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Monday Morning Memo

The Vice Chancellor was busy this week taking photos for a video he’ll be sending out soon to Wizard Academy alumni, so he didn’t have much time to hang out with me. I saw part of the video and it’s good. The most entertaining moment of the week was when Daniel saw the Pre-Columbian bowls the wizard purchased from an overcrowded museum collection. 

Wizzo will buy anything at auction if it’s selling too cheaply. The stoneware bowls are about a foot wide and 3 inches deep and were made by the Tikal Mayans of the Chicanel era between the time of Alexander the Great
(350 BC) and Jesus of Nazareth (0 BC.) When Princess Pennie chose the one on the left, Wizzo donated the one on the right to Wizard Academy. The Vice Chancellor said, “What am I supposed to do with this?” and Wizzo answered, “I don’t know. Put it on a table in Spence Manor or Engelbrecht House.”

I say these bowls were made by the Tickle Mayans of the Chanel era.
The one on the right was made by Coco Chanel herself. 
(Whose description do you like better, Wizzo’s or mine?)

Although he was busy,
the BritWhit did give me some advice this week…

He said I should start watching Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee…
Jerry Seinfeld goes riding around in strange cars and has coffee with other celebrities. Frankly, it sounds to me like a meeting of the Worthless Bastards: Tom Grimes of Amarillo, Worldwide President Plenipotentiary.
Amen.

– Indiana

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“For the first time in history people feel that they are living inside a larger kind of ‘now,’ a ‘now’ that they are sharing with people whom they have never set eyes on. And this feeling is not shaped by direct contact with experience, by things as they are; it is entirely a product of things as they are presented. Of media. What started out as a tool, a combination package of public service and commercial entertainment, has slipped out of individual control and has taken on a life of its own. Now the image in the mirror moves and the body follows.

…News and information alone will no longer hold the mass audience. The appetite for sensation, for the giddy pacing that suggests that at last something interesting is really happening, has forced newscasters and publishers to keep one eye fixed on the salability of their ‘product.’ (Events as products – property – think of it!)”

- Sven Birkerts, An Open Invitation to Extraterrestrials, (1985)

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