More scariness

My Google newsfeed about robots just lead me to

this story. The most interesting part:

"The nanny testified that the man (Helge Fossmo) sent text messages that he said were from God to her cell phone. She claimed she was a robot that had been 'programmed to kill.'"

I'm glad I don't get evil text messages. Like maybe they said "u r a robot. kill them now!" OR "god (me) says u r a killer." I mean, how does someone convey in a text message that it's coming from god? Wouldn't you see the sender's phone number?

Molar Manor

I spent this morning at a haunted house called

Molar Manor. It's all set up inside a big warehouse, so it can be very dark and scary even during the day. (Their website has a good photo gallery.) The explanation for the tooth-related name is that it's owned by a dentist, which I guess is sort of creepy in its own right if you're not into dentists.



Today they opened very briefly for some kids from a camp. My friend works there, painting scary walkways and such, so I got to help scare the kids. Basically, this meant I wore a very unscary purple robe and tried to make sure the kids walked through in the right direction. I only really freaked out one boy, who was walking the wrong way until I yelled "Go that way!" in a creepy voice. I don't think he expected a real person to start talking to him in the middle of all the fake murderers.



I took a bunch of pictures of the creepy stuff, but this one is my favorite:

	I am being pulled in too many directions

Stress bot

I haven't been putting up many little robots lately. That's one I painted before I left New York, when life was getting really crazy.

Giraffes and painted quilty things and a girl in a red jacket

My friend Ilana and I went to this art gallery called

sixspace today, and those are some of the things that we saw. Follow that link to check out some of the artists' work online, but it's much more exciting to see it all in person. I liked that everything is just almost in my price range, so if I weren't buying a cool, futuristic couch this week, I could maybe have bought a piece of art. And I really liked a lot of the stuff. As an added bonus I got to meet Caryn, the girl who writes art.blogging.la, and she seems really nice.

New links

I just added three new links over on the left side. Mostly they are for me, so I remember to check out these sites I like, but if you feel like it, you can use them, too:



art.blogging.la lists lots of arty stuff that's happening around L.A.



Rhizome makes you donate money to read their content (after a free trial) but they have lots of info about technology-based art.



Styleborg is a blog about wearable computing. I'm interested in reading a girly perspective on this type of thing, so I want to remember to check it on a regular basis.



So, yes. New links.

Mmm... evil!

I have been working hard and not leaving the house much so my big excitement this week is that I bought some fake chicken nuggets at Ralphs. They are so good I suspect they might be evil. They have a strange hold over me, and if they are in my apartment I can hear them calling me from the freezer until I eat them all up in a toaster oven frenzy. I decided to make a little painting about what it might be like if Chik'n Nuggets were trying to take over the world.



NOTE: If anyone from Morningstar Farms happens across my page, I don't really think your product is evil. In fact, I would happily make a painting of some friendly nuggets in exchange, for let's say... three free boxes.

Some links I don't think I've linked to yet



I'm mostly a PC girl, but this custom painted pink iBook is freakin' hot.



This girl does a new drawing every weekday, and some of them are really neat.



This woman made a coat out of Tickle Me Elmos.



This website has one-minute vacations, which let you listen to audio from somewhere else for sixty seconds. New ones are posted on Mondays.