2. If someone like Junot Diaz ever blurbs MY book as “Cool as fuck,” I will tattoo those words. On someone else. (I don’t like pain. Plus, when you’re cool as fuck, people do what you want!)

3. Spring is coming; the guy whose backyard backs up to my building is out in his plastic chair, barefoot, shirt open, reading the paper. I also know this as “that time of year when I keep my blinds closed all the time.”

4. The exhibit book that accompanies the Gothic fashion exhibit contains about fifteen photos of material actually in the exhibit. The exhibit had something like seventy-five pieces. There will be more about this.

5. In better gown news, Megan Mylan’s mother stopped by my Oscar dress post to give me the details on her daughter’s Oscar dress, which was designed by Megan’s grandmother, who went to the Pratt Institute as a fashion illustrator. Megan promised to wear it if she ever got nominated. Basically, it is the coolest, sweetest thing ever. For once I have used the internet for good, and not for evil!