Right Now I Am Obsessed With:

• my new game: trying to choose seven people from the people on the subway train that I'd want to be stuck with in a life-or-death situation, i.e. stranded with on a desert island.
• Conan's Freckles
  
• Michael Jordan's tweets.
  
• deciding on a grad school.
  
• checking astrology zone for advice with the above. Aware this is not a good sign.
  
• my neighborhood florist/skateshop/babyclothes purveyor. Yeah. All of that in one.

Right Now I Am Obsessed With

• making these curtains
  
• designing a shelf from pipes that is pressure mounted (not sure if that is the correct term) but also aesthetically pleasing and won't beggar me.
  
• not being obsessed with my local coffee guy who, it turns out, is not single.
  
• everything to do with Erykah Badu's new album, mostly gleaned from her and questlove's twitter convos.
  
• having a love like theirs. (in the "one love" sense, you know).
  

Bad Ass: Vardzia

Vardzia is a ruined honeycomb of arched passageways and artificially enlarged caves on a steep mountainside in Georgia. It is on a "tentative list" for UNESCO World Heritage status.

From bldg blog.

Not today but someday: My own flag

If I ever become (choose adjective: rich, famous, lucky, killer-skilled) enough to have my own (choose: country, island, street), my flag will look something like this one from the Benin Empire, a pre-colonial African state situated in modern Nigeria that lasted from 1440 until 1897.

Maybe by then they'll have animated fabric (Harry Potter style) and there will be slicing-head action!

via kottke.

The list

Galileo's finger is on display at the Museo di Storia della Scienza. Go there some day to see it.

star watching

EVENT: Every last Tuesday of each month you can see the stars. Well, sort of. At the monthly event you will “enjoy a live presentation under the brilliant stars of the Zeiss Mark IX Star Projector. This tour of the heavens offers a view of the constantly changing night sky. Learn about the current positions of the Moon, planets, and stars, as well as visual spectacles such as meteor showers, eclipses, and conjunctions.”

6:30pm // Hayden Planetarium Space Theater at AMNH [Central Park West at 79th St] // $12