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oh la dee da they must have made some mistake I mean don’t they know who i am?

Once a year, the New Yorker descends into self-parody in order to sell expensive real estate to high-end advertisers and bump up issue sales. They call this the style issue, and I carried it around for a week befor I even opened it and man oh man is it a waste of time. They confront such complex problems as counterfeit handbags and where to shop in Dallas, TX while throwing in a couple of extra reviews of art and architecture. Not even the first 30 or so pages are free of commercial blight; music critic Sasha Fere-Jones pens a few words for ‘critic’s notebook’ reviewing the viral marketing campaign for the forthcoming Nine Inch Nails album, which he refers to as an artform.

I don’t mean to be closed minded here. My art is all about scavenging the pop culture wasteland, presenting what I find quth a mixture of reverence and disgust – that’s what I do. But where’s the disgust?

I will say though that whenever the New Yorker does a double issue, they run some pretty hilarious cartoons.

This has nothing to do with art, but, man, the internet is getting so good. I just read this Times article about GrandCentral, and immediately signed up for it. What it does it pretty rad. It lets you sign up for a phone number (you can pick your area code – I picked 917 – and then it let’s you choose from like 30 numbers) that, when called, will ring all of your other numbers at once (work, cell, home, etc.) It’s in beta testing right now so it’s free. After beta is over, it’s free for two numbers. A premuim plan is a little pricey for the casual user – $15 per month.

I only have one phone number, but I signed up anyway because of the other useful bit of funtionality this service provides. Pretty soon I’m going to be moving from DC to New York, and I suppose I could change my phone number and it wouldn’t be that big a deal. But it would obviously be a pain and I still get opportunities from time to time that would stop coming if I were to change my phone number. GrandCentral let’s me link my current number to a 917 number. Problem solved.

The other cool thing is that when people leave you voicemail when they’ve called you using the GrandCentral number, you can manage all the messages from an email-style inbox on the GrandCentral website. I have a real problem checking my messages because I get really fucking bored going through them one by one. This kind of functionality is long overdue and it’ll be good for those of us who can’t afford an iPhone.

The New York Times has two articles about the future of movies, specifically of the downloadable variety, in the Arts section today. Here and Here. Are they just finding out about this?

Pretty predictable, probably. But I can’t help who I am. Ha. I went with Bladessari over Gursky because, I mean, someone in my final four had to be a little different from the other three. Click it to enlarge.