Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Community Bike Ride puts the Glamor in Grammar
Last night I went on the second monthly Bloomington Community Bike Ride and it was down right magical. Everyone meets up at People’s Park at 7pm (last Thursday of every month!) and mills around for about twenty minutes until someone says “Let’s ride!” and then we head out and the first order of business [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cartography, Dioramas by k
Monday, June 16th, 2008
A word on the recent “Nerdmeyr and K” makeover
Faithful readers may have noticed changes in this remote electronic chronicle. We sport a new tag line, new visuals, and new categories. We assure you that these changes pose no threat to the hard hitting cultural-political commentary and fanciful re-tellings of our lives that you’ve come to expect. Nerdmeyr promises to keep delivering those breathless [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Categories and cataloging, Curation by k
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Right on Rep. Kucinich
As usual, Dennis Kucinich is trying to do what the rest of our spineless representatives and senators should’ve done six years ago: make Bush and Cheney take responsibility for their lying cheating actions. He introduced a resolution to impeach Cheney last year, and now he’s doing the same for Bush, which undoubtedly will join [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in the New World Order by nerdmeyr
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
On the impending keepsake crisis and FDIC-insured memories
While in the bagel shop yesterday I happened to see this article in the Wall Street Journal about an FDIC take-over of a small bank in Minnesota. The article describes how forty men in black stealthed into failing First Integrity Bank and transferred oversight of the bank to the FDIC without any the 3,200 residents [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Dioramas, the New World Order by k
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Junko Mizuno makes big pink nice nice
In further evidence that she and I share a psychic link, Junko Mizuno, creator of Hell Babies, has been busy building a pink plastic octopus wonderland and painting girls with bunnies for a show titled “A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.”
3 Comments » - Posted in Cabinet of curios, Collections by k
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Collector’s logic
For the last several years I’ve been collecting bunnies. The collection started by accident. By sheer coincidence I had accumulated three or four rabbit figurines including a pair of salt and pepper shakers and a paper mache bunny rattle. Many of the items had been given to me and two miniature wooden bunnies I’d had [...]
