Bread & Jam for Frances

Baby White Lion

Frances — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:12:32 +0000

via Flickr user floridapfe

Ten Years

Frances — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:38:17 +0000

What my website looked like ten years ago:

2001

2002

Obviously the year I was unemployed — there were more permutations, but I’ll spare you.

2003

More soon.

All the Food is Poison

Frances — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:24:52 +0000

I Love You New York

Frances — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:20:53 +0000

Shortly after this photo was taken I had to put on my sunglasses because I got so sad about not living in Brooklyn. My eyes were all red and weepy and my coffee was wobbling on my knees. It was pathetic.

I Haven’t Got a Stitch to Wear

Frances — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:24:41 +0000

There’s no photographic proof, but one year in college — it was either freshman or sophomore year — I dressed as Morrissey for Halloween. It was a sexually indeterminate time: I had a boyfriend back at home who visited on weekends, and a girlfriend whose dorm room was a strange and somehow comforting place. So styling my hair in the best pompadour I could manage, and suiting up in a pair of faded old jeans wasn’t so odd after all. Someone brought me a bouquet of daisies — there were no gladioli around — and I stuck them in my back pocket, just like I’d seen the Mozzer do in a videotape likely shown to me by that same poor, abused boyfriend.

What happened next? I’m certain I swung those flowers around quite a bit as I trudged up and down the hills of my college campus. I’m certain only a handful of people had any idea what I was going on about. Girls in black eyeliner regarded me warily from doorways. There was a dance that night in the dining hall — the tables had been moved aside and the salad bar stood gap-toothed and empty, pushed up against a wall. I sang out, between fizzy gulps of some horrible, illicit 40-ounce beer, and spun across the dance floor:

There’s a club if you’d like to go
you could meet somebody who really loves you
so you go, and you stand on your own
and you leave on your own
and you go home, and you cry
and you want to die

Wet

Frances — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:25:50 +0000

Just when we thought winter was over.

Paws and Boots

Frances — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:42:46 +0000

North Pond

Frances — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:26:26 +0000

North Pond Trailer from Timothy Nazzaro on Vimeo.

I came across the trailer for a film made here in North Adams by a fellow New York transplant. I don’t know him, but the trailer is lovely, and his photography is beautiful. There’s a screening of the film on Saturday at Images Cinema, if you’re local.

A Collection a Day

Frances — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:38:41 +0000

Lisa Congdon’s vintage price placards at A Collection a Day, 2010.

300&65 Ampersands

Frances — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:32:01 +0000