Welcome to... The Saloon

[Project Willow]

^Is there a creative product associated with that epiphany, other than, well, a freedom romp of sorts?

I am older than you. I find that "flawless" now requires some engineering, but that can be fun too.



It may be the only thing both sexes can agree, boobies are amongst the best things in the world.

[MacCruiskeen]

I just noticed something incredibly wonderful!

Braless

rhymes with lawless & flawless

You call a bra a braw? People do talk funny in the colonies.

In the barbaric dialect of my own fine country, "braw" means "good".

It may be the only thing both sexes can agree, boobies are amongst the best things in the world.

Aye, boobies are braw.

[Canadian_watcher]

^Is there a creative product associated with that epiphany, other than, well, a freedom romp of sorts?

just freedom, no end result except contentedness. That, of course, *can* lead to creative product in spite of all the rumours about pain being the source. In this case though it did not. We're on day 9 (10?) of flood recovery and getting the house ready to sell. so exhausting!

You call a bra a braw? People do talk funny in the colonies.

It's the other way around, actually: we say laless and flaless with a round A but not as round as you'd like to hear it. It's you guys that talk funny, making it out that a 'w' ought to sound like an 'r'.

In the barbaric dialect of my own fine country, "braw" means "good".

bah.. bras suck! well.. they do make the ladies look nicer in a tight sweater, I must admit. (Or should I have said jumper so as not to confuse you?? he he)

[Project Willow]

Jay-sus, ma-lay-sus, applying for art grants and shows takes up so much time!

C_w, how are you doing with running around bra-less and putting your house up for sale?

On another note, folks in Seatown seem to be dropping like flies from teh cancer. CANCER, cancer, cancer! Ackkkkk!

Smooches to my dear friend Barb, poor sweetie.

[Canadian_watcher]

C_w, how are you doing with running around bra-less and putting your house up for sale?

he he... well, if the young couple who offered on our house can actually get their financing then the house will be sold! yay! Only three days on the market before we accepted the offer. There's a part of me that wants to mother them and ask them if they are sure they know what they are getting in to... home ownership is more work & $$ than anyone really anticipates, and these two are just starting their careers. I really like them, which helped them immensely in their negotiations with us (I can be a sucker) - we're throwing in patio furniture, a wall unit, the lawn mower etc etc etc ... meh, we want a change anyway!

... someone dear to me was diagnosed with cancer on Friday. They caught it early and the outlook is good, thankfully. Here's to Barb & to my friend, too. Hopefully they will both fare well.

[Project Willow]

... someone dear to me was diagnosed with cancer on Friday. They caught it early and the outlook is good, thankfully. Here's to Barb & to my friend, too. Hopefully they will both fare well.

I am very sorry that has happened. I should have been clearer about Barb though, she doesn't have cancer but half a dozen of her friends have been diagnosed over the past year and one passed away last week. One of my neighbor friends who helped me take care of Su has been battling prostate cancer.

I was trying to find some more recent cancer rate statistics for our region when I read something I thought said that nearly a third of the population will get some form of cancer. I can't imagine that's right, I'll have to look it up again. I don't think I'll be avoiding the yearly stirrup routine anymore, and boys, don't forget to go bend over once a year.

[Glowing Butterfly]

I am not sure whether it's alright to offer, but if it's alright, I might pray for your friend, C_w. Of course, just offering, before doing anything. I realize it might be spiritually invasive to do anything before prior consent, and information.

I'll keep hoping they're alright. Different thing than a prayer.

[Canadian_watcher]

I am not sure whether it's alright to offer, but if it's alright, I might pray for your friend, C_w. Of course, just offering, before doing anything. I realize it might be spiritually invasive to do anything before prior consent, and information.

I'll keep hoping they're alright. Different thing than a prayer.

Glowing Butterfly, your kindness has made me a little misty. (in a good way)
Thank you, I accept your offer to say a prayer for my loved one. You have my gratitude & also my efforts in the same regard, should you ever need them.

[Project Willow]

These guys cornered me during my opening at 619 on July 7, the last First Thursday opening at the doomed building. Luckily I'd had a couple glasses of wine so when they pointed two cameras at me I just spewed freely through an impromptu 15 minute interview. Then they wanted a follow-up and part of that 2 hour long shoot is edited into the small video below.

They are great guys and it looks like they're competent filmmakers. So here's a bit of Seattle-about-to-be-history and some shots from inside the real Saloon, (the first interview, of my graffiti artist pal Weirdo, the guy who is swearing a lot). Of course they show the giant penis ceramic while I'm talking.

Local folks, if you're so inclined, please spread the word about the project.



http://www.indiegogo.com/619

[Project Willow]

Woah, it's dusty in here.

I came up with what I thought was the perfect neologism for the title of my next art show only to google-find that a rather large arts group in San Fran already has the name. Dernit! Back to the scribble pad.

Here's a fellow with some ideas, although I don't like the name ...

Walden Three
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/walden-three/Content?oid=9747328

Greg Lundgren Wants to Turn the Lusty Lady into a For-Profit Arts Center and Manufacture a Renaissance

by Brendan Kiley

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The dream: take over the Seven Seas building—former home of the venerable Lusty Lady peep show, just across the street from the Seattle Art Museum on First Avenue—and turn it into a six-­story art center, cultural engine, and film set for a 10-year documentary that will record, according to Lundgren's preliminary business plan, "the cultural renaissance of a major American city... By all measures, it is a social experiment."

The imagined top floor of Walden Three is for noncommercial art: objects and performances not intended to make money. (This floor is designed to operate at a loss.) The next floor down is a commercial gallery for a rotating series of Northwest curators, both new and estalished. The next floor—the street entrance on First Avenue—has a lobby, coffee shop, peep-show installations, and a storefront art school with lectures and art classes for a nominal fee: businesspeople taking drawing classes on their lunch breaks, people coming for lectures in the evenings, and so on. The next floor down is an artists' bazaar (imagine I Heart Rummage or Urban Craft Uprising crossed with the Pike Place Market) with 100 booths that can be rented on a monthly basis. The next floor down is the Walden Three command center, with production offices, living quarters for visiting artists, a commercial-­grade kitchen, and meeting rooms. The bottom floor is a commercial bar space, leased to someone other than Lundgren. "I want it to be really fun and trashy," he says. "The constant party place for all the things happening in the rest of the building."

If Lundgren's big idea works, Walden Three will become a six-story antenna where Seattle's culture constituency can broadcast itself not just to the city, but to the rest of the world.

That's where the cameras come in. According to Lundgren's business plan, "the art center and the film are intrinsically linked to each other like Siamese twins—partners that make each stronger and more dynamic than they could possibly be alone." Whether Walden Three is a spectacular success or a flaming failure, Walden Three has a shot at being an engaging documentary. The worst thing would be if Walden Three were boring. "And I will not," Lundgren says, "allow that to happen."

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[Luther Blissett]

It may be the only thing both sexes can agree, boobies are amongst the best things in the world.

I think that my ex-wife finally agrees that breasts are a good thing, after a lifetime of feeling like hers brought her nothing but all the trouble in the world.

It took quite a lot for her to come around on that point.

But three years ago, I would have told you that I know someone who hates them all - like fundamentally hated the fact that homo sapien females evolved to have prominent breasts and blamed male sexual selection for it.

[Project Willow]

^^ I can understand that. I know some ladies who've suffered life-long debilitating back pain before they were able to pay for reductions, but it seems most problems with boobies come from non-intrinsic sources like sexism and disease. I have a friend, a young, beautiful woman who had a great pair, but who just went through a double mastectomy. After 4 years she was relieved to achieve a victory in her battle with cancer.

[Project Willow]

Happy long weekend to all in the fascist behemoth.

[Project Willow]

The first big Labor Day in the United States was observed on September 5, 1882, by the Central Labor Union of New York.[1] It became a federal holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland reconciled with the labor movement. Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike.[2] The September date originally chosen by the CLU of New York and observed by many of the nation's trade unions for the past several years was selected rather than the more widespread International Workers' Day because Cleveland was concerned that observance of the latter would stir up negative emotions linked to the Haymarket Affair, which it had been observed to commemorate.[3] All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories have made it a statutory holiday.

[Simulist]

Happy long weekend to all in the fascist behemoth.

Hey, can we not bring my ex-mother-in-law into this?

And a happy long weekend to you, too.