Shortly after writing my previous rant about Barbie and Ken, I found a Ken-sized Gibson Les Paul Custom toy on eBay: Barbie seems more interested. Or at least she seems to be reaching for something other than Ken’s wallet this time. (Side note: I just bought a 1980 Les Paul […]
Simulacra
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Was chatting on Facebook about women feeling victimized by Barbie and unrealistic body images, crap like that. Victimized? By a piece of plastic? Talk about your first world problems! But then again, I would say that, because I kinda did look like Barbie when I was 18-20, in fact I […]
Source: http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2007/11/26/moaning-lisa/ Apparently it’s an part-AI synth thingamajig in what looks like a RealDoll body. [AKA: the product of a very lonely boy with too much time on his hands and an obsession with synths and electronics.] Curious if they’ll make a male version, because I collect bits and pieces […]
Follow up from yesterday’s post about some goofy synchronicities stemming from a couple conversations joking about dick pics etc. I’d been going to go to a show tonight but it got cancelled so I’ll be doing my usual radio show instead. Which means I need caffeine and candy, which I […]
Ken’s starting to wonder if Barbie really does have a medical degree. I mean, sure she’s got the “I Can Be A Veteranarian” playset and she does keep dressing up as both a nurse and a doctor, but he can’t shake this feeling like maybe the solution to seasonal allergies […]
Or at least issues with getting a mannequin shipped to Canada from companies who insist they ship worldwide until you try to order something and then it’s “We don’t ship to Canada, sorry.” I’ve had this happen twice in the lat month, once was a company who said on EBay […]
Saw this on my stroll through EBay today: It’s a medical training dummy from who knows when. I was strongly tempted, but where the Hell would I put it and the price plus shipping was way more than I wanted to spend on what would essentially be a goofy gag […]
So, I wrote this last night and was going to post it later on the weekend, but when I got up this afternoon I found Michael Mann at the Straight had posted his comments about the “just press play” milieu of the electronic dance music scene and I thought maybe […]
Should probably start some sort of pic of the day thing, all terribly blurry cell phone camera shots of dumb shit I see or make. I won’t commit to that yet, but here’s one: Ken doesn’t seem to mind the high-heeled boot to the nuts too much. Or he’s too […]
Fascinating study of an artist using doll-based tableaus and models to deal with psychic trauma: Marwencol website