I Saw Dead People

Body Worlds

Recently, I went with Eric and some friends to see the Body Worlds 2 exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston. At first it’s interesting and perhaps fascinating, but a little goes a long way, and very quickly it becomes creepy. And I say that as a one-time student of human anatomy for artists.

What makes it disturbing are the macabre positions and situations in which the preserved corpses are placed. After a while one gets the disquieting sense the exhibit isn’t so much instructive as it is perhaps the expression of one man’s ghoulish fetish. Mel Gibson would find it a turn-on.

Hackers On The Net – 1

This is the start of the most significant blog posts I can ever possibly make. It’s about the most incredible and amazing magazine article I ever read, or ever could read, published in my lifetime. It predicted the future with uncanny accuracy. It’s about people who said, “This is what we are going to do.” And they did it.

Let me show you an example of what I’m talking about. Here is a laptop for accessing the Net.

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The year? 1972. That isn’t a typo. I’m talking about the year of the Watergate break-in. More in Part 2, coming up.

Political Prejudice

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I’m prejudiced against political cartoonists who introduce a regular comic strip. Comic strips done by someone who is primarily a political cartoonist are invariably bad. For example, I think Mike Peters consistently has some of the best ideas for political cartoons, yet “Mother Goose and Grimm” is consistently awful.

I also believe the opposite is true — that people born to create comic strip characters aren’t good political cartoonists. For example, above is the best-known example from Bill Watterson’s brief foray in the genre. Who remembers the Jimmy Carter killer bunny incident?

51 at 51

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It’s been eight years since my first eBay bid. So now, at age 51, with 51 positive comments, I’ve crossed some significant milestone and have been promoted by eBay. Yay. I’d guess about ten sellers failed to leave feedback for me, so the count should be higher, but it’s still a relatively modest number.