{"id":4621,"date":"2010-07-29T10:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2010-07-30T21:47:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T03:47:57","slug":"thorpian-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"Thorpian Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comic strip<em> Gil Thorpe<\/em> does a bang-up job of messing with the space-time continuum (in that a lot of the strips look as though they&#8217;ve fallen in a black hole and are being folded, spindled and mutilated into fantastic, utterly impossible dimensions).\u00a0 If you have a touchy tummy, this can make you a bit queasy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Worth<\/em> is more established in perceiving the here-and-now.\u00a0 People stand side-by-side.\u00a0 No &#8220;art&#8221; shots.\u00a0 No weird framing (that&#8217;s left to <em>9 Chickweed Lane<\/em> and <em>Pibgorn<\/em>).\u00a0 So when it <em>does<\/em> happen, with Mary hovering above Dr. Mike as he lies on his official psychiatrist couch, looking down on him as those God is parting the clouds and getting a gander at His creation below, it is even more disturbing than the current plot-line alone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4622\" title=\"not-mw-309\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/not-mw-309.jpg\" alt=\"not-mw-309\" width=\"625\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/not-mw-309.jpg 625w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/not-mw-309-250x74.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mary, please leave wacky perspective to the professionals.\u00a0 Or at least leave wacky <em>physical<\/em> perspective to the professionals &#8212; we know that you&#8217;re the inarguable master of wacky mental perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Some people prefer to comment, rather on non-Euclidean space, the sartorial splendor of an up-and-coming young psychiatrist:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4634\" title=\"new-mw5\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/new-mw5.jpg\" alt=\"new-mw5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/new-mw5.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/new-mw5-250x208.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then even some people with the patience of a saint, may feel a bit overwhelmed and need to call in reinforcements:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4635\" title=\"new-mw-32\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/new-mw-32-1024x176.jpg\" alt=\"new-mw-32\" width=\"1024\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/new-mw-32-1024x176.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/new-mw-32-250x43.jpg 250w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/new-mw-32.jpg 1075w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comic strip Gil Thorpe does a bang-up job of messing with the space-time continuum (in that a lot of the strips look as though they&#8217;ve fallen in a black hole and are being folded, spindled and mutilated into fantastic, utterly impossible dimensions).\u00a0 If you have a touchy tummy, this can make you a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-trail","category-maryworth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}