Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Kokopelli in Europe

Refer also to http://ijustthinkitsfunny.blogspot.com/2009/07/kokopelli-in-europe.html

This one is from the Red Light District in Amsterdam . . .

Children Everywhere, Bewaar!

 

More Funny Mannequins from Private

Well, this first one, in the US, I would say was wholly unacceptable,

But here in the CR, in this collection of manic mannequins, maybe not . . .

I don’t know how well they sell clothes, but . . .

I just think they’re funny.

Stuck

These sandwiches always get stuck in the machine.

The machine gives your money back, in the CR.

So you can press the same one and the second one will knock down the first one.

The second one may get stuck, then, or come down, too.

One Never Knows.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Disney Dream

frank rich's column in the NYT touches a chord now . . .
even if you don't agree with Frank Rich, you can enjoy the film, added to the Smithsonian National Film registry . . .
 
 

"Disneyland Dream" was made in the summer of 1956, shortly before the dawn of the Kennedy era. You can watch it on line at archive.org or on YouTube. Its narrative is simple. The young Barstow family of Wethersfield, Conn. — Robbins; his wife, Meg; and their three children aged 4 to 11 — enter a nationwide contest to win a free trip to Disneyland, then just a year old. The contest was sponsored by 3M, which asked contestants to submit imaginative encomiums to the wonders of its signature product. Danny, the 4-year-old, comes up with the winning testimonial, emblazoned on poster board: "I like 'Scotch' brand cellophane tape because when some things tear then I can just use it."

Friday, December 24, 2010

Craig Nutt Sculptures

From my daughter in NYC . . .

These just make me laugh a bit. Wish I had the $ to blow on one.

http://www.craignutt.com/index.html

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Slowing Down to the Speed of Dark



According to Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, time slows down for something as it approaches the speed of light. So what does it mean if time seems to be going faster, as it does for me? Am I slowing down towards the speed of dark? This year has certainly flashed by at an alarming rate – like a dropout on an analogue videotape. My life, and my career in modern broadcast engineering, is a mere blip on the radar screen of eternity.

If years don’t last like they used to, then all the more effort should be made to record the significant events for posterity, lest these shrinking time units we call years disappear altogether in some kind of Einsteinian wormhole vortex black hole thingy.

So what should we record in our journals on the subject of “2010: the significant events and occur rences affecting television broadcast technologists”? Here follows my list.

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/110814

It has always seemed to me, I blog, that the reason Old People crab about so cautiously and slowly, is that everything seems to be speeding past them in a blur, till the christmases are flying by like telephone poles on the freeway . . . especially the older I get . . . 8^) . . . so I think I have conceived what this author is experiencing without the same recognition, but I did like his concept of slowing down to the Speed of Dark.

 

I just think its funny.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Tetzky Tatzky

Mrs was walking out of the Bila grocery store the other day . . . since it was our Anniversary Eve, she was loaded down a little bit, and the security guard for the apartment complex said something to her that she heard as “Tiskat Tasket” . . .

 

We worried it, but my colleague at work, my frequent interpreter of all things Czech, finally puzzled out, he must have been saying “Tetsky Tatsky” which means, “Heavy Basket” . . . he was asking her if she wanted help carrying it . . . 8^D . . . but she just said “Ne, Diky” and scurried up to the apartment.

 

Today at the Modigliani exhibit, the guard at the Entrance said something to her about her Tatsky, and instead of Freaking out she just showed her handbag to him to scan . . . . 8^D

 

But, like Ahoy from Ahoj, from the Czech via the Latin, Ad Honorem Jesu’, could A Tisket, A Tasket, be from the “Tetsky Tatsky”?

 

It’s all too, too droll to contemplate….

 

Search for Tisket, Tasket Ella Fitzgerald on YouTube for a hilarious rendition, from an Abbott and Costello movie, Ride “em Cowboy!.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Mrs Santa's Lingerie

I *think* in the US such a display would only be found in a furtive corner at Victoria Secret or Frederick of Hollywood (if we consider Las Vegas and Los Angeles as aberational exceptions), whereas in Leipzig, they seemed to be in every third window. Red & Black, again.

Marilyn Monroe's Toes

Well, First of All. I don't know why the blogger software is loading my picture sideways . . . it's true it was taken sideways by my cel phone in the restaurant Ambiente Living in PRG, but I have rotated it before loading it .
But never mind that . Look at her pre-hensile toes. I wisht I was back in PHX where a fellow could ogle a few toes all year round, unlike in PRG where half the year one is reduced to ogling snow boots.
I mean, just to dig a little deeper hole for myself, what is the meaning for such toes? I immediately extrapolate conclusions about the population at large from such an egregious example, but I recognize it is not a scientific approach.

The Muppet's Last Supper . . .

from the Carousel Bistro in Dresden.
I don't think that's what THEY call it . . .

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Waiting For Santa

so, yeah, the first one is just funny - there was another with this same mannequin, in the same staging, in the same block of stores -- at least I think it was the same mannequin . . . I don't want to offend any mannequins or mannequin-ites, but I think it was the same model . . . unwrapping a cylindrical package, oh, say 10 inches long and 2 inches wide . . . I didn't get that picture cuz it didn't register on us till later . . . if you know how I mean . . .
but I just like the wrap-around skirt. Very Chic.

Red & Black

it seems odd to me that this is the only picture I have of all the Red & Black figures I saw in Leipzig store fronts . . . most of them (and I am thinking of the Leipzig HBF Mall (150 shops, very modern, very nice)) had lingerie, mix & matching red & black . . .it looked wrong at first -- funny, I mean -- but it kinda grows on me till I don't want to see all Red or all Black . . .

Limonde Promotion

the Flora Mall had these girls, in addition to the normal swarms of Sephoras (in Pink Wigs and danskins), and a half dozen other pairs doing different things . . . I wish I was quicker on the draw . . . having these lovely-but-hilarious girls shove trays full of Limonde Becherovka at you (you can't turn it down, can you?). just makes the holiday season that much more special for me, anyway...

Big Idea - Leipzig

Hi-Ho! Hi-Ho! It's Off to work we go . . . .Leipzig Market Square

Mrs. Hippie - Leipzig

sometimes I think I must be on a Scavenger Hunt that no one else cares about . . .
I don't care.
I just thin its funny.

FORE!

Pussy Galore Boutique in Leipzig

Aim Here

pissoir at Mozaika. I think . . .

Fish Food

Thai Spa, Vaclavsky Namesti, Prague

DIlli-Delhi - Prague 3

didn't eat there, yet, I just think it's funny . . . but the menu looks good