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I'm archiving the Reach album, or "All I'm Living For", on to DVD today. It's taking years because the mac here only has a 1x speed DVD burner, and there's 14Gb of data to archive. I haven't yet worked out if it's theoretically possible for me to finish it before I have to go home.
It's raining today. Soon I'll post pictures on this blog and make statements like that a whole lot more interesting.
I've decided that if such a thing exists, I'd like to do a degree in humour. Yesterday I was struck by the fact that even seemingly surreal, random humour is still dependent on context. We have a fridge poetry set in our kitchen and I wrote on it, "squirrels use bad magic", which I believe is fairly funny. Admittedly it doesn't look that funny written here but that's because the fact that fridge poetry humour is made out of complete words, pre-set, rather than letters, changes the "humour dynamic"... or something.
We also have fridge magnet letters, and these show the difference. Writing "squirrels use bad magic" in the letters is not as funny as when it's written in the word magnets. The key to the humour of fridge poetry word magnets is creating randomness which is offset against the fact that the reader knows that all the individual words are "normal" (as opposed to random). Random here refers to pseudo-surreal humour rather than "random" in the traditional sense.
With the letters, however, the bar is raised in that one has to create randomness but the reader cannot reference the words to anything else. Reading "squirrels use bad magic" written in the letters is not as funny because one reads the sentence as simply that, rather than four separate entities - the words - being placed together in an unusual setting.
The current favourite in the letters is "I use anthrax on cross dressing vagrant goat farmers".
This is also interesting as part of the appeal of fridge-based word games is that passers-by can rearrange the sentences and so (particularly with the single letters) the phrases written evolve over time and become shared by all the participants, rather than one person being the author, and so everyone creates something for everyone.
The above phrase evolved as follows...

I use ajax on my hair
I use ajax on my hairdresser
I use anthrax on my hairdresser
I use anthrax on cross dressers

and finally

I use anthrax on cross dressing vagrant goat farmers.

Note the use of a comedy animal, a device used by random humourists to increase the humour of a sentence. Adding one of these animals instantly makes a sentence funnier, for example - weasel, goat, badger, ocelot, vole... and (less funny) monkey, penguin etc.

Make of all this what you will. Reply to me!