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Grex Accordions Item 136: Deleriously DaDa web site
Entered by raven on Wed May 28 15:47:58 UTC 1997:

For your entertainment pleasure I present the URL of "The Gus's" web site.
This site contains scans of his DaDa paintings of Chickens and other
paintings with ummm environmental themes, hundreds of pages of diary entries
about the rural Virgian punk rock scene and his time at Oberlin College
(where I knew him).  Highly entertaining for thos who enjoy tweaked images
and prose, but not for those easily offended.

http://atlas.comet.net/~gus/

16 responses total.

#1 of 16 by void on Fri May 30 03:28:38 1997:

   you went to oberlin? so did one of my brothers. small world. :)

#2 of 16 by raven on Fri May 30 04:19:23 1997:

Yeah don't you know the theory that all the cool people in the U.S. know
each other and they migrate from A2 to Oberlin, to Boston, to Austin,
to Sante Fe to San Francisco, to Arcata to Portland, like a whirling
flock of birds? 1/2 :-)

#3 of 16 by void on Sat May 31 07:37:10 1997:

   heh...well, that's not the route my brother took and he's currently
in cleveland, but it seems that an inordinate number of cool people
went to either oberlin or grinnell (where my other brother went).

#4 of 16 by otaking on Sat May 31 11:48:33 1997:

So do the Ypsi people migrate to A2 hoping to be cool? (I live in Ypsi so
I have experience with this.)

#5 of 16 by font on Sat May 31 21:30:50 1997:

Huh....Ann Arbor *Used* to be a cool place.  (Usurped a long time ago by...??)
No, it's gleaning for the stragglers of cool.  Really, there are still cool
people here, it's just out of the cool person network (or on the back burner).
Faketopia....Yup...

#6 of 16 by raven on Sun Jun 1 02:52:31 1997:

re #5 Too true...I see my faketopia moniker is spreading. :-)  Say did
anynj\\anyone actually check out the web site that is the subject of this
entry, it's really quite cool esp. the artwork by "The Gus."

#7 of 16 by otaking on Sun Jun 1 08:38:40 1997:

Ann Arbor still has some cool left in it, but it's hiding from the glut of
cafes, trendy clothing stores, and corporate media outlets like Towers and
Borders.

Re #6: What does Faketopia mean raven?

#8 of 16 by raven on Sun Jun 1 16:31:20 1997:

It means what you have described above that everything is simulated and
corporate.  It is thus (fake) while having information about everything
thus a kind of shadow of utopia.

#9 of 16 by void on Mon Jun 2 08:54:27 1997:

   blame it on the yuppies. :b

#10 of 16 by font on Fri Jun 6 01:08:10 1997:

That which is not faulted of this to Yuppy, is those who support them, and
that which was consived for their comfort.  Like Yuppy Warehouses.  (those
identicaly made super expensive and superboring condos...(hats off to STeve
for this monicer)  Tally ho.

#11 of 16 by void on Fri Jun 6 09:02:34 1997:

   heh...love the term. btw, why is it that all those yuppie warehouses
are painted the same spoiled-mushroom color?

#12 of 16 by raven on Fri Jun 6 16:30:54 1997:

because the fungus are amongest...

#13 of 16 by raven on Fri Jun 6 22:15:56 1997:

err among us that is...

#14 of 16 by scott on Sat Jun 7 12:11:48 1997:

Ah yes, the beautiful look of Velcro Architecture...

"Hey, we've got a couple of window boxes left"
"Just stick them on a blank spot, uf you can find one"

#15 of 16 by font on Wed Jul 2 05:28:32 1997:

Didn't you know?  "Rotting Mushroom" is the latest color, which is blandly
inoffensive, yet trendy and refreshing.  Much better than dreary Kacki...
And it will mach your brand new "Spoiled Avocado" couch which is reminicent
of a more Optimistic and Innocent time.
<art BS = OFF>

#16 of 16 by raven on Wed Jul 2 16:55:38 1997:

re #15 rotfl <heh heh>

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