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Dancing on the phone, or near the phone, or...over the phone?

Because I can't stop myself from explaining where we've been: I haven't been blogging for Mad King Thomas because I'm not sure what is happening with Mad King Thomas. We have been working on this crazy phone dance experiment for many months now and the fact is we don't (I don't) know what to say about it. We have gotten ourselves in deep, this time--a lot of work to do, not a lot of consensus on what it will be. We've made dozens of tiny dances and only about four of them have been any good.

The internet provides.

Rape Jokes and what's funny

Okay, I know I'm a few weeks behind here, and that this is old news, but I can't stop thinking about rape jokes.

Okay, I know this is like years old news. I was telling someone about the Daniel Tosh incident and she was genuinely confused, saying, "Didn't that happen a couple of years ago?" Why yes, yes, I'm sure it did. Some other dude, some other rape joke. But it's still happening, so forgive me for still caring.

A collection of paragraphs

Summer is making me crabby. Thank god it rained today, or I might have melted, and I don't mean just physically, in a puddle of fleshy goo. I mean stretched to a taffy-like mental state of existential Salvador-Dali angst.

I'm desperate to be understood. And I'm so tired of wanting to make meaning. I've been thinking about a lot of things. Too many things to catalog. I can't write coherently so I don't write at all. I'm bored with all or none.

San Francisco, we're gonna love you so hard.

San Francisco, we are working so hard for you! We are rehearsing, we are getting new haircuts, we are doing pushups.  We are hassling strangers and they have proven to be kind & helpful.  We are having anxiety nightmares and spending too much time in the soap aisle at the store.  We are bringing sweaters, and nobody hates a sweater more than a Minnesotan in June.  That's how excited we are.  So here is a little gift for you:

 

Mad King Thomas meets San Francisco, June 2012: Workshops and Shows

Mad King Thomas is delighted to be performing and teaching workshops in San Francisco June 23-30!

Way too much information.

So, I have no idea if we've mentioned this publicly yet but we've been accepted to the Art(ists) on the Verge 4 program, which (I know, I know, names with mid-word parentheses but give me a minute, this one is awesome) is this program designed to support artists "working experimentally at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture with a focus on network-based practices that are interactive and/or participatory." So yeah, you're probably like, "That's hilarious because nobody is as bad at technology as Mad King Thomas". But actually! Well actually you probably didn't think that. Probably you've just never thought about us in relation to network-based practices and digital culture. Or... you know what, I'm just gonna leave this one alone. I have no idea what you've ever thought about us in relation to any part of the previous paragraph.

Pro-tip: I do not actually fit inside either Monica or Tara

So as usual, I am about a month late, but please, let me not allow feelings of guilt and tardiness stand in the way of me sharing possibly the BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT I HAVE EVER BEEN GIVEN:

Yes, they are custom hand-painted MAD KING THOMAS STACKING DOLLS!

Poor gay things.

Get your vegetables!

ha ha this carrot has a vagina. ha ha. ha ha.

forget carrot dildos!

yes i know i'm a teenage boy, but seriously!?! this carrot is totally self-sufficient. vagina and dildo in one!

 

i love carrots.

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