tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post8892020760438339888..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Magic BeansFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-54110976314804522262008-10-20T10:47:00.000-05:002008-10-20T10:47:00.000-05:00Oh, I see!I think of "rocket ship" as an old fashi...Oh, I see!<BR/><BR/>I think of "rocket ship" as an old fashioned term, from the era of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. <BR/>"Spaceship," while also an old word, has the feel to me of the Space Age, the 1960s and onward.<BR/><BR/>This playground sculpture has the charm of the old pulp sci-fi art I love so much, from the era of little green men.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-75404928507523223622008-10-20T10:19:00.000-05:002008-10-20T10:19:00.000-05:00Well, it revolved around the action of washing a t...Well, it revolved around the action of washing a tape measure. Which is something I would have done back when I still smoked pot.<BR/><BR/>Hmmm. And now the question, what is the difference between a rocket ship and a space ship? Huh.Rudyinparishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13527306418916412817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-32374201437034074562008-10-20T09:27:00.000-05:002008-10-20T09:27:00.000-05:00Ah, the gods approve, but it is just a tantalizing...Ah, the gods approve, but it is just a tantalizing glimpse of whatever brilliant thing you were going to say, which I can't quite glean...<BR/><BR/>Except, yeah, that's a ROCKET ship not a space ship, you are soooo right!Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-45170838500176884952008-10-20T08:59:00.000-05:002008-10-20T08:59:00.000-05:00Oh, how funny that the Gods didn't post the messag...Oh, how funny that the Gods didn't post the message I just wrote, which was about how being stoned and facing global collapse are somehow representative of a yin/yang dualism.<BR/><BR/>And I also said that I'm glad you're feeling better.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and that we biked the greenway for the very first time on Saturday--saw the rocket ship--and it was glorious.<BR/><BR/>Let's see if the Gods approve this message...Rudyinparishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13527306418916412817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-19278871559722528932008-10-19T22:50:00.000-05:002008-10-19T22:50:00.000-05:00Momo: Thanks, me too!"Don't panic" is written on t...Momo: Thanks, me too!<BR/>"Don't panic" is written on the cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy too, so it must work, eh?<BR/>I was thinking as I biked over the bridge how cool it would be to have a bike bridge named in one's honor. I always liked Sabo.<BR/><BR/>Stef: Um, well, ...yeah, actually: you WOULD look good in black honey war paint! It costs $14, which makes it much more expensive than gasoline, but a much more fun use of petroleum.<BR/><BR/>What you say reminds me of Orson Welles's character Harry Lime's famous speech arguing for passion in "The Third Man" --the murderous era of the Medicis, he points out, gave us great art; five hundred years of Swiss peace gave us the cuckoo clock.<BR/>Of course, Lime was a psychopath...<BR/>Having grown up in the House of Atreus, I'd take a few cuckoo clocks... : ) <BR/>You know I like Kirk better than Spock, but sometimes I sure do wish my species were a wee bit better equipped in the brain department.<BR/>Liquids and discussion soon sounds great.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-46955427740050421522008-10-19T21:45:00.000-05:002008-10-19T21:45:00.000-05:00Hey! Glad to hear you're starting to feel more ch...Hey! Glad to hear you're starting to feel more chipper. Think I should crack out the wallet this week and indulge in an oil-slick stick of Clinique over-priced war paint--(wonder how many different petro-chemicals went into the production of that product!!??) Hey, never noticed this before, but, of course, the petro part of petroleum, petro-chem, et al is from the Greek for rock. been noticing a lot of word origin stuff lately, that I seem to've overlooked for the past 50 years...About human versus Vulcan responses to crises: would we have literature, dance, drama, music and all the other arts as we know them if we did not have our irrational, passionate, quirky, dysfunctional, irritating, discombobulating, pain in the ass and for the planet illogical ways of responding to perceived wrongs and crises? Would we have everything we have in our collective archives from the House of Atreus to "The Oresteia", from "The Greek Passion" to "The Passion<BR/>of the Christ"--and, if we didn't behave in these ways, what would we create?! I have many dreams and musings on such things and there's always work to do to smash the state and overturn the dominant paradigm..Coffee, tea or soup, soon?<BR/><BR/>Love!<BR/><BR/>StefalalaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-74974097289971570422008-10-19T16:48:00.000-05:002008-10-19T16:48:00.000-05:00I'm glad you are feeling better! Don't panic, inde...I'm glad you are feeling better! <BR/><BR/>Don't panic, indeed. The MPR money guy, Chris Farrell, whose voice always sounds cheery and sensible and whose advice I've decided I like, also says the same. It's as good as reading the entrails, I suppose.<BR/><BR/>We drove by the Sabo bridge the other day, and I remarked that I had not really noticed it before. Now I am glad to know its name!momohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149328149132703479noreply@blogger.com