Tuesday, October 19, 2004

O Say Can You See?

Let’s take a break from the wall of words I spew on a daily basis.  The words that show up here are only a small fraction of those I actually rassle in real life, you know, and Braveheart help me, my eyes just get so tired.  So tired, in fact, that today I’m going to look at some pretty pictures instead and refresh myself - and I’m taking your pasty shivering hams along for the ride. 

The theme for this photoessay is “stuff I can see when I am sitting at my computer desk at home.” I was inspired to develop this thesis when I brought a whole crapload of work home with me on monday and sat at that desk looking, on occasion, at anything at all other than the task at hand.  Luckily there is some interesting other stuff at which to look; to wit:

This is a wallhanging I just got.  It’s teaching me Hindi, I think!  Is that what it’s teaching me?  Or is there some more sinister message? 

This is a triumphant portrait of Booyah, our new mask, toward which little mexican skeletons cast shadows of obesiance.  I may have to work on the perspective for this one - we seem to be peering up Booyah’s dusty wooden nostrils here.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 

Finally, this is a little still life of the three harmonious beings: the learned skull, the decorative burgerstand, and the foam foot. The ancients honored this constellation, and you will too, dammit.  That is all.  More words tomorrow.