Make the moments count. Even the dread commute.

I hope my new bike will set the momentum for 2010.

Fischetti drawing via BibliOdyssey

“I’m drawn to failure. I feel that I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.”

via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger…

I love her laugh. I’m such a sucker for a wisecracking dame.

Mr Mort and I share the same taste in women. I wish he’d feature them more often…

The pose, the colour, the fabric…

From Advanced Style.

1916 - 2009. Master woodworker.

Missouri University Women’s shooting club, 1934.

From the Independent Women set of the Nationaal Archief.

Consider this also a message to the spammers who keep hitting my comments with penis enlargements promises.

I used to love watching The Golden Girls when I lived with my sister. I’d get home from school at the same time as my nephews we’d fling ourselves on the couch to sing along to Thank You For Being a Friend, marvel at the peachy beige interiors and the silky robes worn at the midnight coffee sessions, and giggle at Sophia’s innuendo.

I also really like John Currin.  He was so much on my mind when I went to New York with Nicole that when we sat next to Poppy King in a cafe I thought it was Rachel Feinstein. There you go.