Come nothing or high water!

 Rather than utter a curse word, my maternal grandmother would rely on the word "nothing" instead.

Nothing Fascinates Me

I wrote a lot about nothing recently, but are there any necessary connections among any of the various statements that can be made about nothing?

Contra Blumenberg II

Note that I ought to have emphasized yesterday that because curiosity at least injured the cat, though with the cat bearing responsibility for the injury, then for that reason was curiosity entered into the Cat-alogue of vices.

Contra Blumenberg

"Curiosity didn't kill the cat; it just left a scar on the cat's soul."

Thus did curiosity enter into the catalogue of vices.

Lifelong Can Be Short-Lived!

One paper this morning writes of a certain politician that he had been "slain by his lifelong friend."

Plenty Enough!

 "Oh, I've got plenty of nothing, and nothing's plenty for me."

But . . .

. . . does nothingness remain as a concept?

It depends . . .

Nothing is better than nothingness.

Absences

Nothingness is better than nothing.

Oxymoron

Artificial Intelligence? It is artifical, but is it intelligent?

Many Long Years Ago

The old gray mare

just saint what she

used to be,

saint what she

used to be,

saint what she

used to be . . .

Basic English Vocabulary to Know

Learn By Hardened Heart

Hermeneutics: Her-meneutics = Non-sexist

Hermeneutics: her-Men-eutics = Sexist

"R" and "L" as Indistinguishable Particles: Trouble for Theology?

"In the Beginning was the World, and the World was with God, and the World was God."

Astoundingly Confused Hermeneutic of the Good News

"For God so loved the world that he killed his only begotten Son before I realized that I had misquoted, but the milk was already spilt for our sins, cry though we might, so it's too late now, for we are condemned already as disbelievers who will never understand Johannine soteriology."

Outrageously Misheard Lyrics!

"Our Father, who art in heaven, Halloween be thy name."

Misheard Lyrics, Slightly Raunchy

"O my love, my darling, I hunger for your tush . . ."

It's about time

. . . that we had something to look forward to. Or for that matter, to look back upon.

The Aging Universe

A wrinkle in time is just what to expect of an aging universe. Likely also are some gray hairs of gravity. And especially the spaced-out mindlessness of space . . .

Unwoke Ad Lyrics of the Past

"Oh, a kid'll

eat the middle

of an Oreo first

and save the chocolate cookie

outside for last." 

Last, eh? Still the back of the bus in those days, it seems. And salvation? Salvation's got nuthin' to do with it.

Social Distancing

What we used to call asocial distancing, or even antisocial distancing.

Quirky Definitions Nr. 1: One Damn Watt

 One Damn Watt = 1,000 Dimwits

The Real Quote Nr. 26: Taste and Cookbooks

"Nothing will enhance your taste in books more quickly than cookbooks."

The Real Quote Nr. 25: China and Islands

 "They aren't making any more of it, except for China."

The Real Quote Nr. 24: Boxing and Playing

"You gotta learn to start thinking outside of the boxing matches if you don't want to play with fire and get burned."

The Real Quote Nr. 23: Snaking and Gardening

"There is a snake in the crabgrass of every well-intended garden."

The Real Quote Nr. 22: Beginning and Creating

Conflated proof-texting:

"In the beginning, God created with God, and God was the Word."

The Real Quote Nr. 21: Dressing and Congressing

"There's many a slip twixt dress and congress."

Testing Whether . . .

How Cold?

I cannot tell whether

this bracing cold weather

will bring us ice or snow;

but this I think I know:

that Fahrenheit is better

for foretelling winter weather

'cause Celsius first made

such a low Centi-grade.

The Real Quote Nr. 20: Courting and Counting

"Bit once, twice shy. Stupid guy!"

Madly Poeticizing

This little poem is dedicated to the nights that go "Nichtgedicht."

Icarus: Ein Nichtgedicht

Red sky at night or next morning,

sailors take freight or take warning,

though there's no true cause for to stare

as a fluttering tumbles through the air,

for a flip flopped too high or too low

gets flapped to the "to" or the "fro,"

not flipped to the "upped" nor the "downed,"

for what goes round and round just stays around:

head nor tail can surely be not both;

but either loathsome end, we'd also loath.

 

This little nichtgedicht makes no sense, but it does remind me of a Mountie Boa episode in which a group of paladins go knee . . . knee . . . knee . . .

The Real Quote Nr. 19: Women and Heels

"Do not judge a woman until you have walked a mile in her killer heels."