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Bro in the Times

2007-05-07T04:16:57Z

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.

My little bro (briefly) in the globe

2006-10-19T22:45:57Z

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.

I'm mobile again!

2006-06-24T03:11:47Z

I bought a new car. It looks like this:

my little brother's got a website

2006-05-30T01:50:45Z

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.

Why didn't I know this?

2005-10-31T15:26:06Z

Coming Soon...

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

Stones at Fenway

2005-08-22T16:47:52Z

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

William Shulz's commencement address

2005-05-31T19:49:53Z

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).

exhibit opening at Brickbottom on Sunday

2005-01-06T19:43:19Z

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.

I'm amused, but embarrassed to admit that I work for one of these companies...

2004-12-16T14:43:07Z

www.delltechforce.com

oh yeah, my neighborhood makes the national news...

2004-11-19T21:49:31Z

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. : )

my little brother

2004-11-07T17:40:21Z

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

My building's in the paper

2004-11-05T19:31:12Z

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

jon stewart on crossfire

2004-10-16T16:49:37Z

transcript
crappy streaming video
torrents

commitment

2004-06-16T19:19:06Z

"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.

a few loft details

2004-05-19T21:08:52Z

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.

The building (actually two buildings with a courtyard between them)'s awesome - it was originally a factory that was converted to artist's lofts in the late 80s. This page has some more history and a few more pictures. The really great thing walking through it was that it actually feels like a community and not a cookie cutter warren where everyone tried as hard as possible never to see their neighbors. At least half the doors are some how done up (one had a sort of dinosaur bone arch thing going on) and lots of people have samples of their work on their walls. When we went back to see it again on Monday, a few people on the hall even had their doors propped open (*gasp*). The flip side is that the immediate "neighborhood" is an urban wasteland. But even then two T stops (Lechmere and Sullivan Sq.) are walkable as is one up and coming area (Union Sq.).

And finally (for now), the floor plan looks roughly like this:

I still haven't figured out who to vote for tonight

2004-03-02T16:19:25Z

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".

The first one that popped up was SelectSmart.com and it told me (including all possible original and theoretical candidates) that I most closely matched:

1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%)
2. Green Party Candidate (87%)
3. Socialist Candidate (79%)
4. Clark, Retired General Wesley K., AR - Democrat (79%)
5. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (77%)
6. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol, IL - Democrat (76%)
7. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (74%)
8. Kucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH - Democrat (69%)
9. Gephardt, Rep. Dick, MO - Democrat (64%)
10. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (63%)
11. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (60%)
12. Libertarian Candidate (41%)
13. Lieberman, Senator Joe, CT - Democrat (37%)
14. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (34%)
15. Constitution Party Candidate (16%)
16. Hagelin, Dr. John - Natural Law (10%)
17. Bush, President George W. - Republican (5%)

Ok, so the relative positions of #2 and #17 are hardly surprising, but the order of some of middle seems kinda wacky. Clark should have been my candidate? Out of who's left I should vote for Sharpton? Don't worry, I'm not going to put absolute faith in some web site's ability to interpret my views and priorities (as well as those of the candidates), but when it seems like such a guessing game anyway this makes for an interesting experiment.

From that bastion of impartiality and responsible journalism AOL News:
1 Kucinich Score: 100%
2 Sharpton Score: 96%
3 Kerry Score: 91%
4 Dean Score: 86%
5 Edwards Score: 78%
6 Bush Score: 4%

feelin' groovy

2003-12-12T05:00:31Z

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

oh, I'm getting a headache from this, so obviously, so should you

2003-09-08T22:09:13Z

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

hvanaels @ 2003-08-05T12:02:00

2003-08-05T16:02:22Z

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.

hvanaels @ 2003-07-24T01:39:00

2003-07-24T05:39:19Z

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.

a haiku review of 'pirates'

2003-07-16T00:29:23Z

From my friend one of Chris's friends:

Pirates are cool, but
Next up is _Haunted Mansion_
Quit while you're ahead.

Aarrrr!

2003-07-14T21:23:23Z

Just in case you had somehow missed these fine pirate links:

A pirate store for the hip lit set (check out the signs, epecially "Goals For the Voyage")
Ergonomic Keyboard for Pirates

And I just learned from Dre of a drive-in theater on the cape with a double feature of Finding Nemo and Pirates of the Caribbean running every night through thursday (at least). Anyone, anyone?

this month's wisdom

2003-07-02T17:57:16Z

(so I'm a day late... oh, shit! so's my rent!)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent, but you'd be a fool to withhold that from your superiors.

cirque du soleil does, in fact, rock

2003-06-26T05:40:26Z

I can't imagine any of you are actually surprised by that fact, but I can now confirm that if you ever get a chance to see them, especially if you get a chance to see them from really good free seats, that you should go for it.

It's really hard to believe that people can do that some of that shit. I'm not entirely sure whether to declare that they can't possibly be human and are clearly all alien or demon live forms, or to go 'whoa... people can do that. cool... but, but, I'm a people, why can't i do that?' And do either of those possibilities lead anywhere other than straight to madness? Ask me when I've rediscovered a normal sleep cycle.

there was a request for kitty pictures...

2003-06-21T18:28:57Z

Yes, /etc is my kitty. And yes, it's pronounced 'et-cee'. And yes, I am a geek. And you do realize how dangerous asking for pictures is, right?