…exceptionally grumpy right now, for a number of reasons. Mostly I blame “widespread stupidity.”
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…exceptionally grumpy right now, for a number of reasons. Mostly I blame “widespread stupidity.” We’re coming up on…what…three years since my little brother Michael died. I find myself thinking about him more often than you might expect. It’s a sobering, melancholy kind of thought – fitting, I suppose. Two things. First…we’re at Monstrous Weekend in Saint Louis this weekend…and it looks to be a LOT of fun. Come by if you can! Second…I know that the economic crisis is not funny…but this quote gave me a giggle nonetheless. From an article in the New York Times today: “This is a panic in the way of [...] Theo Jansen is an amazing Dutch artist, sculptor, and engineer – all at the same time. His work is classed as “kinetic sculpture,” a discipline which hybridizes art and engineering techniques to produce complex but aesthetically pleasing devices which are somewhere between machine and sculpture. In today’s news, Connecticut becomes the third state (after Massachusetts and California) to allow gay marriages. While I don’t feel like going into my personal views on the topic, I do have a few things to say about the quoted arguments of one of the dissenting justices. |
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