AFRO-FUTURISM

 

listening to an NPR program on 'Afro-Futurism'....with Ruth E. Carter, the designer of Black Panther's costuming, I threw together 'my take' on Afro-futurism.....my 'door-decor character' is wearing the scarf was given to me by the Dalai Lama, when he was visiting Emory, 22 years ago....and some Mardi Gras plastic beads.........more fun than 'cleaning up the kitchen'!

ADVERTISEMENT IN A DC COMIC .....FOR HANDLEBAR-MOUNTED MACHINE GUNS

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IF MOM AND DAD JUST "DON'T GET IT" THERE'S ALWAYS THIS INTERIM 'TOY' FOR YOU TO UTILIZE, IN THE MEANTIME.....UNTIL YOU 'PROVE YOURSELF'.........

MYSTERY IN SPACE #76.....JUNE, 1962

which predates the first episodes of STARTREK...that introduced the conceptualization of live subjects being de-materialized and, moments later, being re-materialized in aother location........ 

HUNTSVILLE-OPOLY

 

THE 'GOAL'?   "TO OWN THE CITY OF MY BIRTH, PERHAPS?"  OR "TO MOVE ABOUT A SQUARE BOARD OF MEMORABILIA?"     WITH THE ROLL OF A COUPLE OF DICE

THE STACK OF HALF-CENTURY OLD 'MOVIES ON DISKS'........'high tech' then......'low tech', now........

 i WENT THROUGH MY COLLECTION OF "Capacitance Loaded Disk" FILMS TO FIND MY COPY OF "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"......THEN, REALIZED THAT THE 'pLAYER' HAD BEEN STORED, DEEP WITHIN THE BASEMENT, WRAPPED IN PLASTIC, AND STACKED WITH OTHER 'oBSOLETE tECHNOLOGICAL iNNOVATIONS'........

FIRST, THERE WAS JUST 19-YEAR OLD BARBIE....SOON THERE WERE MORE 'FRIENDS', 'BOYFRIENDS', 'SIBLINGS', 'PETS' .....EVEN 'HOUSES' AND 'GAS STATIONS'......AND....SOON, IN THE 'BEST OF ALL COMMERCIAL WORLDS':

and, now that distractable 'outed' Ken is becoming the 'center of attention', his blue eyes are wandering a bit...well, a lot...from those 'old' graying, heels-off-the-floor Barbies,  to some hot, furry, leather-pants 'Tom'..that he met with Gay Bob, in a Faggy Finnish massage parlor;  and that slutty, bubble-gum-blowing, big-haired Martian spygirl........ Barbie's now cruising for a Brangelina relationship, I think.......soon to be a $$$-maker at your local Mall Theater......Don't worry too much, Ken, remember ....'You Can Be Anything'....Just pull Barbie's back ring on a string and she'll tell you what to do, you Wimp......

CAPTAIN NEMO'S ALARM CLOCK ON THE NAUTILUS......WITH 'GIANT SQUID DETECTOR FEATURE.....

 

Peter Gabriel...The Carpet Crawlers.

THE MATRIX OF COSMIC ACTUALITIES, MANIFEST IN THE FLEETING ORDINARY WORLD

 prickly succulent, now a desiccated remain, this afternoon, post-destined to become an illumination...later, as evening comes.....it's thorns will enter one of my boxes of "Nature's Leavings", to be subsequently transformed into 'Art'....In the "long run"....isn't this the destiny of observed objects, transmuted by observation and processes.....like the chemicals left by all that has materialized before, that have re-entered the Matrix of Cosmic Actualities as beans, butterflies and albatrosses? I remember and reconsider the puff balls in my Grandmother's back yard, when I was 6....and 'blowing away' dandelions.....

HAPPENSTANCE PHOTO, 'TAKEN' WHEN THE VIRTUAL SX-70 CAMERA SLIPPED FROM MY HANDS, FALLING TO THE GROUND, UPON ITS COMPUTER-GENERATED 'SHUTTER RELEASE BUTTON'......THEN....WHY NOT?.....EMBUED WITH SEEMING CONSCIOUSNESS VIA VIRTUAL MATTE/FRAMING.....

SO MANY PEOPLE ARE GETTING ROBOT VACUUM CLEANERS, SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES, AND ROBOTIC COMPANIONS AND PETS.......

BUT, IT SEEMS THAT EVEN ROBOTS ENCOUNTER   SOME DIFFICULTIES... TRAINING THEIR ROBOTIC PETS.......

 

COLLECTABLE JAPANESE MASKS.......This one was intitled, 'Sit On My Face'....

 

Yes......Why?? A recent show of Men's Fashions for the Summer.......

 

Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol (1972) TRANSLATION OF THIS NONESENSICAL WORKOUT VIDEO WAS UNAVAILABLE.......

THE SINGLE 'THING' THAT I WAS GIVEN BY MY AUNT ANN WORLEY GATTIS......

SOMEWHAT 'ABSTRACTED' FOR THIS 'PHOTOSHOOT', IT HAS BEEN UTILIZED FOR BEADS DURING 'NECKLACE-MAKING',  FOR M&M'S AND OTHER SMALL CANDIES, DURING  "WATERCOLOR PAINTING", AND....FOR ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE......THE DISPLAY AND SERVING OF  'DEVILED EGGS'......THE ONE THING THAT MY AUNT ALWAYS BROUGHT TO FAMILY GET-TOGETHERS AND PICNICS........ 

LIKE MOTHER.....LIKE...DAUGHTER.....UH~ SO MUCH FOR THE WISH-FULFILLMENT DREAMS OF PARENTS.......

Yvonne, embarassed by her short arms, always kept them politely behind her back for photos.   She prayed that her daughter, Yvette, would be the 'girl' that Yvonne always wanted to have been....A tall beauty with arms like Audrey Hepburn and the femininity of Grace Kelly......Well, as 'luck would have it'.....'it' didn't turn out that way, did it?   After Yvette had her sex-reassignment surgery, after her tour of America as a Girl Scout Representative,  'she' reappeared from an eye-opening semester at Smith College, having decided to become a policeman,  Officer Yves....naturally equipped to fulfil his duty as 'the long arm of the Law'..... 

test to determine one's ability to follow written instructions...without a "cheater" drawing or photo-diagram .....to ascertain one's "Dexterity Intelligence Quotient"

 

Can you tie a simple trucker's knot? No...don't go online to "see" one, please......I've provided a graphic picture, after all.......just follow these "written" instructions! Look at the illustration for 15 seconds, then, tie the knot...without looking again at the illustration......o.k.? Here's how: secure one end of a rope to your first tie-down point, then make a quick-release loop between it and your second tie-down point.* now, thread the loose end of the rope through the second tie-down point, then back through the loop you just made, and pull to tighten..... once you've got the line as tight as you like, clamp down on the loop with your thumb and forefinger, then finish the knot by wrapping a section of loose line around the taut line and pulling it through..........if you wish to really lock off the end, simply wrap the new loose loop you created around the taut line and pull it through......however, you may prefer not to do this if you might prefer, at some time in the future, to undo the knot by simply tugging on the loose tail of line to unravel the whole package........ now, you try it! During a summer job, while in college, I wrote instruction manuals for the ABMA @ Redstone Arsenal......describing processes to be utilized to accomplish tasks such as the one above.......Have you ever read one of these "manuals"? {usually quick trips to total frustration} Most creatures watch a process then copy it.....Only humans can follow written words without illustrations.....Yeah, Yeah, I know.....I'm not talking about DNA replication or such, where the processes are unconscious........I'm talking about clarity of communication......

* to do this, grab a section of the rope in your hand and twist it clockwise three times, then pull a section of slack line through it until you have a taut loop

THE PATRICK BATEMAN-APPROVED KITCHEN BLOCK WEAPONRY......

 My kitchen resembles a warehouse for a 'knife-throwing act'......As much time as spend, in the kitchen, preparing food to eat or just to experiment with cooking it, i haven't utilized the ice-hardend, CrMoV, Chef's Knife' in a long time...except for the opening of large shipping boxes or hacking gigantic bamboo that threatens to upheave the house......Kathy Bates, Christian Bale, Matt Sbeglia, Norman Bates and "Jason" are fully equipped, or 'out of play' now, so i'm offering to trade the giant knife for a collection of flower-arranging frogs, a supply of exotic wild rices or a 'super deluxe' double-boiler..... or, perhaps, George Chakiris's switchblade from West Side Story......

APARTMENT PROTECTION SERVICE.......absolutely, free......and, they're mighty tasty, fried..........

If your Church disapproves or dissuades you from toting an assault rifle into the sanctuary.......just carry this nifty Christian Switchblade in your pocket........It is sure to be a hit at any Soldiers of Christ occasions.......blade withdrawn, it can be worn on a neck chain or cord to demonstrate your Faith.......

 

first, make the ubiquitous cellphone transparent, so that it will be less noticed, before the inevitable implantation of even smaller, inconspicuous devices...directly into the human brains of the World......any vestigial fantasies about 'Privacy' will have been, then, illusory and forgotten artifacts of Presumptive Conscious Thinking.....Like the Covid-19 Shots, we will be led to believe that this mass delusion will actually solve the problems of The World.....But, even the status of a invisible phone is dwarfed by Wonder Woman's transparent plane....so, take that, if you can find it!......In a 'stay in bed an extra hour' reverie, this morning....I was wondering 'how would the Earth/World be affected....if every mobile 'device' were to suddenly...and completely.....disappear, leaving no human memory of their prior existance?'..... A useless conjecture, I suppose, because 'Alea Iacta Est'.....right?

THE PROGRESSION OF TECHNOLOGICAL TOYS.....AND, NOW, EVERYONE'S BEST FRIEND IS SOME PLASTIC ENCAPSULATED ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY WITH AS MUCH MEMORY AS POSSIBLE........

 

MY PARALLEL EVOLUTION WITH JAMES BOND......

 FROM STEEL-CASED ZIPPO TO GOLD-CASED RONSON 'WHIRLWIND' TO STEEL-, THEN GOLD-CASED FLORENTINED DUNHILLS.....ACCOMPANIED BY A SWITCH FROM 'UNKNOWN' BRANDS OF CIGARETTES...TO "CHESTERFIELDS".....CULMINATING IN THE S.T. DUPONT, BEFORE THE AGING BOND 'CUT BACK' ON HIS PRODIGIOUS SMOKING AND DRINKING......TODAY, I'M MORE LIKELY TO UTILIZE MY 'CLICKING' RONSONS AND DUPONTS TO LIGHT THE TABLE CANDLES....WITH FLARE.......

ALL THE NEWS AND PARANOIA ABOUT THE 'WEATHER BALLOONS', RECENTLY..........AND EVEN MORE SIGHTINGS WILL LOAD THE 'NEWS'......

  WOULD THE CHINESE SHOOT DOWN OUR XXX 'EXPERIMENTAL' HOT AIR BUTTOCKS BALLOON, PROPELLED BY A HOT ANAL EXHAUST PORT,  CARRYING IMPORTANT POLITICIANS IN ITS VAGINAL CUPOLA.....?

 

ON FINDING A STACK OF UNPLAYED 78RPM RECORDS, STILL IN THEIR ORIGINAL PAPER SLEEVES.....AND AN EMPIRE 808 PHONO CARTRIDGE...TO PLAY THEM WITH....IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX~

 

The Prayer: An AI powered robot singing prayers, by Diemut Strebe

Subject: after an unsuccessful 'Go Fund Me" for the Prayer-Generating-Silicon Mouth.......hmmm...... I thought of a much more utilitarian Device​, if renamed/repurposed, ​ that males would have paid bucks for!......​(soon, available at Parisian, Oregon, and Amsterdam Sex Shoppes' Drive-through Order Windows).....but first, it's inventor needs your generous  "Go Fund Me" bucks for his new Bombardier Global 8000......Contributions in excess of $1M, will be entered into a contest, with the possibility and inferred liklihood  of winning both the Prototype "The Prayer" and a second generation "Deluxe Autoblow 2023", in any of 5 suggestive colors, in a deluxe lizard skin travel case with genuine walrus tusk ivory handles......

'shut up and suck'........and the girls ask "does the nose wiggle?"    ........Nevertheless, it was a bit hit at Vatican City and many remote monasteries........

CRAPPY POEM, WRITTEN BY A RANDOM POETRY GENERATOR PROGRAM WITH SOME RANDOM WORDS THAT I FED INTO THE GENERATOR.......I'VE READ EVEN WORSE POETRY, WRITTEN, IN ERNEST, BY SOME OF MY FRIENDS........

 

Ode to the Yearning

A Sonnet by veristes

My free yearning, you inspire me to write.
I love the way you fall, skip and topple,
Invading my mind day and through the night,
Always dreaming about the dusk poppell.

Let me compare you to a key cherry?
You are more suffient, subjective and brusque.
Snow chills the berries of January,
And wintertime has the jacent cornhusk.

How do I love you? Let me count the ways.
I love your nascent feet, nostrils and lips.
Thinking of your short nostrils fills my days.
My love for you is the adjacent cripps.

Now I must away with a lofty heart,
Remember my clear words whilst we're apart