I love Maira Kalman. And she's back with her occasional works for the New York Times, here:
http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/the-inauguration-at-last/
In one of the frames, she illustrates the Lincoln Bible that Obama used for his swearing-in and references a woman near her who asks, "Why on the Bible? Why not on the Constitution?"
Maira says that it's a very good question.
The Boy posed the same question - well, the first half of it.
Now I have the answer.
One of the first books we bought for him after he was born was "Stay Up Late", which illustrates the Talking Heads song of the same name.
I like the re-connection of him to her.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
What We're Leaving For Them
I come from a family of letter writers - mainly on my mom's side.
Even though my mom's first reaction to bloggers (based on the snippets I emailed her - she has limited web access) was that they were being self-absorbed, it occurred to me that blogs may, if they are archived/preserved through the future iterations of technology, be the primary documents that historians will examine to learn about these generations.
I went to college (1980) an hour away from my parents and we wrote letters to each other - phoning was used only in an emergency. My mom saved the letters and postcards that I wrote to them in college, and the letters and postcards from high school and college trips to Europe. She has given them back to me and I'm saving them for my kids and their kids.
I have the letters from my first serious boyfriend and from my second serious boyfriend (that would be "Mr. Savage"). They will be shared with The Boy and The Grrl when they start asking more questions about "the olden days" as they call them.
Eventually the archive will be implanted in the body - some sort of microchip with everything you need to know.
It's the iMe.
Even though my mom's first reaction to bloggers (based on the snippets I emailed her - she has limited web access) was that they were being self-absorbed, it occurred to me that blogs may, if they are archived/preserved through the future iterations of technology, be the primary documents that historians will examine to learn about these generations.
I went to college (1980) an hour away from my parents and we wrote letters to each other - phoning was used only in an emergency. My mom saved the letters and postcards that I wrote to them in college, and the letters and postcards from high school and college trips to Europe. She has given them back to me and I'm saving them for my kids and their kids.
I have the letters from my first serious boyfriend and from my second serious boyfriend (that would be "Mr. Savage"). They will be shared with The Boy and The Grrl when they start asking more questions about "the olden days" as they call them.
Eventually the archive will be implanted in the body - some sort of microchip with everything you need to know.
It's the iMe.
Friday, January 23, 2009
In the beginning, there were the eyebrows
My friend said I should start a blog.
I marinated on it.
My mom, when learning about what blogs were, wondered how people can be so self-centered to blather on about their lives. I decided that someone needed to write about her eyebrows.
Mrs. O's eyebrows. The ones straight out of a caricature on the walls of Sardi's and made me think of Snidley Whiplash's moustache.
But I've read that Mrs. O's Chicago-based make-up artist liked the high, fly-ball to the left field brows, but people had been talking....so they needed to come down a bit and she was working on that. Based on I-Day pictures, they are starting a downward trend...maybe.
I found this site today:
http://www.mrs-o.org/
It follows what and who Mrs. O is wearing. It might be fun.
I marinated on it.
My mom, when learning about what blogs were, wondered how people can be so self-centered to blather on about their lives. I decided that someone needed to write about her eyebrows.
Mrs. O's eyebrows. The ones straight out of a caricature on the walls of Sardi's and made me think of Snidley Whiplash's moustache.
But I've read that Mrs. O's Chicago-based make-up artist liked the high, fly-ball to the left field brows, but people had been talking....so they needed to come down a bit and she was working on that. Based on I-Day pictures, they are starting a downward trend...maybe.
I found this site today:
http://www.mrs-o.org/
It follows what and who Mrs. O is wearing. It might be fun.
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