Stuff Hanging In Your Cubicle

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1) A brief tract sent in by a customer, a self-professed alien abductee, which reads: "HUMANS OF THE PLANET EARTH. FIRST LEARN TO LIVE WITH YOUR DIFFERENT PEOPLE. YOUR SEARCH FOR ENLIGHTENMENT AND YOUR OPPRESSION TO EACH OTHER HAS CREATED YOUR RELIGIONS. THE UNIVERSE CREATES DIFFERENCE TO CREATE ITS OWN CARETAKER. GOD AND DEVIL IS THE ENERGY OF NATURE THAT SURROUNDS US ALL. KEEP YOUR POPULATION TO A RESPECTFUL NUMBER AND RESPECT MOTHER EARTH." Underneath which is the chemical formula for ozone.

2) Printout of Black Lois Lane cover.

3) a Jerkcity comic

4) a Married To The Sea comic: "I WILL WITHSTAND YOUR VERBAL ABUSE - 10 cents" (I am a customer service rep.)

5) a picture of John Brown

6) Subgenius miscellany

7) printout of "Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles" book cover

8) two 7" plush lion things; one black, one white

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

So yea, post things that mask your dreary workspace, you corporate drones, you.

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Many different days (at least two hundred) from an Edward Gorey calendar from a few years back.

A roster and schedule for the student workers I supervise.

ORNALDO BLOOMPS FOR PRESIDETN

And that London tube map with all the station stops and line names replaced by musical references.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

My new co-worker (kind of a hippie, pleasant, quiet, capable) has THIS picture hanging up in his cubicle:

http://www.hollywoodfiveo.com/archive/issue2/flashback/images/jackson_center2.jpg

Jermaine fucking Jackson. Shirtless. On a Beach. W. T. F.

Is it ironic? Is he gay? Or does he just have questionable taste in music? All of the above?

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I put Trainspotting poster up one time, everybody liked it, except our boss who asked to take it down because "it could offend some customers".

scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

awesome xpost

ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

The Jermaine picture is a LP album cover or something, and apart from a batik tapestry (fucking hippie) it's the ONLY non-work related thing in his cube.

I DON'T GET IT.

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

He's an ironic gay with questionable taste in music.
Actually, sounds a lot like my boyfriend.

xpost

scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, that's right, how did your attempt to make him like MBV go? ;-)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have Ornaldo Bloomps too, because I printed it out to put on a co-worker's lifesize Aragorn cut-out. He didn't see the humor and took it off.

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I decided to drop that and concentrate on minimal instead :)
After i figure out what "minimal" is anyway.

scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

we're not supposed to do any masking. they like it dreary.

Kim (Kim), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

After i figure out what "minimal" is anyway.

It's this thing.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't anything?

scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

1 stress pint of Guiness
1 stress Duke
1 Sandy Cheek
1 photo
1 super bouncy ball from Sun which no longer lights up since a coworkers kid got at it.
2 stress Cubes
3 stress Balls
&
work related shit.

Nothing is actually hanging but Duke does perch on my desk lamp or computer monitor provided the cleaning ladies don't knock it off.

Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't anything?

Oh dear.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

What's on your desk right now?

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

wtf is a Sandy Cheek?

Kim (Kim), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, i hope you didn't think i was serious? Although after reading the "minimal" thread i'm not sure about anything anymore. I'll go back to listening to Kiki's BoogyBytes (hmm, here is an idea on what to hang in my cubicle. i wish i was brave enough).

scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Alexander McQueen runway still
Henri Cartier-Bresson print
detail closeup from Maus
Gerhard Richter print
still of Michelangelo's "Pieta"
still of a building I dig

polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Aforementioned co-worker just addressed me as "pretty boy." The gay evidence continues to mount.

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, i hope you didn't think i was serious?

Oh heavens no. :-)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Aforementioned co-worker just addressed me as "pretty boy. The gay evidence continues to mount."
- Elmo, that might have something to do with you staring at that picture.

Ned: good! :)

scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

I have all the postcards various ILXors sent me, stuck up on my whiteboard - theres one from Jaq, one from Forestpines, one from Tokyo Rosemary and one from Rock Hardy. Rock's is ace: he made it himself in photoshop and it has breakdancin' Kens all over it :D

Also, pics of my neice and nephew, a hollywood postcard from my crazy Gwen Stefani-a-like friend in London, and a warning label I made myself that says this:

http://www.memorygongs.com/buttwarning.jpg

Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 May 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

I only have a whiteboard. Nothing much interesting on it, mostly email addresses & some snippets of html.

lyra (lyra), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

wtf is a Sandy Cheek?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Tea_at_the_treedome.jpg

Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

i used to have a picture of jandek, but now i have nothing at all

electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

oh, *that* Sandy. are you sure she's not stress related at all?

Kim (Kim), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

pic from inner gatefold of roxy music for your pleasure
list of internal phone numbers
pizza menu
business card for government contact
couple of gig flyers
two badges ('george bush world's #1 terrorist' button, int'l women's day pin) from my two predecessors
small wooden horse I found at northcote train station

lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Friday, 26 May 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

This was an ace idea for a thread.

Welcome to my little office plot:

1) a photocopy of a People magazine centerfold pic of D. Guest, L. Minelli, M. Jackson, and E. Taylor, all creepy and Addams Family’d out, and D and L’s wedding. Makes a great conversation piece and reminds me that no matter how lame I am, there are loaded celebs who are lamer.
2) Tons of work-related printouts.
3) Photos of me and my wife, me and my wife and our dog, my wife holding yellow roses.
4) A picture of my best friend, Sanjeevani, standing next to another friend, Amal, on a street in D.C. Both appear deliriously happy.
5) A Doonesbury cartoon where Mike is ruminating about how he doesn’t think of himself in the third person anymore even though he’s doing exactly that. In the final panel, we learn that his daughter, Alex, does this.
6) An ad where Darth Vader and the Burger “Have Breakfast With The” King face off.
7) A Baltimore Sun story about a company that manufactures action figures, that talk, of key players in the U.S. White House and Saddam’s since toppled government.
8) CDs and magazines and press releases and dirty dishes everywhere.
9) A fan.
10) A NYT editorial by David Brooks titled “Den of Dreams.”
11) A satirical “Dogs Playing Poker” column from the Orlando Weekly.

Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

a poster outlining the different parts of a cow and the different cuts of meat.

DOES THAT SOUND CREPEY?

i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Depends if we're talking savory or sweet.

polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Left to right, with a few omissions:

-Missy Elliott Respect ME gold framed mirror
-Trifold brochure for Burt Glinn Havana Photograph show with smiling applauding cubans
-Beard Papa magnet
-Posters for King Wilkie (those guys have a good design company in Printmafia), Bettye Lavette, Colleen/Hawk and a Hacksaw, Jim White, Uncle Earl and a signed Issa Bagayogo poster.
-Color lifesize photocopy of Ray Charles' 'The Genius Hits the Road'
-Cat in the Hat Seuss cutout.
-Village Voice baseball cap covering ipod stand
-"Happy Guy" hand puppet wearing three pinback buttons, that read "Dance Revolution" "I'm a Cuddler" and "TOP"
-Mr T head rubber stamp
-Hand carved and painted jointed wooden devil figurine
-Sly Stallone 'Over the Top' Action figure
-Plastic Chimpanzee head with black worry rock atop
-Spiderman head on a doily
-14 half inch by half inch pictures of my girlfriend on a white back board with a red "WHIPPED" sticker at the bottom
-Richard D. James face mask
-xerox of a 1964 article in the Greensboro daily news about the effect of The Beatles on public tastees ("It was an orgy for teen-agers")
-Penguin shaped water pitcher
-Star Wars Collectible card of a tusken raider pinned on to the foldout liner notes for Prince's The Hits V. 1
-a picture ripped from a magazine that shows a leggy model wearing a headscarf, an orange ruffled velvet jacket, pink patterned suspenders, mens long thermal underwear and yellow translucent galoshes that has the word "FASHION" scrawled across the front in red and black marker

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 May 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

cutout from "the hook" newsprint publication, dated March 10:


- says "QUOTE OF THE WEEK"

- picture of Ghostface with microphone

- "When asked about his collaborative, all mp3 mixtape with DJ Green Lantern that's currently burning up the internet, Ghostface told an MTV reporter: I don't know, son. I just be doin' shit.""

autovac (autovac), Friday, 26 May 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

This is my first week here. All I've got is a mug full of rubber bands for zinging at the intern kid and a classic red Swingline stapler and insurance detritus. And I taped a fortune cookie fortune to my monitor because it says "Life to you is a dashing and bold adventure", which is also the lyric to a kick ass jam.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 26 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

So sing and rejoice and sing and rejoice

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing really. The cube farm here has all glass/transparent walls and is in a semi-public room. I leave nothing behind when I go home for the day.

LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 26 May 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

jeez forks, enough flair?

teeny (teeny), Friday, 26 May 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

It's actually about half as much as the other people I'm working with!
And god help you if you want to talk about my boss's office; he's got a lifesize paper mache tiger head in there.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 May 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

-the stench of unfulfilled potential

oops (Oops), Saturday, 27 May 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

The people I work with are like woah, man. One dude has a 6' fishtank built into this monstrosity of a "desk" with all sorts of Finding Nemo tropical motherfuckers in it. He also has a massive fucking stereo in his room. My boss proper has two ginormous fucking bloodhounds that apparently live in his office, and keeps a case of Coors Light in the office fridge. This one girl has a "nap cave" in her office upstairs. I shudder to think, but I might not be the eccentric here.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I now have a framed picture of Beardo from LOST on my desk, with "Pink Panty Meltdown" written on it in fancypants cursive.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)


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