happy passover.
happy easter.
(a little food for thought tfor those of you who are about to commit symbolic ritual cannabilism tommorow: many people have heard the old BS story about how pizza was derived from the passover meals, various garnishes on unleavened bread. few have heard that welsh rarebit [prounounced rabbit] was another jewish delicacy, one created in protest of the easter bunny. the jews of york had been besieged by a PR campaign by the local pederast, er, bishop. the bishop had rightly assumed all women and girls loved cuddly cute bunnys, and had made the rabbit the new local easter symbol [replacing the egg.] the men of the jewish community decided to do something about the rabbit, and created the meal of asparagus and cheese over matzah for a passover meal. they called it ‘rarebit,’ a bastardization of the old french rara and the old english bita, meaning exceptional little morsal. of course they pronounced it a wink and a nudge, and with all irony aparent, some even pantomiming rabbits ears. now remember this was a long time ago, when people took their magic and meals seriously, when jews had already stopeed eating the passover lamb because the gentiles had adopted the lamb as their symbol, and were tired of being beaten or burned alive for eating the symbol of someone else’s saviour. the rabbit seemed fair game though, it was a local artificial creation of the bishop’s marketing group, and didn’t have any long standing basis in local mythos. so they ate the rarebit, because they couldn’t eat rabbit, which wasn’t kosher. they ate the symbol: those of you who are cannibals or conversant with symbolic magic or who celebrate mass can understand the power of this chowing down. after a while the yorkies were refering to this jewish meal as welsh rarebit, ‘welsh’ being an old saxon word for foreigner [the people we call welsh are the Cymry, their country Cymru and their language Cymraeg, they're Celts, got that?] and even eating it themselves, substituting bread for matzah.they ate the symbol! this pissed off the bishop no end, he had spent a personal fortune on the marketing campaign, and now even his parishioners were eating rabbit. rather then eat crow and admit failure, he plotted the destruction of the jewish community who had made a meal out of his focus groups symbol. eventually in 1190 conditions were right and richard malebys, the bishop’s stooge and director of advertising, started the riot that led to the destruction of the jewish community in york, at the site of what is now cliffords tower. the massacre took place on march 24th which was the sabbath before passover that year. never underestimate the power of symbols, kids.)
so i was going ot have my last last smoke last night at midnite. I called a bunch of people to see what they were doing, so i could have some company. almost all of them were going out drinking or had other plans, with a few exceptions that never returnd my calls. now i didn’t call everyone i know: it would have been stupid, since a few of them have kids and others are guaranteed busy at that hour. what amazes me is how many people i didn’t call knew about it today. even more amazing is how th people i called for the most part weren’t on speaking terms or didn’t know the people who knew about it today. I guess everyone in town drinks in the same bar, and shamelessly eavesdrops. either way, i’m shooting for midnite tonght, with or without an audience.
proposed legislation to secure all manner of consumer electronics against piracy would make it practically impossible ot be a small independent digital artist. everything from video editing to music making would become impossible. and if the law is taken to it’s logical conclusion, you might not be able to edit a scan or digital image you made before the safe guards were put in place…UPADATE: it’s no believed fax machines will need the antopiracy measures too!
and the cost would go up.
the lead backer of the bill is Sen. Hollings, often refered to as the senator from disney, Eisner of Disney has being making a lot of speaches on the need for anti piracy protection. Eisneer made 700 million dollars in the past five years and the entertain industry are heavy PAC and direct congressional funders. The real point of the bill isn’t the piracy, but is the ability for you or me to make a cd, video or movie that might compete with the establishd companies, and the use of the internet as a distribution method. this isn’t the first time the industry has fought an emerging new technology that could compete with them: anyone seen a DAT recorder lately? everyone i know who has needed a portable recorder has had to buy a sony minidisk, which was designed with anti piracy features that make it worthless for music production. they won that one…
one woman’s response. i’ll be posting more about this in the future. i strongly urge you keep up on this issue, and to write your congressdroid.
Get over to the lamprey discussion site, where Mike Bulka and his camera have caght the St Patt Parade and Lovechaos in ways yours truely could never do. Pix are listed here.
I’m behind in my mail, because of the crash. sorry. The computer is still not back to where it should be, thanks to my having to fix other things for money. One of the most annoying parts of this crash was that my backups, which i had just checked the day before, were missing the new non beta version of the palm desktop, and all the standalone icons in them were corrupted. i’m going to have to store them compressed from now on, i guess.
On top of my other problems, i passed out for no reason at 10 tonight, and just woke up…i think i’m hammering my self with this one meal a day regimen.
photo copyright 2002 Mike Bulka, all rights reserved, all wrongs reversed, all lefts humored…(this should be titled another reason why I’ll never get a date–I hadn’t realized i had grown another bald spot right below my occipital bulge, ecch. time to shave my head I guess…UPDATE: this post contrary to whatever time is says was begun at 3:30am, and at that time i had a full fringe of hair. I don’t anymore, and most of my beard is gone as well. You have no idea how fucking hard it is to cut hair without a weed wacker.
Continue reading ’still haven’t found what i’m looking for’
I killed my computer this afternoon. i was making disk images to back up some stuff and i somehow managed to make a file that exceded the the size of the hard drive. I’m working on saving my machine now.UPDATE: It’s working again. Yippee.
Go check out Roger Ebert on CD piracy: he has an interesting solution for you…
The only thing that hurt worse then the toilet is the crapper. Bulka made some rumaki and wantons from the white castle cookbook. That’s right, slider wanton and slider rolls. They went down easy but (dot dot dot). Went over to Erics to see his duel ghz. G4–tech envy set in. Eric tried trading me a 386 laptop for my Icebook. Eno kept trying to give me everything he was given to eat. Lonnie kept making hilarious sarcastic comments at the academy awards. The G4 kept right on keeping on. Then off to lamprey for a pile of computers to fix, and Kenneth welshing on the twenty he owes me. Will kidnap his back brace if he doesn’t come through. The last incandescent bulb burned out in the Ice Station, and i’m down to using the epileptic flickering flourescent fixture.
the pix from the deus ex show are up, check the new link to the left. The pix are terrible, the camera gave me all sorts of trouble (mostly battery), and i tried to get arty with it, so deal with it. UPDATE: i removed most of the arty crap in the last cut.
I’m worried: if i’ve toasted this set of batteries, then i’m an ex photog again, i can’t swipe any more, they’ve put them behind glass at all the places that sell them. I’m really pissed canon charges 80 bucks for batteries that don’t last a month. the pros must be sending them such hate mail. on the otherhand i’ve never come across this complaiint in the lists and forums. had to bolt the bottem back on the camera as well, not a good sign.
UPDATE:
Photo courtesy of the Pope, Mike Bulka
Went to Kenneth, Neville, John and Drew opening in the Deus Ex Machina show, which runs for the next couple of weekends. Mail me if your interested. Machines that make art. Kenneth never finished his, Neville unleased the boxs that blow kisses on the world, John released the blow your art out machine and Drew took found electric toys and made them do battle with magic markers. After words there was a 3D shadow puppet show, which i couldn’t see because of the crowd, I was WAY too short. I lost a twenty buck on job account of this gig, ended up giving a michigander a tour of the fucking city to get there, and i am not happy.
This shit gets old fast. It is colder then a sunken soviet sub in here, i’ve been wrapped in the electric blanket since 10 last night, and i couldn’t sleep. I’m going to run across the street and try and mooch some coffee, it’s too fucking cold in here
Everyone from Kenneth to Kim (of all people) took me to task for being unreachible by phone. I missed a call from ben, and then only found out about it at 5am. Will work on resolving that today.
Add to that the mail problems. *SIGH*
Tried to get Kim online yesterday to job hunt. 7 attempts at connecting failed, Kim lost all patience. I’ve never had that many failures. A suggestion from John Unger that falls into the “bullshit voodoo things mac os users used to pass around as gospel to get around os glitches,” actually worked. By then Kim was so frustrated that she left. the machine was online for the rest of the afternoon…one of the apple engineers has posted a replacement serial kernal extention that may help. This is silly. Dawn’s ibook has modem sound, and mine and John’s doesn’t. John finds it funny he was able to give me tech tips, too.
Speaking of OS X, Eric has gotten himself a G4 and claims it’s the only os for him…and Catherine Doll’s machine is going back to Apple for repair. It won’t turn on.
It’s interesting how many people fled chicago this week.
I finally got a shower last night. Thanks Jerry! It’s way too fucking cold, the cold actuallly woke me up. Happy Spring! Have a twenty buck gig this morning, and then I’m going to try to get voicestream straightened out.
UPDATE: Went back to sleep, it was way to fucking cold. Woke up with Ric and Damian wandering aroungd the building, “trying to save it for Pickett.” Whatever that means. No water in the toilet is what it means…oh well. Rick told me the city wants this place vacated…which he claims he told them it was, and that he didn’t know i was here….joy.
