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I helped Laura with her tree tonight. We picked it out, carried...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:20:00 -0500

I helped Laura with her tree tonight. We picked it out, carried it home, trimmed it. I was covered in sap and we still couldn’t get it to stand straight. She showed me this and I snorted I laughed so hard.

I did a little write-up on the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:18:20 -0500

I did a little write-up on the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. Read it here.

Bonnie Billy “So Everyone”

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:03:47 -0500

Bonnie Billy “So Everyone”

I ran over to the Bernadette Mayer reading last night expecting...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:40:48 -0500

I ran over to the Bernadette Mayer reading last night expecting an evening alone. I walked in and there was a crowd of friends. Then there were burgers.

I met up with Melissa Brown for a studio visit and lunch...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:19:00 -0500

I met up with Melissa Brown for a studio visit and lunch yesterday. Here is lotto ticket collage she made a few years back. It’s $961 in used scratch off tickets. See more of her lotto works and dollar bill designs at her website and her recent exhibition.

I love these guys.

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:21:26 -0500

I love these guys.

I’m not watching the end of Away We Go. I’m turning it off right now. These people are...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:02:42 -0500

I’m not watching the end of Away We Go. I’m turning it off right now. These people are annoying. I keep thinking “just go away.” Let’s hope the Story of Anvil can act as an antidote.

madcap trumps sad sap

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:01:00 -0500

Today was loooong. It started with the Brooklyn Comic’s Festival which was adorable. All day I’ve been trying to think of a better word to describe it—one less cloying, more nuanced, anything! But that’s it—adorable. It was in the basement of a church and everyone came in from the rain and cold and was friendly and excited. There was church Christmas decorations and Peter Saul told us the truth! Peter Saul said he didn’t know any bay area artists in the 60s because he was too busy being aloof and enjoying his girlfriend and loving smoking. I bought a little comic by Matt Wiegle called “Why Did I Put this Town on My Face” and I loved it immediately. Then quick on the train to Cori’s reading. Cori commanded and she was great. The next girl read and she had curly hair with bangs (See, you should get bangs, Stacie said). She read a poem about sex and it was graphic and the fidgety guy next to me laughed too hard. At the Q & A a woman said “I’d like to make an intervention. That man’s laughing made me feel uncomfortable.” Everyone fought. It was terrific. To appease the crowd the poet read Baudelaire. “My heart laid bare” she kept repeating.

We ate at Vanessa’s Dumpling and I ordered everything I ever wanted to order and it was only $5! Dumpling soup! Pork buns! Veggie pancake sandwich! On to Laura’s for wine and sock reheating on the furnace. It’s cold here guys! And Laura and Stacie are the best friends you could ever want. A band at Union Pool—a very young girl with a beautiful voice and terrible lyrics. And then on to the birthday party! There was lots of dancing. The kind of dancing where you imagine you are the best dancer ever. When they played Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” we all felt it. I mean, these streets will make you feel brand new.

Goofing off in Stacie’s studio

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:04:00 -0500

Goofing off in Stacie’s studio

I don’t know …I’ve been coming around to cats...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:51:00 -0500

I don’t know …I’ve been coming around to cats lately. Can’t explain it …

I really like the texture of Jess’s paintings. It’s...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:59:37 -0500

I really like the texture of Jess’s paintings. It’s sculptural and flat at the same time. They look like those spongy pastel puzzles toddlers play with—what are those called again?

This might be my favorite restaurant in my neighborhood. Though,...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:11:00 -0500

This might be my favorite restaurant in my neighborhood. Though, I have only allowed myself the pleasure of this chicken on two occasions, both when I was slightly more than tipsy. It’s the only way to justify this chicken which is fried in what? Gold? Magnificence? The most decadent (deplorable?) fat ever?

A heart attack never tasted so good.

I’ve been playing around with my new flavors.me site....

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:18:00 -0500

I’ve been playing around with my new flavors.me site. I’ve been trying to create a website for myself and one for SOFA so I was thinking this might be an easy way out of the ftp confusion (I just can’t get the ftp linked up to the domain or server or help?). I don’t think so, really, though. It’s pretty and easy to use but I should know how to semi-build a site. Looks like a dreamweaver class at the community college might be in my future.

Late start breakfast: soft boiled eggs on toast.

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:37:04 -0500

Late start breakfast: soft boiled eggs on toast.

At the Met today they had works of art shrouded in black cloth...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:40:00 -0500

At the Met today they had works of art shrouded in black cloth to commemorate world AID’s day. I thought this was a very moving gesture, though wondered, how did they choose which works to cover? Why the Cézanne and not the van Gogh?

It’s world AIDs day and I’m thinking about the great...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:38:00 -0500

It’s world AIDs day and I’m thinking about the great Cookie Mueller. Her words: “Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won’t have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.”

(via tesslynch)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:23:43 -0500

(via tesslynch)

A girl after my own heart.

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:31:57 -0500

A girl after my own heart.

Follow that bird: T. Nichols on the huffpo!

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:50:26 -0500

Follow that bird: T. Nichols on the huffpo!

tylercoates: Maxwell - “This Woman’s Work” (Kate Bush...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:54:22 -0500

tylercoates:

Maxwell - “This Woman’s Work” (Kate Bush cover)

“Kate Bush is the bomb.”

We watched this Unplugged on my 17th birthday in Dan’s finished basement. Boy and girl alike, we were enthralled and kept saying something like “Damn, Maxwell is so smooth!” I think Fiona Apple came on right after. She danced weird. My teenage social life could probably be mapped through a series of events that occurred in finished basements (my family didn’t have one).