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Thursday, March 21, 2013

SINCE I STARTED THIS BLOG we got Obama, computer-phones, and one less planet, Sarah saved a school, Johanna attained literacy, and I had Asian food for lunch at least 250 times. Five years is a fair bit in Internet Time, especially for a project that’s as loose and lazy as a tour diary. By a band that doesn’t actually perform. We are known to [...]

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Roaming Hole Gardens: A miniature golf concept

Saturday, December 29, 2012

This is an excerpt of a MakeSh!t proposal submitted for artist-designed Mini Golf at the Walker to take place in summer 2013. Fingers crossed! UPDATE 1/9/13: WE’RE IN. CONCEPT: Once (maybe twice) in lifetime, something happens that transforms a favorite pastime forever. For the sport of Mini Golf, that time is next summer at the Walker Sculpture Garden. Roaming [...]

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So Longfellow

Friday, November 30, 2012

WE’RE CONSUMED BY TRANSITIONAL EMERGENCIES both tedious (where to put the boxes) and terrifying (a late-season influx of bats). So this quick one before I lose another a month: a belated love-note to the neighborhood we called home until September. Drafting a local Bingo Board has been on my list since at least 2009 (along with [...]

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Freaks of nature

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

IN A RAPIDLY WARMING, PETROLEUM-SCARCE WORLD, long-haul road trips may no longer be defensible. But weighing our waste against the lure of a righteous mountain cabin just outside Yellowstone, we said Screw It and got in the van. Having only driven around it before, I worried the Park wouldn’t live up to the hype. Was it just [...]

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Public acts of drawing

Friday, August 10, 2012

ALONG WITH SO MUCH ELSE IN AUGUST, this happened: my Thursday night crew set up a drawing station near St. Anthony Main across the river from downtown, turned a camera on it, and projected the scene onto a mill two stories high. Trading markers and high-fives with random passersby made our usual private dithering thrillingly monumental (the image up top [...]

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Tucson Is for Loafers

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

GETTING AWAY FROM IT ALL comes with a peculiar burden for me. The before-you-go rigamarole I’m good with. It’s once I’m there, there’s this nagging compulsion to gain Meaningful Experience. Some see time away as a pause in life, but for me it’s the exact opposite. Vacation is the whole point: figuring things out, seeing [...]

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Worked over

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

JOHANNA WILL TALK TO HER GRANDPARENTS only if she can spend the conversation in a laundry basket. She’ll also ask me to carry the basket around the house while she chats, though this I decline to do. Peculiar demands are popping up daily as her Negotiator Gene manifests. I remember wearing my mom out with [...]

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Seven days in November

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

MY FRIEND TRAVIS ASKED ME to make something for his art gallery. It’s not exactly a gallery, but an extra room where he has shows. Maybe not “shows” so much as house parties where there’s art. Not having attended before, I can’t even say it’s about art per se. All this will have to be [...]

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Otherwise occupied

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

THE MOVEMENT TO OCCUPY FILL-IN-THE-STREET does strike a chord with me. I’d thrill to see our financial overlords brought to account and regulated with extreme prejudice (since Washington can’t fix little stuff like fee gouging though, I’m not holding my breath). True, the overthrow of Capitalism wouldn’t improve my lot much. But I find our [...]

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Passing resemblance

Saturday, August 20, 2011

IT’S A TRUISM OF 8TH GRADE ART CLASS (AND EVER SINCE) that sketching faces is the hardest. Which makes sense with the evolution of face perception—how we’re born to read people through their faces, and interpreting expressions successfully has social advantages. When a face is drawn with details awry, even a little bit, it looks [...]

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