November 2009
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Subtle Sexuality - Male Prima Donna →
The Office’s Kelly Kapoor’s Music Video
October 2009
Uh-oh, low of 36° tonight… I will make sure that the duct tape “Patriot Act” text goes over the nipple region, to obscure what are sure to be diamond cutters.
I need to keep a list
absurdlakefront:
I always think of costumes for Halloween throughout the year and then at Halloween I never know what to do or do not have enough time to do them. So I’m going to start keeping a list. First entries for next year:
Artemis as “Desert Rose” A Cobb Salad Nanny from Muppet Babies. (I really, really like this, and will use it if I can remember it)
The first 2 ideas are AMAZING...
This Damn Costume
Per Jonesy’s suggestion, I am dressing as an anthropomorphized Patriot Act for tonight’s “Clang of the Yankee Reaper” Halloween party. The essential idea is, I’m the Patriot Act, and I have a robber’s bag, labeled “Civil Rights.” As in, “I’m in yer Constitution, stealing yer rights.”
Whirling off from that start, I started...
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I finished The BLDGBLOG Book this morning. The book is divided into 4 main topics: the underground, the sky, music sound and noise, and landscape futures. I thought it was a good idea to focus on just a few subject areas (as the blog covers everything and anything) but I didn’t care for some of the choices.
The sky section was merely okay, and I barely skimmed “music sound and...
I should do some crafts. Studio this quarter hasn’t involved any making, and I have my supplies gathered over 4 years just sitting in my room.
I have black, grey, brown, yellow, lime green, red, and white paint. I have 2 full bottles of glue, some super glue, and spray fixative. I have string, I have watercolors, I have clear plastic. I have thin wooden dowels and a tiny saw. I have...
well I made my own domino mask… now what?
Frank: Hey, Trace, did you hear? Fred Dawkins, the incredibly overweight guy that Pacman was based on, died last night.
Tracey: I will eat a bowl of cherries and some ghost meat in his honor.
It occurs to me, Post-30 Rock, that I could indeed go to a Gay Halloween Party tonight.
I was invited by the same person that has previously mysteriously invited me to parties.
This time, the only person on the invite list (confirmed, maybe, or awaiting reply) I know is “Tyler,” the host. I don’t even recognize any other faces or names. It being Halloween, maybe I could make...
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On Travel
The past 2 years have been rather chaotic, location-wise. I remarked to a friend a while ago about how I was looking forward to being in the same house for 6 months, and he was rather shocked that I considered 6 months to be a long time. To recap, September 2007 through September 2009, in 3 month increments. The abbreviations: “cincy” is Cincinnati, OH, “clev” is...
“There is no progress; like a crab on LSD, culture staggers endlessly sideways.”
– Rem Koolhaas (architect). I like his writing style.
“Is this the best we can do? Forcing people to buy private health insurance,...”
– Dennis Kucinich (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics) (via absurdlakefront)
Fuck Yeah My Representative!
Tonight was a good night.
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Huzzah, one step closer to complete world knowledge. This afternoon I read a book my prof recommended, start to finish, taking notes along the way.
Bonus, I had an idea for an all new thesis yesterday, which I was wary of pursuing, but a portion of the book I just read touches on aspects of that idea… I can pursue the bit from the book further, and my branches will meet up!
I’d like a job in the secret shadow government. You know, the one that controls the world from behind the scenes. The puppet-masters.
I will have to practice obscuring my face in the shadows. Also, sitting alone at conference tables in dark rooms.
“Come to our well run desert
Where anguish arrives by cable
And the deadly sins...”
– W.H. Auden — Interpret as you will… I liked the rhythm.
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My Dilemma
“Graduate students are the worst” — 30 Rock
Attempt to imagine the totality of literature. Every book, journal, magazine, ever. Too much, more than anyone could ever read. Take just one library then. Perhaps your local branch library, or a college-specific one on a university campus. Still, too much. Billions of words, billions of thoughts and ideas and facts and histories.
As...
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Oneida Fun Fact: Young men entering into the community’s complex marriage had to start by having sex only with post-menopausal women, in order to practice and prove their mastery of male incontinence, the ability to resist ejaculation. Only then could they move on to, you know, hot (but also fertile) chicks.
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“[The utopian community of Oneida] was founded on “complex marriage.”...”
– Description of Oneida in The Utopia Reader, editors Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent.
Fuck baseball, where’s Glee?
Thinking about going to an “American” themed Halloween party on Saturday night.
The girl who told me about it said she was going as “Sexy Paul Bunyan.” I’ve actually been to another America-themed party. 2 summers ago in Copenhagen there was the “Yank My Doodle Dandy” party, in appreciation of all the things we missed about home. There was an Abe...
For an alternative take on modern-day cartography, read the novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, which I reviewed a few months ago.
Devil's Avocado here, Larry
Or, How to Derail Class Discussion and Be Cast as a Racist
In my nighttime architectural theory class, the topic was Post-Colonialism. How the colonizer not only colonized the place but also the culture, frames the “Other,” and in so doing takes control and dominates the colonized culture.
I raised my hand and noted that everything we had been discussing was from a certain...
Oh noes I don’t know what I’m doing for Halloween nor do I know what I’m gonna wear! 5 days!
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On Food
I just got back from the grocery store. Every time I go, I am confronted with this reality: I don’t know anything about food.
I don’t know what food is what, which to eat, how to prepare what, and so on. I have a vague notion of the food pyramid (aided by a recent refresher course on Clone High, of all places) which I keep to, and I know my own capabilities, which governs what I buy...
Some bell tower nearby is 2 hours off and it’s super annoying.
Arg how can people be in their 4th and 5th years of college and not know how to write a paper??
Citing Wikipedia, really? Or just questionable websites? Use a fucking library, or at least JSTOR! Also, citation format; it’s a goddamn formula. “Put this here, then a comma, then this in italics, then a colon…” NOT HARD!
This all should have been mastered by freshman...
Fuck! A mouse! in my room!
qisto:
HELP
This is the WORST. Don’t get attached! (The Story of Bernard the Mouse, in reverse-chronological order, Memento-style.)
Aww yeah it just got catty. As the one assigned to write the “executive summary” for this studio group project, and thus compile everyone’s work together, I am the de facto editor-in-chief. In my role I emailed everyone yesterday about small issues with their papers (ways to tie them into the overall topic better), but called one paper “ok as is.”
Today, the...
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More laundry news! I will neither confirm nor deny the wearing of mesh shorts in lieu of underwear.
It is debatable if “redensification” is a word. It appears in some news articles, academic studies, and patents, but it hasn’t achieved the “In Dictionary” test on Microsoft Word (ie, it is marked as a spelling mistake).
Dear fellow architects, and planners, and English majors, and concerned citizens, what is a better word (or phrase) to use, in the context of...
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Well, clothes take more than 10 hours to line-dry. I put this one shirt on the accelerated body-heat-of-kevoh drying system. Aka, I’m cold and wet right now.
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(I folded the arms egyptian-style so that the weight of the water doesn’t stretch out the sleeves, duh)
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Reports that I failed at every step of the laundry process are greatly exaggerated.
ltwp:
I have this blog. I have my weekly planner (accompanied by a blank page for assorted reminders and doodles for the week). I have a diary. I take photos and the occasional video. I could get a recorder and leave voice archives. I record so much. Why? And why is any of it public?
This is my question.
Jonesy already provided the answer. Quote: “My rise to greatness needs to be...
the douchebag in studio has a black eye. this pleases me.
last night’s 30 Rock was amazing, or I’m semi-delirious from lack of sleep and find anything funny.