Knee deep in the hoopla
Smoking from a hookah
Knee deep in the hoopla
Smoking from a hookah
While filming Citizen Kane, director and star Orson Welles likened making a movie to playing with a toy train set, and that playful inventive spirit shines all throughout the movie.
Raised eyebrow - “Fascinating”
And under socialism in the 20th century, science was an institution that only funds research that advances whatever narrative the hermetic powers-that-be decided to push and strengthen their grip on power, their obsession with secretiveness and projecting an image of infallibility.
Take the Soviet Union.
T.D. Lysenko and his crackpot food engineering ideas is one such glaring example. But boy oh boy could he talk a “toe the party line” game and suck up to Stalin.
Or how about how the kremlin rendered nearly one quarter of Kazakhstan uninhabitable due to their relentless nuclear testing. And they nearly did that for all of western Europe with Chernobyl.
In the name of workers and science, we shall poison your land. Science for the workers’ paradise, rejoice, comrades!
Thank god the redtangle is there
FTFYa!
But what about Doctor Detroit, then? And Doctor Strangelove?
None other than The Flying Dutchman himself, Honus Wagner!
Was a fixture at shortstop for the Pirates around the turn of the 20th century, amassed all kinds of baseball milestones and records.
As a cloud of electrons, I agree to everything my electromagnetic field says. If it doesn’t want to go through that wall, we are not going through that wall.
Fuck russia for making me feel indifferent about a drought, for making me feel like they deserve it.
You always have been, Mister Spock.
A probabilistic cloud of electrons acting in unison, an electromagnetic concert of matter and energies.
We spared a lot of expense
So it’s a Disney park, then.
“What if our entire Solar System is just a plum pudding?”
JJ Thompson
And not even by a long shot!
What they found down there… defies explanation.
A reality that has blurriness encoded into its’ fabric.
I’ve always been into freeform radio stations that color outside the lines, college stations like WPRB from Princeton, WFMU from NY/New Jersey, KFJC near the Bay Area, etc., have discovered a ton and a half of stuff that’s way off the beaten path and has caught my ear.
Here’s a good example I picked up around twenty years ago from KFJC, it could have been any one from too many choices to count, but for some reason this was the first song to pop into my mind right now.
If memory serves, I believe it’s a field recording taken in the Sahara Desert, a nomadic people from around Morocco or Tunisia, and can only imagine the magical environment, close my eyes to try and visualize the crisp dry Saharan air at night, a large bonfire, the sky exploding with stars above, and this trance-inducing, mystical chanting.
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It IS true! The Earth WILL pass in front of the same Taurid meteor stream in 2032!
In fact, the Earth WILL pass in front of the same Taurid meteor stream in 2031! And 2030, and '29, '28, '27, '26, '25 and '24!
That’s almost worse than getting whacked with college (aluminum) baseball bats!
The kind that gets struck in the face with a wooden paddle and it seems like they’re saying - “THANK YOU SIR MAY I PLEASE HAVE ANOTHER?”
Then the sun develops a fungal infection, and don’t scratch that itchy rash, it’ll only make it worse.