{"id":71371,"date":"2019-12-04T10:39:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=71371"},"modified":"2020-01-16T19:40:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:40:18","slug":"miscellaneous-artsy-type-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/miscellaneous-artsy-type-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous artsy-type stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many years ago, Daniel Pinkwater and Tony Auth colloborated on a newspaper cartoon, Norb<\/b><\/i>. It did not catch on and disappeared without a trace. I recently stumbled over a collection of its Sunday strips, which you can view here<\/a> (start with page one<\/a>). It’s an absurd serial, somewhere between Terry and the Pirates<\/i> and Firesign Theatre, but sillier.<\/p>\n

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Gahan Wilson, whose macabre cartoons were the best feature of many editions of National Lampoon<\/i>, passed away last month. There’s a memorial here<\/a> with a selection of his work. You can find much more online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Robert Samuels’ analysis of a still life<\/a> including a chessboard, carnations and a lute leads him to observe that<\/p>\n

… both fields [chess and music] have become so professionalised that their function as social activities is easily lost or forgotten. In an age when my performance of a Bach Prelude and Fugue can be immediately compared by anyone with a mobile phone to that of Andr\u00e1s Schiff, and when my playing of a complex chess endgame can be immediately shown to be full of errors by chess software on that same mobile phone, we need (or at least I need) reminders that music and chess alike are ways of interacting with other people. They are, properly, the pursuits of friends. Our play is part of our human flourishing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n