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Strange little things matter in life

Sometime around 1997 a friend and I were driving through our neighborhood on our way to see a movie or play basketball- I can't quite remember which- anyway- I spotted a doll head in the gutter and asked my friend to stop the car- I got out and retrieved the doll head- I put it on the floorboards of my friends car- we went and did whatever we did and I took the doll head home- At the time I was making live action short films using the name "SomeGuy"- I was just beginning to play around with animation- I kept the doll head on my desk- this is some old album art where you can see the doll head sitting with my stuff way back when- In that photo next to the doll head are some Barbie parts I found in the street- they had been run over a few times which gave them this nice texture that made it looked like they were burnt- asphalt road rash burn- Why I am I talking about this stuff? I kept that doll head around and started using it in my weird little animations

Death, Grief, Cats, Weighted randoms, Hope

I just realized that I haven't written any non code text in a long time. It feels strange to write without syntax or without a specific problem to solve. I should say that I am writing this in an attempt to deal with a problem. The problem is grief- the grief that comes with the death or imminent death of a pet. I haven't had that many close human friends in my life but I've always had cat friends- I've had them my whole life. My last cat, Sneakers- died under mysterious circumstances- we found him dead on the sidewalk in front of our house the day after we came home from Iceland to attend the funeral of my wife's father. My wife's fathers death was a huge shock- our cat being killed right after felt like being kicked when you are down- I thought he had been hit by a car, but my neighbor told me that he had been killed by a mentally ill homeless man- I later found a man that fit the decription who claimed that he suffered from "demoni