Christmas came early for Matt this year; while foraging at the flea market on Sunday he found a vintage appliance that’s been at the top of his wish list for years: the Toast-o-Lator. It’s a bakelite-based beauty from the forties with art deco curves and a way of making toast that is truly the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Here’s how it works: you simply insert a piece of bread into the slot on one side of this sleek, Rube Goldberg-like appliance, flick a bakelite switch, and then watch, through a porthole, as an escalator-like mechanism slowly carries the bread past hot, glowing coils to the other side where it tumbles out, transformed from a humble piece of bread to a specimen of golden perfection.
Interests: Anything with an ING:
dancing, biking, listening, talking, writing, reading,
watching, eating, drinking, running, thinking, working, dreaming,
surrendering, laughing, smiling, acting, traveling, singing, surfing,
driving, shopping, thanking, observing, welcoming, connecting,
loving, learning, sharing, practicing, asking.
Inspiration: Books: Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke/
Music: Linkin Park and The Cure/
People: My mother and all of those that have come before me that have fought their
own battles and didn't give up/
Places: Carl Schurz Park, New York, NY/
Movies: In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Stealing Beauty, Beautiful Girls, When A Man Loves a Woman, In America, Magdelene Sisters, The Notebook, Run Fat Boy Run/
Things: Causes worth fighting for: Lupus and other auto-immune disorders, Organ Donation and impoverished and at-risk youth.