Dee Dee’s holiday wish list
(Note: I am so grateful for all the kind words, subscriptions and pledges. Thank you and happy Thanksgiving! Shorter entry this week because gone fishing — literally — back next week with a proper essay.)
Santa if you don’t mind:
Brian Ferry’s London apartment, the one with the billowing silk curtains with pink cabbage roses, the pale gray garrett-y light, the marled Beni on the floor and fire lit and Brian in a suit singing falsetto dirty nursery rhymes over the sound of the silver cocktail shaker he’s hurling around.
Lifetime supply of The Barrier
Cozy Balthazar bar dinner with Griffin (weekly)
Zamboni ride with Rutger McGroarty
Texts back from indifferent son
Tight jawline
Regulated parasympathetic nervous system
Light revenge for those deserving
Frolicking indoor baby goats
Duck egg blue Jolly with wicker seats and holiday bolt hole to drive it around
O.B.E.
Strength for the day
French Egyptian background
Perpetual medium tan
Widely circulated signature phrase
Swan’s neck
Riad with exterior and interior surfaces swathed in Josef Frank only, including ceilings, floors and appliances
Time travel superpower
Wimbledon title
Perfect pitch
Endless love
Wardrobe of Olivia von Halle evening pajamas
Party to wear said pajamas to attended by Virginia Woolf, James Salter, Josephine Baker, Tina and Amy, Mick and Keith, Wanda Sykes, Picasso, the Fitzgeralds, all the characters from Peter Pan, music by Cole Porter with solos from Julie Andrews and Chappell Roan and Joni, flowers by Willow Crossley, fresh summer tomatoes, peaches off tree, watermelon slices, frozen Bellinis to drink, held in Edenic garden at dusk. Limbo contest.
Long views
Rolling meadows
Daily swims
A rotary telephone
The wisdom to know the difference
Revising my list stat.
Love this as much as a lifetime supply of The Barrier.