My Future...

Brick by brick, the gutsy little old lady demolished her precious home, pulling each medieval nail from its ancient oak beam.
brick by brick...


In 1969, when she was 58, the bulldozers reached her gate. Her response was to number each beam and pane of glass so that her home could be reassembled like a giant jigsaw puzzle...

Who Killed Amanda Palmer?

Who Killed Amanda Palmer?

I meant to post some videos, but didn't have time...


"Who Killed Amanda Palmer" Video Series - Part 2: Astronaut from Amanda Palmer on Vimeo.


"Who Killed Amanda Palmer" Video Series - Part 3: Ampersand from Amanda Palmer on Vimeo.


"Who Killed Amanda Palmer" Video Series - Part 6: Strength Through Music from Amanda Palmer on Vimeo.


"Who Killed Amanda Palmer" Video Series - Part 7: Guitar Hero from Amanda Palmer on Vimeo.

Electricity

La Princesse Endormie via The Original Flowy


When I was a kid on crappy cereal and T.V. I always felt sorry for Bill, but felt better when Electricity came on.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Shortchanging the Muse by ~RedSparr0w

Thanks for all of the kind comments and emails. Due to technical difficulties and the holiday, I probably won’t be online much until this weekend, but I do have a W.S. Burroughs Thanksgiving Prayer for your viewing pleasure...



For the most part, I’m doing OK considering – mainly losing myself in books. Eating has been troublesome and somewhat nauseating, but I wouldn’t mind losing a couple of pounds before the holidays. The hardest part has actually been the little quirky things that come up that I’d like to share with him, but cannot any longer.

Anyway, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I’m trying to be thankful for what I have. In many ways I’m very lucky and it is rather pathetic to wallow in self pity.

No! via this isn't happiness

Happy Philosophy Day!

Now that we're back where we were in f-ing 1997, one can't help but feel philosophical over the lost decade. Here are some tentacles, pulp fiction art and Schoolhouse Rock to cheer you up.

Thomas Allen’s Book Art Photography





If Schoolhouse Rock were to explain bonds...



Blonde Zombies and the Egg Lady!

Survived Another Migraine

a daydream by `suzi9mm

Sometimes I tend to get rather depressed in the early stages of a migraine hence my comments last night. After spending the day in bed sleeping and avoiding light and sound, I'm feeling much better. Itsallgood!
I'm reading a rather interesting book about Turing and Gödel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, but I find the writing style a bit odd. I'm not sure why the narrator suddenly chooses to insert herself in the story, but I particularly like the Moritz Circle scenes in Vienna when everyone idolized Wittgenstein except for Gödel. Apparently it was fashionable to dress in his casual tie-less white shirt manner. Many years ago I went through a Wittgenstein phase and even painted a portrait of him which I’ll include if I can find the image. Perhaps it is on my other laptop. So far I don't find Turing as interesting.

The Metamorphosis

Kafka in Progress

Also note Star's portrait of Lovecraft.

In unrelated news, PhDiva discusses arugula and asks:
Does Senator Obama know that he has been going around the country telling people that he is taking the ancient equivalent of Viagra?
And what on earth is Bill Clinton munching on?

Sara Goldfarb spotted at the Democratic Party’s RBC meeting!

Is she not Sara Goldfarb from Requiem for a Dream? It would seem she took a few too many of the purple pills before the Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting.

Pure Morning: part 1 by ~evilcheshirecat
Artist's Comments
“Purple in the morning, blue in the afternoon, orange in the evening, and green at night. Just like that: one, two, three, four.”– Sara Goldfarb
(You have to see the movie in order to really feel the intensity of the reality of dreams. It's morbid and harsh, but 100% true.)


Pure Morning: part 2 by ~evilcheshirecat
Artist's Comments
“You make me feel like a person. Like I’m me… and I’m beautiful.”- Marion

“You are my dream.”- Harry Goldfarb

“Somebody like you can really make things alright for me.”- Harry Goldfarb

“In the end, it’s all nice.” –Sara Goldfarb

The Post-American World

Zakaria's central thesis is that while the U.S. still has many unique assets, "the rise of the rest" -- the Chinas, the Indias, the Brazils and even smaller nonstate actors -- is creating a world where many other countries are slowly moving up to America's level of economic clout and self-assertion, in every realm. "Today, India has 18 all-news channels of its own," notes Zakaria. "And the perspectives they provide are very different from those you will get in the Western media. The rest now has the confidence to present its own narrative, where it is at the center."

For too long, argues Zakaria, America has taken its many natural assets -- its research universities, free markets and diversity of human talent -- and assumed that they will always compensate for our low savings rate or absence of a health-care system or any strategic plan to improve our competitiveness.

"That was fine in a world when a lot of other countries were not performing," argues Zakaria, but now the best of the rest are running fast, working hard, saving well and thinking long term.

"They have adopted our lessons and are playing our game," he said. If we don't fix our political system and start thinking strategically about how to improve our competitiveness, he added, "the U.S. risks having its unique and advantageous position in the world erode as other countries rise."

When Wagga sent me this article mentioning Fareed Zakaria's “The Post-American World” I was reminded of this recent photo of Obama.

Other than "My Pet Goat" I wonder what Bush has read since he has been in office...

Box Ignore Mode Update

Boring topic, but that is exactly why I remain in box/pile ignore mode. When left alone my piles of crap replicate among themselves hence this embarrassing realization. While I think it is far more important to vote for the 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Dick Cheney winner, I'm posting this as a form of accountability of sorts.
The white bag is empty. I was just using it for recyclables like outdated technical books.

Perhaps this photo doesn't fully highlight the accomplishments of the day.

Found this late 19th Century Goethe "coffee table" book in the process.



Akubi suckling his favorite stuffed Pomeranian.


P.S. While I couldn't give a rat's ass what my Technorati rating is, watching the steadily dropping number reminds me of the dollar.

This is a psychiatrist!

"This is a psychiatrist! Into his peaceful, tastefully-decorated, subdued office come the tormented and the driven, seeking to unravel the tangled emotional skeins that cloud and knot their broken lives... "



When I came across this Psychoanalysis Flickr set (via Dadanoias) I was curious what the stories were about so I did a bit of Googling...

During a tide of public concern about the effect of comics on children, in 1955 EC Comics created a series of new 'more wholesome' titles. One of which, was a four part comic series about psychoanalysis.
The public concern was largely in response to the views of psychiatrist Fredric Wertham. He argued, in his book Seduction of the Innocent, that the gaudy comics of the time were a major cause of juvenile delinquency
- Mind Hacks

Of these, the subject—sorry, the partner—with whom LGBT readers are most likely to relate is poor Freddy Carter, a freckle-faced fifteen-year-old kleptomaniac whose mom calls him a victim and whose dad calls him a sissy. Well, unless the most current definition of metrosexual is "unbalanced, spider-fingered, and whinier than David Gest after an unanesthetized facelift," we're going to go along with dad on this'un, junior. But this is Prism Comics—we don't judge! Even if you end up liking girls, Freddy, you'll be okay in our book. But you'll still be a sissy.
- Prism Comics

Although every patient is much better by the end of their session, the psychiatrist reminds the reader that they’ll be able to check back in on the patients in the next issue of Psychoanalysis. The series only lasted four issues, so I hope the patients didn’t need long term counseling.
- Polite Dissent

Can a killer's literary efforts tell us anything about his motives?

Interesting thread on Guardian Unlimited's book blog...

We cannot blame literary influences for disturbed people like Cho Seung-Hui committing violent acts - even Shakespeare's writing was full of rage ...