A soupçon of KITTY's new musical: Sauws Go Soft [working title]
Logline: A feline professor is astonished to find scratchings on ancient rocks. They resemble hearts. She tries to dismiss them as fakes or that her eyesight and mind are failing. How wrong she was! And her life is changed for ever, and ever, and ever. And ever.
Let’s not talk politics at this historic moment in American history. Rather what this website always was and forever will be: philosophical, psychological, psychiatric, mindful, curious, unbiased. Slings and arrows exactly not welcome but words can’t, or shouldn’t, hurt. Though oft can.
Know where AI could become revelatory, and by no means replacing historians like Simon Schama et al: feed AI all the historic election results/data/knowledge. Everything. Then interrogate. To alleviate slightly Democrat despair, Roosevelt and Johnson were the ONLY Presidential winners to top 60% in the popular vote in history. Everyone else above 54% was Republican. Though Harding was 60.3. Equipoise. Surely learned treatises on all this? Circumstances change though not human nature. And those for whom the Trump election victory was not exactly a surprise didn’t need AI for what was already in front of one’s eyes. Suddenly dinosaurs are singing….
Und so weiter: more dead people, no solution.
Despair. Is there love in the absurd? Loads of absurd comedy dating back to the Pythons and Spike Milligan. The Marx Brothers? Buster Keaton? Can comedy ever exist without love? Ricky Gervais' case probably not: a well of love rather than cynicism and nihilism. Or is it love of oneself and onesother: well, glad I didn’t slip on that banana skin. Idiot! Read Erving Goffman. Or maybe just sit there do nothing and observe humanity. Goffman may get your bus there quicker. See: a positive for humans isn’t it!
Speaking of what’s in front of one’s eyes, you don’t need to be a ‘Leftie’ art affectionate to love Fake or Fortune? Airing for the past decade and now in its series 12, it’s basically a murder mystery kinda in reverse. [most past eps available on Youtube] A whodunnit. Who painted this? This’ll educate you more than CSI! One has a lot of sympathy for ‘fakers’ and not much for someone who pays say $50million, stores it in a Swiss vault, and only gives a shit about the profit margin. Steve Martin, really smart with really smart advisors bought a renowned Rheinland artist Campendonk which turned out to be faked. The fascinating takeaway is that the faker (Wolfgang Beltracchi) strived to paint what the artist hadn’t painted yet. And not that the experts ‘fell for it’ rather he/she/it (and the original artist) utterly succeeded in their vision. It was real.
The great thing about New York is if you can create a little niche in that ocean really you can experience ofttimes pearls in the oyster. There was a doctor or dentist from Chicago selling his estate from the 50s/60’s on at Heritage Auctions. He had some honest money to spare and indulged instead in art. Fascinating was his un-curated eye. A neglected Marsden Hartley here another something there. All were museum quality all one needed were curious eyes.
The pterodactyl-diplodocus pas de deux [Saurs Got Soft] OK, it's not KITTY but no royalties: we're good. KITTY’s kind to her band of friends. Or is that felons? Anycat, the sound’s great and all that matters.
