What's up

Scott Walker sort of morning. Sunny, cold, clean morning. Of course had it been cloudy it would have been a great Scott Walker morning.

I have been slowly collecting Blue Heaven dishes by Royal China. I find the teapot, coffeepot and water pitcher tres gorgeous. I was always into dishes as a kid, very girly little girl in that way. This is Blue Heaven by Royal China.
I wanted to collect Temporama by Canonsburg after we found two plates thrifting. This design seems more difficult to acquire but it's atomic tiki design is tres cool:



I use what I collect and have to store it so I'm limiting myself to 2 four place settings complete with salt and pepper shakers, teapots, cream and sugar bowls and serving pieces. This is only one so I have given myself room to grow. The everyday stuff is my ongoing Fiestaware collection, all new not vintage.

Next to my bed are three new books: Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton (I love how Alain so eloquantly applies philosophy to everyday issues/problems. That's what philosophy is for but he makes it so portable, Long Ago in France by my favorite MFK Fisher and Latin Jazz: The Perfect Combination = La Combinacion Perfecta

We watched Dick Cavette interview Janis Joplin, Raquel Welch, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and the charming Chet Huntley last night on television. Joplin was very articulate, Fairbanks tres old Hollywood royalty but poor Welch, not one of her better moments. She came of as passionate and brainless. Passionately brainless? Also caught the first installment of the Brady's Hawaiian Tiki adventure, the three parter that kicked off their fourth season. Greg looks like he's almost 30 and Marcia, a sunny 22 or so, but they were like 15 and 17 or something like that.

Wishing I could watch Pull My Daisy on film at a theatre but oh well. The Jack Kerouac Scroll tour was supposed to stop at the HRC in January-originally- then March 2007 but now it has been pushed to 2008!!!!!!!!!!!! What the hell UT? UGH! maybe we'll make a trip to San Francisco, Chicago or Sant Fe before that. I really can't wait until 2008!