Poetry Monday :: Contrast (Blogtober 13)

Kontrast ... det kan man sikkert spinde en ende over. Men det her digt, vel en slags taledigt eller rap, opstod nærmest af sig selv i mit hoved i går morges.

For flere år siden skrev jeg en "Omvendt bucket list" over hvad jeg allerede havde gjort, og en af dem var: "spille guitar i et country band". Vi sang også moderne protestsange og ballader. Den tid kom tilbag til mig, da dette vers dukkede op i går; det kunne vi godt have sunget ved en eller anden demonstration dengang.
     Verset har ikke vildt meget med kontrast at gøre - kun måske mellem hvordan vi synes verden burde være, og hvordan den faktisk er nu?

Lad os prise, lad os takke vores færdselsbetjent,
vi kan faktisk heller ikke være andet bekendt.
Han fik smadret sit knæ
og bankede ind i et træ,
men han stopped' idioten - en i forvejen kendt

Og nu ligger han og lider på et hospital,
mens "den  kendte" - idioten, som er bindegal
smadrer sin detention
og koster en million.
Hvordan pokker går det til at den her slutning er normal?

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Contrast ... you could probably spin a tale here. But this poem, more like a kind of rhythmically spoken lines or rap, just popped into my head yesterday morning.

A few years ago, I wrote a ‘Reverse Bucket List’ of things I'd already done, and one of them was: ‘Played guitar in a country band’. We also sang modern protest songs and ballads. That time came back to me with this verse yesterday morning; we could have recited it at some demonstration back then.
The verse doesn't have much to do with contrast – perhaps between how we think the world should be and how it is now?

Let us give to our traffic cop the praise that we own
Yes you have to do it - and if not you're made of stone
He smashed up his knee
and crashed into a tree,
but he stopped the drunken driver - who was previously known.

And now he's lying in an ICU,
while ‘the known one’ - the DUI - completely blew
smashes up his humble cell
costs a million and a bell.
How on earth did we end up with an ending this askew?


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taken from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group.

Oct 20 Side profile of a person
Oct 27 Journey between stars
Nov 3 Funeral
Nov 10 Dismembered
Nov 17 In a cave
Nov 24 Pot of tea for two

Elephant's Child once againSunday Selections ~ Søndagsbillede

This might very well be the strangest Sunday Selection I ever posted. But I'd like you to know, and I think Elephant's Child would agree.

Tomorrow, Monday 13th at 12 o'clock Canberra time Sue Goldberg, whom to most of us was known as Elephant's Child will be buried. Her burial will be livestreamed, see the link is below the obituary.

Please note that 12 o'clock Monday Canberra time is:
3.00 (3 am) Monday Paris time - my time, I won't join.
21.00 (9 pm) Sunday New York time
22.30 (10.30 pm) Sunday Newfoundland time.

Actually if you click the link, it will tell you when it is in your own time, that's quite helpful.

Sue's Funeral livestream LINK

Seeing Sue's birthday gave me a shock. She was only three years older than me!

And I do not know if this is blasphemous, inappropriate or a last nod from Elephant's Child to us, but the flower in her obituary also contains

Praise - and the opposite - for Blogger - Updated Ros - og det modsatte - til Blogger (Blogtober 11)

Det seneste stykke tid har jeg kæmpet ekstra meget med Blogger når jeg har skullet redigere billeder. Det er ikke altid billedredigeringsværktøjet popper op, når jeg klikker på et billede. Det er heller ikke altid, det virker
     Der er også andre særheder, mest i HTML-koderne, så dem vil jeg ikke trætte jer med.

Til gengæld bliver al spam nu sorteret fra og alle normale kommentarer går igennem. så jeg har fjernet min spam-meddelelse i toppen af siden.
     Det er jeg særligt glad for på Elephant's Child's blog, hvor jeg åbenbart som tilmeldt til kommentarer får revl og krat. Men alle spam-opslagene er der ikke, når jeg kigger. Flot! For der er ikke meget, der er mere deprimerende end en forladt blog, hvor kommentarfelterne er fyldt op af alverdens heksedoktorer, casinoer osv.

  -- ✅     ➗     🆗  -- 

Lately, I've been struggling a lot with Blogger when editing images. The image editing tool doesn't always pop up when I click an image. It doesn't always work either
  There are other quirks too, mostly in the HTML codes, but I won't bore you with those.

On the other hand, all spam is now filtered out and all normal comments go through. I have removed my Spam notification from my header.
  I'm particularly happy about this on Elephant's Child's blog, where I apparently get a notification e-mail about all comments after ticking the "notify me" box. But all the spam posts are gone when I look. Well done, Blogger! Because there's nothing more depressing in Blogland than an abandoned blog where the comment fields are filled up with witch doctors, casinos, etc.

And there I jinxed it. The first spammer got through. Do they really think we go there when they're spamming a loved one's blog?

Kikkoman (Blogtober 10)

Her i Uglebo spiser vi mad fra store dele af verden, også Japan, og en af de ting, jeg rigtig god kan lide, er at Kikkoman - dem der med soyaen - har lavet nogle særlige flasker med fine motiver på. Desværre opdagede jeg det lidt sent, så jeg har kun de tre seneste, men den fra 2023 passer altså lige nu.
     Se bare, gyldne ahornblade, der daler ned under fuldmånen og en gylden bro. Det bliver ikke meget mere efterårsagtigt.

In the Owlery we eat a lot of food from all over the world, also Japanese. One of the staples of my Japanese cooking is soy. And Kikkoman has made the perfect bottle.

For the last few years (since 2020), they have even made special editions of it. I was a bit slow finding out, I've got only the last three. But the one from 2023 is perfect for now. Golden maple leafs slowly falling under the full moon and a golden bridge - can it get any more autumny? 

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For øvrigt er denne flaske en af de bedste eksempler på designkunst, jeg har oplevet. Den er flot, stabil, rar at holde om og hælde af, den drypper ikke og er nem både at vaske op og fylde igen. Jeg troede det var et lykketræf, indtil jeg fandt det nedenstående på Kikkomans hjemmeside (mens jeg ledte efter "årgangsflaskerne")

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This bottle is by the way one of the best designed pieces, I ever saw. It is pretty, stable, easy to use, does not drip and is easy to clean and refill. I thought it was just happy chance until I discovered this piece of prose on Kikkoman's homepage (while looking for the limited edition bottles):

Celebrating our beloved dispenser
In Japan, until the late 1950s, soy sauce was usually sold in large 2-liter bottles. At home, people would have to pour it into small pitchers to use it as a condiment at the table. That process was awkward, and the pitchers would inevitably drip and make a mess at the table. 
   So, Kikkoman set out to create a modern solution to this centuries-old problem: a reusable, dripless dispenser that would make life easier for consumers. 
   The company hired a talented young man named Kenji Ekuan—who would eventually become one of Japan’s most famous industrial designers—to take on the challenge.
   Over the course of three years, Ekuan and his team developed nearly 100 prototypes until they finally found the solution: a perfectly balanced bell-shaped bottle with a flared opening that was easy to refill and a signature red cap with two spouts (one for soy sauce to pour out of, the other for air intake) that created a smooth, steady pour and put an end to the problem of dripping forever.
   The Kikkoman dispenser debuted in 1961 and went on to sell in the hundreds of millions.

(Dansk oversættelse, se helt til sidst)

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Bemærk venligst at Kikkoman's fine flaske og jeg er lige gamle. Jeg leder stadig efter den fødselsdagsflaske (som måske aldrig blev fremstillet) og de tre andre, der er vist nedenfor. 

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Please note that this bottle and I were born in the same year. I am still looking for the jubilee bottle - I do not even know if it was ever made - and the three others shown here below.

- - - - - - -  Oversættelsen - - -
Vi hylder vores elskede flaske
I Japan blev sojasovs indtil slutningen af 1950'erne solgt i store 2-liters flasker. Hjemme måtte man hælde den over i små kander for at kunne bruge den ved bordet. Det var besværligt, og kanderne dryppede og svinede bordet til.
   Derfor satte Kikkoman sig for at finde en moderne løsning på dette århundredgamle problem: en genanvendelig, drypfri flaske, der ville gøre livet lettere for forbrugerne.
   Virksomheden hyrede en talentfuld ung mand ved navn Kenji Ekuan – der senere skulle blive en af Japans mest berømte industrielle designere – til at tage udfordringen op.
   I løbet af tre år udviklede Ekuan og hans team næsten 100 prototyper, indtil de endelig fandt løsningen: en perfekt afbalanceret klokkeformet flaske med en udvidet åbning, der var nem at genopfylde, og en karakteristisk rød hætte med to huller (den ene til at hælde sojasovs ud af, den anden til luft), der skabte en jævn, stabil stråle og satte en stopper for problemet med dryp for altid.
   Kikkoman-flasken kom på markedet i 1961 og er solgt i millioner af eksemplarer lige siden.

Trying to enjoy Autumn ~ Forsøg på at nyde efteråret (Blogtober 9)

Blogtober og efterår.
     Jeg vil forsøge at bringe et positivt efterårsbillede hver dag, hvor der ikke foregår andet her på bloggen, For jeg har det altså stramt med efterår og kortere dage. I år prøver jeg virkelig på at kunne lide efteråret.
     Forleden fandt jeg denne her løber. Den skal bruges!

Blogtober and Autunm.

Every day where nothing else - like Poetry Monday, Words for Wednesday, or Sunday Selections - is happening on my blog, I am hopefully going to post a positive photo and text. This is hard, as I really do not like Autumn and shorter days. I'll try to stay positive and "hygge" this time around.

Some days ago I found this table runner in a second hand shop. I'll use it!

Og de er så lidt Månedens farve over det også ~~ Even matching the Colour of the month.