This past Saturday, 225 Improv Everywhere agents shopped in slow motion at a Manhattan Home Depot. Check out the photos and video in their mission report.

If you are unfamiliar with Improv Everywhere’s work be sure to check out the Best Buy Mission in which a large group of agents entered a Manhattan Best Buy store dressed very much like Best Buy employees and confused the hell out of the people working there.

Well, I guess I’ve been web surfing more than usual, I’ve got some more links to share. These are all related inside my head because of the strong graphical element each of them has.

First I found Peter Callesen’s Amazing Paper-Cut Coolness. Callesen’s work is subtle and clever and amazingly detailed.

And then I found the web site for Dubai’s Palm-shaped Island. I hear that this island was created by the same company that rebuilt Cancun’s beaches. Here’s an article on the project.

And finally here’s an article about those Nifty Crop Circles that are always showing up in the English countryside. I don’t know who makes those things. But there does seem to be a certain style that they are always made with, I mean I never see crop circles with houses and cars and people in them, instead they are always made in these abstract geometric patterns. Very cool!

A couple of great cat-related links have come my way recently. One is to a story about a lady who bought a boat to lodge all of the strays cats she was taking car of. In her case she lived on the waterfront so the cats were kept close by. Check out the Cat Boat. Me, I don’t live on the waterfront, so my cats have to settle for lying around on top of my car all day.

And here’s a link to Fatboy Slim’s kitten video. I feel sort of sorry for all the kittens, they don’t all look happy about their costumes, but hopefully they got paid well! Anyway, it’s quite cute, enjoy it!

Well golly gee darn but I do love this one. It’s the Pipe Cleaner Dance. You can play one of several musical tracks and then you can make the pipe cleaner guy dance by running your mouse over the keyboard (weird interface there). Play with it a bit, I got pretty good at it and even started breaking a sweat. Sometimes the internet is all about reliving your childhood. Enjoy!

Well I did it. I bought tickets to the final night of Pearl Jam’s U.S. tour this summer. Now I just have to get my butt from Cancun to George, Washington on July 22. I was planning to visit a close friend in Portland OR(igami) in late July anyway, before I learned the dates of Pearl Jam’s tour. Now I get to drag her up to the show with me…

For the first time in over ten years years the greatest band in the world, Pearl Jam, will play Saturday Night Live. Pearl Jam’s official site has announced that Pearl Jam will play SNL on April 15, the same night that Lindsay Lohan hosts the show.

Also The Sky I Scrape, which is a PJ fan site, is reporting that Pearl Jam will play the Late Show with David Letterman on May 4th.

Yours truly is trying to figure how to justify flying to the states just to see Pearl Jam this summer. Well, not trying too hard. No justification is necessary. Although I should be sure to meet with a client or two so I can write it off…

I had a rush of nostalgia today. As I was crossing Av. Kabah in front of Costco today I heard drumming. And there in front of me was a ragtag band of hippie kids in a drumming group. They were intent on their task of filling the block with the sounds of their drum circle. There were 5 drummers and two of them were working their hardest to match each other’s playing beat for beat. I had a moment of deja vu which took me back to the mid-80’s when I was myself a lowly college student and spent altogether too much of my time hanging out with people whose life ambition appeared to be to hang out and play the drums all day.

But somewhere along in there I graduated and had to go get a job…and let’s hope these kids do the same, but until they do I will enjoy their endeavor whenever I’m in the neighborhood.

Well, there are lots of reasons why I adore Eddie Vedder. One is that he has a big and open heart and he appears to be absolutely dedicated to the people he loves and the causes he believes in. The world desperately needs more men like him. Another reason I adore him is that he writes and composes music which makes me feel that I’m not alone in the world. His work touches me in a way that almost no other music or art ever has. And that matters to me, a lot. I don’t like feeling alone.

But this morning it occurred to me that one of the things I like best about him is that he’s very brave. He’ll do anything for his art. I was just listening to one of the Pearl Jam bootlegs from the 2000 tour (Tampa) and on it Eddie plays a song called “Soon Forget”. He plays the song alone, on a ukelele. How many rock stars would do a quiet little solo on a ukelele in front of 20k-plus people?

Here are the lyrics…

Soon Forget by Eddie Vedder

Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette.
Thinks he’ll get the girl he’ll only get the mechanic.
What’s missing? He’s living a day he’ll soon forget.

That’s one more time around. The sun is going down.
The moon is out but he’s drunk and shouting.
Putting people down. He’s pissing. He’s living a day he’ll soon forget.

Counts his money every morning. The only thing that keeps him horny.
Locked in a giant house that’s alarming.
The townsfolk they all laugh.

Sorry is the fool who trades his love for hi-rise rent.
Seem the more you make equals the loneliness you get.
And it’s fitting. He’s barely living a day he’ll soon forget.

That’s one more time around and there is not a sound.
He’s lying dead clutching Benjamins. Never put the money down.
He’s stiffening. We’re all whistling a man we’ll soon forget.