…isn’t the Republican Party or the Democratic Party or Nader’s party,
but my birthday/engagement party, happening this Saturday. If you’re in
town, let me know if you’d like to attend.
Maybe I should make attendees sign a party oath before letting them in:
Just so you know…
Meg pointed out to me that she started her blog in May 1999, so it’ll be six
years old in May, not five as I reported in yesterday’s blog entry. She
also pointed out that if it were a kid, it would be ready for the first grade. My blog would’ve just been a recent toilet trainee.
One of the letters in the “crush” category.
300 Love Letters is a project of Asia Wong, who explains…:
So I’m telling this boy, one of the boys that lots of these love letters are to, about this project. “I’m writing three hundred love letters and sending them to strangers. The letters are going to be glued to the outside of the envelopes, so that the mailman, and presumably whoever the recipient lives with, will be able to see and read them. The letters aren’t to the strangers, they’re to people I know.”
The boy looks at me. We’re walking around, after work, deserted streets. He says, “I don’t understand. Why are you doing this?”, and I answer vaguely, talking about crossing space and the kind of intimacy that I believe is lacking from our society. And I’m left thinking: Is this project complicated or simple, idiotic or interesting?
It turns out that there are actually 400, not 300 letters. Once again, I’ll let Asia do the talking…
When I got to 300, I re-read my explanation and I was unsatisfied. It felt like it was only within the last hundred letters that I had started really writing to strangers, acquaintances, family, it felt like I had just started getting to the hard part. So in a month of no lovers (well, nothing serious) I wrote another hundred letters, felt better about what I was doing, finished the project for real.
The user interface of the site is a giant field of coloured squares. Clicking on a square will show you a letter. The colour of the square indiciates the type of letter associated with it:
The letters make for some fascinating reading. If any of you need a Cyrano de Bergerac to assist you in writing missals of love, lust or infatuation, you could probably find a letter in the collection to use as a starting point.
If you comment in my blog and stick advertising in it, your comment will be deleted.
I don’t mind if you plug your company if it’s on-topic. For example, if
I were to comment on restaurants in Toronto, it would be perfectly
acceptable for post a comment and say “Hey, check out my restaurant!”
However, it is not acceptable for you to comment to the same article
and link to a site for financing a housing purchase. That’s spam, and
it will be terminated with extreme prejudice.
From the U.S. Geological Survey’s What to Do if a Volcano Erupts page:
During an Eruption –
Move Away From A Volcano – Not Toward It
Duuuuuuuuuuude!
For those who were there, and for the curious: here are 210 non-hot tub
photos from last year’s birthday party, culled from my own camera as
well as those of others. You can see them in album format, but with that many photos, you might want to check out the slideshow version!
(Warning: One gratuitous cleavage shot.)