Mid-Morning Open Thread [CBD]

The Scream
Edvard Munch

No, this is not a painting of how we all feel about this year's presidential election...

Well....maybe a little.....

Thread posted by Y-not for CBD.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:30 AM

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1 *waves at Horde*

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 14, 2016 10:32 AM (1xUj/)

2
Willowed. Argh!!

Posted that The Romeo Section is returning for a Season 2. It's about chinese espionage in Canada. Very good. Lot's of sex.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 10:38 AM (iQIUe)

3 Nude Recriminations Thread

Posted by: Grump928(C) Native Texan and Alabama Alumn, twice as smug as you at May 14, 2016 10:39 AM (rwI+c)

4 The media is the message.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2016 10:40 AM (u82oZ)

5 For me, that's a standard response to everything. Not just the elections.

Posted by: Commissar M at May 14, 2016 10:41 AM (vcIHi)

6 Caption: "OMG! Where are my ears??"

Posted by: mindful webworker - arte critique at May 14, 2016 10:43 AM (Y5LDn)

7 Edward Munch didn't do much as a painter but he went on to rake in a fortune licensing Halloween masks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2016 10:45 AM (sl+zA)

8 I'll just stay down here, actually. Thread above is likely to cause me to simulate Tourettes with great accuracy.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 14, 2016 10:46 AM (D0J8L)

9 Guys just realized that Ryan and McConnell intend to loot the treasury for their crony donors before 20 Jan 2017!

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 14, 2016 10:46 AM (wYnyS)

10 So have we hit Peak Doom when it comes to art?

More sweet art?
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/selection-du-weekend-192-34.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2016 10:48 AM (oEYRe)

11 Color me shocked: Those windmills, Prius' (Prii?), Teslas and closing down of the coal industry are really starting to payoff. There's a cold front ripping across the Midwest now, it's 48 windy degrees here in The Gateway City. Typically 70's, 80's and 90's in mid May here, and I have usually run the AC at least once or twice. I think AlGore jammed on the brakes a little too hard.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 14, 2016 10:49 AM (SeD0w)

12 More sweet art?
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/selection-du-weekend-192-34.jpg

Thus illustrating where much of my body mass originated.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 14, 2016 10:49 AM (D0J8L)

13 That article below about abandoning all economic sense over 160 years of science is actually misleading. They aren't even basing it on science. They're basing it on a hardcore agenda.

Almost all of the data (by an overwhelming amount) is northern hemisphere. We have virtually no weather data history from the southern hemisphere. There's less than a dozen weather stations south of the equator.

Further, the data has been tweaked and doctored repeatedly by guys like Hanson who are downgrading old temperature information and upgrading modern. They "average out" areas of rural and urban, by moving the rural temperature stations to read like the urban ones. The entire process is a ridiculous scam.

And what's most obnoxious is that the people who cry "weather, not climate!" when its cool or rainy, scream "proof of climate!" when its hot and dry.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 14, 2016 10:49 AM (39g3+)

14 Speaking of art, someone bought one of the dog book mugs my kid drew! Yay! That's one dollar into her college fund!

She also drew a great Ace card poster (no I don't know why) which I have to figure put how to upload onto a tee design properly.

Posted by: @votermom at May 14, 2016 10:50 AM (7lVbc)

15 Well my fellow Morons...

Out of here to go shopping.

If the Naval Academy shows up on the news, it wasn't us.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 14, 2016 10:50 AM (ptqRm)

16 In 1940, the Germans invaded Norway and the Nazi party took over the government. Munch was 76 years old. With nearly an entire collection of his art in the second floor of his house, Munch lived in fear of a Nazi confiscation. Seventy-one of the paintings previously taken by the Nazis had been returned to Norway through purchase by collectors (the other eleven were never recovered), including The Scream and The Sick Child, and they too were hidden from the Nazis.[90]

Munch's grave at Vr Frelsers gravlund, Oslo
Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday. His Nazi-orchestrated funeral suggested to Norwegians that he was a Nazi sympathizer, a kind of appropriation of the independent artist.[91] The city of Oslo bought the Ekely estate from Munch's heirs in 1946; his house was demolished in May 1960.[92]

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I'm suspicious of the nazi send off. Then again, he was 80 so maybe his mind was going or her relatives were nazi twats.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 10:52 AM (iQIUe)

17 Anna, it is always nice to see your name in the morning.

Anytime, really.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2016 10:54 AM (ry34m)

18 The entire process is a ridiculous scam.

Hell yes: I've seen the pictures of weather station sending units placed directly in front of cooling tower exhaust fins, as well in thermal hot box, southern exposure brick heat wells. It's all BS.
BTW, anyone know what's happening w/Steyn v Mann? I look at his site fairly often, but the suit seems to be dormant.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 14, 2016 10:58 AM (SeD0w)

19 Can you believe that I didnt win MegaMillions last night? Yeah, I know, the injustice. Anyway, PB is a measly 50 mil which translates to around 20 mil after taxes. It would suit me just fine. All I want is a new car and house. No ginger islands for me.

I like to follow celebrity real estate and it has gotten nuts. Everyone is dumping property and inflated prices. Pretty sure this is 2008 all over again. Only in LA will someone try to sell a not so great house with no pool for 2-3 million bucks.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 11:02 AM (iQIUe)

20 This painting was stolen in both 1994 and 2004 but was recovered not long after in each case (in 2006 it took them 2 years).

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 14, 2016 11:03 AM (39g3+)

21 This painting was stolen in both 1994 and 2004

Help me understand stealing an iconic painting like The Scream. Unless you're holding it hostage, you can't do anything except go to jail.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 14, 2016 11:06 AM (SeD0w)

22 The money in stolen art is returning it for money.

Shame on the scandis for not learning from the first time it was stolen.

PUT THE LUTEFISH DOWN!!!!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 11:07 AM (iQIUe)

23

ONE TIME AT MUNCH CAMP I PAINTED A PICTURE OF MY DOLLY SCREAMING, ON THE INSIDE OF MY EYELIDS. SHE KEEPS IDI AMIN FROM MOVING INTO MY LEFT MAXILLARY SINUS. THE BOT FLIES LIVE ON THE RIGHT SIDE, SO HE CAN'T GET ME THERE, HAHA!

Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE PHANTOM SHARTER at May 14, 2016 11:09 AM (KId5h)

24 I just screamed maself on the dolphin/mermaid thingie...
but claimed it woz seagull poop...my case comes up NEVER

Posted by: saf at May 14, 2016 11:10 AM (+zN6H)

25
MIRROR UNIVERSE PHANTOM SHARTER, I wouldn't dream of arguing with that.

Posted by: iforgot at May 14, 2016 11:12 AM (5o5ek)

26 In case you didn't see my link in the previous thread, Watt's Up With That has taken on the global warming death spiral graphic:

https://tinyurl.com/j9hwpfe

Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2016 11:13 AM (sdi6R)

27 Harry Harrison wrote a couple of spy thrillers based around an art expert.

One of the stories had to do with authenticating in view of purchasing a lost Italian masterpiece that was supposed to have been destroyed in WW2, in Argentina, and an old man in a wheelchair who strenuously insists that he is not Adolf Hitler and does not have late stage syphilis.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2016 11:13 AM (ry34m)

28 No, this is not a painting of how we all feel about this year's presidential election...

Well....maybe a little...or a lot.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2016 11:18 AM (3wHFl)

29 "Help me understand stealing an iconic painting like The Scream. Unless you're holding it hostage, you can't do anything except go to jail."
__________________________
Its "Modern Art", the thief was engaged in a public service!

Posted by: Old codger at May 14, 2016 11:18 AM (fpd99)

30 "No, this is not a painting of how we all feel about this year's presidential election...

Well....maybe a little...or a lot."
___________________________

A lot if you side with CarpetMunchers R Us!

Posted by: Old codger at May 14, 2016 11:20 AM (fpd99)

31 Not that I'm into art theft, but wondered the same Who wants this famous painting?
I guess there are people who would love to collect things like this, not unlike having a person locked up never allowing them out or anyone to see them.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2016 11:21 AM (3wHFl)

32 Mrs. Muse is on the East Coast visiting family, so for the last couple of days, I've been here alone and unsupervised.

She
doesn't care for really loud music, but I've downloaded that YouTube
video ace linked to the other day, "Ain't No Rest For The Triggered".

I've been listening to it several times a day with the audio cranked up high. It's meant to be listened to loud.

That song kicks serious ass.

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 14, 2016 11:22 AM (BbOP8)

33 Fun fact: "The Scream" was painted shortly after the massive explosion of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883. The dust suspended in the atmosphere turned morning and evening skies all over the world bright red for years.

Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2016 11:23 AM (sdi6R)

34 31 Not that I'm into art theft, but wondered the same Who wants this famous painting?
I guess there are people who would love to collect things like this, not unlike having a person locked up never allowing them out or anyone to see them.
Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2016 11:21 AM (3wHFl)
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The museum and the people of Norway wanted it back. Again, most art is stolen in order to ransom it back to the owners. [I've watched a lot of documentaries on art heists.]

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 11:27 AM (iQIUe)

35
"What is it about art theft we can't resist?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkTtaCbwyhA

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 11:29 AM (iQIUe)

36 I've seen the pictures of weather station sending units placed directly in front of cooling tower exhaust fins, as well in thermal hot box, southern exposure brick heat wells.

That was how I found Watt's Up With That: his photo essays of weather stations and their often incompetent if not deliberately misleading placement.

Help me understand stealing an iconic painting like The Scream. Unless you're holding it hostage, you can't do anything except go to jail

Most pieces like this that are stolen end up in private collections, in mansions etc. Some are just stored away and looked at privately. The British recently busted a guy who had like a thousand paintings Nazis stole in his attic, his dad took them and kept them.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 14, 2016 11:29 AM (39g3+)

37 In high school, Edvard's classmates taunted him with the nickname "Butt Munch."

Posted by: fly gal at May 14, 2016 11:29 AM (/whI3)

38 >> Fun fact: "The Scream" was painted shortly after the
>> massive explosion of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG70rsLUjfQ

And just a reminder: Krakatoa is not, in fact, east of Java.

Posted by: JEM at May 14, 2016 11:31 AM (o+SC1)

39 And just a reminder: Krakatoa is not, in fact, east of Java.
Posted by: JEM at May 14, 2016 11:31 AM (o+SC1)

Well, technically it is.

Posted by: Ferdinand Magellan at May 14, 2016 11:34 AM (ry34m)

40 [I've watched a lot of documentaries on art heists.]
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!

So that's what you're going with? Just happened to see it on TV?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 14, 2016 11:35 AM (1xUj/)

41 He heard about it from... a friend, too

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 14, 2016 11:39 AM (39g3+)

42 In many cases the weather stations were placed decades ago, and the urban "heat islands" grew up around them.

Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2016 11:39 AM (sdi6R)

43 So that's what you're going with? Just happened to see it on TV?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 14, 2016 11:35 AM (1xUj/)

Which is probably better than what I got:

Me: Honey, we can improve our health by having sex three times a day.

Mrs. Muse: So who told you that?

Me: Highly reputable scientific authorities.

Mrs. Muse: oh, you mean some guy on the internet.

Me: You always make things sound so negative.

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 14, 2016 11:40 AM (BbOP8)

44 This is how millennials look when they discover there is no safe space in the real world.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2016 11:42 AM (08Znv)

45 >> In many cases the weather stations were placed decades
>> ago, and the urban "heat islands" grew up around them.

And/or they're at airports which is appropriate for their use in aviation - where the conditions on the vast expanses of concrete matter if you're flying into/out of those expanses - but not in the broader area.

Posted by: JEM at May 14, 2016 11:43 AM (o+SC1)

46 In many cases the weather stations were placed decades ago, and the urban "heat islands" grew up around them.

Right, so it wasn't deliberate, its just irresponsible to keep using the data and not move them. But leaving them in place helps that sweet, sweet grant money coming and helps the agenda along.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 14, 2016 11:45 AM (39g3+)

47 So that's what you're going with? Just happened to see it on TV?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 14, 2016 11:35 AM (1xUj/)
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Yeah, what do art historians, museum managers, leo who specialize in art theft, and the thieves themselves know?

The doc I linked to is very good. There are numerous documentaries on art theft and they are good, too.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 11:54 AM (iQIUe)

48 There's only one way for me to overcome my existential angst and despair. I want gangs of barbaric goat fucking Muslims to rape, beat, and behead me. It'll help take my mind off things, so to speak.

Posted by: Edvard Munch at May 14, 2016 11:54 AM (hSjsk)

49 Oregon Muse, talk about triggering words I suddenly remembered this skit

https://youtu.be/MYP1OBZfFK0

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2016 11:55 AM (oEYRe)

50 Kindltot, thanks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2016 11:58 AM (oEYRe)

51 Yeah, what do art historians, museum managers, leo who specialize in art theft, and the thieves themselves know?

Yeah, its other guys that you learned from *wink wink* we understand.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 14, 2016 12:02 PM (39g3+)

52 Daredevil S2. Better than S1 - but that's not saying much.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at May 14, 2016 12:02 PM (m5xM0)

53 49 Oregon Muse, talk about triggering words I suddenly remembered this skit

https://youtu.be/MYP1OBZfFK0

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2016 11:55 AM (oEYRe)

Heh. Mrs. Muse's first stop on her Excellent East Coast Adventure was Pittsburgh.

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 14, 2016 12:03 PM (BbOP8)

54
There was a series called Art of the Heist that lasted a couple of seasons. The most interesting was the one called Chasing Cezanne. Some old money genteel rich living in the country had their uninsured Cezanne stolen. Owner said he couldnt afford to insure it. No real security, either. It wasnt a well kept secret that he owned it in the little town. He's been approached several times by unsavory types trying to sell it back but the deals always fell thru.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 12:08 PM (iQIUe)

55 I see the Saturday the 14th bloodbath is underway.

Jason with a machete. Hungover, but not dead.

Posted by: Fritz at May 14, 2016 12:16 PM (f40FU)

56
Just for fun, here are some DoD courses on cybersecurity. It's Defense not State, but I'm sure they're equivalent.

See how many of Hillary's violations you can find!

http://iatraining.disa.mil/eta/cyberchallenge_v3_fy15/launchPage.htm

http://iatraining.disa.mil/eta/ma-srleaders/launchpage.htm

Posted by: iforgot at May 14, 2016 12:29 PM (5o5ek)

57
The political thread is kicking this thread's ass!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 12:29 PM (iQIUe)

58 I have been looking for the counterpart of the Niagra sketch, the WC Fields' segment where he is talking about how he pulled out his trusty bowie knife and carved his way through a wall of living flesh, dragging his canoe behind him.

WC Fields's slapstick was so measured, so slow, so full of tension it used to drive me frantic.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2016 12:31 PM (ry34m)

59 52 Daredevil S2. Better than S1 - but that's not saying much.
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at May 14, 2016 12:02 PM (m5xM0)
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Ace hated S1. I liked it. But he loved S2. The Punisher is getting his own spin off series so that shd be fun.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 12:33 PM (iQIUe)

60 Yikes. Do not go Up Above, people.

Do. not. go. there.

Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2016 12:40 PM (2WwbN)

61 Do we have the book reading thread before we get the Pet Thread?

Posted by: Weasel at May 14, 2016 12:46 PM (e3bId)

62 That painting reminds me of Obama when the chickens come home to roost.

Posted by: MsYoung at May 14, 2016 12:47 PM (qM6DS)

63
I'm in pig heaven. I found 3 documentaries on Greek Art that I dl a year ago and forgot about. It also features one of my favorite art historians, Alaistair Sooke.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 12:47 PM (iQIUe)

64 61 meant the gardening thread, not the book thread. I'm so stupid.

Posted by: Weasel at May 14, 2016 12:50 PM (e3bId)

65 Gardening thread is up. Thank heavens.

Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2016 12:52 PM (2WwbN)

66 Gardening thread not the one you warned about?

Posted by: Weasel at May 14, 2016 12:53 PM (e3bId)

67 No, the political thread is what was giving me nightmares.

Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2016 12:54 PM (2WwbN)

68 That's why I like the pet thread. I wonder when it will go to shit and the dog people and the cat people lose their minds and start hurling insults.

Posted by: Weasel at May 14, 2016 12:57 PM (e3bId)

69 I find the pet thread too depressing.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 14, 2016 01:00 PM (iQIUe)

70 When the cats and dogs start living together. We were warned about this in Ghostbusters.

Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2016 01:00 PM (2WwbN)

71 69 it's getting that way - everyone seems compelled to tell the story about how their favorite pet was run over or died in a fire or whatever. I need one, small, happy, nice dependable thing in my week.

Posted by: Weasel at May 14, 2016 01:03 PM (e3bId)

72 Even the cooking thread was depressing last week. Your worst meal ever? On Mother's Day? Blech.

We need Fenelon to come along with a Happiness thread.

Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2016 01:04 PM (2WwbN)

73 70 I solved that problem by getting a dog that our two cats can beat up. The dog is pretty well behaved around them.

Posted by: Weasel at May 14, 2016 01:04 PM (e3bId)

74 And looks like I killed the gardening thread.

Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2016 01:05 PM (2WwbN)

75 72. Yeah, and just think - these are the good old days.

Posted by: Weasel at May 14, 2016 01:06 PM (e3bId)

76 You sure know how to cheer a gal up.

Think I'll go do some laundry and ironing.

Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2016 01:07 PM (2WwbN)

77 I need to head back downstairs to the reloading room.

Posted by: Weasel at May 14, 2016 01:08 PM (e3bId)

78 We shall meet again in Phillipi.

Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2016 01:09 PM (2WwbN)

79 AT Phillipi, I should say. Rats. Ruined my exit.

Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2016 01:10 PM (2WwbN)

80 I hate when that happens.

Posted by: Weasel at May 14, 2016 01:12 PM (e3bId)

81 Well, I was in a hurry. Being pursued by a bear.

Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2016 01:16 PM (2WwbN)

82 Completely understandable. You're really lucky to have posted at all.

Posted by: Weasel at May 14, 2016 01:26 PM (e3bId)

83 Well, I got the front yard done. Now on break. Looks like I have another couple of hours before the rain gets here.

Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2016 01:37 PM (sdi6R)

84 The gardening thread is probably my least favorite thread around here. It sounds too much like work.

What, it's not enough that I have to mow the lawn? You expect me to do other things Outside as well? Fuck that noise.

Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2016 01:41 PM (sdi6R)

85 They need to use electrified fences around the decks of cruise ships to help keep the drunk fools from falling off. Or something. Your chances of falling off of a cruise ship deck are about the same as winning the lotto probably. Let'em swim for the beach and save all that aviation gas and rescue crew stress and danger. It's got to be a Darwin thing.

Posted by: goon at May 14, 2016 01:50 PM (WCaSy)

86 I was building a roof!

Posted by: little bill at May 15, 2016 12:10 AM (AG7GB)

87 get rid of her and I will will talk,

Posted by: you yous'd at May 15, 2016 12:12 AM (AG7GB)

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