This painting gave me the giggles and I don’t know why.
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhWhy Adventure Time is the Ultimate Cartoon ›
There’s no real backstory, there’s no complicated explanation about why a kid is hanging out with a talking dog, there’s no theoretical limits placed on Finn and Jake’s adventures, apart from a unique set of basic, malleable physics. It just is, and that’s the kind of unrestrained, uncomplicated storytelling that makes it beautiful.
Call for Papers: The Big Lebowski and Philosophy ›
Some of the suggested topics:
- “The Dude Abides”: The Good Life and The Big Lebowski
- “New Sh*t Has Come to Light”: Warrant and Knowing in The Big Lebowski
- “The Bums Will Always Lose”: The Big Lebowski and Philosophical Critiques of Power
- “What Makes a Man? Mr. Lebowski”: The Big Lebowski and Humanness/Masculinity
- “Am I the Only One Who Gives a Sh*t about the Rules?!”: Walter, Rule Utilitarianism, and Deontic Morality;
- “This Aggression Will Not Stand”: Mimesis, Simulacra, and the Semiotics of The Big Lebowski
- “It Really Tied the Room Together”: Aesthetic Unity and Postmodern Nostalgia
The Age of Sitting
Sometime ago Congress quietly passed a bill requiring all seats (e.g. chairs, sofas, stools) to come equipped with seat belts. We who didn’t keep up with the news were surprised to find seat belts everywhere: in our living rooms, in our work and home offices, on park benches. We would wear the seatbelts as a joke saying funny things like better safe than sorry and buckle up: it’s the law. Inevitably we developed this feeling of anxiety: in class, at movies and plays, even alone at our computers. We became aware of this great sense of waiting, cosmic or primordial, which occurred concomitantly with the usual waits for kid menus and porn previews. And though the law was repealed shortly thereafter, the feeling remains. It pervades.
