yeah love your art! thank you , what a way to start my day.

Posted by: annie | Nov 1 2004 17:31 utc | 4

So *that’s* what puppets do when no humans are around? We’ve been badly misled by Toy Story.
I saw a picture today of Karl Rove wearing a blue jacket, so it kind of fits with the male puppet. He thinks he can have his way with the voters, but there are forces beyond his control influencing it all. There are indeed strings elsewhere, though I don’t mean Freemasons or the Trilateral Commission, but the economic hangover after the massive bubble of the late 90s. Very nice, Beq, I especially like the hideous, theatrical grimace on the male puppet’s face. Reminds me of a kabuki mask.

Posted by: Harrow | Nov 1 2004 17:43 utc | 6

what are saying CP?
You are an eternal malcontent?
bitching is good, Kerry is not going to lead us out of the wilderness, he is at best an emergency patch until the software can be fixed.
It is up to all of us americans to get busy writing. If we don’t fix it now, we may not get another chance. The rightwingers have been single mindedly working to this moment for forty years. They will learn from this failure when it comes and be better prepared the next time.

Posted by: Dan of Steele | Nov 1 2004 19:57 utc | 8

Allright Beg,
So after the election we have a little art show here? Short story, prose? Pictures of us ? Good to get some imaginary images of posters here back down to earth with maybe a face or a thing done, made.

Posted by: anna missed | Nov 1 2004 20:00 utc | 10

Dan of Steele
“You are an eternal malcontent?”
I think there’s a track record to justify my misgivings.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Nov 1 2004 20:08 utc | 12

fox has kerry up by 3

Posted by: annie | Nov 1 2004 20:31 utc | 14

So are the strings merely reaching up to a pivot and back down to the other puppet? If there is one puppet master (mistress) he/she is particularly inept.
I suspect that as these lengths of cord go out of the frame they begin to wrap around each other before seperating again into the hands of a pair of sake sodden mortals. Each puppeteer has an incomplete set and when one pulls the string believed to be connected to the head on his/her marionette it is in fact the connected to the leg of the other. So puppet A tries to bow to B but instead receives a knee in the groin.
The whole mess in compounded by entanglement which causes several strings to work when one is pulled and there is a lunatic dramatist pacing up and down shouting instructions which are largely ignored. In fact the biggest influence the dramatist has is while standing on the strings tearing out his/her hair.
I like the picture beq. What does that woman know that the rest of us just can’t get.

Posted by: Debs in ’04 | Nov 1 2004 21:50 utc | 16

ot, but did you see the posts from “centerfold” and “playboy” made on long-archived threads? sort of odd. but then…
beq- when I saw your picture, my mind got all intertextually entangled and the Japanese puppets seemed to be an incubus and succubus, except they can’t both be those things…can they?
Or maybe Queen Mab lies beneath all these images in my head and the play’s the thing…
ROMEO
I dreamt a dream tonight.
MERCUTIO
And so did I.
ROMEO
Well, what was yours?
MERCUTIO
That dreamers often lie.
ROMEO
In bed asleep while they do dream things true.
MERCUTIO
Oh, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
BENVOLIO
Queen Mab, what’s she
MERCUTIO
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Over men’s noses as they lie asleep.
Her wagon spokes made of long spinners’ legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
Her traces of the smallest spider’s web,
Her collars of the moonshine’s watery beams,
Her whip of cricket’s bone, the lash of film,
Her wagoner a small gray-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm
Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid.
Her chariot is an empty hazelnut
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love;
On courtiers’ knees, that dream on curtsies straight;
O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees;
O’er ladies’ lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
Sometime she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit.
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail
Tickling a parson’s nose as he lies asleep,
Then he dreams of another benefice.
Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five fathom deep, and then anon
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
That plaits the manes of horses in the night
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes.
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage.
This is she—
–Act I, Scene iv, lines 51-97

Posted by: fauxreal | Nov 1 2004 22:07 utc | 18

it’s good, beq

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 1 2004 22:13 utc | 20

Go watch Link TV right now. Theres a good show on.

Posted by: jdp | Nov 2 2004 2:06 utc | 22

The madness spins up a new notch. If this story
in Counterpunch is as real as it claims BushCo was complicit in allowing Bin Laden go free from inauguration to Tora Bora.
Why now though? Even a week ago, this fellow (who claims to have paperwork supporting his story) would have proved a very nasty October suprise indeed for Bush.

Posted by: Debs in ’04 | Nov 2 2004 9:05 utc | 24

@ FlashHarry, Harrow, anna missed, Blackie, remembereringgiap: Thanks.
@ Onzaga: Why not?
To whom it may concern: I just came from 5 hours of poll watching and I am daring to be pumped about what I saw this morning. Regular poll workers there had never seen anything like it. It was a Kerry crowd. Lots of new voters and young voters. I’m going to check on the dogs and go see if I can do anything else at Kerry HQ.

Posted by: beq | Nov 2 2004 16:50 utc | 26