IdyllopusPress Presents

Author: Juli Kearns

  • Insane people say and do insane things

    So South Dakota’s senate makes it the first state to pass an all out abortion ban. And Governor Rounds says he would look favorably on it if it would “save lives”. An argument which doesn’t begin to hold up when one considers the costs of life-sustaining therapies that take them out of reach of the…

  • Little Atom

    Little Atom

    [clear] Little Atom 2006 Approx 25 h by 22 inches w Digital Painting Based on a photo © copyright Jk Little Atom, Burt Pierard, trained with Tony Prince, The Atomic Clown, and was ten years of age, in 1952, when he became the youngest registered clown in The Circus Clown Club of America. Note: This…

  • The woman washing cars with a hamburger is funny stuff

    H.o.p. right now is excited about any movie that comes out, as long as it’s not frightening. He wants to see that movie “…about mermaids! There’s going to be a movie about a mermaid! I’ve never seen a mermaid!” Then when there was the commercial for the horror film about mutants from the Manhattan Project…

  • For people who love fractals and art

    Terry Wright at Blog with a view does art based on fractals, and comes up with the most incredible names for the pieces. It would be impossible for me to select a work that I liked best. There are too many. But here are some favorites (links to the galleries because Terry’s too damned prolific…

  • For people who love their bikes

    Taliah Lempert paints portraits of bikes.

  • Pac Men and Global Warming

    In one of the memes going around once was, if I remember correctly, the question who would you talk to in history if you had a time machine. My thought was one of my Ioway ancestors. I would have wanted to go back to what they were facing as Anglos encroached. I imagine there were…

  • I didn’t have to eventually make a figure skating post, but here it is.

    I’m going to be sticking in bed all day. I hate to do that. But I got blasted bad with either a stomach bug or something like food poisoning last night and have only enough energy today to lift the remote control, flit through some channels, reminding myself of why I never watch television, and…

  • Chocolate fountain only on some Sundays

    Chocolate fountain only on some Sundays

    Another Boingboing pointer because it is about chocolate and because the new Fernbank exhibit is on chocolate which is an exhibit making a nationwide tour. I love chocolate but am no connoisseur, just like I love coffee but am no connoisseur, and one it comes down to it am fine with a really oily french…

  • If you buy the "beautiful people don't commit crime, ugly people do" research, you are so easily led around by your nose

    So Boingboing points to this Washington Post article that states, according to Georgia State University and University of Colorado research, if you’re ugly you’re gonna commit crime and if you’re cute and have a date to the prom you’re going to earn more money and not break the law (my paraphrasing). Bullshit. Never mind any…

  • H.o.p. instructs me on art and I give just a tad return instruction

    Every little budding artist is eventually struck by realism, at least for a period of time. H.o.p. tonight was looking at a drawing of two Egyptian women embracing, an older and a younger woman, in a story of his, and he was struck by the realism of the illustration. He decided to tell me about…

  • H.o.p. is packing

    H.o.p. is packing. No, he hasn’t decided to run off. He wants to go on an airplane. I explained to him we aren’t going to be riding on any airplanes any time in the forseeable future. “That’s all right. I want to be prepared.” So he gets out one of his knapsacks and starts packing…

  • Fuck Guenter Lewy

    George Mason University’s “History News Network” (byline Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too) has published 11-22-04 the article “Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?” by Guenter Lewy. You can read it yourself. I’m not going to go through it point by point. I will give two brief excerpts: The sorry…