{"id":408,"date":"2007-11-20T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T16:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/news\/2007\/parcels\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T17:40:51","slug":"parcels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/news\/2007\/parcels\/","title":{"rendered":"Parcels"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am inordinately excited about Oliver Sacks’s new book<\/a>! I love him. One of my favorite thing to do when I travel is to keep a small running list of books on Amazon.com and then have them turn up in time for my arrival back home; I bought the Sacks book, I bought Phoebe Damrosch’s Service Included<\/em> (as reviewed here<\/a>), the new Nigella Lawson<\/a>, and a birthday present for a friend (well in advance!). <\/p>\n

Two nights ago we had a dusky walk to the pool with a really spectacular sunset (click to enlarge!). picture-4.png<\/a> I’m not sure why I am so obsessed with this intersection between something being state-run and it being really clean and wonderful. I guess in my vision of utopia, that’s sort of how things are organized…? I love the weirdness of the municipal buildings in Chinatown, though: the “No Spitting!” sign in Chinese 130ebway_b_med.jpg<\/a>in the post office, the completely surreal video collection at the local library, the old-fashioned spatial organization of the Knickerbocker post office on East Broadway. I don’t think you could get away with such quirkiness in this Scandolovely configuration; I think the weirdest thing you have here is a diagram in the municipal showers with Big Red Dots instructing you where on your body you have to wash before entering the pool. I had thought it was myth, but in October, I actually saw somebody get asked by the Man in the Booth to go back and have a do-over.<\/p>\n

An observation: winters in Vermont are windy, sure, but the wind seems to be circular and sort of dramatic\/romantic in its paths, whipping around trees and over and through buildings. Here, however, the fact of the island’s existence seems irrelevant to nature; the wind rushes right by, on its way to Norway. It’s a lonesome feeling, but when you get inside, it is that much cozier for it.<\/p>\n

I have just eBayed an alto recorder.<\/a><\/p>\n

I am going to figure out how to make thanksgiving dinner here (which is, no shitting, called \u00c3\u00beakkagj\u00c3\u00b6r\u00c3\u00b0arh\u00c3\u00a1ti\u00c3\u00b0amatur), where they don’t have sausage to speak of.<\/p>\n

picture-6.pngAlso: BAA BAA BAA!<\/a> Did everybody else know this already?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am inordinately excited about Oliver Sacks’s new book! I love him. One of my favorite thing to do when I travel is to keep a small running list of books on Amazon.com and then have them turn up in time for my arrival back home; I bought the Sacks book, I bought Phoebe Damrosch’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}