BRAGGADOCIO--(n) empty boasting

Confession:  I didn't actually take this picture--Jason McCool did.  However, I did make the photographed Dessert for the CuDC Annual Holiday Party/Dessert Competition.  I won for Best Presentation.  mmm....retro jello, pretzel, cream cheese deliciousness!  --JMcFred




This is, and I quote, "Mathter Clayton and hith Thuper Robo-Pincher!" The little braggadocio spent a lot of time, on this particular evening, telling us how he could crush our heads into "thmithereens"! Mostly, he just made people sit really really still while he poked them in the face a bunch, trying to grab their noses. It was a lot of "Wait... wait... I got it! No, wait..."


Being the good adult role model that I am, I took him aside and told him that until his aim improved he should just go up to people, snap it open and closed a few times and yell, "I just crushed all your dreams!" And that when they laughed, just say, "No, no, they were actually quite sad..." He only kind of got it, but as this tack involved less accuracy and more mindless crushing, he was all for it. I watched proudly as he halted a conversation to shove the robo-pincher in their faces, snap it over and over, and yell, "I'm crushing all your dreams! They're sad!" On a related braggadocio note: I also taught him to pop his collar and say, "Piiimp!" Good times. I'm sure they love this kid at pre-school.  --ATay

CAP-A-PIE (adj.) from head to toe

HEAD TO TOE INDEEEED!

The Christmas season come with many parties and gifts, but this was a real 2 for 1 deal. Artist Donna Marie Kent (www.bodyimages.com) takes art to the human level with her inspired "paint on girl, girl on paper, paint on paper, fixed gazes and gaping mouths on audience viewing live imprint" formula. You'd think the whole thing would be more awkward, given that this girl is naked in a roomful of people, covered in sticky red paint, and forced to stand statue still for 30 minutes. Not at all. In fact, the only awkward part for me was that I was there with my dad. And he took a lot of photos. In the name of art, of course...

--ATay

(Note: There were two words this week: CAP-A-PIE and FETOR. Jenny chose fetor, and I chose cap-a-pie. I really wanted to use these pictures, and they, uh, don't really work with fetor. At least not in a good way.)

FETOR: (n) a strong offensive smell

The view from my bedroom window.  I love living the city.  I love the noise and the dirt and the lights.  I love the cinematic romance of a street light reflecting off the ground in the alley on a rainy night.  But I assure you few things make more noise or smell worse than the trash truck in an urban alley in the morning...

--JMcFred

ABECEDARIAN: (adj) of or relating to the alphabet

My To Do List.  

I live and die by the acronym.  Whether it's MTLP, SF, RT, JMF, RB or just WTF, everything has it's abbreviation.

--JMcFred

An Abecedarian Tale of Smug Satisfaction

Not unlike how no one but you is allowed to call your sister a stupid bitch, I don't like people complaining about my computer. (The mouse is too sensitive! The keys are so small! You've hidden all the programs in a folder!) Well, it's MINE, mine to do with whatever I please. Go get your own precious dull moused, big-keyed laptop, big messy programs arranged all willy-nilly! Be my guest! But you leave Puppy alone! (My computer's name is Puppy, yes...) 

Xmas '08: I got a gift of skull 'n' crossbones themed keyboard stickers from my mom. They take forever to apply, especially if you're anal retentive like me, but apply I did, and it took all night. The intended end result? See picture above. Sweet! The cool additional bonus result? It's REALLY hard to type on it, unless you're a skilled keyboardist who's totally used to it, like me! Most of the former complainers simply give up and use Stephen's new laptop instead. And I get to enjoy Puppy all by myself (even though she is a stupid bitch sometimes).

--ATay

BROMIDE: (n) commonplace or tiresome

DC is not known for it's impact on the fashion world as you'll see by this gentleman at 11th Street @ New York  Avenue NW.  Sporting the blue shirt and khaki pants uniform of the working masses...(and Blockbuster employees).  However, in DC's defense there is a pretty great fashion scene starting to make some splashes with things like Worn Magazine & Stacy London's Style for Hire.

--JMcFred

Hold on... Bromide is the very first "word of the week" in this blog and this is the very first photo that I took with my hipstamatic app, of the first table read of one of the plays in our company's first Christmas show fundraiser. It's fate or something!

Actresses are a dime a dozen. Bitchtastic know-it-alls are too. The two often go hand-in-hand, especially in LA... (As an actor, writer, and producer, I say this with the full authority that these titles grant me.) One might even say that they're commonplace...tiresome....b r o m i d e. And the nonsense they spout off without the slightest mental screening ("This line is stupid. Why would my character say this? I would never say this!") is so common around here that it's also bromide. It's sometimes hard to believe that someone so ridiculously over-the-top could be so commonplace in your world that you now fail to respond in the way you once would. Indignant! Outraged! Thirsty for justice! Nope. We just fired her and hired someone else that same day. But that's the way it works. A dime a dozen, I tell you. A dime a dozen. Yawn. Bromide...

--ATay