Doughnut World

Much frivolity today regarding a large number of doughnuts brought into the office. Nothing I can blog on a family site like this so your own imagination can run riot.

I wrote 'Munch Frivolity' there by mistake. Those are two words which don't often appear on the same page let alone next to each other. I do remember a program about the cultural life of 'The Scream' which suggests that it is the most parodied image ever though the David sculpture,(the subject of another program in the series) is a close second. If ypou search for The Scream on Google image search, amongst the many straight reproductions of the painting you can find myriad parodies with people's faces superimposed over the centgral figure, cars driving at them, No fishing signs etc etc. In addition there are more subtle real-life reproductions with people in the pose. Maybe there is a website for all these and if there isn't there should be. Of course there is a Simpsons reference which links to the reverse continuous parody. There seem to be paraodies of many artworks using Simpsons characters like Nighthawks or this Michelangelo. Then of course there is more contemporary culture like this. I tried to find a Simpson's parody of 'American Gothic' unsuccessfully but I think it may be up there with 'The Scream' as one of the most aped images around and of course was parodied in the opening scene of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'

I have absolutely no idea what is going on.

So much must pass me by but so much sticks in my head. I have memories of so many things that is becomes mind boggling that the colours, textures, ambiences and every other parameter remains in there and can be found either deliberately or accidentally. If my auto-blog were to be produced and it had no filter, our minds would fill up billions of pages with just continuous descriptions of events. Time is relative not just in the Einsteinian manner but our lives just feel comfortable with being about so long. If we lived longer or shorter by an order of magnitude, we would not be comfortable with it but then again we would have evolved to be comfortable with it. I once read a description in Omni magazine, of life on a neutron star where due to the fact that chemical reactions would be faster (by virtue of not having any electrons to facilitate them), the life span of any creature would be many times shorter than ours. This would put them at odds with the speed of light across the universe meaning that they would never be able to reach us and if they did, they would not be able to communicate.

Lunch time is over. The weekend is nearly here.