Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for July 19, 2010

This one jars my memory of that smell from science class!

Good Morning Everyone.

Face on the back of the hand.

Wow!!!!!! Thom there are sooooooo many faces in this one today!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’ve REALLY outdone yourself…….I can see at least eight….

Oh hey! I never knew that Thing had a face.

I like the one with the bubbles at the bottom of the left jar!

I thought the part of me that thinks isn’t but the part of me that doesn’t think is or is that the part of me that feels? I think…..            

Good one, LuvH8.

Hand me a brain. THOM destroyed my old one’ I try not to look, but some jar my brain and hand me nightmares.

The brain up there needs a good old Think and Do Book (like we had to go along with our Dick and Jane readers).

Brain’s kind of got a face – top right. Igor-worthy face.

Marvelous artwork. Is that Nero’s thumb on the right?

You’re talking to the hand.

Hi, Celecca

Ok, after missing MontanaLady’s comment at first, I finished up all the comics and stuff and came back and with a lot of work got up to 9 faces. Some of them are pushing it and one of them is a dog face – sorta poodle-ish to me just left of center at the top of the brain.

And I too really like the artwork. From the wrist through the face a little further down, there’s a Frankenstein’s Monster look. The whole hand has a person kneeling vibe. Now if only Thom had extended the little finger instead of the the thumb, we could all be making Pinky and the Brain jokes.

There’s a face on right side of the brain facing the hand. The obvious one on the back of the hand (that’s a back hand for sure!) one on the brain facing out, it’s squinting (I think)

You have to wonder what goes through Chief Thom Thom’s own brain when he comes up with gems like these.

Since the three bubbles in the lower right of the jar kind of form a face, would that make the larger two of them the low-bottom-eyes?

Of course you are My bright little star I’m miles and miles of files Pretty files of your forefather’s fruit And now to suit Our GREAT COMPUTER You’re magnetic ink…. Graeme Edge

Maybe your neighbor can give you a hand.

Is that Descartes’s Brain? I thought that, once, he thought he might not be, and vanished…

LuvH8 said, about 11 sessions ago (yestre)

Hmm….. maybe I need a therapist?

Yes, but only if you really need to change.

Variations on Descartes:

“I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.”

“Coito ergo sum.”

Descartes is at his neighborhood pub, knocking back a few after a hard day of philosophizing. THe barkeep asks him if he’d like another. Having reached his limit, Descartes says, “I don’t think s….”

Then he vanishes.

Makes you think, doesn’t it?

It might be nice if people who don’t think would vanish.

♪♫ Imagine no traffic jams, clogging up the world ♫♪

(Apologies to John Lennon)

Does anyone remember the science fiction story about this topic? It starts with a hungover writer, in a cabin in the desert, haring voices. He gets lost. Possibly from Asimov’s magazine.

Bmonk ~ Yeah, change would be good.

Am I here yet?

A fellow high-school student had a teen-aged character of his do an essay on Descartes’ famous saying. Said character (when caught out) called it “Oh boy, here it comes, the biggest and most unsuccessful B.S. job of my entire career.”

The jist was like this: Descartes was conjugating his favorite verb one day, when he was distracted by the sight of the world’s first UFO. “I think, therefore I am” is therefore but an unfinished exercise which should read: I think, therefore I am thinking.”

(His teacher then asked him, “You don’t like it here, do you?”)

“And Rene Descartes was a drunken fartes, ‘I Drink, therefore I am’”