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Full Moon Week
Lots going on… election sighs and hoorays in sometimes the same breath. Starvation amongst the Snap crew class (which I know well) lest the Good King opens up his heart. And Thanksgiving holidays on possible hiatus till the planes run again.
In the meantime, I discovered a new film about the lungs of the world, Yanuni, by the wonderful director Richard Ladkani, a specialist in films about nature and the need to respect her, centers around Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Amazon who rises from activism to Brazil’s new Ministry of Indigenous People. Juma is a heart filled warrior who wields strength and intelligence while at the same time showing a deep emotional nature and response to all the difficulties that surround her family and her people.
As if she didn’t have enough challenges, her activist husband Hugo has the scary job of destroying illegal mining set ups up and down the Amazon. It’s a romantic and true story about two people fighting for something most of the world seems to have forgotten to protest about….. woke was made an ugly term by you know who but Juma is very awakened to how important the Amazon is to her people and to the rest of the planet.
Even before Halloween has turned the corner, Christmas is blowing in and with it the horrible problem of gift giving. Problem no more…I literally fell into an adorable gift shop that’s down a few stairs on East 53rd. The business card reads, the hunt is over– Chase the Fox, (chasethefox.com) opened by a former nurse from the south. The shop is filled with wonderful objets, from art to candles to Knick knacks you’d love to unwrap –and speaking of wrap, the owner wraps for free for each gift you buy. It smells good and you won’t want to leave, but if you do, there’s an old time dive bar named Stranglove right upstairs.
Barney’s blasted for playing with form…come on now!
As a petite woman who dreams of having legs that go up to my eyeballs next life time, I understand how the average female hates to be pitted against the likes of a Kate Moss… but the reaction that Barney‘s new Disney window display is provoking is absurd… the positive body image action group strikes me, excuse the reference to a competitor.. as.looney tunes. The conceit of taking classic figures like Mickey and Daisy Duck and putting them in designer fashion is just that… a whimsical conceit meant to curl the lips upward, not into the scowl it seems to be making in the plus size modelling industry. These are cartoon characters… of course, designer fashion looks special on a Zoe Saldana body, but the point of the window is just to take …oops, now a British reference, the mickey out on the whole thing… fashion and cartoon icons..stretched literally to ridiculous lengths… fashion is fun and absurd at the same time… designers can be absurdly serious…how hard it must have been to get their permission to dress cartoon characters in the first place…Did these people never see Fantasia, where forms are mutated like an acid trip. It’s all for art.
I have a Minnie Mouse doll and I’m going to dress her in Zak Posen… I’m sure she’ll look lovely at 8 inches high..the shoes give her another half an inch! Frankly, her womanly hips would work beautifully in a vintage Chanel I was saving for SnowWhite.
Come on guys..we got through the last debate… it’s a holiday window, not health care …ooops, I know, young girls are going to diet excessively to look like one of these stretched out characters… really? I don’t think so.
Like an O-Henry Story, the Gift
While the rest of you are wrapping kindles and flat screens, I have accepted that the only gifts to come my way this holiday season may befrom secret santa parties, and give very little personal satisfaction. So it was in the spirit of self-giving that I decided to present myself this week.What joy it was when my toilet refused to flush properly this Thursday. A crap situation which gave me a real reason to be generous. My over-priced tenement has yet to offer the amenities of a pro-active super, so I am usually left with the awful task of plunging and snaking. These plumbing tools of the trade are rather difficult to use and require dexterity and strength or a boyfriend…three items I seem to be living without.
Since I only have one bathroom, I was forced to visit the upscale hardware store and told them of my dilemma. Of course, I could have settled on one of the standard rubber bell plungers, but they always turn inside out and I’m too weak to master them. The clerk showed me a new gadget that “even his grandmother can use.” It’s a sea blue plastic that sits on the toilet rim and apparently all that is needed is to put the lid down. The air pressure does the rest. It looked actually complicated but it was the twenty-two dollar price tag ….I asked for something cheaper and there it stood. My new best friend.
No lovers need apply. This black multi-layered rubber thing sang out to me. I knew it would be easy to use…it looked like an accordian on a stick and at $12 I lept.
Once home, I put my little friendt over the toilet bowl and pushed. And pushed. And then, boom, the water went down and I was ready for a weekend without BTS (blocked toilet syndrome). What a Chanukah revelation. It’s the simple things after all.
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