My not-so-little brother's in the New York Times Style magazine again. Every month they select an artist to depict their 'T' logo and he's the lucky winner this time around. They don't seem to have it up anywhere at nytimes.com (probably 'cause it's just a photo, no related article). So it's for the ease of anyone who didn't spend $5 on a newspaper today, a scanned version is here.

An article about a great show over in Brighton - a friend and neighbor of mine curated the show and my brother has a piece in it. There's a brief mention of him on page two.

Date:	2006-06-23 23:17
Subject:	I'm mobile again!
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy

I bought a new car. It looks like this:

It's about time - I can finally brag about him and point people someplace they can see his work for themselves: kevinvanaelst.com.

If you do check it out and find any glaring html issues, could you let me know?  I fixed up the worst of the problems with his original Dreamweaver code, but it wouldn't surprise me if I missed something.  Danke.

Coming Soon...

Ok, so it's not Assembly Sq., but damn near close enough.

Guy next to us lights up a joint, offers it around. The woman in front of us, whose husband carries her oxygen tank, accepts.

For those of you who didn't get out to obieland and those of you lazy bastards who did, but who didn't bother to get up and go see it, the text of Bill Shulz's (Amnesty USA Director - nice and timely, isn't it?) speech is online. If last year is any indication they may also make an mp3 available - it was worth getting up early for and it's worth reading (it's not 100% as given) and if they post it, it'll definitely be worth listening to (we're talking a well delivered sermon, not some whiney activist's self-important tirade).

Article about it from boston.com. Sound like it'll be a really good one. I know (in passing) at least two of the artists involved: Lois Fiore is our downstairs neighbor - the one we managed to drip onto when we were working on the floor. And I loved Susanna Darling's work at open studios. She's very sweet and comes across as somewhat flaky, but her pieces (sculpture/installation involving found object sort of things - I'm sure there's a better, more accurate name for it) are strikingly pointed.

I didn't see any details in the article, but the notice in the elevator says that there's a reception Sunday, 3-4:30 and "conversation: visualizing the process" 4:30-6.

www.delltechforce.com

Home sweet industrial wasteland's newly famous storage facilities.

In less gruesome news, tomorrow and Sunday, noon-6pm, are my building's annual open studios. Come support local artists or something. : )

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/style/tmagazine/LEND.html

Just the Metro, but still. It's on page 24 if you have a copy or feel like slogging through the pdf.

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"Congratulations! Your mortgage application has been approved and 'cleared-to-close'."

Some of the most exciting and nerve-wracking words in the English language.

There's something just a tad twisted about getting notification for something so big via email.

Now that I've twenty-four hours for things to really just not sink in all that much I get to actually sit down and ramble about the place for awhile.

Here's the original listing, except the square footage is actually 865. The pictures are of: the front of the building, the building's lobby (you can see the art gallery in the back), the bathroom, the view out the window, and the courtyard. There aren't any pictures of the interior b/c, frankly it would look like crap. The bad thing from a photogenic standpoint is that the guy who lives there never finished it off and since he uses a good chunk of it as a work area, it's not exactly spotless. But this a great thing from a raw-canvas-actually-looks-like-a-loft-and-not-some-stupid-luxury-condo point of view and I'll try to get some pictures sometime soon.
( floor plan and more about the building )

So what else does the busy geek do besides ask some silly website? Besides, I figure Kerry's a wrap in MA, so I'm free to use my vote to make any statement I choose without having to worry about supporting a "spoiler".
( results of the experiment: the first )
( results of the experiment: the second )

Date:	2003-12-12 00:00
Subject:	feelin' groovy
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy

I know what Bridge Over Troubled Water sounds like from the seventh row.

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/saishin-e.html

Been meaning to post this:

Another in a Series of Sex Stories That Lose Their Way

Fabulous, hysterical story, with that added it's a small, weird world note - my roommate is friends with Amy Carter and was forced to get over her fear of horror movies in that same cabin.

Date:	2003-07-24 01:39
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	tired

I was going to give an update about work crap, and ramble on and on, and possibly mention the ex-sighting, and the friend w/ the migrain that sent her to the ER, and pretty much just bitch and whine a lot, but really I think the only thing you need to know is this:

During my antiversary celebratory outing last friday, not only did I get on one of those dance dance revolution things, but I was so drunk that it didn't even occur to me to protest.

And I didn't realize this until today.