H2Omeloncholy: waiting for gourd...Oh

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Karl Marx defines commodity as:

"...an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind..." **

The surrealist's say - currently - remains unsubstantiated.
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The Densuke watermelon, notable for its ebony rind, is the rarest 'known' in the melon family. Grown exclusively on the island of Hokkaida in Northern Japan, each harvest yields only a few. In 2008, that 'few', in its first harvest, numbered sixty-five. Amongst them, a stellar, seventeen-pound specimen of melon grandeur sold (now, peep this, gentlesoulfolk) at auction...uh huh...for the approximate yen equivalent of $6100 US dollars. Such earned the elite gourd the rites to the label, "most expensive watermelon on record". More recently, just two weeks ago, another sale went halfsies on the record with the impressively ludicrous sum of about $3100. According to a June 20 post on the website, Farming & Agriculture, that price has remained fairly 'stable' in this range at the 2011-2012...eh-hem...auctions.

Reportedly, the saying: "The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice" applies as well to the Densuke. It is apparently prized for a stimulation of the sweet tooth that trumps your standard watermelon.

Contrast the fortune of the black-skinned Densuke to the fate of the nameless cover guy for the August 9, 1937 LIFE magazine. Curious how much each melon - upon which he is not only perched but rides - may have garnered at market and what, of that, may have been his share.

'Back to the future': where another culture of color 'bids' on post-melon. And no POST in jest, gentlesoulfolk, but real deal POST - even black-skinned instead of 'monetary' green-stripped. Just gets sweeter by the post-minute - inadvertently. Notably, melon grows most wild when inadvertently watered. Nevadaless, the Western, historical H2Omeloncholic™ connotation - neither or both pre n' post - inadvertently makes annual Eastern auctions one-act, absurdist plays with which an imagined mentee-of-color of Samuel Beckett may have tinkered until tired...of dissOrientalism.

"Inadvertent" sho' did play its po' self out in that paragraph. Guess we should go on and add it to the list of synonyms for H2Omelonchoy™.

Perhaps one's over-active imagination can rest for a brief spell. We were there. Maybe as mentors ourselves. Present and accounted for in da original movement. Artist, writers, thinkers. And here still. Keepin' it (sur)real...

** One fully appreciates Marx's definition of commodity for its relevance to this 'post'. One may just - or probably may not - facetiously entertain a neo or h2.0 ideology. If so, one would not advocate such under oath, on Earth. (Now, Mars? Eh...) Besides, another Marx quote is wiser - thaz Groucho, though, not Karl:

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."

This leaves the relationship 'twixt ideological Isms no less riveting. One's interest, however, in sharing another blog's literary criticism is the focus of editors, Rosemont and Kelley, on actual absurdists of ethnic origin across our globe. Peep the title of their work: Black, Brown, and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and Across the Diaspora.

Further, please note the year of the LIFE cover and the decade for surrealism's rise, affirmed - as elsewhere - in the provided link. **

http://criticismetc.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/surrealism-and-the-non-white-world/

a clever as compassionate critique

on the implausibility of

POSTness

Til our next 'post', feast upon produce in season...

CV

Thursday, July 4, 2013

waiting for gourd...Oh

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