Which one is it?

To be honest, I'd rather be the latter.

New Covers

And with March, we have some new iPhone 4 covers. Huzzah!

Find them at Bullets & Butterflies, Mercato shopping mall.

Illustration: There's a dog in your Sun

From Stephen King's novella. I liked the idea, but not the story; I imagined a different outcome.

Phillips Brothers Coral Tiara

"Phillips Brothers, in which the dominant partner was Robert Phillips, were the leading supplier of coral goods in London, as well as being important goldsmiths and jewellers. In 1870 the firm advertised that it had 'the most complete collection of fine coral work in the world'. Robert Phillips received the order of the Crown of Italy for his services to the coral industry in Naples." (Source: V&A )

Of nineteen and of twenty-nine

“Attractive women of nineteen and of twenty-nine are alike in their breezy confidence; on the contrary, the exigent womb of the twenties does not pull the outside world centripetally around itself. The former are ages of insolence, comparable the one to a young cadet, the other to a fighter strutting after combat.

But whereas a girl of nineteen draws her confidence from a surfeit of attention, a woman of twenty-nine is nourished on subtler stuff. Desirous, she chooses her apéritifs wisely, or, content, she enjoys the caviare of potential power. Happily she does not seem, in either case, to anticipate the subsequent years when her insight will often be blurred by panic, by the fear of stopping or the fear of going on. But on the landings of nineteen or twenty-nine she is pretty sure that there are no bears in the hall.”

Tender is the Night, Chapter 56