Alison
@alibess.bsky.social
Widow, art history geek, fan of the band Japan/Mick Karn, dog servant, freelance writer/editor, voracious reader, bundle of anxiety, Democrat, Antifa, BLM, LGBTQ+ ally, immigrant 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇮🇹
My pittie knows his commands in Dutch & seemingly in Italian too, despite me rarely using Italian commands with him. I was trying to get my Italian dog, who is oblivious in all languages, to come to me, trying Italian when Dutch didn’t work. She ignored me, he didn’t. Pic is pretty representative.🤦🏼♀️
February 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My pittie knows his commands in Dutch & seemingly in Italian too, despite me rarely using Italian commands with him. I was trying to get my Italian dog, who is oblivious in all languages, to come to me, trying Italian when Dutch didn’t work. She ignored me, he didn’t. Pic is pretty representative.🤦🏼♀️
Dutch dog Charlie was sniffing my sweater that had some knoflooksaus (garlic sauce) spilled at dinner. I was saying, “yes, knoflooksaus via zucchini,” and then had to explain the sauce was on the zucchini, not a reference to the nearby street Via Zucchini here in Bologna. Lost in translation. 🤪
February 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Dutch dog Charlie was sniffing my sweater that had some knoflooksaus (garlic sauce) spilled at dinner. I was saying, “yes, knoflooksaus via zucchini,” and then had to explain the sauce was on the zucchini, not a reference to the nearby street Via Zucchini here in Bologna. Lost in translation. 🤪
Forget Eames chairs. My chair porn is anything by Rietveld (and I do long for a Barcelona chair and footstool). A previous season of FBI tv series had a pair of Rietveld’s Zigzag chairs. I’m currently watching the movie Promising Young Woman on Netflix and Oh-ed! when I saw a set of red/blue chairs
January 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Forget Eames chairs. My chair porn is anything by Rietveld (and I do long for a Barcelona chair and footstool). A previous season of FBI tv series had a pair of Rietveld’s Zigzag chairs. I’m currently watching the movie Promising Young Woman on Netflix and Oh-ed! when I saw a set of red/blue chairs
We all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you.
January 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
We all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you.
Mick Karn and his shoes 🥰😄 I like the leopard print jacket, too.
December 31, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Mick Karn and his shoes 🥰😄 I like the leopard print jacket, too.
I have eyebrow envy when it comes to Steve Jansen’s ability to arch that left eyebrow. He can still do it, too! I get a headache when I try too long. Roughly 35 year difference between the photos and he still looks damn good! A picture from today that I saw was just as good! 😊
December 12, 2024 at 3:56 AM
I have eyebrow envy when it comes to Steve Jansen’s ability to arch that left eyebrow. He can still do it, too! I get a headache when I try too long. Roughly 35 year difference between the photos and he still looks damn good! A picture from today that I saw was just as good! 😊
Every time I see my next door neighbour these days, he looks so much like this! I think I keep doing a double take. At least my Italian isn’t at the point where I randomly blurt things out, like, “You look like that David Sylvian album cover!” 😆
December 11, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Every time I see my next door neighbour these days, he looks so much like this! I think I keep doing a double take. At least my Italian isn’t at the point where I randomly blurt things out, like, “You look like that David Sylvian album cover!” 😆
Yellow leaves are my favourite.
November 29, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Yellow leaves are my favourite.
Yay! You’re here! My personal-space-invading and blanket-stealing dogs and I have missed you.
November 28, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Yay! You’re here! My personal-space-invading and blanket-stealing dogs and I have missed you.
I really love Japan’s song Communist China. On top of it, I love the video and the classic way Mick Karn moves around to different members. First the over-the-shoulder move with singer David Sylvian, then checking in with @richardbarbieri.bsky.social on keys.
“Hey. You cool?”
“Yeah.”
“Cool.”🤣 ❤️
“Hey. You cool?”
“Yeah.”
“Cool.”🤣 ❤️
November 22, 2024 at 10:28 PM
I really love Japan’s song Communist China. On top of it, I love the video and the classic way Mick Karn moves around to different members. First the over-the-shoulder move with singer David Sylvian, then checking in with @richardbarbieri.bsky.social on keys.
“Hey. You cool?”
“Yeah.”
“Cool.”🤣 ❤️
“Hey. You cool?”
“Yeah.”
“Cool.”🤣 ❤️
These arrived today. I bought Exorcising Ghosts mainly for Living Without Buildings, potentially my favourite #Japan song. The funny 🙄 thing is that my previous Discogs purchase was also Exorcising Ghosts, but it hasn’t arrived yet and I forgot. 😬 Don’t order music when you have insomnia, kids!🤦🏼♀️
November 22, 2024 at 9:39 PM
These arrived today. I bought Exorcising Ghosts mainly for Living Without Buildings, potentially my favourite #Japan song. The funny 🙄 thing is that my previous Discogs purchase was also Exorcising Ghosts, but it hasn’t arrived yet and I forgot. 😬 Don’t order music when you have insomnia, kids!🤦🏼♀️
a shallow post, but I used to wonder if one found older people more attractive as one aged as well. In my early 50s, I’m certainly finding a man in his mid 60s quite appealing, not just because he was stupid pretty when younger. honestly my husband who turned 60 before he died was still v. handsome
November 19, 2024 at 3:00 AM
a shallow post, but I used to wonder if one found older people more attractive as one aged as well. In my early 50s, I’m certainly finding a man in his mid 60s quite appealing, not just because he was stupid pretty when younger. honestly my husband who turned 60 before he died was still v. handsome
It’s cosy once I stopped his elbow digging into my thigh.
November 17, 2024 at 12:18 PM
It’s cosy once I stopped his elbow digging into my thigh.
Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)
Dali’s Car’s self-titled song, specifically that Mick Karn bass line, is in my head and has had me playing along on both dogs. 😂
It all coms back to Bauhaus. IYKYK
Dali’s Car’s self-titled song, specifically that Mick Karn bass line, is in my head and has had me playing along on both dogs. 😂
It all coms back to Bauhaus. IYKYK
November 14, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)
Dali’s Car’s self-titled song, specifically that Mick Karn bass line, is in my head and has had me playing along on both dogs. 😂
It all coms back to Bauhaus. IYKYK
Dali’s Car’s self-titled song, specifically that Mick Karn bass line, is in my head and has had me playing along on both dogs. 😂
It all coms back to Bauhaus. IYKYK
My husband and our first (my second) dog, Pippo. Missing both today. The second photo was taken on our first walk to the Rietveld-Schroeder Huis in Utrecht. Today is Giovanni’s birthday. First without him. I’m ok-ish. It’s the 20th that may be tougher. That will be a year since he passed.
November 12, 2024 at 3:59 PM
My husband and our first (my second) dog, Pippo. Missing both today. The second photo was taken on our first walk to the Rietveld-Schroeder Huis in Utrecht. Today is Giovanni’s birthday. First without him. I’m ok-ish. It’s the 20th that may be tougher. That will be a year since he passed.