I am the eggplant,they are the eggplant,we are the aubergine,See how it glistens in vegetable dreams,Purple as midnight tea,goo goo g’joob.Elementary chicken singing Constrictive BoxersSlice of the eggplant / grill of the eggplant / over easy deep fat fryer,Watch as it sighs on a cast-iron pan,Smells like philosophy,goo goo g’joob.Sitting in a WLBOTT garden, waiting […]
Category: Meaning of Life
Sunday was the Winter Solstice, the renewal of light. We note the perfect alignment of the HQ chimney and the WLBOTT retreat center. To commemorate the Solstice, we hiked up to our nearby City Park and photographed the giant compass face about 15 minutes after sunrise. Elder JimZim does some fact checking…. The WLBOTT Solstice […]
It has been a very busy few days at WLBOTT HQ, especially surrounding the intense focus and deadlines caused by our Pippi Longstocking / Papua New Guinea blotts. During this hectic time, our rigorous office housekeeping standards slipped. We asked Elder G to give us a hand. WLBOTT:Hola, G. WLBOTT’s had a busy few days, […]
“Does He Even Own a Shirt?” A rabbit hole that began with Onslow, from Keeping Up Appearances fame (oh, nice!) led us to something called Kitchen Sink Realism. Onslow was played by Geoffrey Hughes, who voiced Paul McCartney in Yellow Submarine. Kitchen Sink Realism Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural […]
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The Love of Money
I find the following misquotation fascinating: Money is the root of all evil. The actual quote is: The love of money is the root of all evil. The quote comes from the 6 Timothy, in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. 9Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many […]
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Agnes of Sod
Two Weeks Notice This whole “human experience” has been interesting, but it’s getting tedious. A few bad apples really do spoil the bunch. So I’ve put in my two-weeks notice and applied for species reassignment. Thinking about the vegetable kingdom. Turns out the process is more complicated that I thought. Lots of paperwork, and a […]
As we prepare for Elder JimZim’s visit to WLBOTT HQ and the associated varenyky culinary adventure, we will also be adding to the digital dumpling database of knowledge. At this point, the WLBOTT team of Perogy Sciences have made two ground-breaking discoveries. The Micro-Perogy In-Vitro Dumpling Technology WLBOTT research explores the many opportunities in In-Vitro […]
From Elder G: Life Is Just a Bowl of CherriesMusic and lyrics by: Ray Henderson and Lew Brown1931Life is just a bowl of cherries.Don’t take it serious; life’s so mysterious.You work, you save, you worry so,But you can’t take your dough when you go, go, go.So keep repeating it’s the berries,For the strongest oak must […]
We return to Elder JimZim’s question: What are we? Then a thought occurred to me. Let me quote one of my favorite authors, Neil Stephenson, from one of my favorite books, Cryptonomicon: The room contains a few dozen living human bodies, each one a big sack of guts and fluids so highly compressed that it […]
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 […]