Territorialities

There goes my domain name.

N E W P I G

She has a most unfortunately placed cork.

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Reader beware: the following conversation mentions mildly disturbing imagery. Be doubly aware that it is hilarious.

Subject: jesus h christ ... god bless the dildo in my anus ...

Original message: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1008072scuba1.html

First reply to all: hey andrew...did you find this while doing a google research for your halloween's custome?

who doesn't want to die like that? i mean, who does... :.

Second reply to all: what's a few ligatures in the pursuit of happiness? besides, his tongue and frenula remained perfectly intact, telling us he had not yet resorted to the extreme...

Third reply to all: Hey, at least he used a condom.

Fourth reply to all: Wait. Are you saying that there are ways other than rubber briefs and a dildo up your ass to pursue happiness?

Fifth reply to all: these emails are totally turning me on.

A Particularly Delightful Quote from Class

"...that other man on CNN who's so charming, I forget his name."

New Moto

I'm fixing this bike up to be a single speed for winter snow riding; I'm not quite daring enough to make it a fixed gear.

Right.

Money spent on things I do not need:

I just bought another digital camera. My old one works fine, but I bought another one so that I could take it apart and rig it up with a Mr. Lee Catcam timer chip. The point of this is to say that I spent way too much money on a digital camera that I will take apart immediately after I get my hands on it.

More money spent on things I do not need:

Last week I joined the bike co-op. I'm doing an ethnography of it, but I also needed to get my bike tuned up. Tonight, while doing some research, I cleaned the rust off my chain, lubed it up and adjusted the brakes and now it rides like a whole new bike. I also got not quite a whole new other bike from the co-op. It's white, of course to go with my black bike. It has wheels, but only one tire. It has a rear hub, but no cassette or derailleur. It has a seat and seat post, handle bars, gear shifters, and breaks. The bike guy said it would be a pretty sweet ride if I put some good components on it and never leave it out in the rain and I said we had ourselves a deal.



A trip I don't really want to take:

It looks like I'll be heading to CO/WY/NE for the first part of my thanksgiving break to do the site visit I never got around to during the semester. The most difficult part of planning this trip is making it Chicago, everything else seems easy compared with traffic on the Dan Ryan.

A movie I helped make:

Last week, in my graphic design class we had a guest filmmaker come for a workshop. And in the space of a week I learned video and audio editing in FinalCut Pro. Each student had to make three 30 second clips of a site and then we spliced them altogether into a movie. The hope was to find a narrative in all the clips, which wasn't readily apparent during the screening, but two of my clips were used.

Savior City?

A more literal approach to future cities then my thesis.

Should Have Beens

I should be in Wyoming right now, but I'm not. Instead, I'm in Champaign thinking about spycams and making movies.

The humiliation of it all

Yes. That is a plastic penis on top of my roommate's head. It has three strands of Marti Gras beads attached to a small silver hoop at the base. It also has a red flashing light in the base which doesn't show up in this picture. When we moved into the Treehouse we found the penis in the coat closet when we were cleaning out the previous renters stuff. We can trace it back to Matthew, or at least it showed up last year with Matthew's marbles. Matthew didn't really seem interested in taking it back so the penis has stayed around the Treehouse grossing out our house guests.

But tonight, after some farewell photographs, we left it at its rightful home. We loaded up and drove over to the strip club in east Urbana, found a car with a window open, turned on the pulsing red light, and tossed it in laughing the whole way home imagining the guy's wife finding this very small penis under the seat of her husband's car. The fact that the car was an old police car, still complete with the side spot lights, made the scenario all the better.



Here the other roommate pitches it out her window into the victim's car. Good throw!

And lastly, if anyone is looking for work in the greater C-U area the Silver Bullet's hiring.

Grad School

Surprisingly at 10:15 when I got to studio, I was the second person to show up for our 9:00 class.

Public Service Announcement...

...If the publics are still reading this.



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