A Shaggy Duck Story
Mar. 13th, 2011 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharplittleteethLast night I dreamt I was painting ducks.
Not just any ducks. Charles Darwin's ducks. The ones he bred, and that inspired his theories of evolution. Each painting was a portrait of a particular duck. Each painting also emphasised a particular evolutionary trait: the long neck, the pecten along the beak, the corkscrew shape of the penis.
I woke up in layers.
First layer: Hey. Cool. What a great idea. What a pity I don't paint.
Second layer: Hang on. Darwin didn't breed ducks. It was barnacles.
Third layer: Um. Why am I dreaming about painting ducks?
It took me a long time to answer that third question. Finally, I worked it out. I been listening to Amanda Palmer yesterday, and there's a line in one of her songs:
Art is great that way you can do anything
You can make pop music, you can paint ducks
Yes. This post is almost entirely content free. I bought Dragon Dictate the other day, and I'm just trying to learn how to use it.
My main problem with voice recognition software? I'm too self-conscious to actually use it.
*blushes*
Not just any ducks. Charles Darwin's ducks. The ones he bred, and that inspired his theories of evolution. Each painting was a portrait of a particular duck. Each painting also emphasised a particular evolutionary trait: the long neck, the pecten along the beak, the corkscrew shape of the penis.
I woke up in layers.
First layer: Hey. Cool. What a great idea. What a pity I don't paint.
Second layer: Hang on. Darwin didn't breed ducks. It was barnacles.
Third layer: Um. Why am I dreaming about painting ducks?
It took me a long time to answer that third question. Finally, I worked it out. I been listening to Amanda Palmer yesterday, and there's a line in one of her songs:
Art is great that way you can do anything
You can make pop music, you can paint ducks
Yes. This post is almost entirely content free. I bought Dragon Dictate the other day, and I'm just trying to learn how to use it.
My main problem with voice recognition software? I'm too self-conscious to actually use it.
*blushes*
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Date: 2011-03-13 10:50 am (UTC)Never under-estimate the power of Alan Moore.
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Date: 2011-03-13 11:04 am (UTC)