Because my beloved co-workers are in the office today I am wearing an EXQUISITE ensemble in brown. A symphony in brown. (A symphony of ugly, more like) And because my beloved Stella is in the office today I chose a terrible shirt to amuse her. I have already done my hideous Liz Lemon dance to amuse Catherine. I am on co-worker amusement fire today. I am living to make others happy, and it is making me happy too.
Mr. Cereal is having a tough day at work. And I have a plan to make it better later. I'm really excited about that too. I don't want to spoil it, but it doesn't involve a symphony in brown.
Speaking of brown, it always makes me think of Lewis Mumford's book The Brown Decades:A Study of the Arts in America 1865-1895. Mumford was, of course, a student of Patrick Geddes, the subject of my thesis. Mumford had a problem with the way Geddes taught, as illustrated in the way Geddes would take people (specifically Mumford himself) through the Outlook Tower, showing them how to see Edinburgh through it.
It's an interesting idea that Geddes was so insistent on showing people how to see things the way he saw them.
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