Perhaps some of you are familiar with Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” cards, which he and cohorts developed as a way of getting past obstacles, creative blocks, etc. in the studio.
They have since become legendary cult items, ripe for exploiting. Besides, they’re a little too “oblique” for me.
Consequently, I present you with “Obscure Methods,” an alternative deck of virtual oracular wisdom-dealing thingies. It is a customary deck of 52 cards.
Think on your question; meditate, contemplate, obfuscate. You can coruscate or masticate too if you think it’ll help. Then pick a number between 1 and 52 to draw your virtual card. Go!
Just Some Guy: But you see, I’m the joker. (Also the smoker. The midnight toker, however, is somebody else.)
Card 31: No user-serviceable parts.
Remember to take these metaphorically, and apply them in a larger sense. For instance, “no user-serviceable parts” is a sign we all see on electronic devices, telling us that there is nothing that we ourselves can do to mend it; and many of us know this to be patently false.
[Bill and Ted] “Sixty-nine, dude!” [/Bill and Ted]
Well, it’s a standard deck of 52. So, if you weren’t joking, I could reduce the number “69” for you through simple numerology, or Gematria, or something.
