And speaking of the world of German baroque music:

Why is it that the world never remembers the name of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?

As it turns out, there is a lot of art out there that I have loved or at the very least respected throughout the years, that consciously draws on Chaos Magic as a philosophical/aesthetic influence.

Another example of applied Chaos Magic in the artistic process, not mentioned in the article, is Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” - whenever stuck creatively, you draw a random card that might say things like:

“Honor thy error as a hidden intention”,
or
“Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element”,
or
“Accept advice”.

Does this sound like the prototypical clickbait headline title, or what do you say?

Having just washed my clothes, as a night owl I’m going to reward myself with a nice dinner, when most people are having breakfast.
Here’s the plan:

There’s a coffee shop/deli in my town that has the best tomato soup, plus they make their own croutons, the best I’ve ever had for soup, as they are hard and don’t get soggy. I’m going to order two soups for takeout, pour olive oil on it, as well as cracked pepper and cubed avocado. Also, I’m going to air fry some asparagus with garlic butter, on the side.

Then there’s sharp cheddar in the fridge, I’m going to make a bunch of squares, place each square on a tortilla chip and bake at a low temp for a short time, just enough to make the cheese ooze without it thinning. On top of each chip, a teaspoon of green onion dip and a slice of fresh serrano chilies. That’s the original, old school nachos recipe from Ciudad Juarez back in the 1930s or 40s, I believe.

Not to toot my own horn, but I think this all sounds pretty damn good!

Bob Regnant

Now I’m visualizing a shadowy figure in a trenchcoat in Ho Chi Minh City, beckoning curious tourists from an alleyway…

“Psst… hey buddy… yeah you… want to buy some durian?”

This is the most fun I’ve had reading text so far today, it’s like I was transported to another time and place without leaving the comfort of my own couch.

But there are also many that are “among the greatest I will ever hear”.

Electricity itself is pretty much essential and something I’d have a hard time living without.

Let me agree with you 100% here!
The taming of electromagnetism should be right up there with the taming of fire, agriculture, the alphabet and the printing press, as one of the most significant milestones in human history. And it is still an ongoing process.

One not mentioned yet that instantly popped into my mind is “Chinatown” (1974), which seems to retain all its’ power and intricate excellence as time goes by.

From 1959, Godard’s “A Bout De Soufflé” still has the power to amaze, to disorient in a playful way. It manages to still feel fresh, even in black and white.

It’s never an entire movie, it’s a scene here and there.
Like in The Exorcist, when they showed it on network television back in the late-70s it must have been, the CBS Saturday Night Movie or something like that, “viewer discretion is advised”.
Anyway… clicking channels, I stumbled upon a moment during the ritual itself, with the girl in silhouette on her knees, arms towards the ceiling, the demon Pazuzu behind her. That screwed up many a night afterwards.

As a young adult, another scene that fucked with my head for many a night was the grainy dream transmission, with the faint audio covered in static noise, from John Carpenter’s “Prince Of Darkness”.

Now I’m gonna flip the concept on its’ head and tell you what film cured my fears of the dark at the time. Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation Of Christ”.

I remember that, about a decade ago, Facebook including free access to their services on cell phones in India; there was concern and pushback about creating this walled garden monopoly, obviously to no avail.
My guess is that is why many memes from India from back then involved screenshots of the older generations using Whatsapp as a sort of social network, the subcontinent’s own version of “ok boomer” humor.

Their reputations will be half-lifed!

So as not to offend Mr. & Mrs. Hypothesis?
(whisper) - “They’re standing right behind you.”

Eggs Benedict. With cracked pepper and a few drops of Tabasco. Like a steel or oil baron.

We get the energy from fission. To put two hydrogens together to turn it into one helium is the very definition of fusion.

Separate but related: among the many mind-blowing astronomical discoveries of the past decade or two, kilonovas are in the short list for most spectacular.

Imagine two tiny neutron stars plowing into each other, all those densely packed neutrons suddenly and with great force being clumped together into super heavy elements, creating a spiral spray of silver, gold, platinum, uranium nuclei, but just the neutrons.

With time, some of these neutrons decay into protons, or absorb whatever hydrogen atoms they encounter along their path - a proton and an electron - along with whatever random free electrons may also be around, floating freely in space.
Eventually you’ll get the full atoms. Some of that bounty got caught in the gravity well of the gas and dust nebula that collapsed into our solar system.
And that’s how the universe created the silver, gold, titanium, uranium, etc, that is in our planet today.

Bologna
Breakfast cereal

I haven’t had either, in any way, shape or form, in decades.

There’s another one but this I’d like to try again - root beer with two scoops of vanilla ice cream. I’ve had the ice cream, but not the root beer.

Looks to me like some of the boys at Fermilab came up with an experiment to keep Schrodinger’s cat inside the box but visible the whole time.

Did you know that at Fermilab if you’re a boy, you get to play around with cool collapsable wave functions, and if you’re a girl, you get to play around with groovy flavor-changing neutrinos.

I gotcha, I was just thinking how Patreon has been vital for nurturing a vast digital ecosystem of content creators who are in it as a labor of love.

EDIT: typo

The same goes for a lot of YouTube channels.
In fact, I opened a Patreon account just to show a little monthly support for an excellent, criminally underrated creator of videos on astronomy and its’ history, ParallaxNick.

Among other topics, the guy recently finished a four-part series on Galileo, a two-parter on Kepler before that, a single on Copernicus before that. By my calculations, I’m guessing a six-part masterpiece on Newton is right around the corner.