Framed Collage Sale, 2-5pm, Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 2716 North Broadway, #210, LA CA 90031 Luckily, the “Looking Away” collages were not what I was afraid they were. They were just letting me know it was time to stop making collages. So I’d like to get the framed ones into good homes before I [...]
Tag: amused
Internets, oh Internets
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” Pablo Picasso, The Impossible Cool, 3 Jan 2020 “Past, present, and future on view in a wondrous machine. Everything everywhere in every universe. Better than YouTube, but can this device bring happiness to a young slacker looking for love and life’s meaning?” Drunk on Time, Storylandia, [...]
Encore, Je lis les internets
“In the absence of any powerful debunking of his testimony, there may be only two arguments left for Mr Trump’s defenders to marshal against his accusers. The first, which may take the form of any manner of distraction or conspiracy theory, is: Go whistle. Most Republican voters love the president, don’t care about Ukraine, and [...]
When Dick met Mike
For the love of God, who are these guys? Now I have go look something up. My life is already endless internet toil, when all I like about comics is that usually you can instantly understand what’s going on in any Sunday strip. Then, here are these two square-jawed hunks. Y’know, I might not look [...]
Nancy Drew and Batwoman
The only connection is that they have new shows on The CW. So, anyway, I’ve never read a Nancy Drew book in my life, but I’m totally lovin’ the Nancy Drew thing on the CW. Batwoman. I like Batwoman, I also like Ruby Rose, so Ruby Rose as Batwoman means I like this Batwoman show [...]
Terrifying childhood movie of the week
“When I started watching this movie to review it, I was worried that it would end up kicking something in my subconscious awake again after so many years, and I’d have a bad dream related to it. But I was so irked about the ignorance in the commentary that instead I had a dream in [...]
In-house anthropologist?
“There is an element of social engineering in these cosmetic changes to our working environments, says Martha Bird, an in-house anthropologist at payroll processor ADP.” FT, August 28, 2019 I confess I’ve had a somewhat eccentric education, but could someone please tell me what a payroll processor is doing with an in-house anthropologist? I wonder; [...]
Whatever happened to the dayjob?
“Another British company advertised for “a call-centre Ninja, a superhero in people”, a job description which sounds a little over-the-top for what was in fact a role at an insurance broker in Isleworth. Lest you think that ad was an aberration, Indeed also featured jobs for “a black-belt prioritisation ninja”, and another demanding a “ninja-like [...]
Word of the times: Himpathy
“There are other ways to wage a social struggle on the lexical front. Inventing a word is one; Ms Manne has written about “himpathy”, which she uses to describe outbreaks of disproportionate concern for the future of a man accused of harassment, rape or other violence towards women. The term is pointed and memorable, and [...]
Half-way Good Omens
“THERE ARE not a lot of things at which the English can still claim to be world champions, but being twee is one of them. Even the Scandinavians, with their bicycles and midsummer celebrations and hygge, cannot match the everyday tweeness of the English, who go on holibobs (holidays) and say “soz” (sorry) because they [...]