We aren’t even going to talk about the heat. It is August and we live in Texas. Go get a frozen margarita and get over it already. Who cares if it is ( insert any day of the week)?
And don’t even think of posting a picture of the temperature. Don’t do it. We already know how hot it is because we can feel the heat dripping down our back in the form of sweat as we get in and out of our cars with black leather seats that feel more like the top of the grill at Whataburger and less like a luxury sedan.
I suppose we should talk about why I haven’t posted since June. As you know, my chip and salsa eating, faux British accent speaking, reality TV loving friend and editor, Laura Kostelny has left for the land of monograms and crap cakes – AKA – Alabama. It is a big deal for her career and I am super happy for her.
But I think she forgot something? Something very important. Me! No one asked me if she could just up and leave me. I had to read about it on D. So many things started racing through my head like … who will share my love of reality TV? Who will gossip about socialites with lots of money but no manners? And who will know when too many fart jokes are enough? None is probably the correct answer to that one.
It actually took me awhile to digest. I had to sit in my thinking spot, the stairwell on the fourth floor of my house with my all-knowing buddy, who even in the height of summer is wrapped head to toe in fur and pearls. Yes, Miss Kitty is a great listener. She also talks quite a lot, but I have yet to figure out what in the hell she is saying. Not much different than my second marriage.
It was Laura, after all, who suggested that I pursue writing by writing a few words for her for the D Home blog. I replied, “Really? What do you want me to write about?“ The reply was, “Whatever and whenever. But we are design focused so you need to include that as well.” Whatever and whenever and about design?!? It sounded like the perfect marriage, minus the rich husband. So, of course, I just jumped right in. Now this was definitely like my first marriage, naïve and thinking love could concur all. Well it can until the Amex bill comes in.
So five years, hundreds of blog posts, and massive amounts of design inspiration via many a digital image that sometimes feels like it takes another lifetime to source, combined with my many years of design experience later, I hope that you learned through laughter. There is always truth in humor. It makes the truth easier to swallow. I hope in bringing you some laughter, I also brought you a new way to look and read about design. One that isn’t overly fluffy and full of pomp and itself, but instead one that is more real and covered in dog hair and pizza sauce like your own life.
For the record, I have never been paid one cent for any word I have ever written for D. I have also never received any free merchandise. And trust me, I can work the word Cartier into almost any conversation or blog post. I didn’t even receive a free bottle of Topo Chico. Nothing. I guess I just wrote for the joy of it. The joy of hoping that one day I might get paid.
So what will become of Friday Fun with Jim Williamson? It will continue, because Mr. Jim always likes to have fun. It will just be on this site and not so much on D Home.
D says that they are “going in a more pragmatic direction — more informative than entertaining, more edifying than writerly.”
I have to say, it is a big change from the current byline “a daily conversation about pretty people, places, and things.” I mean nothing says pragmatic more than – “Top pins from Instagram.” Digital readers apparently want pragmatism and edification. Which I guess explains why the popular site Buzzfeed, which offers such hard hitting news items like 17 Puppies with Their Role Models, is in talks with NBC Universal to receive a $250 million investment. It all makes sense in a True Detective kind of way. And by that I mean it makes no sense. I think it is just a nice way to say – See ya!
So with this, I bid a fond adieu to Friday Fun with Jim and hello again to Style Bastard, where hopefully the ghost of Joan Rivers will do some guest posts and where we can all still get an education about design, travel, and food – all with a big dose of humor.
XOXO,
Style Bastard
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