Celebrity Spider Bites

My friend Bridget was recently bit by a spider. Perhaps a brown recluse? She went immediately to the Student Health Center, where they injected steroids in her butt. The nurse said, "Expose one cheek for me please. Now place your hands on the table and bend over a bit."

Since learning of Bridget's close call and possible deformity, a few of us became curious as to which celebs have been bit by poisonous spiders. I know, that was the first question you asked yourself too. But seriously, those actors film in some crazy places where they risk their lives for the sake of art. So, we googled "celebrity spider bites," and would you believe that there is no blog dedicated to this cause? It is 2004, after all!

Thus: celebrityspiderbites.blogspot.com was created.

UPDATE:

I killed all my plants.

Moundville, USA

Seriously.



Some sexy Paul "Bear" Bryant fans.


Church sponsored tail-gating!

Since yesterday marked the first football game of the season, Samuel, Emily, Jesse, & I dared to venture out of Tuscaloosa to Moundville, Alabama.


This town's namesake comes from a series of ancient mounds created by Mississippians centuries ago. You can read more about it here.


After watching a fifteen minute informative video, we hiked through the ancient city's plaza to Mound B, the tallest of the mounds.


We walked through the nature trail searching for access to the Black Warrior River & eventually found it. We took our shoes off & walked up the river's creek & saw lots of cool spiders!






My camera's batteries died so I didn't get any cool photos of the spiders. You'll just have to imagine them for yourselves.

CALL FOR WORK!!

I'm putting together a collaborative project where people send me postcards with poems on them.

You can use the space of the postcard for original poetry or send a longer piece on several postcards.

If you're interested or know someone who is, please inquire as to where you should send the cards!

I'll be binding this into a book for my collaborations class this semester & want as many cards as possible! The final work will be then sent to Switchback HQ so you Chicagoans can see the work, if you so desire.

All work is welcome!

Planty-wants

So today, Emily (from Sacramento, rides a road bike) who lives two doors down invited me to join her on a trip to the nursery. It was fabulous. I got a few pots to go along with a meaty, fragrant oregano plant,


a pink elephant ear,


and three ferns: a Boston, an Asparagus, and something else with dime-sized leaves.

ADORABLE!

I also plan to have an herb garden, but everywhere seems to be sold out of herbs! Damn progressives!

A Day in the Life of Clementine Horsetooth

This photoshoot took place over the course of four hours:



















She stole my spot!!


FINALLY! She moved!!

Southern Documentaries

Last night Jesse & I watched "Small Town Gay Bar," a documentary which explores a few gay bars in rural Mississippi. It's incredibly interesting. The secret subculture that is created in these small towns is what I find most amazing; these people seem to struggle ultimately between their private lives & public lives.



I couldn't find the trailer online to post, but you should Netflix it or something.

This morning I watched "Hell House," which is a doc filmed in Dallas about a church that uses scare-tactics within a haunted house in order to help "save" teenagers from sin. What goes on in the haunted house is abominable. It is implied that it is a girl's fault for being raped (both by her father & later at a rave), that all homosexuals will get AIDS, and that a woman who chooses to have an abortion will ultimately bleed to death out of her vagina. Seriously!


Here's a low-quality video of the hospital scene from the documentary:


There is one shot in the beginning where the preacher is standing before his church's sign & the way he is positioned looks like the sign reads, "The ass... of God." That part was pretty great.