Team Shredder

This just in-- from the desk of NY correspondant Gree C. Hair-- to the couch of Team Shredder:

HOW'S MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION GOING YOU ASK

Well dear Capt and Sea Monkey
I'm happy to say my resolution to scare everyone off at the Greenpoint
YMCA
is working great-not only will no one come near the sauna when I'm in
it but
usually no one will even swim in the same
lane as me in the pool.
Sometimes a bit of hair especially down around the old separation
between
church and state is just the insular I need.
And I'm pretty sure I saw someone mouthing "rusty brillo pad" last week
when
I walked by.

Thanks to the Team for all the inspiring and kind words.

That's all for this report more in the near future.

Gree C.








March is comin' in like a LION!













Gree C. Hair told me today that she likes to read about us here on the couch. She says she can see us in her mind's eye, and it gives her the excellent feelin's.
This is Gree C. on the pullout couch of Team Shredder.



















Here's to Gree C. Hair!

Mystery Excellence

Gree C. Hair has sent me this beautiful image, but I'm not allowed to say anything about it.
Can't even name her real name, I mean, the artist's real name, and then send it through the channels of the Just Because Department. Because that would be saying something about it. So instead I'll say nothing.
I'll just let it speak for itself. Though I don't think she'd mind if I said that it doesn't stand alone. It's got others like it, with little differences, working together to form a larger thing. A thing of beauty, for sure. A thing I hope to be allowed to tell you about when it's done.

The Just Because department of Team Shredder is pleased to announce Jennifer Macdonald's inclusion in the current group show at The Drawing Center. The show is called Analog Animation: Selections Spring 2006.
This is a still from Jen's 3-minute animation----->
of a boy eating and disgorging blackbirds. The whole dang thing is hand painted, I might add. I can't wait to go see this, because if this piece is anywhere near as good as the one other animation of hers I've seen, called Brighter Death Now, then look out people!

This is no lie.

February 19th, 2006
A lot of things happened today.
Marcia Bryson died this morning. I didn't know her, except as Anna Joy's mom. It's unspeakably sad, and yet from what I understand, it happened in a truly beautiful and magical way. Anna was right by her side, finding the perfect things to say to help Marcia on her path. But I believe what she said also helped Ali, and herself, and even me, when I heard about it. Ali talks about the whole thing in a much more articulate way.
I praise Anna for becoming a true healer, and Ali for being such a good partner. I love you both.
Go in peace, Marcia.





The crazy thing is, today is also the 2 year anniversary of Anna Joy Springer and Ali Liebegott and Mr. and Mrs. The Capt'n's double wedding. We all drove up to San Francisco and got married at City Hall. It was an amazing day, I'll tell you what. Happy Anniversary

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1) Team Shredder takes a drive
Sea Monkey and The Capt'n awoke from their naps, climbed in the van, and happily putt-putted thru the cute Barrio Logan to get Sea Monkey's pills at the special farmacia. It was so relaxin'!

2) Team Shredder watched the 'Lympics, even though they really wanted to watch Medium
The Team was joined by Myles on the couch. Saw the Russian figure skaters take the gold. The whole time during the routine they screamed "DON'T DROP HER, CHOAD!!" and it worked.
Women's/girl-child half-pipe, highlight quotes from the announcers:
"She pumps harder than any of the other girls."
"This was the most explosive performance I've ever seen!!"
"The lines between the genders have truly been blurred today."
plus one from the Team Chorus:
"There's gonna a LOT of fisting tonight at the Hotel Turino, they gotta blow off all that steam."

3) Team Shredder plays another round of their new game, called "What the bitch do now?"
A certain producer is messing up a certain production by actually working against the people she is supposed to be working for. Harming & hindering, but not helping. We can't know why. So the Team, in self-defense, must repeatedly workshop it and break it down, it being what the bitch do now. Each round gets wrapped up with a chorus of "C U Next Tuesday."

Reward! No questions asked!
















Answers to the names "The Doctor," "G," and "Scared Gerbil."
Is a picky eater and prefers cheese, Coca Cola, and smoking American Spirits (was trained to smoke during his tenure as a lab monkey.)
This monkey is a delicate creature and easily becomes disoriented when outside his familiar settings.
Any information leading to the return of Sea Monkey to Team Shredder will be handsomely rewarded, no questions asked.

Subject: Vacation

Many things to report. By 9:00 AM Mrs. The Capt'n had already returned from the Y and the store. The early pump and steam, then treats were procured, brekfasses were had. The conversation turned to Death and Loss for a time, then circled back to Comedia.
"Lady Comedy, she is a mysterious mistress! You never know when she'll call. One day she'll come knocking, and you'll happen to tell her you're busy, and she may never come back again!" -Maury Meeks, Team Social Scientist and Bitter Hag
Then tarot readings all around. The tarot, she never lies.


The Team is currently hosting the chil'rens from San Francisco, Sheana and Jen.




Aren't they cute?
Don't you just want to squeeze their little faces?



Sea Monkey and The Capt'n, unlike Mrs. The Capt'n, are postponing today's chores to spend quality time with the chil'rens on the beach. It's not every day we get this oppurtunity to blow off our responsibilities to be with out of towners. Usually we have to be saddled with guilt over blowing things of for lesser reasons.
The visiting auxilliary Team Chil'rens had a tiny scare yesterday on the beach after the Capt'n went in the water "just for a little while," and didn't come out till after darkness fell. It's just that The Capt'n got caught in a tiny vortex and could'nt seem to find a friendly wave to ride in on, as the sun went down quickly. The Chil'rens aren't used to the casual ways of the Team. Sheana worried about how upset The Mrs. would be when they had to tell her that The Capt'n just never came back. The Capt'n registered her Official Apology to the Auxilliary Team.

Today's goals:
1) The Team must strive to get out the house by 2:00 in order to get to the beach in time for the chil'renses to do their barbeque situation, before they have to drive to LA tonight.
2) Can Sea Monkey and The Capt'n get mad rides?
3) Will Invasion be a rerun or will they show a new one tonight?

(click on the image)

I am a cliche. We know this.
Having said that, let's take a look at what Day 1 is like on my "cycle."

Claudio Monteverdi
Hugo Wolf
Henri Duparc
Oliver Messaen
Joan Armatrading
The Smiths
Belle and Sebastian
Kate Bush

We here in the Just Because Department feel it is time to display several excellent things, just because.





Ron Athey and Juliana Snapper in February Art in America.








photo Paula Court



Zoe Strauss on the cover of Public Space

and then in Colors magazine too.

















Jennifer Macdonald, Hunter College MFA show, last time around.





What will Jen do this time?

Mosler, "The Spirit of the Rainbow"
Dupuis, "An Ondine Playing in the Waves"
Corinth, "Reclining Nude"

Not really.
Just time to get the lady business checked out. Check out the goods, check it out.
Nobody likes doing this, but do I must.
I love Planned Parenthood.
The mens have it easy, all they have is a bag and a hose, what's the problem? Once in a while a little butt cancer, but that is so early-catchable.
Why they tryin' to take away my rights?

This month's hot pick:

Team Shredder chooses this book because it speaks to the madness of our times, as well as the madness up in here personally. Things are going haywire. Video editing is severely stunted as videos continue to be posessed by demons. Blogs are going berzerk, things are disappearing.
For example: yesterday, for no reason, our "Cost of War" counter and 1970's graphic "war is unhealthy for children and other living things" both vanished from our sidebar. Out of the blue. For no reason. Nobody here touched it. Why would they vanish???
What is going on here? Am I getting paranoid?


(...I put back the graphic, and I'm still working on the counter...)