Archive for June, 2009
In honor of Gay Pride…
More from Myrtle Beach…
One evening during the trip to see Dad, we went to “the Nation’s Largest Gift Shop” aka The Gay Dolphin and while they had many, many delightful things, all displayed in this same vertiginous manner, I had the same experience I’ve had for most of my life:
The section isn’t quite in the frame, but trust me, there’s no “nayland” plate.
In all likelihood, I’d be a little worried if there was one.
And now on to more frantic packing. I’m going off on an extended trip, and today I said goodbye to Lehigh for about a month. Longest we’ve been apart, and I’m already a little saddened by it.
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Folsom Street East…
I’ve been going to this event for something like ten years. Originally I wasn’t going to be attending this one, but circumstances intervened. Spent two hours volunteering at TES’ table, which was a good spot to be during the two by now obligatory downpours, since we had a canopy. I saw so many friends, old and new, from out of town and local, expected and surprising, that it made my head swim. Literally: after about four hors, during which I made it down to the end of the block and back maybe twice, my agorophobia come on so strong that all I could think about was getting out of the crowd and into some less stimulating place. A couple of friends could read it on my face, and nicely sent me off.
The was much hotness to be seen and much smooching occurred. For once, the only thing I bought was a copy of david stein’s new book. He graciously consented to sign it for me. And now I have to turn my attention to everything I need to get done before July, when I will be heading out for a month on my own.
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Father…
Here’s me and my Dad. Last week my sister and I went down to see him. For me it was the first time in fifteen years. I’m very glad we did it, even though it was and remains, complicated.
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A little test…
Here’s something I’ve learned how to do today: to go from the above scan of a sketch in my moleskine to the image below, which was made in Illustrator, Photoshop and ArtRage a very interesting and cheap painting program.
I know some of you on my friends list do this sort of thing all day long, but this is the first time I’ve figured out how to make this happen. It makes me very happy when I finally have a clear system for doing something.
It’s a lot of messing around along the way, but it puts forth some interesting possibilities, especially when I was thinking that my computer and other equipment was too poky to do much with. I could probably use a new scanner though. The current one is way slow.
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Yeah it was still pretty hot…
…even if they cut away from the money shot. I’ve written about stuff like this two years ago, but once again I was somewhat teased with a hot scenario on the idiot box the other night: Stephen Colbert is broadcasting from Iraq this week, and one of the running gags is that he is enlisted and going through basic training. On Monday night his guest was General Ray Odierno. When Colbert made a couple of cracks about the Odierno’s baldness, the general responded by saying that Colberts hair cut wasn’t regulation and that something should be done about it. Colbert tried to weasel out, but was interrupted by what was supposedly a live feed from the White House, in which Obama proceeded to order Odierno to shave his head. Clippers at the ready, the general started (quite tenderly to my eyes) buzzing Colbert’s head. After a couple of passes, they cut to commercial.
There was no chance to see the results until last night and while I’m unimpressed physically with the look, I’m still blown away by the hotness of the idea of The President of the United States ordering another man to shave your head onstage in front of hundreds of soldiers as well as on national television. Of course I would have liked to see a bit more struggling and such, but still, that’s a humiliation scene!
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Screw your courage to the sticking place…
By which I mean sit down and type, merely type.
Type answers to emails. Type search engine terms. Type evaluations and recommendations and answers to questions and requests for funding and resumes and regrets and tags and summaries and hopefully something in the midst of all that that touches on a feeling or two, that connects one thought with another, or that at the very least makes a dent in the towering inbox.
I despair of finding my continuity in the mass of cotton batting that has taken up residence in my head.
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Congratulations guys…
Just made it back from the premier of Pornography, a film that should have an LiveJournal credit line, given all the talent from our little digital backwater both in front of and behind the camera. The screening was packed, so much so that an extra screening has been added. So congrats David and Sean: it’s a thoughtful, twisty thriller. I’m sorry I couldn’t stay for the Q&A.
Around the house, much work was done, by me. The work desk is in better shape than it has been in months.
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Cashing in…
Pals for Sunday poker and cigars. Kerry, Boymeat, Scotty, Scot, Thor ad Lolita. We played the usual silly dealer’s choice games. Everyone brought very responsible snacks, including the unpictured
Eventually I will forgive Boymeat for winning so much money all the time, especially since I managed to come out a few buck ahead myself. Lehigh is glad of the company and attention for a while until the smoke gets to be too much and she retreats to the other end of the house. She gets treats from the visitors, but even so I can tell that there are times when people get to be to much for her. Not unlike myself actually. But afterwards, once everyone has left, she is eager for cuddles and kisses from me. A little bit or reassurance.
We are in the full force of summer. People walking along the block, taking it easy. The windows are wide open, to aid in clearing out the smoke. The air that flows in through them is luscious.
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Start again….
Still from Starting Over, 2000 Video installation.
Welcome. Once I had this website, see, through AOL, with a couple of sad pages on it and I never did anything with it. Then I tried to register a domain in my name and someone was squatting it (they still are, for all I know). Then I registered this other domain and never did anything with that. Then I built a site on it using the cheesy tools the host provided, which was up for a year or so until the hosting agreement ran out ( I wasn’t paying attention) and the site was taken down. That was so long ago that I’m embarrassed to tell you. Now finally I’ve been able to reactivate this site that you’re looking at. It’s still being built out, and there is a lot more to come, including, hopefully, an archive of any and all of my work that I have documentation of, craft projects, and visitor forums. For now, you can scroll down to see the blog I’ve been maintaining for the past six years. To the right you’ll find pages that detail my professional life, and below that, links to what I find interesting. Please poke around and let me know what you think of things so far. I can be contacted via gmail, the name being of course naylandblake . I look forward to hearing from you.
What’s new:
07.10.2009: Added the year 1988 to the Selected Works page.
07.25.2009: Added three new items to the online bibliography page.
09.18.2009: Changed appearance, and made new index page.
09.19.2009: Added gallery of self pictures to the about Nayland Blake page.
