Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Double-neato!

Tokidoki shirt of monkey eating hotdog, sitting on a burger
Who sent this!?
Originally uploaded by misocrazy
I forgot to mention the other delightful thing on Valentine's Day; I got a package sent to me from a name I didn't recognize, so I assume it was sent from an eBay seller. But there was no receipt or note. So I don't know who sent it to me!

It would have to be someone who at least knows my love of monkeys and food. Well, that makes it hard to narrow down. But that someone would be savvy enough to find Tokidoki on eBay makes me think it's one of my other Tokidoki-obsessed girlfriends who got it for me.

But nobody's fessed up to getting this for me yet! Mysterious!

Ironically, I did already buy this shirt as a present for someone else, but I haven't gotten around to shipping it!

Also, not really related, but last week, in our graphic design & packaging class, our professor brought in an old hand-lettered book about calligraphy from 1700. It's older than this country.

Unbelievably, he let us touch this book and peruse the pages. We were amazed and afraid to touch it, because it seemed like something that should be in a museum.

We asked him where he got it. He said he found it in a New York bookshop, many years ago, and paid five dollars for it. He said there used to be more bookshops in New York. I told him he needed to go on "Antiques Roadshow" with it, and he said he'd never sell it. I probably wouldn't either, but I'd just want to know how much it was worth!

Hmm, I think I need to go shop for books!

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2 Comments:

Blogger the.nicole.harvey said...

My first guess is that it's Penny who sent the shirt--she's thoughtful like that.
AND, yes, this is yet one more reason why you should patronize small indie bookstores (not just because I am a small indie bookseller, neither).

2:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would love to have a book like that! Meanwhile I will just cherish my (un)valuable 15 year old first editions...

1:33 PM  

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