Humpty Flip
Feb. 11th, 2006 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusToday is my birthday. Today I turn humpty-flip.
In the photo it's two days before my humpty-flipth birthday, though, and I'm in Kyoto, checking out Voordom Eye Yamataka's exhibition Ongaloo at ArtZone. (More images from the show here.) That's why I'm wearing the funny mask. It's designed by Eye.
I'll be celebrating my humpty-flipth birthday this weekend mostly wearing nothing at all; I'm off to Kinosaki to steep away sorrow in seven different onsens, one after the other. One for each of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man, perhaps. I seem to be between Age 3 and Age 4, between "the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress' eyebrow" and the "soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation..."
Seven bubbling hot spring baths will console me for being half way through the seven ages, but not half as much as the thought that perhaps you'll still need and feed me when I'm 64.
In the photo it's two days before my humpty-flipth birthday, though, and I'm in Kyoto, checking out Voordom Eye Yamataka's exhibition Ongaloo at ArtZone. (More images from the show here.) That's why I'm wearing the funny mask. It's designed by Eye.
I'll be celebrating my humpty-flipth birthday this weekend mostly wearing nothing at all; I'm off to Kinosaki to steep away sorrow in seven different onsens, one after the other. One for each of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man, perhaps. I seem to be between Age 3 and Age 4, between "the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress' eyebrow" and the "soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation..."
Seven bubbling hot spring baths will console me for being half way through the seven ages, but not half as much as the thought that perhaps you'll still need and feed me when I'm 64.
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Date: 2006-02-10 03:50 pm (UTC)Humpty-flipth is the most important one, you know!
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Date: 2006-02-10 03:56 pm (UTC)Happy birthday, killer!
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Date: 2006-02-10 04:26 pm (UTC)How do they celebrate birthdays in Japan?
Do you get a cake with candles?
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Date: 2006-02-10 04:27 pm (UTC)Write more, its always interesting!
happy birthday!
Date: 2006-02-10 04:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-10 04:37 pm (UTC)happy birthday!
i hope your year ahead is just as you would like it to be
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Date: 2006-02-10 04:42 pm (UTC)Don't go through the Seven Ages of Man too fast; that's what they say about the Stairway of Life in Nikko.
Shakespeare sure was a dirty facial man.
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Date: 2006-02-10 04:50 pm (UTC)7th baf uv 'Enry D'Athe
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:00 pm (UTC)happy birthday from this drawing I found on the internet.
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:14 pm (UTC)ALso, thank you for a nice 2005 with great essays and such a critical and individual look on things going on. We need more journalists like you Momus. Good luck in 2006 as Humpty-Flipth years old too!
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