::has champagne truffles and deli tea from the Azores for breakfast::
kangeiko, thanks again for the above: awesome Christmas presents are awesome (and better spaced-out)!
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StrangeMaps is always worth visiting, but after having
been there, having seen - and greatly enjoyed! - them, this one here was particularly great,
Scattered across the centre of San Francisco are almost seventy semi-secret spaces, privately owned but open to the public. Subject to the fine print of a little-known pact between City and Commerce, these so-called POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces) allow alluring vistas of San Francisco and access to its intimate interiors,
and this one particularly interesting,
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Icon meme!
astridv posted this:
1. Reply to this post saying "ME! ME! ME!", and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.
and proceeded to ask me about these five icons:
This one's me trying to straddle winter and atypical depictions - no snowy landscapes because they're often kitschy, and we don't really have them around here in years that are not this one...but also no bleak cityscapes or countrysides because I dislike them intensely, winter being my least favourite season to begin with. This one has light and darkness and
colour while retaining its wintry nature, and, despite its portrayal of cold weather - umbrella, a thick red coat, snow - I find it oddly warm.

From threadless.com, I think? I don't comment with it very often because either someone else is trolling, in which case the irony would most likely be lost on zir, or I am by using it. ;)

My love for this icon cannot be textually rendered. Oh, John. ♥
(I don't actually come home and think this very often. But for those times, then? Yeah.)

Of all the icons I've seen, this one comes close to being perfect: pop art and making visible - and what a visibility it is! - what hasn't been in the source.
toastandtea?
Chapeau!

Bless Boerne & Thiel. They're still my favourite
Tatort investigators - the grumpy police detective with his bike and his taxicab-driver dad and the snotty professor of forensic pathology.