I want a Batman ‘66 retro adventure where the Joker has sabotaged the Gotham City High School Marksman Tournament so the guns will backfire hilariously and it’s totally accepted that a man in a bat suit is running around earnestly seeking clues from a bunch of golly-gee teenagers toting rifles in the middle of basically Central Park
Two of my bigger proto-kontextmaschine moments in maybe 8th grade were
1) Realizing, like not just mechanically affirming when asked but grokking that telephone poles didn’t grow like trees and every one – every single one was there because of conscious human intent, someone had decided to put it there in particular and other people had acted to realize that
2) Noticing that there was a definite relationship between a classmate having divorced parents and their home’s proximity (down to fractions of a block) to heavily trafficked inter-town streets and being like “what’s THAT about”
me: ::lying in bed, in the dark, listening to the nighttime classical on KUSC::
also me: yo there's definitely a time period where when I read about naval battles and I don't hear about them towing damaged ships to port
me: …
also me: but more recently I do all the time but I don't hear much about why that changed though it seems pretty important
me: …
also me: oh and also, the high number of crew relative to labor needs on pirate ships gets taken as some sort of protosocialism, but that overlooks that a successful pirate cruise would need to field multiple prize crews
me: why are you like this?
Seriously, it’s like that revenged writer in Sandman, I just want to relax and it’s like
“Blood brothers” as the lost friendship/artificial kinship ritual of American culture!
The way “do these Radio DJs announce band and song names” curves from “yes” for novel stuff and college radio obscurity to “who needs it” for top 40 heavy rotation back to “yes” for the same classic rock songs playing for decades!
Beat producer/verse rapper song structures as blend of Tin Pan Alley mercenary community, singer/songwriter authenticity, AND Spector producer pop!
Brandishing their javelins and letting out a bloodcurdling war cry, the Ottoman horsemen charge at a thunderous gallop. Suddenly one is hit and thrown from his horse – making dozens of children gasp as they film the scene on their smartphones.
It may be 2017, but Istanbul rolled back the years last weekend with the Ethnic Sports Cultural Festival (EKF), which aims to promote the sports practised by modern Turks’ ancestors – from the nomadic horsemen of Central Asia to the Janissaries, the elite troops of the Ottoman empire.
More than 800 athletes took part in traditional sports from Anatolia and Central Asia which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government wants to develop to celebrate the glory days of Turkey’s past.
“We want to revive our traditional values, beginning with our sports, in order to move forward with these values,” Bilal Erdogan, one of the president’s sons and an archery fan who is also EKF’s sponsor, told AFP.
A huge area on the European side of Istanbul usually used for political rallies was transformed into an Ottoman encampment for the four-day event.
Wrestlers, archers and riders showed off their skills in between traditional cooking workshops, Central Asian dancing and carpet-weaving.
Turkish Sports Minister Akif Cagatay Kilic promised the government would provide further financial support to develop such activities and suggested it would encourage clubs to show more interest in traditional sports.
Traditional Turkish wrestling champion Sadi Bakir – bare-chested and covered in oil – said “interest in the sport has increased in recent times and the state is investing more effort in this field”.
As a result, he said, “at the last European (wrestling) championships, we won five gold medals. The past power of the Turks is re-emerging.”
Yakup, a traditional archery instructor, also said interest in the discipline has exploded. “We have over 1,000 members” in his archery club, he said as he put arrows in a leather quiver.
For the master archer, young people’s enthusiasm comes mainly from television series about the Ottoman sultans which have multiplied in the past few years.
“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.
The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.
Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)
I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it
just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone
Anonymous asked: imagine that works of art come alive. would you rather fight 100 ugly old-man-like medieval painting babies or ron mueck's giant baby?
Are you kidding? Baby or not, that thing could wreck me with a single swipe of its arm. The
100 ugly old-man-like medieval painting babies
would be ineffectual and weak even en masse. I could easily defeat them by running away a bit and then just taking them on in small groups, punting as necessary.
youzicha said: But the mega-baby looks roughly as smart
as an ordinary baby. It would be like fighting a cow. The old-men
babies could be devious…
Fighting a cow can be very dangerous! Cape buffalo kill like 200 people a year. They don’t have those horns for nothing. And in terms of mass that baby looks more like an elephant, which would more than make up for its lack of horns or tusks.
Man babies can’t hold themselves erect or aligned as is, scale the same body plan up to that mass and it would be immobile.
Plus all the major weak spots - eyes, fontanelle, orifices - would be scaled up to the point they’re trivial targets, and meanwhile who knows what those old man babies are capable of.
me coming home to my gamer wife and children: greatest of keks everyone, score any sick headshots today??? oh thank you honey I’d love a bowl of soda soup, please don’t get triggered if I don’t like it this time
Zelda sweetie, you’ve hardly touched your Doritos. What’s got you so butthurt?
