{"id":160,"date":"2007-02-05T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2012-01-18T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T22:29:09","slug":"marriage-masturbation-mortality-melvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/marriage-masturbation-mortality-melvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage, masturbation, mortality, Melvin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marriage: <\/strong><\/p>\n

My friend Mirjana got married on Saturday. It was a short ceremony at city hall. And by short I mean really<\/em> short. Less than one minute in fact. The halls were full of couples getting wed, and they were all processed on a conveyour belt (not really, but sort of):<\/p>\n

\"mirjana<\/p>\n

In the image they have just turned their heads as the man doing the ceremony sped by like a small and quite fast japanese car. Do you? Do you? You’re done!<\/em>
\nHe even managed to include an aphorism about love that had us scratching our heads for a while: “To love is nothing, to be loved is something, to love and be loved is everything”. I think he liked the rhythm of “nothing-something-everything”. If it was “something-something-everything” we wouldn’t have had as much trouble parsing it as we had.<\/p>\n

All the best to Mirjana and Dimitri on the endevour. Yay you! Etc.<\/p>\n

Masturbation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"beautifulagono.com\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was innocently browsing the internets for images of cute puppies and things that would make my mom proud when I stumbled<\/em> upon this art porn site. I’ve been suggesting to my friends that we should get in on this neoporn thing while the getting is good – there has to be other ways of turning people on rather than showing the same worn out cumshots – but since I’m not a very prolific porn-surfer I haven’t seen much of this new-wave porn but rather heard it thrown around a bit (mostly on high profile blogs like boingboing.net<\/a> or violet blues’ tinynibbles.com<\/em>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s videos showing the faces of people helping themselves to a handful of loving. All the pretentious stuff aside, it’s very onturning<\/em>. Oh, and if you click the image and subscribe I might actually get a free months’ subscription. help me help myself,<\/em> so to speak.<\/p>\n

Mortality:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was on the phone with mom the other day and she told me that a kid I grew up and went to kindergarden with got stabbed to death on new years eve. His name was Samir and during a fight outside a party he and some other people got knifed. I haven’t found any accounts of it (there were a few stabbings in Stockholm on new years), so I don’t know what happened.<\/p>\n

He was living in the apartment building across from my moms when I was in grade school, and we would have fallouts because we both were stubborn. The strongest memory I have of him was when we were in afterschool daycare and after a spat I accidentally threw a baking pin in his face (the handle came off while I was waving it around), forcing him to visit a hospital and get his forehead stiched up. I recall being quite frightened at the small trail of blood leading to the bathroom where one of the grown-ups cleaned up the wound.<\/p>\n

I was too engrossed in the taunting and ostracizing I was experiencing at school to consider if I was being overly mean to him (he was two years my junior I think) but I might have been. Anyways. RIP Samir<\/p>\n

Melvin:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nMark Melvin came by to visit us gothenburgians, and it was much appreciated. I missed his show cause of the marriage but he did get a small telegram (with picture!) in the national\/local paper about the exhibition.<\/p>\n

Yes, he usually covers his face whenever being photographed. I don’t know why. It might be because he doesn’t want any bad images to appear on any blogs or such. Too bad I have enough decency not to show the image I have of him doing the face<\/em> he always does when frustrated. Damn shame.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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