The "'So, here's a thing" Edition :: Issue #063

Rusty’s Electric Dreams :: Issue #063 :: The “‘So, here’s a thing” Edition :: 12:16:2015

Rusty’s Electric Dreams, an inbox zine by pop culture activist Rusty Blazenhoff
Issue #063 :: The “So, here’s a thing” Edition :: 12:16:2015

So, here’s a thing…

Things are moving faster than I have time to tell you about…soon though, ‘k?

— Rusty Blazenhoff

p.s. Hope you’re pre-holiday madness is not mad at all!

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–Victoria Heifner of Milkfed Press

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As seen on the Internets

By Michael Wertz

A bag design for Rickshaw Bagworks by Michael Wertz

:: Damascus steel bottle openers Thanks, Doc Anderson!
:: http://tidd.ly/f9b338e3

:: Margaret Cho is making an Amazon series about “an addict whose family runs a pot dispensary.”
:: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/14/margaret-cho

:: RIP Ravi Shankar
:: http://www.ravishankar.org/

:: Cow shoes
:: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2015/12/08/39384/

:: Psychedelic public art in San Jose
:: http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/12/11/san-jose-lights-up-the-night-with-psychadelic-public-art/

:: A Neurotic’s Guide to Small Talk
:: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/opinion/a-neurotics-guide-to-small-talk.html

:: Unicorn braids
:: http://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/11/Unicorn-Braids

:: The rise and fall of quicksand Thanks, Brian Doherty!
:: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2010/08/terra_infirma.html

:: “Did satire kill the brand?”
:: https://youtu.be/tDQObJBBCP4

:: “Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame”
:: http://fusion.net/story/244545/famous-and-broke-on-youtube-instagram-social-media

:: Peephole Cinema, Orange Alley, Mission neighborhood
:: http://www.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2015/12/14/mission-districts-peephole-cinema-is-reason-to-visit-orange-alley

:: “The Founder of SantaCon Explains Why SantaCon Sucks”
:: https://www.vice.com/read/the-founder-of-santacon-explains-why-santacon-sucks-511

:: “I jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and survived”
:: http://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/14/Guy-Who-Jumped-Off-Golden-Gate-Bridge-And-Survived-Tells-His-Story/

:: “Truly brilliant people never stop creating.”
:: https://medium.com/keep-learning-keep-growing/the-cycle-of-meaningful-work-a2da576c79ed#.e8kz8cxts

December Artist-in-Residence: Janelle Hessig

“In recognition of a sometimes challenging time of year, here is a “ghost of comics past” regarding tradition.” (more)

— Janelle

Janelle Hessig was born on a dark and stormy night in Contra Costa County. It was Groundhog’s Day but she did not see her shadow on the way out. She remained in the Bay Area to become a comic artist, writer, musician, filmmaker, and townie. Having discovered the secret of life early on: stinklines + flies = superior art, she went on to apply this fantastic knowledge in the creation of numerous fanzines, comics, and other publications, beginning with Tales Of Blarg in 1991. In 2014, she founded the publishing company Gimme Action.

Real things you can actually buy: yay!

Events of note

U.S.A.
[12/18] Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens opensAlameda, California

[12/19] DJ JELLO BIAFRA at Forbidden Island w/ DJ Sid Presley, 9 PM

[12/27] Will Viharo/Scott Fulks Holiday Book Signing for their new sci-fi collab, The Space Needler’s Intergalactic Bar Guide at Forbidden Island, 3 PM

Austin, Texas
[Until 12/24] Blue Genie Art Bazaar

[3/11-3/15/2016] SXSW Interactive

Copenhagen, Denmark
[Until 1/24/2016] Yayoi Kusamaâ€¨: In Infinity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Lake Iseo, Italy
[6/18 to 7/3/2016] Christo’s Floating Piers

Las Vegas
[Ongoing] Akhob, an immersive “Ganzfeld effect” experience by artist James Turrell at Louis Vuitton [by appt only: 702-730-3150] HIGHLY recommended!

Lisbon, Portugal
[11/7/2016-11/10/2016] Web Summit 2016

London
[July 2016] EVA London 2016

[12/15] Bitter Tears Workshop, make bitters out of human tears at British Food Museum, [Tickets]

Los Angeles

[December] Free museum days in December

[12/17] Seinfeld: the Apartment, West Hollywood

[12/18] Lightsaber Battle, 8 PM to 11 PM, Downtown LA [R SVP]

[12/19, 12/20] Harry Shearer and Judith Owenâ€™s Christmas Without Tears (Does This Tree Make Me Look Fat?) at Largo

[12/19] Velveteria Tiki Christmas 10 year anniversary at Velveteria: Museum of Velvet Paintings

[1/21] I Know You Are But What Am I? The Artists Behind Pee-weeâ€™s Playhouse, 7 PM

New York City
[Until 1/10/2016] Jim Shaw: The End is Here at New Museum

[12/10-1/23/2016] Dodecahedron, an exhibit by Mark Ryden at Paul Kasmin Gallery

Oakland

[New Year’s Day] Extra Action, Jessie Evans, DJ Junkdrawer and Eyenoise by KROB at New Parish [Tickets]

Palm Springs, California
[12/18] Charles Phoenix’s Retro Holiday Slide Show, 6:30 PM

[7/8-7/11/2016] Yes and Yes Yes (YxYY) at the Ace Hotel, a “summer retreat for anyone who considers themselves a thinker, maker, creator, nerd, or weirdo.”

Pasadena, California
[1/1/2016] 12th Annual Rose Parade

Portland, Oregon
[8/11-8/15/2016] World Domination Summit [Tickets]

[12/18] Puff, Pass & Paint debut, 7 PM to 9 PM

Provincetown, Massachusetts
[8/13-8/19/2016] Carnival 2016: Back to the 80â€™s

Riverside, California
[5/20-5/22/2016] Beyond Brookledge at the Galleria at the Mission Inn

San Diego
[12/18] Lightsaber Battle, 9 PM to 11 PM, Downtown San Diego [RSVP]

San Francisco
[Until 1/10/2016] Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition at de Young Museum

[Until 1/18/2016] Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet, an immersive sound installation at Fort Mason Center, Free with RSVP

[until 12/31] Man Candy, an art show by Jason Mecier at Magnet, 8 PM to 10 PM
Man Candy, an art show by Jason Mecier at Magnet

[12/16] Doc Pop’s ORDER OF THE SNAIL Book Release Party & Signing at Mission Comics, 7 PM

[12/16] Nerd Nite SF #67: Video Preservation, Ants, and Brain Stimulation! at Rickshaw Stop, 8 PM [Tickets]

[12/16] Bawdy Storytelling: Unwrapped at Verdi Club, 8 PM (last one of the year!) [Tickets]

[12/18] Lightsaber Battle, 8 PM to 11 PM, Embarcadero [RSVP]

[12/19] SF Krampus Kavalcade

[12/20] Found Footage Festival meets Everything Is Terrible! show at Castro Theatre, 8 PM [Tickets]

[12/21] The Typewriter Revolution at Adobe Books, 3130 24th Street, 7-9 pm

[12/29] Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker at The Independent. 7:30 PM (Word has it that CVB will play their classic record ‘Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart’ in its entirety) Thanks, Michael!

[12/31] PATTI SMITH & HER BAND perform Horses in its entirety this New Year’s Eve at The Fillmore! [Tickets]

[1/23] The Groundlings’ Children’s Show at JCCSF, 1 PM

[1/23] ESCAPE FROM AT&T PARK

[1/29, 1/30] Pancakes & Booze Art Show – FREE Pancakes at 111 Minna Gallery [Details]

[1/29] Dan Deacon at The Fillmore

[1/30] The Bay Lights return, with fireworks, at 7:25 PM

[2/10] Pussy Riot at the Warfield [Tickets]

[2/11/16] Monica Lewinsky at JCCSF

[7/10/16] Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge at DNA Lounge [Tickets]

[7/23/16] The Murray Invitational. A Bill Murray Art Exhibition and Golf Party at Public Works

[10/2017] 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love

Santa Fe
[NYE] Meow Wolf’s COSMIC JUNGLE! [Tickets] Thanks, David H.!

Seattle
“The Obscure, the Charming and the Odd: Mark Pahlow’s Guide to Seattle”

[12/19] Puff, Pass & Paint debut, 7 PM to 9 PM

Sun Valley, Idaho
[3/20-3/23/2016] DENT

Spain
[7/4-7/10/16] Nowhere

HEY YOU
If YOU would like to co-curate an issue of Rusty’s Electric Dreams, I’d love to hear your idea! Please email me: rusty@blazenhoff.com.Know about a cool event? Share it. I’ll do my best to include it in the next issue.

“I was a very nervous kid, I was very anxious all the time when I was younger. But what’s nice is that… some of the things I was anxious about don’t bother me at all anymore. Like, uhhh, I always thought that, uh,quicksand was gonna be a much bigger problem than it turned out to be.

Because if you watch cartoons, quicksand is like the third biggest thing you have to worry about in adult life, behind real sticks of dynamite and giant anvils falling on you from the sky…

I used to sit around and think about what to do about quicksand! I never thought about how to handle real problems in adult life. I was never like, ‘Oh, what’s it gonna be like when relatives ask to borrow money?”

— John Mulaney

Rusty’s Electric Dreams is a weekly inbox zine by Rusty Blazenhoff. These personally curated missives are beacons to signal and celebrate the global tribe of weird, wonderful, and “different” people (“the Others“).

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