Funnies + Not-so-a-Paradox

labor omnia vincit
pigritia vincit laborem

Hard work conquers all
Laziness conquers hard work

Fortune Cookie Funnies

Fortune Cookie : "Make those special talents you have work like a charm"
Dour Logician : Isn't that a contradiction ??
Stud : oooo yeahhhh, but it isn't work
Worker : I wish ...
Clown Logician : I definite need to learn that from you !

Sermon + Hypochondriac + Geeky + Paradox

The way to not suffer through suffering is by viewing it as part of that flow in which we keep temporarily flowing through distributions over the whole population of emotional levels for different emotions, i.e. headaches may be fine, a haemorrhage is certainly not.


Resolution of the paradox :

A way to suffer through suffering is by viewing it as part of that flow in which we keep temporarily flowing through distributions over the whole population of emotional levels for different emotions, i.e. headaches may be fine, a haemorrhage is certainly not.

Fortune Cookie Funnies + Not-so-a-paradox

Fortune Cookie : "Joy will come with the return of a good friend"
Indeed, my good friend !

Fortune Cookie Funnies + Geeky

Fortune Cookie : "Soon, you'll have a chance at a profitable transaction"
Seems like you can be my effective team partner in the non-zero sum game of generating nonsense.

Fortune Cookie Funnies + Not-so-a-Paradox

Fortune Cookie : "A surprise treat awaits you"
Fortune Cookie, aren't you lessening the element of surprise somewhat ? Or is this your way of accentuating it ?

Sadomasochism and Failure in Poetry / Poem for Poets

Page is blank
blank is the page.

Stare, stare, and stare
The page remains bare

All over lies remains
Of fertile decay to share
Still, the page lies verily bare

But does not lie,
nor butter up,
nor stare back;
There is no combat there,
a simple contrast in calm white
the hard-to-get lover if you will

come to me, then come to me

We can go to a golden desert,
roll a rock up the great dune,
the sky will be vast, cerulean,
fatigue will render vivid and simple,
trick us in to beauty,
punish us in to creation.

Shall we take a break then ?
Let us cheer up now.

Fortune Cookie Funnies + Not-so-a-paradox

I got a fortune cookie that said, "Re-evaluate your long term plans for success." I re-evaluated and decided to not consult fortune cookies for any planning.

Fortune Cookie Funnies + Not-so-a-Paradox

I had the bad fortune of counting as good fortune a fortune cookie that said, "Some unexpected event will bring you good fortune".

Funnies + Paradox

Q: What is the name of something that can not be named ?
A: Unnameable.

The Adventurer and the Poet

Out there
Alone in the wilderness,
here with mates in the city jungle,
the wheels turn, the knees give and take,
the ground responds, the hands do their thing,
the head does not think about thinking,
the body and the machine self-solve,

dissolve into the eyes
of a head
to fire electrify
a new synchrony
that sometimes inhabits
the space that the poet loves.

This wonderful, amazing space
that all of us inhabit
from time to time
intersects fondly with
a terrain where
brick be word
clay be sound
sculpt might be marble
and play is surely adventure
among myriad other unnameables.



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Dedicated to Danny Macaskill