Category: Miscellaneous Mockery

The video for the last successful Starship launch I posted came from AP, CNN, and or SpaceX. Screw those guys. Somehow the NASA streaming station pointed me to the NASA Spaceflight broadcast. Here is the difference,only slightly exaggerated: Official SpaceX Livestream: “The vehicle has splashed down, and … it seems it has not exploded, which,…

I had an exchange with Alexa this morning in which I asked for details on today’s rocket launch. She followed her answer with: “Hey, I realized I don’t know your name. Can you tell me who you are?” Aghast, I said, “No, I’m Ellen. You know my name.” She replied with, I swear, receipts below:…

Here’s the previous: Here’s the progress: When it was originally this: How the pedestal still be wrong? And I put turpentine on the red ball, so that needs to be done again. And the dark background will be dark again, just browner. I think every inch of this might end up with new paint.

We have many means to make colors. Indigo is a plant dye. Purple comes from sea snails. Carmine red is from beetle shells. Dry it out, grind it up, mix it with linseed oil. Paint. The earth tones are literally earth. The reddish-brown umber colors started out as the dirt in Umbria, Italy, where the…

My mother said something once about how my Dad was sprayed with chemical agents when he worked downtown in the ’50s and ’60s. Mom made that comment in the ’90s. I believe I said, “Wait … what?” because I was about 30. Had I been any younger I would have just taken it at face…

I don’t remember how old I was when I read about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Thirty-six young men starved during WWII so the War Department could understand the best way to bring starving people back to health. Here is a really interesting article in which the now-elderly participants remember what it was like. What I…

It’s been a long time since I brought a painting into Photoshop to see where things went wrong. That was what I painted. I’m not going to perfect it because frankly, my mistakes were grotesque. That dog — compared to the original – looks as if he were hit by radiation. He’s doubled in size.…

When Senator Lindsey Graham died suddenly this morning I turned on the news to check if there was a breach in Senator McConnell’s news blockade, because if both of the President’s right-hand men die in short succession then the opponents on the left will get the side-eye. That was a dizzying string of words, and…

I didn’t want to watch this, as you know, but Gary did, and I didn’t want to leave Gary alone all day because that would have been a full week of spending no free time with him at all. I figured I would stage a mild protest if it got too creepy. We’re on episode…

I was choosing what to work on next, and I found several things that were such a loss that they weren’t worth even trying to reclaim (the cenote, the clouds). I also found things that I think I would fail at again (Gary’s tongue, my Grandmother). So I found one thing to fix where the…