Thrilled to plug new works from my brilliant artist friend Joseph Nechvatal. Check out: BEING IS DIFFERENCE and the new series back tO Order :-.,_,.-:*’“’*:-.,_,.-:*’“’*:-.,_,.-:*’“’*:-.,_,.-:*:-.,*:-.,_,.-:*’“’*:-.,_ Also stumbled across this site this morning – compelling ideas and performance in these works at 6168. http://www.6168.org/
One of my relatives sent me one of those email thingies intended to sway you into some sort of feeling or other. It was about the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and what happened to them. “Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.” (See the Snopes breakdown on the facts) It ends with the idea that we shouldn’t take our liberties for granted. I certainly…
Saturday Slant Targeted Ever been targeted by someone—maybe an enemy you didn’t know existed? Or maybe it was friendship soured. It could even have been by a total stranger, cruel or vindictive, picking you at random or making you pay for an imagined slight. Because you threaten someone in some way, for revenge, or for a hundred other reasons you may have been targeted and the victim of some form of attack. In one way or another, at one time…
Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme – Free association is described as a “psychoanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content.” I say, and you think… Exhibit::Express Evolution::Selection Loser::Slob Hypnotic::Trance Unlikely:: Event Interrupt::Displace Ambivalent::Reaction Rise and fall::Empire Indian::Navaho Prophecy::Challenge
Mr. HK has passed the “stick” to me. Stick It to Me You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?: Depends. Here’s the book I want the burners to pick up and peruse so that they might hesitate to burn me. 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature by Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, Dawn B. Sova Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? Anne of Green Gables The Vampire Lestat The…
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