Spitball Army

Tonight I finally got around to adorning the walls of my office with some of the trophies of my past professional life: the handful of gold and platinum certifications, or plaques, that my business and I were awarded.  There are seven of them, in all, eight if you count the bowling shirt that Rounder Records had made to commemorate sales of two million copies of Alison Krauss’ Now That You’ve Found Me (that one is in a frame that is really too big to hang on any wall that I own).

Now the formerly austere walls of my cozy garrett cum office are cluttered and gaudy.  Here is the long wall: Buena Vista Social Club (gold), The Look of Love by Diana Krall (platinum), Norah Jones’ Come Away with Me (platinum), Andrea Bocelli’s Aria (gold) and Paula Cole’s This Fire (gold).

Tucked onto an adjoining wall are plaques for Alison Krauss & Union Station’s So Long So Wrong (gold) and OK Computer by Radiohead (gold).  That Radiohead plaque is a beauty, with its corrugated paper backing and brushed metal frame (design-induced swoon!).

There are good stories to go along with each one of these, and one day I’ll write them all down.