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The binturong of pride

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Mark Rothko, Untitled, (Blue, Orange, Red), 1961 oil on canvas, 90âÂźâĂâ81â1â16 in. (229.3âĂâ205.9 cm), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.  Š 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)
I dreamed last night I was reciting a poem of my own authorship to a friend, and they were guessing who wrote it. It was only eight lines, in two stanzas, and I experienced it very clearly word-by-word -- as opposed to having the gestalt impression of reciting poetry, without more fine-grained experience -- but the only detail I can recall is some imagery related to elephants.
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Igor Stravinsky having another creepy breakfast.
How does one move past the feeling that microtonal music sounds "out of tune"?
Start by listening to Bach in reconstructed tunings to develop an appreciation that "out of tune" is a construct that requires constant maintenance by the equal temperament hegemon. Then you can proceed to the more adventurous just intonation material -- La Monte Young, maybe Terry Riley -- to get accustomed to music that emphasizes the unusual intervals more heavily. Finally, you can dip your toe into the properly microtonal stuff: Kyle Gann's Hyperchromatica is good for casual listening; Ives also has some interesting pieces.
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from the bible of borso d'este, illuminated by taddeo crivelli and others in ferrara (italy), 1455-61
source: Modena, Biblioteca Estense, MS.V.G.12 (= Lat. 422)
Outline of a theory with no explanatory power about why I find some art to be good and some art to be bad, based on visiting the outsider art museum and the "real" contemporary art museum in quick succession:
I tend to interpret art by trying to understand it as an act of expression. This and what follows apply just as well to art construed broadly but I will talk here about visual art. Sometimes the expression is very straightforward; Georgia O'Keefe painted the flowers up close because she wanted people to pay as much attention to them as they did to the skyscrapers that were beginning to dominate urban life. Sometimes it is harder to describe; his eyesight failing, cloistered from the broader art world in his Giverny studio, Monet painted again and again the same cluster of water lilies. These iconoclastic visions that the artist needed to get out of their mind and into the substance of the world are the ones that I am most drawn to. On the other hand, a large amount of contemporary museum art doesn't seem to express anything so much as the desire for money, status, or (more charitably) the performance of what a serious artist does. There is a certain irony here because the interpretation of these pieces is invariably exclusively about what they are apparently meant to express, of course usually related to the artist's identity; but the execution of these pieces does not seem to spring spontaneously from this expression.
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This one decomposes very cleanly. Thereâs the base premise, âHeathcliff is using the exercise ballâ. This is a little funny because cats normally donât use the exercise ball but thatâs not enough for a joke so the exercise ball needs to be made funny. One joke is to make the ball big, which is funny because Heathcliff is small and because cats usually donât own large objects. Another joke is to put Heathcliff at rest on top of someoneâs head, which is a recurring gag in the comic, and put him on the ball at the same time.
The base premise has a stock phrase attached, âThe ball works his core.â Someone needs to say the stock phrase to a visitor.
So for the ball on head gag you put him on top of Grandpa Nutmegâs head or on top of Grandma Nutmegâs head. And for the big ball gag you have Grandpa Nutmeg explain it or Grandma Nutmeg explain it. This fills out a 2Ă2 table and gives us the four comics above.
Notice that thereâs at least one year between each of these comics, and that the oldest one is from 2016. The series is nine years in the making. These are the only comics so far with this caption.
Maybe 1+ year from now weâll get a fifth comic in the series. Iggy (the little kid) could say âThe ball works his core.â to explain why Heathcliff is using the big ball. I donât think Heathcliff would rest on top of his head though, he only does that with Grandpa and Grandma Nutmeg.
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The comic arrived 14 months after the last one. I predicted â1+ yearâ. That was a lower bound. The median delay is 3 years.
(Disclaimer: this data is biased by reruns and right-censoring.)
I predicted Iggy would show up. He did not. On careful consideration I donât think he could have. He doesnât fit the caption. Iggy is whimsy-neutral: he describes wacky events impartially. Grandpa and Grandma Heathcliff are whimsy-mitigators: they comment on ordinary elements to downplay the overall wackiness. Compare:
âThe ball works his coreâ is whimsy-mitigating. Itâs funny that the speaker only explains which muscles the ball exercises and ignores Heathcliffâs species and the ballâs size.
To break out of the 2Ă2 matrix above you need to either come up with a third joke (tricky) or apply one of the existing jokes to a different character.
You canât do the ball-on-head version with another character. Grandpa and Grandma Nutmeg are used up, Iggy isnât suitable (I called this), and neither is anyone outside the Nutmeg household. Cats are known to rest on heads, the ball-on-head is exaggerated cat behavior, but they do this with people they trust. So it has to be the big ball version.
The joke has to take place in a location where people exercise. The speaker has to be familiar with Heathcliffâs routine. The obvious setting other than the Nutmeg household is a gym and the obvious speaker other than the Nutmegs is a gym employee.
The âMid City Gymâ location was used in a few comics in 2003, then resurrected starting in 2023. Same interior, same uniform.
A careful reader could have predicted todayâs comic. (Iâm not there yet.)
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Leonora Carrington, 1961 I believe this was rediscovered on Antiques Road Show
Nozomi Tanaka (Japanese, 1989) - Union of Fire (2017)