Monty by Jim Meddick for November 17, 2020

Whoa…that’s detail man!

Reminds me of the scene in Animal House: “OK, so that means that our whole solar system could be like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. This is nuts! That means that one tiny atom in my fingernail could be…could be one tiny little universe!”

Whoa… My head asplode!

I’m a bit hesitant to mention it after yesterday, but there’s a thriving industry for supplying little naked people for model railroad layouts.

There’s an article here:

https://www.theregister.com/2007/02/09/german_model_railways/

which links to a Spiegel article and photoset- I won’t link them directly since I’d rather be banned for getting into an argument about politics or something, rather than erotic model railroad figurines.

that’s creative and creepy at the same time.

The infinity loop

“Train-ception!”

It reminds me of the scene in Spaceballs when they’re reviewing “Spaceballs, the VHS” to see what happens next, and they find the exact spot where they are reviewing the movie to see what’s next…

https://youtu.be/nRGCZh5A8T4

The keeping sane part hasn’t kicked in yet.

Monty needs to look OUT his own window for the huge guy in the sky wearing an engineer’s outfit…

https://youtu.be/TzSQ-8vvYQg

if he thinks this sane, more power to him

Don’t forget the little ones; you can get recursive feedback. :)

And is the name of that town: Marwen?

Don’t look out the window!

My father-in-law built a tiny bar for his train set from scratch. You could look inside the window and see a pool table. He used cake sprinkles for the balls.

This brings to mind its opposite – the wonderful picture book by I. Banyai, called Zoom. Each page is a close- up detail from the scene on the next page and the effect is of a movie camera panning backward. It begins with the red comb of a rooster, then children looking through the window of a house at the rooster, then the children are pieces being arranged by a little girl and …you get the idea. Along the way, each commonplace detail is shown to be but a small piece contained in a totally unexpected scene, and it ends with a distant view of Earth whirling through space. The lesson – there’s a far bigger picture of life than what we are facing at any particular moment.

There’s a term of art for that kind of modeling—dishes on the tables in the dining car, and so on. Trouble is, I can’t remember what it is.

Kinda creepy now.

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em,And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

Monty is re-cursed.

And the train conductor says,

“Take a break Driver 8

Driver 8 take a break

We can reach our destination

But it’s still a ways away"

It’s like the Land’O’Lakes butter box vision of the infinite.

And that is absolutely normal!

Infinite regression!

That sorta sums up the Life of Monty….