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Lighten our existential angst

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  • Started 4 years ago by I were right about that saddle
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  1. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @gembo's recent post got me thinking. Back in the day CCE itself was part of my angst-lightening toolkit but the angst has swollen and seeped.

    I guess everyone has such a toolkit? Things on the internet that can be summoned at will to nucleate joy. Here are some of mine.

    These two are just accidental crystalisations of how I see myself;

    Tron Guy

    Shaved Cat

    And this is often how I see the world, adopting the perspective of one of the participants depending on circumstances. Sometimes the snake, sometimes the receiver of Law, sometimes the monster with fried egg eyes.

    And this full-team effort from CCE is wonderful.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    Do stuff.

    http://burgh.buzz/2019/03/24/burntisland-cot-burn-cleaner

    Posted 4 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats that is a good thread

    I would also suggest Corson The Rules

    I re read the rules of Corson every two years or so. I also re read the comments. They do not change but they remain funny. Corson will not sell his customers anything except paraffin and dynamite. Et cetera

    I commend Corson The Rules to the house

    Posted 4 years ago #

  4. gembo
    Member

    Buried inside Corson The Rules (well in an articulate about whether the Occupy Movement was just camping) there was a reference to Richard Boston’s magazine Vole

    1978-81

    So little before my time. Shame i would liked to have read it.

    Mostly men called Richard who wrote in it (including Richard Mabey)

    Articles such as Why are Whales Big and Why are mice small?

    Vole was keen on cycling and shove ha’penny

    There are descendants

    The website Caught By The River and it’s tributary The Antidote to Indifference. and the artist Shauna Richardson who crochets life sized larger mammals.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  5. gembo
    Member

    Vole funded by Python Terry Jones

    Posted 4 years ago #

  6. gembo
    Member

    The section of Wildlife highlights riffing on a description i gave of a dead bird near Burnham Overy Staithe in North Norfolk one summer could be submitted to Oulipo

    See Harry Matthews Oulipo translation of the speech from Hamlet (wee first to lines of the soliloquy)

    Two beers, Naughty Beats, Shatters Equation

    Posted 4 years ago #

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