Topic: Domesticity isn't pretty
For some time I've been stymied in my quest to find a wine rack or small liquor cabinet for my dining room. Nothing seemed right for my (admittedly) eclectic tastes.
A couple of weeks ago I was in the a shop called Given (http://www.givenonline.com)—it occupies what was once Harvey Milk's Castro Camera—where I saw some beautiful but gawdawful expensive credenzas of which I was enamored but which were just too big and not a match for my dining room furniture.
However, the same artist (www moderncellar.com) who made the credenzas (credenzae?) made these interesting wine racks—no two alike—called Sporadic, which hang on the wall. I went back twice to look at them, then finally decided I had to have one (especially after being told they were not going to be made any more).
Here it is, in its new home.
So, I was telling my friend Robert about my new 1/18th scale Batmobile, and that got us talking about Hot Wheels, which got us talking about other toys we had as kids (we're the same age).
On the same page he pointed me to were toys I'd utterly forgotten having... the short lived HotBirds! Die-cast metal planes with retractable langing gear. You'd race them down a fishing-line—which would invariably tangle like a Wizzzer in your sister's hair—and they'd come to a thunking halt after 3 glorious seconds.
celebratory
