Lava Soap at Met Food

The Met Food on 5th Avenue in South Slope sells this Lava Soap, which stands out because it's rare for red to be used in soap packaging, it doesn't scream "clean!" But it does say "hot," and I'm wondering if the soap can make me hot like lava. That would be so much cheaper than surgery. Can soap do that? And can soap really come from a volcano, which I associate with things that aren't water soluble? Why, yes, yes it can. It can because of the exfoliating properties of the floating wonder rock we call pumice.

I'm sure Brooklyn residents will be very happy to note that they can choose a beautifully packaged bar of Lava soap with or without the Nascar endorsement.

Here's what Lava used to look like.

One-Pie

I bought this attractive can of squash in Patuxet Village, RI. It was processed by the One Pie Canning Co. of Paris Maine. The typography at the top seems old, the bottom possibly new, but who knows. I wonder how old the design really is. Love seeing a wedge of pie on the label. I wonder if anyone even knows how to make type that rips like it used to. Perhaps people have lost the sense of it due to the presence of synthetic chemicals in the ground water. God knows what else has been lost.

The price was $1.89 at Lindsay's Market, while a can of 365 brand pumpkin from Whole Foods cost only $.99, but being a sucker I bought the One Pie, because I'm in love with the can. I wonder if it would be at all beneficial to adopt "One Pie" as my mantra for meditation. I think it would.

I hope you enjoy the can of One-Pie. It has nothing to do with Brooklyn, but it is a nice can.

Time Slows at Roman's

On Windsor Place there is a shoe repair shop that's been in business for 25 years called Roman Expert Shoe Repair. I've been meaning to drop some boots off their for a while, I'll be so happy if they can fix them because shoe shopping is very challenging for me.

Roman's is one of those places where time seems to have stopped, please note that the sewing machine above is one the man working there told me he actualy uses. Well, where better to find something old that is kept useful than a shoe repair place. They also work with leather garments, I imagine.

They have a small selection of shoe polishes and various things in appealingly dated packages. I'm always happy to come across that stuff, old and musty and oh so refreshing. When it comes to design, so often new is just shitty or contrived. I wonder why that is. Why is new shitty and overpriced?