Back in the days of combustion engines, when individuals who hooked up in Cyberia, there were the pesky, often-expensive details of traveling in various vehicles to connect with the other person physically. Things called cars, trains, planes, buses, Ubers, and hovercrafts. Since the development of PlasmaTran (i.e. plasmatronic wave transmission) it was a matter of…
Month: November 2019
dVerse — quadrille — Forever Young
Plaster casts taken from soldiers’ mutilated faces (top row), new sculpted faces (bottom row), and final masks (on the table) sit in the studio of Anna Coleman Ladd in 1918. American Red Cross/Anna Coleman Ladd papers/Archives of American Art/Smithsonian Institution Boys of sixteen , knuckles cracking to join Horse clippered skinheads Excited clumps, dazed…
Coloring Club Plus — 11/17/19
I chose a cut from this album for Song Lyric Sunday today. While I was researching for the post, I learned that one of the songs’ music videos was filmed at La Reve at Wynn Las Vegas, so I had to choose this song for today’s selection. When I made my one and only trip…
#SLS — Brandon Flowers, “Was it Something I Said?”
Jim Adams is the steadfast host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: I, you, we or they do, only he or she does and the past tense of do takes the form did. Do, does and did each have a negative form which is don’t, doesn’t and didn’t and these are contractions. I didn’t like…
#Haiki Challenge #113 — fallen leaves (ochiba)
Words fall in Autumn like leaves, wet and fading — an old man’s life ends. The haiga was written in honor of Matsuo Basho, whose painting here inspired me, as the characters look like falling leaves. Haiga is a Japanese concept for simple pictures combined with poetry, usually meaning haiku. In Basho’s time, haiga…
#MM — Saturday Mix — The Test
image link In the digital age of too much information, The Test had put so many memes, thoughtbytes, myths, and buzz inside of Timbo’s head that it felt like it was vibrating. Crammed full and crawling, the processor in his frontal cortex seized up. Like a marquee on a theater, LED bubble lights flashed circling…
Coloring Club Plus — 11/16/19
After graduating from Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music, where she studied studio compositions and released her first two albums as student projects, Mitski learned to play the guitar and began work on her third studio album. The projects, combined with completing her degree while working outside jobs to pay rent, left Mitski exhausted, a state…
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