January 2012
9 posts
Prosthetics outreach, imaginariums, and Louboutins
Advocates getting people legs and arms and hands. Very positive
Work spaces for artists and writers with giant bookshelves (The oracle club via NYC). Maybe that would work here in Chicago. *Look into it*
Should a company be able to trademark a color? No
Names I should know more about:
-Ellsworth Kelly and his abstract spaces
-Craig Finn (What’s his writing process?)
-Wendy Whelan and...
December 2011
5 posts
Stanley=1, Spotify=0
Midweek FU’s:
“This Spotify client has been patched to disable advertisements (banners/audio) completely.”
(Finally found it from some little hacker’s server in Portugal)
Treat.
Yo.
Self.
“NO ONE IS FUCKING WITH ME! i cry to remind myself i am human and still capable...”
– J.R.
Residuals from a former shelter
For the past year and a half have rented my condo out to a Frenchman, a Brit, a Chinaman, and a little Indian woman. Have spent the past hour opening cabinets, closets, drawers, looking on shelves. The following are things which have been left by these random tenants:
A vintage bureau
A vaccuum (sp?) cleaner
Three cases of imported beer
A green sock with a hole in it
A book on “Sex in...
Decisions on dual misery
Better to be on bicycle, freezing cold and shivering? Or on a bus, crammed with people, which stops every ten feet to pick more people up?
The ten involved
The rake, the siren, the ideal lover, the dandy, the natural, the coquette, the charmer, the charismatic (how is this individual different from the charmer you should be asking yourself), the star, and the anti-seducer.
There are 18 victims who will round out Winter.
November 2011
12 posts
In the absence of a therapist
-There’s an Irish bare fist fight (Zoe Strauss taking photos, what?) taking place.
-An Ellsworth Kelly piece of wood is stretched out and water is falling on it (though people keep looking the other way cause Cillian Murphy. “Have you looked at his fuckin’ eyes, Stanley?”
-An African-American man is screaming because his entire family can’t understand why he...
“People used to look out on the playground and say that the boys were playing...”
– Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development
Construction: Sunday dialectical
When I was 21, I was driving cross-country from NYC to Los Angeles with a dear childhood friend of mine. I had just finished college and had just gotten rejected from an MFA program in Washington DC. We were driving at the beginning of the two week drive and a sign for Niagara Falls popped up and we both looked at each other. About a half mile later, the sign came up again and my friend slouched...
Childish Gambino →
Why my landlord is awesome
An email from him this morning:
“There’s an interesting thing that I just noticed for the first time about the 3 Ginkgo Biloba trees in the front. The middle one is a female. This is EXTREMELY rare; the trees are “dioecious,” which means that the species exists as male and female plants. But, the males are normally the only ones that are planted; usually propagated by...
October 2011
7 posts
Sight unseen trade and barter with a Riot Grrl: An...
Your mother’s one minute glance inventory via sms of your things left over:
Hula Hoop
Half built fixie with purple crankset
Straightening iron
Cup of salt water in the corner of the room
Macbook that won’t sleep with your abandoned etsy site
Box of old hot topic clothes and Sleater-Kinney cds
La Perla lingerie (top, bottom, slip)
Cart of old books by Virginia Woolf, Henry...
Need to buy tickets for the holidays: LA, NYC,...
Sunday is quiet. Proper. I need to go on a Costco run.
September 2011
20 posts
“Find an organizational scheme for your notes and materials; keep up with it (if...”
– Maryn McKenna
“You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with...”
– Margaret Atwood
“(The) Resistance knows that the longer we noodle around “getting...”
– S.P.
“I always find that my daydreams are better in collaboration”
– J.G.
Winning: Proper swoons.
“You used to have sex with a guy who uses a nook and microsoft explorer.”
“Nook,Explorer, 5’4 and 105, permanent retainer in his mouth, janky bike 3x too big for him, mismatched socks always, yep, and i loved every bit of him.”
Snitch vs. Crook
Saw someone’s true colors today and boy what a letdown. I’ll take a crook over a snitch anyday. Low brow Lil Wayne squad speak (roll calls, crew shooks, etc) or high brow pullapart on google’s hegemony -didactic form or otherwise (the man sitting next to the man sitting next to the man): You never EVER turn your back on the people who make the little train that could go. Said...
“Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.”
– W.R.
Construction: Compromising your baseline
She grew up privy to the people navigating the day as a hustle. She saw outlines of dead people on 171st and would lay in the chalk lines to see how her body compared to those passed. She ate cashews stuffed in her pocket as to afford her more time watching the way people got lost in their own vanity. She’d sit on curbs and take notes on how many ways people compromised themselves. She was...
Audio projects, binderies, Cedar Rapids
Feeling inspired as late with all of these amazing non psych projects falling into my lap. Wrote to two childhood friends of mine who i’ve always wanted to work on something with about the latest. Hoping they’ll respond with some enthusiasm.
Been thinking a lot about manual versus automated book binding. Like the cobbler equivalent of shoes, hand binders are a dying breed. When...
Postscript: Mr. Imahori
Envisage: 1980-1993. Summers in Torrance, California. He would always come walking along the grass while I was shooting baskets in Dale’s driveway or slink past me while I sat on the stoop waiting for Brian to come out. He would shuffle past with a nod, an awkward wave, or simply just put up both of his hands into the air with a smile. He was simplicity incarnate. He gardened, built things,...
“Nobody’s going to double Oldin Polynice!”
– Bill Walton
Tennis and Kale soup attempts
Currently want to go play tennis in Humboldt Park. What happens when you sit around like a fat cow and watch tennis all afternoon. Will spend some of this evening attempting my first Kale soup attempt from farmer’s market veggies. Adulthood starts tomorrow. How I got suckered into teaching an online class i’ll never know. Is nice to pull out old literature texts though. Flight...
30 second roll call
Pudgy kid in plaid and black rimmed glasses chugs down the last of his oj, annoying redhead bobbing his head to music in his head (and still off rhythm) reading my NY Times and sitting indian style, couple playing with their androids loading apps, six macbooks, two macbook airs, four pcs, two netbooks, four more redheads, dude that is diesel that leaves me wondering how many push ups this cat...
With the world behind you
Giant coffeehouse. Girl chooses to sit all the way in the back to the right corner, chair facing the wall, one foot and some change away from concrete. She just kicked off her flats. What could she possibly pull out of her bag that would make you think “ahh, that’s why”?
“Gonna teach her to steal
‘Cause I’m always knowing
how she feels...”
– “Charlotte.” Hope Sandoval