https://www.kgw.com/article/news/cr...ideo/283-ba258dd2-b247-438e-841d-7fe5f0a43e92
Surveillance video shows Portland chef being carjacked while foraging for figs

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200...ed-to-repay-loan-kunsten?ft=nprml&f=191676894
A Danish artist has been ordered to repay a museum after delivering blank canvases

In autumn 2021, a Danish museum opened two large crates to inspect two works it had commissioned from the artist Jens Haaning.
But when museum staff pulled out the canvases — a new work the artist had informed the museum was titled Take the Money and Run -- the canvases were completely blank.
...
Now, Haaning has been ordered by a Copenhagen court to repay most of the money — approximately $70,600 — as well as the equivalent of an additional $11,000 in legal fees.

 

Man Found Naturally Mummified Just 16 Days After Last Being Seen Alive

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“The internal examination of the body showed that the internal organs in the cranial, thoracic, and abdominal cavities had decayed into dried, brownish-black masses,” they continue.

 

Man Found Naturally Mummified Just 16 Days After Last Being Seen Alive
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Patient Zero. The First Zombie.

kv

 

Patient Zero. The First Zombie.

kv

"the remains belonged to a 34-year-old man with a history of alcoholism"
My guess is he was drinking something other than alcohol (some sort of formaldehyde) that melted his innards. It's doesn't sound like he was desiccated like a mummy, only not totally rotten to the bone from bacteria as he decayed.

 

Take the Money and Run

The Kunsten Museum's curators appeared to fully understand Haaning's meaning.

"Haaning's new work Take the Money and Run is also a recognition that works of art, despite intentions to the contrary, are part of a capitalist system that values a work based on some arbitrary conditions," the museum says in its exhibition guide. "Even the missing money in the work has a monetary value when it is called art and thus shows how the value of money is an abstract quantity."

Just what I have been saying for so long.

 

Take the Money and Run


Just what I have been saying for so long.

He didn't run too far.
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/and-now-for-something-weird.124706/post-1850959

"Now, Haaning has been ordered by a Copenhagen court to repay most of the money — approximately $70,600 — as well as the equivalent of an additional $11,000 in legal fees."

 

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Jeeze, donchyall know? This is what happens when the Wraith suck the life out of you.

 

He didn't run too far.
"Now, Haaning has been ordered by a Copenhagen court to repay most of the money — approximately $70,600 — as well as the equivalent of an additional $11,000 in legal fees."

Tough Art Critics. You can't please em all... Hell, Jackson Pollack sold his floor canvases used to catch his paint drippings while he painted for Millions!

 

Tough Art Critics. You can't please em all...

You just need to put something on the canvas to make them happy.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/maurizio-cattelan-banana-collector-1728009

The banana that sparked a deluge of think pieces and media hype at Art Basel Miami Beach last week shows no signs of slowing down. And those who dropped around $120,000 on their purchase of an edition of Marizio Cattelan’s Comedian—which is, as everyone now knows, a banana duct-taped to a wall—are now stepping forward to defend their purchases.

Billy and Beatrice Cox of Miami, Florida released a statement to Page Six on their acquisition, calling the work “the unicorn of the art world” and comparing it to Andy Warhol’s iconic 1962 Campbell’s Soup Cans. The couple also shared their intention to loan and eventually donate the artwork to a museum.

 

That one did come to mind...

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67551-z
Neurocognitive signatures of phonemic sequencing in expert backward speakers

When visiting the local barber shop, a native of La Laguna, Spain, may be surprised by the speech of some fellow citizens. He might be greeted with the utterance nasbue chesno and fail to understand it at all. With time, however, he may realize that the phrase was a backward rendition of buenas noches (good evening) and that this peculiar way of speaking is quite widespread in this town. So much so, in fact, that a group of citizens demand that UNESCO acknowledge their linguistic extravaganza as intangible cultural heritage. Still, theirs might be a lost cause. Although word inversion is also part of other sociolects, such as Argentine lunfardo, the Canary Academy of Language has declared that this phenomenon has no scholarly value. Yet, that position is arguably short-sighted. Backward speech constitutes an extraordinary ability to quickly reverse words, pseudowords, and even sentences, which requires reordering phonemes while retaining their identity.

https://improbable.com/ig/2023-ceremony/#Ig-Ceremony-2023

 

That is nothing new or unusual. When I was a kid we used to speak Pig Latin.
French kids speak verlan too.

 

And then there is still Esperanto being spoken and written...

 

That is nothing new or unusual. When I was a kid we used to speak Pig Latin.
French kids speak verlan too.

That's why it's one one the Ig Nobel Prize winners for this year.

 

 

https://6abc.com/michigan-outhouse-woman-rescued-apple-watch-dixon-lake/13809398/

BAGLEY TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- A woman was rescued Tuesday from an outhouse toilet in northern Michigan after she climbed in to retrieve her Apple Watch and became trapped.

The woman, whose name was not released, lowered herself inside the toilet after dropping the watch at the Department of Natural Resources boat launch at Dixon Lake in Otsego County's Bagley Township, state police said Wednesday in a release.

First responders were called when the woman was heard yelling for help. The toilet was removed and a strap was used to haul the woman out.

"Bobbing for Apples"!

 

On Friday I dehusked and cleaned 50 black walnuts and left them out in the sun to dry. The squirrels got away with half of the lot before I caught on with their looting.

 

Want to hit the "Brown Note" or really really annoy your neighbors?

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/29/1202615294/wally-emotional-support-alligator-phillies-game
Wally the emotional support alligator went to see the Phillies. Then he went viral