this huge archive of ads popped up in my referrers (and thanks; i’d forgotten about that hubba bubba campaign). not surprisingly, they were linking to gia (which you can pick up here.)
greenspan pops out of hole and sees no shadow. spring will surely be here soon.
meanwhile in other news, hallmark announces a new agency of record. millions die. film at eleven.
(nytimes links a-go-go)
To: patricking, three other recipients
Date: Thursday 28 February 2002 01 32 PM
Subject: bodoni help
can you identify which italic bodoni this is (or if it’s even one) (attachment)? i think all of my bodonis are from the adobe font folio (9), and they’re close but not right - the upper serif on the lower case i doesn’t match.
To: patricking, three other recipients
Date: Thursday 28 February 2002 01 37 PM
Subject: duh, sorry
of course as soon as i write that email i realise its caslon bold italic. sorry, but thanks.
(just in case you somehow haven’t gotten this week’s email meme’o’the week.)
1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3. You call your son’s beeper to let him know it’s time to eat. He emails you back from his bedroom, “What’s for dinner?”
4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her Web site.
5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa,but you haven’t spoken with your next door neighbor this year.
6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
9. Every commercial on television has a Web site address at the bottom of the screen.
10. You buy a computer and 6 months later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
11. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 (or more) years of your life, is cause for panic and you turn around to go get it.
12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and take planning.
13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
14. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
15. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
17. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
19. You get an extra phone line (or a ADSL/cable modem) so you can get phone calls.
20. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
21. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
22. You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed.
23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :-)
24. You’re reading this.
25. Even worse; you’re going to forward it to someone else.
Gay art lite is an interesting article supporting an opinion i’ve always had: gay writing sucks. in fact, writing with any narrow agenda generally sucks (two words: christian rock) as it’s far too dogmatic to allow any real creative freedom, and is therefore not art, but propaganda.
a conversation between two gay men. i mean teenage girls. whatever. same difference. 934K MP3 file. enjoy.
“junkspace” is what rem koolhas calls the fake cheeriness and ambiance of commercial spaces we deal with every day. as a result of junkspace, we have all developed an innate ability to tune out unacceptable environments. an article which examines, very well, i believe, our ability to tolerate the banal. think of it as a tool for a better shopping experience.
not only a crisis of employment, but one of culture: disney cuts jobs in animation. this can only mean a larger shift away from animated material, since most companies in this already-small field play follow the leader anyway. the cartoon network now has a larger market to work within, and an opportunity to define a diminishing artform as a “subculture.”
the only upside is that we’ll not have to put up with shit like hanna-barbera productions of the 1970’s…ever again. good riddance to scooby fucking doo.
drag queen zombies in jock straps! one-armed nazi drag queen zombies! parapalegic drag queen zombies with bladder conditions! drag queen zombies armed with killer four-foot penises!
“la cage aux zombies” appears to have no plot. the cinematography is horrific, the acting is worse, the drag is comprised of one cheap tube of suck-me red lipstick and the surrealist sequence involving gym-boys transformed into flesh-hungy drag queen zombies rampaging through seattle left me looking for some hydrochloric acid to pour into my eyes. in short: i loved every second of it.
so obscure, i couldn’t find a decent link for it. if you can, show it at your next holiday party. your guests will never forgive you.
a hysterical typographic portrayal of a st. patrick’s day parade. silliest use of clarendon ever.
it’s a movie! it’s a nostalgiac mess! it’s a transparent marketing ploy!
wasn’t there a joke about “TJ Hooker: The Movie” in “Charlie’s Angels..?” and isn’t this just as bad..?
currently at the MCA: gary simmons’ drawings are absolutely fascinating. each is executed in wide sweeping strokes in graphite, charcoal, or chalk, strokes which hide or destroy the original image. they are immense, lonely, calligraphic works, and not to be missed. it’s the other show currently up at the MCA, if you can tear yourself away from mies van der fucking rohe for, like, a moment (and really: please do).
why blog the oscars? cintra wilson does a fine job of saying all the nasty things i didn’t. but she missed one:
su: “what’s that hairy thing on ethan hawke’s chin?”
pk: “uma.”
su: :::snort:::
