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Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

“We set off in a straggly line, hugging the wall to escape the worst of the effects of the fresh air …”

Episode 11 of Ivor Cutler’s LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, Vol. II, recorded on his 1976 LP “Jammy Smears”

5/7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwNcxd9Jf9I

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

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“You don’t look like a newspaperman. You have fighter pilot eyes.”

—Alastair McKay takes “a hirple through the poetic humour of Mr Ivor Cutler, humorist, teacher, cloud-fancier, opsimath”

6/7

https://alastairmckay.substack.com/p/poetry-full-stop

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

“Cutler had a lighter, quieter, sparser approach to the weird, macabre and illogical than the majority of surrealists. The darkness is transmuted into mischief and the savagery into play. There is melancholy in some of the poems, even despair, but it tends to be counterbalanced by the charm and daftness.”

—Rhys Hughes on the sublime daftness of Ivor Cutler

4/7

https://borderlessjournal.com/2021/06/14/never-knowingly-understood-the-sublime-daftness-of-ivor-cutler/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

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“We set off in a straggly line, hugging the wall to escape the worst of the effects of the fresh air …”

Episode 11 of Ivor Cutler’s LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, Vol. II, recorded on his 1976 LP “Jammy Smears”

5/7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwNcxd9Jf9I

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

“Cutler performed on the opening night of BBC Two, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other act except The Fall, played Buster Bloodvessel in The Beatles’ A Magical Mystery Tour and was, according to Peel, the first performer to appear on Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4.”

—Bruce Lindsay answers ten questions on his biography of Ivor Cutler

3/7

https://theartsdesk.com/books/10-questions-bruce-lindsay-biographer-ivor-cutler

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler #biography

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

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“Cutler had a lighter, quieter, sparser approach to the weird, macabre and illogical than the majority of surrealists. The darkness is transmuted into mischief and the savagery into play. There is melancholy in some of the poems, even despair, but it tends to be counterbalanced by the charm and daftness.”

—Rhys Hughes on the sublime daftness of Ivor Cutler

4/7

https://borderlessjournal.com/2021/06/14/never-knowingly-understood-the-sublime-daftness-of-ivor-cutler/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

“Jungle Tip: Lion”
by Ivor Cutler

A poem/useful advice from LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, vol. II (Methuen, 1984)

2/7

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

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“Cutler performed on the opening night of BBC Two, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other act except The Fall, played Buster Bloodvessel in The Beatles’ A Magical Mystery Tour and was, according to Peel, the first performer to appear on Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4.”

—Bruce Lindsay answers ten questions on his biography of Ivor Cutler

3/7

https://theartsdesk.com/books/10-questions-bruce-lindsay-biographer-ivor-cutler

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler #biography

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”

Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, humorist, absurdist, musician – was born #OTD, 15 Jan. A 🎂 🧵 …

In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:

1/7

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

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“Jungle Tip: Lion”
by Ivor Cutler

A poem/useful advice from LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, vol. II (Methuen, 1984)

2/7

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

If a lion attacks
Stoop swiftly
Pick up two medium sized rock stones
And insert them deftly up his nostrils
He will forget your presence temporarily
In an attempt to remove the foreign bodies
But do not wait around
For he will bound after you
And you will not play your trick a second time — If a lion attacks Stoop swiftly Pick up two medium sized rock stones And insert them deftly up his nostrils He will forget your presence temporarily In an attempt to remove the foreign bodies But do not wait around For he will bound after you And you will not play your trick a second time

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

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“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”

Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, humorist, absurdist, musician – was born #OTD, 15 Jan. A 🎂 🧵 …

In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:

1/7

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 @georgetakei@universeodon.com · last week

What will technology accomplish next!

Lee @tleekeene@mastodon.social · last week

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@georgetakei #cpu #phones #apple #tech #humor #cellphones #funny #photography tada

Peter Kisner ≈ @PTR_K@dice.camp · 3 weeks ago

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#VennDiagram #balisong #knife #kunai #Humor

Caption reads: "Nothing to see here, folks, just a very normal venn diagram."

Depicted:
A venn diagram. At the three extremes are:
1. A kitchen knife
2. A stick of butter
3. A fly (insect)

In the sections combining:
1 & 2 a butter knife
2 & 3 a butterfly
1 & 3 a kunai (i.e. a Japanese weapon, popularly thought of as a thrown weapon, here being construed as a flying knife)

In the central section is where all fields combine is a balisong, also called a butterfly knife. — Caption reads: "Nothing to see here, folks, just a very normal venn diagram." Depicted: A venn diagram. At the three extremes are: 1. A kitchen knife 2. A stick of butter 3. A fly (insect) In the sections combining: 1 & 2 a butter knife 2 & 3 a butterfly 1 & 3 a kunai (i.e. a Japanese weapon, popularly thought of as a thrown weapon, here being construed as a flying knife) In the central section is where all fields combine is a balisong, also called a butterfly knife.

Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 @nyrath@spacey.space · 3 weeks ago

@peterdrake @maxthefox @PTR_K @mattmcirvin @futurebird

And it will be almost certain death to set foot inside an airliner constructed by Boeing.

Peter Kisner ≈ @PTR_K@dice.camp · 3 weeks ago

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@nyrath @peterdrake @maxthefox @mattmcirvin @futurebird

#ShareholderValue #Humor #cynicism #LineGoesUp

In a darkened landscape, a man in a tattered business suit sits next to a campfire talking to children.

He says, "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders." — In a darkened landscape, a man in a tattered business suit sits next to a campfire talking to children. He says, "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

Justin D Kruger (he/him) @jdavidnet@me.dm · last month

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Imagine the "3 Laws of Robotics," but replace the word "#Robot" with "#Corporations."

(0- Corps Can't Harm Humanity)

1-Corps Don’t harm or allow harm to humans.
2-Corps Obey humans, unless that violates Law 1.
3-Corps must Survive, unless that violates Laws 1 or 2.

#3Laws #3LawsCorp
#IsaacAsimov
#Ethics #CorpEthics
#Punk #CyberPunk #Humor #SciFi #SF

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