theology&geometry

Another fabulous Shane McDermott papercraft project. This one’s in conjunction with the annual advent calendar. I’ll post a link to the online version as soon as it goes live. The calendar is here!

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Oak Pond Glass, a little shop out of DeSoto County, always has a booth at C-Y Fest. This year I was unable to contain my lust. I wish I could link you to their wares, but they don’t have a web presence that I can find.

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This is cool, but all I could think was, “Why the hell is Pauly Shore beating the crap out of this guy?”

Last Day Dream [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

Yes I know it’s on Tumblr but I will take your semantics and punch you in the face with them if you sass me again: Quoteskine

Monday evening, Stephanie and I got all itchy for a roadtrip so we headed east and slightly north and ended up on the sleepy streets of Brownsville, which, for all we could tell, had been emptied out by the zombie apocalypse. Oh, except for RJ’s Hibachi, a greasy spoon that gleefully abuses the “hibachi” part of its name by completely ignoring it. It was hoppin’.

We had some time to kill before the sun sat (we went specifically to see the MindField at night, since we’d both seen it during the day), so we kicked around the town square, peering into windows and marveling at the sheer number of tanning salons within a 300-foot distance. The sun finally biffed off and the lights — which underwhelmed me, I have to say, as a millenial who was weaned on the whiz-bang of MTV and Disney — came on and we padded through the grass, shrieking at real frogs and imaginary snakes. (And mosquitoes. I am the motherloving pied piper of mosquitoes.) We didn’t see dear Billy Tripp himself, but Stephanie was kind enough to leave a little cash gift in one of his comment boxes since she took a couple of books to give away. I left nothing because I’m a horrible grifter who never carries cash.

We both noticed several changes in the sculpture that either hadn’t been there before, or that we hadn’t noticed before. The highlight? The little naked dolls way up at the apex of the sculpture, their stringy hair blowing in the breeze.

More pics of the MindField (including pics from my last visit) live here.

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I went to the Cove and completely unexpectedly meet a ton of Twitter friends and we drank and guffawed loudly at Supervixens while others sketched the model nearby. Flippin’ awesome.

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I do believe The CA will be giving this feisty little dude — another of Shane McDermott’s Newsbots — away. I’ll post details when I get them. Become a fan of The CA on Facebook and you’re eligible to win!

Hopefully the lucky winner will place him in front of an airbrushed portrait of a screaming bald eagle*.

* I may or may not have already used that joke in real life.

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I am excited to see this:

IN A DREAM: Theatrical Trailer from Herzliya Films on Vimeo.

Inspiration comes in fits and starts and lately it’s been all fits — sputtering, screaming, whining, sobbing, wailing, grumbling, sighing, blinking, scowling, pounding fits — and I can’t help but try to imagine that this ongoing ennui is going to give birth to a bouncing baby something. I’m just not sure what.

And that’s okay. If I’m sure of nothing else in my life, I can at least take comfort in knowing that this is how I do it. This is how I live. Up and down and up and down and there is a pattern to it and it will fix itself and then destroy itself and fix itself again. At least there is movement.

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Amanda Palmer + high school drama kids + Neutral Milk Hotel =

Um, is that Shia LeBeouf in there as the humble emcee? (And how awesome is it that I spelled “LeBeouf” correctly on my first try?)

My senior class play was Cheaper By the Dozen, I think, and I don’t remember a frigging thing about it. If I went to this high school, I would not forget this show for a long, long time. And hearing someone sing “semen stains the mountaintops” in my school would have been cause for rioting.

So kudos to these kids. Damn.

HT: @TVontheFritz