Twofer

One of the greats. Known for individually typing blocks of placeholder text in every website template, Mr. Boi’s recently published book speaks to a deeper truth that Hoag explores further in his short moving picture “The Night Smack”, which premiered at the 2018 Canaltown Short Spooky Movie Festival.

Messy up close yet nice and tidy from afar. History and Life offer a similar dichotomy. We are transformation in progress. The thousand foot, hindsight view might fit within a good, clean book binding but down in the dirt of the present moment, the starting points and finish lines of grand cycles are less clear. It’s in their natures’ anyway. Being one in the same, yet mirrored versions of each other. A trust in your heart, in your perspective, in your foundation are lifelines to substantial connections.

Subject: Grimmr

Type: Teenage Boy Cat

Activating nooks is a thing to do. The result holds value. What gets re-imagined becomes a beacon of presence. Community space is constantly evolving, along with the community itself. By taking stock of place and allowing time to meander, there are moments of realization that wash over and illuminate the shadows and alleys hidden in plain sight. Moments when it's clear what can be made anew out of what is and once was. Moments when the mind's eye, sci-fi future merges with the adventure-frontier, historical past in the living, documentary present.

Subject: Coco

Type: Old Lady Cat

Subject: Buttercup

Type: Girl Cat

Subject: Monk

Type: Boy Cat

“I’m hungry and I’m tired.”

“Welcome to the party, pal.”

How To Eat Chips

My Journey to Eat All of the Chips

Step One: Pick a Brand. It’ll help limit your options to one collection at a time. This keeps things manageable. I go for “Kettle Brand” because the word brand is right in there so there’s no question I’m on the right track, with respect to step one. Also, Kettle don’t play. They aren’t all organic but they are non-GMO Project verified.  I like to call them a “No Funky Stuff” food stuff. Why they don’t use #nofunkystuff, I couldn’t say. I’ve offered it via Twitter. They should listen to me. I’ve given them many hundreds of my dollars.

Step Two: Get People to Listen to You. Chips are something to brag about. People will care, eventually, how many types you try and how many flavors you know. They’ll want to hear about your chip experiences everyday. Even if they don’t ask, tell them. Try lines like “Hey. Did I tell you yet what flavors of chips I like best? No? Great. Well, it depends on... Excuse me? Oh. Yeah. Well, no, we haven’t met before.” It’s a classic ice breaker that gets straight to talking about chips.

Step Three: Find a Sponsor. Like any professional pursuit, there will be costs associated with an ongoing practice. I’m currently sponsored by Nature’s Grace, a natural foods store and lunchery in Honesdale, PA. They have a large selection of chip varietals and are very generous. Multiple times per week I walk in and head directly to one of two designated chip areas. Once there, I seek out “Kettle Brand” chips by name and package color. On the bag is my red sponsorship badge or what some may refer to as an “on sale sticker.” Being sponsored, I’m afforded a sponsorship benefit or “sale price” at checkout. A lot of seemingly regular customers get the sale price too so I must not be the only sponsored professional. Nature’s Grace is very generous.

Step Four: Eat a Whole Bag of Chips in One Sitting, while thinking about the crunch and the taste of the chips inside of your mouth. Eventually, you’ll want to advance your practice by taking many still images of yourself eating chips and re-purposing them into something like a movable GIF or a stop motion video but don’t force things. Always take time to enjoy each chip, even if you put multiple chips into your mouth at once. Then, and only then, pursue advanced techniques.

Who are you? What are you? Are you in there? Did we meet without full realization? Did we shake hands like gentlemen? These are the questions of our time.

In the future, I may find you. Or you me. We may become friends. Or brothers. Until then, these questions remain. The questions of our time.

Sincerely yours,

Lackawaxas bipedus mega-platyrhynchos, Roots and Rhythm, 2015

Photo Credit:  Alicia Anderson

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