I spent Saturday drinking about ten thousand gallons of ice water and re-re-re-reading Alice In Wonderland. This time, though, I'm reading the Kusama edition, which I found last summer at a bookstore in Campbell specializing in vintage, out-of-print, and unusual editions of classic children's books.

I already own a couple of copies of Alice In Wonderland, so I felt a little silly about how much I wanted this book, but every time I went into the store I picked it up and browsed through the pages, and it's just the most gorgeous thing ever. The artist, Yayoi Kusama, has a condition that causes her to see spots everywhere she looks, and her surreal vision of the world is a perfect counterpoint to Carroll's hallucinogenic storytelling. The book is created in collaboration with the Gagosian Gallery and bound in cloth, making it a crazy-good gift for a book (or art) lover.

You can pick it up here.

I remember the first time I went to the Barney's Warehouse Sale. It was back in the days when the sale was a secret whispered between friends (but not too many friends because it was so good, and over so fast, that you didn't want the word to get out too far). I found out about it because I had a friend who was a model, and only "industry" people knew about these kinds of things back in the days before social media made secrets more than a little tough to keep. She didn't even let me know about it from an email; she told me about it over an actual face-to-face lunch.

Remember finding out about things face-to-face?

Weird.

You know how sexy cutout suits are amazing-looking sitting there on the hanger, all full of sexiness and cutouts?

I decided to try one on once. It was not good. Basically, everything unfortunate that a swimsuit could possibly do to my body, that swimsuit did. Squishing and widening and flattening and smushing parts of my body out of places where no body parts should be smushed. Ever since then, I've been a little gun-shy about the things. I love looking at them on Pinterest and shopping sites and such, but wear one? Nothankyou.

Except just yesterday morning I saw this article on PopSugar, and they assured me that there is this one Mara Hoffman swimsuit that apparently looks good on everyone, and that statement was supported by none other than Mindy Kaling (who posted two shots of herself looking lovely in it). Apparently "the world went wild" over these shots, which seems a touch like overkill, but who knows, maybe it really is that great? ...Maybe?

In any case, Mindy Kaling seems like a trustworthy soul, so I had to see it.