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happy election/earth day
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since my state held its primary today, i thought you guys might get a kick out of this awesome tv funhouse skit from SNL. it's from the beginning of the primary season, so all the original candidates (and a few who never actually ran) are parodied. laugh out loud funny-ness.
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celebrity impersonators
sometimes i like it when things go undocumented.
i was thinking today about a cartooning class i took when i was twelve or thirteen. it was at a university downtown, where me and my friend chris would be dropped off each saturday morning. i was just old enough to comprehend the potential of a city-- the scale, the variety, the strangeness. and i ( Read more... ) -
i can no longer resist posting about politics
(this entire post is kind of a re-tread of a conversation in olamina's comment threads...)
the optimistic narrative of the 2008 election, i suppose, has been about "moving past" race and gender. the official dialogue has been an awkward attempt at cultural invisibility, with the clinton and obama campaigns both trying to appear as un-controversial as ( Read more... ) -
ten good things (after considerable delay)
it's been a fairly dismal few weeks, folks. haven't been able to muster the energy to put one of these together for a while. i'd like to get back into the habit though. hopefully the SHEER LENGTH of this will help compensate...
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personal quirks
(btw, a new ten good things is in the works... looming job applications just keep me from devoting any time to it...)
anyway, tagged by biblionerd_girl...
a) List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself
b) Tag seven people to do the same
c) Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."(do this if you feel like doing it ( Read more... ) -
youtube is my valentine
hi, i'm still here. everyone should take a look at hannah's awesome bollywood-themed youtube meme, in which i was "tagged." i'm not ordering anyone to do this, but "5 youtube music videos" seems to be the theme, if you wanna give it a shot. i figured i'd do mine for valentine's day (with no particular sweetheart in mind, dearest peanut-gallery ( Read more... ) -
another new painting
ok, i've been working on this one since-- YIKES!-- april of last year. not steadily, i suppose. it went through a lot of transitions. in fact, the two "studies" at the bottom of this post have literally been cut/pasted into its composition. if you compare the studies to the final image, you might get a clearer idea of my weird process than you ( Read more... )
