Who got her to strip
and sit in the bathtub clutch-
ing the shower head?
- Leonard Blumfeld ((c) 2015)
Note
Inspired by the above portrait of actress Saki Takaoka by Kishin Shinoyama (2013).
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Saturday, July 18, 2015
The free pizza online fibonacci
It’s
too
bad you
cannot get
free pizza online.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Notes
What brought this one about?
The majority of mankind is predictable, materialistic and stingy. Our billionaires are shining examples and everyone else would like to be like them. No news there. But on to the topic at hand ...
Why waste your precious money if you can get music, movies, art, novels, poetry, photos and what not for free on the Internet? Who cares about the idiots that actually create the stuff.
When, as technology and virtuality advance, pizza and other food and drinks will become available on the Internet for free, this will undoubtedly be THE BIG HIT.
What about the economy, though? After all, these are the tangible items that still turn over oodles of money. These are items even the stingiest have to pay for because there is no other choice.
Have you ever asked for a free copy of a pizza and been thrown out of the joint?
Have you ever noticed how easily people spend 25 $ or € per person at a restaurant to pay for items that cost perhaps 2 $ or € to make and/or buy, but when it comes to buying a book for 10 $ or € they grind their teeth and say they can’t afford it?
too
bad you
cannot get
free pizza online.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Notes
What brought this one about?
The majority of mankind is predictable, materialistic and stingy. Our billionaires are shining examples and everyone else would like to be like them. No news there. But on to the topic at hand ...
Why waste your precious money if you can get music, movies, art, novels, poetry, photos and what not for free on the Internet? Who cares about the idiots that actually create the stuff.
When, as technology and virtuality advance, pizza and other food and drinks will become available on the Internet for free, this will undoubtedly be THE BIG HIT.
What about the economy, though? After all, these are the tangible items that still turn over oodles of money. These are items even the stingiest have to pay for because there is no other choice.
Have you ever asked for a free copy of a pizza and been thrown out of the joint?
Have you ever noticed how easily people spend 25 $ or € per person at a restaurant to pay for items that cost perhaps 2 $ or € to make and/or buy, but when it comes to buying a book for 10 $ or € they grind their teeth and say they can’t afford it?
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
The Adolf fibonacci
That
name
never
did regain
popularity
Note
I wrote this poem in my mind early this morning while still half asleep.
Initially it was going to be a haiku, but then the syllable count never worked out, turning the words around as I might, so it become a fib.
The poem was triggered by the 2014 Italian comedy Sapore di te watched last night, in which a girl owned a cat named Mao, which got into a fight with the neighbor's dog named Adolf. As a consequence, the respective pet owners accused each other of being fascist and communist.
When I grew up in Germany in the 1950s and 60s, there were still some Adolfs around, no doubt named after Hitler and born before May 1945. Nowadays, however, nobody in their right mind would name their kid (or pet, for that matter) Adolf. At least I would hope so.
Saturday, June 13, 2015
The surgical enhancement haiku
Some Angelina
lips she has – art by same wiz
of the costly knife.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Note
As seen on TV last night.
lips she has – art by same wiz
of the costly knife.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Note
As seen on TV last night.
Friday, June 12, 2015
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
The art series production haiku
And – finally! – the
precise hammer aiming to
smash the cover glass.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Note
This one was inspired by a picture of an exhibition of black and white photos, with the special feature being that the glass of each and every frame had been smashed to give it ... well ... that extra evanescent touch.
precise hammer aiming to
smash the cover glass.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Note
This one was inspired by a picture of an exhibition of black and white photos, with the special feature being that the glass of each and every frame had been smashed to give it ... well ... that extra evanescent touch.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
The Virginia Woolf dismisses James Joyce haiku
... a dog that pisses,
a man who farts ... the topic
is monotonous.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Elucidations
Watched about one half of The Hours (2002) last night, which is about 1/3 or more about Virginia Woolf and two incarnations of Mrs Dalloway. Read up on Woolf today, including the bit about the Woolfs turning down James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1918. Apparently, it did not find favor in Mrs. Woolf’s eyes ... among the reasons for this being those outlined in the poem above.
a man who farts ... the topic
is monotonous.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Elucidations
Watched about one half of The Hours (2002) last night, which is about 1/3 or more about Virginia Woolf and two incarnations of Mrs Dalloway. Read up on Woolf today, including the bit about the Woolfs turning down James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1918. Apparently, it did not find favor in Mrs. Woolf’s eyes ... among the reasons for this being those outlined in the poem above.
Friday, May 15, 2015
The state of the art in subliminal advertising haiku
Oh give me one film
that does not show a bitten
apple product somewhere.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Note
Have you noticed how many movies show people (mostly cool, of course) with electronic products from one particular vendor nowadays? I hereby declare that particular vendor the king of subliminal advertising.
that does not show a bitten
apple product somewhere.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Note
Have you noticed how many movies show people (mostly cool, of course) with electronic products from one particular vendor nowadays? I hereby declare that particular vendor the king of subliminal advertising.
The jury was announced haiku
It is composed of
members with a proven track
record of bad taste.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Inevitable note
One's good taste is the next one's bad taste.
And the notion of good taste changes with time, that's for sure.
For example, in the second half of the 19th century it was considered good taste to paint stuff derived from biblical and other mythical sources, all loaded with heavy symbolism and executed in a realistic manner. This also gave painters an excuse to paint busty nudes in an otherwise puritanical environment.
Most of the resulting art is considered bad taste nowadays.
Just to elaborate on the fickleness of taste.
On the other hand, it could be said that the state of current taste is that everything goes.
But beware: not just anywhere.
It's like an American highschool with its cliques: the expensive ones, the trashy ones, the weird ones, the geeky ones, the minimal ones, etc. You must to remember in which corner to sit and which lines not to cross.
members with a proven track
record of bad taste.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
Inevitable note
One's good taste is the next one's bad taste.
And the notion of good taste changes with time, that's for sure.
For example, in the second half of the 19th century it was considered good taste to paint stuff derived from biblical and other mythical sources, all loaded with heavy symbolism and executed in a realistic manner. This also gave painters an excuse to paint busty nudes in an otherwise puritanical environment.
Most of the resulting art is considered bad taste nowadays.
Just to elaborate on the fickleness of taste.
On the other hand, it could be said that the state of current taste is that everything goes.
But beware: not just anywhere.
It's like an American highschool with its cliques: the expensive ones, the trashy ones, the weird ones, the geeky ones, the minimal ones, etc. You must to remember in which corner to sit and which lines not to cross.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
The MLA comma correctness haiku
Dedicated to the moronic inventors of the comma, and rule
, and, or, and, and, or,
, and, with, with, out, and, or, and
, so, what, and, the, eff
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
, and, or, and, and, or,
, and, with, with, out, and, or, and
, so, what, and, the, eff
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
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