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Rembrandt’s got nothing on me today
Thoroughbred name: Non-Specular Bid
(Because of this horse)
Spectacular Bid
I was at work the other day in a room with a little-used whiteboard turned to the wall and saw myself in something approaching the ultimate in soft-focus. Perhaps mirrors with the exact right degree of bumpiness could be made, scientifically, in which one sees what others see of oneself when they are completely besotted with tender emotion. Or is puppy (horsey?) love still in style?
Spectacular Bid
I was at work the other day in a room with a little-used whiteboard turned to the wall and saw myself in something approaching the ultimate in soft-focus. Perhaps mirrors with the exact right degree of bumpiness could be made, scientifically, in which one sees what others see of oneself when they are completely besotted with tender emotion. Or is puppy (horsey?) love still in style?
A mania anticipated
Media sensation: Balloon Mobs
Inspired by the hoaxers, a great many lonely Americans construct and take off in color-coded personal helium balloons (presumably wearing breathing apparatus), in search of love and community in the upper troposphere. In the process, beautiful aerial displays drift over the eastern slops of the Rockies, with a few soaring to icy dizzying heights, and a few others falling like overripe fruit down to the unforgiving Earth. Experts speculate on how the phenomenon has grown out of the increasing levels of isolation and narcissism in society coupled with worries over the H1N1 pandemic.
Yeah, you heard me – WISDOM
Traditional end of meal course: Surrealism Cookies
The other day we had to go to the phone store to replace Pam’s broken handset, and when we were done we stopped at a local non-Western restaurant named after an inhabitant of the natural world. It was a nice meal, but I was stopped in my tracks when I opened my fortune cookie. It seems to have sustained translation damage in more than one place. But I think it is good when your food makes you stop and think, because that gives you three extra opportunities a day to achieve enlightenment.
In two decades we’ll know what they’ve done
Educational video line: Baby Eisenstein
via youtube.com
The Disney company has had to eat some considerable amount of crow with regard to the Baby Einstein product line they acquired a while back, which seems not to do what it was touted as doing. All this infant video watching might have some other effect however, perhaps inspiring some to craft tightly-written family dramas, others to spectacular documentaries, and still others to agonizing historical montages we can only dream of now. Or they could grow to like CGI the way I have not.
Are you kidding? I’m not going down there
Less famous first line: The boy stood well clear of the burning deck and phoned 911.
via flickr.com
Wouldn’t want to do anything rash, after all.
My question is: where did I leave the top of my skull?
Horror movie title: The Previously Dead
via dreamstime.com
I have been served brains before, and enjoyed them, insofar as one can enjoy something so similar to hard-boiled egg whites without benefit of deviled egg filling. This was long before people had worries about BSE or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and I think I have suffered no ill effect from the experience. Nor any especially potent beneficial effect, along the lines of “the best brain food should be brains,” since after all it was a matter of consuming them, not acquiring a transplant or anything.
I notice that it is possible to buy a brain hat but they really should put on a warning that it intended only for those with short or no hair, which would be bound to spoil the effect. It is just the sort of thing one might wear to see a zombie movie hoping to score a reduced price ticket.
I don’t know why he’s standing there
Album name: Cameleopard vs. Manatee
Spotted by the cafeteria in our office building
Which would win? Or would it even possible to imagine them fighting?
A surefire vaccine against boredom
Candy name: H1-oween Shots
via luxirare.com
How cool would it be to give out treats this year in syringes for Halloween? You would even need to carry out the elaborate and somewhat tricky ‘spherification’ process described in this post, just have the kids line up one by one and direct the concoction straight into their greedy mouths from the nozzle of your needle-less syringe. Maybe better for a party than for trick-or-treaters at the door owing to logistics and trust factors, but we obviously have the technology.
Thanks to Holy Kaw for pointing me to this blog.
My God, it’s full of silica
Band name: Star Factory and the Nebulans
I saw these images of Tiffany Favrile glass when leafing through the current issue of Silvershotz magazine today and they made me think about CGI graphics without computers, interstellar gas clouds in the studio, and tissue mounts without a pathology lab. And now I find out from the artist’s bio that we went to the same college as well. The samples of his work are well worth a look.
Poor Poor Thing 