Instead of ushering in 2008 with a peevish list of "things I can do without" , I'll leave 2007 with a couple of musical finds...

Postcards of questionable merit. (Not to be confused with a previous Highlight of generic landscape postcards .) Of course I'm being co...

"and many of 'em Perhaps you remember a little song that goes something like this– Pink Bemis" Letterpress card, c. 1930s. A l...

If the Eskimos, as the old saw goes, have a hundred words for "snow," I must have nearly as many for "tired." I'm we...

I just finished a book on neurasthenia, that wonderfully evocative nervous disorder of tremulous aesthetes, profligates, and women (more nex...

Wherein, I transcribe verbatim Google searches that have led people to this blog , as found on our sitemeter : Andy Warhol peach slices mor...

I've always liked the Haughwout Building. I remember in the early '90s when it was ghostly and blackened and the clock face stood ou...

I've been bogged down. I've been thinking about what it is, exactly, I want to say about collecting. Rather, about living with, and ...

Devotion to the past [is] one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love. Susan Sontag "Unguided Tour," quoted in The Past is...

Truly Exceptional! Without Peer! rarely greeting the light of day in over 150 years! Eye-Entrancing Discoveries assembled during recent hou...

I recently retrieved all three of my Amphigorey s from storage and in poring over them page by page, I have been struck once again by his ha...

I was not aware of Carlo Bugatti when I saw (a version of) this desk ( top ) at the Art+Design Show at the Armory this past Thursday. The...

Corposant- - the ball of fire which is sometimes seen playing around the masts of ships in a storm, from Italian corpo santo-- holy body. St...

Here, some fantastical illustrations from The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man by Dr. Alesha Sivartha. Sivartha...