Music

Mar

2021

ToosDay

Feeling a bit philosophical.

Bertrand Russell: "The meteor wiped out everything, only we philosophers are left! "
Plato: "This is a great opportunity to finally put our ideas into practice and design a perfect society from scratch!"

Plato: "I think we need a wise, enlightened person to be king, to understand the forms and can guide society to justice. That's why we should pick a philosopher among us to be king. "

PERSON: "Plato, we are all philosophers, how does that help?"

PERSON: "I mean...this is sort of embarrassing, but i mean like...a good philosopher?"

Adam Smith: "Look, no need to complicate things, we just need to all act in our own self interest."
Kropotkin: "Selfishness? That will never work, Adam Smith."
Smith: "Of course it will, Kropotkin!"

Smith: "We just need is a finance system that moves capital away from the unproductive landed gentries who do nothing but collect rents, into the hands of the entrepreneurs and workers who will re-invest it in productive activities."

Smith: "Okay let's start with something simpler. Free trade! Each time we trade both of us benefits. Who wants to trade me something for this muffin?"

Thomas Hobbes, clubbing Smith to death with a rock: "The muffin is mine!"

Kropotkin: "What the hell, Hobbes, what are you doing?!"

Bada Bing!

Covid is no joke. One former patient was so brain-damaged afterward he thought he won an election that he lost by 8 million votes.

A critic wrote a letter to author Flannery O’Conner complaining that “your book left a bad taste in my mouth”.Flannery wrote back, “You weren’t supposed to eat it”.

When I was a little kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child … eventually.

I asked a librarian if she had a book about Pavlov’s dog and Schrodingers cat.She said it rang a bell but she wasn’t sure if it was there or not.

What do you call an indecisive potato? A hesitater.

Trump would have never called anyone a Neanderthal because it has four syllables.

A scientist recently said that the “perfect earthquake” was going to strike the West Coast soon. The evidence to support his claim was on shaky ground.

For the Qanon believers who feel you’re being mocked and ridiculed; it’s not just a feeling.

If you’re ever feeling a little down, take a few minutes and watch this video. It will brighten your day.

Mar

2021

Dark Monday

It’s dark outside but these amazing sugar flowers will brighten your day! Michelle Nguyen is an award-winning Australian confectionery artist who created these amazing flowers.

Artist Makes Amazing Realistic Sugar Flowers That Are Hard To Believe Are Not Real

or check out this embroidery art by Anarudha Bhaumick…

Embroidery Art of Daily Life by Anuradha Bhaumick

Back to our regularly scheduled program.

Laugh!!

Note to my fellow old people. Do not sit on a floor without a plan on how you will get up.

Felt uncomfortable driving into the cemetery. The GPS blurted out ‘you have reached your final destination’.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

A truck carrying Worcestershire sauce crashed.Dispatcher: What’s the situation?Deputy: It’s hard to say.

The four horsemen of procrastination…NappingSnacksSocial MediaNetflix

Interviewer: We’re looking for someone who can do the work of two men.Female interviewee: Oh, so the job’s only part-time?

I fired myself from cleaning the house. I didn’t like my attitude and I got caught drinking on the job.

It’s getting close…

Today is the birthday (in 1941) of Mike Love! Here he is with some other guys.

Mar

2021

Fry-Day?

Good Grief! How do I get in on this????

Christie’s says it has auctioned off a digital collage by an artist named Beeple for nearly $70m, in an unprecedented sale of a digital artwork that fetched more money than physical works by many better known artists. The piece, titled Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, sold for $69.4m in an online auction, “positioning him among the top three most valuable living artists”, Christie’s said via Twitter on Thursday. Christie’s said it also marks the first time a major auction house has offered a digital-only artwork with a non-fungible token as a guarantee of its authenticity, as well as the first time cryptocurrency has been used to pay for an artwork at auction.

A man went to a psychiatrist and said he was worried that he was a dog.

“It’s terrible,” said the man. “I walk around on all fours, I bark all the time, I howl at the moon, I want to chase every cat I see, and I can’t go past a fire hydrant any more.”

“I think I can help you,” said the psychiatrist. “Lie down on the couch.”

The man replied, “I’m not allowed on the couch.”

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— Marc-André Perreault (@MA_PerreaultTVA) March 9, 2021

Yesterday was the anniversary of the premier performance of Rigoletto which features, of course, this popular canzone by the Duke of Mantua, here played by Luciano Pavarotti. It’s a great performance!!!!

Mar

2021

Nice Thursday!

There’s this…

But this…

Nice dig…

and a bit of irony

Today is the birthday, in 1944, of Ric Rothwell, drummer for the Mindbenders.

Mar

2021

Warmish Wednesday

Before we get down to business, I want to show you this. After more than a century in a private collection, one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings has been shown in public for the first time since the artist painted it in 1887. “Street scene in Montmartre (Impasse des Deux Frères and the Pepper Mill)” It is distinctly impressionist and depicts a couple walking in front of an entertainment area in Paris.