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January 29, 2004 #
 The Other Page Girls, LES-stylee. Photo by Josh Levine. More pictures on his site, SixFive.net. Day 4 in the Lower East Side series and this sucks ass. No can do. Sorry, in an attempt to find neighborhood inspiration I went to the Magician and 151 last night...until 4am. It feels like my head has been kicked by a mule's hind legs. Damn. I'm listening to this song to get my mind off bad judgment calls and crappy weather. I can barely write today but I swore to a friend I would work this phrase into today's post: "Let's roll some homeless people." So there. And I mean it. Also, someone told a good Richard Hell story last night but fuck, I can't remember it for the life of me so instead you get the following bit recycled from my email. Totally unrelated but surely inspired by the LES. Maybe? Some emails you save and put in a folder marked "special." Sometimes, often when bored and imagining how far you can jam a pencil in your ear, you browse that special folder and recognize one email that belongs on Mount Olympus to be read daily at noon when the vultures appear to eat Prometheus's liver bite by bite for all eternity. With this in mind, I offer today's sacrifice from the mythological land of well-spent Stafford loans: grad school. The NYU ITP program is for a very special kind of genius, the type of person who possesses the passion and aptitude to explore emerging technologies with the curiosity to test the limits and stretch the imagination from an artist's perspective as well. Obviously, it doesn't hurt to be Asian and have a penis fetish too. The email below, which is very real and serious, was posted to the ITP listserv at the beginning of last semester. ------ Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:19:12 -0400 To: "ITP Students" Subject: Question About Internet having a penis This is a real project at ITP so please answer seriously. warning: genitals are mentioned. i wouldn't be surprised if this email got filtered out of a lot of your inboxes as spam or junk - please bare with me. This is a developing midterm and a possible collaborative. Imagine that the Internet was given a penis. When I say "Internet" I am talking about the large collective idea of some external macro being which is the emergent sum of all the communications networks - all the computer applications that talk to each other - all the websites with all the content - all the connected machines, all its connected human beings (connected to each other, and not to "the Internet"). So again, imagine that the Internet was given a penis. 1. What material would this penis be made out of? Wood? Metal? Digital Data? Gas? Liquid? Should this penis visually resemble that of a human? 2. If this penis could only interact with a web-based chatroom Java applet, what kind of terminology would make this penis become more erect? 3. Likewise, what kind of terminology would make this penis become LESS erect? 4. Should this penis be given the ability to have an orgasm, and if so, what might come out? What sort of stimuli would be enough to make the Internet, ITSELF, have an orgasm? 5. Do you think it is appropriate or inappropriate that the Internet be given a sex/gender? And MALE at that? Care to share your feelings about if the Internet was given a vagina? (Ed.- I really don't know what this guy is talking about. It's common knowledge that "The Internet" - using any definition - is a tranny hooker with a huge, black strap-on dildo.) Archives "The Other Page" powered by Removable Hype. RSS. Copyright © 2003 La Otra Página, Inc. All nights observed. Feel free to email "info(at)krucoff.com" for questions, comments, stock tips, and family gossip. |
