Pick your doll. Dress her up naughty or nice. Pick a pet. Stick around for Mermaid Monday, and have fun. My girlfriend says she’ll wear this Cupcake Dress for me. Be sure to check out Hobbit Girl. Or the Original Silk Spectre (Sally Jupiter) from Watchmen and Rachel from Blade Runner. There’s the obligatory wtf? And finally Sarah Palin. Sorry guys, she doesn’t draw men (even if she likes all the same things you do).

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I have some things I want. I like to image I am not a materialistic person, but all the same, I have various items I would like to own. I thought I’d make a list of them, so I fired up iWeb, since I’ve never used it before, and threw together this website: asking4stuff.com. Doing this is always interesting to me. You can tell a lot about a person based off his desires or just the crap he’d like to own. These types of lists are fun in another way. In a year I can come back, see how many of these things I have actually purchased, and laugh at some of the items, thinking, Why would I have ever wanted that? And five years on a list like this can be even more amusing.

I remember doing this in college. I came across it like ten years later, and it had, “Get a computer,” as one of the items. At the time I think I owned 3 or 4 computers. I have no idea how many I currently have. Three for sure that I use on a regular basis not counting work machines, and a couple more that would function if I still had a use for them.

Anyway, here’s the first item on the list:

http://www.dodge.com/en/2008/magnum/models/se/index.html

I figure if you’re going to dream…dream big. I’ve pretty sure I will go the rest of my life without buying a car like this. Not because ever affording one is outside of the realm of the possible, but because I am too practical to ever pull the trigger on a purchase like this. Even if someone gave me one I’d probably end up selling it and buying something more modest. I am pretty sure I will always be able to find something better to do with my money than sink it into a car like this, but every time I see one go by I get a little twinge of jealousy. This car is just too cool. Like a stylish hearse. Oh so very Addams family!

But let’s come back to reality for a while, focus on something I can actually imagine buying.

Tibetan singing bowls of various sizes. Yay! I’ll be adding this to the site as soon as I get my laptop back from Apple. Guess that’s one bad thing about using iWeb. Anyway….

http://longplayer.org/

The first time I heard one of these I thought the tone that came out was so amazingly clean and soothing. I was, of course, hitting it with the little mallet thing, not at all how they are supposed to be played. Basically, you are supposed to run the mallet along the edge which causes the bowl to vibrate and the speed can be changed to change the note. I’d like to pick up several of these. I just like things that make noise, but I can imagine recording poetry over the top of one of these. It would make even my hack works seem cool.

I won’t link to any other instrument images, but I also want other analog noise making things. Maracas, drums, whistles, a metal or wood recorder. Pretty much anything that doesn’t require batteries. I prefer non-stringed things, but even these can be cool.

Let me make one thing clear. I do not play music, don’t know one note from another, and could never repeat something I did, but I still like creating soundscape to go behind spoken word pieces, and I have managed to create one or two recorded “song” that I enjoy listening to.

Rather than making this into a really long post, just keep an eye on the asking4stuff.com website. Updates will happen as soon as I get the access to my iWeb files again.

I have a whole bunch of posts nearly ready to go. Most have been nearly ready to go for months. It’s to where I’ve decided to either finish them, or delete them. My TV post was one such as this. I have one on politics, one on finding purpose in life, one on Steven Erikson’s books (The Malazan Books of the Fallen), and one on an Ugly Shirt, and one on redesigning a website that I want to redesign again, since I ended up using that design on my letters site. So this week I am going to try to make the effort to either get them up, or get rid of them.

I’ve been thinking about a project where I plan to take clear glass jars and fill them with baby doll parts, or little doll faces, or something (I am not quite sure what). This is just something that has been bouncing around at the back of my mind for some time. Yes, I do spend time thinking things like, “Wouldn’t babies in jars look cool with weird liquids and such surrounding them?” I wouldn’t go so far as to call this art, but I think a creepy little series of these items would be cool and great conversation pieces. So obviously, when I saw the cover to Joe Havasy’s little chapbook called “Misanthropic Cavalcade,” I knew I had to order one.

I also have to admit, I don’t read very carefully, so my first thought when I saw “A Massive Compendium containing 11 stories…” was how in the hell can someone get 11 stories into a chapbook? Well, the answer to that is obvious. These are cartoons, not text. I would have been upset with this, since I was really thinking I’d get text stories, but I have three reasons why I’m not:

1. I only have myself to blame for being illiteraated.
2. The comics are damn cool!
3. I forget what the third reason was.

These comics, for the most part, accurately reflect my own sense of humor (or lack of). I have a soft spot for any Donnie Darko references. Or Cartoon Network references, or hell, even a simple zombie nod makes me smile. I also dig any work that is self-referential, but that’s just my kick.

From his etsy.com description: “16 cartoons printed in DIY black and white, perfect for your local coffee table.” By which he means photocopied, but this worked for me. Part of the charm. I found it cool he individualized mine, but writing a short message and autograph on the cover, thereby completely destroying the resale value unless he commits some high profile crime, in which case I’ll make a mint. Yes, I am considering this an investment, since by judging from these comics, it’s only a matter of time!

See: http://www.joehavasyillustration.com/
See: etsy.com

Keywords:  books and zines, mayhem, robots, crabs, funny, death, cute, cartoon, zine, comic
Materials:  xerox, staples, paper