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Go Absurd 64 - Have a Laugh (Maybe, Maybe Not)

Quote of the Day “There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves” (VACLAV HAVEL, address upon receiving the Open Society Prize awarded by Central European University, June 24, 1999) Sponsor’s Message Sponsor’s Message? Why Bother? Opening Absurdity Watch the news, observe the absurdity Eat some chocolate, drink some wine Repeat An Absurd World… A Wisconsin woman protesting the coronavirus has licked the door handle of a freezer at a food store while staring at the store manager who at the time was sanitizing the store. While in other news a social media influencer reportedly made a TikTok video of herself licking a toilet seat in an aeroplane...   https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article241377711.html From The Great Man Daniil Kharms …

Go Absurd 63: The COVID-19 Issue

Quote of the Day “Life is fragile and absurd” (Leo Tolstoy) “…Ignorance. It consists in not knowing, not understanding, that life is an evil and an absurdity.” (Leo Tolstoy) Sponsor’s Message Are you a business looking for an audience and exposure? You won’t get it here (March, 2020) Opening Absurdity Needless to say needles need kneading Coronavirus 101 Her house was burgled while a bugle player bugled – the only thing taken was a 6-pack of toilet paper An Absurd World… There is only one thing in the global news today – Coronavirus or, more specifically, COVID-19 ‘Panic buying’ is a term used to describe an absurd phenomenon that has led to many absurd scenarios around the world…   A Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said If it happened, it didn’t happen; if it didn’t happen, it didn’t happen Book Title You Will Probably Never See… How To Commute To Work While Engaging In Coitus A Possibly Wise, Possibly Foolish Questi

Go Absurd Digest: 62

Sponsor’s Message Is there a sponsor if the sponsor doesn’t sponsor? (what a pointless message) GO ABSURD! Opening Absurdity Open up any hole, any atom, any molecule, and you will find absurdity. ABSURDITY 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) An Absurd World… The toilet paper shelves are bare in supermarkets around Australia as people around the country panic-purchase large amounts of this now highly valued commodity so they can stock up in case the dreaded coronavirus spreads to their neck of the woods and they are forced indoors for an extended period of time. It has reached such a frenzy that a man was recently tasered by police after a toilet paper dispute in a retail store in Tamworth, New South Wales, while a group of women in Sydney got into a brawl at a supermarket over a jumbo packet of toil

Go Absurd Digest: 61

Sponsor’s Message Willing to die with, or for, no reason? GO ABSURD! Opening Absurdity You can always count on Wee to come out of our  Urethra's (that was pathetic, that was awesome, that was in between, ‘weak as piss’ ha ha ha…) Quote of the Day “As for plumbing, that is absurd. The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges” (From, The Blind Man , edited by Henri-Pierre Roche, Beatrice Wood, and Marcel Duchamp)   An Absurd World… ‘Woman jailed after making more than a thousand nuisance calls to Met Police over three years’ A 54-year-old London Woman made over 1200 calls to the police in the hope of getting arrested, which she finally achieved along with a jail term of 10 weeks. Over a 3-year period the woman “pestered police operators” often in “rambling” calls that were anything but an emergency… https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/jelena-bobrova-nuisance-calls-met-police-a4375596.html A Saying Not Wort

Go Absurd Digest: 60

Sponsor’s Message Tired? Alert? GO ABSURD! Opening Absurdity X: “Excuse my excuse me but where’s the nearest absurdity?” Y: “Just over there, here, next to you, on you, inside you, way over there, and you’re looking right at it!” Quote of the Day “Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.” (Søren Kierkegaard) A Saying Not Worth Saying That I Made Up And Am Sayin