My Robot Is Pregnant

day’s work

Rolston — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:35:12 +0000

Was an interesting day but too tired to write about it. Quickly though, the Honduran I’ve been working with, he tells me his girlfriend calls him an elbow when he doesn’t spend money. Never heard that idiom. Then he told me stories about riding box cars up through Mexico. Bandits unbolt part of the track at night and the train has sensors that alert it and the train stops. Bandits kidnap any illegal they can grab and ransom you back to your family for 6 to ten thousand dollars, depending on what country and where in that country you’re from. But if you’re lucky, they tell you to strip nude and they tear open your clothes and just steal your money.

It was me and the Honduran, Noah. We were hanging white boards in an office downtown.

whore’s medicine

Rolston — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:50:46 +0000

It’s a nation of neurotics. Texting onstage during the karaoke instrumental. Clearing the browser cache to cover porno tracks. Smoking cigarettes in the face of overwhelming evidence it’s manufactured to cause addiction and eventual death.

Old J Stew is trying to quit.

“I went to bed and felt that tiredness in my body as it churned through the smoke. I lay there thinking, ‘This is my body trying to stay alive’. I jumped out of bed, grabbed the smokes and crumpled them and threw them in the toilet. I stood above the little camel treading water and thought, ‘That’s gonna clog my toilet.’”

Quitting has complications of course. You can’t plan for such things. Just remember it’s a whore’s medicine, something you grab as a consolation that is really just using you up.

Rolston — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:02:06 +0000

photo posted from my iPhone

talkin’ politics

Rolston — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:00:49 +0000

The inside of an old tube radio looks like a cityscape. A new radio is a circuit board – think of that city compacting itself to a nearly level surface. It’s like how the world is compacting itself. A mosque in America for instance. Old people don’t like these new people. Things look different. Take heart, a mosque built near the WTC must mean Islamic terrorists don’t plan on bombing the spot again.

I’ve been reading my Klan book, in the 1920’s this Protestant group was gravely concerned with the influence of Catholics in the U.S. and European government. Hopefully most of us realize in America, your religious affiliation shouldn’t exclude you from running for office or building a place of worship in this country. Of course, the aim of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, like most religions, is to create a group of chosen people who are different and special compared to the rest of the world. How this mentality can lead to tolerance is, as proven, impossible. The only moment of unity is when Catholics and their foe, the Protestants, join hands and renounce the Moslems.

Once we prevent this mosque from being built near a terrorist attack site, we can then work on preventing children under the age of 18 being allowed in a Catholic church, out of concern for their sexual sanctity. Let’s go all in.

Rolston — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:18:33 +0000

photo posted from my iPhone

Rolston — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:14:09 +0000

The Post Office is going bankrupt, why not bring back the Elvis stamp? Or this time, why not bring back Elvis himself? That ought to make some money. If that’s not possible, how about every mail carrier looks like him?

garbage in, garbage out

Rolston — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:34:06 +0000

Found this in some garbage the other day.

It’s kind of funny to think about the problems the Klan had getting enough robes.

These photos of a cross dresser fell out of the book, which seems appropriate.

for hard times…

Rolston — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:23:27 +0000

photo posted from my iPhone

Rolston — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:35:59 +0000

photo posted from my iPhone

parle g

Rolston — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:02:13 +0000

This may not look like a chai cart from where you sit, but it is. The front end in fact. Those crackers are typical chai time snacks and Chiraag is wheat pasting the wrappers on the front end of the mobile unit. We ‘re about 95% finished as of this evening, but Elliot, our videographer, drank screwdrivers on an empty stomach after his acupuncture appointment and spent the evening throwing up in the bushes. So not a lot of documentation.