Texas Gulf Glamour & Too Many Shiny Cleaning Products
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Dear Sand Castle Sculptors,
“owing also to the blinding afternoons that made invisible, to the unpracticed eye, micro-lands of existing urban hip, or just a bench on which to read the paper, the scarce sense from city planners that those residents without garden-crusted homes held their own set of municipal needs which might take the form of some kind of beauty…”
“Houston in the Early Eighties” by Jessica Greenbaum
Love,
VF
⭐ The Very Famous Five ⭐
1. Hardly ever in this life does a renovation make something look better, which is just one more reason why I was ENCHANTED by the Grand Galvez, this pink hotel along the Galveston seawall that was remodeled and reopened in 2022. It’s the prettiest hotel lobby I’ve been in, with huge huge huge chandeliers and checkerboard floors and a real Jazz Age at the Beach atmosphere. Read more about Galveston in recent months here and the city’s ghosts here!
2. This new era of devoted Amazon cleanliness is a deeply soothing, brain-simmering-on-low way to process the chaos and overstimulation we’re all exposed to. The frustrating part about it is that consuming all of these refrigerator bins, slimy pink cleaners, performed daily routines, dishwasher pods, bins, bins, bins, every shape, every size, is that it only leads to more overstimulation and a deeper hole that no woman making an opulent hot chocolate bar in a carefully compartmentalized plastic container can fill.
This all goes to say…VF Friend Rebecca Jennings wrote about the performance of hygiene on TikTok!
It is a home where life happens, not a home where the evidence of life must be diligently erased. “Compare this to homes in films now: massive, sterile cavernous spaces with minimalist furniture,” she writes. “Kitchens are industrial-sized and spotless, and they contain no food. There is no excess. There is no mess.” This, she argues, is due to a shift in the way American culture has viewed both the body and the home: as assets whose value must appreciate at all costs.
3. “Who Was the Mysterious Woman Buried Alone at the Pet Cemetery?”
4. I found this Flickr account from 2011, and it is a sensory delight — shirtless male models on a Bushwick rooftop, coral reef televisions, Reality Girlz.
5. The Local Woman! This week, she…
☆“likes the city’s opportunities” in Harker Heights, Texas. “There isn’t anything that I really dislike about Harker Heights,” Tamara Jones told the Harker Heights Herald. “However, the shopping could be expanded. I would love that they could welcome new business; retails will be good. They could use some new activities for children and family.”
☆ is retiring from McDonald’s after working for 45 years at the Gibsonia location and the one near the Turnpike and Route 8 in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. “And it was at the drive-thru where Dot served her regular customers. ‘I got to know a lot of them by name and sometimes we’d stand and talk for a little while and hold up other customers,’ Sharp said laughing.”
☆ finally resolved the coded mystery of her 135-year-old antique dress in St. Leonard, Maryland. “The code was deemed the ‘Silk Dress Cryptogram’ and, up until recently, was one of the top 50 unsolved codes and ciphers in the world according to the University of Manitoba CEOS,” reported The BayNet.
☆ is keeping her passion for art alive in Minot, North Dakota. “As far as big lofty goals, I don’t have any. I just enjoy doing everything in my own time and not having to worry about working for anybody else, and I enjoy getting to do it in my own space,” Stephanie Grondahl, artist.
⭐ Blingee Museum Entry of the Week ⭐ * Happy New Year 2024 * by loveblinkmike