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It Happens Every Day, Periodically
(an artist's notebook of sorts)

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Period I
(1 : 16 January)
  • 4'33 in the Birth of a Camel Cigarette
    (after 4'33" in the Life of a Camel Cigarette)
  • Not a Must
  • Ask Any Leading French Communist
  • The Time is Mars
  • The Toad Store
  • Rabid Wombats Attack!
  • An Unremarkable Day
  • Conceptual Art or What?
  • Beyond Infinity
  • A Reason to Be Cheerful
  • Practice Makes Perfectly Predictable
  • Smell Museum
  • A Chrysler as Big as a Whale!
  • The Deepening Sock Mystery
  • Not Enough $eriou$ Mone¥
  • Some Sort of Afterlife
     
Period II
(17 January : 4 March)
  • 2030 Vision
  • Mass, Preordained?
  • Depressingly Attractive
  • Spring Flower of Delight
  • The Wormwood Scrubs Portraits
  • Schizophrenic and Agoraphobic Bits
  • Cookie Problems
  • A 7.7 Percent Audience Increase
  • Superior and Inferior Mozart Balls
  • Not Very Smart
  • Little Knowledge
  • Tiptoe Stress Test
  • Edward Weston at Schiphol Airport
  • Spudulike!
  • Titanic Ambition
  • Photography Twaddles On
  • The Steinhom Metaphor
  • Fetal Monogamy
  • Older Than John
  • Fuzzy Triumphs Over Binary
  • That's All
  • Brilliant Teaser
  • U2 Means Mediocrity2
  • Doesn't Look As Good As It Sounds
  • The Decent Daves
  • Doonk! Dank!
  • Al's Big Truck
  • No Art
  • Trees Threat
  • A Clever Marketing Strategy
  • The Three Meanings of Life
  • Street Level Viciousness
  • I'm a Survivor
  • Ignore the Photographer
  • The Thrilling Formula
  • Masa's Doesn't Exist
  • A Bazillion Quadrazillion to One
  • Another Think Coming
  • Dream Control
  • Good Advice Wasted
  • Not Recording Quite a Bit
  • No Free Coffee
  • That Cold
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Focus Group
  • Mr. The Scary Guy
  • Can't Be Done
  • Nasty Government Dog
     
Period III
(5 March : 16 March)
  • Twelve English Words from Four Characters
  • Literary Requirements
  • So Blind
  • English (Dis)Advantages
  • Practical Engraving Expectations
  • The Nature of Genius
  • An Ambiguous Relationship
  • Cosmic Doom
  • Bread and Butter Nudes
  • I Prefer Cabbages
  • A Funny True Story
  • Unlimited Supply!
     
Period IV
(17 March : 6 April)
  • Twenty Deodorizing Mints Scattered in Five Seemingly Random Gangs of Four in the Urinal of the Edinburgh Pub "The Cumberland" on St. Patrick's Day 1998
  • My Kind of Place
  • A Rich Artistic Tradition
  • The Speed Art Museum
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson, at Ninety, Is Far From Death
  • Three Types of Dangerous People
  • Anthrax Alert
  • Where's the Craft?
  • Candiru Attack!
  • Garlic All the Way from China
  • International Flipper Day
  • God's Not on Channel 18 in Dallas
  • Puppy in a Can
  • Sneckra Flommelgation
  • Cheesy Nudes
  • Puter This, As Usual, Is Point
  • Too Clever By Half
  • A Negative Error
  • A Close Shave
  • Baking a Cake of Myself
  • Tempting Fate
     
Period V

(7 April : 19 May)

  • One Hundred and Eighty-Four Lines Generated Randomly Within Certain Subjectively Chosen Parameters Resulting In Five Empty Diagonal Corridors
  • Amsterdam Urinals
  • Kinky Love Motions
  • Uncalling
  • Rule Changes
  • Chinese Potatoes
  • Guess Boys
  • It's a Job
  • Jesus Noise
  • Logorrhea
  • Hellacious Strategies
  • More Representative Than Best
  • Labeling Efficiency
  • Explaining Obituaries to Myself
  • Mozzarella Hair
  • Hollywood Secrets
  • Not Good Nasty
  • Creative Dementia
  • Violent Acts of Consciousness Have Only Begun
  • A Lost Sale
  • Real Mexicans
  • Saving the Whales in Absentia
  • Greens
  • No Fiends of Mine
  • Wrong Number, Can Opener
  • A Silly Spectacle
  • The Gravity of the Chief Executive Officer
  • Tiny Little Cans of Apple Juice
  • A Bilingual Tautology
  • Alcohol in the Air
  • Good Weather Entertainment Value
  • Inscrutable Japanese Suicides
  • The Logic of Ménage à Trois
  • Safety in Percussion
  • Sewage Seminars
  • Beer Bottle Tracking Strategies
  • The Fortieth Ring
  • The Art of Gynecology II
  • Frank's Dead; Now There's Hope
  • Cunctation
  • Too Many Pictures
  • Sauce for Gooses and Ganders
  • My Least Favorite Airline
     
Period VI

(20 May : 9 June)

  • No Ball Games
  • Academic Adrenaline
  • Saws Harpened
  • A Certifiably Insane Valid Comment
  • On Spherical Breasts
  • Technocrap
  • The Beauty of Bollards
  • Candle-powered Cars
  • Lord Cathcart-Fellingham's Oak
  • Certificate of Authenticity
  • It's a Bird!
  • A Into B
  • What a Doll!
  • Dancing on Dr. Gachet's Grave
  • Precisely Timed Drinking
  • Dr. Beer Meets Dr. Beer
  • It Has to be Broccoli
  • A Dictionary of Art
  • The Speed of Nails
  • Thinker Pasta
  • Alien Transmission No. One
     
Period VII

(10 June : 9 July)

  • Light Lighter Lightest
  • Doing Scientific Sky Doughnuts
  • Genital Wigs
  • Not Picking Up Brain Droppings
  • Twin Mysteries
  • The Manifest Destiny Game
  • Feigned Acedia
  • The Full Fulbright
  • A Tax on the Stupid
  • Another Good Reason Not to Have Kids
  • Kids These Days!
  • Oregonsexartmaybe
  • The Sonorous Regions
  • Relevant but not Pertinent
  • Computer Graphics Inaction!
  • Red Wine Theft
  • sage is all the rage
  • A Triumph of Idea Over Artspeak
  • Amazing and Disturbing
  • Digital Vortex
  • A Fake's Progress
  • Bonny Bunny Bunnahabhain
  • No Possible Explanation
  • Miscalculated Anthropomorphization
  • The Rocket in My Pocket
  • Ms. Wilson's Curious Preference
  • An Incorrect Correction
  • Periodic Punctuation
  • Black Line Tedium
  • Aerocat!
     
Period VIII

(10 July : 31 August)

  • Not Parallel (sketch)
  • Amazing and Disturbing
  • Plagiarism With a Good Provenance
  • Twittish Airways
  • A Definitive Dedication
  • Marty's Ego Control Strategy
  • Mythomania
  • Misplaced Technical Considerations
  • Dematuring
  • A Scientist and a Poet
  • The Faceless Volunteer
  • An Unnecessary Trademark Claim
  • Carrits
  • A Big White Something
  • Clever Typography
  • Zone Ends
  • The Five to Six Hour
  • Destiny on Hold
  • Aaron's Business Strategy
  • Nocturnal Problems
  • Pope's Practical Perspective
  • Virtual Reykjavik
  • Deadlines
  • The Hairy Naked Russian Poets
  • Cheap Readymades
  • Of Age in 2002
  • One Point Six Percent Human
  • Seven Up Stains
  • Like Corkwork
  • Nothing Means Nothing
  • The Director's Choice
  • Years Before 0'00"
  • When I Was Your Age
  • A Short Tale of Two Rauschenbergs
  • Roverandom
  • Commercial Waste Is My Destiny
  • Art, What It Is
  • An Excipient with a K
  • Alien Transmission No. Two
  • Drinking for the Environment
  • A Dangerous Litterary Development
  • So Old He's Hip
  • The Battle Against Portion Control
  • The Problem with Megastardom
  • A Barely Legible Complaint
  • A Sovenier from Jim xxx
  • On the Merkin Trail
  • A Special Bottle
  • If I Can't Be Number One
  • Schadenfreude City
  • Perhaps Not the Best Policy
  • I'm Afraid I Can't Do That
  • Happy Deathday, Ad!
     
Period IX

(1 : 23 September)

  • How to Choose and Enjoy Wine in Forty-Nine Pleasures
  • Squid-o-vision
  • You Can't Grow Beer
  • So Much for Stewardesses
  • No Servants, Please
  • The Complexities of Explosives
  • Pereant Qui Ante Nos Nostra Dixerunt!
  • Gravitational Distractions
  • Lassie's Pal
  • Dr. Wahlberg's Tap Trap
  • The Sharp Digital Age
  • False
  • Things Cut In Half
  • Going On and On About Art
  • Look! Listen! VIBRATE! SMILE!
  • Chateau Dipsomania
  • Happy Birthday, Art!
  • MacPherson's Dimpled Legend
  • UKKKK
  • Cranial Rings
  • Sealed With a Screwcap
  • And the Beat Doesn't Go On
  • Sooner or Later True
     
Period X

(24 September : 1 November)

  • Almost Sixty Years After Nellie Niemeyer's Funeral
  • Reconnaissance Report
  • Heavy Water Hail Storms
  • My Thousandth Notebook Entry
  • (Not) Weather Balloons
  • Coffee and Sawdust
  • No Better Athletes Through Better Sex
  • Not a Jewish Intellectual
  • But Who's Counting?
  • Septuple Negative Coelacanths
  • Beyond Seventeen MegaStrems
  • Think Different, Then Think Twice
  • The Same Day Twice
  • Immortal Josh
  • There Is No Swatch
  • Super Royal
  • Fredonia's Threat to the United Snakes of America
  • The Blind Squirrels
  • Better Sex Through Chemistry
  • A Peck of Powerful Peppers
  • Absolutely Crazy Insane Business
  • Harriet's Rejoinder
  • The Supermodel Business is Getting Old
  • Keeping the X in Xmas
  • Confusing Clues
  • Mad Scientist
  • Analog Sequencing
  • My 10,000,000,000th Entry
  • As Fast as Popcorn
  • Big Al's Yawn
  • A Mahoganous Relationship
  • The Perfect Cup
  • Not as Far as Pluto
  • Truck Stop Support
  • The Length of Art
  • A Spoon in the Road
  • Photographs from the 1970s
  • A Halloween Invitation Declined
     
Period XI

(2 November : 1 December)

  • Fold Here: a Pseudo-Sculpture in Two Dimensions or Seventeen Folds
  • The Derders Question
  • The Poetry in the Pissoir Project
  • No One Knows
  • The Wild Potatoes of Bangor
  • Moisten Needle Before Inserting Thailand
  • Self No Ledge
  • Pulling Birds with a Hasselblad
  • Dangerous Statistics
  • Oh Penelope!
  • Late Nights! Late Nights! Late Nights!
  • A(nother) Tangled Web of Plagiarism
  • A Familiar Film
  • Eye-con
  • Get Professional Results With Amateur Models
  • Leonid Strategies
  • Bad Day Macaroni
  • Back Country Callousness
  • Another Mystery of the Printed Page
  • Alien Brain Growth Broadcast Thingie
  • The Leica Mystery Continues
  • Canine Coffee Art
  • The Seven Secrets of Highly Inebriated People
  • Thanksgiving Eve
  • Sans Turkeys
  • Black Friday
  • The Bad Part of Depression
  • Clive Staples Lewis at One Hundred
  • The Swedish King of the Keyboard
  • An Improbable Birthday
     
Period XII

(2 December : 31 December)

  • Eleven Chef Pants Remnants
  • U.S. Army Photo Archive #304-534
  • A Small But Pleasant Earthquake
  • Please Your Dog
  • Not a Real Bohemian
  • On Artists and Ants
  • The Welcome Levity of Thelma Pickles
  • Pete's Fortune
  • Contemplating a Dead Cat
  • An Alarming Loss of Identity
  • No Seven-person Motorcycle
  • Undrugged
  • Unscrewed
  • The Rich Bastards Club
  • Runaway Weather Balloon, Grunting Cod
  • Interactive Art Defined
  • Counterclockwise
  • A Good Hoax Prematurely Abandoned
  • Deborah's Cat Litter
  • The Fall of the Pedant
  • *nowflakes
  • The Dentist's Bad Jokes
  • Christmas Lice
  • The 0°0° Red Light District
  • Semtex Tampons
  • Reading by Chance and Imperative
  • The Semantics of Recording
  • Sixty Years of Anti-coffee
  • The Last Uncomplicated New Year's Eve Eve for Years
  • Leica Carrot
     
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