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Tag Archives: existential angst
Tea and curves…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: gummy, tegumental, paschal, sloomy, hierogrammatic, cadastral, and bouncy. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I do keep posting these pictures showing the early stages of ideas for lino prints, don’t I? Do you find them at … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, adjectives, art, arts, brain, creation, design, drawing, fine art prints, humour, information, lino printing, linocut tools, prints, serendipity, style, surrealism, words
Tagged art, arts, carefully selected adjectives, curves, cutting curves, designing, dictionary word, dirty paint brush, drawing, existential angst, green tea, lino cut printing, lino cuts, mug of tea, parallel curves, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, tea caddy, words, Yunnan, Zen masters
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So, what’s happened to our months then?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s well-established English expletive is Codswallop! e.g. You, are talking codswallop! There are several ideas on the origin of this word; they involve ‘cod’ meaning scrotum, and ‘wallop’ being a euphemism for Bollocks. But I have … Continue reading
Posted in academia, brain, conversation, cool, drama, dreaming, existentialism, expletives, fashion, Grumpiness, history, humour, information, irony, learning, observations, overheard, puzzle, radio, surrealism, swearing, thinking, words
Tagged bad english, BBC Radio 3, beer, codswallop, conversation, Dee-cember, discovery, existential angst, expletive, Febry, history, Janry, Joo-lie, look up words, madness, months names, observations, serendipity, style, syllables, The BBC, the BBC plot, the indefinate article 'A', words
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Rambling on about teeth, and masks…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary words are: tenebrae, pemphigus, compursion, roker, bonduc, and elytrum. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie’s avatar first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning – extra marks … Continue reading
Posted in brain, celebrities, cool, drama, expletives, fashion, Grumpiness, Hull.UK., humour, information, observations, puzzle, smiling, style, swearing, words
Tagged avatar, bonduc, celebrities, compursion, crowns, dictionary word, dictionary words, discovery, elytrum, existential angst, expletives, hot salty water, HRH Prince Charles, pemphigus, Professor Mouldie, roker, serendipity, style, surrealism, tenebrae, TGBTN, The British Royal Family, when things get back to normal, words
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So, what is it that those TV ads are trying to tell us?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s dance is the shimmy. Come on, let’s shimmy around the kitchen for ten minutes as we whistle a good tune! (click) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> To the next level of performance! – a wide range of gifts – … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, advertising, arts, brain, composition, existentialism, finance, food, humour, information, instruction, poetry, puzzle, serendipity, style, surrealism, TV, words
Tagged arts, bacteria, discovery, existential angst, instruction, madness, middle of the night, our mission, poetry, serendipity, sex, style, superior hold, surrealism, the binasuan, today's dance, TV, TV advertising, unbelievable, wine glasses, words
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A small matter of existence…
But first… Dulltown UK: Today’s confused film star is Gohn Joodman. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I suppose when you decide to go to art school, it might be because you have the idea of becoming, that odd being, an artist. I’m not sure … Continue reading
Posted in academia, archeology, art, arts, books, brain, celebrities, creation, existentialism, history, information, learning, physics, puzzle, reading, surrealism, thinking
Tagged 'Now', amperes, an existence meter, art, Art school, art school days, arts, boxes with switches, cafe notebook, celebrities, conceptual art, Confused film stars, existence, existential angst, existentialism, history, Jean Paul Sartre, John Goodman, joke, lockdown, memories, Nausea novel, surrealism, words
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I see that you are starting another one Dave…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s lost plectrum is the one eventually found on a marble bench in the ‘Whispering Gallery’ in St Paul’s Cathedral. (WG St P C) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I’m glad that I keep doing them. What else would I … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, art, arts, books, brain, composition, creation, design, drawing, existentialism, fine art prints, food, guitars, humour, information, lino cut printing, lino printing, prints, radio, reading, style, surrealism, words
Tagged art, arts, Ax Wax, bbc world service, Converse boots, discovery, drawing, existential angst, floating blocks, lino cut print, lino print design, lost plectrum, nice soup, painting, pencils, photography, rubbers, rulers, serendipity, St Paul's Cathedral, style, surrealism, template, V. Nabokov, Whispering Gallery, words, zigzags
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Rambling on about yesterday’s print…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s architectural term is Parekklesion – in Byzantine architecture, a chapel, either free-standing or attached. I was at one time thinking of having a parekklesion, but being non-believer, it wouldn’t really get used much and it … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, arts, colour, conversation, dictionary word, drawing, existential angst, fine art prints, Landscape, lino cut print, lino cut printing, observations, parekklesion, rambling on, realistic, religion, scratty, serendipity, style, surrealism, thinking, viewing art, what does it represent?, white elephant, words
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Filling the time with lino…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s nice word is the verb to sidle. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Do you get out much these days, Dave?…’ Ha! What a very silly question! But since I’m in the house a lot, these very strange and scary … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, art, arts, brain, cafe, composition, creation, design, drawing, Dulltown, existentialism, expletives, Grumpiness, humour, information, learning, lino cut printing, lino printing, prints, seeing, style, surrealism, thinking, words
Tagged 'Locked down', an absolute bugger, an owl?, art, arts, designing, dictionary word, drawing, drinking tea, existential angst, expletives, instruction, keeping busy, lino cut printing, lino print, moon, pencils, photography, self-isolation, serendipity, staircase, style, surrealism, the verb to sidle, thinking, time consuming, wide-angle, words
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So, what is it that those TV ads are trying to tell us?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s unusual pencil sharpener is the one shaped like Mount Vesuvius – it does sit very nicely on one’s desk, and all the messy shavings are collected in the base. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sign up now for twenty … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, arts, bliss, blood when you brush, boost, existential angst, flaky cod, hand-held, instruction, madness, make her day!, McDonalds, mini-melters, Mount Vesuvius, ordinary, pain and fever, poetry, Ribena, serendipity, sex, shavings in the base, shiny hair, style, surrealism, TV, TV advertising, unusual pencil sharpener, words, writing
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So, what is it that those TV ads are trying to tell us?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave, which I finished re-reading a couple of months ago: It was yet another Sunday. Dreyer and Tom went out for a little walk. All the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1928, advertising, arts, chicken dippers, discovery, existential angst, full of life!, history, instruction, King Queen Knave, madness, observations, online slots, poetry, real fruit!, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, terms and conditioins apply, TV, TV ads, Venus de Milo, Venus's arms, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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Yes, there was something in the night…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave, which I re-read a few weeks ago, marking in pencil my favourite bits of Nabby’s writing. Martha, on her husband: With her whole being she … Continue reading
Posted in brain, drama, existentialism, expletives, Grumpiness, humour, information, music, puzzle, reading, story, words, writing
Tagged 1928, breaking glass, chequerboard tiles, danger, discovery, early in the morning, existential angst, King Queen Knave, mirror, mirror plates, music, serendipity, shards, smash!, something in the night, splinters, sweeping up, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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So, what is it that those TV ads are trying to tell us?…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: speckled, amphisbaenic, glebous, sphenoid, logographic, gratulant and bulbous. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> £10 completely free! – online slot-sites! – half price for six months, magic! – come on, let’s do this! – you don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, amphisbaenic, arts, bulbous., carefully selected adjectives, conditions and geographic restrictions apply, dictionary word, existential angst, experience amazing, glebous, gratulant, instruction, logographic, madness, middle of the night, poetry, serendipity, sex, speckled, sphenoid, style, surrealism, T & C apply, TV, TV advertising, words
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A few short but pithy items…
But first… Dulltown, Europe: Today’s quotation is from the science book, Life On the Edge, by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden, which I am currently reading. It is about the surprising role of quantum effects in the workings of biology: … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, art, arts, BBC Licence fee, bbc world service, conversation, Doom, existential angst, expletives, I Feel Good!, instruction, James Brown, Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Mc Fadden, late, Life on the Edge, madness, music, name change, observations, overheard, serendipity, style, surrealism, The Power, the quantum world, TV, words, writing
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Stella prefers the Bourbons…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s giraffe is the one being arrested by a constable for peering into people’s upstairs bedroom windows. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Street Eggs. 1994. Charcoal and pencil on paper, probably about 24″ x 18″ ‘I want tea!’ ‘Of course … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, art, arts, big sun, black and white, bourbon creams, charcoal and pencil, conversation, Doom, drawing, end of the world, existential angst, history, inner planets, Jammie Dodgers, madness, on paper, rich tea biscuits, slurping tea, Stella, street eggs, style, surrealism, words
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This is Not Art. No. 45…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s confused film star is Tanning Chatum. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This exquisite work offers us the choice of being lead down two very distinct paths, we may choose one of them, or we may explore both, either choice … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, adjectives, art, brain, celebrities, colours, composition, dreaming, Dulltown, Hull.UK., humour, information, observations, painting, photography, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, surrealism, writing
Tagged art, art criticism, arts, celebrities, Channing Tatum, Colours, Confused film stars, discovery, Doom, existential angst, found art, madness, observations, painting, photography, serendipity, style, surrealism, this is not art, waffle, woffle, words, writing
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It’s alright, ’twas but a dream…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s mongoose is the one looking at some geese and wondering… >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It must have been that 70% cocoa dark chocolate bar that someone give me as a seasonal present! I had only two or three … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, brain, conversation, cool, creation, design, drama, dreaming, Dulltown, existentialism, Hull.UK., humour, mind, observations, people, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, style, surrealism, sweating, theatre, words
Tagged 70% dark chocolate, a clear day, a raked stage, art, arts, children, colour, conversation, cool Goths, debris strewn, dreaming, existential angst, goths, madness, mongoose, rubble, scenery building, serendipity, stage design, stagehands, surrealism, the docks, thetare work, words
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Doom in the gutter…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s English expletives from the time of the Restoration (whenever that was, I was never much good at history) are, Daggers, and, A Pox On It! Me, I like Daggers! – I might try to slip … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, art, arts, celebrities, Christmas, conversation, department store, dictionary word, discovery, drizzle, Dulltown Centre, existential angst, fracas, history, in the gutter, Luminescence, madness, poetry, Santa Claus outfit, serendipity, Simon Doom, spoems, style, surrealism, The Hull Surrealist League, words, writing
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