Please Do It Differently
I just finished another drawing on saa paper. This one features our new nofolete from a few posts back. You know, the anti-smoking one. This particular drawing was a long time in the making, with revision after revision. I finished it while listening to this particular podcast about the current state of our educational system. Mom, you might like to listen to it.
DISCLAIMER: The crutches, I insist, are animist, and have nothing to do with Dr. Seuss or Salvador Dalí. OK, maybe Dr. Seuss.
The Zune doesn't have "interview (with enclosures)" support from what I've heard.
ReplyDeleteI liked one of the comments on the website where someone said "I suggest learning Chinese while at the same time reinforcing our understanding of Western Civilization." Good luck.
What struck me was inspite af all that needs to be done, all the policy makers (on the federal level) can talk about is how to keep guns out of schools. I think that if your major decisions for a school system revolve around which security company to contract and which brand of metal detector is most economical, then you've already lost the battle, and education is a secondary concern at best.
Hello Dane and Jami,
ReplyDeleteLongtime reader, first time commenter, comme on dit. Really, I've read since the beginning and enjoy the posts and the pictures (including the moving ones).
This particular drawing of a Nofolete has quite a toon feel, wouldn't you say? It looks as if it were drawn by some teen fool who has faced exile and stood firm in his "patria": "To flee, no!".
A singular, Borgesian thought occurred to me while coming up with more Nofolete anagrams. I was deciding whether to stick to Spanish (given the original context of the anagrammatic creation) or try some in English (as I did above); I chose to mix and match (as in the somber "Lone Feto"). I then thought to add some French (fete would work) and did, in fact, add a word/symbol from the musical alphabet (solfege). Surveying this proliferation of languages, I thought to myself that if one were to use all languages in this anagram game (including all possible language systems), there would be nothing that COULDN'T be expressed by Nofolete. Nofolete (your elephant) could then signify the infinite universe.
Here are some alternative Nofoletes:
ReplyDeleteTeen fool
Toon feel
El tono, fe
One TOEFL
Lone feto (a sad English/Spanish combo)
To flee, no!
Note of le (the half-step between so and la in solfege, a musical alphabet)
Loon feet
Teflon Oe (as in Kenzaburo Oe, the Japanese novelist, Nobel prize winner)
The next one up is all your's, Rhett.
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ReplyDelete14 days you wait!
14 DAYS!
She's beautful. And we love the name.