ratiocinations out of thin air and elsewhere
GATHERED HERE are stories and articles that may be so, and may not. Some my be fact-based but embellished, others are just jokes that I rewrote to make them sound genuinely anecdotal.
Originally, I was just going to regurgitate old jokes that I liked, but there are now so many sources for so many jokes on the internet that we don’t need one from me! So you get these tall-tales-with-a-punchline instead.
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IMAGINE A DARKENED ROOM. Perhaps it’s your apartment which, with the lights on, is unimpressive. But it’s nighttime and all the lights are out. In the darkness, it’s . . . different. There is a single candle burning, giving off an illumination that softens everything. Little can be seen but a lot can be felt. [Read more] “the sexiest slow dancing in the dark album ever made?”
I’M CALLING LOCAL VENUES to rent a hall so that I can put on the first-ever Donald Trump NFT Collectors Convention. It doesn’t have to be a yuge hall because, unlike with comic books or records, I don’t need room for dealer’s tables because NFTs don’t take up any room because they’re not really real. [Read more] “the first-ever donald trump nft trading card collectors convention”
SEARCHING FOR IMAGES ON THE INTERNET for one project often leads to some very unexpected discoveries. In this case, I was looking for some sharp photos of a couple of rather rare Elvis Presley records from the ’50s when I came across True Strange magazine. There I saw what looked like a hint of prescience. [Read more] “fantastic prescience of the 21st century in a ’50s men’s magazine?”
NOAM CHOMSKY HAD AN INTERVIEW scheduled with Anand Giridharadas for The.Ink website. While each interview promises the potential of unique answers and even the possibility of new thoughts, depending on the interviewer, Chomsky prepared some notes to make certain he mentioned certain points. So, Noam called me and said, “Neal, here is what I am preparing to say in my interview with Anand Giridharadas: ‘The left position is you rarely support anyone. [Read more] “that’s what I’ve been telling people for fifty years!”