Friday Ephemera
At last, shoe drawers. || He draws cities. || How do you draw an X? Anything but #8 is just wrong. || Real–time travel. || “You don’t imagine Romans in socks.” || The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro. || At all times, dignity. || An animated collage of Google Earth images. (Photosensitive types beware.) || Golden boulder of note. || Sacred substance. || He does this better than you do. || A snug fit. || A work of evil genius. || Knitted village. || These are some of those. || Thrust. || She can’t hear men. || “The Crippens’ marriage was not a happy one.” || Petals and stems. || He chose poorly. (h/t, Holborn) || Pregnant with no vagina. || And finally, instructively, “How to make thin hamster.”
At last, shoe drawers.
. . . . O . . . Kaaaayyyy . . . Yes, I was noting the likelihood of drawers for shoes, albeit then fallowed by those who are graphical artists . . .
How do you draw an X? Anything but #8 is just wrong
No particular opinion on wrong or not, but yeah, #8 is mine as well . . .
I dunno. If I could make hamsters that thin, next thing you know I’d be stacking them up to see how high I could make the pile.
“You don’t imagine Romans in socks.”
Siiiiggggghhh. Of course you do.
The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro.
We’ve seen this a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . . .
A work of evil genius.
And finally, instructively, “How to make thin hamster.”
And finally, instructively, “How to write thin hamster.”
A snug fit
I’m glad there is a better use for EDM other than as a term Americans use to take all the fun out of dance music.
A small suggestion for workplace camaraderie:
And:
Fred the Fourth: great minds think alike! I was also pondering the feasibility of painting Dali-type pictures showing melting hamsters flowing everywhere. We could sell them on the sidewalk in front of the bar.
Years of cursive writing, so “X” is #7.
It’s #7. Darleen is good, you others are Big Endian psychopaths.
“Bar”?
You mean the heavy double doors with the old-school peepholes and the newish video cams and the discreet titanium plaque reading “Private”? That “bar”?
(Holy cr*p. Glad I proofed before posting. Autocorrect had replaced “peepholes” with “pedophiles”. Bet THAT would have provoked some concerned squinting in my direction…)
I “x” with style 8. But this is mostly because it’s how I draw a minuscule Greek alpha, minus the left side arc.
At all times, dignity.
Best comment: ‘It’s like watching a baby seal being born’.
Morning, all.
Years of cursive writing, so “X” is #7.
I’m making a note of the rebellious ones.
Dude.
Via Obnoxio.
He does this better than you do.
Is he single?
Is he single?
Calm yourself, madam.
For those of you itching to know, the universe is expanding at a rate of 70km per second per megaparsec, or thereabouts.
You may now resume your humdrum mortal lives.
I’ve loved John Boorman’s films for ages – maybe it’s a combination of his eye for spectacular imagery and the very weird and fruity SF/fantasy scripts in ‘Excalibur’ and ‘Zardoz’ – so it was quite fun to discover recently that his sort-of autobiographical documentary, ‘I dreamt I woke up’, was entirely available on youtube.
Check it out! This is the first of five parts. There’s a hearty dose of quasi-mystic Jungian psychology in there, more than a bit of self-parody, a ‘fantasy’ version of Boorman played by John Hurt(!), cameos by his friends and children, interviews with some pretty oddball neighbours (self-styled Celtic bards, for instance). I suspect it was always intended as a home movie, but it’s a fascinating little movie curio for those interested in his work.
#9 seems to have been omitted – top left deosil to bottom left, top right widdershins to bottom right…
You may now resume your humdrum mortal lives.
Humdrum?…
I’m ironing my socks don’t you know?….
the universe is expanding at a rate of 70km per second per megaparsec, or thereabouts.
One for the pub quiz. 🙂
top left deosil to bottom left, top right widdershins to bottom right…
It’s a bit radical.
[ Adds Xas7wcrg9e to list of suspected subversives. ]
@Xas7wcrg9e
Exactly — you do it ⤸⤹, left to right.
One for the pub quiz. 🙂
I think you’d have to accept answers between 66.3 km/s/Mpc and 75.2 km/s/Mpc, strictly speaking.
She writes about gender politics and has a PhD in rom-coms.
From those who used to draw and print for a living, how to write an X:
https://youtu.be/Ky5p-L_m6BQ?t=77
Later I’ll upload a video of how I make a 4, I bet you all can’t wait.
She writes about gender politics and has a PhD in rom-coms.
Meanwhile, let us meet the beautiful diverse editorial board.
Here is Miss Angyal’s thesis. A “doctorate” based on three chick flick reviews. Who says Usless studies are not serious contributions to mankind’s fund of knowledge ?
For those of you itching to know, the universe is expanding at a rate of 70km per second per megaparsec, or thereabouts.
Expanding into what?
In other ephemeral news,
1) You too can buy boxed of used tissues for the low, low price of only 80 frogskins !
On the one hand, Yay Capitalism, and PT Barnum smiles, on the other, if they actually believe this nonsense, there should be a padded cell waiting for them.
2) The husband of Sweden’s new Minister of Culture does art ! If you have time the whole video is worth watching to see what a minestrone hoagy Sweden is becoming.
3) TWOTWAWKI du jour Everyone who thinks the average depth of the ocean basins can be measured to the tune of 0.004 inches per year, please raise your hand.
As a change of pace:
1) Church symmetry.
2) Kids trying expensive food.
I’m not sure about this reinterpretation of the last supper…
Iowahawk’s take on the media layoffs.
You too can buy boxed of used tissues for the low, low price of only 80 frogskins!
Presumably, you could also bolster your immune system by licking the hands of random children. It would be cheaper.
Until you were arrested, I mean.
Expanding into what?
To quote Futurama, “Inconceivable dimensions not shown.”
Presumably, you could also bolster your immune system by licking the hands of random children.
And then there was the gay American sex columnist who licked doorknobs….
“Inconceivable dimensions not shown.”
Oh. I was hoping there’d be bacon.
I was hoping there’d be bacon.
Well, it’s above my pay-grade and the actual science starts getting difficult to distinguish from wild speculation. The prevailing view is that the universe isn’t necessarily expanding into anything. The idea being that the universe is, in effect, creating new space, rather than occupying more of some, as it were, pre-existing volume.
If you want a more satisfying answer, we’ll need a passing cosmologist.
Libertarian gun nut super nerd sci-fi/fantasy author Larry Correia mercilessly annihilates a soyboy’s pathetic take on modern manly skills. A beautiful fisking.
Farnsworth,
let us meet the beautiful diverse editorial board
Diverse? They have their Safety Asians in the back on the left side. They are (or were) Diverse.
Iowahawk’s take on the media layoffs.
Damn, I miss his long-form blog posts.
=^(
(He abandoned it because real life became too fucking ridiculous to satirize.)
They are (or were) Diverse.
I have to disagree, nothing is Diverse unless there are Brown Bodies™ and Black Bodies™ as well. I am willing to concede that at least one of that herd is heterosexual and they otherwise have the LBJWTF angle covered.
Tragedy in two parts.
via Battle Beagle
Tragedy in two parts.
“Tragedy” is an odd way to spell “comedy”.
She writes about gender politics and has a PhD in rom-coms.
Correction. She has a literal PhD in rom-coms. Had she had a figurative PhD she’d still be working today.
“Tragedy” is an odd way to spell “comedy”.
There was me trying to be all Shakespearean.
Newly unemployed journos don’t care for it when helpful souls advise them to ‘Learn to Code’.
Seems they can’t take a joke.
via Battle Beagle
Tragedy in two parts.
I look at that “assuming the argument” crap – but of course MAGA hats are RAYSIS! – so anyone wearing one should expect being treated badly, even violently.
Yet for decades Che, Marx, Mao, et al, t-shirts have been worn unironically with no, AFAIK, resultant violence upon the wearer.
I should be getting my official MAGA hat next week.
Today’s word is décor. Do click through the photos.
Via Julia.