Here you will find some grisly poems to read,
and some lovely pictures go with them indeed.

Peering from behind death's velvet curtain,
The author, of course, is one Tim Burton.

For these I must thank the girl on the bus,
The one so pretty she'll make you cuss.

And if you wouldn't venture a guess,
I'll go on and tell you, her name is Jess.

The word is kind of familiar, in that I've encountered it before, but never knew what it meant. Think ... MacGyver.

Bricolage - (French, 'doing odd jobs'). A characteristic (according to C. Levi-Strauss) of the early human mind, in contrast to modern scientific thinking. But bricolage is entirely rational (i.e. not pre-rational) in its own way. He introduced the term in The Savage Mind. A bricoleur is one who improvises and and uses any means or materials which happen to be lying around in order to tackle a task: 'The bricoleur is adept at executing a great number of diverse tasks; but unlike the engineer, he does not subordinate each of them to the availability of raw materials and tools, conceptualized and procured specifically for this project; his instrumental universe is closed, and the rule of his game is to make do with the means at hand.' In the making of myth, bricolage is the use of whatever happens to be 'lying around,' so that myth is both rational and improvisatory.

Courtesy of my pal Kurt, and of course the folks in Britain, I offer you these three items:


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They are not obscene, just funny . . .