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I’ve dropped a few hints in the past, but now it’s time to let my readers know about the big changes about to take place here on Gallery of the Absurd. Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on a brand new art and satire-related website and haven’t been able to devote much time to creating new posts for GOTA. Set to debut in mid-February, this new mystery website will be a larger version of Gallery of the Absurd and I’m pleased to announce that a very talented gossip blogger is joining forces with me. Not only that, we’ve also hired a monkey to join our team. You may think I’m kidding, but I’m dead serious. The monkey shall serve as Chairman of the Board and will advise us on all strategic, editorial and creative direction. More details to come, but for now, I must disappear for a few weeks and will be posting only rarely. I’m looking forward to launching our new site and hope you’ll join me in this new adventure. Thanks for all your support, encouragement and feedback over the years. I’ll be back soon - xoxo 14.
Posted by 14 ♦ January 22, 2008
At 12:19 am deemacgee said:
You’ve hired… a monkey?
Is that even legal?
January 22, 2008
At 1:29 am Sailinghome said:
Thanks for all your entertaining blog posts on here and I look forward to your new site… Good Luck…!
Nick.
January 22, 2008
At 1:48 am Jacob said:
Now, I REALLY want to say there’s a hint in the posted image. You mentioned a monkey in the text, and there’s a monkey in the image. The monkey is pointing to an ace card, which has a black spade but red lettering.
Oh. I get it.
January 22, 2008
janica
At 3:30 am janica said:
14, can’t wait to see what you are working on! I’m there! Sounds exciting!
January 22, 2008
At 3:32 am armina_iv said:
I cant wait to see your new site, good luck and let us know when you are ready.
January 22, 2008
At 3:54 am stuck in AL said:
Well, that sucks for me! I will miss your posts, 14, but wish you all the best in your new endevor! I can’t wait to see what you’re cooking!
January 22, 2008
At 4:24 am Vern said:
I didn’t even think the monkey was available, dosen’t he still have some months left in Washington?
January 22, 2008
At 5:30 am midevil said:
Wow. Just remember, monkeys are dirty.
January 22, 2008
At 6:32 am BlissBoo said:
14, you really need to stop drawing Paris.
You will be missed and I look forward to the new venture.
January 22, 2008
At 8:07 am 56 said:
Bonne chance, 14! Your satire rates among the greatest and I look forward to the new efforts like Katie Holmes looks forward to her time outside the auditing room.
ps: Any chance of selling / providing Tom Cruise’s Last Supper as frameable art? I love Saint John Travolta hovering over his slip-on shoes …. light in his loafers, indeedydee.
January 22, 2008
At 8:36 am Knox Bronson said:
Does the monkey work for bananas? Or peanuts?
January 22, 2008
Meff
At 9:09 am Meff said:
I think it’s Perez Hilton!
January 22, 2008
At 9:13 am drake said:
Can’t wait to see what new inspirations await. Stock up on bananas.
January 22, 2008
At 9:17 am Fluff said:
You know if you hire a hundred of them and give them typewriters…
BTW, be sure if it’s a monkey or an ape. The labor laws are different. Warning: Chimps detest being called monkeys and will rip your face off with little provoking. I believe Bubbles is the one responsible for Michael Jackson’s appearance.
Just looking out for you.
January 22, 2008
At 9:23 am Adam Smith said:
I thought it was curious when Engelbert suddenly announced he was going on a business trip,saying that he would be gone for an indefinite period.
Three weeks later he appears on the West Coast of America,as Chairman of your Board.After working out his password,which turned out to be Socrates,I was able too access his all his E-mails.This actually was pretty simple since he is hugely influenced by Ancient Greek Philosophy,but his knowledge of it is’nt that great,hence the fairly obvious choice.
What I found though,was very illuminating,a series of E-mails extending back almost two years,some of them going back to before I was even aware of this Blog.
So Fourteen,my one and only question is how could you play me like that? I now find myself without a trusted and loved personal man servant,furthermore the long conversations we had into the night on the fundamental nature of reality are much missed.
Though his knowledge of Ancient Philosophy was slightly jejeune,(as I alluded to earlier),he more than made up for it with a degree of intellectual dexterity that was always a delight.
What on earth did you offer him that he did not have already?
More drugs?
More Porn?
More Guns?
Believe me,he has more than enough of these already.
Engelbert,if you are reading this,please keep in mind that these people are just using you as a marketing gimmick.Notice how they just call you “a monkey”,reffering to you in a generic manner,not even bothering to use your real name.
As for you Fourteen,I am sorely dissapointed,it will take a long time for the healing to begin.
January 22, 2008
At 11:33 am Sarah Marie said:
Nooooooooooooo!!! I’m gonna go into withdrawl!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……
January 22, 2008
At 11:58 am lalenya said:
i’d lick your boots if i could, 14, as you are the baddest of the baddest asses when it comes to using your significant talents to skewer our perceptions of fame. you and perez have both inspired me to start me own lil blog. mostly just writing and commentary on life here in the city of angel, but would be so honored if you would stop in for a looksee. xoxoxo. (luckylittlelady.blog.com)
January 22, 2008
Adam Smith
At 1:24 pm Adam Smith said:
Dear Fourteen.
God,this is embarrasing,I feel like a proper bufoon.But I must offer my apologies for accusing you of crude headhunting.
Just after I sent my strongly worded missive to you,Engelbert contacted me.
He did it through the Aetheric Shamanic Consciousness Network,(which is available as an extension for Firefox incidentally).
When you get a message from it the sender’s voice sounds all commanding and ominous like it’s been sent through a Roland Space Echo chained into an EMT 140 Plate Reverb.
The first thing I said was “Turn that effects chain off,those are clearly digital emulations of the real thing,since the analog saturation alghorithms don’t really convince on either one”.”I see you’re ever the studio monkey”,he said,laughing,”and you’re ever the monkey monkey”,I replied wryly.
We both laughed,bonding again,like the true friends we are,breaking the tension in an instant.His voice,however,was tinged with regret and sadness,he told me that he could no longer live in the world of man,saying that he gave us all,”twenty years tops”,as a species.
The derogatory stereotyping of him as a dirty banana and peanut eating wild animal,was also something he found intensely annoying and tiresome.
He had infact gone back to the rainforest.I asked him which one,but all he could say was that it was more of Conceptual Joseph Campbell style Jungian archetype Rainforest as opposed to an actual one,rather like the inner wilderness Carlos Castaneda discovered/made up/lied about.
As we parted,with the Aetheric Shamanic Consciousness Network dissipating into it’s usual background noise of disembodied souls, he left me with a warning.This warning is especially pertinent for you.
The monkey in your picture is his Grifter cousin Friedrich,to whom Engelbert bears an uncanny resemblance.The E-mail account I was looking at was infact his.With a talent for double book accounting that would put Anderson Consultants and Enron to shame,
he has worked his way through Europe conning Rich Zoologists and Primate Specialists out of there fortunes.Now he seem to have set his sights on you.If you give him the position of authority you intend to it will only end in your complete financial ruin.
All your money will be frittered away on Tittybars,Strippers,general women of ill repute,flashy cars and,er,peanuts and bananas.
Don’t say I did’nt warn you.
January 22, 2008
At 1:57 pm kellie said:
i miss you!
hurry back!
♥
January 22, 2008
At 3:17 pm midevil said:
Adam Smith,
LOL, LMAO, tee hee.
January 22, 2008
At 4:29 pm Jessica said:
Are you joining forces with Pink is The New Blog?!?!
January 22, 2008
At 5:18 pm Crystal said:
I look forward to your new website! I’ve enjoyed this site for a long time and just know your new site will be fabulous.
January 22, 2008
At 5:48 pm 35mmflm said:
Miss you already! I have no doubt that I will be as addicted to your new site as I am to GOTA.
January 22, 2008
At 6:03 pm Deanna said:
I can’t wait to see what you are up to! Congratulations and good luck 14.
January 22, 2008
At 8:58 pm Nasi Cyn said:
Dear 14,
Does this mean we will be forwarded to your new site when you get it going?
I can’t wait to see the new art you’ll have to offer! And BTW, I hope some of it will be available for sale…..many of your portraits are too good not to share/frame/hang in the studio!
Good luck, and keep us all posted.
Nasi Cyn
January 22, 2008
At 5:10 am Thorne Smith said:
We’ll miss you! But it’s good to know you’ll be dropping in every now and then. I’ve come to really love this site, but I certainly look forward to the new one!
Best of luck to you!
January 23, 2008
At 10:34 am kimber1 said:
I hope it’s Michael K from Dlisted and will be sincerely disappointed and surprised if it’s Perez Hilton.
January 23, 2008
At 10:56 am Jenn F. said:
I can’t wait. This is going to be the best thing on the web. I’m surprised that no one has yet guessed the obvious and figured out what’s happening… the signs have been there for AGES. The two of you are going to bring things to a whole new level… the new site will be better than each of your sites alone. And that’s quite an accomplishment, seeing as they truly are the best sites on the web… the most funny, the most interesting, the most intelligent. Congratulations for taking the leap. The wild ride begins shortly.
January 23, 2008
At 11:04 am audrey said:
i hope it´s Candy! hahaha that will be pretty good.
saludos desde México.
January 23, 2008
At 11:36 am Erick said:
Congrats! For awhile there I thought maybe you’d abandoned this new project. I’m VERY excited to hear all about what this is! Hope you continue to be well!
January 23, 2008
At 6:06 pm WebMaster Pete said:
Methinks it will be Candy from Holy Candy that she is teaming up with.
January 23, 2008
At 8:49 pm Nan said:
o puhleeze don’t let it be Perez
January 23, 2008
At 11:51 pm It’s British Bitch said:
Awwww please make it be Holy Candy, that would be excellent.
January 23, 2008
At 7:02 am mellen said:
I wish I was creative and/or intelligent enough to see clues in the monkey post.
I feel stupid!
Who do we think she’s teaming with?
I would imagine its one of the 3 that she does the “corpes” drawings with. Though, she is with D-listed (which is how i found this site)as well.
January 24, 2008
At 9:21 am Lucy said:
Good Luck!! =)
January 24, 2008
At 11:04 am Steve said:
Remember to duck when the monkey flings poo.
Remember to have a blank canvas behind you when you duck. Poo splatter art could be better than spilt milk!
Can’t wait to see the new site.
January 24, 2008
Kate
At 11:56 am Kate said:
Congrats, I look forward to the new site!
January 24, 2008
At 12:35 am Cristina said:
can’t wait!!
January 28, 2008
At 8:55 pm Nechyfer said:
Hey 14 can’t wait to see what’s in store!!good luck on your new endeavors but will miss you while you’re gone.
Nechyfer
January 28, 2008
At 3:48 am macZ said:
perez is a piece of sh1t… i hope people will boycott the site if it’s him
January 29, 2008
At 9:18 am Javelin said:
your monkey seems adorable, crazy and overcaffeinated… no doubt he bites, but his saliva probably provides an expresso-like jolt of energy.
January 29, 2008
At 6:33 pm The Judge said:
Keep us posted when you launch. We will shout it from the rooftops and alert everyone we know.
And if your celebrity blogger is Perez Hilton, we will lose all respect for you, force ourselves into a drinking binge and run over a paparazzi or something.
January 30, 2008
At 11:20 am Jane said:
kay, I be here for ya 14! I am a quiver with anticipation xoxo
January 31, 2008
At 6:55 am Penny said:
Ok. so it’s Feb 18th (past mid feb) where’s the promised website?? getting bored at work!
February 18, 2008