by Jerome du Bois
Our hard drive crashed and we had to take the baby to the computer hospital. Pacing, pacing, pacing; weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Eight days offline, I think; we done wore our elbows down to the bone with worry. But now we're back, in better shape than ever, more secure than ever.
We got a lot done, which we will posting about in the days to come. New art by me, new fashion by Catherine, and articles we have both been working on, about Sn*ff Art (by Catherine) and Islam (by me.) We have held off posting our new New Mango stuff until the Floridians, our main readers of the novel, have all gotten back on their feet from the effects of Wilma. On Friday we'll be posting three new sections, all very street.
We've been working on fashion. We'll be starting a new sidebar called "Portraits of Catherine." The next one in the series will be the post just above this one, "Western Woman In French Jacket." We have three more portraits already web-ready, but we won't post them all at once.
By the way, the hive mind of envy may have realized one of their fever dreams and actually made some kind of public parody of my photographs of Catherine, or of us. Who knows? We got these two deranged emails on November First Friday, while we were offline --with about as much information as a helium heeheehee-- from some dingaling braying like a jackass without a single specific word about who, what, when, where, or how this exhibit existed. Or even if, which we doubt. (We know the why, sadly. These tiny minds going around in their jerky circles . . . Message to chuckleheads: if we don't know about it, it's like the tree, the forest, nobody around --you put it together, geniuses.)
And continuing to speak of fashion, the Wearable Art Auction of 2005, sponsored by Shari Bombeck and Michael The Not-So-Magic Number and the other thumb-fingered flapdoodles at Artlink Phoenix, remains elusive. We cannot find a single image or reference that this highly-touted event ever took place on October 22 at Paper Heart Gallery (which is mum on it). Did it happen? What was the best outfit there? We ask both our friends and enemies. Among the emails we received during our hiatus, not one corrected us, not one directed us. We claim it didn't happen. If it did, show the world the pictures, Artlinkers. We challenge you. Email is open.
Damn! it's great to be back online.
Posted by Jerome at November 8, 2005 09:00 PM | TrackBack