Grey Gardens Party!

Jeffrey, as Little Edie and his wife Amy, as Big Edie.

Here are some photos from Jeffrey and Amy's Grey Gardens party. They turned their house into Grey Gardens, complete with lots of cats and plants all around and liver pate and ice cream (on crackers!?!) and other stuff from the film. Lots of us dressed up in our Best Costumes For The Day and celebrated Jeffrey's birthday.

Another set of Big and Little Edie.

"Do you think my costume looked all right for Brooks? I think he was a little amazed. This is the revolutionary costume! I never wear this in East Hampton!"

"Do you think I'm gonna look funny dancing? I do terrific dances!"

"'Course, I'm mad about animals, but raccoons and cats become a little bit boring. I mean, for too long a time."

"I'm gonna get naked in just a minute, so you better watch out!"

"This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today. "

One of the Maysles showed up.

"No, I'm not ready; I have no makeup on ... but things are getting better!"

"Oh, look. That cat's going to the bathroom right behind my portrait."
"Ughh, how awful."
"No, I'm glad. I'm glad somebody's doing something what they want to do!"

"It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. You know what I mean? It's awfully difficult."

"Thank you for your card and your ice-cream, I love you very much!"

no more pencils, no more books!

I'm finished with school.

And it feels great.

Now I need to find a job.

And finish the new amyrush.com, which hasn't been updated in more than two years.

designers

Oh, I am a student. Sometimes I eat the Mac and Cheese. Sometimes I crave it and sometimes it's what I can afford.

The other day I made myself some gourmet M&C and reached in the cupboard (that is a such a weird word to spell....what happened to the p?) to get a bowl and got a green one. Then I thought, "No, the blue one is complimentary to the orange in my lunch and therefore will make it more appetizing to me." Seriously, I thought that.

Wouldn't you do the same?

truth in advertising?

I love old ads. They say things that you can't get away with now. I'm researching fountain pens for a project and came across a site that had a bunch of ads for a company that is very confident that theirs is the most superior of all fountain pens. Check 'em out:

Makes me want to run right out and buy one.

Until then, just call me Inky Fingers. I literally do have ink on my hands from changing out a cartridge for my Sheaffer (not Paul E. Wirt) fountain pen.

Daisy Does America

Have you seen this show? Man, it's funny. I ususally catch in On Demand. Daisy Donnovan is a Brittish comedian and actor who loves American and travels around to try to fit in. She's tried being a rapper, a beauty pageant contestant, a psychic, a dog show handler, a country star and a wedding planner, to name a few.

It's just really, really funny. Kind of how The Daily Show makes fun of people when they do those mock interviews with real people. If you have a spare half hour and want a giggle, check it out.
http://static.tbs.com/dda/flash_content/flash_content.html

Emerson

Behold, the cute boy named Emerson. Karen raised him from a tiny baby!



He has attitude. He's loud. He's a little obsessive-compulsive.





But mostly he's just a softie.

New resolution

Every couple days I spend some time reading blogs - some are folks from school, some are random ones I've stumbled across. Sometimes I don't know the person - except I feel like I do. It's fun. Much more fun - well, less despressing - than cnn.com - which also is something I like to do - watch the video clips.

Anyway, it's not fair that I have a blog and don't offer the same ramblings, right?

So I resolve to be better at blogging and to at least post a photo or something every time I sit down to catch up on my blog-operas. Here's just some of what I've been up to in the past two months.

On our way to the Eugene O'Neill National Puppetry Conference Becky Ray, Kristin and I stopped by HERSHEY WORLD in Hershey, Pa. We actually didn't plan to do it, but we had time and saw that we were about to pass through the chocolate-laced town, so why not? This is in the gift shop. I have some disturbing photos of singing robot cows that were in the Hershey World equivalent of "It's a Small World After All" if you'd like to see, too.

Well, I don't have any great photos of the show I was in at the O'Neill conference - but it was about this girl in the photo named Cordelia. She's 13 and has acne and has her own personal super hero named Pussy (pronounced puh-see, but the director insisted on spelling it like that) who, yes, is a zit. I'll post better photos later, I hope. Trust me, the show was better than I make it sound. The director, Z, is here in the photo working on the puppet. She and I went to UConn together and now she is a New York puppeteer. Lucky.

Karen and I went to Michigan for a week to visit her family. Here we are on some shore of some lake. Not sure which. We brought sweet Ohren, who was not surprisingly awesome on the 12ish-hour car drive. He rocks.

We went to Chicago for a day. Karen and her sister Karol saw the King Tut exhibit and I went to Shedd Aquarium. I love me some aquariums...hadn't been to that one since I was in 7th grade.

Karen really likes James Dean. I'm beginning to really like him, too, now that I've watched a couple documentaries and she has told me more about him. We stopped in Indiana on our way back home to visit him. People leave him things....it's odd. Karen took three chocolate biscotti-type things off of his stone because they were attracting ants. She left him a $.25 plastic mood ring that I bought her from a bubble machine a few days before. It changed to blue...or green....or whatever color meant content after a minute on the stone. Guess he's happy.