Sunday, February 16, 2025

Wheel Of Fortune


This requires a bit of a mental leap.


From

"Going up or coming down, it's hard both ways"

to


*O fortuna

velut luna

statu variabilis...










*Quoted from 'Fortuna, imperatrix mundi' (Fortune, empress of the world) from the collection of poems known as 'Carmina Burana'.  It has been set to music by Carl Orff.  Here is the cover of the score.


Saturday, February 15, 2025

Wow

*Expanding the image is an absolute must!


My "Phone Doodles"

have finally revealed themselves to be what they always have been in truth... maps of Hell!

All that time I spent absently graffito-ing mazes -- and even mentally constructing them in my imagination -- I was actually recreating sections of the one maze you can never escape.  No need for a Minotaur;  you'll just be wandering its claustrophobic corridors forever, eternally thwarted at every turn.

Related posts:  More Musings On Hell;  Custom-Made Hells

Friday, February 14, 2025

A Recent Jaunt To An Exhibition Of Pulitzer-Winning Photographs

inspired this documentary-style look back to March 2018.  I was still living in downtown L.A., and this anti-gun protest passed right under my 6th-floor window.  It was probably the biggest, densest, most massive crowd I have ever seen in person.
















Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Yet Another Cosmic Monster


laughingly chases a desperately fleeing Sun in the evening sky, doubtless intending to swallow him and cause an eclipse.










Related post:  Fliegende Hexe

Monday, February 3, 2025

Another Errant Jacket


A little while back (January 8) I posted a couple of images of a jacket I found resting on the road, just randomly lying there as if dropped by an absentminded owner.  And remarked on the resemblance its silhouette bore to a cat lying on its side.  Well, today I happened to be cutting across a neighborhood parking lot on the way home when I sighted this child's jacket on the sidewalk.  Later, while checking out its images at home, I was struck by its resemblance to a dog lying prone.  Especially a Schnauzer or one of those boxy-headed Terrier dogs.

Two jackets randomly dropped on the pavement, found with the space of a month.  Already unusual enough -- but then it's first a cat, then a dog.  Cat and dog.  Makes me think of the idiom "Raining cats and dogs".  Wonder if  this is some Supreme Mind's way of letting me know that we're in for some really heavy rains this year?  Or  just me being a solipsist?  Maybe.






Related post:  Errant Jacket


Sunday, February 2, 2025

Sky Fish Nibbling


Reminds me of ocean sunfish, except this one doesn't have the distinctive dorsal and anal fins.  Mayhap the fluid-resistance differential of air and water is responsible?