Hey good lookin'

It would be so me to launch into some diatribe explaining my absence.  But I won't.  I'll try to keep things more simple....maybe that will fuel consistency?  Maybe not....only time, and perhaps Zach Galifianakis, will tell.

Zach's only on my mind because homeboy graced the cover of Rolling Stone this month and, to be frank, I dig his glasses.  See...

But while we are on the topic...immediately youtube Between Two Ferns which will explain my love for the heavily bearded man above.  And, though it may seem a contradiction, do not go see Hangover 2, or part 2, or whatever they called it.  It's not good.

Keeping it light, I'll share a few things on my mind:

1. This lovely rug from West Elm.  I dig it.  Unfortunately, it is likely to end up with jelly, or nutella or orange juice stains in the white bits.  So I will refrain for now.

2. These shiny young (Miu Miu) things.  You probably hate them but I don't.  Me: these shoes :: barracuda: shiny things.  Isn't that how they do comparisons on the SATs?  Do the SATs still exist?

3. This awesomely nostalgic wallpaper from Osborne & Little.  

A few points on this one:

• Once I discovered Osborne & Little I found little need to look elsewhere for wallpaper.  I live in a rental flat and am not made of money so the likelihood that I will own any of the ingenious wallpapers in the foreseeable future is dubious.  Mark my word though, one day, I'll have a fantastically O & L-fied room.
• I have gone back to this Zagazoo wallpaper more times than I can count.  You think I'm weird...I just think there's something so nostalgic about it.  I want to have it.  In a bathroom where people need a little humor and a lot to look at.  I kept thinking I KNOW this artwork, I remember it from somewhere.  So I started pondering my favorite childhood books.  First I googled Shel Silverstein, thinking it might be like some of his illustrations....then I looked up Dr Seuss, but it was no Who down in Who-ville. Then it hit me - ROALD DAHL, perhaps one of my fave of all time...still.  My sister used to give me brilliant Roald Dahl and Shel Silverstein books for Christmas every year.  Quentin Blake is the famed illustrator for Roald Dahl's classics.  

image via thebloghorn.org

• Logic then told me to put Quentin Blake and Osborne & Little into google which of course led me to find that Quentin illustrated the Zagazoo wallpaper.  It's now destiny.

4. This slice of heaven from Banana.  Yesterday I went into a Banana Republic for the first time in - no joke - 2 years.  Now that I live in a summer-sweater-appropriate-climate, I bee-lined to this guy.  I didn't buy it (I'm being good) but I have thought of it multiple times since yesterday at 2PM which is less than 24 hours ago.  Even better news - it could moonlight as a pillow....it's that soft.

end rant.