Mrvica
~ MRVICA ~
August 16, 1992 - November 1, 2006
August 16, 1992 - November 1, 2006
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. (Will Rogers)
November 02, 2006
September 30, 2006
Between Simple and FUN, FUN, FUN
Want to get rich? Come to Canada and start making simple woman’s slippers.
It took me no less then a week to find the Chinese ones you see on the left. I wouldn’t complain if they didn’t have all the fancy flowers either -- the fact they are simple, light and obviously created for indoor dwelling two-legged creatures who take their shoes off when they come home was sufficient for me.
FEMALE two-legged creatures - a piece of folded carpet my husband might wear if he could fit into size 7 isn’t quite what I was looking for.
For some reason, Vancouver shoe stores have no slippers whatsoever. It must be because they don’t understand the overly simplified footwear-for-money concept, but subscribe to outrageously-expensive-show-off-shoes-on-which-teenage-girls-can-splurge-their-allowance philosophy instead. The lingerie stores have specialized for fuzzy bathroom and S&M “slippers” designed for punishment, and department stores have filled their racks with multiple variations of one and the same terrycloth/rubber-sole bathroom slipper.
And, to top off the fine range of slippers available, there’s always an option to attempt to revive your childhood by wearing a zoo on your feet.
Presumably, wearing an entire cow on your foot lets the Inner Child play and makes the despicable world of grown-ups fade into the background.
So, after completely familiarizing myself with Canada’s women’s slipper-market, I believe I can safely predict its next big hit -- if you are a fashion conscious Canadian importer with the nose for business, you should hurry up and get us some real FUN&FUNKY
footwear no one will be able to resist!
On the other hand, why hold back? Just give us the whole thing
, so we can truly relax and be ourselves at home!
September 18, 2006
Off to a Gym!
I'm starting to have a sneaking suspicion all passionate bloggers gain weight soon after they find a cause worthy of spending 5 hours a day in front of their computers (crochet not being considered a “cause”), but only the most honest ones will admit it.
So, as I was busy saying NO! to Kosovo independence, issuing warnings about the growing Reich-ization of the European Union dominated by the renewed German hegemony and flipping over the fact Islamization of the once free world is proceeding without much obstruction, my derriere was slowly but surely beginning to resemble the shape of my chair. Sorry to bring it up, but when things get blown out of proportions the truth is bound to come out in one way or the other.
And though I couldn’t be more appalled by the today-I-had-a-baloney-sandwich-and-haven’t-had-enough-sleep blogs (does anyone really care?), in the honored tradition of the lamest, most stupid and devoid of any content I-just-discovered-a-pimple-on-my-(Judy)-butt blogs, I say: I'm off to the gym!
Not that it’s exactly my idea of fun -- far from it! -- the sweaty, sticky, stinky spaces and torture mechanisms I feel like papering over before utilizing and all the puffing and panting in-between is something I generally avoid, but since it’s currently the only alternative to continued swelling, the gym it is.
Meanwhile, I’d recommend reading only the smartest people’s blogs and articles, since the Global Dumbing Down Operation seems to be succeeding beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.
May 29, 2006
The Reason for Blog
Many times during the last year and a half since I created Byzantine Sacred Art web site I wished I could add a quick comment in response to some of the most frequent questions I was receiving through emails, or introduce articles that would relate to current issues, mostly regarding Balkan politics and Serbia in particular. This is not only time consuming (making whole new static html web pages), but also very difficult to incorporate in a web site dedicated primarily to Orthodox iconography, without making a complete chaos of dozens of different, faintly related subjects.
Connecting a blog, which contains a number of various categories on its own and can be quickly and easily updated, to the site seemed a perfect solution. This small section of the web site also allows me some more room to speak about broader subjects of art and design, and offer a view from another angle, the Orthodox one, on current events as they unfold. Another great advantage is that blog opens communication lines and allows visitors to exchange views directly, rather then through private emails. So, feel free to join in and visit these pages from time to time for updates.
May 23, 2006
Coffee Break
I read of people signing business deals over a cup of coffee, deciding to get a divorce during a coffee break, or breaking other people's marriages when they get together for a coffee. Nothing remotely dramatic has ever happened to me on a coffee break. Apart from occasional bum stopping by to ask for change or a cigarette, nothing dramatic occurs around my coffee, period.
And a significant portion of my daily life revolves around coffee. I have writing coffee breaks, sketching coffee breaks, let's-get-together-for-a-coffee coffee breaks, planning coffee breaks and people watching coffee breaks. Of all those, the last one is most fraught with danger of being interrupted by someone who's on his people watching coffee break and thinks this coffee break can be successfully morphed into a let's-get-together-over-a-coffee break. No, different types of coffee breaks cannot be merged and when I'm on my writing, sketching, planning or people watching break, we can't have a let's-chat-and-get-to-know-each-other break. I'm very particular that way.
There must be some yet to be discovered ingredient in coffee that makes one write better, and if they ever need a human guinea-pig, I'll volunteer. I wrote my best stories on writing coffee breaks, all of them in Serbian and half of them no one is allowed to read. They can be published when I die. But I know they're good and they'll earn me a posthumous fame some day.
My sketching coffee breaks are much less successful: no one will sit still and people get extra-fidgety when they notice someone is drawing them. So, I fill my sketchbooks with buildings, streets and store fronts and it's boring me to death already - it's colorless, dull and predictable.
I have noticed people are starting to have a whole new kind of let's-get-together coffees, where they chat on their cellphones while sipping a cappuccino in a coffee shop. I guess the person on the other side is having a coffee in a Starbucks few blocks further, and they "get together" via the cellphone. And, speaking of cellphones, some don't seem to be able to walk without talking any more. They are either by themselves or they take their dogs for a walk with phone headsets on and they talk and laugh all along down the street, behind the corner, and few blocks up. It still takes me few moments to remember these guys and girls are not completely gone off their rocker, but very important loquacious people who can't miss a call. After all, what he said to her and what she said to him in return has a ring of urgency that couldn't possibly be postponed or relegated to the privacy of one's own home, could it?
It may be becoming a rarity these days, but I have a number of let's-have-a-coffee friends with whom I sit to talk. At the same table, I mean, so that we actually look at each other above our foamy, steamy coffee cups, so that we can touch each other to offer comfort and bathe in each other's smiles. Out of all the other coffee breaks, those shared with friends are the best.