I want to think about Anna Nicole after the autopsy results, after I can process this strange news in some kind of context.
Meanwhile, one thing I didn’t think I’d be doing this morning was reading an amazing and beautiful poem about Anna Nicole’s life and death.
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Your Deadly Sins |
| Lust: 60% |
| Gluttony: 40% |
| Greed: 40% |
| Wrath: 40% |
| Envy: 20% |
| Sloth: 20% |
| Pride: 0% |
| Chance You’ll Go to Hell: 31% |
| You’ll die of a yet to be discovered STD. |
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I had the most interesting thing happen inside my brain last night.
I was following some Mapquest directions. Go 2.6 miles, make a right, go .8 miles. Rather than reset my odometer, I added 2.6 to .8 in my head and got 3.4. But I wanted to double-check myself, and since my mind wanders when I’m driving anyway, I decided to think about the numbers for a moment rather than assume I was right.
(Keep in mind this took less than a second.)
So in that moment, I saw the 8 split into two 4s. One four went over to the 2.6, making it 3, and one 4 was left to make it 3.4.
I mean, in an instant, without conscious effort, I saw a slice happen to the 8, like a Samurai sword cutting it in two, leaving two 4s in its wake. Like a little cartoon.
And after I had traveled my 3.4 miles I thought, “Wow, I had no idea my brain did that.”
They all got solved this week. Huzzah! (Answers below the fold.)
Robert Anton Wilson died today. In some ways, he was a great man. In others, a funny old coot. He was sweet and brilliant, with a breathtaking voice that belied its Brooklyn origin. I would happily have listened to Bob recite the phone book.
He stayed with us once for several days. A superb houseguest despite the fact that I was very, very pregnant and he was a smoker. Bob was a good and kind soul and a prolific author. Here’s a quote from his bio:
Robert Anton Wilson is the coauthor, with Robert Shea, of the underground classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy , which won the 1986 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. His other writings include Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy, called “the most scientific of all science fiction novels,” by New Scientist, and several nonfiction works of Futurist psychology and guerilla ontology, such as Prometheus Rising and The New Inquisition. Wilson, who sees himself as a Futurist, author, and stand-up comic, regularly gives seminars at Eslan and other New Age centers. Wilson has made both a comedy record (Secrets of Power) and a punk rock record (The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy), and his play Wilhelm Reich in Hell was performed at the Edmund Burke Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. His novel Illuminatus! was adapted as a 10-hour science fiction rock epic and performed under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Great Britain’s National Theatre, where Wilson appeared briefly on stage in a special cameo role. Robert Anton Wilson is also a former editor at Playboy magazine.
He’ll be missed. Hope he enjoys the dead thing.
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The Answer to the Magical Mystery Meme is…
#4.
Everything about #4 is true except Ben Vereen. My ex’s uncle was a dancer on Broadway and elsewhere; an ensemble player you’ve never heard of. He did a couple of movies, including getting beat up by Gene Hackman in The French Connection. The Billy Dee and Pat Hingle stuff is true.
