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I am the night

jlegler — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:43:49 +0000

I am the night

This is perfection to me. You can see all of this guy’s artwork here. He gets it. I don’t know how else to say it. I first saw one of these years ago titled “No One Wants To Play Sega with Harrison Ford.” It cracked me up then and it was still awesome when I saw him featured in Newsweek recently. I hope this guy makes a mint. Pop art is a tricky game, but he’s a master.

Here is what he says about it:

“Remember these weird plastic Halloween costumes? When I was a kid, I had a Transformers one, and it just had a picture from the show on the chest. It’s like, ‘Hi, I’m Transformer Metroplex, and you can see that because I’m wearing a picture of him,’ ” Bird says, laughing. “With Philip Seymour Hoffman, it’s kind of hard, because a lot of his characters should just never, ever come close to kids. Like, a Love Liza costume? Magnolia is weird, but not that bad.”

Colorado, I miss you and your inhabitants.

jlegler — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:24:42 +0000

So I went back to Colorado last week for 3 days for work. I landed at 9am, drove through Boulder to a campsite outside of Gold Hill, and hung out with my buddy Aaron. The I drove to downtown Denver to see my friends Shane and Ramon. Shane cooked, introduced me to his fiancé, and showed me his studio. Ramon made vuvuzala noises. And then I went out with a bunch of old friends downtown. That was all in a single day before I drove home to Wyoming and I took a few pictures and am now adding this update via my iPhone. If this works it will be awesome.

Oh yea, Matt Taibbi rules

jlegler — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:34:57 +0000

Check this out if you want to read how journalists are supposed to act and if you want to watch Matt Taibbi tear Lara Logan a brand new asshole.

Something lighter, like snot.

jlegler — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:27:33 +0000

My allergies may actually be killing me. M. Night Shyamalan released a movie called The Happening where plants basically killed nearly everyone in the world. That movie is real, only instead of going after everyone in the world based on the concentration of people, the plants seem to be targeting those cursed with the genetic deficiency that is allergies. Instead of the victims going crazy and committing suicide, we just drown in snot.

Buttered Noodles

jlegler — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:44:04 +0000

I actually feel nauseated. I haven’t really been single since high school other than a few months in my early 20s. I don’t know if that is a bad thing necessarily unless I do it because I’m running from something or scared of being single. I know that I don’t like being single. I can say definitively that when I am alone and not busy I am inherently sad. I think a lot of the reason I stay so busy all the time is so I don’t have to feel that. Again, I am not sure if that is necessarily a bad thing because it makes me productive. I could sit around and mope and be down, and instead I try to do something that has an output. I think it’s catching up to me though.

The problem now is that right now I am forced to deal with things directly which makes me uncomfortable and in doing that I am destroying something that is very special to me and that certainly has a lot of potential. It started out wrong and has continued down that path and I don’t think it can get on the right path as long as I am in whatever state I am in. I need to be comfortable with real confrontation. I need to be comfortable with feelings. I am a decent arguer and I am pretty good at flipping issues and twisting words so that conversations don’t actually ever veer very close to what the actual issue is. It lets me place blame where it probably doesn’t belong and it gets me of off the hook. I think it’s probably time to be on the hook though.

I need to be alone. I need to face my issues and resolve them before I am going to be able to be good for anyone. I’ve spent that last 6 months feeling guilty about a lot of things. I’ve had some really intense glimmers of brilliance in that time; however, they’re always snuffed out and I think the reason is because, at the core, I am a destructive force right now. I need to be in a place where when the glimmer of brilliance happens I can let it radiate and be what it deserves to be. I need to be more than buttered noodles. They’re only good some of the time.