Vitro Nasu

Found this great photo from Democratic Underground commenter.
Is Hillary blowing a kiss? Did she learn this from Marilyn?

“Now, if you’ll indulge me one last time…” (Read our Hillary Clinton’s Thinly Veiled Loathing for Obama speech-o-tron, from Newsgrist)

Maya
Barack’s sister has the voice and the same confidence her brother displays. (Maya Soetoro-Ng at the Convention)

Michelle
Gorgeous Maya and Michelle bring fresh air to the tense and chaotic Democratic Convention in Denver.

Networks Sleep While Democracy Burns by Timothy Karr.

The late George Carlin, all he wanted was to wake up a hamster, Dennis Kucinich wants to Wake up America. (Youtube presentation – the Media never covers Kucinich).
See Dennis Kucinich and his wife minipops(repeat)

Denver Diary by Amitava Kumer who is writing for India Express.

Fay Ryu’s Blog is all about Neko and Meow C Tong
(Sean alias Meow C Tong is the son of my sister Fung Ching Kelling and Fay is his girlfriend)

Comic by Fay Ryu

Birds by Fay Ryu

(Birds eating the Face of Hitchcook)

Bye bye birdie – audio clip The Mexican Jay calling

Digital image by Fung Lin Hall

Also see this video - Pigeons deliver drugs to Brazilian inmates.

Bye bye George Carlin!

What is your greatest fear?
To lose the power of speech.

What do you most value in your friends?
Their ability to exchange overcoats while running at full speed.

(read more from Vanity Fair – Proust Questionnaire on George Carlin)

Wake up the hamster, from Carlin’s homepage.

His last interview: on Arthur Koestler (Psychology Today)

The jester makes jokes, he’s funny, he makes fun, he ridicules. But if his ridicules are based on sound ideas and thinking, then he can proceed to the second panel, which is the thinker—he called it the philosopher. The jester becomes the philosopher, and if he does these things with dazzling language that we marvel at, then he becomes a poet too. Then the jester can be a thinking jester who thinks poetically.

More Carlin quotes

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “Where’s the self-help section?” She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. – George Carlin (via)

Le monde du silence: Opening shot – Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Louis Malle, 1957

Tao Lin underwater hamster (Reader of Depressing Books Blog)
Gas-powered oceansunfish -alligator hybrid
Network card’s raft ride to freedom realizing it’s fucked

Literature is inside of life

Tao Lin has developed his own unmistakable and unique style by utilizing a contagiously honest way of writing. Marcelo Ballvé discusses Bed and Eeeee eee eeee with the author.

Exactly What I Want -

I want three friends within a 40 mile radius; one 5 miles, one 10 miles, one 30 miles, two females and one male. The male should talk very slowly and laugh at almost everything I say. I want to send one of the females mixed CDs very often and her send me mixed CDs very often but rarely see her in real life. The other female I want to see in the daytime sometimes for lunch. -more here)

Previous post Diver here.

Found photo of a diver<

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Trader Joe‘s bathroom corridor has a new design to go with previously shown interior.

Diver by Hal Lum

A door design for women and men
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Chistopher DeLaurenti and four protesting turtles. (These turtles are not afraid)

Congrats to Chris!

In honor of May Day, ubuweb is featuring my “Four Protest Symphonies.” (via email)

Go listen here at Ubu

Previous post – NYtimes coverage of his Favorite Performances

Dance with Petra (The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Klant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant is about one of the pet themes of Fassbinder which he referred to as “Fascism of everyday life”. Here Fassbinder paints a bleak picture of life, where every relationship is inherently manipulative and our ‘potential use’ is our only worth, sooner and later we realize that not only we are used by someone, but we also use others from time to time in the name of noblest emotions of love and friendship. (via)

Petra’s nervous hysterics mask the same kind of character found in most of Fassbinder’s films — someone desperate for love. At the same time, her antics are juvenile and faintly ridiculous, the foolish tantrums of a child used to getting her own way. (via)

At least Fassbinder knew that Petra Von Kant was him, self knowledge, alas, that is lacking in Hillary. She is keeping us entertained even if a little sadly.

Learn German with Petra (a found spoof on youtube)

Learn wedge issues with Hillary, her memory is very sharp.

Danke Hillary for bringing us back Petra Von Kant. Bitte schön or bitter emotion.

Bitter Melon wedge is good for health.

“A “bitter Gourd face” (苦瓜臉) is a common Chinese description for a serious or sad face.

Update: a good collection of cartoons on Bitter and Elitist here.

Hillary arrives in Bosnia.

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Update: found this headline, “Hillary Clinton’s Self-Swiftboating into Irrelevance”

Click to animate here

Gif animations by Hans Heiner Buhr and lunch images by Fung-Lin Hall (recycled from “No Camping for Old Men”).

(Heart of the World by Guy Maddin from here)

Day Night gif from fffound

Footlight from Dziga Vertov and Busby Berkeley The Machine Art

John Lurie Strange and Beautiful

The I Ching — – - — – -

Update: April 1 was Dan Flavin‘s birthday!
Here is “Looking at Flavin’s neon wall sculpture” , Minimoma by Craig Robinson

And one more, revisit the Clown Family from previous post.

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847.

Did he invent the telephone?

The modern telephone is the result of work done by many people, all worthy of recognition of their contributions to the field. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the telephone, an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically” after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. The history of the invention of the telephone is a confusing mass of claims and counterclaims, further worsened by lawsuits which attempted to resolve the patent claims of individuals. Bell is often credited as the inventor of the first practical telephone, although others provided groundbreaking research and development work and subsequent improvements.

History of Telephone
Bell wanted “Ahoy” but Edison wanted “Hello”. (From Mamma’s Cradle First Hello)

(Animate the phone here)

And finally don’t pick the banana fone!

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My Prostate Belongs to God (image source)

More paintings at his Gallery with great soundtrack from John Lurie’s Strange and Beautiful homepage

John Lurie has been ill for the last many years. He has been exhibiting and selling his paintings. (These paintings have saved his life)

John is an excellent dancer

M: People are most familiar with your work as a musician and actor/director. How did you make the leap to visual artist?
JL: I believe you have me mistaken with someone else. I am mostly known for being an excellent dancer, in some neighbourhoods more than others.

Big Heart Music Video by John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards

John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards (Big photo of John included from European Jazz Net)

John Lurie is huge in Russia (A post from two years ago).

Happy Birthday Alan, how many beans will you be eating today?
Today is Setsubun. Previously on this day this blog has celebrated the birthday of Alan Sondheim, Gertrude Stein and Simone Weil. Recently Alan reminded me that February 3 is bean throwing day in Japan. Bean throwing sounded too matter of fact in English compared to the poetic sounding Setsubun. Setsubun was never used for a title or subject of any Ozu film (Ozu was not into exorcism) Ozu had Soshun, Bakushu and Banshun, all of which indicate changes of season.

Oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi (devils out, fortune in)

Japanese Drive Out Devils in Spring Ritual
Setsubun Festival celebrated with a fanfare of bean-throwing exorcisms

Censer and censor Alan’s book review – (bio of Baudelaire the author of Flowers of Evil)

Keith’s book fascinates me, in particular because of the violence it does to the text, or at least what appears to me as a violence, and a ‘tenor’ in the translation that strikes me as Jon Stewart meets Bartok; it’s a kind of breeziness across what appears as the subterranean rootings of melancholy, a bridge across that, which is far too often, for me, the bridge of the fast read, which this translation is not. So a contradiction at the beginning. This is founded, for me, on the belief, that the unconscious plays an enormous role in FoE and that the unconscious is, in fact, not breezy, but on the order of the Kristevan chora – inchoate, dark, abject – the murmurings, not the signposts, of language.

Devils are out in the Arizona desert, fortune in and out – (the world needs plenty of luck these days).
Oni wa soto