By way of apology...

[muckefuck]

I've just discovered that James Lileks has posted a special web supplement to his book Interior desecrators. If you missed this, it began life a couple years ago on his Institute of Official Cheer website--page after page of equal parts hilarious snark and photos of rooms so hideous that no amount of verbiage could do them justice. I don't know that I have laughted harder at anything else I've seen on the web since.

Edit: Be sure not to miss the first of promised weekly updates! This will be of special interest to those of you with spare antique meat grinders lying around the house.

Comments

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love you! I've been missing that site fiercely since he took it down while writing the book....

[windswept.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's excellent.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

He is so invited to dinner.

[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

I love stuff like that. After five minutes of looking at bear411 I start parsing the interiors, rather than the chest hair, for meaning.

While we can all appreciate Lileks' arch commentary, plate five contains two artifacts I'd really like to have- Roy Lichtenstein's "Sunrise" print from 1965. Prints like this, from early in his career, routinely sell now for $7K-$9K. The other is Marisol Escobar's "Kiss" a slikscreen from 1965 that was originally part of a portfolio of political art. It was one of the first images in art to deal explicitly with the power of multinational brands, as opposed to say, the tobacco tins in cubist Picasso. Marisol was a big deal in the 'sixties and this was one of her signature images, although she has slipped somewhat into obscurity. The brushily expressionist work in the center looks familiar but I can't place it.

Other plates have objects designed by Alexander Girard, a key designer of the 'sixties who is undergoing a revival. The whole book is probably loaded with stuff available on eBay. Regrettable needlepoint, for starters.

*Sigh* Now that election is over, I guess I just have to refriend you:)