Sunday Nov 12, 2006

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echo:
My story for the day is quick.

My eyes water from deep frying turkey. There's another turykey in curry in the oven. I've baked side dishes and desserts. Alas I'm not in my hometown so I don't have lots of friends to come over.
My eyes are tearing at this moment, from all the smoke.
hazmatt:
you asked for it
Through some SF MOMA connection we ended up with all of Matthew Barney's Petroleum jelly/parifin petrol gak from the recent show. It was a scheme cooked up by Jim the lease holder for our space. He has some ideas what to do with it. Anyway the day after he got the stuff and brought it into the space a couple of shopmates decided it would be a great idea to bathe Jim in the jelly. So they heated up two 55 gallon drums to get them nice and liquid and used the fork lift to administer the jelly to Jim. Jim was pinned down in a kiddie pool whilst jelly was scooped out on him (it didn't quite get liquid). The whole thing erupted in a massive jelly fight. A which point I kept my distance. Incidently the last name of the guy who instigated the jelly baptisim is Valdez. The incident is known as the Valdez disaster not to be confused with the Exxon Valdez disaster. Anyway it took over a week to clean the shop. People were washing the jelly off with biodiesel and or mineral spirits thinner. Worst idea for a party ever! though fun to talk about.

video

set up
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KtETJO5wUS0

bathing Jim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Ji20Twk9g

pictures
http://www.theshipyard.org/vaseline9_30_06/valdezdisater.html

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