rubbish

it's not pending, it's real: it turns out that the atlantic ocean is suffering from a veritable sargasso sea of plastic trash, a la the 'great Pacific garbage patch' 

the pacific version was the muse for 'the aboutthing,' an installation by ryan trecartin and lizzie fitch that made filthy commentary in the side yard of the rose art museum for most of 2009. sam wrote about it and took this photo of the artistic rendering of the mess:

now it looks like there's a real bermuda triangle of plasticky horror; let's hope the birds in that part of the world don't suffer as much as their albatross cousins ingesting plastic in the north pacific. as documented by chris jordan:

some business about a bird celebrating black history month by riding an underground railroad in canada

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in love with that modern moonlight

went down to make all sorts of swoony eye contact with jonathan richman at firehouse 13 in providence, RI on friday, with mr. ike and miss tintori (whose creaturecast on animal vag, and footage of deep sea critters, is worthy of your time). turns out JR is still as handsome as possible, and really into rust and love and breakfast and bricks and all glorious things of course.

mr. richman sort of saved me by reminding me he loved massachusetts oh so much when i was grumpy about it when i first moved here; since then, he's popped up in all sorts of places.

sam mckinniss painted him in his "modern lovers" series...

mike dacey of repeat press in somerville made this fine postcard...

i've been swooning over this album cover since coming across it at an audio/record shop in watertown:

and i always feel like a weirdo conglomerate vermeer character (reading letters, surrounded by bawdy gents...)

ode to musteloidea

saw at least 3 skunks scurrying around our backyard last night! then today i saw the taxidermy work of melissa dixson and another glimpse of a stinky soul...

when i was maybe 4 years old i heard the word "taxidermist" and declared that i wanted to be one. such a cool word. then i learned what it meant and got grossed out. now look at me. so it goes. 

thanks to design milk for leading me to miss dixson and a lotsa other good ideas 

obelisque

Now comes the Funeral! The band is playing, and Crusoe has been altered by
the embalmer into an obelisk. The whole town hammers him into the ground, all
singing.
-Claes Oldenburg, Crusoe, from Injun and other histories, 1967ubuweb has a really amazing collection of great bear pamphlets from something else press

people in the street makin gifs of grease

by phillip niemeyer, via artfagcity

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