christo in the burg!

Apparently, Christo, the famed, international, performance artist has recently paid a visit to downtown St. Petersburg, enveloping the Ponce de Leon Hotel with his mysterious, building-shrouding shrouding fabric.

As a comment on the death and destruction resultant of the Iraq war he has decided to abandon his normally bright and cheerful colors, for a chilling and morbid black.

Unsuspecting spectators are left to ponder the billowing enigma as they commute from their downtown jobs.

Not really! It's just a big fumigation project!  They're just killin' some cockroaches and termites.

Ha-ha, fooled ya.  Had you going there for a minute.  You were about to go down there with your digital camera and take picutures and e-mail them to your Aunt Edna.

10:54:28 PM    

beauty and the blast

For the past two nights in a row I have spent the nine o'clock hour flipping back and forth between the Pamela Anderson Roast on Comedy central and the "roasting" of Japan at the end of WWII on the history channel.  (Maybe, the quotes should be around the Pamela roasting, since its the less literal use of the word).

I found both shows equally fascinating, and upon reflection it seemed like the perfect Freudian conflict of lust and death.

When both shows were in commercials I would switch over to James Bond on AMC which is a pretty good synthesis of lust and death.

10:27:10 PM    

pure genius

As a guerilla artist myself, I am always on the look-out for clever sign alterations or imaginative distortions of everyday messages.

This twist on a common bathroom directive is one of the best I've seen yet!

By erasing two key words from this sentence, the artist was able to totally counter-act its command.

Now, unsuspecting bathroom users will find themselves compelled to throw scads and scads and oodles and oodles of paper towels in the toilet--thereby defeating the great "keep the toilets from stopping up with paper towels conspiracy" from happening.

8:37:11 PM