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Home Invasion Continues
Oh My God.
Just got home. The ladybugs I shooed away this weekend?
They're back.
And they brought friends.
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Rocky Days Ahead
OK, there's an lj theme called "Road to October" and in addition to the baseball on the header the page has...pinstripes. Yeah, scratch that one.
So the Sox won the ALCS. Whee! Hooray! Now Boston fans get yet another week of biting our nails and late game induced sleep deprivation. Hm.
Tek proved once again that he's an honorable man. In the ( Read more... ) -
Art Imitates War
Background on Christoph Büchel vs. Mass MoCA [from the Boston Globe’s Geoff Edgers] is here. [If you need an account to access the article, try here]
The more I read about the Training Ground For Democracy debacle, the more I see a metaphor for the war in Iraq (and the Patriot Act). You have an initial plan that spirals out of control, goes way ( Read more... ) -
1) Connected/privileged
"It’s a sobering commentary on the general awareness of contemporary visual culture that the collapse of the first major project in the United States by one of the world’s most compelling artists, commissioned by the nation’s largest and arguably most prestigious venue for new art, would pass unnoticed. It wasn’t until March 28, 2007, three months ( Read more... ) -
2) under surveillance
"To approach the artwork in its current confines is to grasp the enormity of its potential and the corresponding size of its failure. In order to find the installation you must wend your way through the museum’s second floor galleries until you reach a barely noticeable stairway at the far end of a darkened room. As you walk down the stairs, all ( Read more... ) -
3) on the front lines
Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, was making frequent visits to Mass MoCA for a separate project. Walking through Building 5, he was impressed by the potential. He also couldn't help notice the strain on the staff.
"Regardless of the issues of right or wrong, I've never seen an artist put this kind of abusive pall over a ( Read more... ) -
4) covert ops
"I happened to be visiting MASS MoCA in February when absolutely everybody was talking about the show that would never open. The staff there were really upset and offended about what had happened. It was, to them, inexplicable and unforgivable. I was so intrigued that one evening I sneaked through a fire escape door marked No Entry at the back of ( Read more... ) -
King Corn
See this movie.
Blurbage:
"King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically ( Read more... ) -
home invasion
Time spent trying to relocate ladybugs from kitchen & entryway to outdoors*: 20 minutes
Ladybugs remaining in the entryway alone: Approximately 25. I'm not going to try to count the ones in the kitchen.
*it's a nice, sunny day out. They aren't gonna freeze...
They're everywhere. At one point, I realized I had almost as many ladybugs on my clothing as ( Read more... ) -
Another Metric Prefix
The cat was named before I got her. Since she seemed to respond to her name, I opted not to change it. Even now that she’s far to roly-poly for Mu to really apply. She was a little kitty when I got her...
The car is my fault, but the name seemed to stick-I think it’s that Milli also conjures up an image of a grey haired grandma, who is exactly ( Read more... )