FEB
2010
22

Manolo’s Monday Miscellany

Manolo says, here are the few links which may perhaps amuse… Finding her start as a shoe model, Beth was uniquely suited to understanding the needs of women’s shoes, and was known for the comfort, wearability and beauty of her designs. Shoe Clips. Detention Notice.

FEB
2010
22

Ode to The Olympic Men’s Ice Skating Silver Medalist

Manolo says, Ice skating, it is so poetic, like Shelley! . . “As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.” . . “Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!” . . “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”

FEB
2010
22

Nike Cole Haan Verona For the Monday

Manolo says, it is Monday and you are back at your desk doing that thing that you do to earn your panem cotidianum. Unfortunately, the computer on your desk is not pulling its own weight in this relationship. Indeed, it is actively hindering you, by making weird clicking noises, flickering its screen menacingly, and frequently crashing. (If it were the strange cat acting this way, you would throw the stones at it.) And, although you have tried everything in your bag of techo-tricks, to include repeatedly pushing the On button, jiggling the power cord, shouting imprecations, and banging the console…