I am a chair.
Greg Reitman sent me a link to a PBS site where you can find out what object you are. Or what object you would be, if you were an object. (Don’t worry: they are all objects that are MOMA-permanent collection worthy.) I came out as an Eames lounge chair. It’s a chair I actually really do love. Interestingly, my birthday is in February…
I was hoping I’d come out as, like, an LP or something. It would’ve made for a better blog post. So, I took the quiz a few more times, each time just filling in random bubbles. It was like the SATs all over again! The second time I was a Rubik’s Cube. The third time, I was a spork. Neither of these things are really obsolete. Both of them, however, are wonderful.
For all you upstate New Yorkers…
Tomorrow (from 10 to 2) and Sunday (from 1 to 4) I’ll be hanging out with my dog Amos and signing
books at HiHo Home Market and Antique Center in lovely Gardiner, NY. Lot’s of stuff going on in the area this weekend: There’s a Gardiner day festival going on, a big used book sale on Main Street, and the Taste of New Paltz event at the Ulster Fair Grounds nearby. There’s also the Survival of the Shawangunks, an eight-stage triathlon that ends up at the Mohonk Mountain House. Exciting stuff, eh? Heidi, HiHo’s owner and the curator of the many beautiful displays in the various rooms at the shop, has collected a variety of obsolete objects, some of which will be on display at the signing, and some of which will be for sale. I was just over there and saw some mock-camera photo albums and cute address books she is offering up—they’re emblazoned with rotary dials.
Really, what will they think of next?
