September 2005 Archives

This falls under the category of "someone else's great idea" (I've never figured out how to get categories to show next to entries ... someday): tonight my brain is particularly fried and I found myself looking for pictures of Courtney Love. No reason. Anyway, this search lead me to this - a link just for Melissa and Dave and Pete and Susan! Really, it almost makes you feel sorry for celebrities -- all their post-partum (sp?) depression, desperate longings for children, etc. on such public display -- I don't just mean the blog, but all the material the blog draws from. I guess it serves them right for being famous.

So, I was reading the comments on Halle Barry's interest in artificial insemination and was curious about a link to a WoW goldfarm among the comments. That is, the word, "Wow!" in the sentence, "Wow. I can't wait until we hear an announcement. I wonder how she will look pregnant?" is linked to a site selling World of Warcraft gold. Huh? Well, where have I been. It turns out that's something called, "Vibrant Media’s IntelliTXT technology" which is pretty interesting. I wonder if that's really working for them? I mean, how much overlap is there between people interested in Halle Berry's ovaries and World of Warcraft? It almost makes me want to try it on my blog. -- the IntelliTXXXT, I mean. That's what I'd call it, if I made it, and I'd sex it up so that every possible innuendo was linked to some vaguely associated porn site.

So then, continuing the completely random and exhausted clicking, I actually clicked on one of the ads which brought me to this -- possibly the ugliest coat I have seen and, were I pregnant and wearing it, guaranteed to make me look like a mastodon. It reminds me of how when I first got my leopard printed mouton coat I felt all sexy and stuff until I realized that while the pattern was that of a sleek jungle cat, the outline was that of a bowling ball.

So that's enough random crap for one night.

There's a skunk in our neighborhood. Wow. That's a stinky skunk, as they say at the Olive Garden (and don't I wish I had IntelliTXXXT going right now?). I'll describe more of what's been going on at Chez Vector soon. It's not all good.

We played this mini-quiz I developed at a party awhile ago and it was fairly interesting what people said -- at least, it kept people talking for awhile.

Rank in order of what you've had most:

• Sexual partners
  
• Homes or living quarters
  
• Jobs
  

That's it. Now go discuss amongst yourselves. Deciding what constitutes sex or whether temp work counts is part of the fun, so don't ask me. It's not intended to be competetive, so you don't need to count and then compare, although if you want to you can, I guess. But I don't recommend it.

And on a completely unrelated topic, I've been enjoying nosing around this guy's website. His speech bubble sticker project was linked on boing boing today.

I began a new piece last night. It's called, RUB MY FEET, or RMF for short. Or maybe "Rub Me." I haven't decided yet.

In it, people rub my feet. So far, one at a time, but I am definitely up for trying multiple, simultaneous rubbers.

This piece blurs and inverts the role of audience and creator, artist and participant. Although I initiate the work, the rubbers are the artists and I, the rubee, am the audience. It is a commentary on the relationship between workers and capitalists, using the story of Christ washing those people's feet like he did that one time. It's something that only I can experience, but in which anyone can participate. Like a play put on for a lonely critic, there is only one person in the audience, but many actors.

So the next time I see you, I hope you will join in this creative political act and RUB MY FEET.

Contributors to the RMF project so far:

Amy
Pete
Spine
T'chacka
Nat

(Note: you can contribute more than once.)

We saw this dead fish at the beach about a month ago. Funny colors, eh?

Spine has a new improved blog!

Alexa, Nat, Pete and T'chaka have a Band!

This morning at the dog park a guy came in with two dogs, one of whom (Emily, in the middle) really looked like an Austrian Shephard/Beagle mix so I asked him and he said, yes, that's what she was. Then he asked how old Pica was and I said about two years (her birthday is just around the corner). His too! turns out, they came from the same litter! He got his dogs from his boss, who adopted them both from Home at Last in the Dalles (just like Pica). And they really enjoyed playing with each other! He said Emily and Rocco has also been royal pains. Emily is shy like Pica, while Rocco (who looks the least like Pica) is outgoing and friendly. They are both fast like Pica, too.