david thompson – Moe Lane

Pat the bunny… OF DOOM!!!!!

Neither a Photoshop, nor the aftermath of a wacky accident:

It’s just kind of cool.

Via David Thompson, who I should link to more often.

David Thompson should post more often.

Admittedly, given that this website model involves having to look at things like this (NSFW*), I can’t say that I blame him, much. ‘This’ being a look a the divorced-from-market-pressures wing of the modern arts (pretentious interpretive dance sub-faction): a fun game is to see how far you can get in the videos without succumbing to the desire to start bouncing spoons off of the foreheads of the people involved in making them.

(pause)

Video 1, 38 seconds. I wonder how far David got?

Anyway, up he goes in the blogroll.

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*Don’t expect salaciousness, though. Oh, my, no.

‘Why, this is Hell’ Watch: Spins Like Teen Spirit.

I have scarred you, with this.

I do not apologize. It was the only way to kill the pain.

Via David Thompson, via AoSHQ Headlines.

See, this is why I don’t mind funding the National Endowment of the Arts.

You can watch the video below only if you promise to read David Thompson’s post on it first. It’s important that you do that: it’s not fair for me to reproduce it in full here, and it’s just too good to miss.

OK, you did that? Excellent. Here’s the video:

OK, see why I don’t mind funding the NEA?

Precisely: if we let somebody like Teixeira just wander around loose to try to find his own food, clothing and shelter, chances are excellent that when he finally autodarwinates* he’d accidentally take somebody with a net positive use to society with him.

So, it’s not so much a government subsidy as it is life insurance.

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*Thank you, Charlie Stross. But for the love of God, give up the grudge, OK? They’re out of office and it’s turning out that they got it right anyway. Drop the series as a bad job and just write the next Bob Howard novel.

…oh. Right. Should have checked first. Never mind…