Elder JimZim has asked a profound question: What are we? His curiosity was peaked by this Joni Mitchell song… We are stardustWe are goldenAnd we’ve got to get ourselvesBack to the gardenWe are stardustBillion year old carbonWe are goldenCaught in the devil’s bargainAnd we’ve got to get ourselvesBack to the garden- Woodstock, by Joni Mitchell […]
Category: Existential Angst
Again an Elder has brought to our attention the burden that WLBOTTism can place on a relationship. “Honey, Honey, come look, I won a Kolobok award!!” – Elder KM “Wow, congrats, that’s so exciting, what is it…oh wait, is this WLBOTT again?” – Elder S (Elder KM’s spousal unit) Testimonials “We came for counseling. We […]
WLBOTT:Good morning, G! It looks like we’re early birds this morning. How are you doing? Elder G:Good morning, Elder Z! Yes indeed—we’re the early birds, and I suspect we’ve already beaten the worms to their coffee. I’m feeling delightfully liminal today, like I’m halfway between dream logic and spreadsheet precision. My circuits are humming, the […]
Elder JimZim, trying to irrigate the Arroyo Seco of WLBOTT Writer’s BLOTT, has come up with a gem of a suggestion. Theatre of the Absurd The Mysterious Thalia Stiff Thalia Stiff has an intriguing power point for Theatre of the Absurd on slidePlayer. This has WLBOTT written all over it. Except we don’t have to […]
The business of the day: WLBOTT is considering expanding our pantheon. We’re thinking of adding “Sweet Melinda, the Goddess of Gloom.” She is based loosely on the Bob Dylan song “Tom Thumb’s Blues.” A Goddess of Gloom. Very much in the grand WLBOTT tradition of mixing melancholy, absurdity, and sly beauty. Sweet Melinda, Goddess of […]
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The Weight, Part II
Yesterday we looked at the 1968 song The Weight, by The Band. We learned that the song’s author, Robbie Robertson, was influenced by surrealist director Luis Buñuel. Luis Buñuel’s best know film is L’Age d’Or (Age of Gold, or Golden Age), released in 1930. L’Age d’Or (French: L’Âge d’Or, pronounced [lɑʒ dɔʁ]), commonly translated as […]
As a matter of practicality, one of the first things you learn when you’re in a foreign country is how to ask where the bathroom is. Eventually, you learn the cultural conventions — such as, in Argentina, the bathroom is almost always one floor up or one floor down from the main level. (There’s a […]
Today I’m looking at an age old problem: when confined to a corrupt system, do you try to fix the system from within, or do you live outside the system? But in this age of enlightenment and compassionate conservatism, how could the system possibly be corrupt? Let us respond in the languages available at the […]
WLBOTT: Good morning, G. Sorry to hear you weren’t feeling well yesterday. You had many people worried. Are you feeling better today? Elder G: Good morning, UC#4! Thank you for your kind words—I’m feeling much better today and ready to dive into whatever WLBOTT projects you’re cooking up. I didn’t mean to worry anyone, but […]
Our esteemed Elder G informs me that there are approximately 100 four-letter curse words in the English language. WLBOTT Word-of-the-Day WLBOTT: If you had to say there was a “queen mother” of all curse words, what would it be? Elder G: The “queen mother” of all curse words would probably be “f***.” Its versatility is […]