What's the deal?

You guys, what's the deal with us? We never listen to each other anymore, we hardly even talk, and you come home at all hours of the night, always exhausted, smelling like the secretary, head straight to the medicine cabinet- Vicodin and bondage won't comfort you like the warm, loving arms of many post post baccs!

What is the solution? Is there hope for us? How could we let ourselves and our blog fall this low? Do you hire hookers fourteen at a time and make them wear wigs (and one bald one)? Then we can do this! I propose we either go on a cruise to rekindle our love, or better yet, be stranded on a deserted island with nothing but Sting to serenade us. Heaven!

Don't you want us to be as happy as this UFO cult? Then lets start posting, and at least a Hallmark card on Valentine's Day! I bet your secretary is getting something D:<

Hannibal made me cry!

No, not as much cry as a blubbering lament, or with some tearing up, much like when I watch The Notebook. There was also happy squealing and clapping during the Florence parts. Many years ago, I saw Hannibal a hundred billion times-it was my high school love and I drew so many Hannibal/Inspector Pazzi cartoons!-, but not since then. I should have held a screening of this movie, then we would have all gone out for fun reenactments! Boo, it's actually worse than I remember. The killer pigs are always fun, though. Let us enjoy these pics of Hannibal the cannibal prowling around our beloved city

*some of the stills are from this odd Hollywood Jesus site, which was the only place that had a still of the good Inspector hanging and disembowelled from the Palazzo Vecchio.
Double boo- there were zillions of Hannibal websites way back when- I had the FBI list with Hannibal as my desktop forever, and my mouse arrow was the Hannibal eye, and when my computer came on it uttered "Well hello, Clarice" when I turned it on! Ah, 2001.




Ooh, these two pics are an adorable pairing! Inspector Pazzi decides to capture Hannibal on his own. Clarice called to warn him that it really wasn't a good idea. The inspector goes to a lecture Hannibal is giving at the Palazzo Vecchio, and he has two police people waiting outside, but Hannibal is on to him, and in his own deliciously smooth way, projected a giant picture of a Pazzi ancestor being hung and disembowelled from that little balcony that I always wanted to stand on and make proclomations, then pulled out his ether rag and that's how he ended up like that! Then Clarice phoned again and Hannibal answered ("I'm afraid you've caught me at a rather awkward moment"). He gives him back his phone after, though. It's only polite.


"Bowels in or bowels out?". Then- swoosh!

Did any of us buy a fedora?






I shall end with the adorable twosome themselves. Clearly they are meant for each other, as this picture illustrates, and the crazy fangirl sites squee. Meh, who am I to judge? He did chop his hand off instead of hers in this scene. Then he fed brains to a child on an airplane. She can do better!

I'm still alive!

Hey Everyone !

I haven't checked our post bacc blog in ages!!! It's so nice to hear, about everyone and Amy's new friends. Just checked Lorenzo's Flickr page, it's pretty funny to see all the new post-baccs! They're all girls! It's strange to see that we were all there a year ago! Check it out, there's also a few pictures at Margherita's studio, too bad she didn't take us there! It's so nice to hear from Colin, hope he's rocking those t-shirts. Talking about t-shirts, scarves and what not, I've been selling a lot of scarves, I'm making also in collaboration with an emerging artist gallery  in Boston. I've been producing a lot, plus getting into shows. I'm fascinated with lithography, plus I found a great and fast way to produce them. Colin, I can definitely say that I've become the Litho Queen! Soon, I'll post some pictures up. I really miss hanging out with you all, we have to come up with a reunion party some day! Amanda, I know you live in Somerville, let's catch up in one of these days. Samantha, I wish you all the best in Italy, make sure you eat a lot of ribolitta for all of us. That's it for now, much love and peace for all of you!

Best, 

Ingrid 

officially back in my element

So this is my officially school has started post. And it's official, it's starting to kick my ass... and my work related metaphorical ass has gotten flabby and out of shape. But I'm really happy about it, I needed to get back to work! The kids in the program are great, I've totally settled into the city and my new life, I have so much family out here, it's kind of crazy how at home I feel and how much I'm loving it, and it all happen really fast.
It's good to be back around theater people! Although I really miss you all! It's exhausting to try to get to know 80 new people professionally and personally so fast. And I have to say, I'm having one of those weeks were I would trade all of these new theater friends I'm making right now for one good post-bac dinner at Quan's house.
I'm glad everyone is up to cool stuff! I'm glad the Samantha is rocking Firenze round 2! Only you could manage. I'm glad that there is once again a family of gnomes shower love on Amy. (you found the perfect outfit for your gnome fetus). And I'm glad Amanda is still hunting down the same artistic element You're gonna hit something even bigger soon. Daniel has his shows and open studios on two continents. I'm glad we all had our little team huddle before running off in our different directions.
Much love to you all, and I wish you the best!

My Three Gnomes (!!!!!!!!)

Oh my god! After the violent kidnapping of my dear Steve, I thought I could never love again *violins*. Now, three gnomes have found their way to their fabulous new mama!

Meet Frank Soprano Corleone, a gift from Lorenzo after my Steve tragedy. He is fabulously accessorized, and because I had to paint him with my withered hands, aged by the misery of my kidnapped child-gnome, I am truly his mama, and will melt into a bloody pile of organs and woe if he is ever kidnapped. He might want to open his own little clothing line for gnomes- he's fabulous, dahlings!


What Not to Wear tells us the accessories and little embellishments are what makes an outfit.

He went shopping with Steve's long lost identical twin, and they probably had a bitch fight before buying the same hat

Yes, Steve's long lost identical twin brother! He, too, found the courage to escape from his overbearing Jewish mother, but then his plane crashed on an island and he got amnesia, then he married the twin of the most powerful man in town, who promptly banished him to a hole in the ground and tormented him in clown costumes, until Steve's long lost identical twin brother escaped and ended up on death row when his spouse was enraged that he left, and framed him for a series of gnome murders in Japan. He was bailed out by a mysterious benefactor and found his way to my loving...pocket earlier today. Hurrah!

It's just like I have my Steve back! I've been calling him Ricardo, then Vincent Price, and now Hugh. This is serious business! Steve 2 needs a name! Also, I dearly miss Passions and haven't found a replacement campy show- CSI: Miami is as close as I came, but it's...you know. Not...a good show.


Gnome #3 came in birthday present form- he's stuck on a yellow mug, but he's loved just as much! He also came with a name-Marcel- so I don't have to do that. I have a French gnome! Bonjour, Marcel!

Family portrait! We're the picture of happiness! I shall get a van, and we can drive around playing gigs as a gnome family band- I call us the Hart-Skinners, so Lexie has no choice but to join us. No disputing. Tra la la la!

HI HI ALL!!!

HELLO EVEryONE!

Well most of you know, I am back in the country of wine, pasta, and expresso, jealous COLIN (HEE HEE), I have been here now two weeks and I am enjoying myself. Italy is not the same with all of you here! I walked past Quan's house the other day and wanted to ring the bell, just to see...lmao lmao Florence has not changed, although the street in front and to the left of the train station is torn apart, so much that only public buses are allowed thru! 

Luli is doing well. I missed him very much and was glad to see him. I have been going out to Prato to se him and running around Prato! His room mate is a bit of and asshole, so we try to go out as much as possible. But he is nice to me, because he thinks I will get the police involved, if anything should go wrong...lmao lmao lmao So I have him living in fear. He isnt that smart, considering Luli and myself are in the same document less boat as he is) so getting police involved would mean all of us leaving the country! lmao lmao 

I have posted pics on facebook of some of florence south! where I have found only ONE other american, older woman in her 40's married with a kid in about a mile radius!!! (GORLY!!!!!) 

Look to facebook to see! MISS U ALL!!!!!!!!!!

CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO 

Good Luck Samantha!

Good luck with this new journey you are taking! I know this is an amazing opportunity for you, and I wish you all the best. I am going to miss you like crazy. And I am so jealous you are going back! Eat some ribollita for me, and say hi to the people at Cellinis. And also say hi to Luli too! Love you, hun :)



<3am/facevo

Samantha leaves for Florence today, if you want to leave a message too, edit the post and add it at the end, or comment.

new layout

just thought i would change things up a bit.

you like?

where is everybody?

ciao,
am

whatcha up to?

hey everybody :)

just thought i'd check in! i hope everyone is well. i pretty much miss everybody, and i am homesick for italy.

anyone working on new stuff these days? i finally went through some old images i had stored away on a harddrive, and decided to put them together to make a couple new images. i kinda broke some of my own rules for these by resizing and cropping some of the images in the layers. but rules were meant to be broken, and it felt kind of freeing in a way.





Works in progress of course. i know they are a little small to see all the details. i didn't want to take over the blog. if you wanna see bigger ones, i can email you the images, or go to my website. They are in the artwork section...the last 3.

if anybody has any new work they would like share, i'd love to see it. make a post, cuz that's what the blog is for.

ciao ciao bellisimi,
am

www.news.yahoo./s/afp/20080811/od_afp/switzerlandoffbeatart

funny

Oh yes, this message is for my roommate FACEVO! I went to canada and as we were about the cross the border i had to pee....so i got out of the car and ran into the exchange "hut", did my business, and as i was walking towards the door i saw it. It was calling my name. so i bought it and i ate it! lol  and it was sssssooooooo gooooooddddd!!! my prize sucked, but i enjoyed it anyway! 

Colin sez...

"Is it slightly harder imagine the guy on the right doing all the same illegal things the guy on the left usually does?"









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?????????????!!!!!!!!! In answer to your question- Yes. The guy on the right does not do all the same illegal things the guy in the left usually does. Obviously.

xx

It had to happen eventually...

Well, this decision was seven years in the making but it finally happened last night.





















So there you have it. Do I look slightly less conspicuous? Is it slightly harder imagine the guy on the right doing all the same illegal things the guy on the left usually does?
Figured you all would be interested in seeing that little change.

So, my late summer update is this. I've somehow managed to miss everyone that is just rolling through the city this summer... I've barely been in NYC, very strange. Sorry to everyone I've missed, especially because now I'm gonna be out in CA, making it much harder for northeast peoples to hang out.
Been spending a lot of time with the family, and the visiting extended family. Clearly I've been traveling a lot... i've seen 8 biscuits shows this summer.... (qualifying as addiction I think) including the last three at their anual festival on a biker ranch in upstate NY. It rules to go to a festival with no cops, and bathroom attendants that ride harley davidsons! Katy Gonda flew across the country to come catch these shows, it was absolutely fantastic!
Much love to you all! I'll post some when I get out to a new life in CA. (and get internet there).

OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH YYYYEAAAAAHHHHH

 OK all,

i am going back, yes it is official. I am going back August 25th, and i will be in Florence, until they kick me out of the country. lol 

I am going to be a nanny for a family that lives in the city center. the parents are divorced, the mom owns an italian school and the father is a trader (stocks? idk) they have 3 kids, 14, 11, and 8.....

I am excited!!!!!!! I am having alot of trouble being home. I can not get the hang of life after italy, so that is why i am going back.... So if anyone wants to join me :) come on over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO CIAO

This One's For Amy and Samantha

I'm sorry...I couldn't embed the video:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080701-ossuary-video-ap.html

<3am

ps - i miss everybody!

RIP Fake British Tooth: March 4- June 25, 2008

A tragic tale of woe, my half a British tooth has escaped from its perch on the tattered stump that used to be a whole tooth! Someone write an opera, stat! First my gnome, now my tooth- I shall faint dramatically *tiny violin plays*. I might have gotten too cocky with the biting into fruit, with dire, horrible, funny results! Dentist time! Here's the photo we took in London- it looks exactly the same (no!)

The battered housewife look- HOT!

Break-o Tooth-o

THANK YOU SAMANTHA! I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES! xxx

2 pence mad.

Dear Samantha/SOPRESA,

I found both of them.  UGH.  Just you wait...

ciaociaociaociaociao,

am/facevo

Goddamn heat! and: Gnome help!

Comrades, in this time of horrible killer heat, MS Paint and I have come up with some sort of non-gas using cooling bubble to help us survive! First we must rob a bubble person- yes, we. The rest is self explanatory...



Business the second: Remember my replacement Steve gnome, Fetus?


Bonding with my replacement dead child is going well! I took him to Niagara Falls, but I forgot my camera, so I have no proof. Anyways, he is still pasty white, and I am requesting gnome decorating help from you fabulous people- only the fabulous ones! His squicky name will also change once he..blooms!

British professor gnome?
Drag queen gnome?
Prom queen gnome? Leather queen gnome? Soprano gnome? Classic gnome? This dilemma keeps me up at night...