Lost in Translation

Or not. Odes are a lot of work. How about pictures instead:

This is the best part. It’s carpentry magic:

It’s the same drawer!

So simple and yet so satisfying.

You must understand, I have been dreaming about a coffee table for years. A completion of the couch. A place to put my feet up (this was pre-Strandmon). We never thought we could fit one in without constantly kneecapping ourselves in transit across the living room. Then I found this handsome oak table and realized that its compact dimensions would make my dream a reality.

A new look. We asked designer Kelly Frankeny to create a news tabloid as imagined by Coco Chanel. Frankeny — a globetrotting designer who is often dropping into beleaguered democracies in Africa and Latin America to work her wonders for embattled newspapers – responded to our challenge with a sophisticated and dynamic design. A brilliant and sassy blond Texan, she has created a new Salon as big as her personality. And yes, while invoking the brassy urgency of a news tabloid, the new design also conveys the elegance of the House of Chanel. Both Frankeny and the new Salon know how to use red lipstick and a simple black dress for maximum effect.

I go to Salon mostly for Greenwald; now I have an image of him in lipstick and black dress. This does not enhance the Salon experience for me.

The code underwiring the House of Chanel synergy isn’t making my computer happy, either. It just gets louder and louder, as if the CPU is laboring under some terrible load. Of bollocks.