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THEN 12/30/00

>> A poem to end the year.




THEN 12/29/00

>> Proposal for a new flag :





>> Range Ecologist, Cowboy Poet and Teddy Roosevelt Re-Creator, Dr. Richard Hart (Dick Hart to his friends), was recently named Poet Laureate of Cheyenne, Wyoming. A perfect match. Congratulations, Dick!




THEN 12/28/00

>> 235th Street

Lew doesn't know I'm posting this. I'm not too sure what he'll say. It's an old, semi-forgotten piece of work that was lost when Dirt #8 never made it to press. Maybe that whole issue should remain forgotten, but this piece, I think, is relevant to Lewman's upcoming book with Bend, Black Mayonnaise. So, read it here.
There is also an image that went along with it. Can anyone name the dorks in the car?




THEN 12/27/00

>> Executive Summary

Starting : Dec. 1, 2000
Ending : Dec. 26, 2000

Number of hits: 36162
Number of megabytes transferred: 728.3
Number of pages viewed: 13297
Number of estimated visits: 3550
Number of unique hosts: 2183
Number of unique pages: 302
Number of error hits: 385
Number of unique errors: 50

Averages:

Number of pages viewed per day: 511
Number of pages viewed per visit: 4
Length of visit: 3 minutes, 6 seconds
Number of visits per day: 137
Number of visits per week: 956




THEN 12/26/00

>> The first check Bend ever received---$10 for the purchase of our first book, "I Check The Mail..." in1995---bounced. And we knew the culprit.




THEN 12/23/00

>> Arkitip now has a preview up of issue # 7.


>> We've received another Bucky Fukumoto and friends Quicktime film. It's called VS (2958k). If you're squimish, turn away...



VS (2958k) and La Fenetre d'Exercise (1616k)




THEN 12/22/00

>> Christopher Walken dancing in a Fat Boy Slim video directed by our man, Spike Jonze? True.


>> Friend of Bend, Bucky Fukumoto sent me this Quicktime movie, "La Fenetre d'Exercise" (1616k). I asked him for credits and this is what he said :

"Um, I made it with my cube-mate (yes, I work in a cubicle, life sucks daily). Made by Justin Leibow and Bucky—we went back and forth on shooting and editing and all that stuffs. The dude with the ice cream is Craig Tollifson and the workout girl is just some girl we shot through the window of a gym on Wilshire. Other than that, thats about it. Geez dude, it was just supposed to be stupid. Well, not stupid but silly."


>> Got this from Tony Larson...

I wrote the guys at Sakebomb a question : "Why is poop shaped differently, every time it comes out, considering it comes from the same place?" : and this was the response... I think they are now my favorite humans... sorry Rob, you were at the top of the list, but this answer just bumped you out...




THEN 12/20/00

>> Another of Them Burp Days

one more trip around the sun
another of them burp-days
find me
at fortythree
w/ the most puzzled look on my face
was it inertia
that yanked me up
from younger
to middler
or an afterthought
cuz
I might of thought
I was tireder
but actually
am not

so I will pedal

—Mike Watt




THEN 12/19/00

>> "And then there's the matter of my book. Which I am calling Black Mayonnaise right now. I don't know what the title means. It feels greasy though, so I like that." —Mark Lewman, re his Bend book. 


>> I am trying to figure out what would happen to general life on earth if the force of gravity were "turned down" about .5%. Say, if gravity is measured as 1G, it dropped to 99.5% of that, or .995G.
What would happen?
I want to interview a "Newtonian" scientist (is there such a thing?) about this. Any suggesstions? If so, please write.

Ah, a response.




THEN 12/17/00

>> Thanks go out to Trevor May for occasionally mentioning Bend on Kaliber 10000 (K10K). Our hits spiked about 500% on 12/15 for about 4 or 5 hours.


>> I just noticed the Line, Glimpse, Shutter home pages look like shit in Explorer. If you think they look like shit too—switch to Netscape. In the meantime, I will be making repairs. Probably even re-designing.




THEN 12/16/00, 1am

>> John Coltrane.




THEN 12/15/00

>> For a sneak preview of Rob Abeyta's Bend Flash movie, click here.




THEN 12/14/00

>> Mark Lewman is writing a novel for Bend.


>> A young woman with her pre-school son were just ahead of me in the check-out line at grocery last night. She was attractive and talkative in her grey, zip-up hoodie. You could easily read the t-shirt underneath;

"JOBS AVAILABLE, Apply Below"

...with an arrow pointing down to her jeans.

When she left, the over-weight bagger girl asked the over-weight register girl if she'd seen the t-shirt.
"Oh yeah. She's always wearing something like that..." she looks up at me and smiles, "Hello sir, how are you doing tonight?"




THEN 12/12/00

>> 20 THINGS YOU ARE AFRAID OF...

1) Having your sternum cracked open so a doctor can put his hands into your chest.

2) Mites.

3) An abundance of horse radish hiding in a turkey sandwich you've just bitten into while on a cross-country flight.

4) Flying rocks.

5) Baseball bats.

6) Movies about Satan.

7) Satan himself.

8) Hot railroad tracks.

9) Spiders in your shoes.

10) Second-hand clothes.

11) God.

12) Mustaches.

13) The Night Stalker... wait, he's dead.

14) People who pick up their dog's poop.

15) Magazines in public toilets.

16) Tap dancers.

17) Porno.

18) Hangnails.

19) James Baker.

20) Electric eels.


>> Some time in the next month or so, bendpressdotcom will reveal its first project designed specifically for the web—a collaboration between writers and designers (props must go out to Born Magazine). The first two guest designers being Rob Abeyta, of Supreme Mundane, and Evan Hecox, the illustration machine, interpreting the words of... you guessed it, me (Andy Jenkins), in what is rapidly becoming a web standard, like it or not... Flash. If it works out, we'll be bringing you more in the future. Any budding Flash designers out there who want to apply? Please write flashme@bendpress.com and point us to your URLs.




THEN 12/11/00

>> Arkitip project #7 will feature fragments of a paper quilt I've been working on for a few years. The pieced top is made up of hundreds of surviving notes, sketches, found papers that I've collected over the past 10 years or so. The quilt is part of the on-going Post-Consumption Guilt Series. The final quilt will be in the neighborhood of 5' x 8'.




THEN 12/8/00

>> Watch for an anthology/journal in Spring 2001 from TNI Books, tentatively titled Little Engines. It will include a short piece of fiction I recently completed, "No Good For Your Heart." Also watch for a thing I wrote, "Eve Was Evil," to show up on the TNI website sometime soon. Thanks go out to Adam Voith for involving me.


>> I heard today that a Dog Town skateboard deck from yesteryear recently sold for $3,550 on ebay.com. I was asked to comment on it for Transworld Skatebiz. This is what I said >>

"I have an idea that the person who paid that $3,550 is outside the outside... a ramora attached to the non-caring shark.
"My hope is that skateboarding not get that precious... I don't want it to wind up like baseball with the baggage of sappy sentimentalism and nostalgia attached. I suppose that with an ever growing history, some of that is inevitable, but at the end of the day, skateboarding is still about the physical actoin of ONE human being on four wheels... movement and sound. Freedom. Rebellion.
"Another thing. I think we as human beings, in general, are way to into ourselves. We're a narcissistic lot... the idea of collecting "art" (or otherwise) for large amounts of money (and this is all relative) is just ridiculous and egotistical on many levels. I realize I'm being hypocritical here—I'm human too. It doesn't mean I can't laugh at myself.
"It's funny, isn't it?" —Andy Jenkins


>> Level Magazine, out of the UK, has decided to take a rest after 11 fine issues. Just after deciding to go 10 times a year, they pulled the plug on issue #12. So "Glimpses" are done for time being as well. There is one more "episode" (Glimpses #9) that was written for Level #12, and it'll go up on bend some time soon.










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