Fuck yes. The cast is off, the writing hands are whole, and I’m back in yr face.
Some most excellent reading material that kept me occupied during recuperation:
Society’s ills
- Consumerism is American, and malls are our gathering places. Michael Galinksy’s fascinating 80’s mall snapshots Kickstarted into a new book , Malls Across America. Check out a preview.
- Friendsy and adworld friend Matt Heath combines his love of porn comments and Instagram in the Tumblr PornCommentsOnInstagramPics. Accept no poorly made imitations. AHEM.
- I just bought Zbigniew Brzezinski’s new book, The Grand Chessboard, thanks to Jason Louv’s eye-opening review over at Ultraculture. When a man with true power discusses global power strategies for 9.99 at Amazon, you’ve got to wonder what the real story is.
- Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is missing, likely submitted to “diesel therapy” for her crime of “hooliganism,” aka performing “Punk Prayer” at a Moscow cathedral. Why would such an internationally scrutinized prisoner be disappeared? Madonna, come do something.
T-shirt living
- Dis Magazine is my favorite aesthetic mess– and now I can wear their mass-art-marketplace designs all over my torso. Check out the one-of-a-kind image sizing option. Dis doesn’t do anything like anyone else. So hearted.
- Speaking of T-shirts, I finally, finally, FINALLY started my subscription to T-Post. And it’s so worth the international shipping and inflated exchange rate. Great quality, sizing, kick-ass designs. T-Post, the T-shirt that’s a magazine.
- T-shirt theme today. My buddy Derek Erdman’s T-shirt designs for Woot got the spotlight they deserve. Check out the video of his Seattle studio, where he makes a giant T-shirt of a woman pregnant with a hamburger. Haha. Oh, Derek.
We’re going to talk about burgers now
- Speaking of burgers. Just click here. Just do it.
- I found out that Umami Burger offers a $100 version of their already not-so-cheap burger. And the minimum order is 20. While spending this much money on twenty pieces of meat is a symbol of everything wrong with society, I’d take a bite, if only to claim that Slow Bar’s burger in Portland, OR is way better.
- I’m not done with burgers yet. If you haven’t followed my daily art project on Tumblr yet,tune into bigbastard.tv. Every day is a new adventure in the life of Big Bastard, the malevolent entity with a burger for a head who steals your creative energy every time you eat junk food.
xo,
suzymae