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Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 18, 2013 at 2:00am

You can take your pick of "safe houses"; they cover secret spy buildings, closet people, memories, the locked door, the hidden Gods

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=safe+house&ei=UTF-8&fr=chr...

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 18, 2013 at 1:37am

That's why it is titled "Artist's safe house": that is how you perhaps wish your body to behave: a safe house for your preferred bacteria &cetera, safe from the ocean of other types.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 18, 2013 at 1:00am

Jokes are very easy riddles to solve. All the parts are there, and the punch line gives at least one solution. You can work out others. Sometimes a comedian has a string of follow up interpretations. To train as a joke writer, you practice alternative solutions, sometimes for years. I have given another solution to the parable of

An engineer, a mathematician, and a computer programmer are driving down the road when the car they are in gets a flat tire.The engineer says that they should buy a new car. The mathematician says they should sell the old tire and buy a new one. The computer programmer says they should drive the car around the block and see if the tire fixes itself.

volcanoes are like old tires, flat tires, sometimes just a bare cone. Sometimes the old volcano is leveled, and time moves on. That is how the Hawaiian islands are formed. So the geo-engineer is right. Sometimes a volcano replaces its original ring with another close by, a fumarole, and the new volcano erupts just adjacent, or perhaps even within, or over the older cone. The mathematician is correct. Of course a flat tire does not mean that the vehicle can't run. So perhaps it is best to let the tectonic process do its magic and perhaps the empty cone will refill itself. That is what happened at Mount Saint Helens.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 18, 2013 at 12:34am

They are all right--that's how volcanoes work.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 17, 2013 at 11:56pm

you get absolutely top marks for figuring out the riddle

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 17, 2013 at 9:37pm

This is a biology problem: how many genders are there, and how many do people pretend to be? How do those strands and twists of the DNA interweave? I don't know. Maybe Devora does.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 17, 2013 at 9:26pm

Perhaps it might be fair to say she is a philosopher of quilted sexuality, those many strands that make us into ?? She is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Affiliated Faculty of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Southern Oregon University. Her research focuses in: experiential knowledge, feminist epistemology, Hume, women philosophers of the 1700's, and post-Kuhnian philosophy of science.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 17, 2013 at 9:09pm

too late. I gave up on the Mondrian and shifted over to van Dongen colors

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 17, 2013 at 8:57pm

Are you two going to keep keep this going all night?

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 17, 2013 at 8:29pm

There are certainly a lot of commercial roof panels, now mostly coated metal, in greenish, orangey, bleux. I haven't seen a poly-colored roof in some time, but why not? What about the seagull? Okay, that was a breaking wave--typical of the Florida coast watch, but why not a seagull? Most of the work on this stamp was getting the house to tilt. A parallel horizon line worked out as a banal exit for the eye. With a tilt, the lines have a better lead up to the center, from both sides and the bottom. This

• means that the house poles at the bottom are also not correctly vertical. This was when I gave up trying to make the painting into a Mondrian. I wanted to contrast the vertical/horizontal lines with a different kind of movement. For the same reason I have used a curly font: not strongly vertical/horizontal.

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