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Never ending…. Tasty chatting

LB — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:34:28 +0000

That pretty much sums up much of my recent trip to India. Never ending tasty chatting.

Gajali or gajalee (also the name of a famous fish restaurant further up the Maharashtra coast in Mumbai) means “an informal gathering” in the Malvani & Konkani languages.

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Books

LB — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:10:54 +0000

Room with Finn Juhl furniture and lots and lots of books. It’s worth reprinting this Anna Quindlen quote on books:

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
~Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times, 7 August 1991.

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Atention People’s Faceing Northeast

LB — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:31:38 +0000

Photocopied sign found taped to telephone pole in Chinatown, a few blocks from my studio. Beautiful poster of the apocalyptic warning variety. “The dotes are the extraterrestrials ship’s.” I love how ‘dots’ is misspelled, and apostrophe is on the wrong word, but A+ on spelling ‘extraterrestrials’ correctly.

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GIVE US YOUR BOAT

LB — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:31:26 +0000

While at art school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, my American friends Paul and Eugene and I lived in a rented seaside house in a nearby fishing village. The day we moved in to our house in Shad Bay we found a framed map of our cove, and it showed a little island across the water from us marked ‘Treasure Island.’ For the next year we tried to get hold of a boat to get over there.

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Lost budgie – he really likes mirrors and is a very good flyer

LB — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:45:12 +0000

In the “on the fridge” category.

I would like a Smithsonian rock collection

LB — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:18:31 +0000

I was in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History this past week. My childhood fetish for rock-collecting came back in a rush, and the Minerals and Fossils sections filled me with a deep hankering to build my own rock display.

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DIY: paint your linoleum floor white

LB — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:41:47 +0000

When I moved into this typical 1930s apartment in Vancouver’s east side in 1999, the first thing I did was paint over the kitchen’s dingy gold linoleum flooring. The linoleum was the worst thing about that apartment.

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