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alexanderstadlercollection will return in the new year.

stadler-kahn scarves and BabysittingKevin productions are both coming soon.

Have a great holiday.

-Alex

babysittingkevin 2010

Both of those questions were answered several months ago.

otters, philadelphia zoo, October 2010

squash at George Baker Flowers, philadelphia PA

good use of patent leather accent,

philadelphia PA, October 2010

Their dancing was interrupted by his editing.

moss, Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia

"Perhaps the most spectacular single piece and story belong to Mary Ann Schildnecht. While serving a two-year jail sentence in Milan on a hashish-smuggling charge, Mary Ann was taught to embroider by the nuns. One day she decided to embroider a whole shirt so she tore her bed sheets into pieces of the right size and started at the sun. She then worked to the left side-the sky, the trees, the forest scene, the Road to the Sun. 'That's fine and dandy,' she thought, 'but I need a house. It might as well be a castle for parties and...the hole in the other sleeve is for a transfusion if I ever need one, the peacock on the back is because we need animals, and the psychedelic sleeve is because I didn't want to think.'"

-from Native Funk and Flash, by Alexandra Jacopetti with Photographs by Jerry Wainright

published in 1974

telephone pole, Providence, Rhode Island

telephone pole, Providence, Rhode Island

She was the one who brought the lawyers into it.

In Ashfield, Massachusetts

you can have the best corned beef hash

(really, I mean it, it's like a duck confit masquerading as a corned beef hash)

at

Elmer's Store

396 Main St
Ashfield, MA 01330

(413) 628-4003

www.elmersstore.com

dryer lint for Mary Kelly

In Tucson, the best Tex-Mex in town can be found at Paco's Mexican Food on Grant Rd.

You would probably want to order the soft taco with carnitas and guacamole or the carne asada burrito, both fresh and delicious, and served on flour tortillas which are tender and tasty enough to be eaten on their own.

The flan is rich and dense, more the consistency of a pot de creme, and is sufficient for two.

5563 E Grant Rd, Tucson, AZ 85712-2209(520) 733-5935

shadows, Philadelphia

Double Bubble bubble gum

His talent lay dormant throughout the war.

I had never seen so many insects at one time.

portrait of a lady, circa 1985 (photographer unknown to me)

Her emotional IQ is so low that one is forced to be rude.

smushed can, philadelphia PA, september 2010

taqueria, Tucson AZ, September 2010

"It is the hour of the dressing room, when actors are not quite off the street but hardly yet onstage."

André Aciman, on 4:30 in the afternoon

from his essay Counterintuition

leaf pictures after Charles Burchfield (do NOT miss the Burchfield show at the Whitney Museum, it closes on October 17)