The Fascinating Life and Times of Me

Max Aguilera-Hellweg, Prosthetic Leg in Hallway, 2000.
Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Artist.

Susie Ketchum, Day of the Dead Plate, 2003.
Ceramic, 24 in. (diameter). Crocker Art Museum Purchase.

Lastly, there is an exhibition called Marsden Hartley: American Modern. (Check out my own modern (postmodern?) masterpiece here.) This guy was supposedly a leading artist from the American Modernism period, hailed by TIME magazine critic Robert Hughes as "the most brilliantly gifted of the early generation of American modernists." This is what I will be looking at while you guys look at the creepy old photographs.

Marsden Hartley, Adelard the Drowned, Master of the “Phantom”,
about 1938-39. Oil on academy board. Bequest of Hudson D. Walker
from the Ione and Hudson D. Walker Collection, Weisman Art Museum,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Perhaps the best thing that Crocker has going for it is that it is FREE on Sundays from 10AM to 1PM. So keep your Sundays free 'cause we're gonna get us some culture!

As you may or may not know, I have wanted to experience the inevitable glory of a corn maze for about the last five years. On Saturday Night Lauren, Jody, Josh, Barbara and I went to the Cool Patch Pumpkins Corn Maze. It was awesome.



We went on a good night, not too cold, and there was a spooky almost-full moon to light our path. The maze was really huge, 20 acres, and the corn was taller than I thought it would be.



It took us about an hour to get through the maze. It was kind of creepy what with the tall corn and the relatively few people around. But I knew that Lauren and Jody would protect me.



Jody was a big fan of frolicking from row to row along the maze. Lauren and I, not so much.



Lauren and Jody wanted to cheat and look at the map, but I wouldn’t let them. At the end, we had a greater feeling of accomplishment because we finished it on our own. Or something.



After we finished, we met up with Josh and Barbara, who had just beaten us (but they cheated and looked at the map). We got a John Deere wagon and hunted for pumpkins in the pumpkin path. We also climbed the straw pyramid. I think we all went home pretty happy campers. And now I get to look forward to carving my pumpkin!




In Summary:
Corn Maze+Pumpkin Patch=Awesome

In my online wanderings, I always hoped to find one convenient place to look at pictures of dogs dressed as bees.

I need look no further: http://beedogs.com/

from McSweeney's

Slipperynippleberg

Jelloshootersdale

Bloodymarysfield

Jägermeisterplatz

Frozendaiquiriland

Cubalibratown

Boilermakerstad

I don't think you all really appreciate how excited I am about visiting the corn maze this year. I am extremely, tremendously, terrifically, enormously, gigantically, stupendously, staggeringly, resplendently excited. It is going to be so awesome!!11!!!11!!!1!11!!!


Here is an Aggie Article about Cool Patch Pumpkins. Yes, the name is lame. But the corn maze will be excellent. And there are over 20 different kinds of pumpkins to choose from!! The only question is, should we go in the day or after dark?

Beans

Bubbles

Chili

Dan

Emma

Finn

Ivy

Jake

Lizzy

Mellie

Past Pets

Aly

Bob

Denny

The Gimp

Scarlett

Vinny

Gray, Mildred, Mort, Pikachu, Becki, Fival, etc etc etc

Not Pictured: Bert, Mina, Senor Frog

Fishy Graveyard

Yul

Alli, Jody I, Jody II, Ankerstar, Diana, Keven (pond goldfish)

The Cheese

Po'o

Rufio, Tapestry and Rustin

Fishy

Now that I have finished doing a happy dance at having Aubrey back, I thought I might do some blogging (as one does after getting one's cat back). Anywho, I found some info on Aubrey's namesake, the person she was named after, who is of course Edgar Allan Poe, author of the short story murder mystery "The Black Cat," and some other stuff no one has really heard of.

Ha! Just kidding. Aubey-kins is really named after Aubrey Beardsley, who drew this illustration for Poe's "The Black Cat". I think the cat looks a lot like Aubrey (my Aubrey, not the artist Aubrey).

Because you asked, here is some info on Aubrey Beardsley and "The Black Cat" that I found on the internet somewhere:

Aubrey Beardsley drew this illustration for a murder mystery of the same name in "Tales of Edgar Allen Poe". In the short story, first published in 1843, the narrator relates how he killed his wife, bricked up the body in a wall of their house and fooled the police. But the black cat cried like an infant from behind the wall where it had been inadvertently entombed. When the police dismantled the wall, they found the cat sitting on the head of the corpse.

Beardsley was a young artist and book illustrator who gained notoriety for many of his works and was a leading proponent of what was called the "decadent" movement. His brilliant but controversial work had a strong influence on visual arts and book illustrations for decades.

Beardsley only lived to be 26 but produced major illustrations for literary classics, including Morte d'Arthur.

I guess I should mention that the artist Aubrey was male, and my Aubrey is female, but everyone knows that Aubrey is a girl's name now (like Ashely).

Well, I am a bit disappointed, really. I always thought that Aubrey was the most adorable and wonderfullest kitten ever, but I guess I was wrong. Maybe it is my fault for posting a picture where she looks cross-eyed.

At least she is cuter than Vinny.