general Small additions

Did I neglect to mention I hung my “Manhattan!!” poster the other day? It’s in the kitchen. Odd, but I like it there, and it fits nicely where there was already a screw in the wall. I love this poster. Every time I walk by it I look at it kind of wistfully. It used to hang in my parents’ bedroom, for years and years, and it shows a city that doesn’t quite exist anymore.

The poster.

The artist’s obituary.

Have I also neglected to mention that the people who lived here before had never heard tell of a “nail” or a “picture hanger,” and hung everything on the wall—even the calendar in the bathroom—with quarter-inch wood screws? It’s awesome.

Today I put up my candle sconces over the weird useless no-wiring-behind-them-so-why-are-they-there-oh-just-to-cover-up-these-ten-holes-in-the-wall-I-see plates in the dining room. They look great. (I can’t give you a link on these. They’re from Partylite, which has only a small subset of its catalog online; they’re from years ago; I don’t know what they’re called; and a Google image search of terms like partylite wall sconce glass gives me some truly hideous results I wouldn’t want you to think I had bought.)