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Archive for November, 2007
One More Day!
Nov 29th
Tomorrow—November 30th—is the absolute last day for entries in the Mochimochi Photo Contest! I hope people continue to upload their cute, funny, and artistic photos to the pool, but only those uploaded before midnight EST will be eligible for the contest.
Check back here on Monday to see the finalists and vote for your favorite!
Time Warner Stars
Nov 29th
One of the fun things about New York is the tradition of holiday shop displays, which range from the sublime to the charming to the thoroughly creepy.
I’m planning on reviewing some notable holiday displays throughout the next month, and so I thought I’d start with the one I see almost every day.
The Shops at Columbus Circle are an upscale mall of sorts connected to the Time Warner Center. (I’m usually there for the Whole Foods in the basement, not the Swarovski boutique.)
Every holiday season, or at least for the past three that I’ve been here for, they haul out these enormous spiky stars and hang them from the ceiling.
The stars change color along with atmospheric holiday music. It’s quite beautiful. My husband’s CNN friend says that the Time Warner people are proud of their elegant, interfaith display.
One star hangs lower than the rest, though, and its sharp metal tip points directly at the people riding up from Whole Foods on the escalator.
Every time I get groceries in November and December, I think about the cable breaking and this pointy steel and glass object plunging through my right shoulder. My hands are full of grocery bags, so I’m helplessly immobile as the star of death comes crashing down, ripping my flesh asunder.
Here is the view, looking up, right as I’m about to pass under it.
At least it would be a festive way to go!
New Specs
Nov 28th
I’m bringing metal back this season, after five-plus years of wearing plastic. They make me feel both sophisticated and able to see things.
I think I look good in glasses, but not everyone agrees. As an acquaintance in Japan once conversed with me:
“Why do you wear glasses?
“To make me look smart.”
“Most Japanese girls want to look pretty, not smart.”
“….”
Hay-Eating Sheep
Nov 25th
A Mochimochi Tea Party
Nov 22nd
One week left to enter the Mochimochi Photo Contest! The grand prize box is busting with cool Japanese toys, stationery, craft goodies, and more, and I’m planning some fun runners-up prizes as well.
Here is an awesome unofficial entry from my mother-in-law Bonney:
While the rest of us were enjoying Thanksgiving dinner, the Mochimochi Land toys were having a tea party! (That blurry-looking guest is a big secret, to be revealed sometime early next year.)
I wonder what they discuss over tea? They’re probably gossiping about Bob’s unsanitary origins, Pepto’s unhealthy antacid habit, and that suspicious Ninjabun who recently moved into town.
