Not the same auld

[jlh]

I've started feeling rather Christmasy, especially today. Woke up and watched one of my old favorite Christmas movies, Christmas in Connecticut, and then met Ruby, Josh, Cassie and Maya on 5th avenue to look at the windows. The Tiffany windows were a little weird as it was tough for the jewelry to compete with the Warhol drawings. Bergdorff Goodman was opulent and amazing, with couture gowns in weird settings. One window, with little creatures living underground, seemed very Holly while another, with a woman in a gorgeous brown dress surrounded by chocolate and gold flatware, was made for Maya. We went by the redone FAO Schwartz and vowed to return after the holidays as they have an ice cream fountain! Unfortunately the Barneys windows were pretty boring.

(Speaking of Holly, Spiderwick is mentioned in the People Year-End issue Picks and Pans!)

Then downtown to wander through the craft fair at Union Square and then to Old Devil Moon for a lovely dinner with sistermagpie and reenka. Much fun talking to them and Maya about this and that, even if I am (horror!) a Pumpkin Pie type. As we left dinner we saw that the rain had finally turned to snow, which is much nicer even if it is colder, and we all made our way home, me with "Same Auld Lang Syne" in my head.

Today I'm thankful for the return of my Christmas Spirit! I used to have it in spades, and then I lost it for a long while but I think now it might finally have come back. I'm hopeful, anyway.

Comments

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

You drank a toast to innocence? You drank a toast to time?

PS- miss y'all everso!

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

I LOVED that BG window with the stuffed squirrels and tiny violin-playing insects. It was totally Holly. It was Beatrix Potter on crack. It was extremely German--those carved wooden bears were straight out of my childhood with the scary German grandparents. It was like reading the unbowdlerized Grimm.

But! Did you go around the corner and see the femmeslashe window? All in black and white, with commedia dell'arte masks and marble busts? <333!

Definitely not same auld same auld. :-)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I read the unbowlderized Grimm, actually, because my Grimm was my sister's book from 1954. I have a very clear memory of Snow White and her Prince Charming making the evil stepmother dance at their wedding reception in red-hot iron shoes until she fell down dead, and she tried to kill her with a bunch of other stuff before she came up with the apple. And there were all these other weird stories that you never read like one about a bunch of adventurers that were like the Xmen--one had this huge ear and could hear anything and one had vision that was so "sharp" it would break whatever he looked at and he walked around with a cloth tied around his eyes and stuff like that. Way cool.

We totally dug the femmeslashe window! Also, Josh was overwhelmed with clothing lust and wants the smoking jacket from one of the vaudeville windows, and wants to wear a commedia dell'arte mask at New Years.

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

Brings back creepy memories. My mother has a huge 19th c. Grimm with horrifying woodcuts. Lots of torture, out-of-wedlock pregnancy... yep, folktales for the late-night hearth, not for the kiddies...

Hm, I have (as it happens) a large collection of commedia masks and could probably be persuaded to lend one or two to people who would take care with them.

Also have one or two made of cheap white plastic, which you guys can have and trash as you wish. Contact me offlist.