tongue grater
edible toilet
pretty boy scout slave
hanging with your Mom
fragile swing set
lumpy mashed head cheese
priestly love
infested pants
poop mascara
There’s no easy way to tell you this. So I’ll just blurt it out.
Where does the king keep his armies?
Up his sleevies.
Janet had absolutely no experience with dog plunging whatsoever. She’d never seen it done before. She’d never even heard of it. Yet here was a bloated dog, clearly in need of help. And there, in the cupboard under the sink, was a plunger.
Alec Soth
Anytime we do something for very long, we hit the point where we just plain get tired. Our working life becomes too familiar, too routine, too grooved. Stale. A stained urinal.
Alec Soth, the photographer, talks about that in this short interview. It’s this unwillingness to give it up that leads one to find that renewal switch, that way to re-approach what we do so that it’s fresh and exhilarating again.
It happens to everyone eventually, no matter what we do. Part of Picasso’s genius was the way he kept reinventing himself and his art so that he never lost his dedication and persistence.
Thanks for talking about it, Alec.
From Soth's latest book, Broken Manual.
From Soth's first book, Sleeping By The Mississippi
Yep, once again, another week has arced across the sky and exploded into little tiny bits, raining down week-debris upon our heads. To celebrate this short-lived event, we present the ritual recognition of ephemerality known as the Friday Joke.
What did one cannibal say to the other while they were eating a clown?
Does this taste funny to you?
1. Where they grow the good clients.
2. Why meat was invented.
3. Who the happiest person on earth is.
4. What they do with toilet paper after it’s flushed.
5. Why bankers get paid so much.
6. If they retire our Social Security number when we die.
7. Why someone doesn’t just give me a million dollars.
1. A cat staring at an unopened can of cat food.
2. A dolphin trying to eat a banana.
3. A sea-sick chum-tosser.
4. Shoveling water.
5. Narcoleptic truck driver.
