Damn This Heat
Well leave it to me to jinx the weather into returning our town to a sweltering furnace of godawful-I-can’t-take-it-anymore summer. Goddammitgoddammitgoddammit.
Let’s just get this over with. I am officially employed as the ’stay-at-home mom,’ left to my own devices in the rearing of our small child. So far so good. I am about to take her on a walk in the stroller down to the local coffee shop to see if the latest edition of ARP! has been dropped off by either of its publishers, Tiffany Hockin or Ariel Pate. It’d better be there. Not that I have any free time for leisurely reading, but I always want to see what the ARPsters! are up to. Plus I can find out if there are any other shows to go to this weekend other than the Soap Factory’s group show, HOST, which we will be attending. And the criticism, everybody loves art criticism!
Finally, in what shall be a daily, or everyotherday feature, I have begun reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I know, I know, it is already ten years old and everybody and their little brother has already gotten through it but me. Anyway, at the moment Orin Incandenza is having some awful dream where his and his mother’s heads are melded into a floating orb of head, the Arabian-Canadian medical attaché is watching some mysterious video that came in the post, and my OED is getting a workout. Christ, Dave, ‘phylacteryish?’ You gotta be kidding me!
Lastly, for those of you who have doubted the efforts of the Artworks, I have news from the front. You may recall the video of young Aaron Steffes, ‘Trophy Room,’ that was featured on these pages back in February. Well, we have just learned that, directly due to the feature of his fantastic piece of art, he has landed a job teaching video to a bunch of snot-nosed brats at some very prestigious high school in Chicago, USA. Take that! Needless to say, we here at the Artworks are ecstatic at this glorious development, and we will be redoubling our efforts with the certainty that there are more riches for us all if we just keep on keeping on.