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Clay Is Allegory 2006-10-20 03:26:00 .
She said she read about it in the newspapers.
The professor was found dead in the woods near campus.
His entrails were hanging out of his abdomen. And his heart was resting on his opened rib cage.
She told the detectives that yes she was walking out in the same area at approximately the same time, but that she had blacked out and fainted because of her heart condition.
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Clay Is Allegory 2006-10-13 07:50:00 .
She does her everyday life routines, as a regular person on campus.
And then at night, deep in the night, she contemplates her deepest thoughts.
She has a particular heart condition, wherein she is unable to love anyone.
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Clay Is Allegory 2006-10-11 04:14:00 . She gets a call from the gallery for her work.She has to choose, and she has recently won certain prizes.All at once: a phone call, in the mail, on email.She is cleared of her crimes. They are on the lookout for her work.Technorati tag: episode 1 Read more:Allegory
What are your favorite ways to complete sentences? 2006-10-06 03:03:00 Try these:
1. My feeling about married life is __________________________.
2. I believe that I have the ability to ________________________.
3. When I was a child __________________________________.
4. I could be perfectly happy if ____________________________.
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Extra money (second installment) 2006-10-04 02:01:00
Lisa started to notice the shiny toaster, just above the cluster of gold sparkles on the Formica countertop. The toaster wouldn't be popping up any time soon, because it wasn't turned on, but the toaster could potentially pop up - if it was turned on. And this reminded her of other appliances, it reminded her of the oven and its oven-timer in particular.
She stopped looking at the cluster of gold sparkles and reached over with her left hand to set the oven timer to be set for an extra seven minutes. The two boneless top loin steaks, and the vegetables, were already done. The two steaks were resting in their steel-lined cozy pan upon the stovetop. My steak was sprinkled with a peculiar blend of crushed mustard seed, cut-up sage leaf, and thyme.
The vegetables, split peas and sliced carrots in sour cream and garlic sauce, for the both of us, were in the cozy pan's matching cozy pot upon the stovetop. But the onion rings weren't finished yet. The onion rings were still in the Read more:Extra
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My first post at a community weblog 2006-10-01 02:41:00 Have you ever met Jodi? I don't know what you could get from her. But I'm sure it's something. Don't be fooled by the copyright date. And be sure to click on the blinking square.posted by flic at 08:33PM UTC on Saturday (17 comments total) 1. Whiskey Tango Foxtrotcomment by keyhemper at 08:35PM UTC on Saturday2. Well, Wolfenstein 3d in black and white is what I get in mac os x classic.Strange...comment by keyhemper at 08:43PM UTC on Saturday3. From Wikipedia:To those that aren't in on their conceptual jokes, Jodi's works seem inaccessible and impenetrable, appearing to make the user's computer run amok. For example, their 1995 work http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/ appears at first glance to consist of meaningless text, until a glance at the HTML source code reveals a detailed diagram of a hydrogen bomb. Their work challenged expectations of the behavior of the computer, created humor from the misery of the glitch and the virus, reanimated obsolete technologies, and satirized the ocean Read more:community
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Extra money 2006-09-25 22:05:00
I was sitting on the long swirl-armed sofa in the living room. And in my hands was an unfolded newspaper advertisement. A large part of what the ad showed was green grass. I already pulled down the shades of the two windows in the living room, so I could view the advertisements without any sunlight obscuring any of the words or pictures. And I relied only on the light from the light bulb that was behind the flower-patterned lampshade of the standing lamp that was standing just beside me as I sat on the sofa.
I was waiting for my dinner to be ready, and I was interested in the colorful advertisement page that appeared separately within the Sunday paper.
I enjoyed my life as an MFA graduate student in Maryland. I was 29 years old, and I was living with my wife. She was 26 years old. And we were in love.
In this particular advertisement, I was looking at three lawnmowers pictured in the upper right-hand half of the page. And there was a patch of colorful flowers pictured in the upper ri Read more:Extra
Footage 2006-09-21 06:57:00 .
When you look at this picture,
what are your first thoughts
that come to mind?
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Art Act, Number 1 2006-09-14 13:56:00
Make an audio tape recording of summer evening sounds while walking down a forest trail. Then, listen to this tape (with headphones) in the wintertime while walking down a snow-covered forest trail.
[The words or phrases in bold above can be subsituted with other words and phrases (e.g., make a recording of a heated argument between you and your spouse, and then listen to it while you're relaxing and watching people in the serenity of a neighborhood park; or make a recording of a long extended subdued dinner-table conversation with relatives or guests, and then listen to it while you're riding on a crowded ferris wheel at the local amusement park; etc., etc., etc., etc., the combinations and juxipositions are endless.)]
NOTE:
It's important that it's a recording of your surroundings. And both the recorded sound and the place you choose to listen to the recording must be personal for you.
The art of this act is really in the juxiposition of those two things: what you record, Read more:Number
Generation X 2006-09-10 12:38:00 . . .
a.
If you were born between the approximate years 1965 and 1980, then cultural labelling of generational identification classifies you as a member of Generation
X.
But you already knew that. And you are already poised to beg to differ about the idea of being labeled, classified, or stereotyped. But let's forget about that part of the discussion -- for it simply doesn't let us move ahead with the more important and interesting elements of discussion about being an individual in the world and in our beloved Generation X.
As you know, the generation after us is called the Y Generation. And the generation before us is the Babyboomer generation. No one really talks about Generation X anymore. So, what kind of relevance do we have to the present time in the world, and perhaps to the future?
How are you living your life these days? What kind of life-philosophy are you living by these days? The oldest of our generation is 41 years old, and the youngest of our generation is 26
Clay Is Allegory 2006-10-25 04:11:00 . The lead detective took complete control of the investigation from the onset.
He fell in love with the forensic evidence that she left behind at the scene of the crime and the surrounding area.
He was enamored with her psychological profile and her refusal to admit to anything.
The detective made the proof lead into another direction and hit another person. And so she was officially innocent of Read more:Allegory
Clay Is Allegory 2006-10-29 04:37:00 .
She works on her art, making her real life the main part of her art. She does all the details and procedures of her artwork herself. And she portrays herself in her artwork.
The detective touches her on her heart after she asks him to. He moves closer to her, and she whispers in his ear, "You will get yourself in trouble if you go further."
She has even been told that she's just a child who thinks the whole world is her plaything. And the game is not over yet, because everyone has the chance and the time to do good. She gets a call from the gallery for her work.
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Art Act, Number 2 2006-11-01 02:26:00
Pp
Instructions:
1. Write down (in the comments section here) as many words as you can think of that begin with the letter "p".
2. It's okay if you happen to write down words that someone else has already written (in the comments section).
3. Don't use a dictionary to help you think of any words. Read more:Number
What did you really learn in school? 2006-11-03 01:05:00 Choose any one or all of these when writing your answers:
Pre-School
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
University (this includes Law School, Med School,Graduate School, etc.)
Again, the question: What did you really learn
in school?
Schizophrenic description #1 2006-11-08 03:04:00
Leonard's description
of an everyday object: "In sertin cert Jagged jaded tip Hallow way."
Now guess what everday object he described.
[Leonard, a schizophrenic
patient wearing a smoking
jacket.]
Read the
Introduction
. Read more:Schizophrenic
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Introduction 2006-11-08 02:53:00
Those of you who know me know that I did my summer residency at the
Milton Hershey Medical Center
, in Pennsylvania. I worked with
Dr. James Hegardy
, who is quite well known for his work in experimental phychiatry.
Now that I'm finishing up my residency, I've finally had the opportunity to experiment with language functions of hebephrenic schizophrenics. [See inset: Dorene, a schizophrenic patient standing on a chair.]
In the next several posts, I will show some descriptive linguistic sequences used by schizophrenics to describe everyday objects. Each patient was to look at a given everyday object (for as long as they wished), and then write their description on a sheet of notebook paper provided to them. I will present to you their descriptions verbatim.
Please try to guess what the object is that they are describing.
There will be a winner each post: the person who guesses correctly the object that is being described in each post. I'm working from the hypothesis that schizo Read more:Introduction
Schizophrenic description #2 2006-11-11 01:30:00
Rachel's description
of an everyday object: "sits silent. circly circly I want one on me and c c c c c c ud it talks to me I'm my own hand L I want to open."
Now guess what everyday object she described.
[Rachel, a schizophrenic patient,
posing for a picture.]
Read the
Introduction
. Read more:Schizophrenic
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Schizophrenic description #3 2006-11-16 02:17:00 Bruce's description
of an everyday object: "Blind dark face on eye see me round sound switch show see we bree eat breet white brite stop off."Now guess what everyday object he described.[Bruce, a schizophrenicpatient, photographedjust before he sat to writehis description.]Read the Introduction. Read more:Schizophrenic
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Introduction (to the schizophrenic descriptions) 2006-11-08 02:54:00
Those of you who know me know that I did my summer residency at the
Milton Hershey Medical Center
, in Pennsylvania. I worked with
Dr. James Hagerty
, who is quite well known for his work in experimental phychiatry.
Now that I'm finishing up my residency, I've finally had the opportunity to experiment with language functions of hebephrenic schizophrenics. [See inset: Dorene, a schizophrenic patient standing on a chair.]
In the next several posts, I will show some descriptive linguistic sequences used by schizophrenics to describe everyday objects. Each patient was to look at a given everyday object (for as long as they wished), and then write their description on a sheet of notebook paper provided to them. I will present to you their descriptions verbatim.
Please try to guess what the object is that they are describing.
There will be a winner* each post: the person who guesses correctly the object that is being described in each post. I'm working from the hypothesis that schiz Read more:Introduction
Schizophrenic description #4 2006-11-17 02:28:00
Gail's description
of an everyday object:"elecko oo points and hook zeez. I car star z . Her who holes owes. Down on up out in on son. One day shay say day d"
Now guess what everyday object she described.
[Gail, a schizophrenic patient,
looking closely into the camera.]
Please read the
Introduction
and its comments section before you begin. Read more:Schizophrenic
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Schizophrenic description #5 2006-11-26 06:21:00
Julie's description
of an everyday object: "Grub grab ground round innard sink."
Now guess what everyday object she described.
[Julie, a schizophrenic
patient, wearing her
favorite gold earrings.]
Please read the
Introduction (to the schizophrenic descriptions)
and its comments section first. Read more:Schizophrenic
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Top bread of the sandwich 2006-11-27 15:34:00 There have been a lot of hits on this website coming from a blog called Tenser, said The Tensor lately. Tenser, said The Tensor, I've come to realize, is a respectable and smart and popular linguistics blog. (And a very fine linguistics graduate student the blog's proprietor must be!) Anyway, a big "thank you" to The Tensor for
mentioning
American Center for Surreal and Paranoid Life and the Schizophrenic Descriptions series!
And remember, as of this posting, Description
#5
is still unsolved!
Schizophrenic description #6 2006-12-03 00:36:00
Mike's description
of an everyday object: "Calamity caused it to sing see sir. Calamity clue."
Now guess what everyday object he described.
[Mike, a schizophrenic
patient, wearing a
patterned tie.]
Please read the
Introduction (to the schizophrenic descriptions)
and its comments section first. Read more:Schizophrenic
, Schizophrenic description
Schizophrenic description #7 2006-12-06 21:00:00
Susan's description
of an everyday object: "earth shine touch touch hold mold cold I'm turning letting holding shining mining"
Now guess what everyday object she described.
[Susan, a schizophrenic
patient, wearing a black
t-shirt.]
Please read the
Introduction (to the schizophrenic descriptions)
and its comments section first.
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A commercial break 2006-12-07 12:00:00
/t. has
tagged
me, asking me to say 6 weird things about myself. I thought I'd ask my wife and our 4-year-old son to help me out. So they each contributed 3 weird things about me, making it 6 right there. And I came up with 6 weird things on my own. Ok, so that's 12 weird things about me all together. But 12 is a good number.
My wife said...1. You wear slacks all the time, you never wear shorts or jeans.
2. You think you could catch a cold from keeping a window open.
3. You beleive in conspiracy theories.
My son said...1. You're always saying crazy stuff.
2. You do magic.
3. You always wear a tie at home.
I said...1. I actively prepare myself for lucid dreaming before I go to sleep.
2. I play golf twice a week with my colleagues and friends.
3. I know a woman's body type and sexual demeanor by looking at her hands.
4. I'm a big fan of true-crime books.
5. I was once recruited by the CIA (for a specific but temporary project).
6. I drive a Land Rover, despite all the negativ
Schizophrenic description #8 (the last in the series) 2006-12-16 19:08:00
Ronald's description
of an everyday object: "Billing boing song and then some one cent turn all dun for some I don't lone on my own tome leck go home sad mad"
Now guess what everyday object he described.
[Ronald, a schizophrenic
patient with a cleft palate
and wearing glasses.]
Please read the
Introduction (to the schizophrenic descriptions)
and its comments section first. Read more:Schizophrenic
, series
, Schizophrenic description
Nervous breakdown 2006-12-28 22:11:00
Have you ever witnessed or experienced a nervous breakdown
?
It's an understandably frightening, and largely misunderstood, mental phenomenon. And the affect on family members as well as on the sufferer can often be devastating. The following (in red print below) is a beautifully written testament by Lisa Harlow, aged 23, who seventy-eight hours after her first mental breakdown sat in her hospital bed and wrote vigorously in her personal journal about her experience. Lisa subsequently handed the notes to our staff and gave permission for the notes to eventually be published in a book by yours truly. Here's a sample of Lisa's notes:
I've never had a mental breakdown until now. I never really thought it was possible to have one. I thought it was like one of those things people say to excuse themselves from responsibility. I was up late most nights, and I drank a lot of coffee. I have a thesis and other projects due. To even look at them makes me want to throw up, honestly.
My conc Read more:Nervous
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Open up the window 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm one of the lucky 3% of people in the world who suffer from Mythophobia, where I have the uncontrollable ability to accurately decipher someone's, anyone's, personality (and thus even physical traits sometimes), based on the words that they write or by the way that they speak.The following are four examples [culled from the Females Section] from a report containing over two-thousand examples of 100% accurately pin-pointed statements regarding individual writers of comments.Note: all comments in the following examples and in the full report have had permission obtained from the authors, their contact information, and their written statements as to the accuracy of my statements regarding their personality.1. "I followed your instructions but when i try to save my updated profile page, it kept saying the pic file is too large. oh well. as you know, i am not too computer saavy. thanks though. have a nice weekend."She's a woman of small stature, but she likes large things and large i
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