My fellow inebriates,
Look at this crazy ice formation. The wind must have whipped it up last night. We had a flowerpot sitting on our deck, filled with water. This morning the surface had frozen and this weird, three-sided ice formation was sitting on top of it.
It is hollow, which I think is a sign from Nature. It means: “This is a shot glass, LB. It is never too early in the morning to have a shot.”
My Fellow Inebriates,
I found the most rad liquor cabinet ever and immediately brought it to my parents’ attention.
This amazing wood-paneled liquor cabinet with mirrored interior was created by Colin Johnson.
I truly believe that, if we had an epic liquor cabinet like this at LBHQ, we would drink more liquor. Moreover, we would drink more blue liquor, more gold-flecked liquor, and more alien-style cocktails. It would rule, people.
My Fellow Inebriates,
Life without art—at least while sober—would be absolutely meaningless.
Contemplating the print Dan Lacey kindly sent me
I love the idea of lurching around an art gallery with a drink in hand (paw).
LBHQ has turned into a bit of an art gallery over the last few years. You can’t see the walls any more.
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
—George Edward Moore
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art is spirituality in drag.”
—Jennifer Yane
“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts—such is the duty of the artist.”
—Robert Schumann
“Things are beautiful if you love them.”
—Jean Anouilh
“I think an artist’s responsibility is more complex than people realize.”
—Jodie Foster
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
—Aristotle
“By the work one knows the workman.”
—Jean de la Fontaine
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
—Andy Warhol
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are.”
—Oscar Wilde
“The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.”
—Hendrik Willem Van Loon
“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”
—Henry Miller
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