May 2007

In Summation: Pirates & Clover

May 30, 2007

The dream my girlfriend had in which I trained elephants to behave around children: Delightful, apparently. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: Pirate 1: Lets be friends. Pirate 2: Sorry, double-crossing you. Pirate 1: Ok, but now I trust you. Pirate 2: Let’s go to the land of the dead. Pirate 1: Just kidding, [...]

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In Summation: Red Lobster, Horses, Cats

May 29, 2007

The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess on Wii: Killed the new batteries in the Wiimote in two days, compelled my girlfriend to taunt me while I tried to solve puzzles, named the horse in the game after the cat. The National’s album “Boxer”: Subtle, underrated and worth knowing. Cyndi Lauper’s Cover Of Prince’s “When You [...]

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Lost A Shoe (Artwork)

May 25, 2007

A companion piece to this poem.

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Lost A Shoe

May 24, 2007

The old man touched every fencepost On his walk down a sandy road His fingertips leaving blood Red on grey wood The old man lost a shoe Two miles back He hated his socks So he got rid of them too A young woman down the road Fighting five zombies Was wearing Both her shoes [...]

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Song Rorschach: Life #2

May 23, 2007

A song is interpreted through the ancient art of doodling on a Post-It note. This week’s song: Lambchop’s “Life #2″ Lyrics Excerpt: Pack all your bags It’s a soul day This is your right To an ending Life number two Link to song in Rhapsody

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Review, Logo/Illustration: Cosmic Catnip

May 22, 2007

This cat, who is stoned out of his mind, is the image that this catnip company has chosen to represent itself. You don’t often find product logos or artwork that incorporates a full-blown drug induced hallucinatory experience as part of their marketing strategy. That cat is hallucinating so hard his whiskers are turning up. I [...]

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The Dead Had Seemed Like A Wall (Artwork)

May 18, 2007

A companion piece to this poem.

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Cloud Rorschach Test: T-Rex

May 17, 2007

In which I draw what I think a cloud looks like. This week’s clouds look like: A snake with his mouth tied shut flees the sharp teeth of a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex’s descending jaws.

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Two trains of thought that arrive promptly in my head whenever I enter the parking garage outside the office or my kitchen for the last two weeks.

May 16, 2007

1. I want to start using the phrase “Egg Salad Sandwiches” to describe people, as in “Those guys look like a couple of real egg salad sandwiches.” It could be negative (“Stop being such an egg salad sandwich.”) or positive (“You’ve become an egg salad sandwich to this company, so we’ve decided to give you [...]

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The Grey Man (Artwork)

May 15, 2007

A companion piece to this poem.

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The Grey Man

May 15, 2007

The grey man Looked like soot Looked like ash From far away ‘Oh you puff of smoke Where have you blown in from?’ said the old man who saw him The old man couldn’t tell What he was seeing But he knew right away It was all true what they were saying The old man [...]

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Review: Clown Cake

May 14, 2007

This is a photograph of a birthday cake available at Dunkin Donuts. It’s hard to tell from the camera phone photo, but the clowns’ eyes are X’ed out in the cartoon “death” style similar to when a cartoon character has (usually temporarily) died. At first I was disturbed by the way these clowns seem to [...]

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Vacation

May 10, 2007

On vacation today, here’s four random photographs:

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Tornado Season:Bar Napkin Art (Stipe Edition)

May 7, 2007

Another scan of bar napkin art from years past, drawn in a state of intoxication in a bar by myself and my friends in Athens, Georgia. From what I can gather, I know more people in Chicago than one of my friends, who don’t know nobody. This is illustrated by a very abstract doodle of [...]

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Review, Photograph: Five Questions I Am Left With After Thinking About This Framed Photograph Of A Chorus Line Of Babies

May 4, 2007

This photo of a dancing line of babies is framed on a windowsill in a nearby office. I have unofficially decided to call it “Broadway Babies”. I have been thinking about it for almost a week since it first startled me into taking a picture of it with my camera-phone, and I have five questions, [...]

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Review, Online Service: Google Reader

May 3, 2007

The internet is starting to feel like the ocean, in the way that the ocean makes you feel uneasy when you swim too far out in it and you look back over your shoulder and the silhouette of your hotel against the flattened sun baked sky has grown so small, and its all just a [...]

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Ink Blot: Turtles

May 2, 2007

In which modern technology is utilized to form Rorschach-esque ink blots, which are then interpreted and drawn. This week’s Ink Blot: A tall skyscraper, around which a protective circle of turtles fly.

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