winter hill
WITNESSED LOCAL MOMENT, Broadway, East Somerville 3.3.17: Local man voluntarily jettisons womb-like safety of curbside Dunks to rescue apartment-size, Christmas tumbleweed from onslaught of morning commuters.
lion dance / chinatown, boston
...retired.
respect.
boston throwbacks
blowfish cakes don't suck
yellow mastic
...outside the home of a family i was staying with: Labodi, Haiti (2010)
beachspider
пространство обезьяны
e.e. cummings
in oldthingsIlike, photo, design
... Over the weekend, I stopped by Brattle Book Store of West Street in Boston (by far the best second-hand bookstore in the city). Eventually I made my way upstairs to the second floor where I came upon a small stack of marked-down, first printings. A quick glance led me to this book (below) resting snuggly shoulder to shoulder between Ezra Pound and more Ezra Pound. I've only recently become interested in E. E. Cummings because of a discovery I made last fall which is that his birthplace and childhood home is only a few blocks from where I'm living now. In truth, I've read very little by him but I hope to change that starting with this purchase. The book alone was a nice find, but what made it remarkable were the two old holiday cards tucked together between the pages, each signed, "Cummings & Marion". It definitely wasn't Cummings' signature, but with a little research once I was home, I learned that his third wife was Marion Morehouse, the famous model and photographer, and both, apparently, were acquaintances of the book's previous owner. It now resides with my friend Anis Mojgani. Check out the cards below...
(The photo of Cummings on the dust jacket was taken by Marion.)
book covers | 1956-1975
comiccon...mmrad.
I found these at a flea market. Their publications range from 1966-1974, and from what I can tell from the illustrations they all roughly follow the same storyline which is the great awe-inspiring rise of the lowly peasant boy who becomes the quintessential Warrior Son of Mao through his limitless self-sacrifice, teamwork and thirst for capitalist blood. These are beautifully illustrated books; pen & ink technique at its finest. Enjoy, comrads.
solid head
…dug this up in the office the other day…leave it to the 60’s to have miniature, scantily clad vixens adorn the packaging of your solid head thumb tacks.
...retired.
in the elderly, photo
yeah...thanks, Lando.
... rat found outside my office posthumously reenacts Han frozen in carbonite, aka Boston winter.