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Tommy Westphall was an austistic child on the TV series St Elsewhere who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had dreamt the entire run of the show. St Elsewhere has direct connections to twelve other television series - many of them direct crossovers of character to and from the series. Others make mention of specific parts of the St Elsewhere fictional universe, placing them within the same fictional sphere. If St Elsewhere exists only within Tommy Westphall’s mind, then so does every other series set within the same fictional sphere.
Apparently the solipsistic epistemology of St. Elsewhere has ripples extending through a large portion of the american television landscape, and thus my life.
Several months ago his son, Evan, 26, remarked that he thought the eyebrow hairs must be close to a world record. He looked it up in the Guinness Book of World Records, and the record set in 2004 is just a hair over 3 inches. “I went and measured my longest right away, and it was longer” than the current record, Leonard says. “It’s hard to measure yourself, plus looking in the mirror makes things backwards, but I felt I was a world record.”
Someday I hope to be unkempt enough to unwittingly set a record.
Pepé Le Pew on behalf of the McDLT.
Finally numerous monks and nuns, on one occasion 240 Benedictine Monks under the leadership of a Father whose name sounded like Starkiewicz, suddenly moved into my head to perish therein.
You so crazy Daniel Paul Schreber.
Happy Jon Frum day! Can’t believe I almost missed it. From an excellent 2006 article on the subject of Cargo Cults:
“You get cargo cults when the outside world, with all its material wealth, suddenly descends on remote, indigenous tribes.” The locals don’t know where the foreigners’ endless supplies come from and so suspect they were summoned by magic, sent from the spirit world. To entice the Americans back after the war, islanders throughout the region constructed piers and carved airstrips from their fields. They prayed for ships and planes to once again come out of nowhere, bearing all kinds of treasures: jeeps and washing machines, radios and motorcycles, canned meat and candy.
This is the most sensible religion the world currently offers. They actually saw that shit happen 60 years ago. It also inspired this lovely extended analogy from Serge Gainsbourg, wherein he compares the Cargo Cult mentality to his own at the end of an affair.
This clip’s got it all.
As with all such quantum puzzles, this is only the beginning of the story; now, the experts have to explain what this mathematical result means. The best interpretation of the evidence so far seems to be that we should not think of any object, not even a single atom, as an “isolated system”.
Chased by Ducks 2
In the most evenhanded, well reasoned article written about this late night TV fiasco, WSJ compares Leno to Hitler.
Jay Leno, much like Adolf Hitler, is a master of making secret demands for foreign territory and then acting like the wronged party. First he pretended that he wanted to annex only the first half-hour of Mr. O’Brien’s “Tonight Show.” Here he was mimicking Hitler, who insisted that he merely wanted to annex the German-speaking Sudetenland, not all of Czechoslovakia.
