{"id":27707,"date":"2016-12-26T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T19:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=27707"},"modified":"2016-12-26T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T22:21:29","slug":"gotta-have-a-feckle-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/gotta-have-a-feckle-freezer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta have a Feckle Freezer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accumulated odds and ends:<\/p>\n<p>Is Obama Catholic? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/gregp-3534\/2016\/12\/15\/white-house-chief-of-staff-declares-president-obama-our-most-catholic-of-presidents\/\" target=\"_blank\">No, and Dennis McDonough is an idiot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is the Pope Catholic? That&#8217;s a much more interesting question. Edward Feser <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/denial-flows-into-tiber.html\" target=\"_blank\">supplies some useful background, including notes about Popes Honorius, John XXII and Liberius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hyper.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hyper.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"498\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27724\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timhutton.github.io\/hyperplay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperplay<\/a> will provide hours \u2014 well, minutes \u2014 of fun for the mathematically inclined and the easily entertained.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cheerful, generous, creepy <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hoooo-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laughing Salesman<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2016-12-16\/doraemon-co-creator-warau-salesman-manga-gets-new-tv-anime\/.109979\" target=\"_blank\">is returning<\/a>. The show won&#8217;t be the same without the late Tooru Ohira, the Japanese voice of Homer Simpson and Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p>Should <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/moyashimon\" target=\"_blank\">Moyashimon<\/a><\/em><\/strong> return for a third season, it might involve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2011\/05\/ff_angelsshare\/\" target=\"_blank\">a trip to Ontario<\/a>. (I&#8217;d rather see Sawaki and colleagues in Scotland or Kentucky, myself.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27725\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fffflapped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fffflapped-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27725\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fffflapped-640x360.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fffflapped-768x431.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fffflapped-1024x575.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fffflapped-1200x674.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fffflapped.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The creepiest scene in any show this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Someone re-uploaded the ending of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/flip-flappers\" target=\"_blank\">Flip Flappers<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, the best and freakiest show of the year. The song, by &#8220;TO-MAS,&#8221; is a fine example of iTO MASumi&#8217;s craft, though someone else sings on it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mGKjPD_BNAE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Flip Flappers<\/b><\/i> demonstrates how utterly useless most critics are. Creating fiction is an art of show and tell. Particularly in the early episodes, the balance in <i><b>Flip Flappers<\/b><\/i> is strongly toward showing, presenting wildly surrealistic events and letting the viewer make connections and piece the puzzle together himself. Many self-styled authorities lack the patience to watch a story like that, or they see only clich\u00e9s \u2014 but that&#8217;s okay; they can watch <i><b>Yaoi on Ice<\/b><\/i> if they want an easy, trendy story. For others, it&#8217;s a Rorschach test, and their comments tell me more about the writers than the show, e.g., &#8220;Queer Discovery in &#8216;Flip Flappers.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three writers \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/formeinfullbloom.wordpress.com\/tag\/flip-flappers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?s=flappers&#038;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Creamer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cks.mef.org\/space\/rtblog\/anime\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Siebenmann<\/a> \u2014 pay attention to what is actually on the screen and think analytically about the imagery and mechanics of the show. Their comments are worth reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/367388.php\" target=\"_blank\">From an AoSHQ book thread<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The authoress was just saying impressively to her companion: \u201c\u2014ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?\u201d \u201cJoyce has freed us from the superstition of syntax,\u201d agreed the curly man. \u201cScenes which make emotional history,\u201d said Miss Heath-Warburton, \u201cshould ideally be expressed in a series of animal squeals.\u201d \u201cThe D.H. Lawrence formula,\u201d said the other. \u201cOr even Dada,\u201d said the authoress. \u201cWe need a new notation,\u201d said the curly-haired man, putting both elbows on the table and knocking Wimsey\u2019s bread on to the floor. \u201cHave you heard Robert Snoates recite his own verse to the tom-tom and the penny whistle?\u201d<br \/>\nDorothy Sayers<br \/>\n<strong>Clouds of Witnesses<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This reminds me bigly of the stuff Ayn Rand used to write. Like the phrase, &#8220;superstition of syntax&#8221;, used to mark the degeneration of language. It just sounds so Randian (see Rand&#8217;s brilliant essay on Helen Keller). And WHAT&#8217;S FUNNY ABOUT THIS, as Ben R. might tell us, is that two observers, Rand and Sayers are saying pretty much the same thing about post-modernism while they themselves are completely unalike, philosophically and theologically. In fact, if they ever had met, they&#8217;d probably have gotten into a fist fight. I think Rand would&#8217;ve won, being an unbalanced angry loon and all, but Sayers would have been charitable enough to bail her out of jail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Frederik Pohl may have been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/happy-birthday-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\">communist sympathizer<\/a>, but his best stories are worth digging out. Here are a few:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastoftheweb.com\/short-stories\/UBooks\/TunnUnde884.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">The Tunnel under the World<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RqF0CwAAQBAJ&#038;pg=PT66&#038;lpg=PT66&#038;dq=Happy+Birthday,+Dear+Jesus+pohl&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=mFv_fP-I1G&#038;sig=Rju-BhWbxj6S_TiQNli5SVQP0Dc&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjS9sSRsojRAhVE2GMKHY5sCbUQ6AEISDAJ#v=onepage&#038;q=Happy%20Birthday%2C%20Dear%20Jesus%20pohl&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/galaxymagazine-1954-04\/Galaxy_1954_04#page\/n7\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">The Midas Plague<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed those, look for best-of collections. I&#8217;m not so fond of his novels that I&#8217;ve read, though the even-numbered chapters of <strong><em>Gateway<\/em><\/strong> are very good.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I regret to note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-joy-and-terror-of-shirley-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shirley Jackson<\/a>&#8216;s best book, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Have-Always-Lived-Castle-Collection\/dp\/0143129546\/\" target=\"_blank\">We Have Always Lived in the Castle<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, is being made into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5952138\/\" target=\"_blank\">movie<\/a>. Even if the movie is well-made, it can never be more than a weak shadow of the novel.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that there are mountains in Mississippi? Neither did I.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zgo4p41vsJ4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more about [Blues] Creation <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creation_(Japanese_band)\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/blues-creation-mn0000066237\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Their album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/demon-eleven-children-mw0000745345\" target=\"_blank\">Demon &#038; Eleven Children<\/a><\/em> is worth tracking down if you like heavy Japanese blues rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accumulated odds and ends: Is Obama Catholic? No, and Dennis McDonough is an idiot. Is the Pope Catholic? That&#8217;s a much more interesting question. Edward Feser supplies some useful background, including notes about Popes Honorius, John XXII and Liberius. 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