Just A Bunch of Glamorous Fun

Bergdorf Goodman is like the Harvard of department stores.  The price of admission is very high.  You can sort of buy something down in the cosmetics department, but most of the stuff there, the prices are insane.  It isn’t even like Bendel’s where you can buy a chocolate or some kind of cute, small thing to walk out with the Bendel’s bag.  It is Gucci or nothing in that place.

I’m kind of Gucci but on a TJ Maxx budget.  Although I think if I did have Gucci money, I’d still shop at TJ Maxx.

Now there is something at Bergdorf’s that is totally free and it doesn’t involve a potential arrest for grand larceny.  Every year the people who arrange the Bergdorf’s windows into the most insanely fantastical displays that it boggles the mind.

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A Small Town New Year

I never really celebrate New Year.  By the time you get through the run up to Christmas, you are celebrationed out.  I always spend the new year quiet.  I like it.

This year I saw a bit of a small town, Worcester, Massachusetts to be exact.  It has this Walker Evans/Last Picture Show kind of quality to it, I have to admit:

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The Life of A Museum Statue Can’t Possibly Be An Interesting One

You stand in the same spot all day.  In fact, you’ve probably stood there for years.  You have no one to talk to.  Well, actually you can’t really talk.  I guess the only thing is to try and communication with the people around you, those who walk by, photograph you or just look at you.  Are they successful at doing that?? Let’s take a look:

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