WHAT’S ON MY WALL?: I’m slowly, slowly making my apartment look like a human lives here. Slowly covering the vast expanses of blank white wall. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Wall I’m staring at: Drawing of two men climbing a ladder in the middle of the night. Not sure why–I just really like this picture. The men are Beckettlike, furtive and isolated.

Still from “The Philadelphia Story“–Jimmy Stewart reaching out toward Katharine Hepburn, who is looking away

Two illustrations from The Wind in the Willows–the Mole frolicking, and the Water Rat being happy

A Lee Miller photograph that serves as the wordless summary of What I Believe About Life, the Universe, and Everything. I haven’t been able to find it online, but it shows a young opera singer, in silhouette, singing in what I think are the bombed-out ruins of the Dresden Opera House.

Wall behind my head: Postcard-sized print of a faun-type critter and a farm family

Cover from a zine done by a high-school friend

“‘And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceive that this also is vexation of spirit.’–Ecclesiastes”

Poster from Mardi Gras, 1986, in what I think must be New Orleans

Still from “Gilda“–Rita Hayworth gambling

Photo of a palm tree from the Rat’s hometown

Cel from “Duck Amuck,” probably my favorite Looney Tune

Photo from the Yale Daily News, showing members of the Committee for Freedom re-enacting the arrest of Wei Jingsheng in the main college dining hall

Scene from “Love and Rockets” depicting a young and mean-looking Luba

Postcard-sized print of a painting of two women looking out over a windowsill

Poster from “Vertigo”

Assorted holy cards

Palm leaf from Palm Sunday

…Now you know.