Happy birthday to my Grandma Sadie Price

97 years old today.

Me, Neil Gaiman and David J

From backstage at Neil's show with Patton Oswalt, Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, 6/28/11

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If only my wallet could match what my mind wants to do.
-International Prayer For Money

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The Grand Unified Theory:

(Time=Space=Energy) x (∞)

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Can the world around us best be described with words or numbers?

RIP Gene Colan

RIP Gene Colan, a classic comic book artist. I'm proud to own two of his originals:

My squirting laughing head clown

It's interesting that blogs have what you publish first after what you publish next. This means that people will see this post before the one I made yesterday. Both posts are related. This is from my personal collection:

A collection of squirting laughing heads on You Tube

Back when I was a kid, my family went to Banff in Canada and we walked around the village there and into a shop that had some squirting, laughing heads hanging on the wall. These both terrified and fascinated me. Made by Peter Figuren, these are now extremely rare, old, and even more creepy. Here's a collection of them from You Tube. Click on the images to watch them. Enjoy!

 

My friend Erich Orser wrote a book

It's called "Young And Evil".

An epic apocalyptic pirate masterpiece with tentacles and teenage debauchery.

CLICK HERE FOR I-TUNES (I-PAD, I-BOOK)

CLICK HERE FOR AMAZON (KINDLE)
CLICK HERE FOR NOOK

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Imagine nothingness.

Imagine infinity.

Now try to imagine both of them simultaneously.

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I really hope that in my lifetime I get to take a vacation to the moon.

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My favorite color is treechrome. Like a glowing chrome tree.

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Change and uncertainty are constants. I'm certain of it.

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Life may be a video game that goes on for around 80-100 years. When you die, you can either play again, move on to the next game, or turn off the game machine and do something else. Some people get cheat codes and others die early. Like any good joke, it's only funny if it makes you laugh.

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The first two zen koans I ever learned were the "Why did the chicken cross the road?" joke and the "Row Row Row Your Boat" song.

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Don't put too much faith in astrology or fortune tellers. Anyone can convince anyone of anything under certain circumstances. Never underestimate the power of random chance.

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Why is it that when people are given 3 wishes in stories that they don't wish for an infinite number of wishes? If the person or entity granting the wishes says this is against the rules, then my first wish would be to change those rules.

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Why = Who + How (Where + When)

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In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 seconds.

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Can your consciousness be contained in another "living vessel" if, at the moment of death, something is activated that perfectly replicates your specific brain functions? Can a new body or electronic brain act as an updated receiver to receive and contain our individual minds?

You Tube Video of The Day #12: The Picture of Everything

Shameless self promotion. From before the entire image was complete.

CLICK HERE OR BELOW TO VIEW THE VIDEO

This is the last You Tube video for a while.

Now that I'm done with student teaching for the summer, I'll do my best to have more blog entries.

-Howard