Clementine and I accompanied Linette to Cincinnati this weekend, where she had a number of graphic design-related stops to make. While my mom took Clementine to see Mary Poppins (I’m told that the beguiling nanny-witch flew out, over the audience, and Burt danced on the ceiling), Linette and I went and checked out the Shepard Fairey exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center. And, later that night, after stops at several places, including Melt and Shake It Records, and dinner with our friend Laura, we went over to the Country Club Gallery, where our friend Matt is the Director, to check out the opening of their new Fritz Chesnut exhibition. As I would soon come to discover, in addition to being an accomplished painter, Mr. Chesnut is married to former Saturday Night Live cast member Molly Shannon, who was there with him. An introduction was offered, but instead I chose to run and hide in a nearby furniture store. (I’m not nearly as outgoing as Puppet Mark.) I had a great time, though. Among other things, I got to speak at length with a young woman who designs action figures of comic book characters and professional wrestlers for a living. She, as I would come to know, had just completed work on her first sex toy. Her firm had been hired to produce a Barack Obama vibrator, and she’d been assigned the sculpture work. I asked her if the ears presented any problems, and she laughed. Apparently there had been meetings about his ears, and the possibility of liability, should they snag or otherwise do harm. She assured me that the dangers had been sufficiently mediated.
[Tonight’s post was brought to you by fucking Arizona, and their perpetually disappointing Senator, John “I was never a maverick” McCain.]
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“Now, that was an orgasms that I can believe in.”
You should have at least smelled her armpits.
Arizona is on the fast track to crazyville. And it’s not going to end well.
Also, as someone who once admired John McCain, I cannot tell you how much of a disappointment he’s become. Starting with the decision to bring on Palin as VP, it’s been a constant downward slide.
I’m using an alias so as not to jeopardize my current relationship, but I would have a move on Shannon if only because it would bring me one step closer to Tina Fey.
You should have talked with her. She was in an episode of Twin Peaks, and she’s scheduled to join the cast of Glee as a badminton teacher.
Just as a warning to your friend, I received a cease and desist letter from the fine makers of the Squirmy Rooter when I started marketing my updated and redesigned dildo and called it the Wormy Squirter.
Eugene Robinson in today’s Washington Post:
The rest of the article can be found here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/26/AR2010042602595.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
I was never a huge fan, but I’m reading about her now and she seems like an interesting person. It’s pretty tragic stuff. She lost her mom and sister when she was four years old, in a car accident. She was in the car with them. I can’t even imagine going into comedy after living through something like that.