The best pizza box

Boo!

I have no idea why - but Halloween is a major holiday here. I don't mind so much as people keep on giving me chocolate.
On the weekend I went to Ricky's as I needed to sort out an outfit for a Halloween party on saturday night. At Ricky's they had some really gross & expensive outfits - they are all made of synthetic plastic type stuff, cost at least $65, and they come in 1 size (maybe this weird plastic material is made at NASA and stretches into any shape & size). One of the most stupid costumes they had there was a tara reid 'wardrobe malfunction' outfit. I ended up doing the best I could with clothes I already had.
This evening I saw a creepy witch riding a bicycle down Park Ave & it freaked me out a little as it was very 'Wizard of Oz' -which for me is the scariest film ever made & I still have nightmare about it.
Halloween last year was far more tame when CCLOMO & I held a party at Fix, where we insisted nobody was allowed to wear anything scary or morbid. The grim reaper even came to our kick-arse party:

Winter decides to take a vacation

There were a couple of weeks of torrential rain that came upside down and sideways.
Then there was a week of freezing cold.
All of a sudden the weather went hot yesterday & it's going to stay that way for most of this week.
So I've made a transition from trench coat to fur coat with gloves & earmuffs to summer clothes... it's all rather weird. The strangest thing is that my system thinks summer is coming back in full force as that's what usually happens at this time of year in Sydney (wishful thinking on my part, as I think it's quite unlikely the weather here in NY will continue to get any warmer this year).
How wonderful would be if winter decided not to come this year. To commemorate and celebrate this possibility of 'no winter New York 2005' I am thinking of the beach - Bondi actually - ice cream at Pompeii’s, yummy salads at Brown Sugar, steak sandwiches at Aqua Bar, sushi & tempura lunch boxes at Raw Bar, eating seafood pizza with Jade at Gelbison's on monday nights, buying Tiger Lilly bikini's with NJ at Bikini Island and driving home up Bondi Rd going past Burgerman, the fish shop and the fruit & veggie store. Even doing the Bondi-Bronte walk in the burning heat. Here are a couple of photos CCLOMO took last summer at the Modular Records/Tsubi Xmas party at that pub that's a few blocks back from the beach (I forget what it's called). I remember the free bottles of Pellegrino which at the time made me think of Ixtapa. I think that was also the day my eyelid got burnt (hence the sunglasses at night).

Pirates looking for treasure back in the early 80s

aarrgghhh.... young pirates in the making:
Big pirate NJ & small pirate PJ in 1982 (?)

The Hoff Sports the Hottest Look of the Season

David Hasselhoff spotted during an appearance at a Colonial First Estate luncheon in Sydney wearing cream, silk-crepe pirate attire.

The Spiritual Advisor

This afternoon I visited a psychic for a palm reading. For $10 she told me when I’m going to die (89), how many children I will be having (2) and also told me that I have a spiritual blockage which is stopping me from accomplishing certain things and that I probably need to meditate with a special stone to help over come this. She said for another $25 she could find out specifically where this blockage has come from, but it is likely it could have been passed on by a past lover who contaminated me or it could have been passed on by my mother through the umbilical cord at birth.
Here is a photo of her consulting space:

Cuchifritos

www.artistsai.org/cuchifritos
This is a small gallery inside the Essex Market (120 Essex St between Delancey & Rivington).
(The Essex Market is a hidden gem itself)

Currently at Cuchifritos they have a photographic exhibition of Stephanie Diamond’s work. Her archive of 80,000 photographs is within the space – a small selection on display, accompanied by shelves holding the rest of her collection in boxes and albums. I found it particularly interesting that she uses a fully automatic compact Leica camera and gets a professional service to develop her photos.
I particularly enjoyed the photos of food that the artist was allergic to and also the ‘No Tocar’ piece taken in a mall of a tacky painting featuring Jesus placing his hand on a child resting in bed.

my name is Bubblegum

Father
by Melissa Martin
Art in General
October 1 – December 17, 2005
http://www.artingeneral.org/

This is by far the most exciting & fresh artwork I have seen in sometime. It's all made of bubblegum and will be put on sale on November 1, where it will be sold in pieces by the pound. The penis is about $11 and some cuts are around $30-50.

After I watched the 'live theatre' piece by Lee Walton which was upstaged by a car crash on the street involving a very angry chinese woman....

News Headlines

I find great amusement in the news headlines in this country. Here are some recent gems:

Brooklyn girl, 9, admits killing playmate
Plunged knife into friend's chest in dispute over toy

Man who stole small plane claims he is innocent

'Chewbacca' to become an American

Bubbly soda can sets off alert at Penn Station

later followed by:
Penn Station back to normal after soda scare

Dead body mistaken for Halloween decoration

It’s Sunday and everything is closed in Chelsea
People wait to see something they can see underground
A man’s bed is flooded from yesterday’s rain
I’m cold and a kind man wraps me in a blue igloo parachute jacket
A contrast to the strange man on Saturday who asked me if I wanted pancakes
I walk home with matcha soy milk lingering on my lips and I want more than a taste from where it came.