the mannequin hunt

So I have a new and strange obsession.

No, it's not tube drawings of what was going on in Miss South Carolina's head, nor is it the brilliance of Canada's own Michael Cera (if you haven't already, go see Superbad right this second)...

it's mannequins.

Montréal storefronts offer a startingly large number of these strange, ill-used plastic creatures. Best viewed at night, they come alive under buzzing fluorescent lighting while the rest of the world meanders drunkenly along.

We've been sucessfully tracking them for the better part of the last month, with decidedly bizarre success.

Behold our recent spoils.

A flock in their natural habitat. Some inter-fighting
must have occurred at an earlier date
(observe amputated hands and missing digits)

Although orphaned by her kin, this amputee
remains gracefully austere

Here, an older specimen quietly accepts her morose fate

These juveniles have engaged in an apparently fatal game
of "spin the baby bottle"

Nothing creepier than baby dolls

Model slash chef mannequins, ready for work

This week we hope to reach the Valhalla of Mannequin-land: the Magasin de Mannequenerie on Sherbrooke. If our next expedition proves fruitious, I will post the results here.

ode to eurosatire

"Prepare for downcount"


"My other favorite thing, is not going to a job."

2006 is so last year...

december 29, 2006. 5:02 pm.

PUFFY FACE!

So in a slightly dazed bout of accounting procrastination/break-before-I-go-mental, I stumbled across My Heritage, a site that allows you to track your family history through photographs.

More importantly though, it allows me to do this:


MY CELEBRITY LOOK-ALIKES!!!

Surprised I didn't know that I look more like Renee "Puffyface" Zelwegger than Tyra "Tranny" Banks...

I did a few more and the four common denominators (all of whom showed up twice) were Tyra, Halle Berry, Beyonce Knowles, and...wait for it...

ALYSSA MILANO.

I also variably looked like Scarlett Johannson, Kristin Kreuk, Cameron Diaz (WHAT?!?!), Rachel Leigh Cook, Naomi Campbell, Kates Winslet AND Beckinsale, and Aishwariya Rai.

Weird. Told you I wasn't black.

were-pyres

maybe it is the recent controversial photo shoots from this season's ANTM, or the fact that I just watched Underworld last night...or maybe it is halloween, but Melanie Pullen's High Fashion Crime Scenes photo series is pretty scary/mazing:



Remember, creepy is the new hot.

Oulipo!

As the weather turns damp and drizzly I often find myself turning indoors for comfort, namely from friends, hot toddies, and books. That being said, I have been trying my hand at writing a few things here and there to get myself back into the wintery literary mindset.

After reading about the finalists for the Governor General's Literay awards, I became curious about the literary style used by one of the finalists, Paul Glennon.

Apparently, Oulipo is a form of writing created in 1960 as part of the Collège de ‘Pataphysique. Among other constraints, it limits the way poems, stories and novels are written using syntax patterning.

This is my favorite: "The prisoner's constraint (a.k.a the "macao" constraint) is a type of lipogram that omits letters with "legs" (b, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, p, q, t, and y)."

Sounds like a great hyperintellectual game of balderdash to me...