January - 2008

Monday, January 14, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Sunday, January 13, 2008

2 med coffees (light/sweet)
lg cup of chicken/noodle/dumplings/corn stew
lg wheat Italian bread (net wt. 10 oz.)
bottle of water (16.9 fl. oz.)
1/4 pack of cigarettes

Saturday, January 12, 2008

2 lg coffees (light/sweet)
1 sausage/egg/cheese on longroll breakfast sandwich
16 oz. can of beer (brown-bagged)
1 lg french bread
2 mugs of lager
sm-med amount of wheat Italian bread (net wt. 4 oz. - guesstimate)
bottle of water (16.9 fl. oz.)
3/4 pack of cigarettes


final entry:

Statistics as of January 14, 2008 at 9:15 am CST
Site: Automotive Acne

Your counter was created on January 25, 2007 at 12:20 pm CST with a starting count of 0. You currently have your counter set to increment on Unique Hits Only.

Total Hits: 11182
Hits Today (so far): 10
Hits Since Start: 11182
Average Daily Hits Since Start: 31.60

Daily History

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51 Weeks Ago 01/21/07 - 01/27/07 61



postscript:

Thank You for reading Automotive Acne...

a one year blog project.

Sincere Regards,

"Allan Smithee"

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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Friday, January 11, 2007

lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
1 cheese bratwurst dog (mustard)
1 breakfast sausage dog (mustard)
1 "Bon Appetit" berries & cream danish (net wt. 5 oz.)
bottle of orange/mango nectar (17.5 fl. oz.)
lg coffee (light) 20 fl. oz.
1 slice of bbq chicken pizza
2 pints of lager
sm bag of salted peanuts (net wt. 1 oz.)
2 pints of lager (same location)
slightly less than a pack of cigarettes


Personal History, Captured in Plastic

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Friday, January 11, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Thursday, January 10, 2008

lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
1 berries & cream danish (net wt. 5 oz.)
1 "bear claw" danish (net wt. 5 oz.)
1 med coffee (light/sweet)
1 pretzel (plain)
1 pkg of M&M's milk chocolate (net wt. 1.69 oz.)
3 pints of lager
bottle of water (16.9 fl. oz.)
3/4 pack of cigarettes



Six Movies That Make Stalkers Look Like Hopeless Romantics

bonus round:

"Watching 'The Professor Brothers,' created by Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts grad Brad Neely, is like sitting through a graduate level history course if it were taught by a drunken hobo who spoke in stream-of-consciousness non sequiters, with crudely drawn visuals."

www.superdeluxe.com/pb

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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
1 breakfast sausage dog (mustard)
1 blueberry cream danish (net wt. 5 oz.)
med coffee (light/sweet)
1 garlic bagel (plain)
2 pints of lager (*)
1 cup of chicken/rice soup
BLT on toasted white bread sandwich (mayonaise)
med order of french fries (ketchup)
3/4 pack of cigarettes

(*) plus additional pint of lager



Art & Literature


Quick Picks:

No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July.

Award-winning filmmaker Miranda July's collection of short stories is quirky and candid. With the unique voice of an outsider, July constructs a narrative continuum of surreal romanticism throughout the pages of her literary debut. Making Love in 2003, previously featured in The Paris Review, proves July's sensitivity and authorial expertise with its intimate retelling of a fictional affair with the universe. Provocative and personal, Something That Needs Nothing, paints the tangled landscape of love and admiration and where it can lead. July's short stories are dazzling and familiar like the highs of false hope or the dull ache of self doubt. No one belongs here more than you is the perfect companion to July's film Me and You and Everyone We Know. Scribner, 2007. -Dianca Potts


I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, by Amy Sedaris.

The arrival of noisy hordes of master chefs and subsequent conversion of all crooks and nannies into restaurateurs has led to a dearth of what was once a unique American staple, the guide to entertaining at home. More than a cookbook, somewhat less than a fire-code-safe crafts book, and holding its own as an etiquette book, Ms. Sedaris uses her years of home entertaining experience to recapture the lost arts of cheese balls, chintz, and the cha-cha, as she covers all manner of social occasion, including how to get guests to leave. From the intimate style of her writing it becomes clear quickly that Amy Sedaris does, very probably, like you, perhaps a little too much if you get claustrophobic easily. Her section on entertaining the elderly is extremely helpful, though the polite thing to do would be to laugh freely and pretend it is scandalously unfair. Lovingly illustrated, if you don't have time to read, with thoroughly dangerous woodworking instructions from Paul Dinello. Warner Books, 2006. - Walt Maguire



Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: a Memoir, by Nick Flynn.

Growing up with a hard-working single mother in the suburbs of Boston, Flynn, understandably, had no desire to become acquainted with his chronically drunk and delusional father. Then one day, his father showed up at the homeless shelter where Flynn worked and that began an unlikely saga of redemption for both men. Written beautifully in riffs and starts, scenes, and lists-a hybrid form with perfect pitch-this work allows us to discover, with the author, an unfolding relationship that defies the odds. W W Norton, NY 2004-Janice Wilson Stridick


Institute of Contemporary Art

winter exhibitions:

The Puppet Show
Walkthrough with curators Carin Kuoni and Ingrid Schaffner, and artist Terence Gower

"The Puppet Show" is a group exhibition that looks at the imagery of puppets in contemporary art. Concentrating on sculpture, video and photography, some of the works involve actual puppets and artists as puppeteers. Other images evoke topics associated with puppetry. Collectively these works show puppets to be a provocative and relevant imageryone that moves deep into social, political and psychological terrains. The installation is designed by artist Terence Gower with reference to the uncanny and theatrical displacements of scale. "The Puppet Show" premiers at ICA before traveling to Santa Monica, Honolulu, Houston, and Seattle.


Trisha Donnelly
Walkthrough with artist Trisha Donnelly and curator Jenelle Porter

Using sculpture, drawing, photographs, text, sound, video, and painting, Trisha Donnelly will compose an installation, her first U.S. solo museum exhibition, from works originally made between 1998 and 2007. Donnelly's ineffable body of work resists simple characterization. A lexicon of imagery and action relies on the power of suggestion. What unite her work in various media are gestures of altered time, shifters, dimensional explorations, evocation, perception, and belief structures. On display for an extended period through August 3, the show will transform with works rotating on and off display.


Carlos Motta: The Good Life
Walkthrough with artist Carlos Motta and curator Stamatina Gregory

"The Good Life," a long-term, in-progress, experimental documentary project, is a relevant examination of the regional history, perception and effects of U.S. interventionist policies in Latin America, at a time of global critical awareness of those politics. In this iteration, created for the Project Space, Motta's interviews with persons in Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Managua, Mexico City, Santiago and Tegucigalpa serve as both a conceptual and formal framework.


Ramp Project: Beyond Kiosk
Walkthrough with Christoph Keller and Conny Purtill

Over six-hundred independent publication projects turn the transitional space of ICA's ramp into a volume of volumes. Viewers are encouraged to pull material and peruse it along the way—picture the book stalls of Paris—or stop and read in the window seat and lounge staged half-way up the ramp. Selected by Christoph Keller, in an installation designed by Conny Purtill, the exhibition takes an exemplary swath from the Kiosk archive which Keller founded in 2001. Included are selections from Philadelphia's strong community of independent publishers.

Opening Reception · thurs jan 17 @ 6-8pm · free and open to the public
Exhibition Walkthroughs · thurs jan 17 @ 5pm · members only · join on-site

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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
1 cheese & berries danish (net wt. 5 oz.)
1 apple danish (net wt. 5 oz.)
lg coffee (light/sweet)
1 pretzel (plain)
med coffee (light/sweet)
1 slice of bbq pizza
2 pints of lager (*)
1 can of tea (12 fl. oz.)
1 sesame chicken/pork fried rice combination plate
sm amount of broccoli
1 eggroll (orange duck sauce)
1 fortune cookie
1 can of orange soda (12 fl. oz.)
1/2-3/4 pack of cigarettes

(*) plus additional pint of lager



When Superconductivity Became Clear (to Some)

Quote of the Day:

"It means a large proportion of the population really could feel health benefits through moderate changes."

KAY-TEE KHAW
University of Cambridge Professor, on research showing that regular exercise, moderate drinking, no smoking, and a diet heavy in fruits and vegetables can add as much as 14 years to your life

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Monday, January 7, 2008

mug of lager
2 lg cups of coffee (cream)
2 pints of lager (same location)
2 pints of lager (diff. location)
3/4 of a "philly soft pretzel"
sm amount of popcorn
med coffee (light/sweet)
pint of lager (diff. location)
pint of lager (diff. location)
slice of bbq chicken pizza
lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
2 double cheeseburgers (McDonalds)
pint of lager (original location)
can of tea (12 fl. oz.)
bottle of water (16.9 fl. oz.)
slightly more than a pack of cigarettes



Hatemail: I can't get nothing I want!

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Monday, January 7, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Sunday, January 6, 2008

lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
1 lg cuban bread (net wt. 10 oz.)
med coffee (light/sweet)
1 Checkers fish sandwich (lettuce/tartar sauce)
1 Checkers hamburger (lettuce/tomato/pickles/mayonaise/ketchup)
1 Checkers chili-cheese burger
lg cappuccino (24 fl. oz.)
2 pints of lager
med plastic cup of fountain coke (same location)
slightly less than a pack of cigarettes


Books Cont.

recently acquired freebies:

The Art of Plain Talk by Rudolf Flesch
duplex Apartment - David Greenberger
Essays of Francis Bacon
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson
Life Itself (Its Origin And Nature) - Francis Crick
Louder Than Words (Anthology) edited by William Shore
Nature, Man & Woman - Alan W. Watts
The Orators - W.H. Auden
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
Three Who Dared - Tom Cohen
The Universe and Dr. Einstein - Lincoln Barnett
We Think The World of You - J. R. Ackerley
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig


Bonus round:

Fruit flies imbibe - it's males gone wild

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Sunday, January 6, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Saturday, January 5, 2008

lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
1 breakfast sausage dog (mustard)
1 sausage/egg/double cheese on ciabatta square bread breakfast sandwich (net wt. 6.18 oz.)
1 "Bon Appetit" blueberry cream danish (net wt. 5 oz.)
bottle of water (16.9 fl. oz.)
1/2 pack of cigarettes


Friday, January 4, 2008

lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
1 breakfast sausage dog (mustard)
1 omelette link breakfast dog
1 Checkers cheeseburger (lettuce/tomato/pickles/mayonaise/ketchup)
med coffee (light/sweet)
2 pints of lager
mug of lager (same location)
2 pints of lager (diff. location)
lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
1 slice of bbq chicken pizza
bottle of water (16.9 fl. oz.)
pack of cigarettes


Recent purchase from Bookhaven:

Einstein's Dreams & Good Benito by Alan Lightman

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Friday, January 4, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Thursday, January 3, 2008

1 lg "everything" Italian bread (net wt. 11 oz.)
2-3 lg coffees (light/sweet)
med coffee (light/sweet)
pint of lager
pint of lager (diff. location)
2 packs of "Krispy Original" saltine crackers (2 per)
bottle of lager (12 fl. oz.) same location
cup of chicken/rice soup
2 packs of "Krispy Original" saltine crackers (2 per)
1 BLT on toasted white bread sandwich (mayonaise)
2 pints of lager (same location)
lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
2 bottles of water (16.9 fl. oz.)
3/4-pack of cigarettes



CircaStudy.com: Online flashcards for Art History and Humanities students

Bonus round:

Small Bites - McRib Farewell Tour 3

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Thursday, January 3, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

1 "everything" bagel (plain)
sm coffee (light/sweet)
1 sausage/egg/cheese on longroll breakfast sandwich
lg coffee (light/sweet)
2 sm-med "vegetable wraps"
2 pints of lager
1 bag of "cheez-it" baked snack crackers (net wt. 1.5 oz.)
2 pints of lager (same location)
1 kaiser roll
sm container of nacho cheese dip (net wt. 1 oz.)
pack of cigarettes



someone's overheard conversation regarding jdate:

We squeezed into our table, and almost immediately noticed that the couple to my left was speaking about their JDate experiences.

I do not believe this couple was an actual couple, or that they were even on a date, because the guy spoke freely and unapologetically about using Jdate as a source of one-time hookups. The girl agreed that if she were going on a Jdate just for fun, she would sleep with the guy on the first date, but if she really liked him, she would wait. The guys said, "I haven't meant anyone on Jdate I liked enough for that. For me, it's just a one-night-stand thing."

Then he started complaining how many of the girls he had met and slept with through Jdate tried contacting him for future dates, and this annoyed him. He complained that many of the girls he meant through Jdate had curly hair. He hated curly hair. One time, he dated a girl with what he described as "natural" hair. He liked her. They went on a few dates, but then he found out she really had curly hair but had been blowing it out straight. This horrified him, and they broke up. "And I hate a girls who wear makeup."

"A lot of girls wear makeup," the girl said. "It's not that big a deal. I'm wearing makeup right now."

"Yeah, but you're hardly wearing any makeup."

"No, I'm wearing a nice amount of makeup. I would say I'm definitely wearing makeup, and it's a nice amount of makeup."

"Well, I didn't notice. I don't like it when you notice that a girl is wearing makeup. Or that she blow dries her hair. You don't blow dry your hair, do you?"

"I blow dry my hair."

"But you don't blow dry it all the time."

"I pretty much blow dry it all the time."

"But you don't blow dry it straight do you? Your hair is naturally straight."

"My hair is a little wavy. It's not curly. But I definitely blow dry it. And when I do, I blow dry it out straight."

After hitting this rough patch, they began to talk about past relationships. Brian and I sat mesmerized by the conversation, unable to talk, unable to do anything else but listen. And occasionally text each other about the horror we were feeling.

It turns out the girl had been married before, but was now single. The guy's longest relationship had gone on for two years, and this is with a girl who was ten years her junior. I started to do the math, but the girl made things easy. She said, "Well, you're 38 now. Things have changed a lot for you."

The guy spoke equivocally about his ex-girlfriend. He said, "She was very immature."

The girl said, "You mean she was socially awkward?"

"No. She was very socially tuned-in. She was very savvy. She just didn't know a lot."

"You mean she wasn't very bright?"

"No, she was brilliant. And very savvy."

"Did she not dress well?"

"No. She dressed amazing. It's just that she didn't know anything. She knew some things. But there were other things that she just didn't know. And it was always irritating."

Just then a new song came on. Brian leaned in and whispered to me that it was a band we liked — the Silver Jews. Ten seconds later, the guy said, "Hear this song?" He pointed up. "What band is this?"

The girl looked at him blankly. "It's a band called the Silver Jews. She would have know that."

The girl said, "I've never heard of them. I know classic rock. Ask me anything about classic rock. I'll be able to answer you. I'm an expert on Classic Rock. Pink Floyd. Led Zeppelin...."

They talked about Zeppelin 4 for a bit, but then were back to JDating, which is when I heard about one of the weirdest dating hang-ups ever. The guy said, "I went on two dates with her, and I like her, but I don't think we can go out again."

The girl said, "What's the problem? Is she too clingy?"

He said, "Not really. It's just that ... she told me that every Sunday she does philanthropy."

"Wha?

"You know. She does things for charities. Every Sunday."

"I think that's nice."

"It may be nice, but don't tell me about it."

"Why not?"

"It's not sexy. I can't think of anything less sexy than doing community service."

"I think it's nice that she spends her Sundays doing community service."

"I don't care that she does it. She just shouldn't tell anyone. I mean, not on a date. That's so unsexy. Community service is NOT SEXY. I don't think I can date her again."

"I'd love it if I guy I was dating did community service."

"I can't ever see her again. It's just too gross 'I do community service.' Gross."

After we left the restaurant, I had the desire to alert JDate that we had met their biggest douche bag.

posted by Hackmuth on the SJBB

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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
1 cheese bratwurst dog (mustard)
1 breakfast sausage dog (mustard)
1 hash brown bar (ketchup) net wt. 2.5 oz.
1 sausage/egg/double cheese on cibatta square bread breakfast sandwich (net wt. 6.18 oz.)
1/2 pack of cigarettes


Monday, December 31, 2007

lg coffee (light/sweet) 24 fl. oz.
1 hash brown bar (net wt. 2.5 oz.)
1 cheese bratwurst (mustard)
1 breakfast sausage dog (mustard)
1 vienna cream danish (net wt. 5 oz.)
pint of lager
1 slice of "buffalo chicken" pizza
2 pints of lager (same location)
bottle of lager (12 fl. oz.) diff. location
1 sesame chicken/fried pork rice combo plate
1 eggroll
sm amount of broccoli
1 fortune cookie
can of orange soda (12 fl. oz.)
1/2-3/4 pack of cigarettes



How To Build An Igloo (and Other Snow Shelters)

You do not know who is your friend and who is your enemy until the ice breaks. -Eskimo Proverb

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart. - Inuit Proverb

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