25 July, 2009
22 July, 2009
I HAD BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF THIS SONG FOR OVER A MONTH
Apparently I just wasn’t Googling with enough “dos,” as it was right there on page two of a search for “do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do” (that’s twenty-two of them; I think I’d previously given up at eighteen).
As soon as I saw “Shanice” in the title of one of the results, it all came together, and I think my blood pressure dropped twenty-five points in an instant. I couldn’t remember her name, but I had been certain the song came out in 1991 (and I was correct—I’ve long suspected that I have an extremely limited savantism for the release dates of shitty pop songs). If this worthless institution gave me online journal access to, say, the weekly Billboard Hot 100 charts, I could have saved myself a lot of mental and emotional anguish (and it was anguish).
That song rules. Particularly the glockenspiel refrain through the spoken word breakdown.
20 July, 2009
16 July, 2009
14 July, 2009
Naturalized area
This is the “naturalized area” in front of the University athletic facilities. The McDonald’s is right at the place where cars and (mostly) trucks exit the US customs station. The intersection apparently has the worst air quality in the entire country (I live out of the frame, about three blocks to the left).
This is one of the signs we had printed. Somewhat astonishingly, we had them in hand less than 24 hours after submitting the file (credit where credit is due: FastSigns does indeed make signs quickly). They’re printed vinyl fused to aluminum, and they look pretty sharp, even if they are a bit a bit delicate—the vinyl scratches pretty easily; if one were looking to a permanent application, one would do well to go another route, but in all likelihood the signs will be taken down before they have a chance to weather too badly. Or maybe they won’t, who knows?
Finding these posts at the Home Depot was a pretty lucky stroke (I think they’re meant for temporary fencing and/or for propping up newly transplanted small trees). They’re a bit on the flimsy side, but they met our needs perfectly. This one is installed in one of the accidental meadows created by the three-month city workers strike.
And now for some gratuitous macro shots of the overgrowth on the Huron-Church pedestrian bridge. I’ll be sad to see it all go once the strike is over.
[That's one of the "ARBITRATION MAKES THIS GO AWAY" signs, at left.]
13 July, 2009
12 July, 2009
Oh yeah.
Making models of gallery spaces in Google Sketchup is totally worthwhile.
Especially if the show you’re trying to pitch is “filling aceartinc. with a toxic pink smoke.”
5 July, 2009
Sundries
I will continue to pay twelve dollars per issue for Fantastic Man for at least as long as they’re advocating International Male catalog ca. 1991 as a viable “look.”
I added some more gold paint pen to my CUPE sign, and I found another one piled up with some garbage.
