Friday Ephemera

Clouds
I was helping load in a costumer’s convention one time, where we had to pick up stuff here and there, mannequins and costumes and such, where at one point we were getting the truck loaded with most of one load, and then looked way uphill, up the street, noted the advancing curtain of water—Ok, MOVE NOW!!!!!!!

Urine wheels and other pee-related wonders

The chart became a big hit among medieval physicians.

The pebble palace and other art gardens.
Nice staircase . . .

Let’s try that again, not sure what happened there.
Tidy mouse.

And finally, I bring you some next-level performance art.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Up, or down??

Speaking of mice, apparently Disney have been making these since 2013. Why did nobody tell me?
They seem to owe more to Bob Clampett and Tex Avery than ol’ Walt, but dammit, they’re funny. And there doesn’t seem to have been any attempt to SJW-ify “modernize” them, either (“You got it, toots!”).

They seem nice.

They seem to owe more to Bob Clampett and Tex Avery
That’s a funny way to spell John Kricfalusi.

And finally, I bring you some next-level performance art.
Actual LOL

Morning, all.
Actual LOL
I don’t see any art there, any aesthetic, but it is at least quite cartoonish, and might have made for an amusing advert of some kind. Which is something, I suppose.
Baby steps.

It’s Narcissus looking at himself in a book, a grotesquely overlong justification of self-love.
The word autoethnography should always trigger an alarm for impending bollocks, especially when combined with the standard incantations of “white supremacy,” “neoliberalism,” etc. You’d think the stench of mental death would scare people away. But some seem drawn to it.

Beating organ.
Band name.

I think This is called ‘revealed preference’.

A.k.a. lying.
A.k.a. business as usual.

Not only is Peterson not alt-right, blogger Vox Day, who DOES appeal to the alt-right, thinks he’s insanely evil and even wrote a book to that effect, Jordanetics.
(Not sure if Vox Day considers himself alt-right or not, but he seems fairly popular with those who do.)

Not only is Peterson not alt-right,
And note that the author of this smugly ignorant smear, Rosemary Bennett, isn’t some freelancer or newbie, but the paper’s Education Editor – a woman with 17 years’ experience and previous, statusful gigs at Reuters and the FT. Ms Bennett is currently ignoring numerous corrections of her piece on Twitter.

Vox Day, who DOES appeal to the alt-right, thinks he’s insanely evil
Somebody linked a few months ago to something Vox Day wrote about Peterson. I didn’t have time to read the whole thing, but at first glance it certainly puzzled me.

“Urine wheels.” Honest to God, my first thought was “overshot or undershot?”

“Impending Bollocks”.
Band name.

The ‘performance art’ would have been more interesting with a pneumatic hammer.

Hi pst314,
I think Vox Day gets obsessed with things, like blogger Rod Dreher does. Vox Day was obsessed with trashing the Hugo Awards (science fiction awards) for quite a while, because they are infested with SJWs, like everything else in mainstream publishing. He’s a very rich trust-fund kid so he set up his own publishing house to compete with the SJWs and seems to be holding his own. Good for him. He published Marian Bradley’s daughter’s reminiscences blowing the lid off the sleazy part of science-fiction “fandom,” when no mainstream publisher would touch it, Bradley being revered among feminists for writing a feminist (and very bad) version of King Arthur. Good for him. Then he feuded with science fiction writer John Scalzi. That one was probably a publicity stunt benefiting both parties as Scalzi responded with enthusiasm, calling Vox Day a “racist sexist homophobic dipshit.” (Scalzi has put all his eggs in the SJW basket and so appears to be distinctly nervous about the inevitable day his fans notice that he is OMG SMH a white guy.). After a while Scalzi seems to have figured that being the anti-Vox Day will keep him safe for quite a while so he dropped the feud. Vox Day then moved on to Jordan Peterson, who of course was not even aware of his existence, and at that point it got so ridiculous I quit reading. Vox Day does break stories, e. g. the Bradley story, so I check in every so often but don’t read him regularly any more.
He also subscribes to sorting men’s personalities into groups named after Greek letters, Alpha, Beta, Delta, and so forth. That kind of scheme always reminds me of those women’s-magazine personality tests, but his fans seemed to love it, so good on him for providing it for them. If you enjoy hundred-comment discussions about whether So-and-so is Alpha, Beta, or the dreaded Gamma, Vox Day is your man.

Pogo, voxday also seems to be convinced of a massive conspiracy to run the world on the part of <<>>. Is that the right number of <<<>>>?
I really don’t get his Jordan Peterson fixation though; jp is the enemy of my enemy as far as I’m concerned.

@ Sam Duncan:
….apparently Disney have been making these since 2013.
That was pretty good. As you say, a ‘modernised’ Mickey but still something you’d let kids watch.

He published Marian Bradley’s daughter’s reminiscences blowing the lid off the sleazy part of science-fiction “fandom,”
The most tragic thing about all of that – aside from the chold molesting, obviously – is that there was no lid. Everyone involved in the con scene has known about all of this and much more besides (do some Googling for Ed Kramer, the founder of DragonCon) for decades. It’s the worst kept secret in fandom. I punched out in the mid-2000’s because I could no longer stomach the excusing and the defending of these people by the community.

Actually, at the moment it’s more like this.
Too many steak slices will do that….