Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes
Funnier than a sharp stink in your eye…
In 1884, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow created the first television. It only transmitted still pictures and no sound. Experts believe it is the earliest example of what is today called “public television”. ☻ In 1906, Russian inventor Boris Rosing combined Nipkow’s television with a cathode ray tube. To this day, humans are the only animals to […]
Read More I Channel Facts About Television (1979)Donkeys were domesticated three to five thousand years ago, although you wouldn’t know it by looking at them. They are members of the foul-tempered little horse family of mammals, along with the kiang and the Irish Setter. Donkeys are mentioned in the Bible, Koran, and the Buddhist Sutras; although, they had very little input into […]
Read More Book Excerpt: Part FiveI was listening to a Beatles album in my filthy debris-filled bedroom and it told me to “picture [myself] in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies” and the best I could do was to picture myself on a boat in a filthy debris-filled bedroom. ☼ I was late for my […]
Read More How I Know I Don’t Have any Imagination“…and I am happy to present this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Marjorie Taylor Greene” ֎ “I can’t decide between spending the long weekend at that church retreat and seminar or watching seventy-two hours of pornography” ֎ “Oops, your gum fell into my hair. Let me get you another piece” ֎ “Your nasty sarcastic […]
Read More Things that No One Will Ever Ever SayI’m not sure when I’m going to wake up. I’m sure the weed has worn off by now and I am being willfully unconscious. But, sleep has advantages over being awake. For example, I’m not very attractive but when I’m asleep, everyone agrees that I look like an angel. If I sleep long enough, I […]
Read More Book Excerpt, Part Four
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 