The h2g2 Post: 11.02.19

Created Dec 11, 2018 | Updated Feb 10, 2019

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Posted: 11^th February 2019

As Far as the Eye Can See

A cake that is a snake, baked by Mrs FWR and photographed by her husband

You can eat this snake.
It is not a Möbius strip.

The Editor used to be an instructor of languages and literatures, once upon a time. Students ranged from 5 years old to 75, and lived on two continents, and came from all over the planet. The little kids and old people weren't the problem: it's those pesky college students that will drive you nuts. One of them once summed up their attitude when coming into class: 'Oh, no, it's going to get weird again.' Just because I was making 'volunteers' hand out strips of paper, pieces of tape, and rounded scissors (borrowed from the kindergarten). Well, they learned how to make a Möbius strip, didn't they? So what if it was Latin 101? You can't learn about Möbius strips in Latin 101?

This week, children, you will learn about many things: snake cakes and tritylodonts, birds in trees and dachshunds in car washes, mysteries of houses and paper swans...we show you fear in a handful of flour, we show you love in a shop window... you get the idea.
Providence in a Sparrow

There is art in here. Poetry. Humour. Speculation. Assertion. Questioning. Images, still and moving. Even a little music. After all, that's what we're about: examining Life, the Universe, and Everything by any means at our disposal. Like an online Möbius strip, we suppose. We're so contorted, we probably pass through at least four dimensions.

Read, comment, share. Contribute. How's your Groundhog Day oeuvre shaping up? You know where to send it.

Now, go read this issue, and prepare to have your minds twisted.

And have a good week!

Quotes of the Week:The ancient art of Pung Shu Ai Shun.

Freewayriding, complaining about the Editor again.

Food that pretends to be something that it is not makes me highly suspicious, like tofu sausages and meat-less schnitzel. Nothing good can come from it.

Tavaron

Cloudscape with Ducky by Caimanraptorelk

Here is proof that I saw the bird in SashaQ's cloudscape last week. Just wondering why I would need to have eagle-eyed sight to see that...
Caimanraptorelk

REMINDER: Our new book, Colours of Wildlife: An Artist's Celebration of Biodiversity, by Willem, can still be ordered from Lulu. You know you want this.

February Create Challenge:
Your Personal Groundhog Day

Dmitri Gheorgheni

THE MUSIC OF EARTH
Colours of Wildlife: Tritylodonts	Join the Q: I Heart Snow
Icy Sunrise	Earth Barcarolle
QUESTIONS
24 Lies a Second Driving Doc Shirley.	Post Quiz What entries were most-searched?
Picture Quiz Poser.	Writing Right with Dmitri What's your damage?
MYSTERIES
Mystery House	Why a Valentine?
Birds of a Feather	What Is That?
JUST FOR LAUGHS
Gheorgheniplex To boldly question.	Art History 101 Dad, technoweenie.
It's a Sign Xenophobic loo.	h2g2 Cuisine Bake a snake cake.
PANORAMA
h2g2 Photography Home decorating.	h2g2 Photography Moonrise contrasts.
Caption Challenge Archi-texture.	Literary Corner Bloggers of old.
FIRESIDE TALES
h2g2 Story How I Travel.	h2g2 Poem Paper Swan.
Desideria, Page 11	Broken Ribs? No Problem!