The painter has finally come to paint our stairway. This is a very exciting development. In the duplex we have a big, big stairwell leading from the front door up to our apartment, and we have it all to ourselves. This means we have a great expanse of wall space for hanging things, not the least of which is a giant wood-framed beveled mirror that we got from my mom and dad and which is currently taking up a ton of space in a box on our porch. I can't wait to finally get that up. I can't wait I can't wait.
Now if only I was rolling in the chips, I could get a bunch of my one-sheets restored and backed with linen like I've been itching to do for years, and then we could hang those up there too. My folks are in good with the local shop. I'm dying to get my Compulsion and Blonde Bait posters shored up. Can you believe Posteritati is charging $350 for their Compulsion one-sheet? WTF, they are out of their gourds. I paid $20. Good gracious.
There was a KSTP news truck out at the end of our block today. Turns out they did a live remote to talk about Dutch elm and how there are still almost 5,000 trees that need to be taken down. One of those trees is in front of our house. The giant beautiful place at the end of the block has three, I think. That's where they were broadcasting from. All the trees lining the street in front of that house have orange rings painted around them. It's so depressing. I remember bringing home our little baby evergreen rosemary tree a few weeks back, and the city was taking an elm out of our neighbors' back yard. I tried to shield it from the trauma while I brought it in the house, like I was trying to cover its eyes or something. "Don't look! It'll be OK! Don't look!" Poor little trees.
We originally thought the news truck was on our block to show off the hot fall foliage we've suddenly got rolling around here during the weather report, or whatever, but alas, it was for far less happy reasons. I took a picture through our porch window to commemorate it anyway. Pretty pretty pretty.
You could see Christopher's car in the background during the remote, incidentally. Exciting! I should have waved out the window or something, but then I remember how much I hate it when people do that. Yahoos.
"Autumn Leaves" by Frank Sinatra etc.
Posted by: Kim at October 13, 2004 10:24 PM
