it’s possible that everyone will be getting eve dallas blend coffee this christmas

avoiding all my work, just eating junk food and petting sissy and watching bosch (great and terrible at the same time) and catching up on internet reading, like this profile of romance writer nora roberts:

Want to smell like [Nora] Roberts? There’s “Nora” perfume oil, 0.5 ounces for $15.99, and “Nora” body lotion, the scent a blend of jasmine and pomegranate. Fans of the In Death books, which features a coffee-loving New York City cop named Eve Dallas and her magnate husband Roarke (no first name), can get a bag of their own Eve Dallas Blend coffee ($13.99), a blue Eve Dallas NYPSD—the “S” stands for “Security”—hoodie ($38.99), a t-shirt that proclaims “I Dream of Roarke” ($26.99), or one that simply proclaims “I <3 Roarke” ($17.99).

preach

from ann friedman:

Every body is a real body. Every voice is a real voice. Every part of America is the real America.

and i would say no

Fran Lebowitz. Photo: Catherine Servel.

true hero fran lebowitz in new york magazine:

She and Toni [Morrison] talk on the phone every day. “She’s very important to me because there are very few people’s advice I’m interested in,” Fran said. “I’ve not always taken Toni’s advice, but I’m always interested. Toni is so unlike me. When I was young, my mother used to say, ‘Can’t you be the bigger person?’ And I would say no.”

amen dunes

Yuki Ogura

Yuki Ogura, Bathing Women, 1938

sinfully — white

OY

they’re not wrong, though they’re not exactly right, either

marriage

(via laura olin, via elesheva)

blackberries

U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705

discovered via laura olin: USDA Pomological Watercolors:

“The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection documents fruit and nut varieties developed by growers or introduced by USDA plant explorers around the turn of the 20th century. Technically accurate paintings were used to create lithographs illustrating USDA bulletins, yearbooks, and other series distributed to growers and gardeners across America.”

WHOA

feel like they may have missed an opportunity to irish style rebrand the name  (patty cakes?)