Brad Walsh

What About Blob

I’m officially sick of this drizzly dreary cloudy gray New York weather. It’s been almost a week and I’ve hit my point; life is lacking sunlight. Give me Vitamin D or give me death! I’m not going to Atlanta with Christian this weekend, so I’m missing the southern sun as well. With any luck this weekend will be pretty like last Saturday and I can take Topper to the park. Though, he likes to pee in the grass and then lay down right where he peed. He’s not the brightest.

Today I photographed director Mitch McCabe, whose next film Youth Knows No Pain follows “an age-obsessed daughter of a plastic surgeon [who] takes a journey through America’s $60 Billion a year anti-aging world.” From what she told me it sounds really cool, though I was skeptical at first that the top name on the cast list on IMDB is Julia Allison.

Opening my Yahoo mail today there’s the headline “Space blob baffles scientists.” The teaser reads: “Researchers peer into the past and find a massive, mysterious object from the early universe. What it might be.” This kind of thing freaks me right the fuck out. So of course I open it to scare myself and fill my head with images of giant blobs out there in the universe that gave off this light billions of years ago that we are just now seeing, and you know… what goes along with that is… what we’re seeing was forever ago, so where is the blob now? Is it right behind me? Is it breathing heavily? At the bottom of the page there is a link to “Original Story: Giant Mystery Blob Discovered Near Dawn of Time,” which is even creepier because the fact that light has a speed really does mean that time travel is happening all around us, and then it’s not a far leap to wondering if maybe Abraham Lincoln is in my bathroom right now waiting behind the shower curtain.

In the article there’s this quote: “The cloud predates similar blobs, known as Lyman-Alpha blobs, which existed when the universe was 2 billion to 3 billion years old. Researchers named their new find Himiko, after an ancient Japanese queen with an equally murky past.”

So on Wikipedia it says of Himiko: “The country formerly had a man as ruler. For some seventy or eighty years after that there were disturbances and warfare. Thereupon the people agreed upon a woman for their ruler. Her name was [H]imiko. She occupied herself with magic and sorcery, bewitching the people. Though mature in age, she remained unmarried. She had a younger brother who assisted her in ruling the country. After she became the ruler, there were few who saw her. She had one thousand women as attendants, but only one man. He served her food and drink and acted as a medium of communication. She resided in a palace surrounded by towers and stockades, with armed guards in a state of constant vigilance.” Sounds like Candy Spelling.

BRB… stuck in a Wikipedia loop… if I disappear, just look for the light I’m giving off now to show up in a few billion years. It’ll have all the answers.