CHIRPINGDOG CHIRP

Somewhere at his first confession a second grader kneels and says, “Fuck the ‘before’ shit, father, let’s get with the now.”

November 28th, 2008

This is mostly an entry because I realized that I started doing the thing I do where I don’t update this and I worry and think about it, and then three months pass without me documenting anything.

I’m not numbering this one because I feel like the cycle of my leaving camp -> going to VSC -> trying to work there -> getting home and being like “????” is over. Now I have a whole new set of things to be like “????” about (strange fires in Providence, moving to New York very soon, new total life stupidity/fugues that weren’t visible or predictable when this past numbered set began in September), so once things stabilize enough that I have an okay idea of where I’ll be from week to week, I’ll restart the numbered entry system on a schedule again.

The short “Lately” recap —>New York = I got to hang out with Emily, babysit Pearl, rode over the Williamsburg bridge for the first time, played dominoes and ate burritos and watched Ruthless People with Leah, dinner/bar with Katie and Alex, meteor shower thing with camp team, wrote a lot of emails.

In Boston = I went to the Stairwell team’s show at BU, talked to Ben, watched the new Bond, ate Redbone’s, sushi and Girardelli squares, almost played Earthopoly with Sus, drove home with Patrick super late.

Home so far = Haven’t been in the basement yet, but today nearly finished a long-outstanding painting, did the firstish round of mailouts re: darcone triangle to stores, slept a ton, played chess in real life once, played chess on the computer a lot of times.

Current plan = Back in New York by next weekend. This morning I am going to the craft store with my dad for a black friday sale. More substantial update or whatever soon.

I woke up in Brooklyn egg-eyed listening for far gongs 2008 #5

November 13th, 2008

Ultimate slow/fast week. I’ll post my good Obama being president joke later. As of right now, it sure looks like I’m moving to New York. If you have a job lead for me, get in touch.

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I laundered every small room I’ve lived in in my river and accidentally ruined several important collections I forgot to take out first #4

November 3rd, 2008

Past life

I added the Black Dove paintings to the site. Otherwise this is a boring blog marking time entry if there ever was one. Here’s what’s up.

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You can now buy things from me over the Internet

October 30th, 2008

Technically this has been true since 2005, but you can now do it in considerably less steps. There’s now a paypal store on this website right here.

Live from a cold floor in a sleeping bag that smells like a dog #3

October 29th, 2008

Darcone Triangle

Black dove paintings

There is No Such Thing as News #2

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Philly: I’m releasing a ton of new stuff on Saturday

October 23rd, 2008

I have a table on Saturday at 215 Festival’s Lovingly Bound art book event. This happens at the Latvian Society, at 531 N. 2nd St., from 11am-6pm.

On top of the normal leftovers from old times, I’m going to have the long-awaited second edition of my fake newspaper There is No Such Thing as News, screenprinted Darcone Triangle books (care of the truly excellent Mark Price), and ten copies of the all-pages-unique art book project I’ve been working on for the last two weeks. Each one of those is a folder that contains five paintings on vellum and an accompanying text. I’ll post pics of all three next Tuesday.

If you’re interested in getting any of these, Darcone Triangle is $5, the art books are $50, and the newspaper, normally $1, is free with either. Just send me an email – tom//dogchirp.com. Thanks!

Songs I heard in pillowsoft microphone feedback #2

October 22nd, 2008

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Kites INC 2006

The biggest update is that after like six years off I listen to dance music again!

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Progress Report from the Tower Reversed #1

October 14th, 2008

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The current schedule is to update this every Tuesday with what I’m currently working on, where I am, and possibly a story about a thing that happened.

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Dust that belongs to me #10

October 1st, 2008

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I’m in West Pittston, I’m in my parents’ basement.

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The bosses won’t hear us no matter how loud we ring these gongs #9

September 14th, 2008

I dreamed that I was driving around Providence and listening to a live version of Tom Waits “Misery is the River of the World” that he played with a quadruple-sized band, and sang in a grunting falsetto.
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