Mindburst Hickocks is, minus the occasional deviation from form, a repository of ideas I have had but could not find a use for. They are free for you to take and run with. In fact, please do.

Also, we now feature assignments.

5.31.2010

We're starting a band.

Let's start a metal band and call it Brutal Souza.
Our first album can be called Marching Orders.

I demand more customization.

Someone needs to start a company that makes all-white (or, eventually, maybe, pastels) appliances. All the important information (like the names of the buttons on the blenders) would be on those stickers that say 10:10 on new digital clocks, so the consumer can peel them off. The same company would have to sell a variety of paint markers in colors and sizes, and people would decorate all their own appliances.

5.30.2010

Why am I not yet a college professor?

Selections from my course catalogue:


The Culture of Garfield.
A study of both: the representations of Garfield presented by Paws, Inc. and Jim Davis, including the comics, the cartoon, the recent films, and the merchandise; and the representations put forward by other artists, such as Garfield Without Garfield, the Garfield Randomizer, and various mashups that have been made with Garfield and Wolverine, or Garfield and He-Man.

Symbols and Abstractions.
We will look into the use of iconography in our culture, particularly in business and advertising. We will also consider the creation of our written language and discuss letters as abstractions rather than constructs (as provided by a font)*.



*When we learn initially, we often try to get the whole concept as quickly as possible and skip past the phase wherein we appreciate the abstract qualities of language.

5.19.2010

Sometimes, and please do not ask me why.

Sometimes.
And please do not ask me why.
(I am not sure I even know.)
I miss being lonely.

5.13.2010

Double features in which an actor could be playing the same character.

Double Feature: Rushmore, I Heart Huckabees
Actor who could be playing the same character: Jason Schwartzman
How much I would enjoy watching this: About seventy-five percent. One hundred percent at first, and fifty later.

Double Feature: Anatomy of a Murder, Road House
Actor who could be playing the same character: Ben Gazzara
How much I would enjoy watching this: So, so much.

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