Archive for November, 2008
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Tagg’d!
So KP “tagged” me a while back, and I thought I’d better get around to responding. There’s a picture that lays out the rules of this little meme, but it looked all girly like it had come from Target or Crate and Barrel or something. I can’t have that kind of nonsense frilling [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in dinosaurs, slightly pointless by Aaron Humphrey
Friday, November 14th, 2008
Dispatch from The Red Centre
I am smack dab in the middle of Australia at the moment. Kim and I took the Old Ghan railroad up to Alice Springs from Adelaide, a 24-hour trip, and like a lot of tourists we sort of expected Uluru (AKA Ayers Rock), the iconic symbol of central Autralia, to be close to the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Aaron Humphrey
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Revenge of the Furious White Boy Mask
My friends, when we look back on this past year, I think we can agree upon one thing: it has been dominated by FURY. The signs have been unmistakable: rampant gnashing of teeth, howls of discontent at all hours, pencil jars rattled from fists pounding desks, incessant stomping, unceasing glowering. Rage is, in [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in art, fury, masks by Aaron Humphrey
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Thoughts on Obama, 30,000 feet in the air
This is the second time I’ve been overseas for the presidential election. I was studying abroad in Spain during the Bush-Kerry race, and the outcome of that contest completely flummoxed the Spaniards, who seemed either unable or unwilling to pronounce the word “Bush” without making it sound like a vulgar parody: BOOOSSH.
This year I’m [...]