in todays lesson in lesser homes and gardens, we are taught that removing the gunk around the base of the toilet may impact the structural integrity of a 100 year old tenement building. at the very least it will ruin a paint job and very likely cave in a bathroom ceiling on the floor below. as it turns out, i am the floor below and not the degunker, the bruntee, not the brunter. and somehow assurances that caulking will commence any time now are not filling me with confidence that the problem will be resolved by the thoroughly amateur home improver in either great haste or satisfactorily.
i should add the thought of explaining this to the landlord in order to extract the funds for a handyman to fix the ceiling does not fill me with glee. i have already explained that this is one brunt that the brunter will have to bear. i dont know if she will shoulder that burden with any more aplomb than she will the task of filling the breach between our two worlds.
meanwhile i just lanced the boil that is my ceiling. only time will tell if it can be saved. suddenly the battle hymn of the republic makes perfect sense to me. somewhere a four part ken burns documentary is in pre-production.
i should add the thought of explaining this to the landlord in order to extract the funds for a handyman to fix the ceiling does not fill me with glee. i have already explained that this is one brunt that the brunter will have to bear. i dont know if she will shoulder that burden with any more aplomb than she will the task of filling the breach between our two worlds.
meanwhile i just lanced the boil that is my ceiling. only time will tell if it can be saved. suddenly the battle hymn of the republic makes perfect sense to me. somewhere a four part ken burns documentary is in pre-production.
Nothing and everything : how zen catalyzed conceptual art etc etc
Jessica Jackson Hutchins is one of few Portland artists with an international profile (She currently lives in Berlin with her partner, Pavement's Stephen Malmus). Here, Hutchins exhibits a pair of her rough-hewn, domesticity-focused assemblages as part of Fourteen30 Contemporary's 2 Weeks/2 Works series.
The gallery will host a closing reception on February 3 from 12 pm to 2 pm
The gallery will host a closing reception on February 3 from 12 pm to 2 pm
Everyone talks about how globalization "McDonalds-izes" the world, but the funny thing about a place like New York is that you can get basically every kind of food *except* whatever they serve at the foreign outposts of our proud American chains.
art installation goes horribly, terribly awry
we did this project in PDX last year and tried and failed to get permission from our fire dept to burn it. as the artist said "surely it is more dangerous unburnt than burnt"
we did this project in PDX last year and tried and failed to get permission from our fire dept to burn it. as the artist said "surely it is more dangerous unburnt than burnt"
playmobil tsa check point
"King Lear Allotting His Kingdom to His Three Daughters, by Julia Margaret Cameron, dated 1872. Charles Cameron (the photographer’s husband) posed as Lear, surrounded by the Liddell sisters, including Alice Liddell (right), the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland."
fool me once...
no pain in my game
Say again? Deepak Chopra is president of Rapiscan?
help keep bimbo safe. I saw an orphan today barreling towards i78. Fallen/winter in pa folks.
Close-up of Johns/Rauschenberg backdrop for Cunningham’s 1958 dance Summerspace
Clicks bigger / via Greg org
Clicks bigger / via Greg org
