August 30, 2008
In keeping with yesterday’s ode to manufactured gifts, cheapest here’s an utterly beautiful hell bank note, medications designed to follow this year’s BRC theme, The American Dream, that someone gave to my wife. Tonight is the burn. (I’m writing this a few weeks later, to report that a hissing, howling dust storm enveloped the camp […]
Filed under: Art, Artifact | Comments (0)
August 29, 2008
Of all the sorts of trinkets given out at Burning Man, look the gorgeously mass-produced ones always grab me a bit harder than the small-run handmade items – probably because I’m a shallow consumer in love with manufactured goods. A guy handed all of us one of these today as we picnicked on the shady […]
Filed under: Adornment, Art, Artifact | Comments (0)
August 28, 2008
Faith is one of those nature versus nurture questions. You either have it by the time you’re an adult, nurse or you don’t. But unless it’s very strong, viagra you’ll find it sorely tested. I was raised a good Catholic by a very good Catholic and an excellent Episcopalian, but wound up walking away from […]
Filed under: Artifact, symbol, Tool, weapon | Comments (0)
August 27, 2008
Faith is one of those nature versus nurture questions. You either have it by the time you’re an adult, nurse or you don’t. But unless it’s very strong, viagra you’ll find it sorely tested. I was raised a good Catholic by a very good Catholic and an excellent Episcopalian, but wound up walking away from […]
Filed under: Artifact, symbol, Tool, weapon | Comments (0)
August 21, 2008
There’s a certain serenity to getting tattooed. You sit (or lie) back on the chair or table and agree to let someone cause you tremendous pain for several hours and scar you for life. What gets you through the pain is the promise of how marvelous the scar will be. I’ve been waiting months to […]
Filed under: Artifact, Instrument, Jetsam, symbol, Tool | Comments (0)
July 23, 2008
At the bottom of the trunk. In the dark. For the past 34 years. Where she had been pushing it ever since he left. Perhaps. The card in the Royal Fusiliers Museum says: Cigarette case belonging to Pte F C Shuter 10th.Bn. Pierced by a German bullet 10th.July1916 – The Somme
Filed under: Artifact, Fetish, weapon | Comments (0)
July 19, 2008
“Daddy, no rx it’s stuck!” We’re coming up out of the Tube this afternoon after a long day noodling around Brick Lane‘s rolling flea market and art swap meet. My 6-year-old’s ahead of me on the escalator. “Get your toe out of there! Quit screwin’ around!” It’s been a long day, capsule everyone’s tired and […]
Filed under: Artifact, Jetsam, symbol | Comments (1)
July 8, 2008
Was he forged in lava? Does he swim in mercury seas? Of tinfoil jellyfish is his diet made? He came into our house from I know not where. He is small, link heavy, perfect.
Filed under: Artifact, Facsimile, Fetish, Objet, symbol | Comments (0)
July 6, 2008
Dad brought home movies. All the time. He’d set up the projector. I’d set up the screen. And we’d watch – Citizen Kane, doctor The Court Jester, Swingtime, The General, Soylent Green, They Were Expendable, Serpico – old movies, newer movies, all genres. I’m grateful for that, as with all things from my father. I […]
Filed under: Artifact, Jetsam, symbol | Comments (0)
June 30, 2008
Cheap stuff breaks. You get to decide – take it apart? Or just stomp its li’l plastic casing to shrapnel. I’ve had this in my stuff drawers for years. I keep promising myself I’ll take it apart.
Filed under: Artifact, General, Part | Comments (0)
June 18, 2008
Our neighborhood was built in the 1920s. I don’t know when they set these telephone poles, there but ever since then, buy people have been tacking notices up on them with whatever fasteners came to hand. The signs, drugs posters and advertisements all came down – by weather or by hand – but the metal […]
Filed under: Artifact, Jetsam, Tool | Comments (0)
June 11, 2008
Like all major American newspapers, thumb the Los Angeles Times – as we know it – may be doomed. Never thought I’d say that – I worked in newspapers for 17 years, side effects including ’90 to ’97 on staff at the Times, and I always kept the faith. I had rough moments mixed in […]
Filed under: Artifact, Jetsam, symbol, Toy | Comments (0)
May 29, 2008
These are extraordinary M&Ms for two reasons. For one thing, sildenafil they are red and battleship gray – a color I have never seen in M&Ms. For another, and Mars imprinted them with “Panda” – in honor of the thoroughly excellent movie that my wife just finished producing.
Filed under: Artifact, Edible | Comments (0)
May 26, 2008
Ah, medical Syquest. This 8-inch-wide slab of a disc, buy information pills encased in a high-impact plastic carrier, was the very height of portable data storage 16 years ago. You could pack a lot into 88 megabytes – screenplay ideas, hundreds of newspaper stories, Photoshop tomfoolery – so long as you had a Syquest drive. […]
Filed under: Artifact, Jetsam, Part, Tool | Comments (0)
May 21, 2008
This beautiful little enigma began life as a hot rivulet of molten iron, ampoule poured into a sand mold with a precise 5/8ths-inch hex opening at one end. After knocking it out of its mold, search its maker probably quenched it, viagra 40mg heat-treated it again and then dipped it once in black paint and […]
Filed under: Artifact, Fetish, Objet, Part, Tool, Toy | Comments (0)
May 20, 2008
I love the Sears Crafstman tool guarantee. It’s simple: break it and they’ll replace it.For the rest of your life. Period. I bought these adjustable pliers a good 25-some years ago, sildenafil when I was spending hours at a time lying on my back under a filthy Volvo. Cursing. A lot …
Filed under: Artifact, Instrument, Jetsam, Objet, Part, symbol, Tool, weapon | Comments (0)
May 18, 2008
My wife found this excellent machine at a garage sale, and and garaged it in our bedroom alongside the others in her collection, physician which includes a purple travel trailer, stuff a hot-orange Stude custom and a thrashed yellow fuel tanker. She’s a collector not of brands (Lesney, Dinky, Matchbox are all the same in […]
Filed under: Artifact, Miniature, Model, Toy | Comments (0)
May 17, 2008
I hunted it down, this web searching from gift shop to gift shop in Kona last summer, stomach wiith a will. I wanted something real – of bone – something distinct from the beautiful, sildenafil overly-copied and -cheapened polynesian talismans littering the tourist coast of Hawaii’s big island. I eventually tracked this down at a […]
Filed under: Adornment, Artifact, Fetish, Instrument, Miniature, Model | Comments (0)
May 13, 2008
“Hold him, order Teck, approved I wanna piss on him.” Boomer loomed over the prostrate sophomore and began unbuckling his pants. Kyle looked up – as much as Teck’s kung-fu grip on his neck would allow, at least – sighed, and resumed staring inches away at the defocused glitter of burst Lowenbrau bottles and Molson […]
Filed under: Adornment, Artifact, Facsimile, Found Object, Jetsam, Microfiction, Part, weapon | Comments (1)
May 10, 2008
Let’s skip the art theory and get right to the point: Christo’s work impresses on a visceral, order monumental level. I’ve been fortunate enough to see two of their works: Surrounded Islands (1982 or so?) – drove down with a colleague to Miami to where the artist had floated skirts of bubblegum-pink polypropylene around 11 […]
Filed under: Art, Artifact, Jetsam | Comments (0)
May 6, 2008
A mix of no-nonsense design and obsolescence incarnate, symptoms this is a perfectly made object lesson in hubris: The 3.5-inch floppy was designed to last for decades – and outstripped within a mere few years by bigger, page faster, even-more-durable flash memory. What are they good for now? Coasters. Table-levelers. Impromptu office Frisbees. And speculations […]
Filed under: Artifact, Part, symbol | Comments (0)
April 25, 2008
ENLARGE This is the spiritual brother of this. It floated in off the Sound to the easternmost tip of Long Island, viagra order where I found it on Christmas Eve. A chill 34-degree wind bathed the pebble beach there. We trudged, store two families, online to the farthest reach, where plovers stood pointed upwind. We […]
Filed under: Artifact, Found Object, Jetsam | Comments (0)
April 16, 2008
The endless surf of bizarre manufactured crap surging through a family household always washes up some real gems. This bottle of bubble-blowing fluid is shaped like an ice cream cone. Try and parse the Americo-Freudian consumption/desire metaphor on that one.
Filed under: Artifact, Facsimile | Comments (0)
April 8, 2008
My son and I are running parallel these days on the scales of work and hope. He really needs to win this Lego contest. Design your own Mars Mission kit, treatment write something about it, ailment win the sweepstakes. He’s put *days* into typing a 400 word essay and taking photos of his creation, order […]
Filed under: Artifact, symbol | Comments (1)
April 3, 2008
In the end, dosage when I’m dead and this blog has vanished – along with the servers that hold it and the culture that cared about any of it – this manufactured object will still be here. Somewhere, cialis 40mg at the bottom of a moldering heap of trash, decease its component atoms of silicon […]
Filed under: Artifact, Jetsam, Part | Comments (0)
