Back to Blogging?

It's been ages since I updated the old blog, so I thought it might be time to start fresh. I was sort of thinking I'd wait until I got to France, but then I was having too much fun this summer to pass up the opportunity to post some amusing pictures. So I decided to jump in now and contribute tout de suite to the exploding overproduction of the ego that seems to be fundamental to the current zeitgeist. I will NOT be tweeting, though, don't worry.

Anyway, here goes:

This first one comes from about two weeks ago. Willemijn met this dude on a bus (well, waiting for a bus that never came, I believe) who turned out to be an artist. And he had this installation going up in Bococa. It is motion-sensitive so that when you walk down the street, its eyes follow you. hahaha. Obviously we had to go check it out and walk back and forth down the street like the tools that we are. But it was pretty awesome! It was meant to integrate with the theme of the grate that comes down, like the poor creature is trapped and looking at the outside world from a jail-like cell. Poor creature. But pretty awesome technology nonetheless!

But now, for people who haven't heard, I'm rockin' out on Washington Square in my dissertation advisor's amazing apartment, cat-sitting for her lovely cats. This is Harley Obama, a Maine Coon/Ragdoll mix. He's only 10 months old but he weighs something like 14 pounds! I thought this picture gives a nice image of just how big this bad boy is--that's a double bed he's stretched across!

Last weekend was the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, which, from what I can tell is basically just an excuse to get drunk and dress up like mermaids, haha. I went with the Armstrong-Crumbs despite the ridiculously awful weather. We definitely got soaked.

But, how can you pass up pirates?

This was another of my favorite costumes, it's all body paint!

The Mermaid Parade has an honorary king (Neptune, obviously), and like at any good drunken parade, King Neptune was brought in by Mummers. Yesssss!


This year Harvey Keitel was King Neptune himself:


Finally, my other favorite group was the Splashdancers, complete with welding masks, HAHAHAHA.


After having a few hours to dry off and clean up, I met Lisa and Arti for a drink at Solas, since I can't make it to Arti's going away party tonight (bummer). But I discovered pear vodka at Solas and now I've got some experimenting to do.


Anyway, this entry is rather rushed, but I figured if I don't get something up sooner rather than later, I'd end up with my week running away from me. More than it already has, that is. I've seen three Broadway shows in the past 4 days (Mary Stuart, Next to Normal, and August: Osage County). Tonight is a bachelorette party for a BLACK TIE WEDDING AT THE BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDENS on Sunday. Yeah. Updates will clearly have to follow from these events. But now I must go buy a wedding gift, since I'm a slacker and have not done so yet.