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1. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Why? The person who decided to pay for the piece presumably felt he got his money’s worth, despite knowing that the banana would not last forever.

   Somebody paid millions for A Banksy piece that, as soon as it was confirmed sold, fed itself into a shredder. We know that Calvin knows that his snow-sculptures are ephemeral: they exist for a certain period of time, and then they’re gone. He’s created sowmen specifically with this idea in mind.

   How is that different from the knowledge that a banana duct-taped to the wall is going to change (rapidly) through phases of decay and dissolution?

2. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   It’s been done. Calvin struggle to make something he decided to call an ashtray (Hobbes did much better).

   Snow is Calvin’s chosen medium. Succeed or fail, that’s what he works with.

3. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I remember Calvin once doing a snowman contemplating a snowball. It wasn’t in the pose of “The Thinker,” but there was a link.

   Rodan was the sh!t.

4. about 2 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   When my older sister was five she did an anatomically-correct drawing of her new baby brother (me). It caused a stir.

5. about 2 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Bork is an overtly performative artist, at a globally-broadcast entertinment awards ceremony. In the context, her swan-dress made sense; women in Reykjavik don’t go shopping in swan dresses. You can also comprehend Lady Gaga’s “meat dress;” it was an artistic statement, not a fashion statement.

   A better comparison would be to, say, the hats that Sarah Ferguson’s daughters (I forget their names) wore to Will and Kate’s wedding. They were trying to be fashionable.

6. about 2 hours ago on Baby Blues

   I remember “designer jeans.” You could buy Levi’s or Lee’s, which were built to last, or you could pay twice as much (or more) for flimsy jeans that hs fancier stitching on the pockets.

   (You can now buy cheaply-constructed, flimsy Levi’s at Target, a development which causes me pain.)

7. about 2 hours ago on Baby Blues

   It’s a good brand, without bells or whistles (so far as I know). Darryl and Wanda would be satisfied with a JanSport, but Zoe might not be.

8. about 2 hours ago on Barney & Clyde

   Not all injected drugs are vaccines. Vitamin B-12 (a popular “feel-good” shot) doesn’t inoculate you against anything.

9. about 2 hours ago on Baby Blues

   Is JanSport top of the line? I think of it as baseline. Anything above it is fancy, anything below it is humiliating.

10. about 2 hours ago on Baby Blues

    “Sell when you can. You are not for all markets.” —W.S.