When you open that trunk I smell mushrooms.

It's delicious. It tastes like nothing at all.

Riff on Mrs Vreeland's wallpaper (original was a Brunschwig & Fils)

There was a man on the boat who could take the peel off an orange in a way that made it look like a frog.

I think if you want to collect chickens you should collect chickens.

The little eggs are filled with confetti.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with your choice of shoe. The shoe is just a metaphor.

You think you are seeing blackness but it is actually just endless layers of transparency.

Blue Mosque design

Egyptology design

Circus One design

Rickety design

Find me two more like her.

Stand over there in the leaves and let me see if it gets any better.

It's fine during the day but at night something sinister rises up with the fog and then it's better to be indoors.

The cake plate was her mother's. She sold it to me for fifteen dollars.

 "I went to Staten Island, Sharon

  to buy myself a mandolin.

  

  And I saw the long white dress of love

  on a storefront mannequin.

  Big boats chugging back with a belly full of cars

  all for something lacy.

  Some girl's gonna see that dress 

  and crave that thing like crazy."

  -Joni Mitchell, Song for Sharon, Hejira

Sometimes I just wish they would write the idea on an index card and save me the bother of having to look at it.

Something in the interior is poking into my side.

Birthday lunch for Edna Lewis

potted shrimp on toasts and a champagne cocktail with geranium syrup

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steamed asparagus with lemon juice, duck drippings, parmesan, chopped fresh tarragon and a fried egg

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pan roasted quail, sweet potato souffle, and sauteed watercress

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Red Leicster cheese with apples and good mostarda

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strong coffee ice cream

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brandy and candied grapefruit peel

I have to put out champagne and perfume so that one of them will come and inhabit my body.

He gave each dog the same name and so they were (for him) 

the same dog.

I am a Vuillard man myself.

Things to eat (mostly sweets) in San Francisco/Berkeley, California.

Bergamot or Tamarind Chile Caramels at Miette

www.miettecakes.com

Lemon Poppyseed Pound Cake at Tartine

www.tartinebakery.com

Cornmeal Cherry Scones, Cheese Bread, Brioche Buns, Morning Buns, and lunchtime pizza at The Berkeley Cheeseboard

http://cheesboardcollective.coop

New Orleans style Iced Coffee at Blue Bottle Coffee

www.bluebottlecoffee.com

A good and cozy place to stay is The Inn at the Opera

www.shellhospitality.com/hotels/inn_at_the_opera/

The Curry Fried Chicken at Foreign Cinema is very nice, plenty for two not so hungry people.

www.foreigncinema.com

But she then said,"No, no. I'll just sit here with my yoghurt."