Emily, Emily, Emily!

coming soon...

here, a taste

(click links)

charmingly mannered yumminess 

and spirited brilliance

from  

Jennifer LaRue Huget 

and 

Alexandra Boiger

an absolute delight:

Thanks a LOT, Emily Post!

[due in stores 09.09]

with Barla in Riverside Park

M. B. Goffstein

with Barla in

Riverside Park

Alice, Bonpoint, Max and Lola

max and lola from bonpoint

via alice's salon coquette

[more on alice at the other blog]

thank you

1972

from a cup of jo 

by way of Niotillfem

Imagine: Peter Sis [Petr Sis] on FB

mr. sis is on facebook, courtesy of

his marvelous czech publisher

Joachim Dvorak, of Labyrint...

tap here, for

Petr Sís [Peter Sis]

on FB, and here if

you happen to be

in Prague in May

[wouldn't it be nice, to be in Prague in May?]

heaven: here

M. B. Goffstein has 

delicious new additions

to her website. 

(I am in heaven.)

Meet me here.

illustration: M. B. Goffstein

Across the Sea

this little picture is just a snapshot,

true happiness which arrived in a box 

not so long ago: there will be more about

this book, soon...but, today i just wanted 

to post something that brought great joy

out in the garden. again!

cecil beaton photography at the exquisitely soigné 

alice in wonderland

well-covered: Paul Rand

gets the point across

brilliant

very nice post on myturtleneck

out in the garden

hope you are having a fabulous day

Laterna Magica: Costume By Peter Sis

from Peter Sis:

"...here is one more costume design from 27 years ago...

Laterna Magica In Prague...

No wonder the opera singers did not like me..."

[Don't know about the opera singers,

think they probably thought Mr. S.

was terrific; as for me, there's not

much that can compare with this.

Utterly fabulous.]

I wish I could tweet like Neil Gaiman.

God. I wish I could tweet like Neil Gaiman.

Checking in occasionally on his twitters, I

can't help but think: here's a nice guy. He 

gives a damn about people. He likes to be

in touch. And he's [no new flash here] flippin'

brilliant. It's got to be fun to hang around 

with him...but challenging...he doesn't stay

in one place long. All in all: amazing.

If, by the way, you're looking for a great

knock-out sedative that's not habit forming,

type my name into twitter search. I've deleted

almost every tweet twittered. I look at the 140

and freeze like a statue on the playground.

Sweet Music II

from Peter Sis

[click image for marvelous close-up]

Sweet Music

more, in The Chronicle, about the Beeper Egg Hunt

wonderful photo from Hardy Wilson

The Beeper Egg Hunt at Golden Gate Park

The eggs beep,

so that visually impaired

children can find them.

How wonderful is that?

Sponsored by the 

Blind Babies Foundation.

More, Here.

joy

to you

today

is a good day

thanks

Peter. Woodstock. Tibet. Couldn't be better.

peter sis. woodstock. tibet.

here.

[May Second. Soon.]

honestly

I'm one of those folks that can't help 

nodding off in a moving vehicle. 

[No, NOT while I'm driving (pretty much)...

also, not while I'm on the red eye. 

Bummer. But just about everywhere else. 

Which makes this quite useful.] 

Anyway, photo is also at minningabokin 

(home of photos in post below) 

and originates here. Remarkable, yes?

Joo Youn Paek. Very clever.

i love

all from a very 

neat blog, here

Hiromi Suzuki

Hiromi Suzuki:

Nipped in the Bud & 

Shinjuku Gyoen Park

[click Gyoen Park photo for fascinating close up]

photos copyright hiromi suzuki

re: Hiromi Suzuki's Good Taste

illustrations from MB Goffstein, via

illustrator Hiromi Suzuki's blog

more of Suzuki's blog, here

MB Goffstein's website, here

Hiromi Suzuki, Illustrator

Hiromi Suzuki 

creates

wonderful illustrations, here.

We are fans.

illustration copyright hiromi suzuki

Well-Covered: Hello, Tokyo

[sorta makes me want to get on a plane]

M. B. Goffstein: Favorite Japanese Picture Book Artists

M. B. Goffstein, Japan

M. B. Goffstein

Mr. Rosenberg, Again

In The Trenches
I snatched two poppies
From the parapet’s ledge,
Two bright red poppies
That winked on the ledge.
Behind my ear
I stuck one through,
One blood red poppy
I gave to you.

Issac Rosenberg

self-portrait, Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg: Poet

Isaac Rosenberg

There is an excellent article in the 

Wall Street Journal, today, about 

this "man of extraordinary talent." 

[Reference, also:

Isaac Rosenberg

by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.]

Here is a bit of the article, 

written by Martin Rubin:

Rosenberg was in South Africa, visiting a sister, when war broke out in 1914. He seemed to believe that the war needed to be prosecuted vigorously in order for the world to get past it, and he returned to England to volunteer. 

Part of his motive was economic: He wanted his mother to have the paltry few shillings a week she would get from the army as his next of kin, a measure of how dire the family's financial straits continued to be...

To read of Rosenberg's privations -- the ill-fitting boots, the appalling food -- is to get a rare picture of the enlisted man's lot in World War I. (Most of the other war poets were officers.)

Rosenberg was killed by a German raiding party on April 1, 1918, near Arras, France, during Ludendorff's big spring offensive. 

Throughout the war, Ms. Wilson shows, Rosenberg's poetry had been going from strength to strength. One can only imagine what he might have produced if he lived beyond the armistice. 

Ms. Wilson is a marvelously well-informed guide to this tragically brief and artistically rich life. 

She closes with haunting words of Rosenberg's, discovered among his belongings after he died: 

'How small a thing is art. A little pain; disappointment, and any man feels a depth -- a boundlessness of emotion, inarticulate thoughts no poet has ever succeeded in imag[in]g. Death does not conquer me. I conquer death, I am the master.'

Marilyn Nelson. Magnificent.

Marilyn Nelson

"...The man in their gift shop was an expert

on the Sisters’ long struggle to find a way

to serve the Christian Church and Candombl.

The eldest Sister is called 'the Perpetual Judge';

every seventh year, she becomes the bridge

on which the Virgin Mary crosses back,

sorrowing love incarnate in a black

ninety-odd-year-old woman facing death

and saying Magnificat with every breath.

We drove out of the valley looking back

on lightbulbs which intensified the thick,

incomprehensible, mysterious

darkness of the unknown. Grown serious

and silent in our air-conditioned van,

we rode back into the quotidian."

from Cachoeira,

Marilyn Nelson 

well-covered: Goffstein in Japanese

Someone with exquisite taste told me that 

we can still find this in Japan...

stay tuned, and we will share some

with you, soon, in English.

It's divine.

(Of course. It's a Goffstein.)

Heavenly Goldie

Found another Goldie fan 

at Gail Wilson Designs.

[Once you have met Goldie, it is simply

impossible not to be a fan. She is heaven.]

well-covered, well-loved

 wait 'til you see inside

exquisite