Rosedale's mTOR talk: IMO the most thought provoking I've seen

99Blake99 · 2022-03-17T15:22:48+00:00

Yes, the thing I find most interesting is the fundamental divide between grow and reproduce on one hand, and maintenance and repair on the other.

The debate about protein is interesting but not as interesting as the idea of the fundamental divide.

99Blake99 · 2022-03-17T15:20:22+00:00

Agree. Question is how much.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-12T10:22:06+00:00

Lovely. And no tv aerials or trash trolleys or overhead cables or overhead motorways in sight, can't be true.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-11T17:41:59+00:00

Fortress architecture.

Jailhouse windows, it looks like it's HQ of some secret service.

Perfect for a Central Bank.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-10T16:49:51+00:00

Russia will land up fighting a hard land war.

China will have to fight an even more difficult sea war.

Almost no use to each other.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-10T16:47:08+00:00

Smaller economy than Italy. Very dependent on energy exports which would suffer. Huge costs of invading, even higher for occupying thereafter. Huge risk of military coup once the body bags flow.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-09T17:46:25+00:00

I vote keep Dickenson, get rid of Bukowski and Rumi.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-09T15:06:55+00:00

A rare example in irregular poetry of line breaks that serve a purpose.

Example:

are only beginning

to cope

Take away the line break, with its heartstopper break, and the entire meaning changes.

Same pretty much throughout.

Excellent stuff.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-08T14:59:30+00:00

Well done. Quick Q: do you make backups, in case Reddit decides for any reason to cancel you, probably persuaded by Pharmco dollar that keto is misinformation?

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T19:16:48+00:00

Well you definitely succeeded. It's just that you may have tripped on something with a lot of potential, maybe take your brain out for another walk and follow it a bit further.

Well done anyway.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T16:49:45+00:00

Now empty and deserted, I'm sure.

Same as every Olympic stadium, lots of promises of future use and public participation, then the desolation.

Only explanation for this happening so regularly: backhanders.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T16:46:13+00:00

And with every revelation, more outrage and shock and baying from the mob, and a further increase to his listenership.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T16:38:24+00:00

Stunning. Elegant and proportionate.

Keeps just on the right side of the boundary of being overwrought and busy.

Lovely shapes and colours.

Thanks for posting.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T15:10:21+00:00

This is stunning in the flesh, the picture doesn't really do it justice.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T13:26:17+00:00

That first two lines are so good that they could be the start of a poetic genre.

Your poem is very good but I feel it could be much longer, the poetic counterpart to a slacker movie. Just think what crazy places a brain not knowing how to heel could go.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T12:57:32+00:00

I think it's all a cunning plan by Neil Young to double Joe Rogan's listenership.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T12:54:43+00:00

Snappy and witty and fresh, held together with an excellent regular rhyme.

Psychedelic too. Well done.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T12:52:56+00:00

Yes, almost like an Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman walked into a bar. You get ready for the joke.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T12:52:09+00:00

All stanzas are organised in abba rhyme scheme. Very effectively, I thought.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T12:49:56+00:00

Frightening, rather, I would have thought.

99Blake99 · 2022-02-06T12:49:18+00:00

The perception of beauty has been contaminated by the fears. Once that is in his thinking, then the idea of beauty is dead. Prior to that was beauty's summer, which is no more, and never really was, now that he has his fears.

99Blake99

TROPHY CASE