Tag: Entertainment
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No sympathy
I note that the “mayor” in Spokane has joined other “mayors” in a court brief opposing Trump’s cuts to research funding. No sympathy. The corruption of federal funding has been blatantly obvious and perfectly well known inside academia. Everybody knows it and everybody keeps taking it. For christ’s fucking sake, EISENHOWER warned about it in…
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Did science as entertainment continue?
Yesterday’s mention of symphonies that wear out the bass drum and the eardrum with endlessly hammered final movements reminded me of Peter Schickele’s classical parodies. Schickele mainly focused on the finicky excesses of Baroque Purists. I was a finicky Baroque Purist, so I appreciated his work. This led to a broader thought about science as…
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Buy the dippy
Via Protos: = = = = = START PROTOS: Donald Trump’s inauguration pastor Reverend Lorenzo Sewell has launched a crypto token that he says will help him and his followers to accomplish God’s vision. Unfortunately for Sewell and God, the token is down 97%. Just hours after Trump’s swearing-in ceremony the pastor announced the launch…
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Monarch without territory
Took a quick look at Columbia “Journalism” Review. A remarkable display of total blindness and convoluted ignorance. They are “preparing for war” against Trump. Trouble is, they don’t have any soldiers. “Journalism” is a dead empire that can no longer draft customers by spitting on them and punching them in the face. Over and over,…
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Self-solving globalism
Randomly reading some of the old magazines at American Radio Library reminded me of a change I’d forgotten. It’s relevant to the recent decline of big centralized entertainment and “journalism”, quickly replaced by more individual and local talent carried on Youtube or Tiktok. A country music mag from 1966 had monthly columns on the music…
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Bankruptcy is the solution.
Denyse comments on the latest evidence that “science” has totally abandoned science for politics. SciAm outright endorsed Harris instead of Trump, AFTER FIRMLY SUPPORTING WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY DID IN 2020. This is the exact opposite of the “independent” activists, who worked hard to oppose WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY DID, and now are universally working FOR Trump.…
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Two for the ages
Maybe it’s time to update something I wrote last month. Washington’s farewell address: Make no entangling alliances! Eisenhower’s farewell address: Beware the military-industrial complex! Biden’s farewell address: KU KUX KAN DIDN’T WEAR THEIR HOODS! WOMEN ARE NOT WITHOUT ELECTRICAL! [Adding:] Trump’s farewell address: THEY’RE EATING THE CATS! THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS! The last item isn’t…
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Funniest joke I’ve seen in ages
Since I’ve been immersed in old car sales training films, here’s a car salesman joke from Reddit. Customer: Cargo space? Salesman: Car no do that. Car no fly.
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From an extremely different era 22
In a 1934 Billboard magazine: Cooper and Clifton, Four Robeys and Dare and Yates will be the first vaude troupe going into Soviet Russia. The first two acts sail next month and will be joined in Europe by Dare and Yates. Alexander Basy, head of the Amsov Agency here, says he is negotiating with several…
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Still more Magic Lanterns
Gradually continuing the theme of Magic Lanterns. Previous item is here. An 1897 book on induction coils and related devices includes several weird Magic Lantern displays. I’m going to show them from the front, since Poser doesn’t project properly. The devices are fairly accurate but my animations are crude. This week is too hot for…
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Hardass humor
Seen on SpokaneNews under one of the dozen overdoses today: Dark humor is the best way to survive when the whole state is an insane asylum.
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Sentence never written before
The president headbutted the pope. Even AI couldn’t come up with this combination. Only our actual presidents and popes can reach this level of impossible unimaginable lunacy.
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Back to Magic Lanterns 2
Last week I returned to the subject of Magic Lanterns, the intersection of science and entertainment. Now I’m imagining another development of magic lantern tech that was easily possible in the era of the lanterns. Fluidic analog computers came along in the 1930s, AFTER electronic analog computers. This sequence was common. Many machines could have…
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Back to Magic Lanterns
Returning to the crucially important theme of science as entertainment. Before science became a tool for war and torture in 1946, science was often mixed with magic and entertainment. The Magic Lantern was the intersection of the two. This time I’m not trying for historical authenticity; I’m mixing periods and making up things that could…
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