distinctivecat

My new movement: Unionize the unemployed.


It's basically an organized way to rob from the rich and give to the poor. I figure we've had thirty years at least of the other way around.

Update and roundup: The Exhibitionist, the iPhone app I've launched with much help/timely advice from SG friends, is up and gaining users/visibility/subscribers--although it is not yet, in biz speak, cash-flow positive (hah!). We need to fix that in the next few months, or I will be joining the Ranch Hands group here. Also Divorced. Also Homeless (must have pictures, current journal entry, homeless shelter with...
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Last summer, in The Proceedings of the Royal Society, a journal devoted to the biological sciences, a combine of researchers from Liverpool and Prague presented the results of a study in which they showed side-by-side photographs of women (their faces, in this study) in and out of ovulation. The results of this investigation suggested that the women in the pictures were more attractive to both...
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Sorry. Quoting from section 5.8 of the SG FAQ:

You cannot delete a blog entry.


Even when you should. This policy discriminates against both writers and people who can't figure out how to upload an Indian pole dancing video with hairy men in dhotis doing amazing part-yoga part body-slam moves I have never seen in a strip club. I belong to both categories.

Friends, readers of blogs, technorati, fond and eloquent and naked alike, I have an invitation: my app, the GPS-based smart phone app for the NYC art world, is off to Apple. Some of you are far too computer literate for your own good and might like to test it, in its beta form, before the bright lights of the big launch day. If you would...
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Moved the development process on The Exhibitionist to NYC. Doh. Twice the price, five times the speed, beta in a week or so, to Apple in Aug, on track for September launch. That's calendrical shorthand for recent and upcoming headaches.

Not getting the chance to comment much--though I check in. Sometime recently I noticed that I'm at least as likely to check friends (or bookmarked)...
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I spend half my work on VOIP with a development team in India: unfailingly polite my virtual co-workers, slow to anger, just plain slow.

Since I am paying them, this is a test to serenity.

Robert Reich, ex of Goldman, ex Sec of Treasury, has suggested that "entrepreneur" is the new "unemployed."

Okay, I read this and thought of my naked friends here. And I don't know if it does or does not apply. Discuss.

From Tina Fey's interview in this month's Esquire:
I gave a commencement speech at a girls' high school once, and I said, "If you find yourself two years from now at spring break, don't lift your shirt up. And if you do,...
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Ridiculous. I should be working.
And I really should be working because I'm about to be my own bossy boss.

Had to wait till I was down to the felt before I got inspired. But yeah finally.

Real life: I'm launching a smart-phone app, wooing subscribers, having meetings I jerry rigged my entire existence up to now to avoid.

But this way around it's actually...
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To combat a creeping loss of brilliance (hah!) as a result of lifelong alcohol consumption, I have begun (well, starting now) memorizing shit. Here's the first poem. I'll let you know if I keep this up.
(Great thing about blogs, really, nobody checks in on your grandiose promises, so you can lie to yourself! Like living without a conscience!)

As Planned

After the first glass...
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Brief story of the decline of man: About five years after Deer Hunter came out I grew a beard and would occasionally get not entirely incredible DeNiro comparisons. In the mideighties, when I had Talking Heads on the walkman, my students in the poetry in the schools programs would yell Moonlighting when I walked into class. My hair loss has since kept pace with Bruce...
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This just in: Canadians appear to have successfully spliced and implanted the funny gene on a massive scale.