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[eetmewithtoast]

My job is cool, but I don't know how long I can take these hours. An hour and a half of work on Wednesday. Four hours today. They're killing us, those slavedrivers!

When I read rollick's story of how she became an Editor at The Onion, I was filled with awe. So fucking cool! How do you do that? How can you become an Editor of anything, much less

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[rollick]

See, this whole thing sounds like an awesome and fun experience to me, and I'm jealous, believe it or not. Yay for novelty and seeing and doing new things!

[eetmewithtoast]

The person who's talked to Neil Gaiman many times is jealous of me. *grin* I would've totally entered that poetry competition you did, but all I wanted was to see his sketch of Anansi. Art-geek to the end. :)

[42itous]

It sounds qualifiedly marvelous. Six months is good for two reasons: you'll have time to develop calluses and stop hurting yourself daily, and you'll get to be a familiar face to the people who might help you to your next rung on the Hasbro ladder.

And I would like to remark upon the public art found at the stations at this end of the Red Line. At Porter, there are bronze mittens and gloves tumbling down the escalator. At Davis, there are realistic-enough-to-be-creepy people standing around outside. And at Alewife I think there are birds in the floor tiles. As you mention, it's all been there since the 70s, but it's still art and it's still pleasant to look at. And look at the ceramic mural over the bus ramp at Harvard Station. I grant, it's not Boston proper, but it is the Center of the Universe.

[eetmewithtoast]

I do like the bronze mittens, and I know that there are a few other cool bits of public art in Boston that neither of us have mentioned. But that's the key word: few.

So many cities (New Orleans, New York, Montreal, Seattle, Providence) are so bursting with public art that Boston seems really dreary by comparison. Even the "let's take one sculpture and have lots of different artists paint on different copies of it" thing that Boston did was boring as all hell. A Cavalcade of Cod? What were they thinking?

[42itous]

IIRC, that was part of a nationwide campaign to increase public art. I don't remember Boston's cod (it was before I lived here), but the lizards they had in Florida at the time were really cool -- they even had punny names based on each one's artistic theme. And I thought it was funny that New York chose cows -- because of the dairy farms upstate, of course, but they looked awfully silly in the big city.

What animal did Rhode Island choose?

Mr Potatohead.
yeah.

[eetmewithtoast]

DON'T YOU BE DISSIN' MR. POTATO HEAD!

I'LL ASSEMBLE AN ARMY OF WEEBLES RIDING MY LITTLE PONIES TO COME WHUP YO' ASS!

New Orleans had a tropicalish fish, Chicago had cows, NYC had cows, Seattle had pigs, Boston had cod, and Rhode Island stuck its tongue out at America, again, and had Mr. Potato Head.

I mentioned him the other day to my dad, and he told me about the version he played with: you take a real potato, and you stick eyes and ears and stuff into it . . . the face pieces had sharp spikes so they could stick in easily. That's so cool . . . I'd have much more fun playing with that one.

Mr. Baby Head! Mr. Puppy Head! Mr. Goldfish Head! The possibilities are endless . . .

ya lack o art

[creationofme]

i hate that too, i thnk thats one of the biggies that atracted me ta prov, all the art everywhere, i could walk anywheres, and have pretty (or at the least intresting) htings to look at :)

funn nuff chatt has some nice art here n there round the city, granted its not as much or nice as prov, but hell, its somthin :P

~me

Re: ya lack o art

[eetmewithtoast]

You should see Melbourne someday. It's chock full o' public art.

[eetmewithtoast]

Yay two-dollar ponies at the in-house shop!

You'd have to give me money first, though, 'cause I'm poor. And tell me exactly which ones you want, of course.

[eetmewithtoast]

Yep, don't mind me. My brain is deep-fried right now. I don't quite know what I'm doing yet, but I'll race you any time.