saoutchik

In!

Thanks Mags, I think opening with a poem is a first for Weekenders. They used to give out little round-tuit tokens at school for some sort of motivational thing (I can't be precise as I never got one)

I was at Trafalgar Square this morning. There is whipped cream and a cherry on one of the plinths, most odd.

biminiblue

Spoon, please! I'm assuming that's some sort of "art" installment?

This is the kind of weird WTH things you might see in Seattle...



I like the poem Mags. Who knew we had a poet in our midst?

Happy Sober October! Yay!?!?!

CaptainHaddock

I’m IN, thanks Mags and hi to everyone else.

Bim, what on earth are those things? Reminds me of blue bottles somehow.

Forwards

IN!

Thanks Mags for thread (and the poem...). Great to see the thread so lively already today. Hello all!

I'm highly amused by the whipped cream sculpture Sao - that one takes some beating. Anyway, I have errands to run... I'll check in properly when I have a moment... Forwards.

biminiblue

I have no idea. We don't even have blue bottles here. It's just indicative of the unfocused artistic direction that much of Seattle has. Like ADHD on acid or something. I mean, I can be pretty scattered and that doesn't even make sense to me.

Google our Museum Of Pop Culture....yeah.

Kaily

Thanks Mags.

Congrats Willow, 100 days and beyond...

Hello everyone.

They have been advertising this years Sober October as Soberish October which I find a bit triggering. The advert suggests that there is too much stress this year to go completely alcohol free!

Great whipped cream sculpture. Bim I think the Seattle art looks like dolpins.

Coldfusion

Look! I'm posting an image! These are at the train station in Seattle:


Artful signs at Seattle's King St. Station by Richard Eriksson, on Flickr

SoberLeigh

Thanks, Mags. Love your poem and your Round Tuit mask.

Cute video, andyh. That little guys agility and energy is quite enviable.

Good to see you here Phil and FinalCall.

Snoozy Glad you are here.

Have a great time with your daughter, MLD. Hope you get the scoop on her new life.

Someone has quite the sense of humor, Coldfusion!

Kaily, Soberish October - sigh. I wonder how many people have been pushed over the edge with this COVID business.

Sao, Bim, Dee, Captain, Forwards, Vman, Reid, Robbie, freedomfries, Willow, lunar

.lunar, Jobu looks great.

An October Full Moon tonight? I think so.

Love to all.

Phil71els

Bimini those things look like huge grotesque insect larve cocoons. Like for alien insects to hatch from.

biminiblue

Exactly my thought, Phil71els.

See, Coldfusion knows what I'm talking about.

Those signs at the train station are called art.


Where's PJ? He needs to come do an installation of a jar of grape jelly on a beach ball or something.

When he gets a round tuit.

saoutchik

The installation on the right of bit's photo looks like a whale tail (fin) which is associated with Seattle I guess.

Kaily

As part of an Art Installation 29 tonnes of carrots dumped on a London Street today.

biminiblue

OH!!

Could it be a seal? The left part looks like its head popping out of the water, and the right part is its tail...if you use quite bit of imagination, but I guess that's the whole idea behind art: creative imagination.

Or maybe the right part is a salmon jumping out of the water to escape the seal. I've seen that a time or twenty at the Ballard Locks. There are YouTube videos about the seals hunting at the locks.


Kaily

Robbie64

Hi SoberLeigh

I had to check this up to be certain but the full moon tonight makes it a Harvest Moon. Cue for a Neil Young song...

saoutchik

Thanks Robbie, one of Neil's finest.


I read about that in the Evening Standard. Maybe more artistically minded Weekenders than me might be able to understand better than I did what the artist said about it - "the artwork explores the tensions in visibility between the rural and the city."

SoberLeigh

Thanks, Robbie for the Neil Young son - Harvest Moon - time for a moonlit dance.

SoberLeigh

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Cityboy

Good news today, I guess. Hope I'm not breaking any protocol guidelines by putting this here, but though people would want to know. Certainly don't know much about it, but I had an email from the healthcare center my GP is with. As one of 90 health centers nationwide, they were selected to conduct phase three clinical trials for an investigational covid vaccine in this area and are seeking to enroll 1,000 adult participants. Also a phase three trial of an oral capsule investigating the treatment or prevention of viral respiratory infections, like coronavirus, influenza, and the common cold. I'm not one to rush into signing up for experimental drugs, but will be monitoring this in the coming days, and may try to contact my GP about it.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

SoberLeigh

That is exciting news, CityBoy. Thanks so much for letting us know.

I read that Advent Health has a successful treatment protocol called ICAM that they have utilized in COVID treatment; the article gave no statistics as to how many patients were treated but boasted a high treatment success rate. Hopeful news but the lack of statistics was a bit deflating. The article stated that Advent Health was going to begin some sort of trial.

I would be very willing to participate in a study that tested the effectiveness of drugs to prevent viral respiratory diseases. I will keep an eye out for studies in my area.

saoutchik

Way to go Cityboy, i'm glad there are public spirited people like you around that help benefit the many. Fingers crossed a vaccine is developed sooner rather than later.