"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in bike commuting, Distractions, Oh, for fuck's sake, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Aug 3rd, 2011
Seriously not safe for work. This post features content of a dirty, big rubber penis I found alongside of the road. I hope you consider this fair warning.
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Distractions, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Aug 2nd, 2011
On Saturday, I found myself among friends, hanging around behind an abandoned industrial building. Some folks were drinking beers; all of us were talking shit. Because that’s what we do. Shoot the bull, drink beer, and hang around debris-strewn alleyways behind abandoned buildings. We’re classy n’ shit. Any old how, I wasn’t drinking beer because […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Utter Silliness on Aug 1st, 2011
IMG_7462, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. Mixed media: chewing gum, broken glass, mounted to an asphalt base. A three dimensional expression in found materials. (or a load of horseshit cloaked in big words, constructed from debris found in a parking lot Further elucidation forthcoming at my upcoming gallery show. I’ve got a spot at […]
Posted in Distractions, Utter Silliness on Jul 31st, 2011
I was just thinking about this song earlier. If I had illustration skills and videography skills, I’d make a stop motion animated music video for this song. I can see Pressed Rat in his red jodhpurs and Warthog wearing a striped tie (it is yellow, orange and green in my mind’s eye). Pressed Rat and […]
Posted in Distractions, Uncategorized, videos on Jul 26th, 2011
Most people are seriously more articulate than I am…and it appears that some of us are feeling a particular malaise these days. I just read Sarah Spahr’s entry for today and thought, “gosh, she pretty much said just and exactly what’s on my mind right about now†as regards Norway, Amy Winehouse, and just generally […]
Posted in Distractions, nostalgia on Jul 14th, 2011
Once when I was about 14, I guess, my family went to Hay Springs, NE for some errand. Hay Springs is a little, shabby town of no especial distinction. You can find towns of similar stature and countenance pretty much anywhere in the central United States. Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Ohio, Minnesota, Illinois…you […]
Posted in Distractions on Jun 24th, 2011
Some years ago, before the Performing Arts Center was being built, the site was an empty lot which sometimes sprouted construction debris, household waste, and random rubble. This scurffy old bathtub was one of the denizens of the lot before it was ousted in favor of what is becoming quite an arresting structure – a […]
Posted in Distractions, Recommendations, Take A Look At This, Utter Silliness, videos on Jun 2nd, 2011
I have become ridiculously fond of the Black Dice and other similar bleep-gizzle-frunzzzz type music. It is completely fantastic if you like weird music made up of random electronic bonking noises and zoinky sounds and general chopped-stirred-and-fried bleep-gleep effects. At work, we are allowed to listen to streaming ‘net radio, so long as we either […]
Posted in Distractions, Photo entries, Shopping on Jun 1st, 2011
We’ve had a rash of broken coffee cups lately. Cone shaped mugs which tip over too easily. A pretty, but obviously clumsily hand-made cup which suddenly and without warning separated into three wedges in the dishpan. Slippery, soapy cups launching out of hands, into the sink, and shattering dramatically. Things were getting a bit ridiculous, […]
Posted in Costumes and disguises, Distractions, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Photo entries, Sewing, Utter Silliness on Mar 5th, 2011
In 2002, the Hello Project Shuffle groups each performed and promoted a song based on the notion of “happiness My favorite of the three groups was Odoru 11, with “Shiawase Kyouryuu Ondo”…The Happy Dinosaurs March. About two years ago, I went fabric shopping with a friend – I was making some cushion covers for her, […]