| Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| My psychic gifts |
| Back on Oct. 22, I fearlessly predicted that I would get jury duty. Well, I just called for my reporting instructions, and guess what: I have to be at the courthouse bright and early tomorrow morning. Since it's Halloween, perhaps the courthouse personnel will at least be dressed in festive costumes. Now we'll see if I make it as far as jury selection for the first time ever. |
posted by 125records @ 5:26 PM  |
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| The all-new Conical Glass. |
It seemed like time for a change, so I have switched from my homemade blog & RSS feed to what should be a new & improved version. For the first time, people can comment on and link to individual posts! What a concept!
I have tons of things to review, but they might have to wait a day or two, because I have a few things I need to deal with first:
My aunt in Sweden points out that contrary to what I wrote here last week, I was an incredibly creative child. I think she's probably right, though like most people, it didn't last. When you're a child, it's OK to just draw whatever you feel like drawing; no one's going to judge you on your technical skills. Sometime in my early teens I realized that I didn't have the natural gift for art and drawing that some of my classmates did, and gave it up. My aunt is one of the few people I know who has been incredibly creative her entire life, which is no small achievement.
In a strange coincidence, two of my oldest & dearest friends in the world are both going to be in L.A. next weekend. I keep thinking, hey, they're going to be right here in my state! I should go! but of course they're actually going to be 400 miles away, and heaven knows I've traveled enough lately. But I'm extremely proud that "Comic Evangelists," the new mockumentary film starring James Sanford (and lots of other talented people), will be having its world premiere—and by "world" they apparently mean every place except Kalamazoo, where the film has screened numerous times—at the prestigious AFI Film Festival. Meanwhile, Sujata Massey will be doing events at the L.A. Mystery Bookstore and the Japanese Cultural Center, along with one of my clients, Naomi Hirahara.
I am hoping that having the comments permanently tied to the post will encourage more commenting on this blog. So here's the question du jour: can a set of closet doors possibly be worth $1500?
Having lived in our current digs for the better part of 10 years now, I have slowly started to upgrade all the little things that irritate me about this place. One of my major ongoing vexations has been the horrible sliding doors on our bedroom closet, which are super-flimsy, extremely noisy (I'm sure our dear downstairs neighbors can hear us open and close them), and are always jumping off the tracks. Anyway, I did some internet research on sliding doors and found a company that makes really attractive ones. I took all of our measurements and visited their San Francisco showroom, where I learned that covering our 80"x80" space with two doors in the "Sunshine" line would run us a cool 1.5 G's, plus an extra $150 for installation.
Now, if I really wanted to, I could buy the doors. But part of me feels that paying $1500 for closet doors is insane, that no doors could possibly be worth that much money. It's more a matter of principle. I'm currently wondering if I should do what they always did on one of my favorite (and, sadly, cancelled) TV shows, TLC's "Clean Sweep," and cover the closet opening with a piece of fabric hung on a curtain rod. Maybe something in "Funky Monkey."
Around the same time I went to the closet-door store, I read about 'Wichcraft, a trendy new sandwich shop in downtown San Francisco that has been bashed in many local blogs for its high-priced wares. One of their offerings is a $5 peanut butter & jelly sandwich. Now, to me, this is even more insane than the $1500 doors. No matter how super-premium the ingredients are, you could replicate their PB&J in your own kitchen—just go to the Ferry Building Marketplace and buy some Acme bread, Frog Hollow preserves and freshly ground peanut butter. I'd be curious to know how many of those sandwiches they sell every day.
So: $5 PB&J, $1500 closet doors. Assuming you could afford 'em, would you buy 'em? |
| posted by 125records @ 11:40 AM |
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