"Netflix's programming is based on algorithms, and the results are mixed. Even though HBO spends way less money, they continue to have better programming on average because they stick with their programming philosophy, which is fundamentally trust the artist!" ― John Koblin, On the Media podcast, 12/9/2022
“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony. But if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Bill Murray
Illustration by Dave Merrell
"What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?" - Anonymous
“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Suess
Photo by Juan Carlos Paz
“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin
Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.
“Everything in the [media art industrial complex] is unusual. It’s like hot plasma. It changes so damn fast.” - Rene Pinnell
Artwork by Abu Bakarr Mansaray.
“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” - Bill Hicks
https://nerdist.com/bill-hickss-principles-of-comedy/
Photo: Alex Webb, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1982.
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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