Bobblehead Buddy Christ'

I need a blessing and can’t afford to not pay it forward… so here ya go… Hey you…yea, I mean you. If you have taken a minute to read this… God has seen YOU struggling with something. God says its over. A blessing is coming your way. If you believe in God send this message on, please don’t ignore it, you are being tested. God is going to fix two things (BIG) tonight in your favor. If you believe in God… drop everything and re-post it. AMEN!

I responded:

I don’t recall ever having an imaginary friend. I have pets. Right now, I have a cat. Cats make decent pets. I’ve had dogs, too, and really enjoyed them as pets. When I feel life’s struggle, the cat curls up next to me. I forget about the struggle. The cat doesn’t tell me my struggle is over – it’s just friendly. Sometimes it meows when it wants food or to go outside. I feed it or let it outside. This enough for me. I don’t pretend an imaginary friend is promising the world to be something better than it is. I understand some people do that, but I’d rather just have the cat.

Seriously, though – the one and only true omniscient and omnipotent being, creator of all, wants you to send chain mail and retweet on its behalf.

Lady GaGa

ATTENTION ALL PARENTS!!! PLEASE WATCH THE CURRENT LADY GA-GA VIDEO THEN LET ME KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN CHANGING AMERICA….FOR THE PROTECTION OF YOUR CHILDREN!!!! LEARN TO SAY NO….TAKE YOUR POWER BACK…..YOUR CHILDREN NEED TO RECEIVE THAT POWER IN GUIDING THEIR LIVES . POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS DEATH….START A REVOLUTION!!!!

Seriously? We need to protect our children from Lady GaGa? There may have been a compelling argument to protect our children from Michael Jackson (or at least those spending the night at Neverland), but the idea that we need to protect our young from the popular musicians of the day is some pretty worn out rhetoric. Besides, it’s too late. Elvis (indecent freak!) effed everybody up, as predicted by those who opposed him a few generations back. And before him, it was someone else – perhaps one of those godless commie swingers, like Benny Goodman. After him it was – oh let’s see, AC/DC, Metallica, Madonna…the list goes on and on (and on). Didn’t I leave out the entire 60s? The long-haired hippie freak bastard Beatles, Stones and well, you get the point.

Proven fact, it’s too late. Artistic expression kills – not war, not greed. It’s pesky things like the Bill of Rights and toe-tapping that destroys life as we know it. Those damned artists! How can we raise brainwashed automatons who do our bidding with all that dancing going on?

What really struck me about this call to arms was the vagueness. My request for a link to view the video in question was squelched by the head revolutionary’s refusal to provide such a disgrace. Gosh – I guess I should just assume that it’s not even fit for MY consumption. Why it’s so bad, parents shouldn’t be allowed to see it. OMG!

Shucks, I can’t even tell you the nature of the controversy. All I know is that unless we protect our children from Lady Gaga, the world as we know it will come to an end, which seems to have failed to happen this Saturday (the Rapture was scheduled for May 21st? Something like that.) Apparently Gabriel’s watch is broken. Good thing GaGa is the anti-christ! Wait – did we want the rapture or not want the rapture?

Anyway – I can tell you this: Suggesting that the youth of our planet need protection from Lady GaGa is offensive to me. I don’t even care that much for Lady GaGa and I’m offended. At best this call for arms is moronic fuddy-duddery. At worst – it’s fascism. Lady GaGa is just being Lady GaGa. If her ditties didn’t move people in some way, and her videos didn’t inspire or intrigue, no one would know who she was. It’s her artistic expression that makes her palatable, and valuable.

That said, I took a closer look, and after doing so concluded that the young lady in question is just that, a young lady. She may glam things up to Nth degree, but she also writes her own lyrics, donates to causes she believes in, and advocates on the behalf of others. The more I look, the more I see that I like.

The repression of expression is far more dangerous than the expression of ideas.

You folks who try to repress your children’s interests, restrict their ideas, and even go so far as to support the removal of the arts from the curriculum would best heed this tidbit: you really can’t control what kids think, because they spend most of their time feeling, not thinking. Without creative outlets, children (and adults) explode. They go postal.

Music, dance, painting, drawing, writing, rapping, acting, sculpture, all of those things are necessary outlets (we can safely draw the line at tagging your Beamer – provided the kids have access to an art class). The repression of expression is far more dangerous than the expression of ideas.

If you feel an urge to protect your children from the latest pop star of the day, you may just want to have a good long look in the mirror. Or much better yet, put on a tune that you like, and tap, hum, sing, or dance along. And leave the rest of us (including your kids) to choose the tunes that move us (and them).

It’s been reported that in March, hundreds of villagers witnessed the crash of a large pink and blue glowing object in Siberia.

This a video showing what appears to be the body of an alien, purportedly taken two days after impact, and leaked to the Internet from the Republic of Buryatia, close to the crash site.

Teri Blond

In Her Own Words

I started making jewelry out of recycled objects at the age of twelve. Years later I was in Tanzania. It was an exciting trip. I had seen my first elephant, hippo, and leopard in the wild, and even a black mamba that our guide had grabbed by the tail, spun in the air, hit on the ground and knocked out.

In the village I ran across a very attractive mud hair tribesman. He wore an arrow necklace fashioned from a printed steel can that cut into his skin and stood straight out from his neck. Through a translator I traded a pair of mirrored sunglasses and some copper wire for the necklace. His mother made the trade, cutting the necklace off him. Oops – he pulled his spear on me! But we were okay in the end; she promised to make him something new. This was my first exposure to printed tin and aluminum jewelry. I wish I knew where that piece was. But I did find the spear the man pulled on me. His mom traded that for a battery operated radio.

Art

More Art

To learn more about the artist and see more examples of her work, please visit her online gallery at teriblond.com.

Latest Show

An Element of Surprise: Artists Working with Tin
Edwardsville Art Center, September 3, 2010 – October 8, 2010
University of Montana, Bozeman, November 29, 2010 through December 17, 2010

Museum Exhibitions

• 2003: Planting, Potting and Pruning: Artists and the Cultivated Landscape, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
• 2002: Going to the Dogs: Man’s Best Friend as Seen by Artists, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI 
2001: Once Upon a Time: Artists Examine Fairy Tales, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 2000: Who Knows Where or When: Artists Interpret Geography and Time, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, 
Racine, WI
• 1999: The End Is Near: Artists Look at the Twentieth Century, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 1998: Dress Up! Artists Address Clothing and Self Adornment, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 1997: Food Glorious Food: Artists and Eating, Charles A Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 1995-97: DoubleNision, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI and touring museums including Little 
Rock, Memphis and Minneapolis
• 1994: The Object Redux, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts

Museum Permanent Collections

• 1997: “Beetle Cross”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, The College at New Paltz, New York, NY
• 
1995: “Miss Moss’s Hoedown”, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 1995: “Guitar Girl”, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
• 1995: “Play the Lord, Cross the Board”, collaboration with Bob Ebendorf & John Grant, Charles A. Wustum Museum 
of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

Photos of Work Featured in Books

• 2004: RINGS, Marthe Le Van
• 2003: METAL EMBOSSING, by Yolanda Carranza Valle
• 2001: COLOR ON METAL, by Tim McCreight and Nicole Bsullak
• 1999: THE METALSMITH’S BOOK OF BOXES AND LOCKETS, by Tim McCreight
• 1996: THE FINE ART OF THE TIN CAN, by Maryland photographer, Bobby Hansson

Showings

• 2010: Jackson Ranch, Contemporary Art Month, One Man Show, San Antonio, Texas
• 2006: CC Ranch Exhibition, San Antonio, Tx
• 2004: RAC, San Antonio, Texas
• 2003: Charmed Lives, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle WA
• 2002: All School Exhibition, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
• 2001: Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Teapots, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO; Color on Metal, OXOXO Gallery, 
Baltimore, MD; Botanica, OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD
• 2000: Attitude and Action, a group Exhibition of American Figurative Jewelry, The Atrium Gallery, The University of 
Birmingham, Birmingham, England, opening with the Conference of the Association for Contemporary Jewelry and 
DESIGNyard, Dublin, Ireland
• 1999: Beacons for the Millennium, The Nancy Sachs Gallery, St. Louis, MO, with the 1999 Society of North American 
Goldsmiths Conference
• 1998: BOLO! Artables Gallery, Houston, TX
• 1997: Hard Evidence, The Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX; From the Trash Can to the Bank Vault, 
Phenomenon Gallery, Richmond VA; Tin Can Alley, America * Oh Yes!, Washington, DC
• 1996-97: Tin Can Alley, America * Oh Yes!, Hilton Head Island, SC
• 1996: Endeavors 8, The Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX; the FINE ART of the TIN CAN, OXOXO Gallery, 
Baltimore, MD
• 1995: Double/Vision, Thomas Mann/Gallery 110, New Orleans, LA, with the 1995 Society of North American 
Goldsmiths Conference; Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO; Artables Gallery, Houston, TX; Hobe Sound Jewelers 
Contemporary Gallery, Hobe Sound, FL; Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX

Santa and Elf Miriam

If you’re not familiar with Elf Louise and the Elf Louise Christmas Project, please acquaint yourself.

The project consists of 4500 unpaid volunteers, elves who help bring the spirit of Christmas to others. It’s a great project, and there’s opportunity for you to be involved if you’re interested. The experience is well worth the time. You may want to make it a tradition. I can’t think of a finer one.

Toys!

Santa and Children

Elf Peter

Family Guy: Go Stewie Go
Stewie embraces his feminine side.
Season 8 : Ep. 13

I think my cell phone camera sucks, but it has higher resolution than my first pricey Sony digital camera – you know the kind – they wrote to floppy discs. Heard of those? The floppy was wider than my BlackBerry and could store a whopping 1.44 MB of data. Woot! That was the shizzle back then. I prefer Canon these days, but often don’t lug one around. I still have about 1,000 old floppies in a box in the garage. All the recoverable data will probably fit on one CD. I’m debating on whether to throw it out, or see if there are some old gems hiding there. But none of that has anything to do with this post. Here are 5 pics of things I took with my phone while wandering around recently.

No Smoking Ashtray

Hey fellas, let’s hire a contractor, order one of those really expensive ashtrays, keep it painted nice and spiffy, regularly fill it with that fine sand, oh – and put a “No Smoking” sign on it.

Location: Local Air Force base

Blood Bag Candy

Why there’s nothing more appetizing than a bag of blood! Mmm… blood bag candy! Gotta have it! The best thing about this candy is that after it lands you in a diabetic coma, you wake up in familiar surroundings. You know, if you survive. Just kidding – but it’s great preparation for the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse.

Multi-function TASK chair

Wow! What an amazing multi-function task chair. You can do so many things in this chair that you can’t do in any other average office chair, like sit. You can also, well, sit and spin (just a guess) – perhaps lean back a bit, and because it has rollers, you may be able to roll a little. Awesome!

Location: Office supply store. They also had a featured stapler that had “Amazing new spring-loaded technology.” What staplers aren’t spring loaded?

Bimbo Donitas

This may not be news to you, but it turns out that bimbo is not only slang for a woman regarded as vacuous or having an exaggerated interest in her sexual appeal, “BIMBO is synonymous with quality, trust, tradition and authentic Mexican flavor.”

Location: Local grocery store, between the bins of butter and the bins of breakfast sausage.

Rubber Chicken in a Bikini

Yep, that’s a rubber chicken in a purple polka dot bikini – a bargain at any price.

Location: Local grocery store, pet food aisle.