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Wednesday
Two of my favorite things happened today.
1. The new issue of Cabinet arrived in my mailbox. Subject: friendship
2. The Blazers won.
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The image above (RSS readers, go to the site to see it) comes from the de-commissioned image-archive of the Portland State University library through which I’ve been sifting. This is my favorite image thus far, two of seven boxes into it (there’s a pile of boxes five feet high at our place full of these images). I’d like it even if it didn’t remind me of Pet Sounds but it does and so I like it all the more.
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Different subject altogether: ChatRoulette
It’s been pretty fascinating as reasonable people around the internet have begun to process the phenomenon that has become ChatRoulette, the at-random webcam connection website launched by a seventeen year-old kid in December. Alex Vadukul posted an interesting piece about going to a ChatRoulette party last night at Union Hall bar in Brooklyn.
“Audience members took turns, often in pairs, using the ChatRoulette station on the stage. The conversations with strangers began as they normally seem to, with sarcastic banter getting tossed back and forth. But the interactions began to change as soon as the stranger became aware of the larger audience.”
“Am I on some big fucking screen right now?” asked one very red-eyed, mop-haired boy staring into his screen after a few minutes of quiet conversation.”
And that Eugene Merman is now pulling up ChatRoulette while he’s on stage? haha that guy is funny.
We Went to a ChatRoulette Party Last Night – nymag.com
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Lastly today, for anybody who’s a Sam Shepard fan (and you all should be by the way, he was a Holy Modal Rounder!), the newest episode of the Moth podcast is Shepard narrating a story that happened to him while filming the Right Stuff. Without giving too much away, the story is about the stunt required for that horse-chase scene near the beginning of the movie. I’m not sure where I would link directly to that episode, but hey it’s free just subscribe to the podcast.
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