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Monday, January 12, 2009

Is it a jellyfish that dreamt it was a sock or a sock that dreamt it was a jellyfish? oooooooooo

I post here a lot. I acknowledge it, but I can't seem to get around it. Awesome stuff just keeps happening to me?

I sort of really like jellyfish. A group of jellyfish is called a "bloom"--what's not to like? I also enjoy making things. One classic Freudian defense mechanism is sublimation: take those negative and uncomfortable emotions and channel them into something else. Clean your apartment, for example. Or make handicrafts. It's like Woody Allen plus Martha Stewart. Knitting is good for anxiety and sewing is good for a guilty conscience (you occasionally stab yourself in the fingers, and it's like self-flagellation on a teeny, tiny scale. It's like balance is being restored to the universe). Perhaps my calling in life is some sort of synchronization of Therapy, Feminism, and Handicrafts. I would be okay with that.

I made a prototype of a sock-jellyfish. I am a little bit sad that there isn't an awesome punny name like socktopus (TM) for this one, but I think it'll be okay.

I'm joking about the Freudian bullshit, but there is something cathartic about taking dumb stuff that's laying around and transforming them into a thing that you made. It's a Franken-Jelly-Fish. I'm still working on the name.

11 comments:

wingsofadove said...

i like it, but the tendrils need to be curlier:)
that said i still want a socktopenis:)
i like the colors and i like the balloon
next up, jellyfish the second?

David Zwerdling said...

In response to your question: clearly the sock came first, ergo it must be that. Quid pro quo egg came before the chicken, vis-a-vis the information that the egg is present in less evolved fauna.

In response your post, my personal favorite is to clean. Even playing or working on my own stuff is somehow not nearly as satisfying as taking a totally trashed apartment and making it look like people could come over again over the period of a day...

alm said...

Dave, can I just say that every time I visit our blog, there seems to be a new Valley Girl phrase attached to it? "OMG CAN YOU BELIEVE IT'S alm at 9:07 PM 2 OMG THIS IS TOTALLY WHAT WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT LIKE, STUFF HERE HAS THIS STUFF"

wingsofadove said...

you no like valley speak?
maybe dave is asorbing too much valley into his system

rubenssw said...

It's definitely a sock that dreamed it was a jellyfish.

Like, totally.

rubenssw said...

*dreamt

That was bothering me all day.

wingsofadove said...

still looks kinda like a penis

alm said...

your face looks like a penis.

wingsofadove said...

ewwwwww

rubenssw said...

This is the Family Learning Channel, ladies.

Let's keep it clean.

wingsofadove said...

you keep it clean
and your penis face