Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Punning History, as Written by the Victors

As you all doubtless recall, today marks the 17th anniversary of the greatest pun the world has ever known emerging via its humble vessel, yours truly, debuting on this very website, this holy ground of cyberspace.  I am most pleased to announce that the official youngest brother of The Gravy, Geoff, has engineered the elusive SIXTH (6th!) layer to the pun, playing on the fact that the word bore itself has dual meanings. "Full bore," of course, refers colloquially to maximum capacity.  Without further ado, the new and improved greatest English language pun:

"So around 1920, a famous physicist was visiting South Africa, and during his presentation on the structure of the atom, he suddenly got on his hands and knees, and, speaking in Cape Dutch, he began to describe and act out, in excruciating detail, the mating practices of the African wild pig. Initially amused, the audience soon fell into a stupor, at which time the physicist's wife walked on stage, grabbed him by the ear, and said "Niels, stop going full Bohr/Boer/boar/boor/bore/bore!""

There you have it.  My thanks to Geoff for his titanic contribution to the art of punning.  The world will never be the same. You're welcome.

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Marisa Anderson/William Tyler LOST FUTURES (2021)

 

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The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century ItalyThe Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy by Frances Stonor Saunders
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Vatican, Avignon, and Italian city-states employ mercenary companies in petty wars with each other; leave it to an Englishman to profit of it for three decades.

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Raum DAUGHTER (2022)



two titans of ambient pay tribute to a lost friend






aspire to be nothing more than a vessel for the Holy Spirit