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Friday, October 19, 2001 :::

a column on the urban tribe as a phase of life for 20-somethings. Definitely appealing to me. But one point was that marriage generally signals end of membership in the tribe...my ideal would be a tribe that could exist through all that, like these people I know in Sacramento. They started out goth-clubbing together, now they're all in their 30s, married with kids (pink hair and pagan sensibilities, we're not talking suburbanites here), still all doing everything together and considering themselves family. Anyway, urban tribe relates to all our talk on community and moving places and all that...we gotta stick together, fiends and fronds.

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 12:39 PM

laura never watched much teevee growing up, so she may not find the humor in this... but, for those like me who were pacified by the Cathode Ray Teat for much of toddlerhood:

BarneyFife.com uses the lessons of The Andy Griffith Show to teach the parables of the Bible. HA!

::: posted by kevin seal at 11:25 AM

Thursday, October 18, 2001 :::

i know that the boot might feel shy about promoting himself, so here-ya-go-buddy: two zorros

alex explains: "It's a drawing of a small scene that I witnessed on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, Boston in October of 1998. Click here to download (1024 x 768, 240k). When you see the image, download it to disk."

IU art student Stuart Hyatt (and Broad Ripple alum) wants us to dissolve our kundabuffer, a mystical organ reaching from our abdomen to our ear which prevents us from evolving and finding joy and harmony. Read all about it, including his 'kundectomy' operation in France, and the BEAM 600 which is sitting on top of the art school. (can't find an online version of the AP article my mom photocopied for me, which shows him and the BEAM, and explains his point. The kundabuffer "is a metaphorical thing in us that causes everything from knee-jerk reactions to cynicism, lack of energy and negative thoughts," he says. We need to instead "engage our lives with a new level of creativity, innovation and enthusiasm.")

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 11:28 AM

So Mark and Jennifer and I got to see Bjork last night, 25 rows back at the Oakland Paramount Theater. She's so cuuuuuuute. She bounced around a lot, started out in her famous swan dress, and then ended up looking kinda like a red ostrich. There was a huge local orchestra in the pit, Matmos at the side (I had to leave during their opening set, their electronic squeaks sounded exactly like I was getting my teeth cleaned, it made my skin crawl), a harpist on the other side, and 11 girls from Greenland (in some kind of traditional dress) happily wiggling and singing behind her. The first set was almost all Vespertine, while the second half was just her wailing and belting out older songs, it was fabulous. What a voice. What sexy music.

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 9:18 AM

Wednesday, October 17, 2001 :::

Hauntorama, Child Quest International (CQI), Cinema Secrets Makeup, and Radio Disney are teaming up for the first annual “THRILLER 2001,” a national campaign designed to help elevate awareness on the issue of child abduction. Over 2,100 children vanish every day in America. Thriller 2001 illuminates the safety issue with family-friendly fun activities including a national haunted house and monster makeup campaign in neighborhoods across the country.

Questions:
1. What's a "monster makeup campaign"? Do they go door-to-door delivering greasepaint and color-by-numbers instructions?
2. Why did I get this press release at DV?
3. Does anyone else find it odd to use Halloween haunted houses to talk about child abduction?

How's this for a quote: CQI's Andrea Gibby says, "We are 'thrilled' about our partnership with Hauntorama and the 'Thriller 2001' campaign."

Well, it's for a good cause, which is more than can be said for the Hell House in Vacaville. Which, btw, has been spreading in popularity: there are now over 400 "hell houses" in Christian churches all over the country.

::: posted by kevin seal at 11:26 AM

Tuesday, October 16, 2001 :::

for your dining needs...a recipe for squirrel dumplings, among others. Plus, squirrel rights pro and con, and squirrels psycho, scary and humorous.

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 2:35 PM

Newscasters looked authoritative on television, but angelic in real life -- they were the best lit. Interesting selections, Dr. Galt.

Kurt and I went to a truck stop in Sharonville (just north of Cincinnati) on Sunday night, and the first words out of the waitress's mouth were: "Have you got the squirrels yet?" She was talking to guy standing behind us in the entrance, which we didn't realize.

Turns out she was making squirrel dumplings -- not for the diners, just for herself and her boyfriend. According to her, they taste a lot like rabbit dumplings (sorry, zarbet), and one squirrel is, surprisingly, enough to feed two people.

In other news, Richard Liebow's hypnosis seems to have worked. 110 hours so far without nicotine.

::: posted by kevin seal at 11:41 AM

Hello all, I've concocted a little exhibition of photos that I took in the weeks following that attack which has changed this city so damned much. It's a modest affair, but it speaks to my own personal pre-occupations, so it should be a slightly different view of the streets then has been presented on the nightly news, (I assume, since I haven't watched the nightly news.) The first three photos were taken on September 11th: two of them from my roof, and the other while I was unsuccessfully trying to give blood. There was a lot on that first day that I could have photographed, but I found myself paralyzed - I'll never be a photojournalist. The rest of the photos were taken on the Monday following. I'd spent the weekend as an emotional refugee in Long Island, made a good pasta sauce and took lots of pictures of old men sniffing dahlias. When I returned that Monday morning I had a great need to go and see for myself what I could see. I walked the perimeter of the "containment zone," feeling a little queasy about the soldiers and the flags (26 years of associating outward displays of patriotism with conservative politics and policies isn't easily dismantled.) I walked for hours taking pictures with two cameras hung around my neck. Over and over, I was taken for a journalist by people who were eager to share their experiences with me. It was a day that I won't ever forget. It ended at Union Square Park, which had become the center of New York's grief. This is something that I want to share.

::: posted by the boot at 10:28 AM

Sunday, October 14, 2001 :::

OK peeps, I think I've finally found a compelling reason for grad school...IU's Master's in Immersive Mediated Environments. Seriously. I think it combines a lot of my interests and looks like a good path to a fun/useful career and skills that are needed. Anyone want to go back to school with me? Two years in Indiana, then we hit Europe as a creative team that can produce awesome DVDs?

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 9:21 PM