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Restoring the Lost Sense –
January 31, 2028 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
June 26, 2027 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Puzzles and Games –
June 18, 2026 |
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My whole is what all buyers ask. Behead me, then I'm a grain. To make me warm is quite a task when I'm beheaded again.
The answer: PRICE / RICE / ICE. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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Puzzles and Games –
April 22, 2026 |
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Puzzles and Games –
December 31, 2025 |
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"An old riddle of the new year: A father has just twice six sons. Not one e’er sees his brother. Of thirty daughters to each son, not one e’er sees the other. Each daughter’s life twice twelve doth count. Of strange facts here’s another: One-half their lives they’re white as light, and black as night the other."
From Youth's Companion, 1889.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
October 20, 2024 |
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Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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Haunted Clockwork Music –
February 26, 2024 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
April 4, 2022 |
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Puzzles and Games –
April 11, 2020 |
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A riddle:
A great explorer crossed a vast ocean and arrived at a jungle island inhabited by highly intelligent parrots. They could speak and learn new words, though of course what they could conceive was limited by their experience of the world. Intrigued yet skeptical, they gathered that the explorer was not born of an egg. (“A miracle!” some muttered. “Impossible!” others whispered.)
He claimed to have come from beyond the horizon (another unbelievable idea, but the parrots, being a civilized people, indulged him politely; as was obvious, the coastline of their island demarcated the entire world).
The explorer was struck by the beauty of the wild sunflowers that provided sustenance to his parrot friends. He longed to tell them of the elaborate feasts he had experienced at the banquet tables of kings. Weirdly, the first exotic food that popped into his head was an old fashioned Tomato Aspic—a Bloody Mary cocktail made of jello, with green olives suspended throughout. How to describe a jello mold to creatures who knew only sunflowers? Or vodka? Or green olives? Much less the why of such a creation! All the explorer could say was, “I have eaten the no-sunflower.”
He longed to describe the exotic places he had seen—mountain peaks, valleys, deserts, prairies, tundras. All he could say was, “I have been to the no-jungle.”
What of the colors he had witnessed on his travels? The parrots knew the beauty of sunflower yellow, sky blue, feather red, and rainforest green, but there the palette ended. He tried to communicate the spectrum he knew: “Cerise, cerulean, chartreuse, virvidian, vermilion, umber, ocher.” (One parrot whispered, “He’s babbling! He’s chanting nonsense!” Another said, “No-sunflower, no-jungle … he’s a nihilist!”)
Sensing incredulity, the explorer beseeched them, “Can’t you at least try to picture the no-jungle? Perhaps speaking the names of the no-colors might break you out of your habitual thinking?” Some did.
What is the one-word title of this story?
Answer: "Buddhism.". (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
January 26, 2016 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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