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In the latest issue of Bullett magazine, my friend HG interviews Yayoi Kusama (“Don’t be too jealous –– it was just an email interview”) and asks the all important question: what does your brain look like?  For the record, Yayoi’s answer isn’t nearly as good as the answers of my participants, found here.

HG: What do you think your brain looks like?

YK: The image of it is always changing, and it’s difficult to explain my own brain.  I think it would be much easier if someone else describes the image of my brain. (footnotes 2 and 3)

2: “Oh, to be a neuron in Kusama’s brain.”  ~Joshua Jackson, actor [ed note: what?!]

3: “And if we read her installations as images of her mind, then the dots could be taken to represent the millions of neurons that exist in the brain.” ~From Walking in My Mind, Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2009

And you see an ACTUAL SHIP CAPTAIN in a Morton Williams supermarket buying eight containers of Greek yogurt, two heads of lettuce and some cheese!

Pipe not lit, fyi.

Thank G-d this bunny chair came down in price!

You should remember the full pic.

I know because I wrote to the maker of this and she wrote me back and quoted a price, and now I must be on a mailing list of some kind or something, because today she sent me this:

merve kahraman

to Siobhan <itinerantdaughterandson@gmail.com>

Hi Siobhan, [ed. note: my assistant handles 99.999% of my affairs]

I wanted to let you know that due to a larger order we got this month, we are able to make a discount on a limited number of Hybrid Chairs. Instead of the original 3,100 Dollars it is now been reduced to 2,700 Dollars (excluding shipping).

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.

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Well thank heavens!  Once it gets down to maybe $50, I’m IN!

My coworkers are hosting a “Harrithon,” aka a Harrison Ford Movie Marathon, on a day that inconveniently happens to be my little brother’s wedding day (no cracks about being the spinsterly sister, please.)  Below is their hilarious invite:

As some of you may have heard, A and I are hosting a Harrison Ford Movie Marathon (aka HARRITHON) next week at my apartment.

Don’t worry – only the original Star Wars and Indiana Joneses will be screened. (Unless you know of some awesome hidden gem to bring…)

We’ll convene around 4:00 p.m. on Saturday Sep. 8. We’re starting early so we can get the movies / drinking rolling, but feel free to drop by later for a lesser dose.

The address is —-. When you get there please call me at —- to be let in, we’re on the 3rd floor with no buzzer!

Bring food, bring drinks! Will will be hosting “the mustache game” and there may or may not be some Harrison-themed snacks…

Any other ideas are welcome!

(Ed note: For the uninitiated, the mustache game is courtesy of Buzzfeed courtesy of Tumblr:

Instructions are: Step 1: Attach a mustache to the TV screen. Step 2: Drink when it lines up.

My sincerely regretful “no” is as follows:

This sounds like the most amazing thing in the world, but sadly I cannot attend, and I know W is rolling his eyes right now and saying to himself, “ID never attends” but my brother is getting married that day and I kinda can’t get out of that (though I would love to).  In any case, here are my Harrison Ford recommendations:

Witness because there are Amish people in it (and Harrison Ford and an Amish chick love each other!)

Blade Runner (duh)

Apocalypse Now (duh)

The Conversation (great movie)

The episode of The Mod Squad entitled “The Teeth of the Barracuda”

Enjoy!

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Oh right, and this is the JPG to go along with the invite (always helpful to have a production designer as an event organizer):

VERY, VERY SERIOUS.

This is not the best post I’ve ever written.  It’s Friday –– give me a break!