Jiggs the Chimp as Ollie's evolutionary predecessor in
the Laurel and Hardy film Dirty Work, (dir. Lloyd French 1933)
Sometimes, people tell me they would like to begin writing a blog. But when I ask what's stopping them from doing so, they reply: I have nothing to say.
Having nothing to say, however, didn't prevent some truly great artists from producing some very interesting work; one thinks, for example, of Cage and Beckett, both of whom illustrate the crucial function of silence and how you can build upon or radically foreground nothingness: click here.
One thinks also of Seinfeld - a show famous for being about nothing: click here.
And one remembers also Oliver Hardy's refusal to be fazed by or comment upon events in the classic short film Dirty Work (1933). Even when he is devolved into a chimpanzee after falling into a vat containing Prof. Noodle's rejuvination solution, Ollie still has nothing to say: click here.
If, after explaining all this, any would-be blogger still feels at a loss for words, then I advise them to stick with posting pictures of their cat on Instagram.
