Funny Girl

Maybe it's just the fact that I was a child of the early 80's (and that my mom played Streisand & Gibb's 'Guilty' album on a pretty heavy rotation), but I can't help but feel all sorts of nostalgia when I hear Barbra Streisand songs from most any era. Even hearing 'Don't Rain On My Parade' on Glee manages to give me a bit of the goosebumps. Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter...

Banksy in the Bean

Walking home through Chinatown a few weeks ago, I bumped into this piece by British 'graffiti' artist, Banksy. At the time I hadn't heard that a couple of his works had turned up in the city (on Essex Streets in both Boston and Cambridge) and, not looking for but stumbling upon it, the image became one of those moments of spontaneous wonder that come from walking through a city on a summer afternoon.*

*I don't know who those shoes and bike belong to...