Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 28, 2022

Amazing what you can buy at the estate sales of former Peloton owners.

Hee-hee

For THIS, she abandoned her husband and child??

Actually, it is pretty good. A neat piece of installation art.

And interactive too if the punters can pedal the machines.

Where are the clothes?

Well I’m not lugging it upstairs!

Trying to imagine the effort it took to get that together. She’s got more strength than I gave her credit for.

I once had a Transformers Stationary Bike. Within three months of purchase, it had transformed into a coat rack.

“So how do we get it out of here?”

“Umm,,,”

Art for the not-do-discerning art collector with disposable income, key word being ‘disposable’. One persons’ trash can be transformed into another persons’ piece of ‘art,’ and some fool will buy it.

Notice that Zeke sincerely encourages and praises her. Mike would probably have just belittled her efforts and dismissed her work as “trash” despite the fact that it is clearly important to J.J. Thus, in some ways, J.J. gets from Zeke what she couldn’t get from Mike. That doesn’t “excuse” anything, of course, but it offers a bit of insight as to why she was unhappy in their marriage.

And thus, triumphantly, JJ answers all critics while demonstrating the hollow worthlessness of Mike and his generation’s weltanschauung, man.

{Exegesis by U. Stupidhead}

The handlebars on the “head” are facing backward…and it’s closed, unable to be used.

So even if it could “think” (with the moving pedals as the metaphorical wheels in its “head”), it would be “thinking” into the past, not into the future.

Hm.

Now I see Zeke’s appeal to JJ. Affirmation.

“I’m no art critic, but I know what I hate…and I don’t hate this.” — Montgomery Burns

Hope it isn’t an exercise in futility.

hm

Sooo….what is the average lifespan of an exercise machine from purchase to coat rack?

Looks suspiciously like a Terminator to me.

So that’s where the Japanese got the idea for Voltron!

You would think a “post-hardware paradigm” would use less hardware. :)

The art jargon reminds me of “A Charles Paris Mystery” on BBC Radio.While appearing in an alternative theater production, another actor asks him, “What is a ‘polemical performance installation dialectic’?”.

Charles replies, “You know ‘Cats’?”

“Yes.”

“Not that.”

She can fetch a high price for such a masterpiece

Now, how big was the door to the place? Can we get it through?

Yes, Olddog04 – You are SO right about that!

she could make the same sculpture today using Peletons

And nothing is computerized! No humiliating virtual trainers.

It needs to motorized to be perfectly cool.

What a waste of time!

A bird feather will drop down on it from the ceiling and the whole thing will collapse

WANTED: New Decepticon! Please see Megatron.

WARNING!!! We don’t talk about Starscream.

Flashing on “The Last Mechanical Monster”.

I like it.

Didn’t I see that in the Backrooms? https://youtu.be/H4dGpz6cnHo