Secrets of the City

I’d say female.

CHASING WINDMILLS!

hmmmm….do you think the Walker joined just so it could chat up 14 year olds?

The Walker is a power bottom.

I don’t get it.

I don’t get it.

Your humor isn’t lost on me, Ross. Keep it up.

I want to know.

I just did a google search for “power bottom” and learned more than I wanted to.

…not that there is anything wrong with that.

The Walker’s too robotic and sharp-edged to be a girl. Clearly a man, but one (as the defunct TC mag Siren used to say) with a “gay sensibility.”

I learned a new word today. Actually, a new word pairing.

Am I the last person on earth that still thinks MySpace is the worst “social networking” site to have ever existed? Am I the last person on earth that still refuses to get a MySpace account?

It’s hard for me to continue to rat on MySpace now because more and more of my friends are on it, but I think it’s one of the most superficial and outright fake places on the web. “MySpace” might be the most oxymoronic thing on the Internet as well, especially now that it’s under Rupert Murdoch’s list of acquisitions.

Okay, I’m starting to exaggerate. Don’t take me too seriously, but for a specific reason, I do hate how MySpace users constantly try to hotlink content from my site. They do it more than anyone else IMHO.

Wow, I trolled there, but seriously: Why do you like MySpace and why do you think it’s good? Is it because your friends use it too or do you have a better reason?

Thanks for the add!

I have what you might call ‘mixed feelings’ about MySpace. But this seems a good place to cross-link Alexis’ MySpace post that got some good commenting action.

Are there any local art blogs? I read mnartists.org occasionally, the Walker blogs occasionally, and…. sometimes Cursor, Eyeteeth, and, well, this one. Not much in the way of art blogging, is there?

Yeah, I couldn’t think of anything beyond Eyeteeth either. Maybe Ratchet Up counts.

Whatever gender, it’s an ugly kid.

Walker’s gender: angry robot.

MySpace: horrible- possibly the most user-unfriendly site I can think of. right now. after several beers. pbr, if you must ask. with schell’s dark mixed into the last couple. not my usual, but it tasted good this evening. bed now, bus too soon.

I don’t want no part of your tight ass country club, you freak bitch!

Well gender is a cultural category after all so let’s consider the spectrum…

Institute of Arts: Definitely male.
Weisman: lipstick lesbian
Walker: Grey old lady in a wheelchair.

Thanks Rex. I know of John Schott’s Camera/Iraq, but not Ratchet Up.

Also, my pal Penelope Freeh, a dancer-choreographer with James Sewell Ballet, recently started a dance blog.

…and what am I? Chopped liver? Or does theater not fall within your definition of art? sigh.

If vanity blogs count, there is my blog as a occasionally moderately successful playwright.

I’d write more about local theater, but, man, I’ve done that.

SPARBER!!! No way! Are you back in town or still in Omaha? And yes, you put it well…I guess my blog (I’m totally self-linking. Deal.) is a vanity blog, even though it’s only about performance, as opposed to what I ate for breakfast.

I noticed that the Walker’s mySpace account says that he/she is there for dating. Who would the Walker date? The Guthrie?

Oh, I’m back. In a big way.

I’m rolling hard on this town. Booyah.

The Walker Would date some Argentinian museum we’ve never heard of but is really cool.

Are you sure the Walker wouldn’t by lying about the Argentinian museum? You know — “Oh yeah, she’s from out of town. You wouldn’t know her.”

That’s a Canadian museum, and, yeah, I used to date her too.

Back in high school. I met her at summer camp.

You don’t believe me? I’ve got her photo somewhere back at home. Give me a little while to find it.

Okay, I can’t find it. You’re just going to have to believe me.

This guy is local. Awed Job.

http://sketch-it.blogspot.com/

(I assumed “art blogs” implied visual arts, which is why I didn’t mention music/theater/design/etc. sites… nor sites that are themselves an artwork.)

No real blog (yet!?) but mplsart.com is growing in to a good calendar resource.

And the photo galleries of The Most Fuckable In The Twin Cities Art Scene continue to make me, well, ummm…keep returning.

Seven times out of ten, methinks, the most fuckable are the ones who have better things to do than attend openings.

Word to kristoff’s mom. mplsart is a dope site, featuring pictures of foxy chicks and a pretty good calendar. There could be a few more smaller events, though.

Hi all,

Jeff here from the Walker. When we were setting up the account, we were a little put out when MySpace required us to pick a gender, with our only options being Male or Female. Our plan was to switch every month or so, assuming that people wouldn’t really notice. Since we’ve found the contrary to be true, we’ll switch between male and female every week or so. Unfortunately, that is the all the genderblur that MySpace will allow for.

Sign up to be a Walker MySpace friend to get great ticket offers, discounts, and advance notice on high demand events.

For some perspective (or perhaps levity), First Ave is a female, the 331 Club is a male, City Pages is a female, Ox-Op is a male, Varsity is a male, The Onion is a male, and the Zombie Pub Crawl is a male.

That’s a slick pimp right there folks.

The pimp would have been complete if Jeff linked to the Myspace page in his own post.

Rex, what’s is WCCO?

City Pages is female? God damn it, I have written for them under the presumption that the newsweekly is male. Now I feel like an idiot!

WCCO is an old married couple who sit in slightly tattered armchairs and comment to no one in particular about the stories in the newscast:

“Ah, this country’s going to holy hell.”
“Holy buckets it’s gonna be cold tomorrow…”
“Damn kids…”

Oh wait… sorry. Those are WCCO’s viewers. My bad.

< /snark>

Very nice Dave. I’ve met most of those viewers at three consecutive state fairs.

Operation successful: now the Walker’s listed as a female.

Best quote at the Walker’s mySpace account (on the Kiki Smith sculpture in the Walker lobby): “What’s the lady’s foot doing in the deer’s butt?” Thanks, Walker for being our regular site for the weird and the wonderful!