So basically, you shoot a potato from a cannon, through a wall of butter

[sovay]

And following on yesterday I was so wiped out that I canceled on a singing gig this afternoon in favor of sleeping until after two o'clock. Have some more links.

1. I was previously unfamiliar with the art of Roger Dautais, but since some of it resembles tidepool mummies, I'm in favor. He reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy, too, but with fewer dry stone walls, more ocean.

2. I don't know Wang Xuerou and Hao Ruoqi, either, but they perform stunning narrative dance. I must say that the plot of the film which inspired this number looks, at least according to Wikipedia summary, also pretty damn queer. A fox spirit is involved.

3. Funnier than its title, also not: from the New York Times' series of Op-Eds from the Future, Jeff VanderMeer's "It's 2071, and We Have Bioengineered Our Own Extinction."

4. Well, this installment of Existential Comics lands close to home: "Wittgenstein at the Doctor."

5. "Best predatory journal spam invite ever." I am especially fond of the comment "Laugh all you want but Keyword is a field whose time has come."

I may or may not even stare at a movie. I have this cat.

Comments

How does the tsar sleep?

[lauradi7dw]

Push him into a room full of feathers. A soldier stands outside, guarding the door, shouting "Quiet! Quiet! the tsar is sleeping."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfydjfWcJ28
Kapelye, with Michael Alpert on vocals, 1987?

Re: How does the tsar sleep?

[sovay]

Kapelye, with Michael Alpert on vocals, 1987

Nice! I have no idea who I heard sing it first. I would suspect Theodore Bikel, except I don't seem to have a recording of him doing it.

[wpadmirer]

I like the Wittgenstein cartoon. It's a little too true, though.

[sovay]

It's a little too true, though.

Like I said, close to home.

[gwynnega]

Keyword is clearly a burgeoning field!

[sovay]

Keyword is clearly a burgeoning field!

I would honestly read a paper entitled "Files removed following a technical error." I'd be so curious.

[moon_custafer]

It reminds me of that list of video game fixes that includes things like “adjusted the value of bees” or “historical figures can no longer plot to assassinate themselves.”

[sovay]

It reminds me of that list of video game fixes that includes things like “adjusted the value of bees” or “historical figures can no longer plot to assassinate themselves.”

I love "adjusted value of bees." It makes the economy sound fascinatingly insect-based.

[asakiyume]

Of the Roger Dautais pieces, I like the one with the knotted grass a whole lot.

Keyword is definitely a field in the ascendant.

[sovay]

Of the Roger Dautais pieces, I like the one with the knotted grass a whole lot.

Link?

Keyword is definitely a field in the ascendant.

I look forward to their flagship journal, : .

[asakiyume]

Link

I meant in the link you provided! It's one of the pictures there.

[sovay]

I meant in the link you provided! It's one of the pictures there.

There are a ton of pictures on the blog, and some of his motifs are repeating! I wasn't sure which knotted grass you meant. I'm guessing in this post? (And they are lovely; they look like growing stooks; they look like something you would find.)

[asakiyume]

Yes! That's the one ♥ ♥ ♥

[pameladean]

It is so good that you have that cat!

I have failed to clean my glasses properly. and so misread the title of the cartoon "Wittgenstein AS the Doctor." This did not prepare me, but perhaps nothing could have.

P.

[sovay]

It is so good that you have that cat!

He has attempted to spend the entire day in contact with me, which was great except when I had to make dinner. (Everyone is fine, I just had to explain again that he is not permitted to share the stovetop with fire.)

I have failed to clean my glasses properly. and so misread the title of the cartoon "Wittgenstein AS the Doctor."

Now I want that comic, too.

[pameladean]

I can still recall very clearly the sensation of a cat arriving, in the sudden way that cats do, upon the stove where I was cooking. This was Aristophanes, a long-haired cat! with guard hairs! who had burned his whiskers on a gas flame before! Eeeeek! Our own small black cats are thwarted by a modern stove with no actual top, just a kind of framework through which cat paws plunge precipitously, so they do not leap upon the stove any more. I fear, even if a stove of that kind were in the offing for you, that Dr. Autolycus would leap upon it just the same.

Upstairs, the stove has a top for leaping but doing so while we are cooking is about the only thing we don't want the upstairs cats to do that we have persuaded them not to.

I would also like to see a comic about Wittgenstein as The Doctor.

P.

[sovay]

This was Aristophanes, a long-haired cat! with guard hairs! who had burned his whiskers on a gas flame before! Eeeeek!

Autolycus burned one of his hind feet once on the stove in our old apartment! And he still merrily contends that he should share space with frying pans and pasta pots! Sometimes we find him sitting in the skillet. It's adorable and spatch reminds him that "catlet" is one letter away from "cutlet" and he blinks innocently.

I would also like to see a comic about Wittgenstein as The Doctor.

moon_custafer?

[thisbluespirit]

I am especially fond of the comment "Laugh all you want but Keyword is a field whose time has come."

That thread was pretty cheering. (I'm grateful). ♥

[sovay]

That thread was pretty cheering. (I'm grateful).

I'm glad!

*hugs*

[brigdh]

That dance sequence is absolutely amazing! As are the tidepool mummies, wow.

[sovay]

That dance sequence is absolutely amazing!

I've watched it at least half a dozen times. Also I realized I have much less of a frame of reference for modern dance than I do for ice skating, because what their intensity and their synchronization reminded me of was Torvill and Dean.

As are the tidepool mummies, wow.

I just love that image.