O!NO,MN truly.

in honor of the anniversary of september 11th

watch this 9/11 movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E3oIbO0AWE

Workin in a coal mine, goin down town

That;s right, you bastards, I am officially a pumkin expert, working at Vala's Pumpkin Patch this fall. For those of you who don't know of the patch, it is as close to heaven as one can get within 40 minutes of Omaha.

Abby and I have gone almost every fall for our entire lives. Turkey legs, cider at the food barn, trips through the abandonned mine shaft, haunted houses (but not too haunted, only anamatronically haunted) and of course hayrack rides.

See you this fall motherfuckers. LEt me know if you want a free pass.... I got connections.

from the night of O!NO,MN's conception

this is an excerpt of a poem-sketch called "I Do Everything With Lesbians" or "Omaha Night Polaroids" from July 3rd, about the night before.

They all work at organic food stores.
They are home-grown, wooden-house, plaid-and-bandana-wearing girls.

They play with big, scrappy, brown or black dogs with pointy ears whose tails whap half-drunk beers.

The Becks takes Mishka in her hands and advises us (while saying that she doesn't like to give advice) to "Always pet your dog's feet.

"Your vet will thank you, and he will know you really love animals."

She is putting little midnight-blue rubber booties on big, black, quiet Mishka.

Leslie and I are keeling over at the sight of it.

Mishka is a real Buddha. We are meeting Siddhartha and it tickles us.

I thought it might become a comic. It laid groundwork. The comic became "Polaroids" for Good Minnesotan (which Abby will also appear in), which is half about Abby and I driving back from Omaha on the 3rd and talking and playing Laurie Anderson, and half about watching the fireworks from the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis with my friend Lauren.
I'll put the comic up as soon as it's done, by the end of the month.

Sedaristic

The lovely David Sedaris makes drawings. Will someone publish a book of them?

"Recently, instead of signing my name, I’ve been drawing little things in people’s books. You know, just little mementos. Like, I’ve been drawing these old-timey signs and on them I write “Abortions: three dollars.” And I just think I’m hilarious. Sometimes I’ll draw a little knot in the sign to make it look even more quaint. I don’t know why that makes me so happy. This woman, she introduced herself by saying she was very liberal, but she just didn’t want the abortion sign in the front jacket of her new book. So, I asked her, ‘what if I changed it to thirteen dollars [for an abortion]?’ Again, I have no idea why that makes me so happy. I used to draw Abe Lincoln with a bubble coming out of his mouth that says “friendship is a cancer” or an owl saying “I like black people.” This is what happens when you’ve been signing books for nine hours." - interview with The Stranger (which, despite this neat interview, The Seattle P-I is superior to)

This is very relevant to the idea and genesis of this blog because on the drive from Omaha to Minneapolis Abby and I were listening to David -- and the comic I'm making about that journey showed that, but then I replaced him with Laurie (Anderson).

I still love you, though, David.

You will marry me, won't you? I like you better than real people in my real life.

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abby's got a lust for blood??
reppin'

this is for the grlz

while at dreamland faces, kelly came across this.


want more?



also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_expansion