Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy this 1984 holiday commercial from Carvel Ice Cream. (I am linking here to the Youtube channel for The Museum of Classic Chicago Television.)
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Cover to “Judge” Magazine, November 1901
Sorry for this Cheese E. joke.
Or entropy or ennui. Seriously, have you ever been there?
“Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act I, Scene IV,” Henry Fuseli, 1796
Engraving.
“The Cube,” Odilon Redon, 1880
Charcoal drawing.
Hai-chi? Tai-ku?
practice the ancient
art of combining haiku
with Tai Chi — hai-chi.
*A college pal suggested to me that “Tai-ku” might actually be the better portmanteau here. I admit he’s got a point.
“Happiness is a byproduct of function …”
“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”
— William S. Burroughs
Photo credit: Blaise 07:45, 7. Aug 2006 (CEST), CC BY-SA 2.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons
Darwin’s bus station.
Construction proceeds slowly but surely off Campbell Avenue at the site of the now-extinct bus station.
I love the phrase “extinct bus station” — like it was too big and slow to adapt, and stone age hunters ran it down to oblivion.
Come on, Baby, light my fire.
A woman I know is into Wicca (or Druidism, possibly?). I don’t know. She needed a lighter for a candle-light … thing, I dunno. Maybe it’s the Equinox again. Girls like her have an Equinox they can invoke anytime they feel like getting witchy. Last year, there were like seven of them.
Anyway, she asked me to pick her up a lighter. I stopped off at a service station before I met up with her.
This is the lighter the dude behind the counter handed me. I did not request it. Nor did I notice the artwork until I handed it to my friend for her ritual. It was awkward, is all I’m saying.
There were plenty of regular, plain lighters behind the counter! Why did he hand me this one?!
Cover to “Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight” #60, Norm Breyfogle, 1994
DC Comics.
