Back-to-School Desires

I love, love, LOVE this notebook. What I don't love is that it's eight bucks. I mean there is a robot gondolier for god's sake! Adorable. 

Rethinking Honolulu...

Lucy is Gonna Jump!

The Bridge of Sighs

Funnily enough, when Nicole and I were in Venice in 2013, we had no idea what this bridge was, we just thought it was beautiful. Apparently, the view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. Who knew?

Greetings From Michigan

Earlier this evening I was at Bishop and Pax's for Svengoolie (sidebar: the film was a Hammer Horror film, Evil of Frankenstein, and every time I see Peter Cushing I feel like Michael Fassbender needs to do a biopic and play Cushing. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Just puttin' it out in the universe...). After Sven, Bishop and I were chatting about old friends, and I mentioned Autumn, the friend I've had since July of '76, but sadly never see. I joked about how every year for Christmas she messes up the spelling of my last name, the name of my town, and the zip code. A couple hours later I arrived home to find a postcard from Autumn in my mail slot! With my name and address perfect! I couldn't believe it. 

Dear Lisa - Hello! My mom is visiting us where we stay on Duck Lake State Park in a retro-cool cottage overlooking Duck Lake that feeds into Lake Michigan. We were talking and catching up and your sweet name came up. ☺I hope you are well and able to do some traveling and vacationing, yourself. The weather here has been quite perfect and Matt, the kids, and I are reading voraciously, relaxing significantly, and enjoying well this special place of healing for the 5th summer in a row. Have to make a trip to Phili (sic) one of these days and to see you again! Enjoy the rest of your summer! ♥ Autumn

Andrea David in Philly!

One of the coolest Instagram sites is @filmtourismus - I mentioned the site previously when Dick Miller passed away. Andrea also has a dot com. (Interestingly enough, before coming to Philly (she's based out of Germany) she was in Honolulu! The cosmos are so trying to tell me that I am definitely going to Hawaii soon!) She went to some great locations for my favourite film of all time, Rocky. I thought it was hilarious that there is apparently a "Yo Philly! Rocky Film Tour" that definitely has me intrigued. Anyways, if you are on The 'gram, you should totally consider following @filmtourismus.

Just cruisin' 'round...

Spotted this across the room and was cracking up. I love that Jackson has bears and puppers driving a Jeep around the living room. I shared my photo (the first one) with my sister-in-law, Mary, who busted out laughing and said that she took a (better) photo of that too! Hers is the one that reflects her higher quality cell phone camera than mine.