E.V.E. Project Update

The E.V.E. (Earthly View of Eden) Project is a work-in-progress art work by Nate Hill. It will be a life size female human being sewn together from animal parts. Estimated completion date October 2008.

No Special Effects Required

By the way ... fuck Batman. "Man On Wire" opens in New York City today. If you know what's good for you, you'll go see it. A documentary that's actually worth $12!

We Are All What's Her Name

Do you remember that whole big dust up a lifetime ago, about a young girl who read about people on the internet who seemed impressive and interesting, and because she knew their names without ever meeting them, and because other people she had never met also talked about them and seemed impressed by them, they appeared to be important figures with positions and influence worth aspiring to?

Then she met them.

It was at this point that she realized that these people were not actually that impressive or interesting and no matter what their influence or position (real or imagined) aspiring to be like or among them suddenly seemed like a big waste of time. Yes, the point was pretty obvious, but she was young and for her, at that moment, it was probably a pretty profound moment of revelation.

The best part about this video is that everyone who watches it can be at that party and know exactly what she felt.

Bonus: As you watch, see if you can tell who really means it.

P.S. I am sorry that I missed the benefit.

FYMTQ: Molly Lambert of This Recording

We're still on the This Recording kick (GO READ IT NOW - IT WILL REQUIRE THINKING) and we're fortunate that managing editor Molly Lambert (and here) responded to a request to revive the FYMTQ. Put on your autumn sweater and listen to the sound of ten hearts beating as one...

What's your background? (Please include an explanation of This Recording.)
I first met Alex Carnevale when I saw him give an inflammatory political lecture in Portland, after which he convinced me to leave my dentist husband and run off to Greenwich Village to become a radical. My first published piece of writing was a review of the Armory Show. Carnevale and I had a tempestuous on and off open relationship over the next five years until I dumped him for Eugene O'Neill. Alex went to Russia to cover the revolution and when he came home we got back together. He then insisted on returning to Moscow to finish his book "Ten Posts That Shook The World" and was killed, becoming the only American ever buried in the Kremlin. In memoriam, I founded This Recording and made Alex editor in chief.

Why are you following us?
I don't know where I am

What era, day or event in blogging history would you like to re-live?
when Walt Whitman liveblogged Abraham Lincoln's funeral

Who do you consider to be the greatest blogger of all-time?
Benjamin Franklin

What's your blogging motto?
"whatever, just post it"

Describe that low moment when you thought you just might have to leave
blogging for good.
when I failed to make Danish Aziz's list of the top bloggers he'd like to see in a burqa

What was the last thing you read on LAist?
I keep up with all of Carrie Meathrell's posts

If you could change one thing about blogging, what would it be?
Fuck you, pay me

What was your best or most expensive medication experience just after midnight on a summer Saturday?
I don't understand this question, but that might be because I'm in LA where we get medicinal weed and I'm smoking something called Purple Monkey Clown Car Chernobyl

Los Angeles. It's not New York. What gives?
good avocados are a hallucinogen

Multiple Choice: Diablo Cody, Jayne Mansfield, Gilda Radner, Nude Natalie Portman, Miranda July or Dead Whitney Houston? Name one reason why.
Gilda, because I like to talk dirty to the animals too

Don't Shoot the Messenger's Bag

Image by Frank Chimero

Are you hungry?

Fugazi - "Do You Like Me"

E.V.E. Project Update

The E.V.E. (Earthly View of Eden) Project is a work-in-progress art work by Nate Hill. It will be a life size female human being sewn together from animal parts. Estimated completion date September 2008.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: June 2008

It's been an interesting few weeks here at YM HQ, especially on the whitebar: everyone on the Tumblr was fired. I was finally taken off probation. Other Tumblrs were spawned. 99 more or less deleted everything he's ever posted on this here site (an archive-cum-sidebar is currently in the works). There was a short-lived Dadaist revolution. Tempers have flared. Asses have been fisted. The family is broken up. We made Page Six. We got penisy. And the word "pussy" was thrown around quite a bit.

Clearly, this month has been nothing short of superlative. Thus, your monthly stat dose, as promised, over a week late. We'll affix the typical warning to this kind of thing: I'm terrible at math and can't actually count past 14 reliably, so you're going to have to just go with it. Next time, if we remember, we'll plan for this kind of thing better. Onward.

YM Dramaspora: Day 21†.

Number of Posts: 25* (-15 from May 2008)
Number of Tumbls: 492 (+137 from May 2008)
Average number of Tumbls per day: 16.4

The "Who's self-employed, again?" Count:

99: 8*
Krucoff: 6
Dana: 3
Dash: 3
Natel: 2
Curt, Fek, and Sac each knocked one in.

Krucoff Twitter Followers: 78/100 (+18 from May 2008)

Number of Tumblrs birthed from The Dramaspora: 3 (Dana, 99, Andrew)
Number of YM Tumblr email/password changes: 2
Number of YM Tumblr followers: 125
Number of Tumblrs YM is following: 0

Number of Tumbls containing the words "Malcom Gladwell": 33
Number of Tumbls containing the words "Malcom Gladwell" and "Brian Van": One.
Score in YM vs. BV: BV 0, YM -2
Brian Van Girl Pickup Success Rate In Front Of More Than 3 YMers at The Magician: 0%

Dana's paying rate: $2.75/Page
Going rate for 99's "UWS Verde Diablo Weed": $200/Quarter-Ounce
Cost for a lifetime subscription to N+1 Magazine: $200
Amount of pages transcribed for Dana it would take to earn a bag of said "Devil Weed": 72.72
Going rate for the "Chronic" of astro-turf, "Liberty Elite": $4.45/Sq. Foot
Size of an average New York City square block above 14th Street^: 278,784 Sq. Feet
Cost for four city blocks/one square block of astro-turf as per On Deck Sports: $1,240,588.80

Stats that were too hard to come up with this month:

- Number of Backchannel Emails.
- Emails giving consideration to "blacklisting" people.
- Emails giving consideration to "gat-ing" people (as in "Pass the 'Gat").
- Rate at which astro-turf burns.
- Something about the monetary value of "Old Man" Keith Gessen's pussy-expertise.
- Number of unaccounted and/or unreported clinical diagnoses of "Rex Rage" in New York.

Stats that technically belong in July, but that we're too lazy to hold onto until the end of the month:

- Number of Google Hits for the word "pussy": 77,200,000.
- Number of interoffice emails containing the word "pussy" in them: 11.
- Number of Tumbls containing the word "pussy" in them: 3.
- Number of Keith Gessens: 1.

†The YM Dramaspora ends when 99 and Dana have both posted to the either the Tumblr or blog again. I will meanwhile refuse to shut the fuck up about this until it happens.

*As previously mentioned, 99 "unpublished" all of his posts, except for those which he had help on - that's five for this month. The count listed is the total count for the month pre-unpublishing, going on bylines.

^For the sake of math, we're going to use one New York City square block: two east/west, two north/south. We know this isn't the exact size of the "four city blocks" needed for said party, but said point is illustrated: smoking astro-turf is far more difficult and expensive than you could possibly imagine, though it doesn't go without saying that we were willing to give it a shot.

Previously: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

E.V.E. Project Update

I look like I'm on drugs.