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Friday, April 15, 2011

Our milk shake brings all the Beuys to the yard

"It will be Joseph Beuys' 90th birthday in a few weeks' time," I remarked this afternoon at the Old Entomologist while we sampled the new season's "Ascension (and that's all they said)" Maibock (99% ergot-free!). "Time to decide whether to attend the party."

"I imagine we can make our presents felt," Another Kiwi vouchsafed.
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13 comments:

  1. Dr.KennethNoisewaterApril 15, 2011 at 7:02 AM

    Knowing jack-shit about this guy, I'm going to preemptively say I use my milkshake exclusively for bringing only the 70 and under crowd to the yard.

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  2. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©April 15, 2011 at 7:06 AM

    In an age of social media and web 2.0 the concept of social sculpture acquires new resonances even Wikipedia may be regarded as a social sculpture in the Beuysian sense. The revolutionary concept, "Everyone is a writer of an encyclopedia" is near what Beuys meant by "Everyone is an artist".
    ~

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  3. Substance McGravitasApril 15, 2011 at 8:29 AM

    Kunst.

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  4. Big Bad Bald BastardApril 15, 2011 at 9:25 AM

    The revolutionary concept, "Everyone is a writer of an encyclopedia" is near what Beuys meant by "Everyone is an artist".

    It's a near what St Joseph of Queens meant by "Everyone's a secret nerd, everyone's a closet lame"

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  5. tigrisApril 15, 2011 at 10:14 AM

    LAAAAAARD

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  6. Whale ChowderApril 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM

    Beuys will be Beuys.

    (thanks for leaving that one for me)

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  7. Whale ChowderApril 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM

    Kunst.

    Bless you!

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  8. Smut ClydeApril 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM

    Perhaps we should install an on-line poll widget so that people can indicate whether or not they'll be back.

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  9. KathleenApril 15, 2011 at 2:21 PM

    this afternoon at the Old Entomologist

    is that words or bugs?

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  10. ckc (not kc)April 15, 2011 at 3:01 PM

    ...I know whether or not I'll be back, but I'm not about to tell you.

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  11. Smut ClydeApril 15, 2011 at 3:57 PM

    Ckc (not kc) is evidently a superposed quantum state who shall be back and sha'n't be back simultaneously (until the quantum state is collapsed by an act of observation).

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  12. mikeyApril 15, 2011 at 6:39 PM

    Oh, I'll be back.

    But I'll be coming from the OTHER direction.

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  13. Big Bad Bald BastardApril 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM

    Ckc (not kc) is evidently a superposed quantum state who shall be back and sha'n't be back simultaneously (until the quantum state is collapsed by an act of observation).

    Schrödinger's Ckcat?

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