February 2011
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Introducing SOUTH 12TH MYSTIC SOUNDSCAPES™, Vol....
January 2011
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2011.
Well, this year is shaping up to be one of the best on record. Here are some exciting bits of news from the past week-and-a-half to pass on to you. This post is a little heavy on the self-aggrandizement, but come on, I had a good month and I want to talk about it.
1. My friend and collaborative partner Anna Tsantir and I have received a planning grant from Forecast Public Art for the year. This...
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That’s right, OnStar.
Join me at the...
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Dubious dating practices.
One of the fun things about dating a professor* is succumbing to the temptation to look them up on the often unfair and generally awful website ratemyprofessor.com, so you can find out what all the spoiled, ungrateful kid-swine in their charge have to say about them. It’s not fair, and you wouldn’t want to take it particularly seriously, but it’s still sort of fun.
It’s...
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Memory is not enough.
A few months ago my pal Rebekah was kind enough to send me a few tiny, spiral-bound art books from Chicago called Memory is Not Enough. They are collections of photographs made with 2005-era drug phones, very much like the model that I own (the LG2000, which some cell phone camera connoisseurs have dubbed the “Leica M4 of mid-fi cell phone cameras”) (that link goes nowhere because I...
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Put that, put that, put that up your wall.
This may just be one of those things I dreamt, but I don’t think so. In the earlier part of this past decade, in 2003 or so, J. showed me a VHS documentary on the Athens, Georgia music scene from the late 1980s. It was a very good film and I remember quite a bit about it — there was a scene where Howard Finster was playing guitar with Dexter Romweber — but specifically, I clearly...
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Rare / Often.
“Saturday’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was so startling in part because of how rare it is that an attempt is made on the life of a major American political figure.”
— Salon.com
“It is believed to be the first time that a woman politician has been the object of an assassination attempt in America, a country where elected leaders have often been the subject of...
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riazm asked: I'm planning on growing a "winter beard" from the solstice to the equinox. Is this form of beard tourism frowned upon by the perma-beard community?
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Hand-written notations on a returned letter to the...
Front of envelope:
This person doesn’t leave.
Rear of envelope:
{Wikileaks}
{James Assange}
{Australian - }
feckless & vain
feckles
Vedeo Voyeur
Voyeurism
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