crude futures

Graffiti in Park Slope (and vicinity)

BUTT HURT? TRY BUTT TYLENOL
Grand Army Plaza subway station




TAKE A WALK ON THE CHILD SIZE (1)
Lincoln Place between 6th & 7th Aves




TAKE A WALK ON THE CHILD SIZE (2)
St. Johns Place between 7th & 8th Aves




BUTT (1)
Grand Army Plaza subway station




CHILLING
Flatbush Ave between 7th & 8th Aves




SEX
Flatbush Ave between 7th & 8th Aves




BUTT (2)
Flatbush Ave between 7th & 8th Aves




FART BUTTON
80 Hanson Place




TAKE A WALK ON THE CHILD SIZE (3)
6th Ave between Union & President




FOR A BUTT TIME, FART BUTT FART
6th Ave between Dean & Pacific




THIS PLACE SMELLS
4th Ave & 9th Street subway station

drawing

Maybe Africa doesn't care if it's Friday

I enjoyed finding this colorful graphic in the TGI Friday's Wikipedia article.

Less than the sum of her parts

Like a high-school junior writing a three-page essay, a U.S. President strives to present a coherent argument.* If Clinton can't do it, she can't have the job.



* Or a coherent persona, at least.

Acceptors

META: "I have a wide right side.", Elvin from The Cosby Show (Sondra's husband), Eldin from Murphy Brown (Murphy's handyman), Murphy from RoboCop (T.J. Lazer impressionist), "T.J. Lazer Halloween costume", "I'd buy that for a dollar.", "I'd buy that for a franc.", "I'd buy that for a euro.", "I'd buy that for a pound sterling.", "I'd buy that for a kroner.", "I'd buy that for a looney.", "I'd buy that for a deutsche mark.", "I'd buy that for a measly 300 credits, Bubble-Eez bubblegum, Bubble Eez, "bubble bubble eez/bubble bubble gum" TV commercial jingle (with astronauts), Bonkers candy, Bonkers candy commercials, giant fruit landing on the Bonkers candy woman's head, "giant rocking chair + Lily Tomlin", saying JOD instead of GOD, saying JOOD instead of GOOD, saying JOSH instead of GOSH, Mervyn, Merv, Mervin, Starvin Marvin, Starving Marvin, Duane Reade, Duan Read, Dwayne Read, Dwayne Wayne, Anthony Wayne Trail, Maumee Valley, mommy valley, mommy mountain, mommy plains, a plain mommy, giant mommy, huge mommy, world's biggest mommy, world's smallest mommy, "Best OK movie of the year", "Who won best OK movie of the year? Was it The Diving Bell and the Buttefly?", Larissa Starnecia, Starneisha, The lyrics "Do all the things you want me to/Do all the things you want me to/Do..." looped dozens of times, "Padding, padding—he didn't need any/Padding, padding—he didn't need any/Padding...", breach, preach, niche, leech, Keach, drew on a drawing, flew on a flight, Harley Weewax, "In a dream, Dr. Huxtable delivers a baby, but it's a hoagie sandwich. He delivers a second baby and it's a jug of orange sodapop.", Jay Sandrich, "Jay Sandwich", the name is clay bill clay, "Clay Bill Clay", cruelio, schoolio, broth, broth, broth, "a broth's broth", "real broth", soup, shoop, shoup, soup suds, loop the soup, soup the soup, soup of soup, cream of soup, soup of the year, "best OK soup", error soup, lofty soup, a plate of soup, a glass of soup, a handful of soup, pouring soup, siphoning soup, soup rain, a mile of soup, "you pay by the mouthful," "you pay by the bite," "you pay by the soup, per soup", "a dollar a bite," prorated used battery, climbing a ladder on a date, "Why are there prunes in this beef stew", climbing the same ladder on another date, "I'm surprised by the prunes in the beef stew", climbing a different ladder with a different date, no big deal, swelter, fine, "drank a little vino", drank a little beano



META: "drank before the keynote", anticipating the keynote, hotly anticipating the keynote, that keynote, "that reminds me of this keynote", hotly anticipating his keynote tomorrow, hotly anticipating his keynote next week, can't wait for the keynote, nervous about the keynote, discarded notecards, discarded water bottles, "speaking of keynotes", "did you attend the keynote?", discarded homemade placards, diskettes in use, diskettes in storage, diskettes thrown away today, "number of diskettes that are dusty", number of diskettes, quantity of diskettes, "please put the contents of this DVD onto a series of 3.5-inch floppy disks", "please put the contents of this DVD onto a series of 3.5-inch floppy disks using two incompatible computers", a computer from 1998, "you have to make sure the floppies are empty first", a text from 2003, a computer from 1995, "meet me at the keynote speech", a computer from 1992, "blind date at the keynote speech", a computer from 1989, gravy soup, soup gravy, burger soup, steak soup, tawny gravy, "sitting at a computer in a museum", "interactive computers in museums aren't fun", breve (drink), brevity's rainbow, breve gravy, Gwildor isn't Orko, Faker (He-Man figure with orange hair & blue skin), "fatter figure fashions", wide right side vs. narrow left side, peld, wedsraft, felbroan, "hunkabaka hunkabaka dibba-dibba hunkabaka", soul, coal, toll, foal, T.J. Laser, "Real World Apartments", Harley Weewax, "Harley Weewax", trills, shills, gills, bills, a wimble, "an instrument for boring holes", easy bubbles, a promise of easy bubbles, boring holes, a boring hole, "not that michael jordan", "not that grover", "drover's platter", platterfoods, "pay by the platter" where you pay by the platter, "grab everything", Czerny, Cherny, Cherney, cubble, crubble, "we furnish", acceptors, accepting, "acceptors accepting", "How to Eat Efficiently at Outback Steak House" (what most Koreans already know)

keynote speech

online vietnam bunk graffiti

so the other afternoon i needed to do some loosely-charted internet research for a school project. i was digging around online, looking at random archives and library-ish institutions & collections and stumbled across the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech's online presence. Here is their mission statement:

"to support and encourage research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam experience; promoting a greater understanding of this experience and the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia. Its functions are threefold: collection and preservation of pertinent source material; education through exhibits, classroom instruction, educational programs, and publications; and encouragement of scholarly research through exchanges, publishing of noteworthy research, symposia, and financial support."

and here's their online stuffs: "over 2.7 million pages of scanned materials. Types of material include documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, maps, and collection finding aids". Cool!, but let's get down to the fun stuff. one of their neater online collections is the Vietnam Graffiti Project:

...today we look at some of the CANVAS BUNK elements held within this collection! [images below are details, clickable for fullll scan]

*** SORTA NSFW/HOME ***

ANNOYING NB: as their own website sez: The Virtual Vietnam Archive is experiencing periodic access problems. We are actively working to correct these errors. Yes, their website is certainly bootleg right now, but here's the link to search the canvases!

bad breath and pants

Did you ever have a dream? (mp3)

Here's a little ditty Mo and I came up with on our morning walk today:

Tra-la-la.

(click above to listen)

I smell like Colgate right now #1

drawing up some Ichthyosis hystrix

Note: pix get bigger when you click 'em

wowza, cruising the archival institutions webworld, i inevitably found myself on the National Library of Medicine—History of Medicine recent acquisitions page.

behold!, they've acquired an 1892 copy of Ausfuhrliche Beschreibung und Abbildung der beiden sogenannten Stachelschweinmenschen aus der bekannten engelischen Familie Lambert oder the porcupine man by the rather talented Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau! (bravo, gents...how much did that one set you back!) this fellow's got Ichthyosis hystrix (Lambert's Syndrome) i'm afraid: "It was first described in 1733 by John Machin who wrote about the case of Edward Lambert, an Englishman who suffered from the disease. Lambert, and his children and grandchildren, traveled through Europe, displaying themselves as 'a new species of man' for money. In his work, Tilesius not only discusses Lambert, but also other known cases of the disease."