tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6363196400195602850..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Clark Coolidge: Library of Hay (at Manikin Lake, with Onyx Dolls)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20453455109233185712013-04-12T08:10:37.726-07:002013-04-12T08:10:37.726-07:00And that's a big IF, all right.
Charmin Chatt...And that's a big IF, all right.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B44RQ8cNls8" rel="nofollow">Charmin Chatty Cathy</a> was a doll from another epoch, a time when things were a bit more... repressed, would that be the word?<br /><br />She could say all sorts of crazy stuff, 120 different things, in fact. And she could even make animal noises.<br /><br />For those interested in origins...<br /><br /><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=WK2eSY4KaY8C&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=tolbert+sablosky+the+man+and+his+work&source=bl&ots=yZC7xDurvY&sig=LFQHm70tm_qLQOyntLtDn0ZrzNQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LWm9UIa6M5Sc9QT4roDYDA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=tolbert%20sablosky%20the%20man%20and%20his%20work&f=false" rel="nofollow">How Possum Kingdom got its name</a>.<br /><br />Can you blame this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/texasbackroads/7798710044/sizes/l/in/set-72157630887454242/" rel="nofollow">scared deer at Possum Kingdom Lake</a> for seeming a bit wary? Chances are a two-legged critter pointing something at you in this neck of the woods may have something other than your welfare in mind.<br /><br />Was karmic retribution being exacted in 2011-2012 when <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Pk3.png/1280px-Pk3.png" rel="nofollow">terrible wild fires swept through the Possum Kingdom Lake area</a>?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80768471914516195172013-04-11T15:46:52.817-07:002013-04-11T15:46:52.817-07:00Reigning over Possum Kingdom
Princesses Immobile
l...Reigning over Possum Kingdom<br />Princesses Immobile<br />living la VIda Loca Immotile<br />Smokey eyes open now<br />Now open<br />Prince Charmin will be<br />here<br />Any minute now<br />Any day if HeMarie Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07787850063283960703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28305367392162190122013-04-11T13:06:17.815-07:002013-04-11T13:06:17.815-07:00The dolls is horrid. Still, I'm safe enough he...The dolls is horrid. Still, I'm safe enough here in my hand-me-down dress from who knows where.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87813155272753872262013-04-11T13:00:28.491-07:002013-04-11T13:00:28.491-07:00As a poet I stare into the abyss
but I can't ...As a poet I stare into the abyss <br />but I can't hardly even glance at<br />BJD or Celtic Thunder videosVINCENT FARNSWORTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840705566779483677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88108333079832200402013-04-11T12:24:34.314-07:002013-04-11T12:24:34.314-07:00Sorry Vincent, Moderation in all things ate my hom...Sorry Vincent, Moderation in all things ate my homework.<br /><br />But... me too.<br /><br />Thirty seconds for the dolls, possibly even too generous, but still.<br /><br />(The videos of geeks from space assembling their own BJDs at home were so terrifying I could not post them for fear of losing my religion.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59842932230743218392013-04-11T12:19:21.375-07:002013-04-11T12:19:21.375-07:00Sorry WB, I hadn't seen that. Such are the eff...Sorry WB, I hadn't seen that. Such are the effects of Moderation in all things. <br /><br />But me too, Nin.<br /><br />And me too, WB.<br /><br />About the dolls, I don't know if it's because I'm old, or because the world is insane, or because the world is young and insane and...<br /><br />No, it must be a cultural rift.<br /><br />There is a woman (American, old enough to have stopped playing with dolls), who orders every "edition" of the "exclusive series" of these dolls, and posts videos of filming herself (with her computer of course) as she sits, with gawky appendages akimbo, in a long skirt, on her bed opening the boxes as they arrive and what is there to say?<br /><br />High drama.<br /><br />Scary boxcutters.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19121535980380596492013-04-11T12:19:18.200-07:002013-04-11T12:19:18.200-07:00I couldn't take more that 30 seconds of the BJ...I couldn't take more that 30 seconds of the BJD, and that's something because I lasted a full minute with this http://video.pbs.org/video/1422378497/VINCENT FARNSWORTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840705566779483677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73807911041362327132013-04-11T12:04:56.556-07:002013-04-11T12:04:56.556-07:00through the water door to Manikin Lake
Wet thresh...through the water door to Manikin Lake<br /><br />Wet threshold, always back to that made up world like we can't help ourselves.<br /><br />This sonnet calls for a good many "rollicking encores". Needs to be read aloud.<br /><br />The dolls look like they've just walked from the set of a Dario Argento film. Creepy doesn't get close.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43532277349255788032013-04-11T10:36:54.760-07:002013-04-11T10:36:54.760-07:00I love these dolls! Creepy. And I have this coll...I love these dolls! Creepy. And I have this collaborative book of Ron Padgett and Coolidge. It looks like lumpy nonsense or LANGUAGE poems written by one, interpreted by the other as sic-fi films by the other.<br /><br />Funny, but I am beginning not to know the dif between sci fi and reality. Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38418071876867752372013-04-11T06:37:01.987-07:002013-04-11T06:37:01.987-07:00I guess it's the preternaturally large eyes of...I guess it's the preternaturally large eyes of those BJDs that really spooks me... couldn't help wondering what they're looking for, the poor dead things... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KiU5P4ihIQ" rel="nofollow">could it possibly be...</a>??TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19405020054308285542013-04-11T05:31:49.160-07:002013-04-11T05:31:49.160-07:00And here, direct from the EPC onyx-doll labs:
Bea...And here, direct from the EPC onyx-doll labs:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKCn437KLN4" rel="nofollow">Beautiful BJD's (A Tribute)</a><br /><br />Hello Soul Kitty, can it be you are the material manifestation of the ghost of <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/hans-bellmer.html" rel="nofollow">Hans Bellmer</a>??TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com