Megan's puppeh sitting adventure

so, Kate and Ike needed someone to baby sit their little dog Polly Pocket.
Naturally my reaction was the following:

why not?

Meet Polly Pocket!!

Piper has a new friend. <3

Sentences on Conceptual Art (1968)
Sol Lewitt


1) Conceptual Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
2) Rational judgments repeat rational judgments.
3) Illogical judgments lead to new experience.
4) Formal art is essentially rational.
5) Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
6) If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results.
7) The artist’s will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His willfulness may only be ego.
8) When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.
9) The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept.
10) Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
11) Ideas do not necessarily proceed in logical order. They may set one off in unexpected directions but an idea must necessarily be completed in the mind before the next one is formed.
12) For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.
13) A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artists’ mind to the viewers. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artists’ mind.
14) The words of one artist to another may induce a chain of ideas, if they share the same concept.
15) Since no form is intrinsically superior to another, the artist may use any form, from an expression of words (written or spoken) to physical reality, equally.
16) If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature, numbers are not mathematics.
17) All ideas are art if they are concerned with art and fall within the conventions of art.
18) One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
19) The conventions of art are altered by works of art.
20) Successful art changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions.
21) Perception of ideas leads to new ideas.
22) The artist cannot imagine his art, and cannot perceive it until it is complete.
23) One artist may misperceive (understand it differently from the artist) a work of art but still be set off in his own chain of thought by that misconstruing.
24) Perception is subjective.
25) The artist may not necessarily understand his own art. His perception is neither better nor worse than that of others.
26) An artist may perceive the art of others better than his own.
27) The concept of a work of art may involve the matter of the piece or the process in which it is made.
28) Once the idea of the piece is established in the artist’s mind and the final form is decided, the process is carried out blindly. There are many side effects that the artist cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works.
29) The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.
30) There are many elements involved in a work of art. The most important are the most obvious.
31) If an artist uses the same form in a group of works and changes the material, one would assume the artist’s concept involved the material.
32) Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
33) It is difficult to bungle a good idea.
34) When an artist learns his craft too well he makes slick art.
35) These sentences comment on art, but are not art

* Reprinted from Art-Language, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1969).

Like an apple on a tree
Hiding out behind the leaves
I was difficult to reach
But you picked me
Like a shell upon a beach
Just another pretty piece
I was difficult to see
But you picked me
Yeah you picked me

And all I can say
Is you blow me away





yay =]

Thank God my parents aren't freaks.

ok, so I like to stumble around on the internet a lot, and today I came across something so sickening and bizzare that I thought I just HAD to post about it. Take a look at the screen shot below from the website Marry Our Daughter:



This may or may not be a joke, but lets pretend it is completely legitimate. So basically, if a family needs some extra money, like say for some medical bills, a new room addition to the trailer house, or maybe their wild crack addiction they can jst put their young (I didn't see any over 17) daughter on the site and allow some stranger on the internet to click the handy little "I propose!" button and marry their daughter. The cheapest bargain bride I saw listed was for $5995 and the most expensive was $99,995. There is also a great little testimonials section. I have copied and pasted it below and bolded my FAVORITE parts!



Thank God for your site! Our daughter was really nervous walking down the aisle, but she seems okay now and the money we got let us keep our farm and even add on a few acres."

—Mrs. Addrien L.
(congrats on your new acres Mrs. Affrien, I hope that your daughter, whom you obviously love dearly becomes a little more than "okay" with her new life.)

"At first we were worried that Janine was too young to get married, (no kidding?) but then her new husband bought her a house and a car and jewelry (WOO!!!) and the money we got let us buy a house for ourselves. Getting out of the trailer park at our age was the best thing that ever happened to us, and it’s all thanks to Marry Our Daughter!"

—Mr. Jack M.


“I was SO scared getting married so young, but my husband is an okay guy and I am SO proud that because of me my parents were able to get their first brand-new car and take the trip they always wanted to. I couldn’t have done it without your site!"

—Katrina K., married at 14
(wow Katrina, he sounds like a great catch. When i think of the husband I might have someday (by my own free will of course) of my life I hope I can be crazy in love with him enough to refer to him as an okay guy!! I am sure glad your utterly unselfish parents got to take a trip at the expense of your future!)


“Our 15 year old daughter Mary wasn’t very popular and did nothing but mope around the house bringing everybody down, so we decided to marry her off through your site. Now our house is a lot cheerier and we love our new swimming pool and Jaccuzi! We’ve told our youngest that when she turns 15 we’re going to marry her off too!"

—Mrs. James P.
(wow, so I was only going to highlight bits and pieces, but EVERYTHING in this example made me throw up a little bit in the back of my mouth. You know Mrs. James, maybe Mary was mopey because you are a freaking psycho.)

“My mother thought I was getting ‘too frisky” and that I had to get married right away before I lost my purity to some high school boy. Marry Our Daughter found me a husband and my parents were able to keep their house and pay off my mother’s medical bills. I was so glad I could help them, and being married at my age (I'm 16 now) has a lot of advantages, like my own credit card!"

—Nancy A.
(this girl really has it made, a most likely 30 year old man as a husband who was desperate enough to propose to her by clicking a button, a sickly and selfish mother, and debt up to her eyeballs!!)


Really, if you really don't want a daughter because she "mopes around the house" or kisses her same age boyfriend a little to much just don't have kids to begin with. Really, its like buying a new puppy and the dropping it off at the animal shelter because it got annoying. Except this animal shelter pays you lots of money.

Those testimonials are quite compelling though... I am thinking about applying myself. What do you guys think about my ad so far?


The only thing I think my mother would disagree with would be my asking price. Since my mom is a NORMAL, LOVING, AND ALL AROUND AWESOME mom she would have put in PRICELESS instead of any amount of cash. But hey, maybe a jacuzzi and a BMW would change her mind.