where nothing much happenshref> … no es cosa del otro jueves phxt put it in your face obscure reference all mine pity the village idiot … opalandtheidiot [at] gmail [dot] comTumblr (3.0; @opalandtheidiot)http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/“I tweet to try…” - Jason Permenterhttp://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/268708047http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/268708047Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:04:00 -0700<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku1h9lBOoC1qz4dplo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Anyone who cooks knows that it is in following recipes that one first learns the anticlimax of the actual, the perpetual disappointment of the thing achieved.</p> <p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/11/23/091123crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all">Why we use cookbooks : The New Yorker</a></p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/266553850http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/266553850Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:10:33 -0700“…why has feminism, which managed to win so many battles—the notion of a woman with a...http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/266475431http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/266475431Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:37:10 -0700<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktwksuKNZi1qz4dplo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>GPOYW, In the Temple of the Ego* Edition.</p> <p>*Frank Lloyd Wright’s <a title="franklloydwright.org" href="http://www.franklloydwright.org/fllwf_web_091104/Home.html">Taliesin West</a>, which is…shopworn.</p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/266449356http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/266449356Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0700PHX=2COH“Indeed, the self-proclaimed “I Don’t Care Girl” and the self-proclaimed antichrist have quite...http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/265201004http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/265201004Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:50:40 -0700<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxr7bgQpI1qz4dplo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Good advice from <i>The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception</i>.</p> <p>Additionally, blond hair, I’ve found through navigating the preconceptions of Western culture, boosts one’s efforts to appear a little dumb. I’m not just sayin’. I’m livin’.</p> <p><i></i></p> <p><a>Use your illusion - Boston.com</a></p> <p>via <a title="kottke" href="http://kottke.org">k</a></p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/263737581http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/263737581Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:54:47 -0700<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktwc5sra3z1qz4dplo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Koryn Woodward :: Blow Fish : 2009 Mutant Pinata Show at <a title="azcentral.com" href="http://img.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/0906phx-piefactory0906-ON.html">Bragg’s Pie Factory</a></p> <p><a title="facebook::Bragg's Pie Factory" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phoenix-AZ/Braggs-Pie-Factory/220550859987?v=info&ref=search#/notes/braggs-pie-factory/call-for-entries-the-mutant-pinata-show-at-the-pie-factory/218719432558">2010 Mutant Pinata Show Call for Entries</a></p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/262731976http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/262731976Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:32:00 -0700PHX=2COH<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktuo2mzJmZ1qz4dplo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/261490243http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/261490243Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:54:22 -0700<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kttzl3yZhp1qz4dplo1_r3_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><img alt="Wegner PAM installation" src="http://phxated.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pam-installation-longshot1-300x225.jpg" align="right" height="125" width="200"/></p> <p><a href="http://peterwegner.com/#/home/">Peter Wegner</a> :: Guillotine of Sunlight, Guillotine of Shade : Die Cut Paper</p> <p><a title="phxated::Wall Paper at PAM" href="http://phxated.com/2009/11/wall-paper-at-pam/">Installation in progress</a> @ <a href="http://www.phxart.org/">Phoenix Art Museum</a></p> <p>via <a href="http://phxated.com/">phxated</a></p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/260957710http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/260957710Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:17:00 -0700PHX=2COH“For reasons having to do with the peculiarities of our civilization, we pay a great deal of...http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/259709895http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/259709895Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:32:16 -0700<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktjjs1sV8O1qz4dplo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>GO(uttake)F(rom)YI(rish)H(oneymoon)*W</p> <p><i>Blair Witch</i> jokes were still funny back then.</p> <p>*Not a euphemism</p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/257086459http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/257086459Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0700<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktmmiirIGJ1qzvr49o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://delgrosso.tumblr.com/post/255879478/back-in-june-of-2009-i-loaded-a-holga-camera-with">delgrosso</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Back in June of 2009, I loaded a Holga camera with a roll of film, mailed it to 12 Twitter followers, and asked them each to take a photo of “summer”</p> <p>These are the results.</p> <p>Read all about it <a href="http://www.delgrosso.com/2009/11/project-diana/">here</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>Muchas gracias to @Tony_D for the reminder that “me, me, me” is not as good as “we, we, we.”</p> <p>(And keep your little pig jokes to yourself.  Pee-pee jokes, too.)</p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/255911329http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/255911329Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18:00 -0700“How do we change a city? How do we create a place where people want to live? Does downtown...http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/255318768http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/255318768Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:13:00 -0700PHX=2COH<img src="http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktkxprL9Ou1qz9n4ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://gorillasushi.tumblr.com/post/254682407/well-you-came-and-you-gave-without-taking-but-i">gorillasushi</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Well you came and you gave without taking <br/>but I sent you away, oh Mandy.<br/>Well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking. <br/>I need you today, oh Mandy.</p> <p><i>- Barry Manilow</i></p> </blockquote> <p>That’s some Patinkin thinkin’, there.</p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/255208501http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/255208501Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:30:00 -0700<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kszbtiGWm81qz4dplo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Glam tam is <strike>glam</strike> looking forward to menopause.</p> <p>“<a title="etsy::staceyrebecca" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33171440">bedazzled menses buddy</a>” via <a title="etsy::staceyrebecca" href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/staceyrebecca">staceyrebecca</a></p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/253366016http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/253366016Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:06:53 -0700“I wonder if they considered me, considering them.” - molls…she wrotehttp://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/249089814http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/249089814Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:12:44 -0700<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt50xaW8Ho1qz4dplo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>GPOYHPA*W</p> <p>*Household <a title="youtube::Page the Village Idiot:Tweeky Pete" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqw0fWH067c">Performance </a>Artist</p> <p>tweeker power (7) (via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/opalandtheidiot">opalandtheidiot</a>)</p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/248735633http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/248735633Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:00 -0700PHX=2COHptvi“Turns out we aren’t really living all that differently because of Twitter, we’re just doing...http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/247485096http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/247485096Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:26:50 -0700<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt9juqFAae1qz4dplo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://trillionclarke.com/home.html">Trillion Clarke</a> :: Women at Table : 2008</p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/247386246http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/247386246Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:13:00 -0700PHX=2COH<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt6xhpOOgu1qz4dplo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>star, heart, Rainbow</p>http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/245764195http://opalandtheidiot.tumblr.com/post/245764195Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:15:00 -0700