Friday, April 08, 2005

Dress

I saw this dress at the Stone Mountain and Daughter fabric store in Berkeley, yesterday:



Halloween? Grateful Dead memorial? Guns and Roses tribute concert? PTA meeting? Presidential inauguration?

I'd say it's a perfect Berkeley goth dress-except it's a sundress. It's sort of a funereal dress, but to whose funeral could one possibly wear it? Maybe someone who uses one of Accra's fantasy coffins? Death of a florist.

Speaking of funerals, is it just me, or is there somethingly mildly odd about this CNN animated flythrough of the grotto beneath St. Peter's Basilica, what with its variable speed whooshing descent to the place where Pope John Paul was just buried? It seems a bit too videogamy.(Quicktime, no sound.)