Skip to main content

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.


Escapee dog walks on air. Table Cape, Tasmania's North West Coast. February 2012.

This Theme Thursday we are not talking about monkey's in rhinestone vests, we are talking BUBBLES.

"BUBBLES?", you ask.

Yes, BUBBLES.

When I say BUBBLES I don't mean a thin, hemispherical film of liquid filled with air or gas (i.e. 'I'm forever blowing BUBBLES in the air"). Nor do I mean a globular body of air or gas formed within a liquid (i.e. 'fart in the bath').

No, when I think BUBBLES I think of something insubstantial, something groundless, something ephemeral.

Not wanting to burst your BUBBLES, but BUBBLES are usually impracticable illusions. That monkey you bought and stuck in nappies? It's never going to be human!

That dog you saw floating in the air up at Table Cape? It was just rounding the crest!
Labels:

Comments

Brian Miller said…
oh man dont wreck my illusions...though owning a monkey would be fun at times...i bet it would be a mess...
16 February 2012 at 15:04
JANU said…
You did burst my bubble. Unique take on the topic.
16 February 2012 at 17:40
Roddy said…
Don't tell Michael Jackson. He thought Bubbles was human.... Then again.......???
16 February 2012 at 20:28
Mrsupole said…
Gas bubbles in a bath full of bubbly water has to be the funniest bubbles for the little kiddies. And I always thought my pet monkey in nappies was human, at least that is what he told me.

Love the dog pic and yup you totally burst that bubble of him walking on air. Geez I will never look at a dog the same way again.

Great take on bubbles for this weeks TT.

God bless.
16 February 2012 at 22:02
Postcardy said…
And I thought the dog was jumping with joy!
17 February 2012 at 01:47
Leah said…
...and I was so sure my monkey would eventually be socialized to our human ways...

love the picture!
17 February 2012 at 04:34
Leah said…
haha! i see by MrsUpole's comment that I'm not the first to crack that joke...
17 February 2012 at 04:35
Steve Isaak said…
Fun read. Thanks for the smile. =)
17 February 2012 at 06:58
California Girl said…
Beautifully put and a perfect image to boot.

It has been too long since I've read your blog. I'm joining up!
17 February 2012 at 09:53
Kris McCracken said…
Brian, my apologies...

Janaki, cheers!

Roddy, poor MJ...

Mrsupole, the dog was trotting along like something in a David Lynch film. Nothing but poppy fields all around.

Postcardy, it had escaped....

Leah, poor monkeys...

Steve, no problem!

CG, get in there!
17 February 2012 at 13:54
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...
62 comments
Read more

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

This is the moon. Have I mentioned how much I adore the zoom on my camera? It's Theme Thursday you see, and after last week's limp effort, I have been thinking about how I might redeem myself. Then I clicked on the topic and discover that it was BUTTON. We've been hearing a lot about the moon in the past couple of weeks. Apparently some fellas went up there and played golf and what-not forty-odd years ago. The desire to get to the moon, however, was not simply about enhancing opportunities for Meg and Mog titles and skirting local planning by-laws in the construction of new and innovative golf courses. No, all of your Sputniks , "One small steps" and freeze dried ice cream was about one thing , and one thing only : MAD Now, I don't mean mad in terms of "bloke breaks record for number of scorpions he can get up his bum", no I mean MAD as in Mutual assured destruction . When I was a young man you see, there was a lot of talk about the type of m...
50 comments
Read more

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Can you believe that it is time for Theme Thursday already? Today we are not talking chocolate , toddlers , mess or ignominy . No, today we're dealing with ANIMAL . Now I could have posted a picture of a possum, numbat, wombat, wallaby or any other furry killing machine that roams our fair isle, but I figure that I'd use a far more deadly creature as an example of an animal . Some people - I know them as fools - have chosen to embrace that highfalutin idea that human beans are for some ungodly reason superior to animals. Of course, what these imbeciles seem to forget is that were are simple animals ourselves ! Anyone with a baby, toddler, teenage boy or Queenslander in their household could tell you this. Look at Henry [above]. One chocolate frog in the back of the car on a sunny day and all of a sudden it's Elagabalus meets Bacchus for a quick shandy in the Serengeti and we're down on all fours carrying on like a cat in heat. Fair dinkum, anyone who chooses to ...
42 comments
Read more