Great Performance Art/Street Theatre/Sculptures in Cities that I have lived in on BoingBoing

Cameraheads in Seattle

The Golden Ass in Barcelona

They like him in Berlin...

The crowd spilled away from the Column for blocks. Police spokesman Bernhard Schodrowski said there were more than 200,000 people, nearly three times the 75,000 Obama drew in Oregon this spring in his largest previous audience.

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"I try to get out, but they keep pulling me back in!"

Remington Tobin Martin

We had a son on 7-11-08 at 8:07pm.

Trickle-down... the drain.

I can't wait for the economic stimulus effect of the Bush tax cuts to start.

Cannabalism, Slavery and Sex in Fallout 3

The Tower of the Elephant

With the exception of some distasteful antisemitism in the second paragraph, this is a highly imaginative and delightful story by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in Weird Tales in March 1933 (shown).
Link via Project Gutenberg Australia.

Flooding and levees breaking because of muskrats...

Muskrat Menace article ....


Over 20 levees have broken along the Mississippi so far this season.
Its wet in the midwest. Here's a map that shows just how wet.

"Let me show you my Angry Face™..."

The first season of the WB's Buffy spin-off show Angel (vintage 1999) is now available for viewing over teh Internet(s).

Much darker than its pompom laden little sister, this "Batman with Fangs" melodrama presents plots which vier precariously close to Dungeons & Dragons-land and delivers endless streams of snappy dialog designed to crush the comfortable lies our heroes would like to believe about themselves. It also contains an ample amount of gore, social commentary, vigilante justice, and "have at thee!", with scripts which delight in setting up super-hero action cliches, bringing them to satisfying conclusions, or maniacally burning them to the ground.

Sadly, in its later seasons (and especially its last), Angel gets cluttered with too many players with too much back story. That said, the first few seasons are well worth your time...

Art Fairs soaking up the Scene here in Chicago

Chicago lost five galleries in June: NavtaSchulz, gescheidle and giftshop project space in the West Loop; Lisa Boyle in West Town; and Dubhe Carreño in Pilsen. Are they victims of the recession, or are other forces at work?





















I’ve spent so much time researching for art fairs, going to art fairs and applying to art fairs that I feel like a traveling salesman,” Boyle complains, calling the art world “oversaturated” with fairs. “You take your artists’ work, hang it in some shitty, half-assed booth with 400 [other] booths. It’s not conducive to showing the work.”

-Lisa Boyle, founder of the now permanently closed Lisa Boyle Gallery