Monty Python: the Misanthropic Introspection Years

Hans Richter-ghosts for breakfast (1927)

We Have a Name for This Sort of Thing, and It's Awkward

Get Your Man Ray On

Captian Lou is Watching You Poop

Be Helden Every Day

Piraten! Move out of Your Parent's Basement!

I've never heard of a political party become so adept at repelling women without, say, making them wear veils or binding their feet:

Just after walking the German Pirate Party plank due to exhaustion, ex-Pirate political manager Marina Weisband dropped the boom on her mobbing male marauders by outing them as being just as chauvanistic and sexist as male types everywhere else are, political or otherwise.

The response she got from these thoroughly modern males amounted to "whatever you say, sweet cheeks."

Meet the Bauhaus

Ceci N'est Pas une GIF

Accounts Receivable will Never be the Same

Poetic Injustice at the Haiku Hilton

Oh, dear client,
Invoice in arrears.
Allergic to it?

A Desperate Appeal for the Earth: through Interpretive Dance

Time to capitalize on it is running out

The poetic dance narrative was Nyarady's way of relating her research on the bee crisis. Part of the process is definitely trying to understand things

Actually it isn't. It's the actual crisis (if any). For the Arts to "understand and mobilize" is usually a sign that "the crisis", whatever it is, has graduated into somethign socially useful to them.

In that sense, the more fake their preferred horror is, the better it is for all of us.

Poetry Corner

Camaro driver
Mr. T starter kit chains
Glisten, guido perm

Others' Philadelphia haiku can be found here.

Smell ya Later!

An excellent data source is found for twhat I'd like to call “the dead hippy index”.

"German society is changing and it's not easy to be a naturist anymore," said Kurt Fischer, president of the German FKK association (DFK). There are some 500,000 registered nudists and a total of seven million Germans sunbathe naked regularly.

"But the numbers are unfortunately falling by about two percent each year," Fischer told a group of reporters in the Foreign Press Association (VAP) while sitting, fully clothed, at a beach bar in Berlin's government quarter. "Times are tough."

The main problem is the shrinking population, Fischer said.

Aside from a still fetid river cum canal, Berlin’s government district (as if that didn’t describe their whole society), is far enough away from a tropical beach (Club Med Libya, perchance?) to make this look about as silly as most impromptu press events in Germany.

Poetry Break

In fact it’s all about beef

Terribly upset.
It is my birthday today.
No one gave me beef.

Paranoid and Mulleted is no way to go Through Life, Son

Worried? When Your Do is a Don't

This time around, I managed to get past the dreaded "growing it out over my ears" stage, and the "looks a little like a Billy Ray Cyrus Mullet"

So don't. Or maybe get a haircut, and stop making us listen to you talk about yourself.

Fund Me, Semour

Can't Euro-Arteest types do anything anymore without state funding?

Mute magazine has had its grant from the Arts Council of England cut by 100 per cent as from 2012, one of over 200 "losers" in a latest round of funding cuts