the beautiful one is here
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yamamanamaA fell wind would occasionally blow from the sea.
Still, Figment is a safe space in an increasingly unsafe world.
This year, their motto was is “ACTION is the antidote to despair.”
Someone wrote Monet ♡ Ashley on the train door window. I know Monet had a wife and I’m extremely doubtful that her name is Ashley, let me check, nope, her name is Camille. And Édouard Manet’s wife’s name was Suzanne. I looked it up.
On the train was a woman with tattoos of birds on her hip and of two shrunken heads with their hair braided and tied with a ribbon on her ankles.
Georgia designs jewelry. A woman with a crescent moon pendant and a triangular pendant that her friend made and some rings with enormous gemstones that she made sold glass animals. I always think of the country, and lately, I've been saying "Jesus, Mary, and Josef Stalin" when I feel incredulous.
Nicole, or Lola, has pendants of an Egyptian queen and the Eye of Horus and her name in Arabic, and a black stone, and has a tattoo of the moon with arrows and lamps hanging from it.
One of the jewelry-makers has a tattoo of a happy friendly onion creature reaching for a butterfly with his tendril and of a hexagram with stars nature motifs within on her thigh.
I met a stubby-leg dog named Nutmeg, which was the name of my first dog, and no, I’ve never used that question as my secret reset password question.
Some sparrows were taking dirt baths.
Believe was merged with the stem of a daisy flower on a woman's tattoo.
In Tiny Box Theater, you put on headphones and listen to a story about your eccentric neighbor vanishing from the world and turning her home into a curiusity shop and leaving you an inheritance.
I saw a post by Sarah about how she felt a little grossed out by the idea of digging through the bathroom, as if the original had you digging amongst dog poop, so instead, you dig through a pile of buttons.
There was a cabinet with card catalogues and you could pick one and go on an adventure.
There were two Archimedes' spirals, one with a tight coil and one less so.
The House of Patterns was a tent covered in designs.
Here is the latest mural, called Carving Out Fresh Options.
A woman has a tattoo of an art deco bird that was used in a Lincoln Limousine advertisement.
I thought it looked like some kind of Cambrian creature.
Someone brought a giant spider puppet and I wanted to get some fishing wire and gradually lower it on Ashley. They had stickers. I took one that said "RADIANT!" with a happy sun on it and stuck it on my sketchbook.
Lex with blue hair and face glitter says that utility belts are better than purses because you never know when you need to repel a shark or grapple on to a building or reverse a carousel.
Someone there compared my style to Andy Warhol's before he started making prints. in which he'd draw on tracing paper and then draw over that with ink and then blot two pieces of paper together to transfer the image to a more absorbent paper.
Hope brought her partially shaved Pomeranian with her. For part of the day, she and Jess had a mermaid’s tail on and they were sunbathing. Her hair is lavender and orchid and pale blue.
I said they were going to start a new life under the sea and Jess told me that was the plot to the Little Mermaid 2.
They were listening to Mark Farina, a genre of music he called Mushroom Jazz, which is not to be confused with the Mushroom Samba, which is what happens when Yoshi touches or eats Fuzzy.
Nefertiti is Egyptian for The Beautiful One Is Here. She made an exhibit called Adhara, which is Arabic for Virgins, although it’s a star in Canis Major. The second brighest star in in the constellation despite its epsilon designation. No, I’m not sure how that works. I know in Cancer, the brightest star is in fact Altarf, the beta star. I don’t know why English couldn’t adopt the dh digraph when they got rid of ð and þ instead of adopting th for ð and þ. I think it would require making English internally consistent.
Whoever was manning it made us crackers with hummus and craisins and Spanish green olives. If I had some wine and I lost a bet, I could make a dirty Frenchman.
come write haiku news
printed on a fabric scroll
stretching through the park
The description was almost a haiku. There, I fixed it for you.
The description on the card was this:
Haikus are easy!
Just 5, then 7, then 5
syllables per line.
Here is another haiku:
Everyone standing
here counting on their fingers.
This is a haiku.
The Glitter Goddess Art Collective had a booth set up where people would either write a task for someone to perform, or pick a task out of the box, perform it, and stick it on their board.
Many of the tasks were about high fives. Mine was “pet a dog” Someone else had that idea, because they wrote “find a dog and pet it.” It's a very very incredibly easy task because not only were the pomeranian and Sirius there all day, I met a shih tzu and a husky with one pale blue eye and one amber beige eye. Somoene said “give plants a hug.” and “spin around three times” and “lay in the grass and find 5 cloud animals” and “touch three flowers” and "do a cartwheel while laughing maniacally" and "smell a flower and “happy thoughts” and “imaginary hopscotch” and “be happy and never give up” and “kick someone in the nuts.” I hope that was a force kick they did. Actually, a kid held up a drawn peanut and a guy kicked it. Taylor got "draw a flower," and her flower was purple and eight-petaled.
Aurora Flora is a tree made from copper wire, and when you block the infrared beams, the fiberoptic flora hanging above it and the lamps illuminate in reds and blues.
Kell wears pendants with a clock around a magnifying lens and a pendant with scissors. They’re very useful, she says. A tattoo on her wrist says “articulate” which is appropriate and she says it’s there as a reminder to be more like her wrist. On her back is something about being brave. She said she was probably wearing that same dress, blue and black and white stripes and streaks, last year.
In Exit Through The Gift Shop, you could take a gift or you could leave a gift. Kell was wearing a tiny hat she got from the gift shop. One of the hats had a wind-up key atop. She said "we're distracted by hats."
The Metapiano was there and at night, would illuminate in pinks when it played. It was over near the DJ booth at night, so Sam and Alex could barely hear it. Alex has a tattoo of a peacock on one arm and the moon going from new to new on her other.
Someone, whose name might be Alex, jokingly said it was a bad name.
I said that I've seen worse names out there.
In the Sorry Project, you could sit in a chair and show how sorry you are for the last two years in politics.
There was a setup wit 9 different kaleidoscopes, one with a rotatable light arrangement, one with tubes of colored liquid and glitter which was a better concept than an execution, and a few with nothing inside, just a lens.
and a collection of objects, glowing boca balls and beads and a crown and rubber duckies, you could look at them or spin them around, or you could just look at your hands or at the buildings.
The wall that feels is a wall of blue fuzz you can run your hands over and it would illuminate in rainbows and play violin music.
Liz says that occasionally the buttons would get stuck on on and they didn’t want to dismantle the thing to fix it.
A woman asked if it could be her new home.
There were bubbles. You can't not have bubbles. Taylor was talking about a somewhat different arrangement of the plastic bubbles.
The Touchable Mind was an installation with strings that would vibrate.
It reminds me of a passage from Shriek: An Afterword.
Every human being is a puppet on strings, but the puppet half controls the strings, and the strings do not ascend to some anonymous Maker, but are glistening silver strands that connect one puppet to another. Each strand is sensitive to the vibrations of every other strand. Every vibration sings in not only the puppet’s heart, but in the hearts of many other puppets, so that if you listen carefully, you can hear a low hum as of many hearts singing together…When a strand snaps, when it breaks for love, or lack of love, or from hatred, or from pain…every other connected strand feels it, and every other connected heart feels it—and since every strand and every heart are, in theory, connected, even if at their most distant limits, this means the effect is universal. All through the darkness where shining strings are the only light, a woundedness occurs. And this hurt affects each strand and each puppet in a different way, because we are all puppets on strings and we all hurt and are hurt. And all the strings shimmer on regardless, and all of our actions, no matter how small, have consequences to other puppets…
There was a slo-mo video booth. Two people made a video in which one of them feisty slapped of pain the other and then hugged and made up.
Elsewhere on the Greenway were vintage neon road signs and a tunnel of metal arcs lit from above.
It’s timed, someone experimented with it.
A woman had a tattoo of a girl watering the flowers in her hair.
A woman had a tattoo of No-Face from Spirited Away and other things.
A woman had nice tattoos that I can’t remember and her friend was like “five hundred Cracker Jack boxes later.”
Shalhavit has rainbow sherbet colored hair and had an iridescent jacket wrapped around her waist and a bag with two butterflies made from wrought metal and colorful gems.
Sarah wore a viridian ballgown held with a clasp. It was slightly short because she had some lights underneath and it made her look like she was hovering, unless you looked at her from too far away or through the anima of a bunny or a snake or an ant, in which case, you could see her feet. In her hair were pens with a piece of circuitry and rainbow toast cat hanging from them.
We had to wai for someone to bring forks so we could have cake as well.
She says that if someone is building a time machine, it's someone here.
Kristin, who dances with Amy Kucharik, has watched Steins;Gate but Sarah has not. Kristin's birthday is July 26.
She says that if your birthday is July 28, you won’t be allowed to have any cake. Okay, you can’t have carrot cake which says Happy Unbirthday on it but you can have the raspberry cake or the poppy seed cake.. Or you can have cheese. But not cheesecake. Or you could have crackers or cucumbers or a mixture of goldfish and red Mickey mouse goldfish or pickled string beans or you can make cucumbers and cheese sandwich. Sarah peeled parts of the cucumber off, wanting to strike up a balance between “I don’t want bits of cucumber rind stuck in my teeth” and “typically, the darker parts of the vegetable or fruit is where all the nutrients are and I don't want to lose that.”
She had a cheese spread that I thought looked like rainbow sherbet and she said is a sunset in a tub. I'd expect it to be mango or tangerine flavored.
Cucumbers are round, not squared.
It’s not art, it’s tea. Although tea can be art. We had Thai ice tea, where you have to tilt the teapot at an extremely awkward angle in order to pour it, and we had hot tea but no way to heat it. Someone suggested using that hot thing in the street. We had lemonade as well. The pink lemonade was local but Natalie's yellow lemonade wasn't. We didn't want to drink insects.
They were still trying to figure out what flavor the donuts were. Coffee cake is typically round, yes, but they don’t usually have holes.
Sarah always thinks of Homestarrunner when she thinks of fire, while I always think of Beavis and Butthead, and I recently found Daft Punk vs. Strong Bad, and it’s amazing. She mentioned that song and fhqwhgads, which by the way is fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveybvf, which can only be pronounced by Strong Bad and Caucasians, to her friend and he was like “uhhhh, can you spell that?” and she’s like “NO!”
Across from our tea party was a man playing the drum.
Someone hit a juvenile seagull with their car and someone else got a bowl of water for him to drink.
Andrew’s shirt is a heart made from circles and loops and his pants are patterned with diamonds and circles. He reminded me of a more modern version of the characters from the performance of Pélleas et Mélisande I saw.
Andrew wore a blue robe with floral designs and a red shirt with circle designs, and his pendant was a blue orb held by talons.
His favorite line from the Simpsons is “There have been times when I lost patience with him even lashed out at him but this man has turned every cheek on his body" because it's so nice.
Taylor had her arm stamped with the word CORPORATE and has a tattoo of a cat made from nebulae and the night sky and a black crescent moon outline superimposed on it, and of Venus's sigil with a raised fist inside. On her dress was a sticker that said "not your target demographic."
I went on a quest to find an Office Max or Staples that was closer than the one in City Hall Plaza. I found an answer, though it's not to my satisfaction. On the bright side, I found a (closed on weekends) Falafel King and an (open daily) Noon's Mediterranean.
I think I lost the pen while going through Red Tape, a maze where you jump through the hoops and try to navigate all the red tape. I did this by crawling along the ground. I’m not sure how you were intended to go through.
Guzzalina reminds me of Luscious Jackson.
It's too bad Circumference Circus was doing their routine at the same time.
Norma has a pendant of purple stones that she got at a renaissance faire and a wrap of gold wire around her ear. People who have tried to have stars named after you, eat your heart out: Norma is an entire constellation. It’s not much of a constellation, but still.
It means t-square. It also means Norn. How strange.
Steph had a nautilus shell with pearls hanging from it.
Anna had a yin-yang with daisies tye-dye shirt and a silver moon face pendant.
Natan wore a shirt with Yoshi the stupid freaking horse.
Daisy had a dog with her. She’s all about freeing the nipple and she always has people come up to her and see that it’s obviously a top and they’re like “okay then.”
Daisy’s friend is amazed I still have an iPod and it still works. Aside from it shutting down whenever it gets too humid and aside from the fact that I can’t set the time remotely, which doesn’t even make sense, but I’m fine with setting the time manually because my computer is synced up to some remote clock.
“I’m loving this new glitchcore” someone said. Peter was having a few technical difficulties before the show. When you think of the circus, you think of elephants and lions, clowns, and acrobats with death defying tricks. Circumference has none of those things.
Sterling danced with swords and wore a face-covering keffiyeh and pantaloons and a shirt with designs and had blue hair. Maria the Space Dolphin danced with a stick with twirling ends and later with hula hoops. We put more geometric shapes in there too, Peter says, and Maria danced with rounded triangles. We love shapes. Peter said something about having all the right angles but equilateral triangles don’t have right angles, unless you’re on the surface of a sphere.
Greg has a tattoo of a kraken grabbing a squid. Watch Greg entrance a butterfly onstage, Peter said.
Peter Paradox has a tattoo of a six-winged seraph with eyes covering its wings and Hebrew lettering on his back, which was his old stage name.
Peter played that Sarah McLaghlan song when he said he works at a shelter for balloon animals and asked Andrew for three hundred, no, five hundred dollars to adopt the balloon animal or else he’d kill it, but he couldn’t do it himself, so Andrew took the balloon animal and played with it, and Peter was like “that’s not how it works, Andrew.”
He said that he tries to impress the ladies by juggling and demonstrated. After he was finished, he said "that was the music I was supposed to play."
A man watching had leaves in his beard.
Bendy has a glass pendant and a Hakuna Matata name. He does not bend things for a living.
Sirius is a star in Canis Major but the dog was named for Sirius Black, who was named for the star in Canis Major.
Sen is an illustrator and drew a picture of Mario for her cousins and of sand under a microscope and doodles in a small booklet with live laugh llama on it, which you should ignore. She wrote the statement "some lesbians use he/him, for example, God."
Sen has two friends, Taylor and Taylor. Taylor has blue hair. Taylor has a tattoo of forsythia on her arms and of the head of a heron eating a fish with the body being formed from smaller fish. Her pendant is an elaborate forest scene with owls. Her hair is pale blue.
They had to go food truckin' because they had Sirius with them.
Sirius got a piece of bacon and cheese.
There were clowns with red noses and a grasshopper hat and a rubber chicken wandering about. One of them says he also plays a political clown.
Keira was dressed as a monarch butterfly. Not just that, but her facepaint, toenails, jewelry, et al, were all themed around her butterfly wings and dress. She says that she probably couldn’t wear it on Halloween unless she was in a warm place or indoors and she loves Figment because she gets an excuse to dress up like this.
Her earrings were butterfly wings, and her circlet was orange and black beads with twin monarch butterflies on the side. Her pendant was a golden butterfly. Her earrings were the actual wings of monarch butterflies preserved in glass. She wanted to paint her face like a monarch butterfly, which she’s done before, but wasn’t able to. She does like it abstract. Her hair is dark and part of it is in a tight braid.
I told her that predators won’t want to eat her.
Someone told her that she'd be migrating to central or South America.
Sophie was wearing fake Hylian ears.
A woman there was playing a drumkit made from a few drums and a few pots and skillets.
Sarah had a long scarlet and gold scarf and patterned and many bracelets and a few pendants. By the time we met, the lighting was less than adequate. Sarah says she's a hula-hooper but she's not much of one.
I saw a map of popular names by state by year and at one point, Sarah was the most popular name in Massachusetts and it never caught on elsewhere.
Black Light at Night had chalk and tape in which people could draw their own designs, and I drew a rose, and there was a game of twister, and luminous jellyfish and illuminated patterns on the walls.
Bender had a mustache and beard. A man said he’s in disguise.
The DJ booth had a cube with colorful lights that reacted to the music.
The Original Party Trolley, written on a white bus in almost imperceptible black lettering. It wasn't for us although we all wished it could be.
This is the Crystal Whatsit. I asked if it’s from something and she’s like “it came out of the woods.” If you can't tell, the wearer has a fuzzy outfit with the rock parts inside. The helmet is a window to luminescence and the crystals studding the rock glow.
She looked more like an adventurer with her helmet off.
Ripley has a tattoo of thunderclouds on one arm, that symbolizes sudden change, and branches on the other arm, that symbolize change so gradual that you don’t even realize it’s happening. The branches took the tattooer 11 hours to make while the stormclouds took only 4 hours to make. There's a metaphor in there somewhere.
Both of them have really subtle colors that I noticed immediately and some people don’t notice for years. She had to talk the tattooer into including the colors.
She wore a mask that some people called an albino crow and I compared to a raptor and that she says makes her think of either a rodo with a raptor’s beak or Horus. Her friend, who was dressed as Anubis with a utility belt and catsuit and light-up helmet with sunglasses covering the eyes, gave her a feather she found, possibly from the gull, and she judged Lex with the Tiresias tattoo’s soul by taking her pulse.
On her utility belt is a glowing stone, that can illuminate her way through the darkest of places.
She says it's so frustrating to nudge people with her snout instead of having working jaw parts and biting them.
Your final form is dust, Ripley says.
Lex said that being your authentic self is a choice.
They called him Spider Jerusalem because he was bald and had steampunk mirrorshades. He also had tattoos of deep space covering his arm.
Dani wore a choker and braid and black and white costume with a hood but no sleeves. She danced with fans with streamers attached them.
So did Victoria.
There was a woman dancing with streamers in front of the mural and she thought she knew me but this was her first Figment.
No glowstix but I did get this squooshy ring with red, orange, and blue LEDs inside so my hand can be its own rave.
One Financial Center was lit up with coruscating rainbows.
Someone at the dance party was juggling with luminescent bowling pins. There was a dancer with a glowing rainbow sword.
Raven has purple hair now.
A woman had Mateus’ sigil or perhaps it’s the Charon glyph for “wi” and maybe her name starts with that, on the nape of her neck and balloons and stuff on her shoulder. Her hair was indigo.
She wasn’t cut-rate Casey Desmond and she definitely wasn’t the real Casey Desmond, because her sign is Zeromus.
By the time I drew Norela, the lighting was not adequate at all. She really likes my art style.
A woman on the train had pins on her bag that say "Feminist AF" and "future author" and "I ❤ my vibrator."
burning question: if corporations can be people, why can’t dogs?
except they ruled against the monkeys who took a selfie.
Sen says she took a class about non-human personhood.
Still, Figment is a safe space in an increasingly unsafe world.
This year, their motto was is “ACTION is the antidote to despair.”
Someone wrote Monet ♡ Ashley on the train door window. I know Monet had a wife and I’m extremely doubtful that her name is Ashley, let me check, nope, her name is Camille. And Édouard Manet’s wife’s name was Suzanne. I looked it up.
On the train was a woman with tattoos of birds on her hip and of two shrunken heads with their hair braided and tied with a ribbon on her ankles.
Georgia designs jewelry. A woman with a crescent moon pendant and a triangular pendant that her friend made and some rings with enormous gemstones that she made sold glass animals. I always think of the country, and lately, I've been saying "Jesus, Mary, and Josef Stalin" when I feel incredulous.
Nicole, or Lola, has pendants of an Egyptian queen and the Eye of Horus and her name in Arabic, and a black stone, and has a tattoo of the moon with arrows and lamps hanging from it.
One of the jewelry-makers has a tattoo of a happy friendly onion creature reaching for a butterfly with his tendril and of a hexagram with stars nature motifs within on her thigh.
I met a stubby-leg dog named Nutmeg, which was the name of my first dog, and no, I’ve never used that question as my secret reset password question.
Some sparrows were taking dirt baths.
Believe was merged with the stem of a daisy flower on a woman's tattoo.
In Tiny Box Theater, you put on headphones and listen to a story about your eccentric neighbor vanishing from the world and turning her home into a curiusity shop and leaving you an inheritance.
I saw a post by Sarah about how she felt a little grossed out by the idea of digging through the bathroom, as if the original had you digging amongst dog poop, so instead, you dig through a pile of buttons.
There was a cabinet with card catalogues and you could pick one and go on an adventure.
There were two Archimedes' spirals, one with a tight coil and one less so.
The House of Patterns was a tent covered in designs.
Here is the latest mural, called Carving Out Fresh Options.
A woman has a tattoo of an art deco bird that was used in a Lincoln Limousine advertisement.
I thought it looked like some kind of Cambrian creature.
Someone brought a giant spider puppet and I wanted to get some fishing wire and gradually lower it on Ashley. They had stickers. I took one that said "RADIANT!" with a happy sun on it and stuck it on my sketchbook.
Lex with blue hair and face glitter says that utility belts are better than purses because you never know when you need to repel a shark or grapple on to a building or reverse a carousel.
Someone there compared my style to Andy Warhol's before he started making prints. in which he'd draw on tracing paper and then draw over that with ink and then blot two pieces of paper together to transfer the image to a more absorbent paper.
Hope brought her partially shaved Pomeranian with her. For part of the day, she and Jess had a mermaid’s tail on and they were sunbathing. Her hair is lavender and orchid and pale blue.
I said they were going to start a new life under the sea and Jess told me that was the plot to the Little Mermaid 2.
They were listening to Mark Farina, a genre of music he called Mushroom Jazz, which is not to be confused with the Mushroom Samba, which is what happens when Yoshi touches or eats Fuzzy.
Nefertiti is Egyptian for The Beautiful One Is Here. She made an exhibit called Adhara, which is Arabic for Virgins, although it’s a star in Canis Major. The second brighest star in in the constellation despite its epsilon designation. No, I’m not sure how that works. I know in Cancer, the brightest star is in fact Altarf, the beta star. I don’t know why English couldn’t adopt the dh digraph when they got rid of ð and þ instead of adopting th for ð and þ. I think it would require making English internally consistent.
Whoever was manning it made us crackers with hummus and craisins and Spanish green olives. If I had some wine and I lost a bet, I could make a dirty Frenchman.
come write haiku news
printed on a fabric scroll
stretching through the park
The description was almost a haiku. There, I fixed it for you.
The description on the card was this:
Haikus are easy!
Just 5, then 7, then 5
syllables per line.
Here is another haiku:
Everyone standing
here counting on their fingers.
This is a haiku.
The Glitter Goddess Art Collective had a booth set up where people would either write a task for someone to perform, or pick a task out of the box, perform it, and stick it on their board.
Many of the tasks were about high fives. Mine was “pet a dog” Someone else had that idea, because they wrote “find a dog and pet it.” It's a very very incredibly easy task because not only were the pomeranian and Sirius there all day, I met a shih tzu and a husky with one pale blue eye and one amber beige eye. Somoene said “give plants a hug.” and “spin around three times” and “lay in the grass and find 5 cloud animals” and “touch three flowers” and "do a cartwheel while laughing maniacally" and "smell a flower and “happy thoughts” and “imaginary hopscotch” and “be happy and never give up” and “kick someone in the nuts.” I hope that was a force kick they did. Actually, a kid held up a drawn peanut and a guy kicked it. Taylor got "draw a flower," and her flower was purple and eight-petaled.
Aurora Flora is a tree made from copper wire, and when you block the infrared beams, the fiberoptic flora hanging above it and the lamps illuminate in reds and blues.
Kell wears pendants with a clock around a magnifying lens and a pendant with scissors. They’re very useful, she says. A tattoo on her wrist says “articulate” which is appropriate and she says it’s there as a reminder to be more like her wrist. On her back is something about being brave. She said she was probably wearing that same dress, blue and black and white stripes and streaks, last year.
In Exit Through The Gift Shop, you could take a gift or you could leave a gift. Kell was wearing a tiny hat she got from the gift shop. One of the hats had a wind-up key atop. She said "we're distracted by hats."
The Metapiano was there and at night, would illuminate in pinks when it played. It was over near the DJ booth at night, so Sam and Alex could barely hear it. Alex has a tattoo of a peacock on one arm and the moon going from new to new on her other.
Someone, whose name might be Alex, jokingly said it was a bad name.
I said that I've seen worse names out there.
In the Sorry Project, you could sit in a chair and show how sorry you are for the last two years in politics.
There was a setup wit 9 different kaleidoscopes, one with a rotatable light arrangement, one with tubes of colored liquid and glitter which was a better concept than an execution, and a few with nothing inside, just a lens.
and a collection of objects, glowing boca balls and beads and a crown and rubber duckies, you could look at them or spin them around, or you could just look at your hands or at the buildings.
The wall that feels is a wall of blue fuzz you can run your hands over and it would illuminate in rainbows and play violin music.
Liz says that occasionally the buttons would get stuck on on and they didn’t want to dismantle the thing to fix it.
A woman asked if it could be her new home.
There were bubbles. You can't not have bubbles. Taylor was talking about a somewhat different arrangement of the plastic bubbles.
The Touchable Mind was an installation with strings that would vibrate.
It reminds me of a passage from Shriek: An Afterword.
Every human being is a puppet on strings, but the puppet half controls the strings, and the strings do not ascend to some anonymous Maker, but are glistening silver strands that connect one puppet to another. Each strand is sensitive to the vibrations of every other strand. Every vibration sings in not only the puppet’s heart, but in the hearts of many other puppets, so that if you listen carefully, you can hear a low hum as of many hearts singing together…When a strand snaps, when it breaks for love, or lack of love, or from hatred, or from pain…every other connected strand feels it, and every other connected heart feels it—and since every strand and every heart are, in theory, connected, even if at their most distant limits, this means the effect is universal. All through the darkness where shining strings are the only light, a woundedness occurs. And this hurt affects each strand and each puppet in a different way, because we are all puppets on strings and we all hurt and are hurt. And all the strings shimmer on regardless, and all of our actions, no matter how small, have consequences to other puppets…
There was a slo-mo video booth. Two people made a video in which one of them feisty slapped of pain the other and then hugged and made up.
Elsewhere on the Greenway were vintage neon road signs and a tunnel of metal arcs lit from above.
It’s timed, someone experimented with it.
A woman had a tattoo of a girl watering the flowers in her hair.
A woman had a tattoo of No-Face from Spirited Away and other things.
A woman had nice tattoos that I can’t remember and her friend was like “five hundred Cracker Jack boxes later.”
Shalhavit has rainbow sherbet colored hair and had an iridescent jacket wrapped around her waist and a bag with two butterflies made from wrought metal and colorful gems.
Sarah wore a viridian ballgown held with a clasp. It was slightly short because she had some lights underneath and it made her look like she was hovering, unless you looked at her from too far away or through the anima of a bunny or a snake or an ant, in which case, you could see her feet. In her hair were pens with a piece of circuitry and rainbow toast cat hanging from them.
We had to wai for someone to bring forks so we could have cake as well.
She says that if someone is building a time machine, it's someone here.
Kristin, who dances with Amy Kucharik, has watched Steins;Gate but Sarah has not. Kristin's birthday is July 26.
She says that if your birthday is July 28, you won’t be allowed to have any cake. Okay, you can’t have carrot cake which says Happy Unbirthday on it but you can have the raspberry cake or the poppy seed cake.. Or you can have cheese. But not cheesecake. Or you could have crackers or cucumbers or a mixture of goldfish and red Mickey mouse goldfish or pickled string beans or you can make cucumbers and cheese sandwich. Sarah peeled parts of the cucumber off, wanting to strike up a balance between “I don’t want bits of cucumber rind stuck in my teeth” and “typically, the darker parts of the vegetable or fruit is where all the nutrients are and I don't want to lose that.”
She had a cheese spread that I thought looked like rainbow sherbet and she said is a sunset in a tub. I'd expect it to be mango or tangerine flavored.
Cucumbers are round, not squared.
It’s not art, it’s tea. Although tea can be art. We had Thai ice tea, where you have to tilt the teapot at an extremely awkward angle in order to pour it, and we had hot tea but no way to heat it. Someone suggested using that hot thing in the street. We had lemonade as well. The pink lemonade was local but Natalie's yellow lemonade wasn't. We didn't want to drink insects.
They were still trying to figure out what flavor the donuts were. Coffee cake is typically round, yes, but they don’t usually have holes.
Sarah always thinks of Homestarrunner when she thinks of fire, while I always think of Beavis and Butthead, and I recently found Daft Punk vs. Strong Bad, and it’s amazing. She mentioned that song and fhqwhgads, which by the way is fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveybvf, which can only be pronounced by Strong Bad and Caucasians, to her friend and he was like “uhhhh, can you spell that?” and she’s like “NO!”
Across from our tea party was a man playing the drum.
Someone hit a juvenile seagull with their car and someone else got a bowl of water for him to drink.
Andrew’s shirt is a heart made from circles and loops and his pants are patterned with diamonds and circles. He reminded me of a more modern version of the characters from the performance of Pélleas et Mélisande I saw.
Andrew wore a blue robe with floral designs and a red shirt with circle designs, and his pendant was a blue orb held by talons.
His favorite line from the Simpsons is “There have been times when I lost patience with him even lashed out at him but this man has turned every cheek on his body" because it's so nice.
Taylor had her arm stamped with the word CORPORATE and has a tattoo of a cat made from nebulae and the night sky and a black crescent moon outline superimposed on it, and of Venus's sigil with a raised fist inside. On her dress was a sticker that said "not your target demographic."
I went on a quest to find an Office Max or Staples that was closer than the one in City Hall Plaza. I found an answer, though it's not to my satisfaction. On the bright side, I found a (closed on weekends) Falafel King and an (open daily) Noon's Mediterranean.
I think I lost the pen while going through Red Tape, a maze where you jump through the hoops and try to navigate all the red tape. I did this by crawling along the ground. I’m not sure how you were intended to go through.
Guzzalina reminds me of Luscious Jackson.
It's too bad Circumference Circus was doing their routine at the same time.
Norma has a pendant of purple stones that she got at a renaissance faire and a wrap of gold wire around her ear. People who have tried to have stars named after you, eat your heart out: Norma is an entire constellation. It’s not much of a constellation, but still.
It means t-square. It also means Norn. How strange.
Steph had a nautilus shell with pearls hanging from it.
Anna had a yin-yang with daisies tye-dye shirt and a silver moon face pendant.
Natan wore a shirt with Yoshi the stupid freaking horse.
Daisy had a dog with her. She’s all about freeing the nipple and she always has people come up to her and see that it’s obviously a top and they’re like “okay then.”
Daisy’s friend is amazed I still have an iPod and it still works. Aside from it shutting down whenever it gets too humid and aside from the fact that I can’t set the time remotely, which doesn’t even make sense, but I’m fine with setting the time manually because my computer is synced up to some remote clock.
“I’m loving this new glitchcore” someone said. Peter was having a few technical difficulties before the show. When you think of the circus, you think of elephants and lions, clowns, and acrobats with death defying tricks. Circumference has none of those things.
Sterling danced with swords and wore a face-covering keffiyeh and pantaloons and a shirt with designs and had blue hair. Maria the Space Dolphin danced with a stick with twirling ends and later with hula hoops. We put more geometric shapes in there too, Peter says, and Maria danced with rounded triangles. We love shapes. Peter said something about having all the right angles but equilateral triangles don’t have right angles, unless you’re on the surface of a sphere.
Greg has a tattoo of a kraken grabbing a squid. Watch Greg entrance a butterfly onstage, Peter said.
Peter Paradox has a tattoo of a six-winged seraph with eyes covering its wings and Hebrew lettering on his back, which was his old stage name.
Peter played that Sarah McLaghlan song when he said he works at a shelter for balloon animals and asked Andrew for three hundred, no, five hundred dollars to adopt the balloon animal or else he’d kill it, but he couldn’t do it himself, so Andrew took the balloon animal and played with it, and Peter was like “that’s not how it works, Andrew.”
He said that he tries to impress the ladies by juggling and demonstrated. After he was finished, he said "that was the music I was supposed to play."
A man watching had leaves in his beard.
Bendy has a glass pendant and a Hakuna Matata name. He does not bend things for a living.
Sirius is a star in Canis Major but the dog was named for Sirius Black, who was named for the star in Canis Major.
Sen is an illustrator and drew a picture of Mario for her cousins and of sand under a microscope and doodles in a small booklet with live laugh llama on it, which you should ignore. She wrote the statement "some lesbians use he/him, for example, God."
Sen has two friends, Taylor and Taylor. Taylor has blue hair. Taylor has a tattoo of forsythia on her arms and of the head of a heron eating a fish with the body being formed from smaller fish. Her pendant is an elaborate forest scene with owls. Her hair is pale blue.
They had to go food truckin' because they had Sirius with them.
Sirius got a piece of bacon and cheese.
There were clowns with red noses and a grasshopper hat and a rubber chicken wandering about. One of them says he also plays a political clown.
Keira was dressed as a monarch butterfly. Not just that, but her facepaint, toenails, jewelry, et al, were all themed around her butterfly wings and dress. She says that she probably couldn’t wear it on Halloween unless she was in a warm place or indoors and she loves Figment because she gets an excuse to dress up like this.
Her earrings were butterfly wings, and her circlet was orange and black beads with twin monarch butterflies on the side. Her pendant was a golden butterfly. Her earrings were the actual wings of monarch butterflies preserved in glass. She wanted to paint her face like a monarch butterfly, which she’s done before, but wasn’t able to. She does like it abstract. Her hair is dark and part of it is in a tight braid.
I told her that predators won’t want to eat her.
Someone told her that she'd be migrating to central or South America.
Sophie was wearing fake Hylian ears.
A woman there was playing a drumkit made from a few drums and a few pots and skillets.
Sarah had a long scarlet and gold scarf and patterned and many bracelets and a few pendants. By the time we met, the lighting was less than adequate. Sarah says she's a hula-hooper but she's not much of one.
I saw a map of popular names by state by year and at one point, Sarah was the most popular name in Massachusetts and it never caught on elsewhere.
Black Light at Night had chalk and tape in which people could draw their own designs, and I drew a rose, and there was a game of twister, and luminous jellyfish and illuminated patterns on the walls.
Bender had a mustache and beard. A man said he’s in disguise.
The DJ booth had a cube with colorful lights that reacted to the music.
The Original Party Trolley, written on a white bus in almost imperceptible black lettering. It wasn't for us although we all wished it could be.
This is the Crystal Whatsit. I asked if it’s from something and she’s like “it came out of the woods.” If you can't tell, the wearer has a fuzzy outfit with the rock parts inside. The helmet is a window to luminescence and the crystals studding the rock glow.
She looked more like an adventurer with her helmet off.
Ripley has a tattoo of thunderclouds on one arm, that symbolizes sudden change, and branches on the other arm, that symbolize change so gradual that you don’t even realize it’s happening. The branches took the tattooer 11 hours to make while the stormclouds took only 4 hours to make. There's a metaphor in there somewhere.
Both of them have really subtle colors that I noticed immediately and some people don’t notice for years. She had to talk the tattooer into including the colors.
She wore a mask that some people called an albino crow and I compared to a raptor and that she says makes her think of either a rodo with a raptor’s beak or Horus. Her friend, who was dressed as Anubis with a utility belt and catsuit and light-up helmet with sunglasses covering the eyes, gave her a feather she found, possibly from the gull, and she judged Lex with the Tiresias tattoo’s soul by taking her pulse.
On her utility belt is a glowing stone, that can illuminate her way through the darkest of places.
She says it's so frustrating to nudge people with her snout instead of having working jaw parts and biting them.
Your final form is dust, Ripley says.
Lex said that being your authentic self is a choice.
They called him Spider Jerusalem because he was bald and had steampunk mirrorshades. He also had tattoos of deep space covering his arm.
Dani wore a choker and braid and black and white costume with a hood but no sleeves. She danced with fans with streamers attached them.
So did Victoria.
There was a woman dancing with streamers in front of the mural and she thought she knew me but this was her first Figment.
No glowstix but I did get this squooshy ring with red, orange, and blue LEDs inside so my hand can be its own rave.
One Financial Center was lit up with coruscating rainbows.
Someone at the dance party was juggling with luminescent bowling pins. There was a dancer with a glowing rainbow sword.
Raven has purple hair now.
A woman had Mateus’ sigil or perhaps it’s the Charon glyph for “wi” and maybe her name starts with that, on the nape of her neck and balloons and stuff on her shoulder. Her hair was indigo.
She wasn’t cut-rate Casey Desmond and she definitely wasn’t the real Casey Desmond, because her sign is Zeromus.
By the time I drew Norela, the lighting was not adequate at all. She really likes my art style.
A woman on the train had pins on her bag that say "Feminist AF" and "future author" and "I ❤ my vibrator."
burning question: if corporations can be people, why can’t dogs?
except they ruled against the monkeys who took a selfie.
Sen says she took a class about non-human personhood.
