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11/9/09 03:00 am
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020882.html Asian conductor to ballerina on train carrying scissors, needle and thread: You know, I could confiscate those scissors. Since 9/11 they are really strict.
Ballerina: I'm just sewing my shoes, they're to cut the thread.
Asian conductor: Some of us would just take them. I won't, I'm just warning you. The needle too. There is this place in the neck you could stick the needle and paralyze someone. (walks away)
Ballerina's seatmate: He watches too many ninja movies.
--Metro North
11/9/09 01:06 am
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11/8/09 11:20 pm
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11/9/09 12:02 am
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11/8/09 10:45 pm
This weekend has been quite the awesome weekend. 3ric brought a high speed camera (7000 frames per second at full resolution) and we made a few videos together. I've uploaded a couple of videos. Here's a high speed video of me using mentholated eye drops. And here's what happens when Eric, 3ric, Kelly and I get soy milk, a belt and a high speed camera. Go Vegan. Or something.
11/9/09 12:46 am
she quit sleeping and ceased watching her figure. as her body grew so did her happiness forming a parallel; cosmic, boundless, incredulous, immune, invisible ipso facto unassailable. when she died her neighbors, kindhearted people that had left her be, provided the wherewithal securing a plot for an unbroken rest. in death she was carted about, emptied, handled, assaulted by impetuous gloved paws. when they lowered her to sleep her neighbors thought, nearly all of them and simultaneously, how sad she appeared, how lonely and tragic her life must have been. they congratulated themselves for giving the fat old woman a final gift. the fat old woman, cross for the first time in ages, grumbled noiselessly. like a newborn settling into a galaxy-dimensioned birthing room she accepted shovelfuls of earth warming her new wooden home. she thought she would like it alright here and again gave herself to her fantasies, her fingers and eyelids twitching faintly every few months. Current Music: joey negro and the sunburst band
11/9/09 12:00 am
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020881.html Guy #1: So I literally threw the books at her. And I said, "What's the point anymore? We fight like cats and dogs every time..."
Guy #2: So maybe we should all move in together in one big house! And we could marry each other's wives!
Guy #3: Yeah! Maybe...?
--17th St & 7th Ave
11/8/09 11:09 pm
Wow so I haven't had time to update in forever!
A few weeks ago Hallelujah the Hills came through. They played at the Empty Bottle on Friday then I met them Saturday morning for brunch at the Chicago Diner ("Meat free since 1983!"), yum. Then we hung out for a bit until I went home to do stuff around the house.
Also at that show I made friends with a British guy named Sebastian, which is my favorite name ever. Just saying!
Last weekend was Joe & Tracy's wedding! It was brilliant and if I had time I would write up a whole post. I do not, so here is the quick run-down:
Thursday - drove to Cincinnati and hit enough traffic it took an extra 2.5 hours. Dinner with lots of people at an Italian place. Catching up with old friends! Hurrah! Then back to the hotel for lots of champagne, then out to the goth club for drinking and dancing. Notable moments were ordering the only two High Lifes they had, spilling one down my shirt (do not attempt to hold both an almost-empty beer and an almost-full beer in the same hand and drink out of the almost-empty bottle); the furry; and mainly just drinking a lot. Then it was back to the hotel for more hang-out.
Friday - waking up far too early, with a hangover, but worth it to go meet ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) teaandbitchery at the aquarium. We walked around and watched otters get fed and petted sharks!
( shark photo cut for a certain someone )
Then it was back to the hotel to nap off the remainder of the hangover until the rehearsal dinner. While dinner was fun, as it is a rib place, the waiters were very confused when asked about vegetarian options. Mine told me the past had "I'm not sure what... broccoli. There's broccoli." So for my side I got a baked potato, as the veggie of the day was also broccoli.
There was no broccoli in my pasta.
And then we hung out for a bit at the hotel but mainly called it an early night.
Saturday - Wedding day! Halloween! Big ups to mc_mensus and grabity for being my ride to and from the wedding. Thank you again!
We got there fairly early and helped set up, then Natasha did our makeup. I also discovered another bridesmaid had the same dress as me. Later I also discovered that one of Joe's cousins (not in the wedding) had the same shoes. NO ONE HAD MY MASK AT LEAST.
Photos were fun if cold, mainly because the photographer was hilarious. At one point he directed us to look "joyful. And ironic." At another point, he christened me "the digital one" thanks to my chest tattoo. All in some eastern European accent.
Somewhere in there I got an early read/edit of Joe's brother's speech, which was one of the more gloriously nerdy things I'd read in a while.
And mainly the wedding was just awesome, and beautiful, and perfect. I cried a lot, and felt bad about ruining Natasha's makeup, but she did such a good job it held up! And really the best part of the day is that two awesome lovely brilliant people who I love got married to each other, and now I am kind of wanting to start crying again. Aww.
You can see all the photos here, I really must sleep so I can only post a few:
First dance:
Me and Angel:
And, Aaron as a banana:
Sunday - drove back to Chicago, tried to study and do chores etc. Happy to see the cat.
The only bad part about this wedding was timing, as the entire first half of the week I was literally painfully tired. By class on Wednesday I was so exhausted I was doing the thing where I rock back and forth in my chair without realizing it. (I mean, obviously I noticed eventually, but you see my point.) I did manage to get a 49/50 on the test that night, which is kind of a miracle of really educated guessing. That night I got home from class, fed the cat, did dishes so I could make breakfast in the morning, then slept. I didn't even turn on the computer. I got 7.5 whole hours of sleep (so much!) and felt so much better on Thursday.
Which was the goal, as Thurday, Ho-Ag was in town! The first half of their EU tour got fucked up so they did a Great Lakes tour instead. They got in pretty early so I picked them up from the venue and we went to the Chicago Diner (apparently Bostonians enjoy good vegetarian/vegan food). We went back to Ronny's (which is kind of a shithole, my god) and they played an awesome set of almost-all new stuff. I really liked it. Tyler's high school friend Justin was there along with some other people, so we all took off for The Whistler to hang out a bit (which, ugh, hipsters, but whatever). It was mainly just nice to get some time in with Tyler. Seeing him drink is still weird. Then back to the club, where they were wrapping up, and the sound guy had put on a Hickey CD. He and I totally bonded. Then the guys came back to my place - well, first Ryan went to a party, and Eric was on van-sleeping duty, and Matt had to write an article overnight. So Tyler and I chatted a bit then I crashed around 2:30. When I woke up at 7 Matt was asleep and Ryan was there too, so I figured it must have been a successful night for all. I woke Tyler up to say goodbye (he asked!), and we had another nice if brief chat. I miss my friends!
Then came a very long day at work, at which I crashed into exhaustion almost right at 2PM, exactly as I had predicted.
Friday evening was the Margaret Atwood Year of the Flood Event. It was neat, she had local people doing dramatic reading, and singing the hymns from the book. And then she sang on the last one as well:
I met a nice couple in line behind me, and ended up going to get drinks with them. Hilariously Justin randomly came into the bar too. It was a nice evening, anyway, and the start of the gorgeous weather of the weekend, so it was a nice bus ride/train ride/walk home.
Saturday was a whole lot of stuff around the house, then Shannon's birthday party, at which I took exactly 0 pictures. It was really loud in the bar and I was on edge a bit, but it was nice to see Shannon and celebrate her birthday.
Oh and Puck and I wound yarn:
Today I ran errands, did chores, did homework. But I did it with the windows open! And Puck and I went onto the patio, to enjoy what will probably be the last of this beautiful weather. 70 degrees, what the hell!
And now I am way too late to bed! Goodnight. Hope you are all well.
11/8/09 09:00 pm
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020880.html Asian girl #1: I always wondered what chalk tasted like.
Asian girl #2: (silence)
Asian girl #1: Do you know what chalk tastes like?
--Elizabeth Center
11/8/09 07:02 pm
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11/8/09 06:46 pm
As the writer/filmmaker responsible for the densely-detailed and intense films Donnie Darko and Southland Tales, Richard Kelly returns with another mind-bending sci-fi tale called The Box.
StarWars.com caught up with Kelly after a recent visit to Skywalker Ranch and ILM, to chat with him about his love for Star Wars, NASA's approval of The Box and why Jabba the Hutt should be the next Tony Soprano.
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In addition to expanding on Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button" for the plot, you also use a lot of your own parents' background stories in The Box, especially with your father's work at NASA. Why did you want the film to reflect some of your own family's history?
It just felt like the right thing to do. This felt like the kind of film I think they would appreciate. They love Alfred Hitchcock. When I found the solution to this story, and linking to my dad's work at NASA, it all came together. It felt like a way to kind of pay tribute to them and to their experiences. And that they would get a kick out of seeing elements of who they are portrayed by Cameron Diaz and James Marsden. Obviously, they're not playing my parents but it's an interpretation of them.
You don't get that many opportunities in life to try to do something cool like that for your parents. This felt like the moment to do it.
How did NASA feel about you not only using them as a story component, but actually shooting some footage there as well?
All the NASA stuff at Langley in the film was shot at NASA's Langley Research Center. It took about a year to get full cooperation from NASA and NASA headquarters and everyone at Langley. They all read the script and signed off on it. We signed a Space Act Agreement and it was a big deal.
No one has ever photographed that hangar before; no one has ever been inside that wind tunnel. There are these legendary buildings over at Langley that have never been shown before on film so it was really kind of setting a new precedent to get access to all these facilities.
My dad's work with NASA probably had a lot to do with granting me permission, and that the film might shed some light on the Viking program which was a very significant event. It's not the most well-known space mission, however anyone you talk with at NASA always go back to Viking as one of the greatest achievements in the history of space exploration. Putting a robot on Mars and sending photographs back was a profound accomplishment.
If you go online to the website YouAreTheExperiment.com you can see some of these prequel videos I put together. The first one incorporates a lot of real footage of the real scientists on the day -- June 20, 1976 -- responding and reacting to photographs being transmitted back.
Full interview here: Richard Kelly Talks NASA, Free Will and the Hutts(via Starwars.com)
11/8/09 06:00 pm
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020879.html Black gay guy #1: We better get back to class. This shopping can wait for another day.
Black gay guy #2: Class can wait in the name of fashion.
--Clothing Shop, Williamsberg
11/8/09 01:21 pm
Sean Connery thinks that sometimes you just have to slap a bitch
11/8/09 02:43 pm
My computer's been on the blink for a while, so I've been using Sarah;s, which has led to a pile of post-it notes and scribbled-on scraps of paper gathering on my desk. A lot of these were reminders to post this or that on the blog, which, I obviously didn't do. Sarah spent many hours yesterday trying to revive my ailing machine, which is more or less now acting responsibly. We'll see how long that lasts. In the meantime, I'm gonna play catch-up with a few random mentions of this, that and the other:
- The House of Fun Art For Sale list was updated after we got home from the Baltimore Convention, I just never told anybody because I'm such a savvy business person. We got hit with some unforeseen expenses (inc. a hefty car repair bill, ouch) so I'm offering up some new pieces, a few of them relatively big ticket items, a few of them relatively affordable -- pages from Milk and Cheese pages, Bizarro Comics/Bizarro World, Hellboy: Weird Tales, as well as a few pin-ups, odds and ends and the cover to Dork #6, which was The Eltingville Club issue (a note to the reader/customer who purchased the back cover to #6 and the Eltingville t-shirt some months back - I have lost your contact info, which is why I did not write you about the front cover. If you're reading this, please get in touch with me, because I feel badly that I screwed that up. My apologies!). Also, we've lowered the prices on a number of older pieces on the list. Several pages have already sold since we added the new artwork, as a few regular customers contacted us, but the list has been updated to reflect those purchases. If time allows we'll be adding more stuff before the holidays and we'll likely put some more layouts and small pieces up on e-Bay as well.
- I am going to be appearing weekly on the SLG Radio show every Thursday, or at least every Thursday SLG head honcho Dan Vado puts a show together. My segment will be taking place in the last fifteen or twenty minutes of the show. We'll talk about comics, I guess. We'll see. So far I've mostly yammered about nothing in particular while Dan tries to get a word in edgewise. It's a live call-in show, so folks can participate if they want. Previous broadcasts are archived on the blog radio site and upcoming guests are announced on the page as well, so check it out.
- Speaking of radio, I don't remember if I posted about Jill Thompson and I having been guests on Robin McConnell's Inkstuds radio program recently. You can listen to the episode here. Inkstuds is a great comic book resource, Robin's interviewed a terrific array cartoonists over the course of its 4-yr run (Happy Anniversary, btw).
- Speaking of interviews, here's one Jill and I did with Crimespree Magazine regarding Beasts of Burden.
- Speaking of Beasts of Burden, here's a preview of the first three pages of the upcoming third issue, which is an Orphan solo adventure. While the orders for the series have been less than stellar, the response has been extremely gratifying, and it doesn't look like retailers are getting stuck with too many copies dying on their racks. We've also received some very nice comments about the series from creators like Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, Len Wein, James Robinson and Eric Powell (all on Twitter), which has been cool as all hell to see, I must admit. #3 ships on the 25th, and hopefully will be a fun sort of palate cleanser after the downbeat second issue. At least that was the plan.
- Geek Alert: Universal Monster movie fans take note - I accidentally stumbled across a reference to The Universal Cult Horror Collection, a set of five lesser-known weirdies including Murders In The Zoo, The Mad Ghoul and Rondo Hatton as The Creeper in House of Horrors. The set is only being sold through TCM.com (and one other online source, but the price is the same, iirc), it's part of a deal TCM made with Universal to release some films on demand, and hopes are high that perhaps this could lead to getting Island of Lost Souls out on DVD. The films can be bought separately, as well. I haven't seen any of these, I'm sure they're nutty jerk-fests, but I love this stuff. Now, if I could only afford them...
-I've got something like seven new Fun Strips done or almost done. I've gridded up a batch of strips and pages to work on whenever the ink's drying on another job, so who knows, I may have some Dork-type comics to show you folks sooner or later. Still trying to get more done on that Milk and Cheese strip I started and posted a bit from a little while back, but it's slow going.
- I'm also working on a pin-up for a charity auction that has been fun, little cartoony versions of as many old Marvel Comics villains as I can remember the details for. It's a small piece but I'm trying to get as many figures in as possible, I think I have thirty or so right now. I'm trying to see how many characters I can draw more or less by memory, and then I'll get the reference out and see what I screwed up, and complete the details on the characters I don't know well. Some characters I can't even lay a single line down for, so they'll need reference. In my head I can see The Mandarin and Klaw, but on paper...nada (besides the sonic weapon -- weird!). But it looks like 80% of these bums are still floating around in my memory banks while I forget my social security number and my own phone numbers. Maybe I'll scan it as it stands and post an in-progress image. Or maybe not.
- If the November issue of Nickelodeon was the swan song for the magazine, I'm depressed. If December turns out to be the final issue, still depressed. We had a gag panel in the November Nick...what a bummer to see it end. And just when Emily started reading it, of course.
- I've been reading a lot of Spider pulps, my first Avenger pulp, old horror short story collections, some Fritz Leiber SF short stories, some Robert Bloch, some recent young adult fantasy series (The Magic Thief and The Last Apprentice), some David Goodis crime novels, some lesser-known (to me, at least) Black Lizard crime reprints (The Vengeance Man, You Play the Red and the Black Comes Up), some Jim Thompson, and some Blackjack manga. Nothing heavy, nothing too depressing. The Lawgiver is planning a house move, and is culling his library, so I've been hauling bags of old paperbacks over here to digest and then donate. I'm keeping the Spider paperbacks, though. It's been a lot of fun, and a lot of it is research for projects, so it's sort of work, as well. Some days I just want to stay in bed and read until I fall back asleep, like when I was a kid on a rainy day.
- I'm doing a lot of stuff for Bongo right now, and for the foreseeable future --, and it's time I got back to that.
Latersville, all.
Current Music: Bill Kelly's Teenage Wasteland/WFMU.org
11/8/09 03:00 pm
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020878.html Bro #1: I'm gonna get him... I wish I was gay so he could suck my dick!
Bro #2: Man, don't say that.
Bro #1: I said it. I wish I was gay!
--Franklin Ave.
11/8/09 10:15 am
"Jordan,
Thanks for the inquiry. The ‘ol guy is alive and relatively well.
He’s living in Wisconsin and residing in an adult care facility. Since moving from Arizona, his dementia has progressed, but is still cognizant. His ability to communicate is strained, and often goes off base. I’ll be seeing him in December, so maybe we can try to give a call. I’m pretty sure he will know who you are, but you won’t be able to make much sense of what he says.
Thanks again for the inquiry, and if you contact me in December, that will help spur my memory to have him call you!
Thanks, and hope all is well."
****
I hadn't heard from the "ol guy" for some time, and was getting worried about him, so I e-stalked his son and discovered that his son owns a bunch of strip clubs in the Pacific Northwest.
I'm happy that I flew out to see the old man two years ago when we was still with it, to thank him for being such a big positive part of my life. We shared stories about when I asked him to marry me after he got me the game Operation for Hanukkah/Chirstmas (I was 5). I also remember us laughing about him teaching me how to swim when I was 6 and how I freaked out mid-way through when I got stung by a bee for the first time.
I wonder if I should go out and see him again.
11/8/09 12:00 pm
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020877.html Girl #1: Why should you have him? I've been single for 20 months.
Girl #2: 20 months?! I'd be ashamed!
--34th & 7th
11/8/09 09:00 am
Up until just a few years ago, I knew from the published statistics that some women watched porn, but I had never actually met any of these people so I didn't really believe it. That all changed when I was home for Christmas to visit my family. My cousin and I got dressed to the nines and headed to the Debutante Ball to while away the night with the rich and entitled.
My Aunt and Uncle joined us and left my Godson with a babysitter back at the house. Good times were had by all and I ended up crashing at my cousin's house that night because it was too late to go home and (potentially) wake everyone up.
When I get back home the next morning, my Aunt charged up to me and asked "Were you looking at porn on our computer last night? Were you visiting gangbangsluts.com while our 4 year son was in the house?!". She was hungover and quite angry. I told her that was ridiculous since I wasn't even at the house when the browser history indicated that this site (and about two dozen similar ones) were accessed. And then it dawned on us both: It was the seemingly sweet and innocent 14 year old babysitter girl who lived across the street!
Since then, I always joke with my aunt and ask "is the neighbor girl 18 yet?". We laugh about it, but it is a little sad because the girl got in a lot of trouble and has hidden herself away to such a degree that I *never* see her around the neighborhood.
I feel like she probably just needs someone to tell her that it is OK to like gangbangsluts.
11/8/09 09:00 am
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020876.html Father, pointing out woman cleaning up tiny turd from tiny dog: See, if we got a dog, that's what you would have to do.
Five-year-old son, near hysterics: Noooooo!
--Upper West Side
Overheard by: Harriet Vane
11/8/09 06:00 am
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020875.html Black girl #1 to large group of friends: It's like a slave ship here.
Black girl #2: First thing we need to do is get a gyro.
--Penn Station at Rush Hour
11/8/09 01:03 am
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11/8/09 03:00 am
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020874.html Larger woman in elevator eating Snickers bar: No matter what I do, I can't lose no weight!
Less fat friend: Mm-hmm.
(elevator goes one floor up and stops. Both go to get off)
Suit #1: Unbelievable, no wonder you have weight issues.
Larger woman: What? 'scuse me? What you know about me?
Suit: Other than you are fat, can't take the stairs for one floor, and are stuffing your face with a king size Snickers?
Less fat friend: Shit, he do know you.
--40th & 8th
Overheard by: SandmanEsq
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Early show at Thee Parkside, Show at Benders, folks in costume. 10/31/09
