Running Out of Tucson

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The local writer's group has thrown me out for behavior that - while justified - was considered beyond polite or even marginally civilized.  No big loss.

The game shop crowd has changed, and I don't really fit.  The King Hell coffee shop has closed.  The Grill has closed.  Hotel Congress has been overrun by hipsters.  The Meetrack is a pale shadow of its former glory, and is now more or less a rather dismal theme bar.

Of course, the problem isn't actually Tucson, the problem is me.  I haven't been going out and doing NEW things (with the exception of the tech geek place, and they're not sure what to make of me), and so my social circles are contracting, as one crowd after another dries up.

So I need to do some new shit, meet some new people.  Problem is, Tucson is full of special interest-type groups (rock hounds, etc), most of which fail to interest me in the slightest. 

So I need to find some more Tucson.  I'm thinking of trying the art scene, if I can find a way to figure out where the gallery openings, etc, will be (they only advertise AFTERWARD, which is fairly puzzling).  The added benefit of this is that I need an obnoxious sculpture of some kind for the front yard.

[LMNO]

What ever became of the AD FUNDUM project?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

What ever became of the AD FUNDUM project?

I found the bottom.  It was, as I suspected, the top.  The worst perverts in the city are the bankers, councilmen, etc.  And I'm not talking "worst perverts" as "most amusing kinks", I'm talking about predators.  The humor leaked right out of the whole project at that point.

[Eater of Clowns]

I really thought you had something going there with the tapeworm fetishists.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Find an art gallery that has stuff you like. Hang about a bit, explain what you're looking for, ask if they know anyone or of any upcoming openings that might be fruitful. "Like" a bunch of gallery Facebook pages, too, because they often send invites to their openings via their Facebook pages.

I don't know about Tucson, but in Portland a common method of advertising is to give the artists a bunch of postcard-size ads to give to their friends. Artists often do things like leave stacks of these cards in nearby coffee shops and bars, so look in places like those. Once you're in, you'll start constantly finding out about these, and the way to get in is really to start with one gallery you like, go to a couple of their openings and meet people, and it will just expand from there.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I really thought you had something going there with the tapeworm fetishists.

I think those guys are pretty wholesome, by comparison.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I really thought you had something going there with the tapeworm fetishists.

Most boring perverts ever, frankly.

"Car's broke down, my boss is an ass, my wife's bitching about whatever she bitches about, and, oh yeah, I have a bug."

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Find an art gallery that has stuff you like. Hang about a bit, explain what you're looking for, ask if they know anyone or of any upcoming openings that might be fruitful. "Like" a bunch of gallery Facebook pages, too, because they often send invites to their openings via their Facebook pages.

I don't know about Tucson, but in Portland a common method of advertising is to give the artists a bunch of postcard-size ads to give to their friends. Artists often do things like leave stacks of these cards in nearby coffee shops and bars, so look in places like those. Once you're in, you'll start constantly finding out about these, and the way to get in is really to start with one gallery you like, go to a couple of their openings and meet people, and it will just expand from there.

Thanks, Nigel!  I will do that.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Find an art gallery that has stuff you like. Hang about a bit, explain what you're looking for, ask if they know anyone or of any upcoming openings that might be fruitful. "Like" a bunch of gallery Facebook pages, too, because they often send invites to their openings via their Facebook pages.

I don't know about Tucson, but in Portland a common method of advertising is to give the artists a bunch of postcard-size ads to give to their friends. Artists often do things like leave stacks of these cards in nearby coffee shops and bars, so look in places like those. Once you're in, you'll start constantly finding out about these, and the way to get in is really to start with one gallery you like, go to a couple of their openings and meet people, and it will just expand from there.

Thanks, Nigel!  I will do that.

Good luck! Artists can be fun. Especially people who weld and shit. Painters are a little prim for my tastes (although I have some painter friends I love) but those sculptor types can be a wild ride. I could actually see you as a sculptor.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Speaking of which I have an idea for a sculpture in my head but I don't know how to weld.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Find an art gallery that has stuff you like. Hang about a bit, explain what you're looking for, ask if they know anyone or of any upcoming openings that might be fruitful. "Like" a bunch of gallery Facebook pages, too, because they often send invites to their openings via their Facebook pages.

I don't know about Tucson, but in Portland a common method of advertising is to give the artists a bunch of postcard-size ads to give to their friends. Artists often do things like leave stacks of these cards in nearby coffee shops and bars, so look in places like those. Once you're in, you'll start constantly finding out about these, and the way to get in is really to start with one gallery you like, go to a couple of their openings and meet people, and it will just expand from there.

Thanks, Nigel!  I will do that.

Good luck! Artists can be fun. Especially people who weld and shit. Painters are a little prim for my tastes (although I have some painter friends I love) but those sculptor types can be a wild ride. I could actually see you as a sculptor.

I have no talent in that department, but sculpture is my favorite form of art outside of the written word.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Find an art gallery that has stuff you like. Hang about a bit, explain what you're looking for, ask if they know anyone or of any upcoming openings that might be fruitful. "Like" a bunch of gallery Facebook pages, too, because they often send invites to their openings via their Facebook pages.

I don't know about Tucson, but in Portland a common method of advertising is to give the artists a bunch of postcard-size ads to give to their friends. Artists often do things like leave stacks of these cards in nearby coffee shops and bars, so look in places like those. Once you're in, you'll start constantly finding out about these, and the way to get in is really to start with one gallery you like, go to a couple of their openings and meet people, and it will just expand from there.

Thanks, Nigel!  I will do that.

Good luck! Artists can be fun. Especially people who weld and shit. Painters are a little prim for my tastes (although I have some painter friends I love) but those sculptor types can be a wild ride. I could actually see you as a sculptor.

I have no talent in that department, but sculpture is my favorite form of art outside of the written word.

Talent!? All you have to do is melt shit together until it looks like the thing in your brain!

[Don Coyote]

Find an art gallery that has stuff you like. Hang about a bit, explain what you're looking for, ask if they know anyone or of any upcoming openings that might be fruitful. "Like" a bunch of gallery Facebook pages, too, because they often send invites to their openings via their Facebook pages.

I don't know about Tucson, but in Portland a common method of advertising is to give the artists a bunch of postcard-size ads to give to their friends. Artists often do things like leave stacks of these cards in nearby coffee shops and bars, so look in places like those. Once you're in, you'll start constantly finding out about these, and the way to get in is really to start with one gallery you like, go to a couple of their openings and meet people, and it will just expand from there.

Thanks, Nigel!  I will do that.

Good luck! Artists can be fun. Especially people who weld and shit. Painters are a little prim for my tastes (although I have some painter friends I love) but those sculptor types can be a wild ride. I could actually see you as a sculptor.

I have no talent in that department, but sculpture is my favorite form of art outside of the written word.

Talent!? All you have to do is melt shit together until it looks like the thing in your brain!

and that is where talent and skill come in.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Find an art gallery that has stuff you like. Hang about a bit, explain what you're looking for, ask if they know anyone or of any upcoming openings that might be fruitful. "Like" a bunch of gallery Facebook pages, too, because they often send invites to their openings via their Facebook pages.

I don't know about Tucson, but in Portland a common method of advertising is to give the artists a bunch of postcard-size ads to give to their friends. Artists often do things like leave stacks of these cards in nearby coffee shops and bars, so look in places like those. Once you're in, you'll start constantly finding out about these, and the way to get in is really to start with one gallery you like, go to a couple of their openings and meet people, and it will just expand from there.

Thanks, Nigel!  I will do that.

Good luck! Artists can be fun. Especially people who weld and shit. Painters are a little prim for my tastes (although I have some painter friends I love) but those sculptor types can be a wild ride. I could actually see you as a sculptor.

I have no talent in that department, but sculpture is my favorite form of art outside of the written word.

Talent!? All you have to do is melt shit together until it looks like the thing in your brain!

Cooking, I hear, is the same way.   

I can make functional things with steel.  If it's not functional, it comes out looking like Escher had a Thalidomide baby with Davinci.  Not a pretty baby.  No. 

[LMNO]

looking like Escher had a Thalidomide baby with Davinci.  Not a pretty baby.  No. 

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd like to see that.