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WLBOTT Mood Enhancer

Guaranteed to Enhance Your Mood by 3.14% or Double Your Money Back![1] [1] Some exceptions apply. Offer limited to one personality per person. All refunds paid in FTX crypto hedge futures. Liberated and curated from the Facebook Group Sign Appreciation Society More signs… And finely, for all those preparing for the WLBOTT 5K

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Rice Grain Calligraphy

[Thanks to UC#1-SU for pointing us towards today’s topic!] Rice Writing is a thing…. Rice writing is the art and skill of being able to write small enough to write on a grain of rice. HistoryRice writing originated in ancient Anatolia in Turkey and India. Many rituals and rites use rice as a medium, but […]

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Curated Absurdity Fine Arts Late Stage Capitalism

Foray into the World of Tiny Art

WLBOTT proudly announces our first corporate art piece: Purple Pixel #5c0881 (electron beam on cathode ray tube) Purple Pixel #5c0881 is available in a variety of frames: Plein Air Art Purple Pixel #5c0881 can also be considered an example of Plein Air Art: Purple Pixel #5c0881 on Tour Purple Pixel #5c0881‘s recent European tour was […]

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We Salute our Caregivers!

With a little help from HotPot.ai

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Tiny Art

There’s beauty in the silver, singin’ riverThere’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky– Bob Dylan, Tomorrow is a Long Time Yesterday we looked at some Big Art (by volume, not weight). Today, let’s head to the other end of the spectrum. Willard Wigan’s 2015 Microscopic Artwork exhibit at the California African American Museum When […]

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The Lives of the Elders: Sunday, Nov. 11th, 2023

In celebration of the Lives of the Elders, the following have be approved by the WLBOTT Ministry of Virtue and Vice. [UC#3] A man named [UC#1] got a new knee For awhile, he’ll have to use a Zimmer to go pee Hoping the pain in his knee will reduce in size And the doctors bills […]

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Wind Chimes

[Thanks to UC#1-SU for today’s topic!] World’s Largest Wind Chime The world’s largest windchime was made by Jim Bolin and is located at 109 East Main Street, Casey, Illinois. The windchime was entered into the Guinness World Records as the Largest Windchime on June 22, 2012. The windchime measures 12.80 m (42 ft) long and […]

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Götterdämmerung, Part 2

No discussion of Götterdämmerung would be complete without checking in with the B&B: Bugs and Broom. Bugs As Brünnhilde Come on, Gov. Abbott – we know you laughed at this as a kid. Live High School Performance based on What’s Opera, Doc? The Making of…. Broom-Hilda So many connections! Götterdämmerung=> Brunhilda => Bugs Bunny => […]

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The Götterdämmerung Syndrome

The book Ministry of the Future is still rattling around in our collective WLBOTT heads. How can people not see the undeniable? Author Kim Stanley had to place himself in a very dark place to understand the “burn it all down” attitude. He understands Our Republican Friends’ response to climate change: “The Götterdämmerung Syndrome, as […]

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Carbon Capture and the Unit Tree

Interesting article in today’s New York Times concerning carbon capture. The first US commercial carbon capture plant (Heirloom Carbon Technologies) went on-line in California. This reminds me of an Onion article: “Top 10 Products to Battle Consumerism.” Kim Stanley Robinson, in The Ministry for the Future, give us so much to think about: It is […]