Rubber Fetish
Makes me wonder who does the cooking and cleaning when he’s at work.
Meet the Flockers: Amanda Mae Meyncke
I am the commenter formerly known as jandek. One day I believe someone asked “Dear Clusterflock, what is your fulltime job?” and it struck me that it would be funny if Jandek answered the question. Things sort of kept going from there.
I live just outside Los Angeles, I just graduated from a small private university with a B. A. in Film and Radio Production. I spent most of my time in college designing and taking small classes on Flannery O’Connor. This year, I had made plans to move to Iceland, and to work for NPR, but as of right now, neither of those things have happened.
Los Angeles is wonderful, and I couldn’t hope to live in a better town. I mean that.
I screenprint, embroider, sew, karaoke, produce radio segments now and then, freelance write, garden occasionally, and I’m excited to be a part of your lives, and loves.
This is me looking serious… Seriously awesome!
Samuella Beckett and Companion
Samuella Beckett and Bob
White Polish hen and Crèvecœur rooster
A fine pair of fowl, yes? (And: Beckett’s beak and shock of white hair, no?)
From Ruth Mowry’s Flying, which I discovered by way of Alek Lindus, the enigma janitor.
Say Anything
My short piece of fiction, “Say Anything,” is up at Titular Journal.
New website for designers reaching directors
The body of this post has been deleted. We don’t mind people promoting themselves, or even their products. We would prefer that if the Christopher Walken account is used for this purpose, some effort be made to engage the clusterflock audience and to come across as a person who values the site.
Copying and pasting marketing text isn’t what we would suggest.
Update: Savannah writes:
Hi there,
I’m Savannah, founder of veaux.org
I understand completely wanting to remove us due to the marketing of veaux. The last thing I would want is for people to feel that they are being bombarded with marketers or something that might seem like spam. In all honesty, I wasn’t sure what the protocol for blogging really meant. For that I really apologize. If I knew differently, I would have gone about it much differently.
Veaux is something that I created to want to help emerging artists become known in the marketplace and to connect with each other and get work in the process. It’s something I truly believe in and so does the veaux team. The team is very passionate to make Veaux a successful venue for these artists. I don’t want my mistake to take away from that.
If you look at the site and feel that it isn’t what clusterflock or any other blog site wants to post, I understand. If you like it, I would…well…we would like another chance.
My sincerest apologies,
Savannah
A possible change of plans
I might need to be taking off abruptly for Cincinnati.
Short Distance Dedication
(This is from me to Deron.) I heard this song and thought about you.
Duck Fart
3/4 oz Kahlua
3/4 oz Bailey’s Irish cream
3/4 oz Canadian whiskey (Canadian Club)
Layered from bottom to top Kahlua, Bailey’s, and Canadian Club
“I Am the Walrus”
Deron’s recent letter to Jesus concerning the identity (or identities) of clusterflock commenter Jandek calls to mind statements made to the press in the wake of the recent alleged outing of Banksy. I summarize.
“Banksy is not my son. Banksy is not Robin Gunningham. Robin Gunningham is not my son. I have no son. I am not Pamela Gunningham.”
Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century
A blog dedicated to Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century
Dear Jesus
Is the Jandek that comments on clusterflock the real Jandek? Does more than one person comment on clusterflock as Jandek? If more than one person comments at clusterflock as Jandek, and one of them is the real Jandek, is the Jandek that wants to post on clusterflock the real Jandek?
Yours in submission and fear,
Unfolded Dog
(via swissmiss)
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman
Written by Neil Gaiman, The Sandman series is one of the most popular adult comics in recent years, starting in the late eighties and continuing on through the mid-ninties. The Sandman is one of The Endless, seven immortal individuals, among them: Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Despair, Desire and Delirium, and the series focuses on the interactions between immortals, gods, faeries, and humans. Sandman looks a bit like Robert Smith, to my mind.
Literary to an extreme, the stories deal with people and places both strange and wonderful, ranging from a purposeful trip to an emptied hell, to some very nearly science fiction tales that span the centuries. The comics are drawn beautifully, by a bevy of artists.
If you’ve never read them, well, why not?
Love always, Jandek.
Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers (1857)
“Of the Rev. Mr. Slope’s parentage I am not able to say much. I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from that eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr. T. Shandy, and that in early years he added an “e” to his name, for the sake of euphony, as other great men have done before him.”
(p. 31, Barnes & Noble edition, 2005)
hidden van gogh revealed by xray
The oldest joke in the world
Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.
the new cuteness
farting armpit girl has two daddies
I’m posting this article about whether two Swedish publishing houses are too politically correct simply because I enjoyed this paragraph.
Together the two small publishers have so far only released about a dozen titles, including a book about a boy who wears pink sandals, and a story about a girl who likes to make farting sounds using her armpits, who just happens to have two dads.
olympic gender tests
Officials will be testing for gender at the 2008 Olympics.
Although only athletes whose gender has been questioned will be tested in Beijing, the lab is a relic of an earlier Olympic era, when every female athlete was required to submit to a sex-verification test before competing in the Games. The tests emerged in the 1960s, when the Soviet Union and other Communist countries were suspected of entering male athletes in women’s events to gain an edge.
At first, women were asked to parade nude before a panel of doctors to verify their sex. At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, officials switched to a chromosomal test.
Dude wrote my article on hipsters.*
Douglas Haddow recently did a bit on hipsters entitled Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization (via) and concluded:
Hipsterdom is the first “counterculture” to be born under the advertising industry’s microscope, leaving it open to constant manipulation but also forcing its participants to continually shift their interests and affiliations. Less a subculture, the hipster is a consumer group – using their capital to purchase empty authenticity and rebellion. But the moment a trend, band, sound, style or feeling gains too much exposure, it is suddenly looked upon with disdain. Hipsters cannot afford to maintain any cultural loyalties or affiliations for fear they will lose relevance.
This underscores what I call “the economic metaphor” which is embodies the Zeitgeist of the West. The practical and popular are our valuables, while the ideal and the good (not necessarily their former’s opposites) are worthless not invaluable. Hence, I say, the economic metaphor lacks value. A quip that, in all its recursive glory, only augments the “hipster” aesthetic: the clever is the new smart. We are, largely, a culture of echoes, distorting the new and original with our apt, snarky quotations. (Just look at twitter or any run-of-the-mill link blog and you’ll see.) Echoes, like our culture loyalties, fade and we are left looking for the novel or, when nothing new is found, the retro.
I could get all Derridean and niggle about the author’s use of “end,” but that would only muddy the waters. I will, however, say that it does not so much show the end of West as “turn” towards something unexpected. The 60s–for all its political nostalgia–seems just as vacuous to me, a twenty-something, as now.
*To be clear: I mean he is thinking the same thoughts I am.
Solstice and After
summer solstice | Alek Lindus | enigma janitor
And my response.
What do you think is the future of blogging?
A recent Technorati survey asked me this question and I answered thusly:
I think we are going to see increasingly unique ways of media integration, namely video and audio podcasts, text, and hyperlinking. How, exactly, is difficult to parse. Text, however, will always remain king if the World Wide Web is a blog’s continued medium. Hyperlinking is too powerful to fade anytime soon.
What do you think?
WWJD?
What Would Juicy Do?
Weekly Picture 125
Green Sign, Highway 71, Austin, TX, 7.27.2008
My first marriage
was made official by a civil ceremony conducted in Dallas, Texas by the Honorable George L. Allen, Sr., who advised us to be sure and wipe the jelly off of our babies’ faces because that’s what attracts the rats.