![]() Unfortunately due to the nature of the play in Wario Ware it all ends too quickly. It's this mishmash that makes Wario Ware such an adventurous, innovative and good game. Some areas of the game will be pixelated and simple other areas will include graphics that look like they were drawn in MS Paint and other areas will have beautiful 3D models and rich colours. Throughout the game also the visual style is constantly changing. These introductions are beautifully presented with a fresh, colourful cartoon vibe. Each time you pick a level you are treated to a nice little cartoon like introduction, teaching you more about the character. You then can take around the city in which Wario inhabits and take control of different residents. Smooth Moves follows a pretty shallow storyline that sees Wario discovering the “form baton" (which is the Wii Remote) and learning how to use it. While this can be pretty frantic the game does seem to lose a lot of the speed that was present in other versions of the game and while this is not a big problem it still leaves the game a little disappointing as pace is something that the Wario Ware series relies on. You are told which position to hold the remote in before a micro game pops up and this means that as the levels come faster and faster you will find yourself twisting the remote about in your hands trying to hold it in the right position. ![]() Most of the humour comes from the way you hold the remote which is not only immersive but also has you making crude actions with the whole of your body.Įach method of holding the remote is given a cheeky name such as “The Remote Control" (which has you holding the Wii Remote like a remote control) or “The Waiter" (which has you holding the remote flat on your hand) and more are taught to you as you progress through the game. In fact it's one of those rare games that attempts to be funny and succeeds wonderfully. Whether it has you dancing around the living room or hula-hooping you can ensure that you will laugh when you play this game. Smooth Moves is the funniest, most embarrassing version of the series to date. It's one of my favourite video game series' to date. If you've never played a Wario Ware game before you are probably thinking this series sounds shallow and pointless. All the actions will be prompted by a single word such as “Finish" (in relation to the running micro game) and “Pick" (in relation to the nose micro game). Or you will be required to push the remote forward and into a giant polygonal nose before time runs out. For example, one such game on Smooth Moves has you making a running motion with your arm in order to get your on screen counterpart (an athlete) to reach the finish line before time runs out. ![]() For those that have never played a Wario Ware game before it is a compilation of 5 or so second micro games that require small or singular actions to complete. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The militia murdered victims with machetes and rifles. Hutu gangs searched out victims hiding in churches and school buildings. ![]() Most of the victims were killed in their own villages or towns, many by their neighbors and fellow villagers. The scale and brutality of the genocide caused shock worldwide, but no country intervened to forcefully stop the killings. Genocidal killings began the following day when majority Hutu soldiers, police, and militia murdered key Tutsi and moderate Hutu military and political leaders. The catalyst became Habyarimana's assassination on 6 April 1994, creating a power vacuum and ending peace accords. In an effort to bring the war to a peaceful end, the Rwandan government led by Hutu president, Juvénal Habyarimana signed the Arusha Accords with the RPF on 4 August 1993. Over the course of the next three years, neither side was able to gain a decisive advantage. In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed mostly of Tutsi refugees, invaded northern Rwanda from their base in Uganda, initiating the Rwandan Civil War. The most widely accepted scholarly estimates are around 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsi deaths. Although the Constitution of Rwanda states that more than 1 million people perished in the genocide, the real number killed is likely lower. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias. The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() Regarding histology, 92% had squamous cell carcinoma, 6% had adenocarcinoma, and 1% had adenosquamous carcinoma. Thirty-five percent of patients had 1 prior line of treatment for recurrent or metastatic disease, and 65% had ≥2 prior lines. Eighty-one percent of patients were white, 14% were Asian, and 3% were black. “The approval of Keytruda in this indication is important news-and as an oncologist, it is exciting to see a much needed option made available to these patients,” added Monk.Īmong the 77 PD-L1-positive patients, the median age was 45 years (range 27-75), 32% had an ECOG performance status (PS) of 0, and 68% had an ECOG PS of 1. "Even with the many advances observed across gynecologic cancers, new treatment options have been lacking for previously treated patients with advanced cervical cancer,” Bradley Monk, oncologist with Arizona Oncology, medical director of US Oncology Research Gynecology Program and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Arizona’s College of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine, said in a statement. There were no responses reported for patients with PD-L1 expression of CPS <1. The median duration of response was not reached (range, 4.1-18.6+), and 91% of responders had a response duration of 6 months or longer. The ORR comprised a complete response rate of 2.6% and a partial response rate of 11.7%. The global, open-label, nonrandomized, multicohort, multicenter study evaluated pembrolizumab in patients with multiple types of advanced solid tumors who progressed on standard of care therapy.Īt a median follow-up of 11.7 months (range, 0.6-22.7), the overall response rate (ORR) was 14.3% (95% CI, 7.4-24.1) in 77 PD-L1-positive patients (CPS ≥1) previously treated with ≥1 line of chemotherapy in the metastatic setting. The FDA based its decision on data from 98 patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer enrolled in a single cohort in the phase II KEYNOTE-158 trial. The approval defines PD-L1 positivity as a combined positive score (CPS) of ≥1 as measured by an FDA-approved test. Presented at the 2023 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium December 5-9, 2023 San Antonio, TX abstract LBO1-01.The FDA has granted pembrolizumab (Keytruda) an accelerated approval for the treatment of patients with advanced, PD-L1-positive cervical cancer with disease progression on or after chemotherapy. Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab or placebo plus chemotherapy followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab or placebo for early-stage triple-negative breast cancer: updated event-free survival results from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-522 study. We clearly have a standard of care in neoadjuvant therapy with chemotherapy and pembrolizumab for patients with stage II and stage III triple-negative breast cancer. It seems to be the tumors around to train the immune system as to what the enemy is and launch that T-cell response to the cancer cells. What is interesting to see is, if you start immunotherapy after surgery, it seems to be ineffective. This time, chemotherapy and immunotherapy were given after surgery. If you also look at the wider context of, there was an interesting trial in patients with the same : stage II/III triple-negative breast cancer. I would hope that the 5-year data have demonstrated in a very clear way that the addition of pembrolizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy is the new standard of care for patients with stage II or III. The median EFS was not reached in either treatment arm (HR, 0.63 95% CI, 0.49-0.81). ![]() In the KEYNOTE-522 trial, the 60-month EFS rate was 81.3% (95% CI, 78.4%-83.9%) in patients who received pembrolizumab before and after surgery compared with 72.3% (95% CI, 67.5%-76.5%) in those who received matched placebo. He described the importance of training the immune system with neoadjuvant immunotherapy to launch a T-cell response to the cancer cells. Schmid, a medical oncologist at Barts Cancer Institute of Queen Mary University of London, suggested that beginning immunotherapy following surgery in patients with stage II or III TNBC does not appear to be as effective compared with initiating treatment in the neoadjuvant setting. CancerNetwork ® spoke with Peter Schmid, MD, PhD, about how 5-year event-free survival (EFS) data from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-522 study (NCT03036488) presented at the 2023 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)support neoadjuvant pembrolizumab (Keytruda) plus chemotherapy followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab as a standard of care in early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). ![]() ![]() ![]() Brilliantly, each enemy type destroyed using a finisher gives Lo Wang a unique “gore weapon”, an eccentric temporary killing machine of one kind or another. The new “finishers” superficially resemble the glory kills and chainsaw attacks from the recent Doom games but in practice work quite differently. Importantly, Shadow Warrior 3 has a number of interesting twists on familiar mechanics. Thanks in part to wall-running, the platforming is much faster than in Doom Eternal. Lo Wang could dash before the Slayer could, for example. For one thing, these two series have been in a complex dance of mutual influence for years. The alternation between platforming sections and arena battles is going to invite a deluge of comparisons with Doom Eternal, but Shadow Warrior 3 is far from a mere clone. The recruitment of new Asian voice actors is a welcome step in the right direction, however. As fantastical as the game is, some will find its borrowings from Chinese and Japanese culture to be overly stereotypical, including the music. These are excellent showcases for the game’s beautiful environments, crafted lovingly in Unreal Engine 4 and encompassing ruined temples, a frozen forest, and a collapsing dam to name a few. Between each fight there are short platforming sections which are fairly simple and often fast-paced. Deft use of these abilities can help a player cross large distances in a few seconds, and bring the hurt to enemies in a host of satisfying ways. Lo Wang is more mobile than ever he can slide, wall-run, double-jump, dash, and grapple. Each combat arena is hyper-kinetic splattery mayhem, and a thrill to play. Like everything else about the game, the story is straightforward but serves as a decent enough trigger for the action.Īnd what action. Delivered serviceably by new voice actor – and apparent 11th hour choice – Mike Moh, Lo Wang’s jokes are as hit and miss as ever. Writing has long been a weakness of the series, and Shadow Warrior 3 does little to change this. Lo Wang is compelled to team up with his former nemesis Orochi Zilla to find a way to defeat the beast and save what little remains of a fallen world. Far from having saved the world at the end of Shadow Warrior 2, he has in fact all but doomed it by accidentally releasing a vast, ancient and insatiable dragon. When the game opens, ninja mercenary Lo Wang is at a low ebb. Light and colour are used to impressive effect in the game’s environments. Fans of fast-paced shooters that emphasise mobility will find this to be one of the best FPS campaigns since Doom Eternal. ![]() There is no doubt, though, that what remains of Shadow Warrior 3 has a laser-like focus. ![]() While few are likely to miss the overcomplicated upgrade systems of the last game, the absence of multiplayer will likely result in some lost sales, and understandably so. This ruthless approach by the studio is likely to elicit strong and mixed opinions. The campaign itself is much shorter and far more focused than the meandering path of 2016’s Shadow Warrior 2, and clocks in at only around seven hours. Co-op, semi-randomised levels, loot mechanics, and a photo mode have all gone on the great bonfire of features. With a steely precision worthy of protagonist Lo Wang’s sword, they have taken a long look at their formula and cut away everything they deem nonessential. In effect, Flying Wild Hog has bet everything on the concept of “less is more”. The result is a startlingly stripped-down sequel that focuses exclusively on its short but sometimes glorious single-player campaign. Now that the long-delayed Shadow Warrior 3 is finally here, it’s clear that the developers have given the formula its most aggressive rework yet. With each new entry, the studio has felt free to make big changes. Over the last decade, Polish developer Flying Wild Hog has taken the Shadow Warrior shooter series originated by 3D Realms in 1997 and made it very much their own. ![]() ![]() You can't go wrong with little tiny islands, it's pretty cute to have the little tiny ones with like maybe a bush or like a little duck on it. If you have a big body of water on your island, building mini islands on the water is a great terraforming idea. So it's always nice to have water features around your island quite a few on this list will involve different forms of water features. If you have a large body of water on your island, you can use this little bit of the cliff and the waterfall to kind of connect to that, you can follow that water that's coming out of the cliff along to a bigger body of water which is a pretty good terraforming idea. Of course, you can just curve your cliff edges, so it's just the cliff but adding the little waterfall to it the little kind of stream in a way, build the bush just to make it feel a bit more natural and complete, you can even put items on there instead of the bush if you want to. This is a really good way to make the edges of your cliffs look a little bit less boring and plain. ![]() So basically what this is is creating a little circle using the water feature and it's kind of got a little bush on edge. ![]() Make the edges of cliffs look a little bit more interesting, maybe to connect them with large bodies of water or just make a cool little water feature. Top 10 Best Cliff Terraforming Ideas in Animal Crossing New HorizonsĮveryone has their own ways that they like to decorate their island, so we can't promise these will work for all of you, but we are hoping it can at least inspire a little bit to maybe help you get out there and start terraforming because there's not really much else to do right now on Animal Crossing New Horizons, so might as well go out there and make our islands look beautiful with some great terraforming ideas! Here we go over the top 10 best ACNH terraforming ideas and tips that hopefully can help you build unique islands obviously. Water several at once, and the next day you’ll have some new fully formed Gyroids to dig up.In Animal Crossing New Horizons, terraforming gives the player so much freedom and really can let you customize your island so it can look absolutely different than everyone else's. Twitter user AnaisElysium has a small area dedicated to burying Gyroids in the ground which can be accessed with the new fixed ladders. While you can’t technically ‘farm’ Animal Crossing: New Horizons Gyroids in the same way you can with food, setting up a little farm-like area to accommodate buried Gyroids and fragments ready for watering might be a nice idea. If for whatever reason the new food items and cooking just aren’t your thing, maybe you could try making a Gyroid farm. Since the windmills are quite small, Laineyyz has also used a popular perspective trick where objects are placed on varying levels and far away to make it look like the objects are at a more accurate scale. ![]() ![]() Paired with lots of other furniture, the windmills make the farm look busy and active too. Reddit user Laineyyz has created an American ranch-style farm that uses several of the new Nook Miles windmill item. Use the new windmill for a western ranch farm my_island_is_called_windmill_and_im_super_stocked from r/AnimalCrossing You could use the pergola as a flowery tunnel leading to and from your farm, or as a junction point in the center of your farm that leads to the different crops, with flower beds and topiaries lining paths to make them clearer. You can get topiaries, flower beds, and pergolas for your island, and combining them all will allow you to create some elaborate garden displays. There are lots of new Nook Miles furniture items available now that the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update is out, and you can use some of it create floral pathways in and around your farm. A post shared by Noodle & Rice photo posted by on ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heartbeat Opera questions inherited dramatic and musical traditions. Since 2016, Heartbeat has been presenting a pair of masterpieces in its annual Spring Festival, one each directed by Proske and Heard: Lucia di Lammermoor and Dido & Aeneas (2016) Carmen and Butterfly (2017) and Don Giovanni and Fidelio (2018). Through a series of original adaptations of classic works, Heartbeat has earned its reputation as the most vibrant opera company to emerge in New York City in recent years. All of them share a background as child performers who grew up singing and playing around the world, from Berlin’s Komische Oper to New York City Opera, their paths later converging as students at Yale University’s Schools of Drama and Music. This conviction is what drives Heartbeat’s desire to rejuvenate opera and to transform its recognized masterpieces from venerated relics into freshly challenging encounters.įounded by Co-Artistic Directors Louisa Proske and Ethan Heard, Heartbeat is led by Proske, Heard, and Co-Music directors Jacob Ashworth and Daniel Schlosberg. Opera is, at heart, a red-hot physical experience for performers and audiences alike - an artistic medium that articulates and confronts human passions with powerful immediacy. Visceral, radical, essential: Heartbeat Opera pinpoints the vital pulse that has animated this art form since its origins, seeking to reimagine its fusion of music and drama in boldly revelatory and liberating collaborations. ![]() After taking the leap to welcome new leadership last year, as our founders moved onto our Board, we are proud to report that Heartbeat “hasn’t skipped a beat,” and continues to push the boundaries, “demonstrating the strengths that make it so vital to New York’s opera scene” (New York Times). Heartbeat has collaborated with organizations such as Atlas DIY and A BroaderWay to bring opera education to young people in NYC, and during its west coast tour of FIDELIO was represented by the world class artist agency Opus 3 Artists. Heartbeat has been hailed across the national and international press, including in four features in The New York Times, in stories on CNN and the BBC, and in an ALL ARTS/WNET documentary: “Bracing-icy vodka shots of opera instead of ladles of cream sauce” (New York Times), “elegant and boisterous” (New Yorker), “fascinating and gorgeous” (Observer), “ingenious” (Wall Street Journal), “gripping and entertaining” (Opernwelt), “a flatout triumph” (Opera News). During the pandemic, Heartbeat took Lady M, its adaptation of Verdi’s Macbeth, online and sold out 32 Virtual Soirées, reaching 740 households across 5 continents it also created Breathing Free, a visual album, which was nominated for the 2021 Drama League Award for Outstanding Digital Concert Production. It staged the first ever opera performance on The High Line and has mounted its immensely popular, interdisciplinary Halloween Drag Extravaganza each year at iconic venues such as National Sawdust and Roulette. Heartbeat has shared its work at the Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Broad Stage, The Mondavi Center, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, and Chamber Music North West. In Tosca, a mostly Middle-Eastern cast braved the authoritarian censorship of an unnamed religious regime to tell their story. Carmen was set on the U.S./Mexico border and featured accordion, electric guitar, and saxophone. Fidelio featured a primarily-Black cast and more than 100 incarcerated singers from six prison choirs. Heartbeat adaptations, which can be seen as world premieres of classics, speak to the moment, here and now. In its first nine seasons, Heartbeat has presented fourteen fully-realized productions, often featuring new chamber arrangements and English translations. Grounded in the belief that excellent opera-making should build community and radiate beauty, we work toward an equitable and inclusive future for our art form, centered in love. Our new, interdisciplinary collaborations expand the boundaries of what opera can be. Heartbeat Opera creates incisive adaptations and revelatory arrangements of classics, reimagining them for the here and now. ![]() ![]() ![]() This allows for more space in the cabin while retaining compact dimensions.ĭamping duties are taken care of by a pair of MacPherson struts in the front, and a multilink system in the rear. The engine layout of this particular platform is transverse, which means that it has a front-wheel bias. The modular architecture lends itself well to many cars in the automaker's lineup, being able to feature front-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drivetrains. ![]() BMW's UKL platform is utilized by entry-level models in the German manufacturer's portfolio. A new five-door variation of the Cooper was also introduced when the third generation was revealed.īased on the BMW UKL1 platform, the MINI Cooper can be had as a 2-door, 3-door, and 5-door convertible or hatchback. The first few units started selling in the first half of 2014. The third generation of the MINI Cooper was revealed to the world in November of 2013. Fast, light-weight, and agile, the MINI Cooper redefines itself for the 21st century in style and pure driving fun. The Cooper comes alive with pure go-kart DNA via either a 1.5L inline 3-cylinder 12-valve turbo or a 2.0L inline 4-cylinder 16-valve turbo, fused to a 7-Speed Steptronic with Manual Mode. An array of cool entertainment and connectivity features are also present in the New MINI, and most can be managed via the car’s huge round center-mounted instrument panel. On-board, the Cooper seats four people in standard leather seats, and despite its small size, it still has ample head/legroom. Pulling heaps of inspiration from its predecessor, The MINI Cooper stands a bit taller and wider, yet still possesses that distinct “go-kart” aura its lineage is well known for. Set to be the Original Mini our grandfathers have to live up to, the New MINI sports a much more action-packed facelift with emphasis on driving fun and looking awesome at it. The MINI Cooper was once a simple back-to-basics car that is now an automotive icon of the new age. ![]() ![]() Authorize access to data when apps request it using new data protection.Feel secure knowing that the apps you use have been checked by Apple for known malware.Zoom in closely on one screen when using two displays for improved legibility with Zoom Display.Enable Hover Text to display large, high-resolution text in a dedicated window.Control your Mac entirely with your voice using Voice Control.Use your iPad or iPhone to sign a PDF or mark up a screenshot on your Mac.Create a sketch on your iPad or iPhone and insert it into any document on your Mac.Use Apple Pencil for tablet input when using your favorite creative pro Mac apps.Place one app on each screen, or put your main canvas on your Mac and your tools and palettes on your iPad.Expand your Mac workspace by using your iPad as a second display.Enjoy a new class of Mac apps built from your favorite iPad titles.Enjoy games across iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.Browse the latest games, personalized recommendations, and exclusive editorial content in the all-new Arcade tab on the App Store.Play 100+ groundbreaking new games with one subscription - no ads or additional purchases.Sync content and back up, update and restore software from the Finder when you connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac.Begin listening to an episode on your Mac, then seamlessly resume on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch when you’re on the go.Subscribe to your favorite podcasts to receive the latest episodes automatically.Find podcasts by title, topic, guest, host, and content.Start watching on one device and pick up where you left off on any of your other devices, including Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and compatible smart TVs.Subscribe to Apple TV channels to watch popular shows on demand and ad-free, online or off.Find all the music you’ve purchased, downloaded, or imported from CDs organized in the improved library.Access the iTunes Store to purchase songs or albums.Stream and download over 50 million songs with an Apple Music subscription.The result is incredible user experience. It has so many integrated features that give it a variety of functions and benefits. You can do all of this in the Notification Center. You can reply to email messages immediately, as well as manage your email conversations and FaceTime call responses. Interactive notifications let you conduct management tasks immediately. MacOS features a Notification Center that keeps you informed of any updates related to your Mac computer or other Apple devices. The Fast and Compatible with Mac Computers If you ever try to use this sensitive information on another Apple device, the data will synchronize with it. It all stays securely saved in the cloud. This information includes your passwords, credit card numbers, banking credentials, and so on. The iCloud has a Keychain utility that can store your most sensitive information and keep it secured. When the memory has inactive data in it, Compressed Memory will reduce the data automatically in order to speed up the computer. It can share documents too.Īnother cool feature of the OS is called Compressed Memory. Then all you need is an Apple ID to access those documents on any Apple computer or device. iCloud lets you synchronize your documents by saving them to the library of your iCloud account. It is fast and easy to switch between devices with the OS because of what iCloud can offer you. Patches don’t need to be downloaded and installed manually either. Apple verifies all the utility apps that are available in the store, so you can definitely trust their authenticity. ![]() Of course, you can always visit the Mac App Store if you’d like to download and install more apps onto your phone. Since these are all Apple-based applications, you don’t need to download any third-party apps. ![]() They can help you do things like organizing your calendar and contacts, conduct mathematical operations, write notes, send emails, receive emails, and surf the internet. 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![]() gif from the Rick James episode of Chappelle’s Show: Which made it even funnier when I found this old tweet from Odell, with a. I thought about Diogenes last night when I was watching David Shields’ excellent film, Marshawn Lynch: A History, with its clips of Joseph Campbell talking about the trickster and stand-up comedians like Dave Chappelle contextualizing the football player’s silence and refusals to engage with the media. He would walk backward through the city streets. One day Diogenes was seen making the rounds of the ornamented porticoes of Athens, begging alms from the public statues. “Govern men,” he replied, and told the crier to call it out in case anyone wanted to buy a master for himself. When he was captured by pirates after a shipwreck and put up for sale at a slave auction, the auctioneer asked him what he could do. When a rich man took Diogenes into his house and cautioned him not to spit on the rugs and furnishings since they were very expensive, Diogenes spat in the man’s face and explained that it was the only thing there cheap enough to spit on.ĭiogenes praised people who intended to get married, or go on a journey, or enter a profession, and being just about to do so, decided not to. When asked why, he replied, “This is the kind of thing I practice doing all the time.” When a play had just ended and the crowds were swarming out, Diogenes made his way into the emptying theater against the flow. ![]() One day Diogenes was seen sitting in the public square all afternoon gluing shut the pages of a book. In a 1983 issue of Artforum, Thomas McEvilley called Diogenes “arguably the great prototype for much performance art,” and reframed a selection of Diogenes stories as performance pieces, or “Performance Philosophy,” later collecting them into an artist’s book, Diogenes: Defictions. ![]() Diogenes said that if he weren’t Diogenes, he’d want to be Diogenes too.) Who was ultimately more powerful: the conqueror Alexander, who ruled the known world, or the philosopher Diogenes, whom Alexander could neither offer nor threaten with anything? (Alexander reportedly said that if he weren’t Alexander, he would want to be Diogenes. Tim Kreider asked in his essay, “ Power? No, Thanks, I’m Good”: Diogenes replied, “Yes, stand out of my light.” Finding Diogenes lazing in the sun, Alexander expressed his admiration and asked if there was anything Diogenes needed. There are also paintings of the time he dissed Alexander the Great, who had made it a point to visit this famous philosopher. Diogenes’s most notorious act was to roam through the city streets with a latern, looking for an honest man in paintings, he’s often shown with the lantern by his side, sulking inside a round terra-cotta tub while the life of the city goes on around him. Many people are familiar with “the man who lived in a tub,” scorning all material possessions except for a stick and a ragged cloak. Jenny Odell writes about Diogenes in the chapter “Anatomy of a Refusal” in her book, How To Do Nothing, examining him alongside performance artists, Thoreau ( Walden is much better if you think of it as performance art), Bartleby the Scrivener, and the comedian Tom Green. Here’s a comic not in the book, from King-Cat #70: (I would read a whole series of Porcellino comics based on his favorite philosophers: see his book, Thoreau at Walden.) The cartoonist John Porcellino had the brilliant idea to turn a handful of these punchlines into single-page comics in a section of King-Cat #68, which is collected in his book, From Lone Mountain. ![]() On one occasion he saw the son of a courtesan throwing a stone at a crowd, and said to him, “Take care, lest you hit your father.” He was begging once of a very ill-tempered man, and as he said to him, “If you can persuade me, I will give you something.” replied, “If I could persuade you, I would beg you to hang yourself.” Seeing some women hanging on olive trees, he said, “I wish every tree bore similar fruit.” If you read Diogenes Laertius’s The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, the stories about Diogenes of Sinope start to read like a joke book of one-liners: “Diogenes was the first, some might claim the best, stand-up comic.” ![]() |
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