[Image from here, crossposted here.]
Someone spent a lot of time on this sculpture, but what I like best about it is that it’s made out of wood, hopefully culled from a rain forest somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, and fastened to a board with a toxic adhesive derived from the bile of boogeymen and tested on lab-rabbits’ eyes as required by the EPA.
It also takes electrical energy to view it. Real electrical energy with tungsten filaments heating up the atmosphere to prevent imminent Global Cooling. Cutsey little weenie curly fluorescent lamps just don’t cut it here.
I suppose you could mount it on a wall perpendicular to the rays of the sun, but then you could only see the image for about 30 seconds two times a year. If the day is overcast after you and your friends rearranged work schedules just to view it, you’re screwed, and that would suck donkeys big time.
Speaking of donkeys, here’s another big ass installment of The Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: Art, blocks, Overnight Open Thread, sculpture, shadows, Snark
H aha ha ha ha!
OK. Maybe it’s just still me, but it feels like there’s nobody to talk to when I have a few minutes to log on. It’s like everyone must be on another thread.
Cute!
The Overnight Thread always gathers everybody!
Eliana wrote:
{Eliana} Of course.
yenta-fada wrote:
I know the feeling.
The blog was running slow this evening – I think people are starting to refresh more than usual so the actual traffic has gone up a bit.
Ban Ki Moon, from the stinking rot of the planet, makes up history and craps on the Jews:
http://viciousbabushka.typepad.com/weblog/
@ lobo91:
aaaawwwwwwwwwwwww! Leia is such a cutie patootey!
@ yenta-fada:
OH HELL NO. Fuck him WITH the UN!
Chased by blocks…
happens all the time.
@ yenta-fada:
Ban Ki Moon sucks!
He is willing to start an unprecedented blood bath in Jerusalem in a situation where Israel is not allowed to defend Jewish lives – and then Ban could sleep like a baby at night after having done so.
lobo91 wrote:
Beautifully done work Eliana, of course. I just wonder if we don’t lose the conversation in the process? Maybe the right word is ‘momentum’. That intangible thing that gets and keeps things flowing naturally.
m wrote:
She’s much more photogenic than I am…
@ Eliana:
It was pretty busy here last night. You shoulda seen the mess this morning.
Eliana wrote:
His cushy life and all the prestige and perks balanced against a few evil Jooooos? Seems like he doesn’t even see a problem.
lobo91 wrote:
You are using Leia to get us each to send you money, aren’t you? So, what’s your address./ lol
Bunk X wrote:
I thought we left the place in good shape. A spill on the carpet, that’s all. Maybe a couple of cigarette butts.
@ Bunk X:
I stayed until things got vewy quiet and then I snuck up on a plugin that makes the blog work better on phones.
Did everyone’s phone go nuts after that?
@ yenta-fada:
My ex used to joke that we should invent a fake organization called “Feed the Shelties” and make TV commercials like the ones with the kids from third world countries.
Leia does a very convincing starving act.
lobo91 wrote:
That’s good though, makes you really work on your personality.
I know how you feel.
@ Eliana:
My phone doesn’t do blogs…
@ yenta-fada:
Yeah, he’s building his reputation by hassling Jews who dare to defend themselves from beasts who fire rockets filled with nuts and bolts at Jewish civilians.
@ Bunk X:
Heh – at least Mama Yenta didn’t write all over the bathroom mirrors.
yenta-fada wrote:
There are some peeps who hide out in the toilet stalls until the lights go out and the screen door slams shut. Sometimes the BRC comes up from the secret hatch behind the couch and lets loose after hours. It’s all good.
Cool picture. We had some of those shadow sculptures where I used to work, unfortunately, the “artist” created shadow cockroaches. This is way better.
@ lobo91:
The mobile version of The Blogmocracy is pretty readable on a phone, actually. It shows the left column only and starts with the photo and then goes on to show the text in large letters. One comment fills up half of my iPhone screen.
Calo wrote:
Yeah, that was a drag. I think that was the same night someone wrote “PENIS PENIS PENIS LOL” in Sharpie pen on the women’s restroom door after we’d just got done repainting and fixing the a/c. We had to replace the screen door a couple of times, too.
@ AZfederalist:
This would creep me out. I’d keep a shoe in one hand.
Calo wrote:
Well, there was that ONE time, but we never talk about it. p.s. I’m not yo mama. lol
@ Eliana:
I should rephrase that.
My phone could do that, but I don’t feel like paying for a data plan.
I use it to make phone calls…
Ok – new text emoticon:
p#d
(Fist bump)
@ lobo91:
Cute picture of Leia!
@ lobo91:
Ah – ok.
Do you use text messaging?
@ Rodan:
Thanks.
@ yenta-fada:
What I do is keep a a page open to the main post. Then I open up the headlines in the side bar. Today people where sticking to the main post.
@ Eliana:
Occasionally.
I did quite a bit during the Carol era.
Not much lately.
@ lobo91:
I love Dogs. I want to get 2 Shiba Inus in the next 2 years.
Eliana wrote:
You’d have needed a really big boot — these were big honkin’ roaches. I never did quite understand the esthetics of that one. At first, it looked like a few pieces of weirdly twisted copper wire with lights illuminating them, somebody had to point out that you were supposed to look at the shadows to see the real art. This was in a new building the company had built and they furnished it with art in the hallway spines between modules. It was mostly weird stuff.
Is this a Rorschach test?
Eliana wrote:
What happen to Serbia in 95 and 99. Now Libya today, will all be used against Israel. That’s why Hamas is acting up and the PA will declare a state. They fully expect the “International Community” to back them.
I just have a bad vibe about all this.
Also notice that Americans and Europeans who support Israel are called anti-Semites and Nazis. This is done to split Jews off from their allies and leave them isolated. It’s a sick plan.
Bunk X wrote:
At least the you didn’t have to sweep up Cheetos bags.
lobo91 wrote:
I have never gotten the idea of texting. It’s so much easier to just call and talk.
AZfederalist wrote:
There was a guy in the 80s who inserted metal tabs into the sides of tall buildings. I think this is him. I remember he did one of Bob Dylan, and crowds would gather to see the image appear for 30 seconds and then fade away for another six months. They called it an example of “kinetic art.” I like the idea.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Carol and I used to chat by text when she was at work.
@ Rodan:
Never in my life have I seen a situation where the ones who are willing to talk peace are being punished by the world because the other side refuses to talk.
Every time the “international community” says that they urge Israel and the “Palestinians” to talk – I want to know why they don’t just aim their request at the “Palestinians” instead of threatening Israel about what they will do if the “Palestinians” are never willing to show up.
It’s complete and utter insanity!
It’s anti-semitism.
@ Bunk X:
I like the 3D sidewalk art that only makes sense when you view it from a certain angle – but THEN, it looks truly 3D as if there’s a deep hole in the ground and people are walking on the edge of it.
Eliana wrote:
Looks like a wet spot between two [deleted]
Rodan wrote:
Tired of eating cats?
@ Bunk X:
That’s kinda cool. It beats seeing an anomalous apparition that has no objective.
@ Eliana:
I hate the “International Community” ™. That’s why I hope Qaddafi wins so they have egg on there face!
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I studied for it. Here are my crib notes…
@ Bunk X:
Uh oh.
@ Bunk X:
Hey, just because I like Chinese food!
/
Eliana wrote:
I’ve never seen one in person, only on the internest. Clever stuff.
@ Rodan:
So do I.
I remember Arafat being confined in his headquarters two years before he died. He said in the smarmiest voice possible that he called upon the “International Community” to free him.
Luckily, he died instead (two years later) after being confined to his room for the rest of his life.
@ Bunk X:
It’s the only way I’ve seen 3D sidewalk art, too.
It’s amazing, though – even on the internest.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I hate when that happens. I prefer the nomalous kind.
@ Eliana:
My relative in the Colombian Military told me that they think Chavez might instigate a fight with them. That way when Colombia has the upper hand, Chavez will get the UN to have the US/NATO bomb Colombia. He told me he heard this from a Venezuelan defector.
I totally believe it.
Bunk X wrote:
How cute, your crib note are actually written on the side of a baby crib… Ummm, no, I really dont want to know what you wrote them in…
Good night all!
@ Rodan:
Goodnight Rodan!
@ Eliana:
What town does Ban Ki-Moon hail from? It’d be a shame if anything happened to it….
Rodan wrote:
Let’s see what happens with the experiment. You guys put so much work and energy into making this place great and I appreciate it 100%.
Rodan wrote:
International Community = Anti Judeo-Christian
Rodan wrote:
OMG. What a horrible thought.
Rodan wrote:
The scariest part about all this is that our armed forces are being indirectly deployed in Libya by the U.N., with Obama’s permission. Congress had no say about it.
Now if Obama had decided to go rogue and kick Iran’s ass, I might support that, because we know who the bad guys are. With Libya, Khaddafi looks better than the muslim brotherhood-al qaida-supported “rebels.” Bad news IMO.
@ Macker:
South Koreans have mandatory Talmud study these days to try to get ahead but poor ole Ban Ki-Moon must be studying the Qur’an and memorizing it.
It’s why his head is stuck in his nether region.
Eliana wrote:
I hope my comment was properly deleted. ;D
@ yenta-fada:
Horrifying.
I believe it might happen, too.
Bunk X wrote:
Cliff must be pissed he has been overtaken by Crib notes.
Macker wrote:
Yeah. Then we could call him Ban Ki-to the Moon! (not his compatriots, of course)
Rodan wrote:
I’d eat it as long as it was fried or done right like a hassenpfeffer stew.
@ yenta-fada:
Thanks, yenta-fada!
What I hoped to see (and I’ve seen it!) is that if some people start replying to an older thread from earlier in the day, it’s visible so that I can see what they’re saying. Others see it, too – and reply.
It’s why we wanted the “10 seconds ago” code so badly! It’s cool to know if people are replying to older threads because they aren’t all that far down on the page now.
We didn’t go to the new format until we had the “10 seconds ago” code ready.
@ Bunk X:
Heh.
Eliana wrote:
There’s a whole lot of insanity going around right now. Israel is but one of the issues. In Wisconsin, we are seeing a potential for judicial activism to trump legislative actions and possibly install a liberal judiciary after this next week’s state elections. You have Democrat senators screaming about “draconian” cuts that are the equivalent of a 3 year old screaming about the tiny sliver being pulled. We are exercising military force in Libya in support of what is very likely Muslim Brotherhood and Al Quaeda extremists while not getting involved in Syria’s civil unrest that could lead to equally many civilian deaths.
Whole thing is just crazy
San Mateo’s “Cat Burglar”
http://en.video.sympatico.ca/index.php/en/video/news/2/all-news/109/most-watched-news/527/calif-cat-burglar-returns-stolen-loot/847272296001
@ doriangrey:
Nice, Dorian.
Macker wrote:
Culver City, I think.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I got the crib notes from Norm. Cliff’s cool about it.
Wow, glen Beck really laid it down tonight, better pray for him…
Been quite a while since I was gracing the blog. I’ve missed you guys. Been busy demolishing a couple of communists who mistakenly opened a blog at the New South Wales Fire Service Union site. So far I’ve seen off the revolutionary communist main contributor. He ran up the surrender flag about 2 weeks ago. Dealing to a much more savvy communist this time. Into my second week of stomping on his posts using logic and cool calm logic. The rank and file ‘firies’ have been posting supportive posts to my efforts and the left management have come to appreciate that a blog is a two edged sword, especially if one doesn’t lose one’s ‘rag’ and just keeps chipping away at the core leftist rhetoric. Now the communists who run the NSWFB are between a rock and a hard place. If they keep blogging they lose BIG time and in the full light of logic. If they close down the blog then they look like the bunch of losers they are to the rank and file firemen.
I provide the ammunition and my baby brother fires it.
A winning combination.
I recommend it as a great blood sport.
Beck is awesome – I wish him all the best against Soros!
Soros is totally evil.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Good on you! Doesn’t it feel good to win the battle?
uhm. not sure what to say about this.
What up?!! LOL, hope everyone is doing well tonight.
yenta-fada wrote:
It sure does. Most of the rank and file Firemen and women just wouldn’t pop their heads up over the parapet. Once someone shows the way they all get the idea and the conversation begins to flow. More to the chagrin of the communists who run the Fire Services Union. Now the communists are royally screwed. They are losing BIG time and VERY publicly. If they cut and run then they appear sore losers and cowards who are afraid of any real logical opposition. The longer they stay the more their ideas and philosophy is held up to the light and as you know like ‘roaches they abhor the light’ of free discussion.
Now the levee of free discussion has been breached there are LOTS of firemen who have been muted until now. The left doesn’t know how to handle logical debate because they have had no experience of it in the past!
Dang. Just remembered tonight’s garbage night. The city says to separate our stuff, and tonight’s White Trash Night. BBL
Soros is truly evil. But even evil guys die and are judged. I almost feel sorry for him.
Well I did say …almost!
@ Eliana:
linoleumknife wrote:
Yup. I’m a ‘box of birds’ lino!
How are you doing lino?
The Beck video is powerful!
He stands with Israel!!!!
No wonder the proggies can’t stand him.
Kirly wrote:
That was, uh, interesting. Kind of has the same clarity as the administration’s vision for involvement in Libya, doesn’t it. I think that’s one of those metaphorical things, but what do I know, I’m just a knuckle-dragging neanderthal conservative.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’m doing pretty damn good Aussie. Outside of a broken toe I have a lot to be thankful for. It’s great to hear that you are having so much success beating back the commie bastards. They need to have the light shine on them whenever possible.
@ doriangrey:
Beck nailed it that time.
@ Mr Caps:
100%!
Bunk X wrote:
Yeah, I separate my stuff too, heavy stuff goes in the bottom of the bag, lighter stuff on top. Unless it’s the house trash, then the stuff that gets thrown away first goes in the bottom of the bag and stuff that gets tossed last goes on the top of the bag.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Where is this going down?
Well, everything’s going to be okay in Libya.
Lindsey Graham says there’s no way al Qaeda is going to take over there.
//We’re doomed…
Uh-oh, could somebody with power delete my post #98? I missed an important word in that post, thought I killed it before it posted. I thought wrong. Sarcastic remarks aren’t funny if you miss important words (like “first”)
@ AZfederalist:
Done!
@ Eliana:
Thanks.
@ AZfederalist:
I sometimes take it out then bring it back in just to make sure I’ve sorted it properly. I take pride in that.
@ AZfederalist:
i agree. interesting. strange.
@ lobo91:
I embrace the doom. It’s not like there is anything else I can do with it, lol. Working on getting my life and house in order, and when it all hits the fan I’ll just have to hope for the best.
Well, morning is going to come too soon, so I’m out for the night.
linoleumknife wrote:
now that’s what i’m talking about!
oh, and it’s doom ™
@ linoleumknife:
If we’re going to have doom, I’d prefer that it come sooner rather than later.
I know that we are all worried about the world, our country and the future for Israel. It is up to us to make sure that we use the gifts and talents G-d has given us to warn the world of the coming evil, and to work towards a brighter future.
Kirly wrote:
That ‘RT’ Channel is filled with propaganda. Lots of conspiracy theorists, etc. make their homes there. I view anything I see from their broadcasting with a MOUNTAIN of salt. (not a grain)
@ AZfederalist:
Night AZF. Have a good one tomorrow.
@ Kirly:
Hahaha, I don’t know how to do the (TM) deal. I’ll figure it out someday….
@ lobo91:
Don’t worry Lobo. I’m that way too. I hate waiting for a fight. Of course since I know it’s coming I’ve been doing my best to prepare.
Mr Caps wrote:
I have asked my self many times, as the Book of Revelations says that in the end times God will send two prophets, what would a modern day prophet of God look or sound like? I am beginning to suspect that he would look and sound an awful lot like Glen Beck.
@ linoleumknife:
I just figure that I’m personally pretty much doomed anyway, so I’d just as soon get on with it…
@ doriangrey:
Creationistwingnutteabaggingraaaaacisthatingdenier!!!!
/s
I’ve felt that way about him for at least the last year. Just my opinion. How’s it hanging Dorian?
@ lobo91:
Oh I wouldn’t go as far as that. There is a specific purpose for the path you have been set on, and at the appropriate moment it will all come into focus.
linoleumknife wrote:
Well, you know, down around my left knee…
linoleumknife wrote:
At the moment, my path appears to be headed over a cliff, so I’d rather it didn’t come into focus. I was planning to have my eyes closed.
@ doriangrey:
Hahahahaha, how inappropriate. If we weren’t in a public forum I could tell you a joke, but there are ladies about.
linoleumknife wrote:
Some of the ladies here could tell jokes that would make a sailor blush.
@ lobo91:
Hmmmm…. I was pretty down for awhile last year. I found that involving myself with my family more and attending church helped a lot.
When you die, you get wings and go to heaven. But if you’ve been evil, then you go to Hell, and a devil pokes you in the ribs and butt with a pitchfork forever and ever.
In an earthquake, the ground opens up and people fall into the hole. When that happens to you, you don’t go to heaven, even if you were ok.
http://www.crockford.com/ Things I Learned as a Kid
linoleumknife wrote:
The main thing that would help me at the moment would be finding a job.
@ doriangrey:
LOL, true. I guess I’ll tell it. Hope the ladies forgive me.
Here it goes: I found out that my penis suffers from dwarfism. It’s only 4’6″.
/I know it’s terrible.
linoleumknife wrote:
That is terrible, I’ve been repeated assured that my dick is 6’1″…
@ lobo91:
Well we might have to wait for the commie to leave office before the economy shows any real positve signs. Sorry Lobo, I’ll keep praying for you.
@ linoleumknife:
Unfortunately, I can’t wait that long.
@ doriangrey:
Heh, you sure they just aren’t talking about you. LOL
More crockford
Do you know what it’s like to be a peasant in Soviet Russia?
Imagine this: You’re in bed. It’s cold. Suddenly, guards kick down the doors to the barracks and rush in to unshackle your feet. You think of your hunger as you put on your only shoe.
You are then marched, to the music of a whip, outside, into the snow, where you will work until dawn, when you will be given a cold cup of water and a wormy crust of bread.
I’m sure that doesn’t appeal to you as much as the American Way of Life.
That’s Communism, babes.
doriangrey wrote:
That I am.
linoleumknife wrote:
Ya never know…
Spambot spotted. Incoming in T-minus 3 minutes and counting…
I’m no spambot but I did want to pop in and say hi!
Love the new layout! Best part is that the front page tells you how long ago the last comment was made. Now I know weather to bother or not.
We’ve been well but hectic with all of the floods, earthquakes and nuclear panic going on in the region. I wish you all well and hope to catch up soon.
Lost in Aus
One last day of work today and then I get to take a break and tend to things at the house.
Lost wrote:
errr…that should be “whether”. I am out of practice!
@ orangecrush:
I thought Orange Crush is supposed to remind us of sunshine and happy things.
Good Morning Blogmocracy! Today is another glorious day in the Reign of Emperor Barack Hussein I, Pasha of the United States and Defender of the
FaithUmmah! There are 587 Days Until the 2012 Presidential Election! Today brings setbacks in the Administrations War on Libya. Al Qaeda in Libya is in retreat, leading one to suspect that this will devolve into a long civil war despite the entrance of Ameriican airpower on the side of al Qaeda. Obama has staked the pride of his Presidency on removing Kadaffy, even when the UN resolutions that give a fig leaf of legitimacy (and it is a fig leaf. This is an illegal war. Even Obama, in his incarnation as a Senator, stated that the President needed to come to Congress for authorization of military action)does not call for Kadaffy’s ouster. There are no good guys here. Whatever happens, Libya isn’t going to break into a Jeffersonian Democracy at the end of it. In better news, Michelle Bachmann is doing well in the polls. Some are already saying she’ll be VP. That would make certain people’s heads swivel around while they puked pea soup! Too funny. I hope she does it, or even makes the swing into the big chair. We need a President like her. Until we get a good conservative President, with a good conservative congress, we don’t really have any hope of curtailling the spending behemoth that is swallowing our nation.Morning everyone. More fun stuff today. I am awake and pounding back coffee. Should be a decent day at least.
@ Iron Fist:
I agree that Bachmann would make the right decisions as POTUS and would piss off the liberals to no end. I doubt however that she is electable due to the media created image of her as a nut. The MSM here in Minnesota never liked her and they hammer on her daily without mercy. Ditto for Tim Pawlenty. They would rather have an out of touch elitist from one of the coasts as our President than a local person who has demonstrated competence. I eagerly await the day that the old media becomes totally irrelevant and disappears for good.
@ tunnelrat:
That is to be expected, though. Whomever our side puts forward, the MFM will demonize. That is just par for the course. We have to fight around that. What we need desperately is a real conservative as President. If not Bachmann, who? Palin has the chops, but the MFM and the RINO establishment have had two years to demonize and deligitimize her nationally. I no longer think she is viable, though I do think she had the potential to beat Obama. Thus the two+ years spent taking her down. Gingrich has too much baggage, and who else is a real conservative? I am, in truth, not very hopeful for the 2012 election. Obama is going to be a formidible candidate, and the Democrats, who understand too well that Politics is War, will go all out for him. He will have a billion dollar war chest. We have to somehow counter that. Romney, the annointed one, will not cut it.
@ Iron Fist:
I agree completely. The current crop of candidates are either unacceptable or unelectable. We need a new face with charisma. Maybe Paul Ryan or Chris Christie. We will not win with one of the current contenders- they do not excite anybody.
@ tunnelrat:
Chris Christie has too much baggage. He is anti-Second Amendment, and has shown an incredible lack of understanding about the Muslim problem. While he has some traits that are admirable, I don’t see hims as more than a regional candidate unless he does a lot of groundwork, i.e. come-to-Jesus on the Second Amendment and some understanding of the war we are in. Paul Ryan, though, would be my pick. I just don’t think he’ll do it.
repost from abandoned thread:
Obama states the Libyans have been ruled by a dictator for decades. … … Obama? time is relative — your dictatorship stole unfathomable amounts beyond Gah’Daffy’s tyranny and you did it in less than 3 years …who is the greater dictator? WINNING!
@ Iron Fist:
Gov. Christie would have to come to Jesus (as you put it) on the Mohammedans, too. Otherwise, I will not support his candidacy.
Bunk X wrote:
It’s been five hours. No spambot!
Rodan wrote:
There, fixed that for ya!
@ Macker:
Yeah, like I say, too much baggage. He may be the best New Jersey can produce for us, but that doesn’t make him Presidential material.
@ Iron Fist:
That would be my guy. If he doesn’t run, I’m going to support Trump. He seems really willing to take on Obama and the Left. It will be a very destructive fight he will give them. If he runs.
Do you see how they are smearing Michele Bachman now? Is there any Conservative Woman who can run without the smears? It seems Women’s rights don’t apply to Conservative Women.
@ Iron Fist:
Christie’s 2nd Amendment stance is a killer for me too. I also don’t like the soft spot for the Muzz he has. That’s 2 strikes for me.
My sock puppet is being shredded at the swamp!
@ BatGuano:
lol! It may be time to pull your hand
Rodan wrote:
Any more than racial protections apply to the likes of Clarence Thomas. The Left are nothing if not hyppocrits on their whole “sensitivity” bullshit. We need to get over it. We are going to be called bigots no matter what we do (unless we just give up; that would be their goal, of course), so we need to simply consider the source and ignore it. It is meaningless chatter. Now, we have to counter, and counter hard, in the media. We should be screaming at the top of our lungs for what was done to Sarah Palin, bot the Republican “Elites” are pleased by it, so they say nothing. And they still control our media machine, for the most part. That is changing some, and must change more.
@ waldensianspirit:
They seem to be enjoying it. Even Walter!
Bunk X wrote:
The new Blog put up by the Union management team of the New South Wales Fire Brigade Union. These Union leaders are hard core leftists and assorted Marxists who have wormed their way into positions of Union power.
Their new Blog has backfired on them. The current item on which they are taking a pounding is Global Warming.
They are attempting to support a special tax on Carbon (actually CO2) and they are trying to convince the union rank and file that a new tax is such a great idea!
I beg to differ and feed ‘ammunition’ (material and comment) to my brother who is in the union, to fire.
It has been more than successful and now rank and file unionists are getting in and dissing their communist union bosses as well.