Go Absurd

Sponsors Message Throw Absurdity back into the face of Absurdity! Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity “Throw it into the party juice”, all the mothers did not say, as they scampered up to fetch a pale of vinegar and water. But the Dad’s absconded from corporate reality and fetched it all instead. The horse was grey Quote of the Day “Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful”  (Albert Camus) An Absurd World… After spending more than 35 years in prison for stealing $50.75 from a bakery, Alvin Kennard, who was just 22 years old at the time of the robbery, is finally coming home. A previous minor crime combined with a hardline three strikes law in Alabama saw Kennard earn the life sentence. While others married, had children, ate ice-cream while strolling through a park, swam at the beach… Kennard was left in a cell for over 35 years to re...

Sponsors Message Go Absurd! Be Absurd! Absurd Absurd! Opening Absurdity A garnishing of syrup over dead leaves in Jupiter makes me nostalgic for sea. Did you just do a do do on the do do? Do you do or not do? Not do Not do Not do Quote of the Day “The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.” ( André Breton ) An Absurd World… In July, 2018, a British couple, both grandparents, spent a night in a Greek jail after being accused of espionage and spying, after a 55-year old male took a couple of photos on his mobile phone of two army dinghies while the couple were on holiday. The man has an interest in the military and thought nothing of taking a couple of holiday snaps on his phone. Soon, however, they were handcuffed and put into a small cockroach and mosquito infested cell before being transported to a local courthouse t...

Sponsors Message Inject some absurdity into your life! Ring Now! Opening Absurdity I once went on a Trans-Siberian voyage to nowhere – it was everything. I drank coffee. The smoothie slurped me. I melodised my sleep by massaging the clickety clacks with the help of an oversized unicorn who recited every word that had never been said Quote of the Day “My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is no reason to be troubled because we are absurd, is there? For we really are: we are absurd, frivolous, we have bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look around ourselves, we don't know how to understand, we are all like this, all of us, you, and I, and everyone!” ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky ,  The Idiot ) An Absurd World… A newly married couple from Texas died only minutes after getting married when colliding with a truck on the way to their reception. The same justice of the peace who marrie...

Opening Absurdity Who let the cats out? They’re now reflecting on the gloom while mythologising the romance of infinity times eternity using a compliance officer’s framework to frame the unframeable. No cats were let out Quote of the Day “I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.” (David Lynch) What The? Near the end of 2018 a 53-year-old Greek woman was sentenced to 10 years jail for lying about her primary school record to get a cleaning job that required 6 years of schooling instead of the 5 years the woman in question actually had. Immediately there was an uproar, locally and internationally, and the woman was soon after released https://neoskosmos.com/en/124523/cleaning-lady-in-greece-gets-10-years-in-jail-for-faking-elementary-school-diploma/ An Absurd Thought or A Thought From The Absurd? A table is not a table. A table is a table ...

Opening Absurdity   You didn’t have? Of the queen of sharp coins that spurt dust into the midnight air at fairy time where everything is nothing and nothing is everything and we all clap hands together into a fist full of steel at harvest time. And we all lived. And we all Quote of the Day   “Everything is annulled by the passage of time… The monster, ordinary life, pushes down everything that strives upwards. There is nothing serious in life, because the dust is not worth the trouble.” (Arthur Schopenhauer) Interesting…   Earlier this year a 27-year old man from India tried to sue his parents for having been born without his consent. He believes that it was wrong for him and others to have been born into a world full of suffering and that it would have been better if he hadn’t been born at all. Nevertheless, his parents wondered how they could have obtained this consent when he was unable to give it pre-birth. “If we are born without our consent, we s...

Opening Absurdity Do you need? said the apple to the pear while sliding around Yugoslavia. I saw that once replied the vacant cheese gator. Burping is for houses, replied no one. The guitar is strumming for an old fashioned job like Noah lying down in flood lights wearing nike shoes with fairy floss sticking his heels Quote of the Day “I am interested only in nonsense; only in that which has no practical meaning. Life interests me only in its most absurd manifestations.” (Daniil Kharms) Interesting A Dutchman, known as a ‘positivity trainer’, was unsuccessful (late 2018) when trying to legally change his age from 69 years to 49 years. He argued that he felt 20 years younger and wanted more opportunities for work and love in a society that discriminated against age https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46425774 Yet More Absurdity… Buy One Pay For Three! Buy Two Pay For One! Buy Three Pay For Seven! What a deal! Let’s skid to the shops on alarm bells tuned in to...

Opening Absurdity Learn a language in 5 seconds! But don’t speak too fast! Apply Now! * * Only $1000 a week for the term of your life What was the tree crazy shy sun peeking at? Especially in the moon dripped pedagogical 22 nd century vision? A metaphological answer? Quote of the Day “Never underestimate the healing power of silliness and absurdity.” (Steve Maraboli) What The? In 2014 it was reported in the UK’s Daily Mail that a man from Wales was commuting 6 hours a day to and from work. A 366-mile round trip. His alarm going off around 3am each morning for a 6.30am start before working up to 12 hours and doing it all over again. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547962/Britains-worst-commute-Father-SIX-HOUR-round-trip-work-day-clocking-100-000-miles-year.html Yet More Absurdity… Oh yes the highly educated doves painted the fence with their beaks to make an impresario over the noise of the café scene which was shunting its tails until m...

Opening Absurdity The mantawomana dallied over the underbridge eating a curd immersed in the milky way. Along came Miss Hider who flew into confetti to spread herself thin overseas. Magic replenishment curling zoo for everything under 60. The salon danced like a nightingale to be reimbursed with the snow. I don’t know Quote of the Day “Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics” (Thomas Nagel) What The? A man wearing a television over his head has anonymously dropped off old style TV sets to at least 50 residences throughout Henrico County, Virginia. At this stage, no motive has been established for this outbreak of ‘giving’ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/classic-tv-mystery-who-left-old-television-sets-front-porches-n1042381 An Absurd Thought or A Thought From The Absurd? If everything is absurd, nothing is absurd; if nothing is absurd, everything is absurd ...

The only way to react to an absurd world is to Go Absurd! Be absurd, ridiculous. Go against the conventional when it doesn't make sense. Think for yourself. Have a laugh. Have a cry. Say random things. Embrace the absurd. Go absurd. We are open to all. We are absurd! So why not inject some absurdity into your life?! Go Absurd! Now, as if you didn’t already know, this blog, website, outlet – whatever you want to call it – is absurd. There will be many short and random absurdities published on a frequent (maybe) basis. This could consist of absurd sentences, paragraphs, quotes, and words. It may include commentary on the absurdity of every day life. It may look at absurd art and literature. Who knows? But it will be absurd. Life is absurd The cat entered the emancipated entrance hall to exit the chaos of another literature review doused in fine chocolate and piss. There were no siblings. But there were dinosaur eggs wrapped in silver from 1989 regurgitated by cheese. I don’...