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Kitty Glitter
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Now, the point of this was to come up with a box advertising "Kitty Glitter", which would make cleaning out the litter box an adventure to be looked forward to by every young pet owner. My marketing strategy was simple, in every box of kitty glitter put some chocolate filled pieces of eight, maybe a pearl necklace, plastic gems, and let the kids screen for the treasures as they clean out the litter box.
Given the inevitable success of this I imagined we could come up with some "Prospector Boxes", wherein gold nuggets & various gems could be found, "Paleontological Boxes", wherein the kids could find dinosaur bones, and "Archeological Boxes", wherein the eagle-eyed shit-sifter could find some potshards from any one of a number of civilizations.
Anyways, plugged this into Dall-E: "A box of Kitty Litter, with a photorealistic one-eyed cat in a pirate costume. The title of the box: "Kitty Glitter", the bottom should read: "Now With Real Pirate Treasure!"."
And got this out;
Not bad, but I'm not going to be laying off marketing any time soon...
...the treasures of Aladdin
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Well, no, but a couple of the more interesting finds from the last few weeks. The first, an old "commemorative" newspaper from Nelson, Circa 1961.
the second I spotted on a walk about the store, odd, I know, I usually don't walk around the shop so once in a blue moon there's a surprise.
This was it. An erotic carving of two naked women embracing, one, by the helmet some sort of Spartan, the other? Well, curious, and it's out of an old cow's shinbone.
Which makes it doubly curious. Currently priced at $20.00 in the silent auction, I might just have to bid...
...because, really, how have I lived this long without one?
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
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Reading Vasily Aksyonov's "The Burn" - which places it's comic heroes in a dystopian society (early 70's Russia), - a relentless drunken stream-of-consciousness tirade that pits the narrator - and his American friend "Patrick Thunderjet" - against the State, the World, and recalls me to reread "The Master and Margarita".
I will come back to "The Burn" in another review, I promise.
Now this is a book that I actively proselytize, along with "Confederacy of Dunces", "Lolita", and "The Discovery of New Spain", Herodotus, a few dozen others, that I place joyfully in another's hands to have them read and discuss, only to discover the book again not a day later in a thrift shop or curbside library.
So goes literacy.
In any event, while looking for it online I came across this translation:
Online Translation: https://www.weblitera.com/book/?id=205&lng=1
Which I took a few hours to reread. I'm not certain this is a translation by either Mira Ginsberg or Michael Glenny, but - aside from typos, this was not so bad. And yet again I found myself - after the Ball - both laughing and crying on the same page, the circumstance, characters, the details - forgotten, or perhaps never in the editions I recalled.
Anyways, a joy once again.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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n. a wistful omen of the first sign of autumn—a subtle coolness in the shadows, a rustling of dead leaves abandoned on the sidewalk, or a long skein of geese sweeping over your head like the second hand of a clock.
n. a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if no time had passed since you last saw each other.
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