Support




Contact
Ace:
aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com
CBD:
cbd.aoshq at gee mail.com
Buck:
buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
joe mannix:
mannix2024 at proton.me
MisHum:
petmorons at gee mail.com
Powered by
Movable Type





Mid-Morning Open Thread

violetgreenred.jpg

Looking For Violet, Green And Red
Mark Rothko

Against my better judgement and everything I hold dear about art, and certainly in violation of my political philosophy and my desire for the future of our society, I sort of like this piece. It's not great art, and I would certainly take seriously the notion that it isn't art at all, but rather, interesting graphic design. But it is more pleasing than any other piece I have seen by him.

I mean, meh, it's no Rothko, but still...

And a comment from a Moron (ette?) who prefers to remain anonymous...

What is it supposed to be? Looks like a window looking out at a stream with rocks. Painted by my 5-year-old.

Posted by: CBD at 10:30 AM




Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 First?

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:22 AM (Enq6K)

2 nd

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 24, 2017 10:23 AM (ul9CR)

3 lucky guess

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 24, 2017 10:23 AM (ul9CR)

4 A schmear?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 24, 2017 10:23 AM (vV/gB)

5 Nice colors.

I'll give you $12 for it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:23 AM (zc3Db)

6 great colors

Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:23 AM (0O7c5)

7 Where have you been. We were getting worried. Well, some were.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2017 10:23 AM (kTF2Z)

8 Proof that every artist has an audience, somewhere.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 24, 2017 10:24 AM (e0oH/)

9 Enhancify!

Posted by: East Valley AZ at May 24, 2017 10:24 AM (PbH71)

10 5
Nice colors.



I'll give you $12 for it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:23 AM (zc3Db)
i'll make one for you for $10

Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:24 AM (0O7c5)

11 ??? Isn't that like a sign for gay rights or something?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2017 10:25 AM (SjImc)

12 it's just a little bit askew though...and that is beginning to bother me

Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:25 AM (0O7c5)

13 Looks like a wrapper for a 3rd rate TV dinner.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 24, 2017 10:25 AM (mpXpK)

14 is the violet hiding behind the sniper?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:25 AM (oGRue)

15
It's no Rothk....oh wait unfortunately it is

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 10:25 AM (493sH)

16 The colors are nice....not sure I'd call it art either. YMMV.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:25 AM (Enq6K)

17 I'll give you $1,000,000,000 for it!

Posted by: ''Art'' Snob at May 24, 2017 10:25 AM (72PAC)

18 You have to see Rothko in person.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 10:25 AM (cwFUa)

19 I shall rename this painting:

Stuck on Grandma's refrigerator.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2017 10:25 AM (kTF2Z)

20 i'll make one for you for $10

Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:24 AM (0O7c5)


Okay.

That's the beauty of "modern art", if you like a piece you can have a friend whip one up for you in no time.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:26 AM (zc3Db)

21 shouldn't that be displayed in landscape?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:26 AM (oGRue)

22 Let me guess. The hamsters went on strike when they saw you were trying to post a Rothko.

Well, the colors are pretty.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 10:27 AM (sBOL1)

23 I will say thought...beats the hell outta the naked guy on an ottoman.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:27 AM (Enq6K)

24 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Auguste Toulemouche at May 24, 2017 10:27 AM (vRcUp)

25 What the Other Half is Reading: Current headlines at the not-at-all Trump-obsessed AV Club:

John McCain Pays Maverick Lip Service to Resisting Trump on Seth Meyers

Sean Hannity Briefly Convinced to Shut Up, for Once

Melania Trump Once Again Recoils in Terror from her Husband's Touch

The Trump Budget isn't even Correct Math: Why Call it an Error?

Why Doesn't the President Know How to Talk Anymore?

The Onion Releases 700 Pages of Trump Leaks

and just for good measure, a li'l old-fashioned BDS:

How George W. Bush Ended the 26-Year Saga of Reading Rainbow.


I clicked that last one out of curiosity. The answer is somethingsomething No Child Left Behind somethingsomething.


Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 24, 2017 10:27 AM (ul9CR)

26 Those don't even remotely look like trees. Lousy painter.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 10:28 AM (CPk08)

27 Monitor and keyboard in blast furnace

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:28 AM (oGRue)

28 Looking For Violet, Green And Red




He's looking for Moe Green and Red West but who is Violet?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 10:28 AM (493sH)

29 20
i'll make one for you for $10



Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:24 AM (0O7c5)



Okay.



That's the beauty of "modern art", if you like a piece you can have a friend whip one up for you in no time.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:26 AM (zc3Db)
i should tell you ......the medium will be crayon and sharpie......

Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:28 AM (0O7c5)

30 First I saw it, I was thinking the top pane of the painting was livestock out in the pasture (yes, I grew up in farm country). The bottom pane was the grassy pasture.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 10:28 AM (jxbfJ)

31
I like it. I can do a yellow and red rectangle and if I can do it, its not art. On the other hand I can't paint a window looking at a river and rocks.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2017 10:28 AM (ODxAs)

32 Whoever was scraping off the paint to find some art underneath should keep going. It's got to be there somewhere.

Posted by: Unsure if deplorable, officially styled moron at May 24, 2017 10:28 AM (9MlEz)

33 It looks like an blurry aerial view of the islands where Rho finds Luke.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 10:29 AM (0tfLf)

34 My Therapist handed me something like this and said, "Tell me what you see."

Should I be worried about my Therapist?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 24, 2017 10:29 AM (e0oH/)

35 on copier papier

Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:29 AM (0O7c5)

36 The painting does seem to capture a mood. I would say it's Art. We can't claim all modern art is null and void. Or can we?

Posted by: Max Power at May 24, 2017 10:29 AM (QCc6B)

37
Also I think its a shower door with two naked people back there. Cuddling.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2017 10:29 AM (ODxAs)

38
I shall rename this painting "Predator Scans Picture Window Looking for Xenomorph Aliens."

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 10:30 AM (8XRCm)

39 It's art for the same reason Micheal Obama is beautiful and graceful and some people find her attractive.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 24, 2017 10:30 AM (fD1ST)

40 He's looking for Moe Green and Red West but who is Violet?

Violet Gray:

http://tinyurl.com/l7v9awh

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 24, 2017 10:30 AM (X6fMO)

41

I look at that painting and see > than 50% of the population flinging their own children off the back of the sleigh to appease the wolves...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (39ewW)

42
OW!!!

HEY!!!!

I like it, but I also like pink eye...

*spins around, does the splits*

HEY!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (HSmrB)

43 Huh. It's, well, conceptual.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (eytER)

44 Was hoping for a Hopper, but I'll take it.

Refreshing change from the old stuff.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (U6f54)

45 39
It's art for the same reason Micheal Obama is beautiful and graceful and some people find her attractive.


Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 24, 2017 10:30 AM (fD1ST)

So the middle rectangular shape is really a boob belt?

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (Enq6K)

46 21 shouldn't that be displayed in landscape?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:26 AM (oGRue)

The local art gallery once had an exhibit of landscapes. They included a Rothko made of orange and yellow squares. The explanation was that instead of depicting nature in the traditional sense, Rothko invoked it through bright, hazy, contrasting color. It was an interesting interpretation.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (nwqNw)

47 Violet Rutherford was Lumpy's little sister.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (IqV8l)

48 Well, the blue with streaks of white definitely invokes the feeling of water.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (e0oH/)

49 Rothko is the "Emperor's New Clothes" of the art world.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (vRcUp)

50 I will say thought...beats the hell outta the naked guy on an ottoman.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:27 AM (Enq6K)
-------

+100

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (sBOL1)

51 36 The painting does seem to capture a mood. I would say it's Art. We can't claim all modern art is null and void. Or can we?
Posted by: Max Power at May 24, 2017 10:29 AM (QCc6B)


It depends. If it depicts trees, it's art.
Simple enough.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 10:32 AM (CPk08)

52 Well, if you can't determine the subject, maybe art's not your thing, y'know?...jus sayin

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2017 10:32 AM (x9c8r)

53 It's nice if I was decorating my house in the modern style. Nice also that I could do it myself too instead of spending hundreds of thousands for it.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 10:32 AM (Z4z/q)

54 Looks like when my old color TV was on the blink and about to get trashed. Ayup.

That's entertainment.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 24, 2017 10:32 AM (RFeQD)

55 Original painting title:

"Ha ha ha! Filthy Bourgeoisie Will Pay Top Dollar for this Bullshit!"

Posted by: Sharkman at May 24, 2017 10:32 AM (9ZsgB)

56 i'll make one for you for $10



Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:24 AM (0O7c5)


---

pretty good, that's like $60/Hr

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:32 AM (oGRue)

57 HEY!!!
Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (HSmrB)

-----

Point of order if I may.


James Brown does NOT say "HEY".

James Brown says "HEH".


That is all. Carry on.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 10:32 AM (8XRCm)

58 It's view from Karl Stromberg's window.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 10:32 AM (vg8iE)

59 It's a Rothko.


Welp, that's enough art for the day.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents Ace and the Scream Machine at the County Fairgrounds at May 24, 2017 10:32 AM (hLRSq)

60 Meh, it's no Rockwell.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2017 10:32 AM (BWL+E)

61 looks like a painting of another modern art painting hanging in a gallery

Posted by: Lord Sir x at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (nFwvY)

62 In other news, Katy Perry is still an idiot.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (zRZaJ)

63 Looking For Violet, Green And Red

-----

Congratulations, you found them.

Posted by: josephistan at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (7HtZB)

64 I shall rename this painting "Predator Scans Picture Window Looking for Xenomorph Aliens."
Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 10:30 AM (8XRCm)


How about: "Severe Corneal Edema"?

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (CPk08)

65 I like it. I would put this on my wall.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (dFi94)

66 on copier papier

Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:29 AM (0O7c5)


I thought you were trying to sell me a cheap fake ... until I saw you wrote "papier". Then I knew that it would be real art!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (zc3Db)

67 That's the last thing you see out your door when the Oroville Dam goes!

Posted by: torabora at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (xdwSG)

68 Is it crooked? Or is something wrong with the aspect ratio?

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (a0IVu)

69 Although I understand folks who think a painting is supposed to "be" something, that's not me. A pattern or a combination of colors don't have to "be" anything for me to like them. I like Duchamp, Warhol, Pollock. It's not a masterpiece but I like this one too.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (Yi9Gb)

70 23 I will say thought...beats the hell outta the naked guy on an ottoman.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:27 AM (Enq6K)

Two questions - 1) why was there a naked guy on the ottoman; and b) why were you beating him with a Rothko?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (MEWEB)

71 I didn't realize Rothko was into psychedelic mushrooms.

Posted by: Under Fire at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (fXKn5)

72 I will say it's one of the better Rothkos He depicts some shadow and a third dimensional perspective.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 10:34 AM (Z4z/q)

73 Fucking CNN: A headline:

"Donald Trumps foreing trip is going smoothly. It won't last."

By Chris Cillizza, asshole

Posted by: Scott-High Plains Deplorable at May 24, 2017 10:34 AM (QCBpm)

74 Life before glasses were invented.

Posted by: geoffb5 at May 24, 2017 10:34 AM (d3wbb)

75
Meh. It's no Turner.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 24, 2017 10:34 AM (XWkhW)

76 I love the sense of depth and comparative perspective.

The eight sides of the two polygons is representative of something, which we don't know but which the artist freely allows the observer to subjectively interpret.

The heavy use of red conveys to me the sense that there was sale on that color at the art store the day that the artist decided to paint this.

(sarc)

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 24, 2017 10:34 AM (4AVeu)

77 Do you guys have any idea what the value of an original Rothko was in 1997 compared to today?


Because the guy who bought one in 1997 is doing more than well on his investment.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 10:34 AM (cwFUa)

78 In case some hadn't seen it, here's what Michelle Obama wore to the Cathedral in Sicily: BTW, they do have a dress code for what to wear to visit the Cathedral Michelle violated it:

http://tinyurl.com/mf5x5wg

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2017 10:34 AM (qES5k)

79 Alternate title - "Mr. Magoo Takes in Monet's Waterlilies."

Posted by: josephistan at May 24, 2017 10:34 AM (7HtZB)

80 The local art gallery once had an exhibit of landscapes. They included a Rothko made of orange and yellow squares. The explanation was that instead of depicting nature in the traditional sense, Rothko invoked it through bright, hazy, contrasting color. It was an interesting interpretation.

---

can i use that in my gender studies PhD thesis? Cause it's a penis, right?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:35 AM (oGRue)

81 Here is trash art that took real talent.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/m37owfl

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 24, 2017 10:35 AM (r5KeJ)

82 How about: "Severe Corneal Edema"?
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (CPk0

-------

....and do the Funky Corneal Edema.

**air bass guitar**

Posted by: Ton Loc at May 24, 2017 10:35 AM (8XRCm)

83 Two questions - 1) why was there a naked guy on the ottoman; and b) why were you beating him with a Rothko?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (MEWEB)


1) We.don't.know.
2) Cuz he was naked. Duh.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:35 AM (Enq6K)

84 In other news, Katy Perry is still an idiot.
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45


If she's so dumb, how come she is rich?

Well, that's a stupid question too. There are plenty of rich, stupid people who fell into shit and came out smelling like a rose.

End of stupid questions this morning. I have woik to do.

Work, work, work.

Busy, busy, busy.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 24, 2017 10:35 AM (RFeQD)

85
"Donald Trumps foreign trip is going smoothly. It won't last."

Trips don't usually last forever.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 10:35 AM (IqV8l)

86 That's the beauty of "modern art", if you like a piece you can have a friend whip one up for you in no time.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:26 AM (zc3Db)
====================================

I tried to imitate a Kandinsky once. Took me a heckuva long time. I managed to do a fair imitation and now it hangs on my son's bedroom wall.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 10:35 AM (dFi94)

87 It looks a lot like the computer screen did on my last computer just before the blue screen of death appeared.

Oh wait...tap...tap...tap...

Crap!

Throws mouse.

Off to computer store.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 10:36 AM (0tfLf)

88 Well, we knew this was coming!
I'd rather look at something by Paul Klee. Think I have a soft spot for him since we copied some of his color square paintings in art class to learn color theory, and as a kid I had an artist neighbor from Switzerland whose paintings were similar to his.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 10:36 AM (NOIQH)

89 I like Rothko. He certainly would have to prove to me that he could paint like Rembrandt before I would accord him the respect I give Rembrandt, but I'd rather hang a Rothko over my fireplace mantel than a Rembrandt. Suits my transitional style better.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at May 24, 2017 10:36 AM (RHjCR)

90 77 Do you guys have any idea what the value of an original Rothko was in 1997 compared to today?


Because the guy who bought one in 1997 is doing more than well on his investment.
Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 10:34 AM (cwFUa)

Just because something costs a lot of money doesn't mean it's worth anything.

Posted by: F-35 design team at May 24, 2017 10:36 AM (7HtZB)

91 I'd sooner get my art from Costco than Rothko.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2017 10:36 AM (vRcUp)

92 Office building art. Blech. I see paintings like this and I always flash on the scene from LA Story, where Steve Martin is commenting on a piece.....

Posted by: Russkilitlover at May 24, 2017 10:37 AM (/AoxG)

93 71 I didn't realize Rothko was into psychedelic mushrooms.


Posted by: Under Fire at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (fXKn5)
===========

According to a blurb on Drudge this morning, mushrooms are the safest drug to do.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 10:37 AM (vg8iE)

94 The eight sides of the two polygons is representative of something, which we don't know but which the artist freely allows the observer to subjectively interpret.

That's my favorite gallery trope: the artist "allows" the observer. I've seen that one a couple times.

Fucking hell: how is the artist going to stop me?

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 10:37 AM (CPk08)

95
In case some hadn't seen it, here's what Michelle Obama wore to the Cathedral in Sicily: BTW, they do have a dress code for what to wear to visit the Cathedral Michelle violated it:

http://tinyurl.com/mf5x5wg
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


Did somebody try to rip off her blouse?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 10:37 AM (IqV8l)

96 I like Rothko

-----


I do too. They make a great Three Season Conceal Carry Jacket. Its pretty affordable too.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 10:37 AM (8XRCm)

97 Apropos of nothing.....in my next life I wanna come back as Melania....and I want her clothing/shoes budget.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:37 AM (Enq6K)

98 I tried to imitate a Kandinsky once. Took me a heckuva long time. I managed to do a fair imitation and now it hangs on my son's bedroom wall.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 10:35 AM (dFi94)


Bravo, grammie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:38 AM (zc3Db)

99 Does that take more or less talent than Jackson Pollock had?

Posted by: Sledgehammer at May 24, 2017 10:38 AM (SjeCh)

100 The popularity of modern "art" is puzzling to me. I get the concept of corporate art where some non-offensive design is pasted to a wall for a splash of color to visually fill a space. I've even had some of that as décor.

But to elevate it to the notion of fine art and pay handsomely or dearly for it at auction? I don't get it.

Seems like a deliberate degradation of our society to foist shit off as valuable, but it seems to have worked.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 24, 2017 10:38 AM (z79tQ)

101
Point of order if I may.


James Brown does NOT say "HEY".

James Brown says "HEH".


That is all. Carry on.

Posted by: fixerupper
______________________________

OW!!!

HEY!!!!

I'm not James Brown...

*spins around, does the one legged Chuck Berry pump and scoot across stage*

HEY!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at May 24, 2017 10:38 AM (HSmrB)

102 It seems to me one could make quite the living making Rothko forgeries...if one was a kindergarten teacher

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:38 AM (oGRue)

103 45
39

It's art for the same reason Micheal Obama is beautiful and graceful and some people find her attractive.




Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 24, 2017 10:30 AM (fD1ST)

So the middle rectangular shape is really a boob belt?


Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (Enq6K)

Well, she's a guy

Posted by: Jake from State Farm at May 24, 2017 10:38 AM (jxbfJ)

104 97
Apropos of nothing.....in my next life I wanna come back as Melania....and I want her clothing/shoes budget.


Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:37 AM (Enq6K)
Yeah, me too.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 10:39 AM (a0IVu)

105 WOW! I got a black diamond!!!!!111!1

How'd it happen? I don't want to give it back btw.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 24, 2017 10:39 AM (z79tQ)

106 Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 10:36 AM (NOIQH)

I always refer to Klee as the stick man painter.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 10:39 AM (Z4z/q)

107 Suits my transitional style better.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at May 24, 2017 10:36 AM


I'm in a transitional phase myself.

Posted by: Jules Winnfield at May 24, 2017 10:39 AM (DMUuz)

108 36 The painting does seem to capture a mood. I would say it's Art. We can't claim all modern art is null and void. Or can we?
Posted by: Max Power at May 24, 2017 10:29 AM (QCc6B)

I would say that if you think it's art, then it is. If you don't, then it isn't. If it reaches you, then enjoy it. If it doesn't, please find something that does.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2017 10:39 AM (nwqNw)

109
In other news, Katy Perry is still an idiot.
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45


If she's so dumb, how come she is rich?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 24, 2017 10:35 AM (RFeQD)







Because big perky fun-bags.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 24, 2017 10:39 AM (XWkhW)

110 In other news, Katy Perry is still an idiot.
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45


If she's so dumb, how come she is rich?


Two reasons, I think.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 24, 2017 10:39 AM (eytER)

111 I think I am a person more attracted to color than to theme. One reason I like this, I guess.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 10:40 AM (dFi94)

112 >>Just because something costs a lot of money doesn't mean it's worth anything.



I'd imagine you hear that sentiment a lot around the trailer park.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 10:40 AM (cwFUa)

113 And there is a feeling of reflection, as if the subject is being reflected by a pool of water.

The nameplate is blank, as though waiting for something, like it is incomplete, or the work was unfinished.

So we supply our own labels to complete the work, and by doing so, project ourselves into the piece, and make it our own, so to speak.

Clearly it is an open vessel, waiting for us to merge with it and create our own reality.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 24, 2017 10:41 AM (e0oH/)

114 The kid who made this was GOOD. Can't see a trace of a fingerprint on it.

Posted by: Roy at May 24, 2017 10:41 AM (7n4KQ)

115 103 45
39

It's art for the same reason Micheal Obama is beautiful and graceful and some people find her attractive.




Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 24, 2017 10:30 AM (fD1ST)

So the middle rectangular shape is really a boob belt?


Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (Enq6K)

Well, she's a guy
Posted by: Jake from State Farm at May 24, 2017 10:38 AM (jxbfJ)


...with 5 nipples.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 10:41 AM (CPk08)

116 You have a painting.

You love your painting.

You name it Brad.

Then it gets Rothko'd.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 10:41 AM (0tfLf)

117 I like it. Although it seems slightly crooked, the colors are lovely. I think it looks a bit like an aquarium.

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 24, 2017 10:42 AM (yTnCT)

118 Muslim Manchester child killer was getting frequent flier miles going vaca to Hillary's failed terror state Libya. How? United Airlines? Who paid? His mosque? Passport? YGTBKM

Posted by: torabora at May 24, 2017 10:42 AM (xdwSG)

119 >>Does that take more or less talent than Jackson Pollock had?



They were both doing way different things.

Pollack was more 'in the moment' (for lack of a more detailed description).

Rothko worked much differently.



Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 10:42 AM (cwFUa)

120 Just because something costs a lot of money doesn't mean it's worth anything.

---

isn't that the story of our federal government?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:43 AM (oGRue)

121 120 Just because something costs a lot of money doesn't mean it's worth anything.

see: Clinton / Obama speeches

Posted by: Roy at May 24, 2017 10:43 AM (7n4KQ)

122 So is Hannity on his last legs with FOX also? They really are purging all the conservatives. And FOX falls to 3rd place...a coincidinky, I don't think so

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2017 10:43 AM (SjImc)

123 Office building art. Blech. I see paintings like this and I always flash on the scene from LA Story, where Steve Martin is commenting on a piece.....

Posted by: Russkilitlover at May 24, 2017 10:37 AM (/AoxG)



I've never understood the need for offices to hang hideous crap like that on the walls. I'd rather look at the blank wall

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 10:44 AM (493sH)

124 116
You have a painting.



You love your painting.



You name it Brad.



Then it gets Rothko'd.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 10:41 AM (0tfLf)

Here, have a painting.Can it be a Rothko?Sorry. Rothkos are for winners.

Posted by: Flo at May 24, 2017 10:44 AM (jxbfJ)

125 93 ...mushrooms are the safest drugs to do.

I agree completely.

Posted by: Harrison Ford On Final Approach at May 24, 2017 10:44 AM (fXKn5)

126 118
Muslim Manchester child killer was getting frequent flier miles going
vaca to Hillary's failed terror state Libya. How? United Airlines? Who
paid? His mosque? Passport? YGTBKM

Posted by: torabora at May 24, 2017 10:42 AM (xdwSG)

Heard on FBN this morning that he also traveled to Syria. They have 4 people in custody as of now....including his brother.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:44 AM (Enq6K)

127 Just because something costs a lot of money doesn't mean it's worth anything.

98% of boats out there.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 10:44 AM (CPk08)

128 The Rothko piece: American Bison in flooded field outside Fargo, ND; Lower portion: same field after spring rain but before the flood.

Posted by: RioBravo at May 24, 2017 10:44 AM (SsblQ)

129 http://tinyurl.com/mf5x5wg
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

-----

Holy crap. That's just embarassing.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 10:44 AM (8XRCm)

130
Had an art teacher in college that emphasized the idea that the artist's "artistic process" is what defines art. That the finished article actually didn't matter, it's the inner life and motivations of the artist that matters.

In other words, art is masturbatory.

*rolls eyes*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 24, 2017 10:44 AM (XWkhW)

131 They were both doing way different things.

Pollack was more 'in the moment' (for lack of a more detailed description).

Rothko worked much differently.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 10:42 AM (cwFUa)



And yet they both produced crap

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 10:44 AM (493sH)

132 Wow! It just occurred to me that the two rectangles in the painting are of the same shape and size as posts 103 and 104!

Even the same spacing/interval!





Rothko was a friggin' visionary!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 24, 2017 10:45 AM (4AVeu)

133 Finally got to see "Twin Peaks" last night.

i liked it.

It has a real "Lost Highway" vibe about it as well as "unimaginable cosmic evil" thing going on.

The "LH" vibe is a good thing. It's one of Lynch's best movies ranking up there with "Blue Velvet" and "Elephant Man".

I think Ace is wrong about them going full Black Lodge from the start.

since I'm one of the 0.000000000000000001% of the TV viewing audience who watched "TP" all the way through the first time-

I can tell you that it was a relief to finally get a glimpse of where they were going.

And no more fucking Log Lady(though her short part last night was effective).

A big part of the problem with the original TP was that I believe Lynch left in the second season(?) and Frost took over the writing.

That kind of deadpan surrealism Lynch does is tough to write, and Frost's version of it blew donkey doodles.

Lynch came back for the Black Lodge parts of the original, so complete continuity makes sense.

I do hope though that they wrap it all up this season.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2017 10:45 AM (9q7Dl)

134 Pictures of art like this or yesterdays selection do nothing for me. Quite possibly experiencing them in person is different and they are good art that a photo cannot do justice to.

However, with NEA and committees that I am positive are very susceptible to "the emperor's new clothes' peer pressure I reserve the right to assume that any NEA funded 'art' is rubbish.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 24, 2017 10:45 AM (8qFZP)

135 "What that supposed to be? Mastodon? Look nothing like boob. Thag not like this modern art. Thag go back to own cave now."

Posted by: Thag the Neanderthal at May 24, 2017 10:45 AM (AURKQ)

136 That picture expresses the misogyny of the Patriarchy.

Posted by: Every feminist at May 24, 2017 10:45 AM (7n4KQ)

137 needs a second coat

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:45 AM (oGRue)

138 >>In other news, Katy Perry is still an idiot.

Well, she was a big Obama and Hillary supporter, so that right there tells you about her judgement.

That and she's an adult whose carried on a "girl feud" with Taylor Swift for years, including her brand new song about Taylor. So...yeah, immature idiot.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 10:45 AM (NOIQH)

139 To me , significant art has to be distinguishable and identifiable from all others. If it can be easily reproduced then I don't find it to be of any significance other than it may be pleasant to look at.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 10:46 AM (Z4z/q)

140 An old Polaroid that had been exposed but left in the camera for 10 years and then finally ejected might look like that painting. I'd toss 'em both out.

Posted by: West at May 24, 2017 10:46 AM (1Rgee)

141 69 Although I understand folks who think a painting is supposed to "be" something, that's not me. A pattern or a combination of colors don't have to "be" anything for me to like them. I like Duchamp, Warhol, Pollock. It's not a masterpiece but I like this one too.
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at May 24, 2017 10:33 AM (Yi9Gb)

It's interesting. I am a committed Traditionalist, but I find myself drawn to Mondrian and some Malevich. I think it's their use of color theory.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2017 10:46 AM (nwqNw)

142 CBD has in the past, put up some nice landscape pictures. But the color ranges are usually limited to tan, taupe, brown, gray, olive drab and if you're lucky, a hint of yellow in the sky that is supposed to indicate dim light. Those pictures make me want to stab out my own eyes.


I need color. The more, the better. Color makes me happy. I can see myself buying this one.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (dFi94)

143 In other words, art is masturbatory.

*rolls eyes*

--

want to see my bed sheet masterpiece?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (oGRue)

144 From the Daily Mail:
"The father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi has said son is innocent, and has confirmed UK police have arrested a another son."

Sure pops. Sure.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (jxbfJ)

145
I see that Melania wore a mantilla when she met the pope. No head wrap in Saudia Arabia. Well done Melania. Maybe she can give Aunt Esther Obama a few hundred tips on how to dress

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (493sH)

146
138 >>In other news, Katy Perry is still an idiot.

Well, she was a big Obama and Hillary supporter, so that right there tells you about her judgement.

That and she's an adult whose carried on a "girl feud" with Taylor Swift for years, including her brand new song about Taylor. So...yeah, immature idiot.


Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 10:45 AM (NOIQH)
==========

And don't forget - she was once married to insane, heroin addict Russell Brand.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (vg8iE)

147 This is a Rothko?
You mean there is more like this?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (e0oH/)

148 144 From the Daily Mail:
"The father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi has said son is innocent, and has confirmed UK police have arrested a another son."

Sure pops. Sure.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (jxbfJ)

Just arrest and hang them all. Problem solved.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 24, 2017 10:48 AM (J70i0)

149 >>I've never understood the need for offices to hang hideous crap like that on the walls. I'd rather look at the blank wall


Always seen it as they need art to make the place look finished and classy, but choose stuff that's so bland it will offend no one. For example, imagine an office hanging a Normal Rockwell print...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 10:48 AM (NOIQH)

150 Katy Perry is still an idiot.
------
... immature idiot.
-------------------------------------------------
A rich idiot. The market hand giveth.

Posted by: RioBravo at May 24, 2017 10:48 AM (SsblQ)

151
want to see my bed sheet masterpiece?



Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (oGRue)
=========

Yeah, fuck you, buddy.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Bloodied Sheets at May 24, 2017 10:48 AM (vg8iE)

152 This is a Rothko?
You mean there is more like this?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (e0oH/)


They're all like that

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:48 AM (zc3Db)

153 142
CBD has in the past, put up some nice landscape pictures. But the color
ranges are usually limited to tan, taupe, brown, gray, olive drab and if
you're lucky, a hint of yellow in the sky that is supposed to indicate
dim light. Those pictures make me want to stab out my own eyes.


I need color. The more, the better. Color makes me happy. I can see myself buying this one.


Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (dFi94)

Wonder what a Freudian psychiatrist would say after analyzing CBD's daily art posts would have to say.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 10:48 AM (jxbfJ)

154 Rothko's pieces were all about how the colors made you feel. It's a much different experience in person when viewing the large piece right in front of you. The best example is the Rothko chapel in Houston where it's an entire environment. His work is not for everyone, since not everyone is as sensitive to color and how it affects mood. Rothko, of course, was highly sensitive to it as evidenced by his anxiety disorder and eventual suicide.

Posted by: Brisco_County at May 24, 2017 10:48 AM (TY5tw)

155
Muslim Manchester child killer was getting frequent flier miles going
vaca to Hillary's failed terror state Libya. How? United Airlines? Who
paid? His mosque? Passport? YGTBKM

Posted by: torabora at May 24, 2017 10:42 AM (xdwSG)

Heard on FBN this morning that he also traveled to Syria. They have 4 people in custody as of now....including his brother.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:44 AM (Enq6K)






If the 4 in custody doesn't include his imam, it means nothing.

And if the SAS hasn't blown open his mosque's doors and secured the building while tossing flash bangs everywhere......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 24, 2017 10:49 AM (XWkhW)

156 >>In other words, art is masturbatory.


**Drum Solo**

Posted by: Tommy lee at May 24, 2017 10:49 AM (cwFUa)

157 Wonder what a Freudian psychiatrist would say after analyzing CBD's daily art posts would have to say.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 10:48 AM (jxbfJ)

Sometimes a Rothko is just a Rothko.

Posted by: Thag the Neanderthal at May 24, 2017 10:49 AM (AURKQ)

158 149
>>I've never understood the need for offices to hang hideous crap
like that on the walls. I'd rather look at the blank wall

It is either hang art or those cheesy motiviational meme posters.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 10:49 AM (jxbfJ)

159 In other words, art is masturbatory.

*rolls eyes*"

Come again?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 10:49 AM (MINbv)

160 Caveman sock off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 24, 2017 10:49 AM (AURKQ)

161 >>And don't forget - she was once married to insane, heroin addict Russell Brand.

Ah, right! And IIRC, he eventually divorced her because he was going off drugs and Katy insisted on drugs and partying. So, Brand was the more mature one in that relationship.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 10:50 AM (NOIQH)

162 Little known True Fact (tm) about this painting:

Rothko, pissed because his effort was even more pathetic than usual, smeared dog shit on it (the lovely brown hued areas), stepped back and said: "Perfect!"

Somehow exercising good judgment, he left "dog shit brown" out of the final name for the painting.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 24, 2017 10:50 AM (9ZsgB)

163 A better future is only possible if your nations drive out the Rothkos.

Drive them out. Drive them out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land. And drive them out of this earth.

Posted by: President Donald Trump at May 24, 2017 10:50 AM (4AVeu)

164 I think the "interesting graphic design" criticism of Rothko is valid. Esp. when you see his stuff on computer.

If you see it live, then you can see the artistry involved as his painting are all about light and depth. There's a bit of an endless sky or glancing through water aspect when you're staring at them.

I see them as a bit of a Zen empty your mind thing and would love to have one at optimum viewing distance in front of my writing desk.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2017 10:50 AM (9q7Dl)

165 just got a second mailing from planned parenthood.....wtf? someone put me on their list.....sending it back refused

Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:50 AM (0O7c5)

166
From the Daily Mail:
"The father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi has said son is innocent, and has confirmed UK police have arrested a another son."


Didn't Mohammed Atta's father say something similar?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 10:50 AM (IqV8l)

167 145


I see that Melania wore a mantilla when she met the pope. No head
wrap in Saudia Arabia. Well done Melania. Maybe she can give Aunt Esther
Obama a few hundred tips on how to dress

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (493sH)

^^^^^^THIS

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 10:51 AM (jxbfJ)

168 154 Rothko's pieces were all about how the colors made you feel.

I suppose. His pieces usually make me feel like I need new glasses.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 10:51 AM (CPk08)

169 The best example is the Rothko chapel in Houston where it's an entire environment.
-------------------------------------------------
The chapel is also an overrated piece of architectural crap. It does serve as a site for some interested folk-type music from time to time.

Posted by: RioBravo at May 24, 2017 10:51 AM (SsblQ)

170 If it doesn't, please find something that does

We can't. We're trapped in the MMOT.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2017 10:51 AM (ODxAs)

171 Well, it's no Kinkade...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, having a slight identity crisis at May 24, 2017 10:51 AM (AM1GF)

172 I love learning stuff at Ace. It's like a bag of every flavor beans from Hogwarts. You never know what you are going to get next.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 24, 2017 10:51 AM (e0oH/)

173 This is a Rothko?
You mean there is more like this?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse


Given the exquisite attention to concept, draftsmanship, shading and detail it would be amazing if there were many more. Must have taken him years to do this. What's the Sistine Chapel in comparison?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2017 10:52 AM (BWL+E)

174 159 In other words, art is masturbatory.

*rolls eyes*"

Come again?
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 10:49 AM (MINbv)

---

can do.

do i hang a kleenex portrait or landscape?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:52 AM (oGRue)

175 If the 4 in custody doesn't include his imam, it means nothing.



And if the SAS hasn't blown open his mosque's doors and secured the building while tossing flash bangs everywhere......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 24, 2017 10:49 AM (XWkhW)

They didn't say who the other 3 were. Could be his imam...or not.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 10:53 AM (Enq6K)

176 >>What is it supposed to be? Looks like a window looking out at a stream with rocks. Painted by my 5-year-old.

I'm pretty sure your 5-year-old could do a lot better than this.

Posted by: davidingeorgia at May 24, 2017 10:53 AM (Iy7rt)

177 >>It's like a bag of every flavor beans


All Mexican tastes the same to me.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 10:53 AM (cwFUa)

178 The father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi has said son is innocent.


-------

Um...... he blew himself to pieces there pops.


♫It's another taqqiya sunrise....♫


Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 10:53 AM (8XRCm)

179 In other words, art is masturbatory.

*rolls eyes*"

Come again?
Posted by: Anon a mouse...

---

can do.

do i hang a kleenex portrait or landscape?

Posted by: buzzsaw90


You rang?

Posted by: Jackson Pollack at May 24, 2017 10:53 AM (AM1GF)

180 Trendy Man: Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt.

Thornton Melon: You too, huh? She's shown it to everybody.

Trendy Man: Well, she's very proud of it.

Thornton Melon: I'm proud of mine too. I don't go waving it around at parties, though.

Trendy Man: It's an exceptional painting.

Thornton Melon: Oh, the painting.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents Ace and the Scream Machine at the County Fairgrounds at May 24, 2017 10:53 AM (hLRSq)

181 "The father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi has said son is innocent, and has confirmed UK police have arrested a another son."

Didn't Mohammed Atta's father say something similar?

----

well, killing infidels is no crime to them...

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 10:54 AM (oGRue)

182 In other words, art is masturbatory.
------------------------------------------
We came close to some of that here but yet so far...

Posted by: RioBravo at May 24, 2017 10:54 AM (SsblQ)

183 I'm related to Mark Rothko. One of my cousins has a birthday card (he was gifted from another relative) hand-painted by Rothko (to the intermediate cousin). Rothko's like, 3rd cousin, once-removed distance.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 24, 2017 10:55 AM (dZ756)

184 If you have a midcentury modern living room, this would go quite well I think. Personally I would have to get one with more orange tones.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 10:55 AM (dFi94)

185 To me , significant art has to be distinguishable and identifiable from all others. If it can be easily reproduced then I don't find it to be of any significance other than it may be pleasant to look at.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 10:46 AM (Z4z/q)


I would agree with the proviso that an easily reproducible piece can still be significant. But it can't really be expensive if it isn't "rare" - in the sense that you can't get an indistinguishable piece from some guy down the street. Only idiots would pay to have a piece that anyone can make, themselves, even if it is beautiful. The artist should get the credit for identifying, and creating, a beautiful work but that shouldn't translate into any extra monetary value for the piece, which is essentially a commodity.

But, then, this is why art snobs will pay through the nose for "anything" that has the correct signature on it. They are really just overgrown autograph collectors, not art lovers in any way.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:55 AM (zc3Db)

186 This is what you would do at those "Paint and Pour" parties. After you finish the first bottle of wine.

Posted by: Roy at May 24, 2017 10:55 AM (7n4KQ)

187 What is it supposed to be? Looks like a window looking out at a stream with rocks. Painted by my 5-year-old.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 24, 2017 10:55 AM (oGRue)

188 From the Daily Mail:
"The father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi has said son is innocent, and has confirmed UK police have arrested a another son."

Sure pops. Sure.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (jxbfJ)



He was turning his life around, a straight A student, aspiring jihad star

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 10:55 AM (493sH)

189 If this painting were a limerick it would go something like this:


There once was a young man from colormumble
Who didn't know quite how to rectanglesmear
He swervy perspectived
And vague shapified
Hang on the wall this => side up.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 10:56 AM (wPiJc)

190 165 just got a second mailing from planned parenthood.....wtf? someone put me on their list.....sending it back refused
Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 24, 2017 10:50 AM (0O7c5)


Have you recently enrolled in college classes? I ended up on their mailing list one time when I had gone back to school.

Posted by: Emmie at May 24, 2017 10:56 AM (ZapPq)

191 34 My Therapist handed me something like this and said, "Tell me what you see."

Should I be worried about my Therapist?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 24, 2017 10:29 AM (e0oH/)

I'll say. That's some obscene shit!

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 24, 2017 10:56 AM (0mRoj)

192 All art needs to be seen in person to really appreciate it. Books or computer screens whet your whistle and let's you know what is out there, but seeing the Sistine Chapel in person has got to be an otherworldly experience. To be able to get up real close to a Turner and see the brushstrokes and then slowly step back, allowing it to materialize in front of you is indescribable. I saw a 1:1 copy of the "Pieta" once. I cried. I can't imagine what the real one will be like to see.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2017 10:56 AM (nwqNw)

193 Nope, nice colors but its still no Peter Maxx.

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 10:56 AM (MdC1o)

194 Does that take more or less talent than Jackson Pollock had?

Posted by: Sledgehammer


Given that multiplying zero by any number always results in zero, I am going with "the same."

Posted by: Sharkman at May 24, 2017 10:56 AM (9ZsgB)

195 All Mexican tastes the same to me.
Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 10:53 AM (cwFUa)

----

Try the Selma Hayek

Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 24, 2017 10:56 AM (oGRue)

196
I love learning stuff at Ace. It's like a bag of every flavor beans from Hogwarts. You never know what you are going to get next.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 24, 2017 10:51 AM (e0oH/)









*spits out carrot chili flavor bean*

Posted by: Ron Weasley at May 24, 2017 10:57 AM (XWkhW)

197 Considering all that's been thrown at Trump in the last few weeks and he's at 48% approval, that has to make the MSM screaming in rage.

As long as Trump keeps the people that voted for him, he'll win reelection.

Posted by: Maritime at May 24, 2017 10:57 AM (zu/Gn)

198 My personal working definition for art is something like "something which is designed with the intent to evoke or create emotions" with the caveat that the quality of art is highly correlated to it's accessibility to the average person. I don't think you should need a degree or have to spend much time and training to appreciate art, which means that if you're producing art to show off to critics, you're really not interested in creating good art.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 24, 2017 10:57 AM (KUaJL)

199 All art needs to be seen in person to really appreciate it. Books or computer screens whet your whistle and let's you know what is out there, but seeing the Sistine Chapel in person has got to be an otherworldly experience. To be able to get up real close to a Turner and see the brushstrokes and then slowly step back, allowing it to materialize in front of you is indescribable. I saw a 1:1 copy of the "Pieta" once. I cried. I can't imagine what the real one will be like to see.
Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2017 10:56 AM (nwqNw)

------

Dude..... you GOTTA see my Elvis blacklight on velvet painting.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 10:57 AM (8XRCm)

200 Not only was the muzzie AH flying back and forth to Lybia and Syria but both the Brit and French police knew it.


The British police say the Manchester Bomber was known to them. The French say he had proven ties to ISIS and had recently traveled to Libya and Syria. This kind of shit simply amazes me. WTF was he doing walking around in public? We do not even allow that shit.


http://tinyurl.com/ktvns9j

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 24, 2017 10:57 AM (mpXpK)

201 178 The father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi has said son is innocent.

So...what your saying is your son likes to hang out at concerts for pubescent girls?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 10:58 AM (0tfLf)

202 Are we sure that's hung the right way?

Posted by: andycanuck at May 24, 2017 10:58 AM (nlbfN)

203 I hope one of the other 4 arrested is the bombmaker.
Word is, he didn't make it himself.

Posted by: Sledgehammer at May 24, 2017 10:58 AM (SjeCh)

204 All Mexican tastes the same to me.
Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 10:53 AM (cwFUa)
-------------------------------------
Well the lighter meat is a bit sweeter too. But yeah, it is pretty consistent overall.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 24, 2017 10:58 AM (SsblQ)

205 Boy the NATO greeting for PDT was a disgrace

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2017 10:58 AM (SjImc)

206 >>what your saying is your son likes to hang out at concerts for pubescent girls?


He was looking for a hot Kid.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (cwFUa)

207 If the 4 in custody doesn't include his imam, it means nothing.

And if the SAS hasn't blown open his mosque's doors and secured the building while tossing flash bangs everywhere......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 24, 2017 10:49 AM (XWkhW)


This is his mosque:

http://tinyurl.com/mw78gkm

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (X6fMO)

208 The artist should get the credit for identifying, and creating, a beautiful work but that shouldn't translate into any extra monetary value for the piece, which is essentially a commodity.

---

who gets the credit for the spinny thing at carnivals that you drip paint onto?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (oGRue)

209 202 Are we sure that's hung the right way?


Posted by: andycanuck at May 24, 2017 10:58 AM (nlbfN)
=========

I'll be the judge of that.

Posted by: Shep! at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (vg8iE)

210 "but seeing the Sistine Chapel in person has got to be an otherworldly experience."


It is. They don't let you talk in there.
-----------------------------------------



"I saw a 1:1 copy of the "Pieta" once. I cried. I can't imagine what the real one will be like to see."


I cried. I also bawled my eyes out at the statue of David. Must have stood there 30 minutes.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (dFi94)

211 So I went to this burrito place and wanted to start my own restaurant.
But since I'm Irish so I can only fill it with bland grey fillings right?

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (MdC1o)

212 My Therapist handed me something like this and said, "Tell me what you see."

"It's upside down."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (BWL+E)

213 Kind of looks like the wall in a body shop where the painter randomly tests colors and spray patterns before hitting the car.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (aMlLZ)

214 I hope one of the other 4 arrested is the bombmaker.
Word is, he didn't make it himself.
Posted by: Sledgehammer at May 24, 2017 10:58 AM (SjeCh)

I doubt it..that is why they raised the terror alert level. The "Bomb Maker" probably has other bombs and it is at the use it or lose it stage..that is the great concern

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2017 11:00 AM (SjImc)

215 >>"The father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi has said son is innocent,
and has confirmed UK police have arrested a another son."


It's like there's a script out there, these things have gotten so predictable.
Was the bomber living at home? Did dad not notice his son's frequent visits to Libya?

I'm starting to think Israel has the right idea: skips questions and just bulldoze the bomber's family home.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 11:00 AM (NOIQH)

216 But since I'm Irish so I can only fill it with bland grey fillings right?
---------
And white potatoes or potatos.

Posted by: Undocumented at May 24, 2017 11:00 AM (SsblQ)

217 I thought Rothko was the Chop-A-Matic guy on TV???

Posted by: andycanuck at May 24, 2017 11:00 AM (nlbfN)

218 This is his mosque:

http://tinyurl.com/mw78gkm


Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (X6fMO)
=========

I saw an article last night saying something about him not going to the same mosque as his family but they couldn't say which one he went to because "there are so many."

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 11:00 AM (vg8iE)

219
This kind of shit simply amazes me. WTF was he doing walking around in public? We do not even allow that shit.

http://tinyurl.com/ktvns9j
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party


And they say there are hundreds of people who have fought for ISIS etc who have returned to Britain. They let these creeps back in.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (IqV8l)

220 if you look closely, you can see the editor of Cosmo, a Sikh taxi driver, and Melania slapping PDT's hand away--twice!


also, an Associated Press 'reporter' pleasuring himself with a bell jar



Posted by: name, rank, cereal # at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (ihtYN)

221 Scrapple.. the other grey meat.


Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (MdC1o)

222 That sniper just shot me in the eye!

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (RuyTK)

223 The British police say the Manchester Bomber was known to them. The French say he had proven ties to ISIS and had recently traveled to Libya and Syria. This kind of shit simply amazes me. WTF was he doing walking around in public? We do not even allow that shit.


http://tinyurl.com/ktvns9j

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 24, 2017 10:57 AM (mpXpK)



It's a far greater crime to be Islamaphobic than to round up terrorists.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (493sH)

224 And they say there are hundreds of people who have fought for ISIS etc who have returned to Britain. They let these creeps back in.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (IqV8l)

We do here in the US also...It's only a matter of time

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (SjImc)

225 off potatoface sock

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 11:02 AM (oGRue)

226 Although, I have been a frequent detractor of abstract art, Yves Tanguy's work gets a whole different reaction from me. This is his Fear: http://tinyurl.com/ly3phhb

Posted by: Axeman at May 24, 2017 11:02 AM (2mC6G)

227 Looks like the paint sample manager at Sherwin Williams fucked up again.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 24, 2017 11:02 AM (0mRoj)

228 180 Trendy Man: Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt.

Thornton Melon: You too, huh? She's shown it to everybody.

Trendy Man: Well, she's very proud of it.

Thornton Melon: I'm proud of mine too. I don't go waving it around at parties, though.

Trendy Man: It's an exceptional painting.

Thornton Melon: Oh, the painting.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH


I don't get no respect!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 11:02 AM (0tfLf)

229 to me, this painting raises important questions about the role that patriarchy plays in a person's motivation and subsequent action. How does patriarchy affect women's desires? Can women be autonomous if their desires are deformed by patriarchy? Does the satisfaction of women's deformed desires contribute to their own oppression?

Furthermore, iojqiowjcvrkwmv, pwqocver[qervwsdfvdfvf ls;acvqwasfvmdfvlmwlc pslce kecvw'erv jioq

Posted by: Lena Dunham at May 24, 2017 11:02 AM (ALcbf)

230 My Therapist handed me something like this and said, "Tell me what you see."

----

That i'm wasting both time and money

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 11:02 AM (oGRue)

231 "I saw a 1:1 copy of the "Pieta" once. I cried. I can't imagine what the real one will be like to see."


I cried. I also bawled my eyes out at the statue of David. Must have stood there 30 minutes.


Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (dFi94)
========

My sophomore year of HS, our French Club and that of another school took a field trip to Quebec and Montreal. One of the chaperons from the other group felt the need to endlessly regale my friend and me about her having seen the Pieta.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 11:03 AM (vg8iE)

232 Obamas vacation in Italy; Michelle's fashion draws praise..

All the women of Europe are rushing to buy the latest Michelle fashions. The former FLOTUS sported a pink and white one-shoulder shirt and white denim capris with white sandals during a day on the town. She also donned hoop earrings, bangles and a small, white cross-body purse. They loved how she gracefully held her pants up while she walked.

Posted by: Colin at May 24, 2017 11:03 AM (UhuW/)

233
But, then, this is why art snobs will pay through the nose for "anything" that has the correct signature on it. They are really just overgrown autograph collectors, not art lovers in any way.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:55 AM (zc3Db)


Why did the name Andy Warhol just come to mind?

Posted by: Sledgehammer at May 24, 2017 11:03 AM (SjeCh)

234 Are we sure that's hung the right way?"

They said you was hung!

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:03 AM (MINbv)

235 400 returned Isis terrorists back, back in the USSR UK. See the sock.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 24, 2017 11:03 AM (nlbfN)

236 >>This is his mosque:
http://tinyurl.com/mw78gkm

Aw, Hell...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 11:03 AM (NOIQH)

237 Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 24, 2017 10:57 AM (KUaJL)

I agree you don't need a degree to appreciate art. I think many think you do, however. "Art snobs" have intimidated people into thinking that art is more complex than it really is. I used to tell my students that all you need are eyes, a brain and a soul. It uses a language we all should have learned in kindergarten. Art history is different. That requires study, but art is made for humans, by humans, for the enjoyment and edification of humans.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2017 11:03 AM (nwqNw)

238 "I saw a 1:1 copy of the "Pieta" once. I cried. I can't imagine what the real one will be like to see."


I cried. I also bawled my eyes out at the statue of David. Must have stood there 30 minutes.


Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (dFi94)
Seeing the Pieta at St. Peters is breath taking. I challenge any atheist to look at that and tell me the Pieta was not divinely inspired.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (a0IVu)

239 They said you was hung!

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:03 AM (MINbv)
______

and they was right!

Posted by: Clevon Little at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (MdC1o)

240 Two big reasons, I think.

FIFY

Posted by: McCool at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (KvRqW)

241 @130 In other words, art is masturbatory.


@168 His pieces usually make me feel like I need new glasses.


*****


Cause and effect?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (wPiJc)

242 This is his mosque:
http://tinyurl.com/mw78gkm

Aw, Hell...
Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 11:03 AM (NOIQH)

-----

Wait.

Bomber boys Dad works in AIRPORT SECURITY???? W the actual F??

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (8XRCm)

243 Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (493sH)

Funny that when you immediately assume that any terroristic event is due to islam in some manner, you'll nearly always be correct...


But, unforgivably, you'll be an islamophobe, which is far worse!

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (gwPgz)

244 http://tinyurl.com/mw78gkm
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 24, 2017 10:59 AM (X6fMO)


That looks like a "re-purposed" church building.

Posted by: Emmie at May 24, 2017 11:05 AM (ZapPq)

245 All the women of Europe are rushing to buy the latest Michelle fashions. The former FLOTUS sported a pink and white one-shoulder shirt and white denim capris with white sandals during a day on the town. She also donned hoop earrings, bangles and a small, white cross-body purse.

They loved how she gracefully held her pants up while she walked.



Penises tend to do that.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 11:05 AM (Njtx4)

246 The non-representational character of modern abstract art is something of a sticking point for me, as it seems to be for others. In the absence of sufficient information from the work itself, it is impossible to decode and thereby reproduce the aesthetic state of the artist

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:05 AM (TwwWO)

247 I'm going to need the stoopidest looking ghilley suit ever...



Posted by: disappointed sniper at May 24, 2017 11:05 AM (oGRue)

248 >>>>This kind of shit simply amazes me. WTF was he doing walking around in public? We do not even allow that shit.



http://tinyurl.com/ktvns9j

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party



And they say there are hundreds of people who have fought for ISIS
etc who have returned to Britain. They let these creeps back in.
.
.
.The story I heard this morning said there were approximately 7,000 know EU people who went and fought for ISIS. Of those over 2,000 are known to have returned to their home Countries.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 24, 2017 11:05 AM (le7jz)

249 That looks like a "re-purposed" church building.

Posted by: Emmie at May 24, 2017 11:05 AM (ZapPq)

That was exactly my first thought when I looked at it.

Well done, Britain....well done.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 11:06 AM (Enq6K)

250 Ya' know, someday an Airplane! or Blazing Saddles reference is going to go unnoticed, and I don't want be alive when that happens.

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 11:06 AM (MdC1o)

251 What's wrong with it? It is nicely done.

Posted by: doug at May 24, 2017 11:06 AM (HlhEB)

252 All the women of Europe are rushing to buy the latest Michelle fashions.
===========

All the ones who weren't killed in Islamic terror attacks, that is.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 11:06 AM (vg8iE)

253 >>That looks like a "re-purposed" church building.


It's what they do, all part of the conquering.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 11:07 AM (NOIQH)

254 The story I heard this morning said there were approximately 7,000 know EU people who went and fought for ISIS. Of those over 2,000 are known to have returned to their home Countries.


Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 24, 2017 11:05 AM (le7jz)
==========

Wasn't it Denmark or Sweden who was paying welfare payments to returning ISIS jihadis so that they could successfully reintegrate into society?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 11:07 AM (vg8iE)

255 All the women of Europe are rushing to buy the latest Michelle fashions.
====================


Pants that are too long and a gypsy-tramp shirt?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 24, 2017 11:07 AM (dFi94)

256 Ya' know, someday an Airplane! or Blazing Saddles reference is going to go unnoticed, and I don't want be alive when that happens."

Same here. Now let's go win one for the Zipper.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:08 AM (MINbv)

257 My sophomore year of HS, our French Club and that of another school took a field trip to Quebec and Montreal. One of the chaperons from the other group felt the need to endlessly regale my friend and me about her having seen the Pieta.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 11:03 AM (vg8iE)


I saw the Pieta. It looks surprisingly like a large piece of marble carved to resemble humans.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 11:08 AM (CPk08)

258 Once I saw a Rothko exhibit, I think it was at the Guggenheim Museum. Normally one Rothko painting by itself doesn't particularly excite me, but seeing dozens of them together was pretty neat, with all the different color combinations.

Posted by: rickl at May 24, 2017 11:08 AM (xjiRE)

259 Isis going wild in southern Philippines it appears. beheaded a police chief and holding a catholic priest and parishioners captive.WZ has the story.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:08 AM (a0IVu)

260 224
And they say there are hundreds of people who have fought for ISIS etc
who have returned to Britain. They let these creeps back in.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (IqV8l)



We do here in the US also...It's only a matter of time

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (SjImc)

Yes, but they are arrested at the point of entry and go to jail.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 24, 2017 11:08 AM (mpXpK)

261 That is what an alien sees, looking at earth from the inside of his red spaceship.

Posted by: ESKIMO at May 24, 2017 11:09 AM (ZYNmu)

262 Who is Pat Riarchy and why should I care?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 24, 2017 11:09 AM (5A+It)

263 Meh, it's no Rorschach.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 11:09 AM (wPiJc)

264 We do here in the US also...It's only a matter of time

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2017 11:01 AM (SjImc)

Yes, but they are arrested at the point of entry and go to jail.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 24, 2017 11:08 AM (mpXpK)

Not necessarily. And that does not count all the ones that sneak in over our southern border

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2017 11:09 AM (SjImc)

265 Cause and effect?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (wPiJc)


Wait, Rothko's masturbating is the reason I'm going blind?

There is no God. I knew it.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 11:10 AM (CPk08)

266 Seeing the Pieta at St. Peters is breath taking. I challenge any atheist to look at that and tell me the Pieta was not divinely inspired.
Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (a0IVu)

When the sculpture was first unveiled, people were so blown away that they were convinced that angels had made it. Michelangelo was so offended that that night he sneaked into where it was displayed and carved his name on Mary's sash, to let everyone know who really made it.

I don't know how true the story is, but it's one of my favorites.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2017 11:10 AM (nwqNw)

267 Italy has trannies? Why is Italy praising a tranny like Barry's Beard?

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 24, 2017 11:10 AM (ev02w)

268 That looks like a "re-purposed" church building.

There's a whole lotta under-utilized churches in Europe.

Posted by: McCool at May 24, 2017 11:10 AM (KvRqW)

269 Who takes an 8 year to an Arianna Grande concert?
Why teach your young, impressionable child how to be a tramp, a plaything?

Posted by: navybrat at May 24, 2017 11:11 AM (w7KSn)

270 As a kid, I was taken to the Worlds Fair in NYC. Wasn't the Pieta on display at that fair? I remember standing in line, and going in to see it.

Posted by: Colin at May 24, 2017 11:11 AM (UhuW/)

271 "and the optometrist said to Rothko, "I see you have a cataract." "Oh no," he replied, "I drive a Lincoln."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 11:11 AM (0deF2)

272 Ya' know, someday an Airplane! or Blazing Saddles reference is going to go unnoticed, and I don't want be alive when that happens."

Same here. Now let's go win one for the Zipper.
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:08 AM (MINbv)

-----

Hey.... you tell your Dad to carry Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 11:11 AM (8XRCm)

273 I have seen the David.

Seen the Mona Lisa too.


And I have heard Doc Watson play "Columbus Stockade Blues"

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 11:11 AM (wPiJc)

274 258. Might be something to that. Taken individually and in isolation, a lot of this sort of work tends to make or leave no real impression. I have tje sense that some of this is because these works are not gesammtkunstwerks - complete in themselves - but require context.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:11 AM (TwwWO)

275 This appears to be an excellent time to remind you of something I said on Monday:

"I think though that we also have to recognize particularly at this moment that sexism is not an opinion, Islamophobia is not an opinion, racism is not an opinion, homophobia is not an opinion, jingoism is not an opinion."

Posted by: Chelsea C., activist, thought leader, and change agent at May 24, 2017 11:11 AM (DMUuz)

276 Seeing the Pieta at St. Peters is breath taking. I challenge any atheist to look at that and tell me the Pieta was not divinely inspired.
Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (a0IVu)


It wasn't divinely inspired.

Somehow I think that was supposed to be more difficult.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 11:12 AM (CPk08)

277 Test strips are NOT art.

Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2017 11:12 AM (FhXTo)

278 266, I don't know how true the story is, but it's one of my favorites.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2017 11:10 AM (nwqNw)
I think it is the only one that he 'signed' off on..I am not surprised folks thought it was carved by angels. To carve that from a single block of marble .. it is hard to process.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:12 AM (a0IVu)

279 Test strips are NOT art.
Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2017 11:12 AM (FhXTo)

-----

They are if it says she's not pregnant.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 11:13 AM (8XRCm)

280 They say you need to unfocus your eyes to see the ship but that wrong. You need deep focus.

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at May 24, 2017 11:13 AM (QQ+il)

281 Wasn't the Pieta on display at that fair?"

Indeed it was... breathtaking.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:13 AM (MINbv)

282 259 Isis going wild in southern Philippines it appears. beheaded a police chief and holding a catholic priest and parishioners captive.WZ has the story.
Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:08 AM (a0IVu)

At least Duerte can declare martial law, rather than asking James Taylor to play "Imagine."

Posted by: josephistan at May 24, 2017 11:13 AM (7HtZB)

283 262. Remember how people used to say 'the Man' was keeping them down?

HIS NAME IS PAT RIARCHY!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:13 AM (TwwWO)

284 Ever notice that Rothko and other artists like him always have to explain what the hell they are doing? That's because the crap they turn out is so meaningless (in my opinion that kills the 'art' aspect) and vapid it portrays nothing. That this inconsequential shit is highly regarded by critics and the imbeciles they influence is a significant sign of a cultural disease.

Okay. I'm going back to reading "The Discarded Image" by CS Lewis.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2017 11:14 AM (V+03K)

285 So that's a Rothko, huh? I thought they made electric razors.

Posted by: Corona at May 24, 2017 11:14 AM (Vequ/)

286 And I have heard Doc Watson play "Columbus Stockade Blues"
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2017 11:11 AM (wPiJc)
_____

In the chili parlor bar, drinkin mad dog margaritas and wonderin where you are.


Damn.

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 11:14 AM (MdC1o)

287 280 They say you need to unfocus your eyes to see the ship but that wrong. You need deep focus.
Posted by: Mr. Pitt at May 24, 2017 11:13 AM (QQ+il)

When do I get to see the fucking sailboat?!?

Posted by: Willam at May 24, 2017 11:14 AM (7HtZB)

288 Huh. It's, well, conceptual.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks, AKA Worthless Imbecile at May 24, 2017 10:31 AM (eytER)

Good to see you here, man.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 11:14 AM (0deF2)

289 All the women of Europe are rushing to buy the latest Michelle fashions.>>>

Will the muzzie rape stats finally drop?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 24, 2017 11:14 AM (r5KeJ)

290
Man those burritos from those chicks in Portland looked really good.

I liked the sjw comment that 'they were stealing the woman's livelihood in Mexico', because you know everybody in Portland has the time on their lunch hour to fly down to Mexico.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2017 11:15 AM (ODxAs)

291 It's what they do, all part of the conquering.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 11:07 AM (NOIQH)


I think the islamoscum have a formal ceremony called "breaking the crosses" that is used to repurpose churches!

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 24, 2017 11:15 AM (gwPgz)

292 277 Test strips are NOT art.
___________________________________

Says you.

Posted by: Michaelangelo Litmus at May 24, 2017 11:15 AM (4AVeu)

293 I saw Rothco's Shit open for Screaming Man at the Nassau Collezium in '79.

Posted by: Harrison Ford On Final Approach at May 24, 2017 11:16 AM (fXKn5)

294 264 Not necessarily. And that does not count all the ones that sneak in over our southern border

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 24, 2017 11:09 AM (SjImc)

You are missing the point. The Brits and the French knew he was contacting ISIS and they knew he was flying back and forth to Libya and Syria. They knew he had reentered the country and where he lived. Still they did not arrest him. Sure if you have a President like Barky anyone can cross the border but as soon as the SOB is known to be back in the country he would get arrested.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 24, 2017 11:16 AM (mpXpK)

295 246 The non-representational character of modern abstract art is something of a sticking point for me, as it seems to be for others. In the absence of sufficient information from the work itself, it is impossible to decode and thereby reproduce the aesthetic state of the artist
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:05 AM (TwwWO)

Perhaps he was in an anaesthetic state.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 24, 2017 11:17 AM (0mRoj)

296 Morning all.

So do people actually pay for so-called "art" like this? If so just another testament to the stupidity that has overrun the planet.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 24, 2017 11:17 AM (Jcg9Q)

297
Meh, it's no Rorschach.
Posted by: Muldoon


Then I told the doctor, "they're YOUR dirty pictures!"

Posted by: Just the punchline at May 24, 2017 11:17 AM (IqV8l)

298 My favorite somewhat modern painting that captures a "mood" is Matisse's "The Red Room". I'd love to see it in person but since it's in Russia the chances of that happening are slim to none.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2017 11:17 AM (Phln5)

299 That looks like a "re-purposed" church building.

Posted by: Emmie at May 24, 2017 11:05 AM (ZapPq)

That was exactly my first thought when I looked at it.

Well done, Britain....well done.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 11:06 AM (Enq6K)




Hagia Sophia: Hello? Can anyone hear me?!?!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 11:17 AM (493sH)

300 295. Gin, hubris, and stacks of cash are a hell of a drug.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:17 AM (TwwWO)

301 Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:12 AM (a0IVu)

Yes, I think that is true. M. didn't seem to sign his works. Not with his name anyway, but his style is pretty unique.

With this work, and with Bernini, it's about how he disguises the material he's working with. Yes, it's marble, but you also see real flesh, the material of Mary's garment, the dead weight of Christ's body. There's also how M. hides the deliberate flaws, like the size of Mary herself. And the symbolism is amazing--a complex meaning in a very simple work.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2017 11:18 AM (nwqNw)

302 277 Test strips are NOT art.
Posted by: DaveA


Litmus tests are really black magic.

Posted by: Church of the Climate Change Religion at May 24, 2017 11:18 AM (7n4KQ)

303 Didn't Rothko invent the Pocket Fisherman and the Chop-O-Matic?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 24, 2017 11:19 AM (4AVeu)

304 Rothco Home Pregnancy test strips?

Posted by: Under Fire at May 24, 2017 11:20 AM (fXKn5)

305 Didn't Rothko invent the Pocket Fisherman and the Chop-O-Matic?"

Nah. Just the spray on "hair in a can"

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:20 AM (MINbv)

306 Morning all. Trump impeached yet?

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 11:20 AM (O2RFr)

307

Hey, you call that art?

My pencil case clock has that beat to shit.

Posted by: Clock Boy at May 24, 2017 11:20 AM (OZmbA)

308 303 Didn't Rothko invent the Pocket Fisherman and the Chop-O-Matic?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Maybe, but I know I saw an infomercial for his Instant Watercolor Artist kit.

Posted by: Roy at May 24, 2017 11:20 AM (7n4KQ)

309 Looks like the hair colors in the front row of a feminists studies class

Posted by: josephistan at May 24, 2017 11:20 AM (7HtZB)

310
Litmus tests are really black magic.

____________________________________

You had to go there. . .

Posted by: Al Sharpton at May 24, 2017 11:21 AM (4AVeu)

311 HIS NAME IS PAT RIARCHY!
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan!
No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:13 AM


That guy nicknamed Whitey?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2017 11:21 AM (DMUuz)

312 "Looks like the hair colors in the front row of a feminists studies class"

Thread winner

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2017 11:21 AM (Phln5)

313 According to a blurb on Drudge this morning, mushrooms are the safest drug to do.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 10:37 AM (vg8iE)

Of course! They are organic, man, just like hemlock. Oh, wait...

Posted by: zombie Socrates at May 24, 2017 11:21 AM (0deF2)

314 So this Rothko is a modern depiction of the Pieta?

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (Z4z/q)

315 Chop-O-Matic?
The Shticky.

Posted by: Vince at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (fXKn5)

316 311. Nope. You're thinking of the Winter Hill boss.

HIS NAME WAS JAMES BULGER!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (TwwWO)

317 Litmus tests are really black magic.
Posted by: Church of the Climate Change Religion at May 24, 2017 11:18 AM


Sometimes they're the acid test.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (DMUuz)

318 Hagia Sophia: Hello? Can anyone hear me?!?!

------------------------------
Parthenon: I hear you.

Posted by: RioBravo at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (SsblQ)

319 314 So this Rothko is a modern depiction of the Pieta?
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (Z4z/q)


Hell, why not?

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (CPk08)

320 314
So this Rothko is a modern depiction of the Pieta?

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (Z4z/q)
Gasp!!!! Blasphemous!

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (a0IVu)

321 I have an art degree and taught art in HS.My expertise is really more in the Impressionists, but "modern" art can be pleasing with it's shapes and use of color.. It's not everyone's taste...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 11:23 AM (O2RFr)

322 Speaking of Katy Perry, one of the most schadenbonery moments on election night came when she gave a speech at the Javits Center early in the evening, talking as if Her had already won.

Haw-haw!

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 24, 2017 11:23 AM (ul9CR)

323 Parthenon: I hear you.
Posted by: RioBravo at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (SsblQ)
-------
The phuck?.. "Pantheon"

Posted by: RioBravo at May 24, 2017 11:23 AM (SsblQ)

324 Sometimes they're the acid test."

Don't do the brown acid, man.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:24 AM (MINbv)

325 just saw a pic of Melania's blue outfit to Brussels..just a hint of cleavage.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:24 AM (a0IVu)

326 HIS NAME WAS JAMES BULGER!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (TwwWO)

It still is.....he's 87.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2017 11:24 AM (x9c8r)

327 318 Hagia Sophia: Hello? Can anyone hear me?!?!

------------------------------
Parthenon: I hear you.

Posted by: RioBravo at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (SsblQ)


No shit, man.

Posted by: Temple Mount at May 24, 2017 11:24 AM (CPk08)

328 Sometimes they're the acid test.
__________________________________

I was told there would be no test.

Posted by: Dr. Timothy Leary, The 6th Dimension at May 24, 2017 11:24 AM (4AVeu)

329 312 "Looks like the hair colors in the front row of a feminists studies class"

Thread winner
Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2017 11:21 AM (Phln5)

:blushes:

It was that or: "Looking For Violet, Green And Red" - said the feminist studies major in the hair dye aisle

Posted by: josephistan at May 24, 2017 11:24 AM (7HtZB)

330 HIS NAME WAS JAMES BULGER!
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan!
No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM


Are you feeling particularly robust this fine Central Texas morning, or channeling Ben Rothelisberger? ;-)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2017 11:24 AM (DMUuz)

331 296 Morning all.

So do people actually pay for so-called "art" like this? If so just another testament to the stupidity that has overrun the planet.
Posted by: Country Boy at May 24, 2017 11:17 AM (Jcg9Q)


Usually as a way to hide embezzled or stolen money.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 24, 2017 11:24 AM (bDjRV)

332 I sincerely hope that someone didn't pay actual money for this one.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 24, 2017 11:25 AM (7ZVPa)

333
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money. - Oscar Wilde


Shamelessly stolen from Maggie's Farm.

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 11:25 AM (MdC1o)

334 *rubs eyes*

For a moment there, thought I needed to schedule an eye exam. Geez.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 11:25 AM (rNQTc)

335 You are missing the point. The Brits and the French knew he was contacting ISIS and they knew he was flying back and forth to Libya and Syria. They knew he had reentered the country and where he lived. Still they did not arrest him. Sure if you have a President like Barky anyone can cross the border but as soon as the SOB is known to be back in the country he would get arrested.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 24, 2017 11:16 AM (mpXpK)

Vic we can't arrest people in our own country who do the same thing...right now, the President cannot ban the entry of ANYONE from the seven countries whom are filled with ISIS and other terrorists because a judge in Hawaii thinks it's mean. There is no way you could either arrest or ban entry to a US citizen simply because they traveled to Raqqa, etc. The ACLU, half a dozen state AG's and fourteen Christian churches would all file suit and these judges would order their release and monetary damages.

Why would we think Europe would be more strict than we are?

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:25 AM (62eBc)

336 330. YES.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:25 AM (TwwWO)

337 320 314
So this Rothko is a modern depiction of the Pieta?

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (Z4z/q)
Gasp!!!! Blasphemous!
Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:22 AM (a0IVu)

Don't behead me.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 11:25 AM (Z4z/q)

338 Seeing the Pieta at St. Peters is breath taking. I challenge any atheist to look at that and tell me the Pieta was not divinely inspired.


Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (a0IVu)

It absolutely is breath taking. I still remember it nearly 18 years later. I still remember how it smelled in that part of St Peters while the guide was describing it to us.

Posted by: Timon at May 24, 2017 11:26 AM (RjcAj)

339 So Ramadan starts on Friday....

at least we'll get some peace and quiet for a month, amirite ?

Posted by: McCool at May 24, 2017 11:26 AM (KvRqW)

340 "modern" art can be pleasing with it's shapes and use of color..

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 11:23 AM (O2RFr)

I agree, and that is my point about this piece. It's fun to look at.

But when I wake up in the middle of the night, in a panic because I can't think of anything to post for you maniacs, my mind doesn't rush to Rothko.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2017 11:27 AM (rF0hx)

341 The phuck?.. "Pantheon"
Posted by: RioBravo at May 24, 2017 11:23 AM (SsblQ)


Parthenon works too. Repurposed as a church, then as a mosque, then as a powder magazine, then as a chochke emporium.

Posted by: Temple Mount at May 24, 2017 11:27 AM (CPk08)

342 Looking for Doggie at Mail Slot Window

Posted by: Fritz at May 24, 2017 11:27 AM (2Mnv1)

343 So Ramadan starts on Friday....

at least we'll get some peace and quiet for a month, amirite ?
Posted by: McCool at May 24, 2017 11:26 AM (KvRqW)
____________


and lil cups of noodles? I really like those.

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 11:27 AM (MdC1o)

344 It's a big equal sign ... but there is no real equality, so one bar is much bigger.
The blue bar is the aristocrat, getting ahead by using the little brown stepping stones.
The green bar is the worker in flyover country. The form the basis for the blue bars, but darkness is creeping into their world.
The orange backdrop is the fire of hell, out of which this brief attempt at an egalitarian society has emerged.

Well, the colors are pleasing at least.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 24, 2017 11:28 AM (TmCOq)

345 Off, archaeological sock..

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 24, 2017 11:28 AM (CPk08)

346 I will admit that I, personally, could not paint this.

But I also can barely draw stick figures. When I play games like Drawful (basically Pictionary with odd prompts), I usually cheat by writing some words to help people identify my cryptic, child-like scribbles.

Posted by: broseidon, news sleuth and provisional komodo dragon at May 24, 2017 11:28 AM (oZ6kz)

347 How George W. Bush Ended the 26-Year Saga of Reading Rainbow.

Wasn't there recently a Kickstarter that raised enough money to gold-plate LeVar Burton, never mind make a lot of new Reading Rainbow episodes?

Posted by: Ian S. at May 24, 2017 11:28 AM (3J/LN)

348 Rothko's work emphasizes color composition, color harmonies, to the exclusion of nearly everything else. It isn't supposed to look like anything or be anything but its own sweet self, an object in space.

As an aside, Rothko deeply resented being categorized as an abstract artist since he felt the aims of the abstractionists were entirely different from his own. He wrote a book, 'The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art,' where he summarizes what he's after.

Extrapolating from some of his conclusions, art isn't what's hanging on the wall or hanging in the round. Art is what's taking place inside the person experiencing the object (or the dance performance or the piece of music or whatever). The emotions and associations and thoughts are what's being composed and directed. Rothko just happened to use color.

I happen to think many people don't like this kind of art because they go in with preconceived notions of what capital 'A' Art is supposed to be. If you're not open to it, that's fine, but I think you're missing out.

Posted by: troyriser at May 24, 2017 11:28 AM (Fw5cQ)

349 but "modern" art can be pleasing with it's shapes and use of color.. It's not everyone's taste...

Posted by: It's Me donna


Years ago, the wife and I were shopping for granite countertops. So we walked through this warehouse with hundreds of samples. I stopped dead at one. It was a Jackson Pollack painting in stone. Unbelievably expensive - like $50,000, unbelievably beautiful. It had a name on the tag that identified it as 'Pollack' so I wasn't the first one to notice the resemblance.

It makes me wonder if Pollack borrowed his designs from nature.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 24, 2017 11:28 AM (HTdUD)

350 From the Daily Mail:
"The father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi has said son is innocent, and has confirmed UK police have arrested a another son."

Sure pops. Sure.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 10:47 AM (jxbfJ)

You want to stop this shit, do targeted reprisals. Scrag the whole damned family. Go medieval on them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 11:28 AM (0deF2)

351 Republican Guard Tanks as seen in Trump's IR Targeting scope. They have had their engines off for a long time. Three targets. If he is in an Abrams then ban, bang, bang. If it is a Bradley then it is launch, launch, withdraw, reload, re-engage, launch.

Posted by: Ok at May 24, 2017 11:28 AM (OE5e7)

352 339.
THIS IS IRONIC, IN THAT IT INTENTIONALLY MIS-STATES A KNOWN AND OBVIOUS FACT FOR COMEDIC EFFECT.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:29 AM (TwwWO)

353 It's upside down. Ass.

Posted by: Mark Rothko at May 24, 2017 11:29 AM (3vyFz)

354 Sorry, I meant 'standing in the round', as in statuary.

Posted by: troyriser at May 24, 2017 11:29 AM (Fw5cQ)

355 "modern" art can be pleasing with it's shapes and use of color..

Posted by: It's Me donna

I agree, and that is my point about this piece. It's fun to look at.

But when I wake up in the middle of the night, in a panic because I can't think of anything to post for you maniacs, my mind doesn't rush to Rothko.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


So you're saying the dude who always wants Larry Elmore has a chance at the dream...

Posted by: Jackson Pollack at May 24, 2017 11:29 AM (AM1GF)

356 Art related life changing moment, circa 1994.

Shibumi visits the Museum of Modern art in DC with a friend. See's "art" that's basically a pile of stacked boxes and some burlap. Mutters something like "what a piece of cr@p. It looks like something in the back garage."

And Shibumi realizes: "Oh.My.God. I am my Dad."

/Dad was not the sane one

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 11:29 AM (aT+Bx)

357
Rothko was like a Nostradamus, that painting depicts the blood splattered by Hillary as she failed to break the glass ceiling.

Rothko Prophecy 4:

At midnight the vodka leader of the womyns
Will save herself, suddenly vanished:
Seven years later her ceiling blemished in blood,
To her return they will never say yes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2017 11:30 AM (ODxAs)

358 /takes flamethrower to socks
/realizes he should have taken them off first

HOTHOTHOTHOT

/puts feet in cold water

Not my day for socks...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at May 24, 2017 11:30 AM (AM1GF)

359 343. Little cups of instant noodles are haram.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:30 AM (TwwWO)

360 All I know about modern art I learned from Tom Wolfe,

http://tinyurl.com/louxfw5

Posted by: geoffb5 at May 24, 2017 11:30 AM (d3wbb)

361 5
Nice colors.



I'll give you $12 for it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 10:23 AM (zc3Db)

How would you like to make $14 the hard way?

Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield at May 24, 2017 11:30 AM (8iiMU)

362 But I also can barely draw stick figures"

Heh. Same here. "Art" and I have nothing in common. 'cept I kinda wanted to be the art critic in "History of The World Part One"...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:31 AM (MINbv)

363 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 11:28 AM (0deF2)

I think diverse of you for a hateful comment like that!

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 24, 2017 11:31 AM (gwPgz)

364 As an aside, Rothko deeply resented being categorized as an abstract artist since he felt the aims of the abstractionists were entirely different from his own. He wrote a book, 'The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art,' where he summarizes what he's after.




To quote History of the World Part I, "Oh a bullshit artist."

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 11:31 AM (493sH)

365 "You want to stop..."

Bulldoze their flat? (flatten their flat?)

From Blazing Saddles, "too Jewish".

Posted by: Ok at May 24, 2017 11:31 AM (OE5e7)

366 Salman's pop is the administrative manager of the Central Security force in Tripoli.

Seems pretty 'connected' huh ?

Posted by: McCool at May 24, 2017 11:31 AM (KvRqW)

367 339 So Ramadan starts on Friday....
____________________________________

Is it Ramadan already?

I just took down the decorations from Laylat al-Bara'at!

OMA (Oh My Allah)!

This year is flying by!

Posted by: Ali Ka-Boom, The Religion of Pieces at May 24, 2017 11:32 AM (4AVeu)

368 Don't behead me.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 24, 2017 11:25 AM (Z4z/q)
Don't worry..I am Catholic so I'll just send you a rosary.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:32 AM (a0IVu)

369 Conservative Treehouse has numerous photos from the President and First Lady's meeting with the Pope and Cardinals at the Vatican.

Melania is in a gorgeous black coatdress with lace overlay and is wearing an appropriate black lace head covering as a practicing Catholic.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:32 AM (62eBc)

370 All I know about modern art I learned from Tom Wolfe

Posted by: geoffb5 at May 24, 2017 11:30 AM (d3wbb)

Maude Lebowski, for me.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2017 11:33 AM (x9c8r)

371 329
312 "Looks like the hair colors in the front row of a feminists studies class"



Thread winner

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2017 11:21 AM (Phln5)



:blushes:



It was that or: "Looking For Violet, Green And Red" - said the feminist studies major in the hair dye aisle

Posted by: josephistan at May 24, 2017 11:24 AM (7HtZB)

But they say there is only one way to tell if it is their true hair color

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 11:33 AM (jxbfJ)

372 >> 89 I like Rothko. He certainly would have to prove to me that he could paint like Rembrandt before I would accord him the respect I give Rembrandt, but I'd rather hang a Rothko over my fireplace mantel than a Rembrandt. Suits my transitional style better.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at May 24, 2017 10:36 AM (RHjCR)

---

He couldn't. If you go back to early Rothko, in the '30s, you see a painter heavily influenced by Picasso and Miro -- but clearly without the chops. And unlike Picasso, who was an amazing prodigy in his youth, there are no Rothkos from his youth that say "I could paint like this if I wanted to, but I don't." It was only when abandoned figurative art altogether that he found his niche.

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at May 24, 2017 11:33 AM (5JlYa)

373 since Salman Abedi only killed infidels, his dad doesn't see how his spawn for anything wrong. that about right?

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2017 11:33 AM (kjW1F)

374 Conservative Treehouse has numerous photos from the President and First Lady's meeting with the Pope and Cardinals at the Vatican.

Melania is in a gorgeous black coatdress with lace overlay and is wearing an appropriate black lace head covering as a practicing Catholic.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:32 AM (62eBc)



Michelle "Fashion Icon" Obama: Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 11:33 AM (493sH)

375 Killing infidels during Ramadan gets you on the express lane to virgins...so expect more suicide bombings. I hope Mattis has a plan to send them to hell first.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:33 AM (a0IVu)

376 365
"You want to stop..."



Bulldoze their flat? (flatten their flat?)



From Blazing Saddles, "too Jewish".





Posted by: Ok at May 24, 2017 11:31 AM (OE5e7)

Would it be uncouth to piss on the ruins once demolition is complete? You know, for dust control.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 11:34 AM (jxbfJ)

377 Killing infidels during Ramadan gets you on the express lane to virgins"

Ah. Their HOV lanes, then?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:34 AM (MINbv)

378 Something wrong with my monitor. Came to the art thread and all I see are squares inside a square.

Posted by: French Jeton at May 24, 2017 11:35 AM (WMvHw)

379 Don't worry..I am Catholic so I'll just send you a rosary.
Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:32 AM (a0IVu)
_________


Is that a thing? Really?
Before I was married and still in my apartment I came home to a small velvet pouch, with a beautiful wooden carved rosary in it. It was just propped up against my door like it was placed on purpose.
It really is something to see. Now, I'm not even remotely Catholic but I can appreciate the workmanship. I still have it.
I never did figure out where it came from, it was a locked building so it had to be one of the other 7 apartments I figured.

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 11:36 AM (MdC1o)

380 >>Maude Lebowski, for me.


'He's a good man, Jeffrey. And Thorough.'

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 11:36 AM (cwFUa)

381 Melania is in a gorgeous black coatdress with lace overlay and is wearing an appropriate black lace head covering as a practicing Catholic

How's that bitch tuck it so well?

Posted by: Moochelle Obama at May 24, 2017 11:37 AM (0mRoj)

382 This is why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: Strobe at May 24, 2017 11:37 AM (gbWkA)

383 Little cups of instant noodles are haram.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan!
No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:30 AM


What about pudding?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Abdul Abulbul Amir at May 24, 2017 11:37 AM (DMUuz)

384 Ya' know, someday an Airplane! or Blazing Saddles reference is going to go unnoticed, and I don't want be alive when that happens."

Same here. Now let's go win one for the Zipper.
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:08 AM (MINbv)

-----
Hey.... you tell your Dad to carry Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 11:11 AM


It's OK Stewardess, Bluebell speaks jive.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 11:37 AM (0tfLf)

385 Something wrong with my monitor. Came to the art thread and all I see are squares inside a square.

Posted by: French Jeton


Sounds like standard pixy comment section to me...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at May 24, 2017 11:37 AM (AM1GF)

386
Heh. Same here. "Art" and I have nothing in common. 'cept I kinda wanted to be the art critic in "History of The World Part One"...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:31 AM (MINbv)

I started kindergarten at age 4 (Mom's first mistake).

Apparently I had a running debate with my teacher most of the year as to why I didn't have to color inside the lines.

Mom finally got me to compromise that I only had to do it at school, I could do what I wanted at home.

I've been the "closet rebel" ever since.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 24, 2017 11:38 AM (Jcg9Q)

387 Brattleboro really misses our Presdent of Cooler and want Trump to resign . Trump lied and nowwe has all these problems created by him. We all loved are Black Presdent. You should love him too. If you don't love him and you obviously hate persons of coler. We wants him back because lots of are citizens do not know how to cope with this unstable future created by that persons of color hater Trump !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at May 24, 2017 11:38 AM (WmgTn)

388 If we don't think this is great art then the terrorists have won.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 11:38 AM (oVJmc)

389 Brother Cavil:

I was expecting someone to say that. You are quick.

Posted by: French Jeton at May 24, 2017 11:38 AM (WMvHw)

390 Killing infidels during Ramadan gets you on the express lane to virgins...so expect more suicide bombings. I hope Mattis has a plan to send them to hell first.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:33 AM (a0IVu)



Last night Decades TV ran a Tonight Show with Roger Moore as a guest from 1982. Carson asked Roger to retell some jokes he told Carson on vacation.

A Scotsman tells his boss he's getting married on Thursday and needs the afternoon off and Friday too. His boss says, Jamie lad, it's your wedding take Saturday as well. Come Thursday, Jamie works the whole day and shows up on Friday. His boss says to him, I thought you were getting married what happened? Jamie says, I found out she's a virgin. Boss, What does that matter? Jamie, Well if she's not good enough for the other lads she's not good enough for me.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 11:39 AM (493sH)

391 Now we have to worry about clowns with razor blade gloves?

Posted by: Strobe at May 24, 2017 11:39 AM (gbWkA)

392 383. When first opened, they are permitted. After celebrating, they are haram and must be offered to an unbeliever from a competing sect. All this must be documented by video, which must then be uploaded to YouTube or liveleak to be halal.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:40 AM (TwwWO)

393 Melania is in a gorgeous black coatdress with lace overlay and is wearing an appropriate black lace head covering as a practicing Catholic
--

I was unaware that Melania was a Catholic. Good to know.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 11:40 AM (aT+Bx)

394
Seeing the Pieta at St. Peters is breath taking. I challenge any atheist to look at that and tell me the Pieta was not divinely inspired.
Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:04 AM (a0IVu)

When the sculpture was first unveiled, people were so blown away that they were convinced that angels had made it. Michelangelo was so offended that that night he sneaked into where it was displayed and carved his name on Mary's sash, to let everyone know who really made it.

I don't know how true the story is, but it's one of my favorites.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2017 11:10 AM (nwqNw)







The version of the story I read was that a high church official publicly referred to Mike as "our gobbo from Milan". Mike took it badly, since he was actually from Florence (he was working in Milan when the church commissioned the Pieta). In his mind, it was like calling him an inbred redneck.

So he took his hammer and chisel, broke in to St Peter's and signed the Pieta "Michaelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine, made this".

And yes, it's his only signed work.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 24, 2017 11:40 AM (XWkhW)

395 Killing infidels during Ramadan gets you on the express lane to virgins...

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:33 AM (a0IVu)


Rubber Dinghy Rapids!

Posted by: Waj at May 24, 2017 11:40 AM (zc3Db)

396 I used to be able to draw to some extent. Then I took art class in high school. That finished that ability off.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 11:40 AM (rNQTc)

397 Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at May 24, 2017 11:38 AM (WmgTn)

I'm pretty sure that's some form of appropriation....you rayciss.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2017 11:40 AM (x9c8r)

398 Why the hell wouldn't you wait for Ramadan to go splodey? It's like buying a TV a month before Columbus Day weekend.

But, you know, with murdered innocents.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 24, 2017 11:41 AM (bDjRV)

399 369

Melania is in a gorgeous black coatdress with lace overlay and is wearing an appropriate black lace head covering as a practicing Catholic.
Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:32 AM (62eBc)

She's been wearing Dolce & Gabbana in Rome ! Stefano Gabbana ( the more public of the two) is loving it and telling his critics to shove-it ( literally and with diagrams! ) on instagram. It's glorious!

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at May 24, 2017 11:41 AM (oQQwD)

400 But they say there is only one way to tell if it is their true hair color.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 11:33 AM


We've already anticipated your archaic imperialistic white-supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchal thoughts.

Posted by: Hardwoods R Us at May 24, 2017 11:42 AM (DMUuz)

401 Johnson?

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2017 11:42 AM (7HtZB)

402 I would love to see the Pieta in person some day. I am 100% sure I would cry.

I do appreciate that CBD tries to broaden our horizons. And I think it's sweet that he wakes up in the middle of the night worried about which art to give us maniacs. He really does care!

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 11:42 AM (qgdLA)

403 Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at May 24, 2017 11:38 AM (WmgTn)

-------

You snark..... but you sound EXACTLY like most of my liberal friends on social media.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 11:42 AM (8XRCm)

404 399, Posted by: RondinellaMamma at May 24, 2017 11:41 AM (oQQwD)

I think it was AtC who mentioned it - Melania is a dream for any rational designer.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:42 AM (a0IVu)

405 Sargon of Akkad - 'The Real Victims' of the Manchester massacre

https://youtu.be/6Xqs9VTVye4

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 11:44 AM (TwwWO)

406
Brattleboro really misses our Presdent of Cooler

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at May 24, 2017 11:38 AM (WmgTn)









No, no. Moochelle is the Yeti....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 24, 2017 11:44 AM (XWkhW)

407 Melania is in a gorgeous black coatdress with lace overlay and is wearing an appropriate black lace head covering as a practicing Catholic
--

I was unaware that Melania was a Catholic. Good to know.



Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 11:40 AM (aT+Bx)

Obligatory Frank Zappa: Catholic Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fdcDN4LbYQ

Posted by: Country Boy at May 24, 2017 11:45 AM (Jcg9Q)

408 He really does care! "

He likes us! He really likes us!

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:45 AM (MINbv)

409
Maxine Waters is ranting and raving on CNBC and of course they are treating her like the voice of reason

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 11:45 AM (493sH)

410 We've already anticipated your archaic imperialistic white-supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchal thoughts.

Posted by: Hardwoods R Us at May 24, 2017 11:42 AM (DMUuz)


It should be easily possible to string together 100 or so selected comments from the AoS archives and generate a viable PhD thesis for any Womyn's Studies Program in the country!

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 24, 2017 11:45 AM (gwPgz)

411 *scratches head* Huh

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/average-bob-sleeping-3.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 11:45 AM (rNQTc)

412 Pieta means 'pie eater' in Eyetalian.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 11:46 AM (oVJmc)

413 if you are looking for bold use of color, try Krasnyansky

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 24, 2017 11:46 AM (7ZVPa)

414 Johnson?
Posted by: The Dude "

Wrong Johnson, Howard.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:46 AM (MINbv)

415 Of course, maybe he put this up because the Yankees lost last night.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 11:47 AM (qgdLA)

416 As a Presbyterian, I always enjoyed an opportunity to go to church, when I was a kid, with my friend, who was catholic. The Latin Mass, the smell of incense...the pomp and ritual. My father is Eastern Orthodox. They still have the ritual Mass.

Posted by: Strobe at May 24, 2017 11:47 AM (gbWkA)

417 Two true things.

Obama's mother is not in doubt. In her younger days she would have been called "white trash" if she had been a Republican.

Most of the (so called? self proclaimed?) leaders of African-Americans are decedents of slave owners. In at least one case documented by that ancestry TV show.

Posted by: Ok at May 24, 2017 11:47 AM (OE5e7)

418 If Michelle is the Yeti, does that make Malia and Sasha the Coleman and Ozark Trails?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 11:47 AM (rNQTc)

419 Think I'll just Rothko that blank wall in the rec room. Time to pick up some cheap paint at the recycle place.
I think I'll title it "Cheap Bastard Pretends To Give Art A Shot".

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 24, 2017 11:47 AM (e1mEI)

420 yikes !!

You wanted Raphael
You will settle for Rothko...


Staring at this thing will lead to bad things, reaction to this work can be unpredictable .... so, I shall not be held responsible for my actions the rest of the day...

Posted by: runner at May 24, 2017 11:48 AM (c6/9Q)

421 But they say there is only one way to tell if it is their true hair color.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2017 11:33 AM

We've already anticipated your archaic imperialistic white-supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchal thoughts.

Posted by: Hardwoods R Us at May 24, 2017 11:42 AM (DMUuz)



But your armpit hair is a dead give away

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 11:48 AM (493sH)

422 Picture: What he saw out the car window as it went down?



Good morning or afternoon depending on where you are.



Speaking of But Is It Art? I pulled this up the other day after the latest Norman Rockwell post:

Boy with Baby Carriage, the very first Norman Rockwell painting on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, appeared on May 20, 1916.

http://bit.ly/rockwell-1st-post


Posted by: mindful webworker - arteestishly at May 24, 2017 11:49 AM (ECUyd)

423 I was unaware that Melania was a Catholic. Good to know.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 11:40 AM (aT+Bx)

During the campaign when she still had both her website up and her facebook page, she posted photos of attending a church/cathedral in NYC for Easter, etc. Interior photos of the buildings and often a close up photo of the Trumps sitting in the pews, Barron , etc.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:49 AM (62eBc)

424 If Michelle is the Yeti, does that make Malia and Sasha the Coleman and Ozark Trails?"

Nah. RTIC and Orca.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:49 AM (MINbv)

425 >>Frank Zappa: Catholic Girls


You know how they go.

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2017 11:49 AM (cwFUa)

426 Maxine Waters is ranting and raving on CNBC and of course they are treating her like the voice of reason
--

We've entered The Crazy Times.

Maxine Waters= totally sane

Bruce Jenner= beautiful woman

islam= religion of peace

plus... Russia, Russia, Russia.

- lots of people here are mentally ill.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 11:50 AM (aT+Bx)

427 Johnson?

Posted by: The Dude "



Wrong Johnson, Howard.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:46 AM


This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: The Conceptual Penis at May 24, 2017 11:50 AM (p+Wdc)

428 kind of looks like pavement, after the car wreck was hauled away

Posted by: runner at May 24, 2017 11:50 AM (c6/9Q)

429 Of course, maybe he put this up because the Yankees lost last night.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 11:47 AM (qgdLA)

-----

Let's go Roy-als.

**clap clap clap-clap-clap**

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 11:51 AM (8XRCm)

430 if you are looking for bold use of color, try Krasnyansky

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 24, 2017 11:46 AM (7ZVPa)

I prefer Sherwin Williams.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2017 11:51 AM (x9c8r)

431
During the campaign when she still had both her website up and her facebook page, she posted photos of attending a church/cathedral in NYC for Easter, etc. Interior photos of the buildings and often a close up photo of the Trumps sitting in the pews, Barron , etc.
--

Wow, I totally missed that.

However, I don't do social media and was not paying a lot of attention to Melania at that point.

That being said... I'm very proud of her. She is a real role model for immigrants, women and mothers.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 11:51 AM (aT+Bx)

432 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: The Conceptual Penis"

Sure thing, Olson...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:51 AM (MINbv)

433 Also, I just read that Melania brought her rosary to be blessed by the Pope, in which he was surprised and delighted.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:52 AM (62eBc)

434
If you do a search on Bing 'Granite Pollack style' you'll see how he borrowed from nature - maybe. The pictures you see there are nothing like seeing the stone close up.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 24, 2017 11:52 AM (HTdUD)

435 433 Also, I just read that Melania brought her rosary to be blessed by the Pope, in which he was surprised and delighted.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:52 AM (62eBc)
==========

Did he do the Catholic blessing or was it the Global Warming Cult blessing?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 11:53 AM (vg8iE)

436 Also, I just read that Melania brought her rosary to be blessed by the Pope, in which he was surprised and delighted.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:52 AM (62eBc)


Why it's almost like the Trumps, unlike the Obamas have an understanding of "class"!

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 24, 2017 11:54 AM (gwPgz)

437 you'll see how he borrowed from nature - maybe"

Or just a black light and a frat bedroom...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:54 AM (MINbv)

438 435 433 Also, I just read that Melania brought her rosary to be blessed by the Pope, in which he was surprised and delighted.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:52 AM (62eBc)
==========

Did he do the Catholic blessing or was it the Global Warming Cult blessing?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 11:53 AM (vg8iE)

He said the prayer for exorcism of free enterprise and private ownership.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 24, 2017 11:54 AM (0mRoj)

439 if you are looking for bold use of color, try Krasnyansky Ipecac

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 11:54 AM (oVJmc)

440
We've entered The Crazy Times.

Maxine Waters= totally sane

Bruce Jenner= beautiful woman

islam= religion of peace

plus... Russia, Russia, Russia.


And MSNBC atop the ratings.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 11:55 AM (IqV8l)

441 Roses are red, Violets are blue,
Or so I thought at the time,
But now I know Violets are red,
and Roses are blue,
because I saw them hanging on the line.

Benny Hill

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 11:55 AM (MdC1o)

442 402 ... " I would love to see the Pieta in person some day. I am 100% sure I would cry."

bluebell, I was lucky enough to see the Pieta at the 1964 NY Worlds Fair. It was an astonishing experience even for a young fellow. Although the lines were huge, I went back to see it again.

I hope that was due to the extraordinary art and not to get out of taking my kid brother through the It's a Small World ride a second time.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2017 11:55 AM (V+03K)

443 427 Johnson?

Posted by: The Dude "



Wrong Johnson, Howard.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:46 AM

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: The Conceptual Penis at May 24, 2017 11:50 AM (p+Wdc)

Can we call it a... Tallywhacker?

Posted by: Beullah Balbriker at May 24, 2017 11:55 AM (NgKpN)

444 Also, I just read that Melania brought her rosary to be blessed by the Pope, in which he was surprised and delighted.

Eh, she'll just sell it on Ebay.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 11:55 AM (oVJmc)

445 Why it's almost like the Trumps, unlike the Obamas have an understanding of "class"!
--

Really, my cat would do better with the Pope than the Obamas.

Also... I am hoping that the fact that Melania is Catholic may soften the commie/liberal Pope's heart a bit.

A nice Catholic girl can dream, can't she?

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 11:56 AM (aT+Bx)

446 More than 400 comments, time to peddle a book I guess.

http://astore.amazon.com/aoshq-20/detail/B071NQQMPK

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 11:56 AM (rNQTc)

447 She is a real role model for immigrants, women and mothers Americans.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 11:51 AM (aT+Bx)

FIFY

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2017 11:56 AM (rF0hx)

448 I bought a Rothko Pocket Fisherman.
It's around here somewhere.....

Posted by: Roland THTG at May 24, 2017 11:56 AM (QM5S2)

449 Are we at the last pope from prophecy yet? If so, please let me know. I need to enlist in the army of the soldiers of light.

Posted by: Strobe at May 24, 2017 11:56 AM (gbWkA)

450 To carve that from a single block of marble .. it is hard to process.


Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 11:12 AM (a0IVu)

I've been sculpting lately--doing clay modeling now but eventually moving into stone and marble. What I've learned so far is that working in stone is part practical and part intuitive.

Michelangelo was as much structural engineer as artist.

Posted by: troyriser at May 24, 2017 11:56 AM (Fw5cQ)

451 time to peddle a book I guess."

Try a bike. Easier.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 11:57 AM (MINbv)

452 And MSNBC atop the ratings.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 11:55 AM (IqV8l)

Which is the saddest thing out of this...

Its proving to the Left that Fake News and attacking the President of the US, is a good business model....

Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2017 11:57 AM (NgKpN)

453 Michelangelo was as much structural engineer as artist.

Posted by: troyriser at May 24, 2017 11:56 AM (Fw5cQ)

I read...somewhere...that he referred to good stone as "meat".

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2017 11:59 AM (x9c8r)

454 You snark..... but you sound EXACTLY like most of my liberal friends on social media.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 11:42 AM (8XRCm)



Sounds like time to get new friends. And/or shitcan social media.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2017 11:59 AM (SRKgf)

455 Roses are wilting
Violets are dead
Rothko's no artist
He shouldn't have been paid !

(should have been pained if you ask me...)

Posted by: runner at May 24, 2017 11:59 AM (c6/9Q)

456
Its proving to the Left that Fake News and attacking the President of the US, is a good business model....

Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2017 11:57 AM (NgKpN)
========

ONLY if that president is a Republican.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 11:59 AM (vg8iE)

457 We just got our new painting drop cloths in, so we are now selling original Pollocks.

And call for free estimates! One room free!

Sincerely,

Posted by: Acme House Painting and Modern Art, Seacaucus at May 24, 2017 11:59 AM (Ndje9)

458 I always like his work. Not $2.4 million dollars like, but I am one of those who thinks colors use can express the artist's emotions, and obviously he distilled that concept.

Posted by: Lauren at May 24, 2017 11:59 AM (IeFrQ)

459 As per JihadWatch... germany is now considering $56 MILLION fines for hate speech.

So... bring in savage outsiders who kill and rape your citizens.

Speak against savage outsiders? Severe punishment.

Seems kind of totalitarian to me.

/ totalitarian: relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (aT+Bx)

460 So Ramadan starts on Friday....

Ramadumb... Is that where they go to mecca and stampede killing hundreds?

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (O2RFr)

461 Cows, in a pond

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (NBHj5)

462 447 She is a real role model for immigrants, women and mothers
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 11:51 AM (aT+Bx)

FIFY
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2017 11:56 AM (rF0hx)



Well done.

It's time to lose the Balkanization of America.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (SRKgf)

463 I bought a Rothko Pocket Fisherman.
It's around here somewhere.....

Posted by: Roland THTG



Did you buy a Bass O'Matic 76 to go with that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HKTx5WFcs0

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (HTdUD)

464 448 I bought a Rothko Pocket Fisherman.
It's around here somewhere.....

---

perfect for catching bluefish, redfish....

Posted by: disappointed sniper at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (oGRue)

465 On this day Thelma and Louise went off the big screen cliff in cinemas across the country.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (rNQTc)

466 Michelangelo referred to himself as a stone cutter, first and foremost

Posted by: runner at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (c6/9Q)

467 It's an upside-down door owned by a person who pushed it open with his feet.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (udajc)

468 Ramadumb... Is that where they go to mecca and stampede killing hundreds?
Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (O2RFr)



There's a whole bunch of them, all gathered in one place, packed in shoulder to shoulder.

Hmmmmm.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2017 12:01 PM (SRKgf)

469 Looks fishy.

Posted by: Jackson Pollock at May 24, 2017 12:01 PM (QQ+il)

470 Also, I just read that Melania brought her rosary to be blessed by the Pope, in which he was surprised and delighted.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:52 AM (62eBc)

Did he lecture her about fags and the transgender freak show first?

Posted by: Country Boy at May 24, 2017 12:01 PM (Jcg9Q)

471 ...still have the ritual...

The real spiritual issue, as stated by Christian Mystics, is that performing ritual magic is worshiping false idols.

That said, the Mystics also say that everyone will be saved no-matter-how-long-it-takes (parable of the flock). So go ahead and enjoy the pageant.

Christian Mystics proclaim what Catholic Church would call Heresies. The ones that have significant believers say the same things sightly restated. To tell the difference between the real thing and a con-man check for if they take up a collection (pass the plate) at their lectures. Solicitations for money is the tell. Does God really need your money? God hardened Pharaoh's heart. Money is Caesar's world.

Posted by: Ok at May 24, 2017 12:02 PM (OE5e7)

472 452 And MSNBC atop the ratings.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 11:55 AM (IqV8l)

Which is the saddest thing out of this...

Its proving to the Left that Fake News and attacking the President of the US, is a good business model....
Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2017 11:57 AM (NgKpN)

=============

All it proves to me is that oppositional press tends to attract more eyeballs than supportive press.

But then again, I'm not the Left. So there's that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at May 24, 2017 12:02 PM (viSzi)

473 A nice Catholic girl can dream, can't she?
Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 11:56 AM


I've heard those dreams can be quite ... colorful.

Posted by: Boy Scout Rothko, across the lake in camp at May 24, 2017 12:02 PM (DMUuz)

474 466. He kept the aliens under wraps, rigged every Oscar night, and kept the metric system down.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 12:02 PM (TwwWO)

475 It slices, it dices.

Posted by: Strobe at May 24, 2017 12:02 PM (gbWkA)

476 There's a whole bunch of them, all gathered in one place, packed in shoulder to shoulder.

Hmmmmm.



jib.. cut.. like

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 12:02 PM (MdC1o)

477 Hmm. News of explosions in Jakarta, military and police in streets...

Lutherans? Mennonites? The world wonders...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 12:02 PM (MINbv)

478 470 Also, I just read that Melania brought her rosary to be blessed by the Pope, in which he was surprised and delighted.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2017 11:52 AM (62eBc)

Did he lecture her about fags and the transgender freak show first?

Probably.... I did hear he lectured Trump on globull warming and begged him to stay in the Paris disaccord....

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:02 PM (O2RFr)

479
Hmm. News of explosions in Jakarta, military and police in streets...

That darn Trump!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 12:03 PM (IqV8l)

480 Hmm. News of explosions in Jakarta, military and police in streets...

Lutherans? Mennonites? The world wonders...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 12:02 PM (MINbv)


Barky's elementary school classmates.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:03 PM (zc3Db)

481 I always like his work. Not $2.4 million dollars like, but I am one of those who thinks colors use can express the artist's emotions, and obviously he distilled that concept.

Posted by: Lauren at May 24, 2017 11:59 AM (IeFrQ)



Oh it was distilled alright. Probably 50 proof before he started randomly slapping paint down

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:03 PM (493sH)

482
The best Rothko ever....


http://tinyurl.com/ka99ta8

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 12:03 PM (8XRCm)

483
Probably.... I did hear he lectured Trump on globull warming and begged him to stay in the Paris disaccord....

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:02 PM (O2RFr)
========

He also gave Trump a copy of the fairy tale he wrote about climate change.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 12:03 PM (vg8iE)

484 Ramadumb... Is that where they go to mecca and stampede killing hundreds?
Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:00 PM (O2RFr)


There's a whole bunch of them, all gathered in one place, packed in shoulder to shoulder.

Hmmmmm.

---

Moabites?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 24, 2017 12:03 PM (oGRue)

485 Nearly 500 comments...and I've read most of them....I gotta move, my butt hurts.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2017 12:04 PM (x9c8r)

486 donna, no, pilgrimage season is Dhul Hijja, last month of the Islamic lunar year. That is September this year.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2017 12:04 PM (DcKxa)

487 How come we never see Steve Bloom on here!?!?!
http://www.stevebloomartist.com/

Posted by: Steve Bloom Fan at May 24, 2017 12:04 PM (m7LQK)

488 He also gave Trump a copy of the fairy tale he wrote about climate change"

On an iPod?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 12:05 PM (MINbv)

489 484. And Yehud said, 'I have a message for you from the Lord.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 12:05 PM (TwwWO)

490 oh, it's a Rorschach test ? let me see...yes, a pavement after a Hyundai car wreckage was hauled away

Posted by: runner at May 24, 2017 12:05 PM (c6/9Q)

491 486 donna, no, pilgrimage season is Dhul Hijja, last month of the Islamic lunar year. That is September this year.

Thanks. I get my terrorist,I mean Muslim holidays confused....

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:05 PM (O2RFr)

492 472 452 And MSNBC atop the ratings.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 11:55 AM (IqV8l)

---

miss me yet?

Posted by: Megyn kelly at May 24, 2017 12:05 PM (oGRue)

493 and then this happens.... "NJ Emergency Alert System Accidentally Activates Sending Nuclear Warnings to TV's"

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 12:05 PM (MdC1o)

494 donna, no, pilgrimage season is Dhul Hijja, last month of the Islamic lunar year. That is September this year.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2017 12:04 PM (DcKxa)


Yeah ... ramadan is when they do a fake fast for 40 days.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:05 PM (zc3Db)

495 Ok, gotta work on stuff. BBL, y'all.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 24, 2017 12:06 PM (MINbv)

496
Did he lecture her about fags and the transgender freak show first?


Probably.... I did hear he lectured Trump on globull warming and begged him to stay in the Paris disaccord....
--

Many years ago, I ran into Trump on the streets of NYC. He's a very tall, VERY intimidating man.

Can't really see Pope Frank giving him a lecture. Or anyone for that matter.

Posted by: shibumi at May 24, 2017 12:06 PM (aT+Bx)

497 493 and then this happens.... "NJ Emergency Alert System Accidentally Activates Sending Nuclear Warnings to TV's"


See, we told you Trump was gonna activate nuclear war

Posted by: Your sycophant press at May 24, 2017 12:06 PM (O2RFr)

498 486. Yeah. Ramadan = sunrise to sunset 'fast,' broken by mondo scarfage as soon as the sun goes down. And even less useful work than usual gets done.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 24, 2017 12:06 PM (TwwWO)

499
Its proving to the Left that Fake News and attacking the President of the US, is a good business model....


The #1 channel concentrating on mortally wounding itself helps.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 12:06 PM (oVJmc)

500
If I were president I would have given Pope Fidel a copy of The Road to Serfdom.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:07 PM (493sH)

501 New Jersey?

Nuclear Warning?

Let me guess - Hillary!?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 12:07 PM (rNQTc)

502 If I were president I would have given Pope Fidel a copy of The Road to Serfdom.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:07 PM (493sH)


Heh. That would have been cool.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:07 PM (zc3Db)

503
The #1 channel concentrating on mortally wounding itself helps.

Exactly. Looks like the Murdock boys are tagging Hannity as next to go....

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:08 PM (O2RFr)

504 500
If I were president I would have given Pope Fidel a copy of The Road to Serfdom.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:07 PM (493sH)
========

I like your style.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 12:08 PM (vg8iE)

505 Ramadan? Is that when the goat-boy fuckers eat noodles?

Posted by: Strobe at May 24, 2017 12:08 PM (gbWkA)

506 ramadan is not a real fast - they stuff themselves silly before sunrise, go sleep for 8 hours and then stuff themselves silly again

Posted by: runner at May 24, 2017 12:08 PM (c6/9Q)

507 People should have stopped listening to Dope Frankie ages ago.

Posted by: Hikaru at May 24, 2017 12:08 PM (ULi11)

508 "NJ Emergency Alert System Accidentally Activates Sending Nuclear Warnings to TV's"

---

wait, trannies have their own warning system?

Posted by: Megyn kelly at May 24, 2017 12:08 PM (oGRue)

509 He also gave Trump a copy of the fairy tale he wrote about climate change"



For the umpteenth million time: we're NOT changing the goddamned climate!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2017 12:09 PM (SRKgf)

510 of all things the leader of Western Christianity could have pled with Trump about, not least of which is Christians being driven out of the Near East, Bergoglio goes with global warming.

it's sad when even the Jews and atheists here are noticing he is doing Papistry wrong.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2017 12:09 PM (DcKxa)

511 Looks like puke from a blue slurpee and nachos and bloody marys and really hot chili

Posted by: Bonecrusher at May 24, 2017 12:10 PM (uBQPh)

512 I always liked staying at Ramada when traveling by car. A little pricey for my budget. I didn't travel much by car.

Are they still around?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 24, 2017 12:10 PM (X0KnS)

513 I guess the upside of living in a nearly post-Christian world is that no one gives a fuck what the Pope has to say.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 12:10 PM (vg8iE)

514 Yellow and Blue makes Green!

Does Rothko really believe th primary colors are Red Green and Blue?

He is a big silly.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 24, 2017 12:11 PM (vRcUp)

515 499
Its proving to the Left that Fake News and attacking the President of the US, is a good business model....

The #1 channel concentrating on mortally wounding itself helps.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 12:06 PM (oVJmc)

Oh.... I concur.... but they are going to use this to justify their conduct internally....

We need an actual Conservative news outlet...

Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2017 12:11 PM (NgKpN)

516 That said, the Mystics also say that everyone will be saved no-matter-how-long-it-takes (parable of the flock). So go ahead and enjoy the pageant.

Which particular mystics are you speaking of.? There are a whole lot of mystics in the history of Christianity-some were even Saints and a number of them were quite convinced that only in belonging to the RCC can one be saved. I'm not a RCC and I don't agree with that and I can still deeply appreciate the gift of their lives and words to to the Christian faith because they put their eyes on Jesus..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2017 12:12 PM (qES5k)

517 New Jersey?

Nuclear Warning?

Let me guess - Hillary!?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2017 12:07 PM (rNQTc)


You would think this screw up would be enough to have them finally trash this pathetic and annoying "emergency alert" bullshit they force on the channels. I can't tell you how sick I am of having shows interrupted for the stupid "monthly" tests that seem to take place much more frequently than that.

ANd they can get rid of that idiotic Amber Alert bullshit, too. When was did anyone ever catch a kidnapper from his living room? Friggin bullshit ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:12 PM (zc3Db)

518 If I were president I would have given Pope Fidel a copy of The Road to Serfdom.



Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:07 PM (493sH)

Or The Road to Gandolfo.

Posted by: Roland THTG at May 24, 2017 12:12 PM (QM5S2)

519 Hey Francis! You're doing Pope wrong!

Posted by: Zombie Pope Julius II at May 24, 2017 12:12 PM (gbWkA)

520 Thanks JJ for reminding me how repulsively ugly David Frum is.Can you hide that thing below the fold?

Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2017 12:13 PM (rmVvL)

521 I guess the upside of living in a nearly post-Christian world is that no one gives a fuck what the Pope has to say.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 24, 2017 12:10 PM (vg8iE)



Yeah but you're going to have to listen up to what the commissar or imam says instead

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:14 PM (493sH)

522 ANd they can get rid of that idiotic Amber Alert bullshit, too. When was did anyone ever catch a kidnapper from his living room? Friggin bullshit ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:12 PM (zc3Db)



This.

Besides which, I suspect 99% of the Amber Alerts are triggered by an ex-spouse grabbing up their kid.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2017 12:14 PM (SRKgf)

523 You suppose the Pope has a style guide?
Maybe a How-to-Pope, or Poping for Dummies handbook?


Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 12:14 PM (MdC1o)

524 Lighten up Francis

Posted by: Sgt. Hulka at May 24, 2017 12:15 PM (gbWkA)

525 The Vatican is long way to go just to get lectured on Global Warming, Socialism and Open Borders. The Ninth Circuit is giving it away free, all day long.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 24, 2017 12:15 PM (Ndje9)

526 523 You suppose the Pope has a style guide?
Maybe a How-to-Pope, or Poping for Dummies handbook?


Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 12:14 PM (MdC1o)



Pope-ing ain't easy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2017 12:15 PM (SRKgf)

527 MSNBC Ratings- According to Nielsen, MSNBC led the three cable networks between 8-11 p.m., averaging 611,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, while dominating with 2,440,000 viewers overall.

CNN came in second with 589,000 in the coveted demographic, while remaining in third in total viewers with 1,649,000. Fox slid to to third with 497,000 viewers in the demo, and 2,405,000 overall.

Despite the primetime dip last week, Fox is still above MSNBC and CNN in primetime and total-day ratings this month.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 24, 2017 12:16 PM (m3iiU)

528 Yeah, it's a window. I think. Of course I see stuff like this almost every day. Doc says it will come and go.

Posted by: Gov Moonbeam at May 24, 2017 12:17 PM (HgMAr)

529 The Audacity of Pope

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 12:17 PM (oVJmc)

530 Vatican HR surely has at least a list of do's and don'ts right?

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 12:17 PM (MdC1o)

531 Looks like puke from a blue slurpee and nachos and bloody marys and really hot chili


Posted by: Bonecrusher at May 24, 2017 12:10 PM (uBQPh)
...........

Gas station nachos, right?

Posted by: wth at May 24, 2017 12:18 PM (HgMAr)

532 Could there might have been a different meaning to Trump's "I'll remember what you said", to Pope commie?

Posted by: Strobe at May 24, 2017 12:18 PM (gbWkA)

533 532 Could there might have been a different meaning to Trump's "I'll remember what you said", to Pope commie?
Posted by: Strobe at May 24, 2017 12:18 PM (gbWkA)

Oh.... there was.... he'll remember when he said he was not a Christian... because he wanted to build the border wall....

Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2017 12:20 PM (NgKpN)

534 Hey , everybody remember all the hair pulling and gnashing of teeth when Joe Lieberman's name was floated FBI director? Well looks like it was Trump trolling: He's no longer under consideration.

Posted by: Jackal at May 24, 2017 12:20 PM (2aOb4)

535 Its crap.

Posted by: Pollock at May 24, 2017 12:21 PM (E8apb)

536 506 ramadan is not a real fast - they stuff themselves silly before sunrise, go sleep for 8 hours and then stuff themselves silly again
Posted by: runner at May 24, 2017 12:08 PM (c6/9Q)


This. I've lived in three muslim countries, and endured ten ramadans. You better get off the streets when the muezzin calls the end of the fast. And do not get between a fast breaker and the KFC Ramadan special bucket. Just. Don't.

Posted by: moki at May 24, 2017 12:21 PM (V+V48)

537 Not art. Decor, maybe.

Posted by: real joe at May 24, 2017 12:21 PM (KERS+)

538 532 Could there might have been a different meaning to Trump's "I'll remember what you said", to Pope commie?

You have disrespected me..I'll remember what you said

Posted by: Don Vito Corleone Trump... at May 24, 2017 12:21 PM (O2RFr)

539 Murdoch boys better figure out what to do with a declining asset.

Becoming more liberal won't wash Fox clean and they are bleeding conservative viewers.

Posted by: blaster at May 24, 2017 12:21 PM (qYKU9)

540 Its crap.

Posted by: Pollock at May 24, 2017 12:21 PM (E8apb)

I like it.

Posted by: Haddock at May 24, 2017 12:22 PM (r5KeJ)

541 "Do not burn paper in the little stove in your office, you'll get embalmed quicker than shit." Exerpts from Pope-ing for dummies manual.

Posted by: Strobe at May 24, 2017 12:22 PM (gbWkA)

542 Could there might have been a different meaning to Trump's "I'll remember what you said", to Pope commie?

Posted by: Strobe at May 24, 2017 12:18 PM (gbWkA)



I'll be back

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:22 PM (493sH)

543 And CBD, I like the painting. The Phillips Collection has several Rothkos that are beautiful in real life. Photographs of them don't really do them justice. But I suspect it's like that for most paintings.

Posted by: moki at May 24, 2017 12:22 PM (V+V48)

544 Becoming more liberal won't wash Fox clean and they are bleeding conservative viewers


And trying to remove Conservative commentators...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:22 PM (O2RFr)

545 Stormy here. Steady 30 mph wind from NW. Cloudy, and only about 40 degrees. Might even get snow, if it keeps up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 12:23 PM (0deF2)

546 Linky: http://preview.tinyurl.com/n2nhj47

Posted by: Jackal at May 24, 2017 12:23 PM (2aOb4)

547 522 ANd they can get rid of that idiotic Amber Alert bullshit, too. When was did anyone ever catch a kidnapper from his living room? Friggin bullshit ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 24, 2017 12:12 PM (zc3Db)


This.

Besides which, I suspect 99% of the Amber Alerts are triggered by an ex-spouse grabbing up their kid.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2017 12:14 PM (SRKgf)

I once spoke to a detective who worked kidnappings, and he confirmed that the overwhelming majority of cases are angry ex-spouses in the midst of custody battles.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 24, 2017 12:23 PM (0mRoj)

548 Murdoch boys better figure out what to do with a declining asset.

Becoming more liberal won't wash Fox clean and they are bleeding conservative viewers.

Posted by: blaster at May 24, 2017 12:21 PM (qYKU9)



Who needs viewers when you can become fashionably liberal?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:24 PM (493sH)

549 I'll paint that canvas for $49.95!

Posted by: Mark Rothko at May 24, 2017 12:24 PM (oVJmc)

550 NJ Emergency Alert System Accidentally Activates Sending Nuclear Warnings to TV's"

*****

Only because I'm a sick twisted old bastard, I think this is funny. Now if I can just hack CNN and have: "This just in...Moscow in flames! Missiles headed to NY. Film at 11!"

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:24 PM (0tfLf)

551 Only because I'm a sick twisted old bastard, I think this is funny. Now if I can just hack CNN and have: "This just in...Moscow in flames! Missiles headed to NY. Film at 11!"
Posted by: Diogenes




Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 12:25 PM (Njtx4)

552 You suppose the Pope has a style guide?
Maybe a How-to-Pope, or Poping for Dummies handbook?


Yes. It's called "The Life of John Paul II".

/mic drop

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at May 24, 2017 12:25 PM (AM1GF)

553 Only because I'm a sick twisted old bastard, I think
this is funny. Now if I can just hack CNN and have: "This just
in...Moscow in flames! Missiles headed to NY. Film at 11!"
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:24 PM (0tfLf)
_________


Here in Iowa we'd have all just gone up on the roof to watch like we do with tornadoes.

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 12:25 PM (MdC1o)

554 I was a true artist with words.

Posted by: Mike Royko at May 24, 2017 12:26 PM (3vyFz)

555
545 Stormy here. Steady 30 mph wind from NW. Cloudy, and only about 40 degrees. Might even get snow, if it keeps up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 12:23 PM (0deF2)

Ayup, Ice Age acomin'.

Posted by: Farmer's Almanac at May 24, 2017 12:27 PM (e1mEI)

556 Only because I'm a sick twisted old bastard, I think
this is funny. Now if I can just hack CNN and have: "This just in...Moscow in flames! Missiles headed to NY. Film at 11!"
Posted by: Diogenes


If you don't play "Closer to Thee, My Lord" you're not doing it right.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at May 24, 2017 12:27 PM (AM1GF)

557 More art from the infinitely prolific "Bum Peepers School"
Just a few days ago I sniffed and sneered at another of his works at the STL Big Art Museum. Admission is free, can't go wrong...

Posted by: klaftern at May 24, 2017 12:27 PM (RuIsu)

558 If I could paint it, it's not art. This is not art...Nice colors, though...

Posted by: macleod at May 24, 2017 12:28 PM (I7blG)

559 You suppose the Pope has a style guide?
Maybe a How-to-Pope, or Poping for Dummies handbook?

Yes. It's called "The Life of John Paul II".

/mic drop

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at May 24, 2017 12:25 PM (AM1GF)


Seconded. And through in a guide to the Latin Mass

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:28 PM (493sH)

560 Re:ading Rainbow

It's weird that Sesame Street couldn't spot them some of the billions of dollars they've been making on licensed pajamas, books, stuffed animals, toothpaste, and every other thing they've been selling around the world for the last forty years.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 24, 2017 12:28 PM (fD1ST)

561
Gas station nachos, right?
Posted by: wth at May 24, 2017 12:18 PM (HgMAr)


You should try the sushi!

Posted by: Sledgehammer at May 24, 2017 12:29 PM (jbaCx)

562 it's sad when even the Jews and atheists here are noticing he is doing Papistry wrong.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo


I remember a time, when the last Pope was in office, and people here would get upset, and I'd patiently explain to them wait a day or two, when they properly translate what he said everything will be fine. Sure enough, some Vatican underling had screwed something up.

With Francis, I have nothing to say. Flame away at him.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 24, 2017 12:29 PM (HTdUD)

563 I see Brussels has thousands of protesters marching against Trump.... Obviously he's done something right....

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:29 PM (O2RFr)

564 of all things the leader of Western Christianity could have pled with Trump about, not least of which is Christians being driven out of the Near East, Bergoglio goes with global warming.

it's sad when even the Jews and atheists here are noticing he is doing Papistry wrong.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo


He heads the largest denomination... I'm not sure it's fair to call him the leader of Western Christianity.

But I agree, it's disturbing how people like the pope are suddenly BLANKING OUT on the primary principle of ethics, how people act, and instead focus on the *demographic* group to which they belong, and say, "if they are part of such and so group, they can be killed. Otherwise it is evil. Actions are irrelevant". It is madness.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2017 12:29 PM (vRcUp)

565 Gas station nachos, right?
Posted by: wth at May 24, 2017 12:18 PM (HgMAr)
---
with botulism sprinkles on top!

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 12:30 PM (4Lfsk)

566 551 Only because I'm a sick twisted old bastard, I think this is funny. Now if I can just hack CNN and have: "This just in...Moscow in flames! Missiles headed to NY. Film at 11!"
Posted by: Diogenes




Golf clap.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 12:25 PM (Njtx4)

/Heard in the Capts. stateroom of the Vladimir Monomakh (K-551)

Nyet!!!! our radio is down... but CNN on the satellite says Moscow is attacked...

Come to launch depth....

Posted by: Russian Capt. at May 24, 2017 12:30 PM (NgKpN)

567 563 I see Brussels has thousands of protesters marching against Trump.... Obviously he's done something right....
Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:29 PM (O2RFr)

=====================

Those assholes would protest a Trd Nugent concert.

Posted by: Jackal at May 24, 2017 12:30 PM (2aOb4)

568 And a Norman Rothko artist would be a lot of fun.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 24, 2017 12:30 PM (fD1ST)

569 How George W. Bush Ended the 26-Year Saga of Reading Rainbow.

You know what gets me?

Sesame Street makes a big deal about being closed-captioned.

You know, that show for pre-readers puts the words on the screen for the non-reading deaf kids to follow along with.

Posted by: Mark Rothko at May 24, 2017 12:30 PM (oVJmc)

570 I see Brussels has thousands of protesters marching against Trump.... Obviously he's done something right....

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 24, 2017 12:29 PM (O2RFr)



If you like your Muzzie rapists, you can keep your Muzzie rapists

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:31 PM (493sH)

571 539 Murdoch boys better figure out what to do with a declining asset.

Becoming more liberal won't wash Fox clean and they are bleeding conservative viewers.

Posted by: blaster at May 24, 2017 12:21 PM (qYKU9)

Losing Fox News is just the price they're willing to pay to not get complained at at cocktail parties anymore.

Posted by: Hikaru at May 24, 2017 12:31 PM (ULi11)

572 Trd Nugent
_____


laughing WAY to hard at this..

Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 12:31 PM (MdC1o)

573 572 Trd Nugent
_____


laughing WAY to hard at this..
Posted by: IP at May 24, 2017 12:31 PM (MdC1o)

===============

It's my fuckup, and even I'm chuckling a little bit.

Posted by: Jackal at May 24, 2017 12:32 PM (2aOb4)

574 And they say there are hundreds of people who have fought for ISIS etc who have returned to Britain. They let these creeps back in

=======
If Britain was sane and wished to survive then these vermin would be seized at the airport and promptly inhumed.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at May 24, 2017 12:32 PM (RQP0C)

575 Those assholes would protest a Trd Nugent concert.




Scandi cover band?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 12:32 PM (Njtx4)

576 He heads the largest denomination... I'm not sure it's fair to call him the leader of Western Christianity.

John Paul II had enough credibility and respect you could call him the leader of Western Christianity. Francis barely has the cred to be leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

How far we've fallen.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at May 24, 2017 12:32 PM (AM1GF)

577
But I agree, it's disturbing how people like the pope are suddenly BLANKING OUT on the primary principle of ethics, how people act, and instead focus on the *demographic* group to which they belong, and say, "if they are part of such and so group, they can be killed. Otherwise it is evil. Actions are irrelevant". It is madness.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2017 12:29 PM (vRcUp)



I was under the impression that the Church, whether it is the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Baptist, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and even the Methodists, were supposed to be about the Great Commission-that Matthew 28 stuff. Christ said to care for the poor and the widows, but to preach the Gospel first and foremost.

I could be wrong, of course.

Posted by: moki at May 24, 2017 12:32 PM (V+V48)

578
And a Norman Rothko artist would be a lot of fun.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 24, 2017 12:30 PM (fD1ST)


I don't know if mother would approve

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:32 PM (493sH)

579 Ever wonder what " Fake news" is? Bibi Netanyahu takes on the subject of Hamas and American media:

http://tinyurl.com/mcgw9qa

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2017 12:33 PM (qES5k)

580 Those assholes would protest a Trd Nugent concert.
Posted by: Jackal at May 24, 2017 12:30 PM (2aOb4)
---
i don't know why: his shows are the shit!

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 12:33 PM (4Lfsk)

581 Strange Facts:

Two weeks before Abe Lincoln was assassinated, he was in Monroe Maryland

Two weeks before JFK was assassinated, he was in Marilyn Monroe

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 24, 2017 12:33 PM (a7n7B)

582 I saw Trd Nugent open for...

Posted by: Chris M at May 24, 2017 12:33 PM (eAZVt)

583 I like this Rothko painting and I'm not a big fan of his works.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2017 12:34 PM (qES5k)

584 >.Losing Fox News is just the price they're willing to pay to not get complained at at cocktail parties anymore.


Think someone here mentioned that Fox News accounts for 25% of the Murdoch media empire's revenue, which....is not exactly small change, even when you're rich.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 12:34 PM (NOIQH)

585 Trump approval at 48%.

CNN viewers should be hardest hit.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 12:34 PM (oVJmc)

586 More art from the infinitely prolific "Bum Peepers School"
Just a few days ago I sniffed and sneered at another of his works at the STL Big Art Museum. Admission is free, can't go wrong...

Posted by: klaftern at May 24, 2017 12:27 PM (RuIsu)

"I ain't the Bum Peeper, I'm the Bum Peeper's son, but I'll peep at your bum until the Bum Peeper comes."

Posted by: zombie Muddy Waters at May 24, 2017 12:35 PM (0deF2)

587 Rothko....I used to like his column in the Chicago Tribune. For a liberal, he was pretty funny

Posted by: the Butcher at May 24, 2017 12:35 PM (AGJqR)

588 Strange Facts:

Two weeks before Abe Lincoln was assassinated, he was in Monroe Maryland

Two weeks before JFK was assassinated, he was in Marilyn Monroe

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 24, 2017 12:33 PM (a7n7B)



JFK was a necrophiliac?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:35 PM (493sH)

589 584 >.Losing Fox News is just the price they're willing to pay to not get complained at at cocktail parties anymore.


Think someone here mentioned that Fox News accounts for 25% of the Murdoch media empire's revenue, which....is not exactly small change, even when you're rich.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2017 12:34 PM (NOIQH)

===================

Those shitheads'll still nuke it. Virtue signalling outweighs all else with their generation. Profit, not so much...

Posted by: Jackal at May 24, 2017 12:35 PM (2aOb4)

590 Trump approval at 48%.


It's going to be an early pole evening.

Posted by: Bill Spynn at May 24, 2017 12:35 PM (Tyii7)

591 I saw Trd Nugent open for...
Posted by: Chris M at May 24, 2017 12:33 PM (eAZVt)
---
Me, of course!

Posted by: Hope Solo at May 24, 2017 12:35 PM (4Lfsk)

592 575 Those assholes would protest a Trd Nugent concert.

*****

Absolutely true. It's like the whole country never left the 60's. What a miserable bunch.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:36 PM (0tfLf)

593 You know, that show for pre-readers puts the words on the screen for the non-reading deaf kids to follow along with.

Posted by: Mark Rothko at May 24, 2017 12:30 PM (oVJmc)

---

You completely misunderstand.

The captioning is in hopes that the teen moms in Chicago will look up from their phones long enough to see and learn to read a brief word on the screen that they're using as a babysitter.

C-A-T spells cat.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 24, 2017 12:36 PM (fD1ST)

594 Maybe the Murdochs can sell Fox News to Al Jazeera.

They will cut their losses and the terrorist propaganda network will be on in every cable home in America.

Win win.

Posted by: blaster at May 24, 2017 12:36 PM (qYKU9)

595 JFK was a necrophiliac?

That would surprise you?

Posted by: tu3031 at May 24, 2017 12:37 PM (qJhUV)

596 This painting isn't gay enough. Therefore, it's homophobic. Seriously, am I the only one who looks at this and doesn't feel gay?

Posted by: Shep Smith at May 24, 2017 12:37 PM (vRcUp)

597 Many in the Democrat party's left wing feel the party has moved too far to the right....LOL


https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/265694/

Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2017 12:37 PM (rmVvL)

598 JFK was a necrophiliac?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:35 PM (493sH)

---
she was a dead lay all along...

Posted by: Howard Hughes at May 24, 2017 12:37 PM (4Lfsk)

599 Many in the Democrat party's left wing feel the party has moved too far to the right....LOL

In what way, exactly?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 12:38 PM (oVJmc)

600 Trump approval at 48%.

CNN viewers should be hardest hit.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 12:34 PM (oVJmc)


With a coal train if there was any justice in this life....

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents Ace and the Scream Machine at the County Fairgrounds at May 24, 2017 12:38 PM (hLRSq)

601 452
And MSNBC atop the ratings.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2017 11:55 AM (IqV8l)



Which is the saddest thing out of this...



Its proving to the Left that Fake News and attacking the President of the US, is a good business model....

Posted by: Don Q. at May 24, 2017 11:57 AM (NgKpN)

Anyone know if ratings for cable news have gone down overall? I'm thinking MSNBC is atop the ratings because a lot of viewers just stopped watching Fox (and they never watched the other stations)....which has put MSNBC up but not that they've gained new viewers.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:39 PM (Enq6K)

602 Its crap.



Posted by: Pollock at May 24, 2017 12:21 PM (E8apb)

I like it.


Posted by: Haddock at May 24, 2017 12:22 PM


It's a little two-dimensional.

Posted by: Flounder at May 24, 2017 12:39 PM (p+Wdc)

603 Royko + Billy Goat Tavern = Legend

Posted by: runner at May 24, 2017 12:39 PM (c6/9Q)

604 Many in the Democrat party's left wing feel the party has moved too far to the right....LOL



In what way, exactly?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 24, 2017 12:38 PM


Some members aren't clinically insane?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (p+Wdc)

605 Trump approval at 48%.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles


Add in for media biased question...
Add in skewed percentage of (D)'s...

*whir* ...calculating... *whir*
Trump approval at 58%.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (HTdUD)

606 597 Many in the Democrat party's left wing feel the party has moved too far to the right....LOL
Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2017 12:37 PM (rmVvL)


So the Democrat Party's left wing is in Pol Pot territory? That's unsurprising.

Posted by: rickl at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (xjiRE)

607 I just got back from the dentist with two of my kids. The youngest has just gotten his learner's permit, and has driven with my husband, but not with me. So he was going to drive home.

He carefully backed out of the parking space, slowly started creeping down the parking lot, and not 15 seconds in some guy backs right into us.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (sBOL1)

608 she was a dead lay

Er...ah...there's plenty of those down here.

Posted by: Zombie Uncle Ted Kennedy at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (Tyii7)

609 Not surprising really that the left wing networks have picked up ratings.They are energized by hate for Trump.Small price to pay for no president Hillary.

Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2017 12:41 PM (rmVvL)

610 Many in the Democrat party's left wing feel the party has moved too far to the right....LOL


https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/265694/

Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2017 12:37 PM (rmVvL)



Oh yeah, they used to be solidly Bolshevik but now they're more like Mensheviks.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:41 PM (493sH)

611 Bluebell, that is always the way it happens.
Similar event with my daughter in Seattle.
Sheesh.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:41 PM (0tfLf)

612 607 I just got back from the dentist with two of my kids. The youngest has just gotten his learner's permit, and has driven with my husband, but not with me. So he was going to drive home.

He carefully backed out of the parking space, slowly started creeping down the parking lot, and not 15 seconds in some guy backs right into us.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (sBOL1)

+++

Just effin figures.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 24, 2017 12:43 PM (+eKyB)

613 Some members aren't clinically insane?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (p+Wdc)

---
that would leave out all my neighbors who voted to decriminalize all sorts of shit, and let out "non-violent" offenders that are now complaining about rising crime rates and cops that don't bother arresting crooks because the perp is back on the street before they get done with all the red tape.

Fing idiots, one and all.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 12:43 PM (4Lfsk)

614
He carefully backed out of the parking space,
slowly started creeping down the parking lot, and not 15 seconds in some
guy backs right into us.





Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (sBOL1)

Awww poor kid! Not his fault though.

Three days after I got my license some jamoke slammed into me while I was stopped waiting for someone to turn left. He hit me, I hit the car in front of me and they hit the car in front of them.

I still have the neck pain to prove it XX years later.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:44 PM (Enq6K)

615 Many in the Democrat party's left wing feel the party has moved too far to the right....LOL

In what way, exactly?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles




Folsom Street Fairy isn't in every city every Friday.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 12:44 PM (Njtx4)

616 Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (sBOL1)

Sorry to hear that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2017 12:44 PM (qES5k)

617 There's only a small dent in the side of our car (minivan). But the guy cracked his bumper in about 5 places.

He was very nice. But it shook my son up, so he asked me to drive home. We were all laughing about it all the way home. I called my husband on the way home and he laughed too.

The only nonlaughing part will be dealing with the insurance company, because that's never fun. But luckily we're all fine, although my son did say, "I'm traumatized. I think I now have mesothelioma." LOL.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:45 PM (sBOL1)

618 614
Three days after I got my license some jamoke slammed into me while I was stopped waiting for someone to turn left. He hit me, I hit the car in front of me and they hit the car in front of them.

I still have the neck pain to prove it XX years later.
Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:44 PM (Enq6K)


Which makes you XXXVI years old.

Posted by: rickl at May 24, 2017 12:46 PM (xjiRE)

619 I went to a Ted Nugent show about 4-5 years ago at Foxwoods, he was playing with two other groups, can't remember who they were, he was great, excellent guitar...he had a section of the arena reserved for military members, free. Plus he was giving it good to Obama ....it was a good time

Posted by: KWDreaming at May 24, 2017 12:46 PM (N/v1f)

620 But luckily we're all fine, although my son did say, "I'm traumatized. I think I now have mesothelioma." LOL.

Posted by: bluebell





*snort.

He gets his moron card along with his DL for that amount of snark.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 12:46 PM (Njtx4)

621 I still have the neck pain to prove it XX years later.
Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:44 PM (Enq6K)

If you're using Roman Numerals. get off my lawn. ;^) The number of years years since I got my license sounds like an extra graphic porn film.

Sorry about your back pain through.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2017 12:47 PM (qES5k)

622 Can I get it on Velvet?

Posted by: Dale the deplorable at May 24, 2017 12:47 PM (kzxV0)

623 The only nonlaughing part will be dealing with the
insurance company, because that's never fun. But luckily we're all
fine, although my son did say, "I'm traumatized. I think I now have
mesothelioma." LOL.





Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:45 PM (sBOL1)

bluebell, he rammed into you - his insurance company not yours

Posted by: runner at May 24, 2017 12:47 PM (c6/9Q)

624 So still no bomb maker or where the bomb was made, that sucks

Posted by: Jean at May 24, 2017 12:47 PM (KDTel)

625 He carefully backed out of the parking space, slowly started creeping down the parking lot, and not 15 seconds in some guy backs right into us.

Posted by: bluebell


Oh well, it's not like your insurance rates will go up after that kind of accident. Side panel damage, despite the efforts of the most lunatic people on this planet to somehow blame it on the other driver, is almost impossible to blame on the car that sustains the damage.

Insurance companies know this stuff intuitively.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 24, 2017 12:47 PM (HTdUD)

626 If Britain was sane and wished to survive then these vermin would be seized at the airport and promptly inhumed.


Learned a new word. I'll have to use it three times today.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (LTHVh)

627 Which makes you XXXVI years old.

Posted by: rickl at May 24, 2017 12:46 PM (xjiRE)



Can't be. We're all only XXIX years old

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (493sH)

628 Which makes you XXXVI years old.

Posted by: rickl at May 24, 2017 12:46 PM (xjiRE)

SHADDUP!

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (Enq6K)

629 614
Three days after I got my license some jamoke slammed into me while I was stopped waiting for someone to turn left. He hit me, I hit the car in front of me and they hit the car in front of them.

I still have the neck pain to prove it XX years later.
Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:44 PM (Enq6K)

Did you get a settlement for personal injury?

Posted by: KWDreaming at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (N/v1f)

630 bluebell, he rammed into you - his insurance company not yours
Posted by: runner at May 24, 2017 12:47 PM (c6/9Q)
--------

Oh yes, I know. It's Progressive. I wonder if I'll get to speak to Flo.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (sBOL1)

631
He carefully backed out of the parking space, slowly started creeping down the parking lot, and not 15 seconds in some guy backs right into us.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (sBOL1)

Is everyone okay bluebell? I hope there wasn't much damage.

Posted by: moki at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (V+V48)

632 Oh Bluebell..how awful but isn't that the way it always happens. Best to get your first 'accident' out of the way, I think.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (a0IVu)

633 FenelonSon goes for his driving license test in 13 days.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (qES5k)

634 So the Democrat Party's left wing is in Pol Pot territory? That's unsurprising.

Posted by: rickl at May 24, 2017 12:40 PM (xjiRE)


Pol Pot was a running dog of Wall Street, emptying out his land so that condo developers could get in on adventure tourism.

Posted by: Tom Wombat-Cloggenstein - Democrat Party Chair, Brattlesboro at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (hLRSq)

635 He carefully backed out of the parking space, slowly started creeping down the parking lot, and not 15 seconds in some guy backs right into us.

Posted by: bluebell




Go on. Have him name your minivan "Brad".

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 12:49 PM (Njtx4)

636 I was Turd Ferguson before Trd Nugent existed.

Posted by: Burt Reynolds at May 24, 2017 12:49 PM (3vyFz)

637 628
Which makes you XXXVI years old.



Posted by: rickl at May 24, 2017 12:46 PM (xjiRE)

SHADDUP!


Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (Enq6K)

Oh wait.....need moar coffee.
I'll take it!

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:49 PM (Enq6K)

638 DJIA is brisk today..

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 12:50 PM (a0IVu)

639 I was under the impression that the Church, whether it is the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Baptist, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and even the Methodists, were supposed to be about the Great Commission-that Matthew 28 stuff. Christ said to care for the poor and the widows, but to preach the Gospel first and foremost.

I could be wrong, of course.
Posted by: moki


Yes, I agree with that. But I was also agreeing with BTH's point that the Pope is in error when he thinks climate change is the greatest evil, and ignores Christians in the Middle East who are being martyred under his watch.

I have more respect for D. A. Carson or William Lane Craig than for this Pope.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2017 12:50 PM (vRcUp)

640 So still no bomb maker or where the bomb was made, that sucks

We may never know...

Posted by: John R.R.R. Kasich at May 24, 2017 12:51 PM (Tyii7)

641 Did you get a settlement for personal injury?

Posted by: KWDreaming at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (N/v1f)

Don't I wish. Dad wasn't into suing.

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:51 PM (Enq6K)

642 Weird. The find your classmates ad up top is three young ladies I went to HS with a few decades ago.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 24, 2017 12:51 PM (0x/TW)

643
Insurance companies know this stuff intuitively.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 24, 2017 12:47 PM (HTdUD)


They will still be asses about settlement. I'm five months out from getting rear ended at a red light, complete with neck brace and hospital stay, and insurance hasn't paid a penny of medical so far. We are 8000 in the hole at this point, but I still need more documentation or more papers from doctors, etc.

I truly pray your situation is easily dealt with bluebell. You and your sweet kid do not need this nonsense.

Posted by: moki at May 24, 2017 12:51 PM (V+V48)

644
One of the first questions the insurance company asks is, 'Where did the damage occur?'

Protip: Front and/or back bumper are never good answers. More questions are bound to ensue.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 24, 2017 12:51 PM (HTdUD)

645 Is everyone okay bluebell? I hope there wasn't much damage.

Posted by: moki at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (V+V4
----------

Oh yes, we are all fine, thanks. There's a small dent about the size of my fist. And, it's a 10-year-old minivan so who really cares. We joked about it on the way home to get his mind off it, and after a little bit he was joking right along with my daughter and me. And it wasn't his fault at all.

You gotta laugh when you can.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:51 PM (sBOL1)

646 623...although my son did say, "I'm traumatized. I think I now have
mesothelioma." LOL.

*****

I like this kid.
Clearly the winner of the Junior Ace Award for the day!




Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:52 PM (0tfLf)

647 such a stale thread....can we get some bewbs to liven it up?

Posted by: troll so hard at May 24, 2017 12:52 PM (DkRXj)

648 DJIA is brisk today..




Back to where it was two weeks ago.
20,972.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 12:52 PM (Njtx4)

649 My Therapist handed me something like this and said, "Tell me what you see."
----------
Hey, you're the guy with all of the dirty pictures!

Posted by: just the punchline at May 24, 2017 12:52 PM (nlbfN)

650 Which makes you XXXVI years old.

Posted by: rickl at May 24, 2017 12:46 PM (xjiRE)

SHADDUP!

Posted by: Tami


Baby. You're not old until you're at least XLV.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at May 24, 2017 12:52 PM (AM1GF)

651 So still no bomb maker or where the bomb was made, that sucks
Posted by: Jean at May 24, 2017 12:47 PM (KDTel)

---
i'm sure all the leaks from the Deep State "intelligence community" (to use a term loosely) are helping a whole lot with the investigation.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 12:53 PM (4Lfsk)

652 639, Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 24, 2017 12:50 PM (vRcUp)

It pains me to agree with you; I love my faith, this pope not so much. But the catholic faith has weathered poor popes before and will do so again.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 12:53 PM (a0IVu)

653
I have no problem regarding this as art but I have a funny feeling that "modern art" is all the rage because modern artists just can't actually do what real artists used to do.

Posted by: rayj at May 24, 2017 12:53 PM (pI/IV)

654 https://youtu.be/ouWh-fsw9Sk
I believe this is an art gallery for the blind, but I don't read Braille.

Posted by: Yoko at May 24, 2017 12:54 PM (EySW2)

655 Baby. You're not old until you're at least XLV.


Posted by: Brother Cavil,
Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at May 24, 2017 12:52 PM


*sobs uncontrollably*

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:54 PM (Enq6K)

656 Rothko is what happens when you praise Impressionists too long.

There is an insufficient amount of skill in his work. If a child, or God forbid, I can duplicate your work, you're a hack.

People like it, sure. People like pet rocks, too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 24, 2017 12:54 PM (3OIiX)

657 Add in for media biased question...
Add in skewed percentage of (D)'s...

*whir* ...calculating... *whir*
Trump approval at 58%.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum
__________

I would concur. Considering all that was thrown at him in just the last few weeks, I'd say he's looking pretty strong if this is the best they can do.

The shrieking is becoming background noise.

Posted by: Maritime at May 24, 2017 12:54 PM (zu/Gn)

658 Weird. The find your classmates ad up top is three young ladies I went to HS with a few decades ago.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 24, 2017 12:51 PM (0x/TW)

So did you? That's all we want to know.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 24, 2017 12:55 PM (Jcg9Q)

659 It pains me to agree with you; I love my faith, this pope not so much. But the catholic faith has weathered poor popes before and will do so again.
Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 12:53 PM (a0IVu)
----------

^^^This^^^

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:55 PM (sBOL1)

660 i'm sure all the leaks from the Deep State "intelligence community" (to use a term loosely) are helping a whole lot with the investigation.


Posted by: redc1c4 at May 24, 2017 12:53 PM (4Lfsk)


We're waterboarding a basket of fish and chips right now.

Posted by: Deep State Intelligence Community Swim Team at May 24, 2017 12:55 PM (hLRSq)

661 such a stale thread....can we get some bewbs to liven it up?
Posted by: troll so hard at May 24, 2017 12:52 PM (DkRXj)

-------

Because Im a giver.

NSFW

http://tinyurl.com/kn3vb34

Thank me later. Enjoy.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 12:55 PM (8XRCm)

662 Oh well, it's not like your insurance rates will go up after that kind of accident. Side panel damage, despite the efforts of the most lunatic people on this planet to somehow blame it on the other driver, is almost impossible to blame on the car that sustains the damage.

Insurance companies know this stuff intuitively.

--

Not Farmers. Same thing happened to a co-worker who got backed into. They both had Farmers Ins. Since no police report and HEB refused to show cameras but neither car had damage, the person who hit her got his pre-existing damage on his car covered and somehow wasn't 100% at fault. The heck.

Posted by: auscolpyr at May 24, 2017 12:55 PM (pzA2L)

663 DJIA is brisk today..




Back to where it was two weeks ago.
20,972.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 12:52 PM (Njtx4)

I just checked on a junior stock I bought two weeks ago at 92 cents. Just traded this morning up to a buck twenty.

But I will persist.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2017 12:56 PM (0deF2)

664 *sobs uncontrollably*
Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:54 PM (Enq6K)
---------

Sweetheart, you're XXIX like all the rest of us, and don't let anyone tell you any differently.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:56 PM (sBOL1)

665 635 He carefully backed out of the parking space, slowly started creeping down the parking lot, and not 15 seconds in some guy backs right into us.

Posted by: bluebell

*****

If his his mother's son there will be a "Brad" on the back bumper by this time tomorrow.




Go on. Have him name your minivan "Brad".
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 12:49 PM (Njtx4)

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:56 PM (0tfLf)

666 Because Im a giver.

NSFW

http://tinyurl.com/kn3vb34

Thank me later. Enjoy.
Posted by: fixerupper

Ah.

The AoS IQ test. Who will be the first to fail by opening it?

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 24, 2017 12:56 PM (326rv)

667 Weird. The find your classmates ad up top is three young ladies I went to HS with a few decades ago.


Did you notice they were looking at you?

Posted by: Aerosmith at May 24, 2017 12:56 PM (LTHVh)

668 Rothko (and Stella)...one thinks Meh and then after open-mindedly stopping to consider instead of walking away...they grow on one. One doesn't know exactly why, but they do.

Posted by: furious at May 24, 2017 12:57 PM (XlouP)

669 Which makes you XXXVI years old.

=======
XVI + XX =

the correct answer is: XXIX

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 24, 2017 12:57 PM (ZQpd0)

670 626 If Britain was sane and wished to survive then these vermin would be seized at the airport and promptly inhumed.


Learned a new word. I'll have to use it three times today.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (LTHVh)

I use it all the time

Posted by: Brit Hume at May 24, 2017 12:57 PM (7HtZB)

671 664, Sweetheart, you're XXIX like all the rest of us, and don't let anyone tell you any differently.





Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:56 PM (sBOL1)
heh. If I had to choose an age that really worked for me it would 34 or 35; I was in great shape and really happy with my life at that time.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 12:57 PM (a0IVu)

672 The AoS IQ test. Who will be the first to fail by opening it?

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 24, 2017 12:56 PM (326rv)

I have fallen for the boobs link one too many times. Not me.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (Jcg9Q)

673
People like it, sure. People like pet rocks, too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 24, 2017 12:54 PM (3OIiX)


Wait - what did you say? The people...like it? The mouth-breathing inbred mountain mutants with their jug bands and corn-likker *like* this?



*AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!*

Posted by: Snooty Artsy Critic and Gallery Owner at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (hLRSq)

674 They will still be asses about settlement. I'm five months out from getting rear ended at a red light, complete with neck brace and hospital stay, and insurance hasn't paid a penny of medical so far. We are 8000 in the hole at this point, but I still need more documentation or more papers from doctors, etc.
Posted by: moki


That completely sucks. Some insurance companies are good, some suck. I have Nationwide (on your side) and they were excellent.

Accident like yours, rear ended. Everything got covered, went well over coverage limits ($50,000) and they went and got all the money. I never had to reach in my wallet for one thin dime.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (HTdUD)

675 >>Oh yes, I know. It's Progressive. I wonder if I'll get to speak to Flo.
Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:48 PM (sBOL1)<<


I just dealt with Progressive this month. Got hit from behind by a Progressive customer, totaled our van. Progressive was real easy to deal with, gave us a good estimate on what our van was worth, and paid for the rental no problem.

Only drawback: didn't get to speak to Flo.

Posted by: MacGruber at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (sWgE+)

676 Sweetheart, you're XXIX like all the rest of us, and don't let anyone tell you any differently.





Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 12:56 PM (sBOL1)


You're my new best friend!

Posted by: Tami at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (Enq6K)

677

Im sold old.... my Roman Numeral Age is a fat mans jacket size.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (8XRCm)

678 It pains me to agree with you; I love my faith, this pope not so much.
But the catholic faith has weathered poor popes before and will do so
again.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 12:53 PM (a0IVu)

I'm beginning to wonder about the "again" part.

Posted by: rayj at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (pI/IV)

679 Damn...... funky ol' thread ya got goin' here.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (jjaLl)

680 Sure, we're getting rid of those nasty Republicans on Fox News, but 90% of the people we know are liberals. I'm sure our ratings will be 9X higher once the transition is complete.

Posted by: Murdoch' Boys at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (EySW2)

681 Sharyl Attkisson has great timeline on all the
rat bastard spying activity in the Obama admin

http://tinyurl.com/m2a8fyl

Posted by: McCool at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (KvRqW)

682 Weird. The find your classmates ad up top is three young ladies I went to HS with a few decades ago.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 24, 2017 12:51 PM (0x/TW)

So did you? That's all we want to know.

Posted by: Country Boy
****

Haaaaa!
The brunette on the right was a snob as was her twin sister. The blonde in the middle was their good friend and just like them.
The latina on the far left I only saw around and never met.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 24, 2017 12:59 PM (m3iiU)

683 heh. If I had to choose an age that really worked for me it would 34 or 35; I was in great shape and really happy with my life at that time.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 12:57 PM (a0IVu)



I think you meant, XXXIV or XXXV.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 12:59 PM (493sH)

684 Flo will be out for 3 weeks. She's getting her forehead lowered.

Posted by: Progressive SpokesXerson at May 24, 2017 01:00 PM (Tyii7)

685 Just got here so... I prefer abstract art. I think the need for the viewer to be able to discern what is supposed to be depicted in the art is... a limitation on the part of the viewer, not the art.

Which is fine.

I don't care for poetry. There, I said it. And I accept that as MY limitation, not the poets'.

So, this being said, my preference in abstract is less geometrical shapes. This is alright, but not my favorite of the genre. I think I know what I see, regardless of what the artist saw.

So yeah, it's alright.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2017 01:00 PM (TOk1P)

686 Okay horde, tech question. Does anyone here own a Sony Xperia phone? If so, do you like it, and would you recommend one?

Posted by: Johnny Jacobs at May 24, 2017 01:00 PM (toi7g)

687 heh. If I had to choose an age that really worked for me it would 34 or 35; I was in great shape and really happy with my life at that time.
Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 12:57 PM (a0IVu)
---------

Yeah, I probably wouldn't pick 29 because I was pregnant practically the whole time I was 29. Maybe 28. By 35 I was pregnant with my 4th.

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2017 01:00 PM (sBOL1)

688 I have many similar pieces of art in my home displayed on exterior walls. Its called "View through the window before using windex".

Posted by: The Walking Dude at May 24, 2017 01:00 PM (ARzf8)

689 off Airplane! sock

Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 24, 2017 01:00 PM (toi7g)

690 Intriguing: Zillow listing for 'nightmare house' in South Carolina tells buyers: Don't ask about mysterious occupant upstairs

http://bit.ly/2rRazJ0

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 24, 2017 01:01 PM (LTHVh)

691 It pains me to agree with you; I love my faith, this pope not so much.
But the catholic faith has weathered poor popes before and will do so again.

Posted by: IC at May 24, 2017 12:53 PM (a0IVu)

I'm beginning to wonder about the "again" part.

Posted by: rayj at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (pI/IV)



John XXIII and his wretched Vatican II (how's that for Roman numeraling?) did its best to ruin the Church and Pope Fidel seems to be the second act of a very bad play

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 01:01 PM (493sH)

692 The first day I had my license, I was stopped by a highway patrolman. I was only 14, and he thought I was too young to be driving.

Great guy, by the way. Local. His name was Robert Woods. He was killed by a prison escapee while he was manning a road block. Wife, two young children. RIP Robert.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 01:02 PM (ZO497)

693

Nood.

Posted by: THIS is CNN at May 24, 2017 01:02 PM (8XRCm)

694 661-Troll so hard-

Here is a great pair of hooters.
Not safe for people who don't like hooters:

http://tinyurl.com/mqmtuq4

Posted by: Youaskedyougot at May 24, 2017 01:02 PM (qES5k)

695 While we wait for moar content, here are some cute little pussies to look at:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/mrzw5f8

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 24, 2017 01:03 PM (ul9CR)

696 What is the penalty for false nudity?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 24, 2017 01:03 PM (LTHVh)

697 I would still like to know how the commie Pope ousted Ratzinger while he's still alive (I don't buy the "Benedict stepped down for health reasons" crap one bit!).

Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 24, 2017 01:04 PM (toi7g)

698 I have many similar pieces of art in my home displayed on exterior walls. Its called "View through the window before using windex".
Posted by: The Walking Dude
-------------

Dining room carpet, where Mike Hammer's cat goes to barf grass/food amalgam.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2017 01:04 PM (ZO497)

699 Mmm. Rothburgers.


Doh!

Posted by: homer simpson at May 24, 2017 01:04 PM (nlbfN)

700 Well done, CNN Sock!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at May 24, 2017 01:04 PM (jjaLl)

701 690 Intriguing: Zillow listing for 'nightmare house' in South Carolina tells buyers: Don't ask about mysterious occupant upstairs

http://bit.ly/2rRazJ0
Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 24, 2017 01:01 PM (LTHVh)


Wow. You can't see the apartment, there's no rent, no deposit, but there is a lease.

And these fools thought they were going to sell this house?


The article says they took it off the market recently, probably because of the responses to the ad.

Posted by: moki at May 24, 2017 01:04 PM (V+V48)

702 Sharyl Attkisson has great timeline on all the
rat bastard spying activity in the Obama admin

http://tinyurl.com/m2a8fyl

Posted by: McCool at May 24, 2017 12:58 PM (KvRqW)


But no scandal or story there for the MFM or gutless Republicans

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 01:04 PM (493sH)

703 #FakeNoods

Posted by: McCool at May 24, 2017 01:05 PM (KvRqW)

704 I would still like to know how the commie Pope ousted Ratzinger while he's still alive


(I don't buy the "Benedict stepped down for health reasons" crap one bit!).





If he's still alive, that kinda kills that line.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2017 01:05 PM (Njtx4)

705 Wow. You can't see the apartment, there's no rent, no deposit, but there is a lease.

Mrs Bates is up there, rocking, rocking ..

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 24, 2017 01:05 PM (LTHVh)

706 (I don't buy the "Benedict stepped down for health reasons" crap one bit!).
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 24, 2017 01:04 PM (toi7g)

-----

Wanted to spend more time with the family??? *shrug*

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 01:07 PM (8XRCm)

707 The Attkinson timeline is excellent!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 01:08 PM (0tfLf)

708
John XXIII and his wretched Vatican II (how's that for Roman
numeraling?) did its best to ruin the Church and Pope Fidel seems to be
the second act of a very bad play
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 24, 2017 01:01 PM (493sH)

Our culture is fundamentally changing and not in a "live and let live" kind of way.
The mechanisms for forcing everyone to publicly go with it or be exposed as a heretic are being put in place.
I know there are still a lot adherents to the faith but are they willing to lose their jobs or go to jail for their faith.
Some, I'm sure.
But not many.

Posted by: rayj at May 24, 2017 01:09 PM (pI/IV)

709 592 575 Those assholes would protest a Trd Nugent concert.

*****

Absolutely true. It's like the whole country never left the 60's. What a miserable bunch.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2017 12:36 PM (0tfLf)


Remember that they even named one of their movements "Re-create '68".

Vietnam was THE defining moment of Boomers' lives, and they spent the rest of their lives drilling it into their kids' heads (and if they became teachers, into YOUR kids' heads).

The left will FOREVER be protesting and re-protesting their little mental Vietnams.

Posted by: Hikaru at May 24, 2017 01:09 PM (luj3F)

710 Time for a new thread please

Posted by: Big swingin Al at May 24, 2017 01:19 PM (8WS2E)

711 That's obviously cows seen through thermal optic.

Posted by: Eromero at May 24, 2017 01:20 PM (zLDYs)

712 The left will FOREVER be protesting and re-protesting their little mental Vietnams.
Posted by: Hikaru at May 24, 2017 01:09 PM (luj3F)

-----


Its more than the war and protesting.

The antiwar movement was the seedling for the notion that "we can make a difference, we can change the world".

It's the genesis of every Marxist, social justice warrioring, bleeding heart do gooder on stage today.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 24, 2017 01:21 PM (8XRCm)

713 Ate lunch : bacon, 2 eggs, leftover roast pork loin heated up in bacon pan.
All is good in my world after that lunch.

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 24, 2017 01:25 PM (hMwEB)

714 Anybody who thinks a five-year-old knows enough about color theory to make this painting is a moron.

Posted by: doug at May 24, 2017 02:27 PM (HlhEB)

715 Looks to me like Rothko was painting a scene outside the window when his eyeglass prescription was about 15 years out of date.

Posted by: Socratease at May 24, 2017 04:52 PM (FqHs5)

716
That's Kenny's boogers

Posted by: Ronnie at May 24, 2017 05:33 PM (BO/km)

717 A WHOLE lot of modern art is really just BRANDING.

These faddish things are taken up by the "cognoscenti" because they're easily recognizable, so it's like buying a hideously expensive, but prominently logo-ed, Prada bag to show off to your fabulous friends.

E.g., Jeff Koons, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Rothko, et al.

Posted by: Beverly at May 25, 2017 01:06 AM (MgL88)

(Jump to top of page)






Processing 0.08, elapsed 0.0863 seconds.
14 queries taking 0.0257 seconds, 725 records returned.
Page size 327 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.



MuNuvians
MeeNuvians
Polls! Polls! Polls!

Real Clear Politics
Gallup
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
News/Chat