New Goat Day
What follows is, in a word, ridiculous. But it's also kind of telling. The New Goat Day 'series' was piloted in April of 2015, thanks to twelve photographs of goats climbing Argan trees in Morocco. Some genius (even I'm not sure if I'm being facetious here) organized these twelve photos into a wall calendar, making the first day of each month just that much brighter for a goob like myself. Goats are funny animals. Doubly so among the treetops. I couldn't help myself, I had to share. And I had to be bombastic in how I did so. So things grew increasingly ridiculous right off the bat. But within a month, I had started to develop an idea, whether or not I really wanted to acknowledge it (I did not). I was going to give legitimacy to the absurd monthly display by tying the goat photos to whatever we were all collectively experiencing at that time, be it here in the Dallas area, or nation-wide. Backed b...