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Dorset Picnic Basket for Four
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The Kusudama Picnic Basket
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The Mealbox
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Boxsal Picnic Boxes
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Qing Dynasty Picnic Basket (1744)
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Ascot Collapsible Insulated Picnic Basket
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Half Moon Round Birdcage Slatted Bamboo Wood Picnic Basket
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Leather tea-set picnic basket made in early 20th century, comes with sterling silver accessories.
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Hermes Limited Edition 35cm Barenia Leather & Wicker Picnic Kelly Bag with Palladium Hardware
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Estetico Quotidiano Picnic Basket
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Picnic Trunks
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URFresco Off the Floor Picnic Basket
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Atelier Teratoma Space Age Picnic Basket
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Victorian Picnic Basket (1833)
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Fayelle Wharton Bush Virtual Picnic Box Collection
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The Galloway Gourmet Trotter
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Handlebar Picnic Basket
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Gucci Wool Picnic Blanket/Basket
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Brexton Wicker Picnic Basket (1923)
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Picnic Box couture by Dombon-a-tanya & Béta Version
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Picnic Bike
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Picnic Backpacks
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Jean-Pierre Vitra Disposable Picnic Set
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Willow BBQ Picnic Baskets, Picnic and Beyond
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Rolls-Royce Phantom Zenith Picnic Basket
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Vintage Green Picnic Suitcase (1942)
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Animated Picnic Baskets
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Springtime Picnic Basket
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Wicker Watermelon Picnic Basket (1962)
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The Green Space Travel Picnic Case
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Picnic Bento Basket
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Ancient Chinese Picnic Baskets
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Peichun Lee PiqueNique Basket
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Fisher Price Fun Food Picnic Basket
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Gray House White Picnic Basket
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Picnic cabinet of gold lacquered wood, containing tiered box of four sections, sake bottle, five stacking trays and one single tray, decorated with panels containing floral and landscape designs. (18th century)
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p.s. Hey. ** Misanthrope, Dis was dat. Hey. I’m good enough. You sound like you. Has the once a month thing made being in the office exciting in some sense? ** A, Hi. Yeah, sorry, I’m catching up. I’ll write today. No FedEx delivery, it’s true, and that is very common. I’ll check on that, but Zac does have the ARC for me, and I’ll get it from him as soon as he’s back here. ** Dominik, Hi!!! I do. Like him. How could I not? I assume you’ll have a proper throne for him in Vienna. If I see anything amazing in my brief time there, I’ll let you know, but you probably know everything already. My jet lag is just kind of barely tinkling inside me today, so, unless I have a relapse, I might be in the clear. Surely I can win a battle with someone called EmotionalDistress. I did see ‘Bullet Train’ on my flight I took to LA to make the film. I think I thought it was fun enough and helped make the time pass. I don’t remember it so well though. I liked it more than ‘Dune’, which I saw on my flight back here, but I didn’t like it as much as ‘John Wick 4’. Why do you ask? Ha ha, nice love. Nice love is a rare treat. Love making everyone on earth a hot fudge banana split with double whipped cream, G. ** Nick., Hi, Nick.! It’s really good to see you. It’s been ages (my fault). Obviously it’s highly excellent that you’re doing well. How so, if that’s explainable? I’m good. The filming went great. Hm, just being out in the desert for six weeks was pretty strange in general because some very odd people choose to live out there. And having a film shot in their hood was unusual enough that a bunch of them kept showing up to watch, meaning a posse of excessively tanned, very drunk people were often standing around partying at the end of the driveway of the house we were shooting at. That got a little old. Tell me odd or not odd things about your life of late, if you so choose. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T! Awesomeness to see you, sir and buddy. I’m so excited to edit the film into being. Yes, I just saw that your novel is out. That’s so amazing. Of course, of course, I would love to have a post about it. It would be an honor. Send it ASAP and I’l launch it ASAP. Great! Enjoy the birth! Love, me. ** Jack Skelley, Cock cheese could make the nicest guy in the world hateful. Well, hateful might be overstating it. Standoffish? Next week for the gig, gotcha. Happy rehearsals. Oh, sure, I know Hobart. I look at it regularly. Excellent stuff, dude! Hook me/us up obviously when they drop. ** David Ehrenstein, Happy you’re a fan like me. I didn’t know that about the costumes. ** Bill, Sounds fun, the screening. I don’t know if they’ll screen it over here. Probably. I met Johnny Ray Houston a couple times back in the queer zine days, and I’m FB friends with him so I get to loosely follow his goings on. Sounds fun! ** _Black_Acrylic, Ha ha, watching ‘Skinamarink’ when even the sightest bit dozy would be a challenge. I’m glad you liked it. I was just strongly urging John Waters to watch it a few nights ago. So sorry about the mess with your team. Any chance you’ll get another genius this time? ** Steve Erickson, Hi. The plan is that Zac and I will put together a cut of the film that we’re happy with on our own. Then we’ll go into a studio with a pro to help us finesse things we can’t do ourselves. Like the ‘ghost camera’ sections are going to need a lot of knowhow and work to function properly. Then we’ll either finish the edit with the pro or on our own. Then we’ll get help to do the color correcting and sound. I have no idea how much footage we have, time wise. A lot. We have a structure for the film firmly in mind, and it’s pretty set, but no doubt we’ll fiddle and move things around a bit in the editing. What did your doctor recommend re: the Klonopin? I too have seen only a couple of Ottinger’s docs, and, yeah, I don’t remember thinking they were amazing or anything. Everyone, Three new reviews/pieces by Steve for you today. To wit: ‘For Artsfuse’s May column of short reviews, I wrote about producer Samurai Banana’s album JUST TIRED and David Easteal’s excellent film THE PLAINS. And for InReview Online, I reviewed the National’s new album FIRST TWO PAGES OF FRANKENSTEIN.’ ** Bernard Welt, Well, well, Mr, Welt! Hi, Bernard! Yeah, I can’t believe we actually shot the film, but, what do you know, we did. I did read at Folio Books. Maybe with Tim? Was the Corcoran tribute to Doug Lang videoed and made public? No Paris + you this year? Really?! Not even in glorious Autumn? Do your best. You’ll be glad. As will I, natch. Even rimming has a detour sign now? Fucking hell. I was hoping that commenter was a conspiracy theorist. Take care, man. ** Cody Goodnight, I’m good, I think. ‘Shanghai Express’ and ‘Snow White’ is an inspired double bill. You should be a film programmer. Among being many other things, of course. Enjoy. ** alex, I can’t imagine ever giving up coffee, but it sure would simply things. The hospital job, right. Big admiration for working in a youth health drop-in centre. If I wasn’t so busy doing what I do I would really like to do that. Generally when I write to music, I do keep it pretty low because my brain is such that I tend to start prioritising the sound over my imagination. What kind of sounds are you finding most helpful to the writing? Even though what we shot for the film exceeded even my hopes and expectations, it still seems to be the film we had envisioned. But, yeah, since we shot the film wildly out of sequence, we really won’t know how it works or how it should best work until the editing. That’s where the film happens really. I plan to go take a long walk in the Tuileries today, so I will have a pretty nature-y day. I hope yours panned wonderfully out. ** politekid, Hi. Glad it stuck: the post, her, stuff. The Nobel Prize is a weirdo. Two characters, gotcha. After the Herculean task of shooting our new film with a large cast, I’m feeling pretty dead set on making our next film intimate and easy to do. Famous last words, etc. I don’t know if I know who Mike Nelson is. I’ll find out. Whoa, cool about your sister. What’s the book? I want to see some art this week. And friends. If I can manage to do that and write a bit, that’ll do. ** Guy, I think my lag is taking its last breaths. I feel like everybody finds everybody on Instagram. It’s like Oz or something. From afar at least. I guess all those longing slaves on the S&M sites looking for hell on earth should get themselves over there pronto. Well, that’s quite a story about your twink slave, and a very interesting story, need I even say. Happy to hear anything about that that you care to expose me-wise. Uh, I don’t know, I think I’ve been optimistic since I climbed out of my crib, and I have no idea why really. Maybe anarchism helps? It helps you find a logical reason why things happen that is no fault of yours deep down? I don’t know. All I can say is that my lifelong optimism has never been damaged by anything bad that’s happened to me, and fuck knows why really. ** Okay. I was sure I did a post about my inexplicable mild fascination with picnic baskets in the distant past, but I couldn’t find it, so maybe I didn’t, and now I have. See you tomorrow.
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Reflecting on the closing note of today’s P.S. – you did indeed do another post about picnic baskets. I remember it. But this new one is most welcome as well!
I actually don’t know too many places in Vienna yet, so I’m very much open to suggestions!
Good, good. I’m glad your jet lag seems to have died.
I asked whether you’d seen “Bullet Train” because I wanted to recommend it as one of those “so bad it’s actually good” movies we talked about a while back. A… good while back, haha. I barely ever watch action movies, but I watched this one because someone suggested that I’d love the Twins (Lemon & Tangerine), and I indeed did.
Okay, love. A hot fudge banana split with double whipped cream would be most welcome right now. Thank you! Love transforming into the tiny raccoon crawling out of the picnic basket quite strangely in the “Animated Picnic Baskets” section, Od.
Thank you so much DC, that sounds amazing. You’ve saved me a lot of unnecessary anxiety with that Paris package by sharing this reassurance with me. I’m so grateful Zac received the ARC and is bringing it to you and he suggested I sent it to both Cali/Paris addresses. What a relief. I guess who cares what happens to the Paris one but please give me a nudge when he gives it to you. Have a banger of a day on your jet-lag healing. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Dennnis — just as Yogi Bear steals picnic baskets, I shall steal that gif of exploding donuts! xo Jak
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Dennis, Some of these are really complex. Even complicated. I’m trying to think if we ever had a legit picnic basket. I feel like we did and maybe did a picnic or two when we were little but that all dried up somehow. Such is Life.
Ha! Hmm, I think the only exciting thing about the once a month thing is seeing who else might actually show up. So far, it’s just me in a quadrant of about 40 cubicles. The only light on is the one above me. They’re motion-detected lights.
However, I was pleasantly surprised to see my buddy Tommy yesterday outside on smoke breaks. He’s really high up in the agency and goes to Capitol Hill with the Commissioner when the latter testifies in front of Congress. But he’s this really nice and funny guy who humors me and my keraziness.
So, the clay court season in tennis is upon us. We’ve been watching all the tournaments, me, my mom, even David. Lots of fun matchups.
Otherwise, just making it through our days and trying to be happy.
I’m still fighting this kind of malaise. I get all my shit done, but there’s other shit I really want to get done, but then there’s this…malaise. Ugh. Things’ll be all right, though. 😀
Today’s post has me hungry for a picnic! One featuring Tunnock’s teacakes, a fine Scottish delicacy that is the ultimate in picnic food.
Re Leeds United, the director of football was sacked today and the manager will surely follow. His mooted replacement Sam Allardyce is hardly a genius, and has been described as having “a unique brand of puke football.” It’s a long way to go from Bielsa to this and I’m not looking forward to it.
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Ha! We have a picnic almost every week when the weather is nice (usually on Sunday). There’s always a jambon rouge and good cheese with bread and a bottle of wine (pink) and lots of fruit. We have a nice basket from the Hotel Cheval Blanc in Paris.
We fly for Ibiza next week for the summer.
Hi Dennis! How’s tricks? I’m stoked both figuratively and literally that the blog has returned. I’ll join the gang of us asking the obvious and impossible question: how was the shoot? But well aware that you don’t want to be writing repeated responses to that question day after day. It must be a big relief to get the thing in the can after the slog of funding etc etc. Is the plan still to do an initial showing at Halloween? Anyway, we should hang out soon, would love to catch up properly. Lots of change with me, but still hanging on in the big P. Love to you, xoT
Ha, that’s from the movie Basket Case? I revisited it last year, and it was a bit rough and disappointing. Have you read Tom Reamy’s “The Detweiler Boy”, which was clearly the inspiration for the movie? It’s really lovely.
Good to hear the jetlag is on its way out.
Just finished the new Kelly Link. My favorite fiction of the year so far.
Bill
Mike Nelson is great, i think you’d love him. huge labyrinthine (sometimes literally) installations, lots of paranoid worldbuilding & atmosphere. The Coral Reef is usually considered his top top thing, never seen it in person but this is a good precis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUsaSnyvZnA
my sister’s book is called Tudor Liveliness. lemme see if i can pull up a link for that too… https://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/tudor-liveliness/?k=9781913107376 it’s pretty academic & much more trad history than funky theory stuff, but if you’re into wonky 16th c. british art i’d recommend it. the general gist is that she uses rhetorical handbooks &c. to reconstruct how tudor people thought of ‘liveliness’, in a different way to how we think of it — less about realism and more about detail, puns, information. and this has all sorts of repercussions for how we think about the period e.g. the supposed & inconsistent fear of idolatry, why portraits from the time seem to be kinda disproportionate & not great likenesses, &c. she’s crazy clever and already getting pretty successful with it all.
art & friends & writing a bit: dreamy. wishing you huge & calm resonances for the week ahead
I’m staying at the same dose of Klonopin, then I will probably will taper down to the next level after talking to my doctor a month from now.
I have a lot of ideas for my script, but I can’t work up the energy to actually write anything. The concept has changed – it’s now about the experience of an office worker who works for a rich tech bro after his boss puts ahuayasca in the coffee, landing him in a world of cosmic horror, rather than being a monologue from the Zuck/Musk figure himself. I’ve thought that as he delivers the monologue, a red light will start to glow on his face, getting heavier and heavier.
I saw a 7-minute horror short on YouTube last night called PORTRAIT OF GOD that was very inspiring in doing a great deal with only one actor/character and imagery that barely shows anything. It’s technically not a student film, but the director was attending college and shot it there when he made it.
It’s good to see you too! That is really odd but I’m glad they had something interesting to watch! I know it’s a long ways out but I hope you and yours end up doing a screening here in nyc so we can meet and stuff that’d be fun! Well all of a sudden my life’s so fun! Like right now I’m just in my friends basement off an assortment of drugs chilling out to music it’s simple stuff like this that’s everything I’ve dreamed of for awhile and it’s happening so often and I’m so clean and content to experience it all! There’s also this boy who doesn’t make me crazy but he make me feel good and we’re trying to like take things naturally but I do think we both really like each other and it feels really good liking him sorry the drugs have me feeling extraordinary weightless so just tell me how you are and know I’m glad to be back!
Hi Dennis.
How are you? I hope you are well. Really comfy post today. Whenever I think of Spring, picnic baskets do come to mind, especially whenever I walk in the park near where I live. I used to go on picnics with my mom and my classmates during field trips to the local zoo or botanical gardens. They were very nice. Thank you for the pleasant vibes, Dennis. My day was decent. I haven’t done much except finish some last minute assignments and buy some tiramisu for myself. Thank you for the compliments, Dennis. I would like to be a film programmer. As for Shanghai Express, I adored it. The only other Sternberg I have seen is The Scarlet Empress, which I also adored. There’s something about his films that just speak to me. They’re such visual wonders. Marlene Dietrich is, obviously, incredible. For Snow White, it’s one of my favorite Disney films. I am not a fan the company and its practices that are causing it to monopolize the film industry. However, there are several films they have made that I enjoy, with Snow White being one of them. Being a twisted person, my favorite parts are obviously whenever the Queen is on screen, or the forest Snow White runs into. Can’t wait to rewatch Pinocchio! For tomorrow’s agenda, I’m going to dive into Seijun Suzuki’s Taisho Trilogy, starting with Zigeunerweisen. I’m also going to rewatch George A. Romero’s Martin tomorrow. Have a lovely day or night, Dennis!
Hey Dennis, Kyle here. No need to apologize since I know the film was really all you’ve had time for the last few months, but if you have any more down time now, I’d still really love to hear what you think of the short I sent a little while back! I hope production went well and you’re feeling good about what you were able to shoot. I’ve been extremely unemployed the last month or so, which has sucked but it’s let me focus on writing in a more serious way, which is something I haven’t been able to get myself to do in a long while. Trying to write some sort of a feature I could try to produce on a micro budget in the next 2-3 years. I picked up Try this week which I’ve been reading in between writing sessions and been really loving it so far. Also just finally got around to House of Leaves, seeing as it’s one of those books I’ve always felt I should read if for no other reason than to at least have an opinion on it, which I both kind of loved and found annoying and tedious in equal measure. I’m curious what you’d have to say about it. The core story about the house as well as horror that’s based around psychology and space reflecting one another is extremely my shit, but the constant formal gymnastics and Bukowski bad boy interjections really grated on me by the end. Anyways, hope you’re well.
Also PT 2: years: DC — I’m curious if you ever listened to The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black or know of my friend Kembra Pfahler? She was apart of that Lydia Lunch/Richard Kern scene. We were chatting about you on the phone the other night. She’s a very cool performance artist. Boundary pushing. You guys should DEF hang in Paris!