Mid-Morning Art Thread

La Rue de Nevers
Alfred Russell

That's solid abstract expressionism, a movement that is usually passingly amusing and almost instantly forgotten.

But why have you never heard of the artist? Because the art world of the 1950s rejected him for his anti-Semitism.

Of course today, I can go to any one of 50 galleries in lower Manhattan and see artists clad in keffiyahs, spouting "anti-Zionist" drivel as the chattering classes nod approvingly.

Funny how things have changed.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 yuk

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at April 08, 2024 09:30 AM (ENQN6)

2 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 09:30 AM (5sOEG)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 08, 2024 09:30 AM (T4tVD)

4 WTF is that?

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2024 09:30 AM (Jdj6j)

5 Damn it!

And would not hang. Never.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 09:30 AM (5sOEG)

6 That is solid abstract garbage 🗑

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2024 09:31 AM (Jdj6j)

7 Gads, one of these again.

Me hatey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

8 Whitney Museum of American Art
Date
1949

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil and ink on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 39 15/16 × 26 1/8in. (101.4 × 66.4 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 08, 2024 09:31 AM (ENQN6)

9
Pretty shocking for a nude, but the dog and sniper are nice touches.

Posted by: Auspex at April 08, 2024 09:32 AM (j4U/Z)

10 WTF is that?
Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2024 09:30 AM

I don't know, but it's no Rothko.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 09:32 AM (5sOEG)

11 I believe I could forge that.

Posted by: BignJames at April 08, 2024 09:32 AM (AwYPR)

12 Mayor Pete's new roadmap of the US Interstate system with the racist roads removed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 08, 2024 09:32 AM (ENQN6)

13 UG LY!

Nope, would not hang.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 08, 2024 09:32 AM (KFYTi)

14 Looks like a thrid grader with anger issues painted it. "Never" on my walls. WNH.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 08, 2024 09:33 AM (4p0Xq)

15 It's upside-down.

Posted by: spindrift at April 08, 2024 09:33 AM (OguvZ)

16 Would hang. On my refrigerator with a magnet.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 08, 2024 09:33 AM (sNc8Y)

17 Looks like a zipper after a sex change operation. Would hang in a game room

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 08, 2024 09:33 AM (ixVYR)

18 Abstract Expressionism really does nothing for me. This school was when art really went from a conversation between artist and viewer, to the artist just talking to himself.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 08, 2024 09:33 AM (BxvY+)

19
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2024 09:33 AM (MoZTd)

20 This "art" makes me angry.

Posted by: Weasel at April 08, 2024 09:34 AM (JwHpX)

21 Best friend's step dad was an "artist." He did shit like this. Mostly while stoned.

Pretty good for a Holiday Inn Express lobby.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 08, 2024 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

22 I would hang this in the fire pit.

Posted by: dantesed at April 08, 2024 09:34 AM (88xKn)

23 Scribbles are not my kind of art.

Posted by: huerfano at April 08, 2024 09:34 AM (VGOMa)

24 Well I never.

Posted by: Joe Average at April 08, 2024 09:34 AM (dg+HA)

25 We have...bush?

Posted by: blaster at April 08, 2024 09:34 AM (IFNME)

26 Looks familiar. Oh, that’s right! My son did something like this in kindergarten. Had it on the fridge.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 08, 2024 09:34 AM (u73oe)

27 Very, very few painting posted on the art thread that I could paint because I suck at it. This one however is the exception.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 08, 2024 09:34 AM (4p0Xq)

28 I'll never understand why people paint this crap and then insist on calling it "art."

It's random scribbles.

I could drop a bunch of crayons from 10 feet, melt them in place where they land, and achieve a similar result.

Yet no one would call my creation "art."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 09:35 AM (7fElN)

29 Well, I guess this is one way to start out Hate Week.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2024 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

30 I can't see it, Elaine!

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at April 08, 2024 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

31 They TOLD Alfred Russell not to stare at a total eclipse but did he listen? Noooooo......

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 08, 2024 09:36 AM (T+Iwg)

32 Doesn't look like a urinal, but kinda' smells like one.

Posted by: BignJames at April 08, 2024 09:36 AM (AwYPR)

33 And traffic on the Northbound Expressway is at a 20 minute delay so take Ben Franklin Bypass if you have a tolltag.
Its a warm 67 degrees so they only reason to take a jacket to work is because the boss set the Air to 65.
And now Fleetwood Mac...

Posted by: Bad 80s Radio DJ at April 08, 2024 09:36 AM (ENQN6)

34 We need a total eclipse of the art with this thing.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)

35 This is your art. This is your art on drugs. Any questions?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 08, 2024 09:36 AM (u73oe)

36 >>It's random scribbles.

I could drop a bunch of crayons from 10 feet, melt them in place where they land, and achieve a similar result.

Yet no one would call my creation "art."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 09:35 AM

Wanna bet?

Posted by: Jackson Pollack at April 08, 2024 09:36 AM (VGOMa)

37 Toilet paper of a woman on her period suffering from a leaky hemorrhoid.

Posted by: Harsh Critic at April 08, 2024 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

38 Alternate title:

"Grand Prize Winning Entry for Refrigerator Art, Ages 5 and Under, 1965"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 08, 2024 09:36 AM (nFnyb)

39 28 I'll never understand why people paint this crap and then insist on calling it "art."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 09:35 AM (7fElN)

Because they hate you.

Posted by: Auspex at April 08, 2024 09:37 AM (j4U/Z)

40 We have...bush?
Posted by: blaster

Apparently, it's gone out of favor for some time now.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 08, 2024 09:37 AM (KFYTi)

41 It's random scribbles.

I could drop a bunch of crayons from 10 feet, melt them in place where they land, and achieve a similar result.

Yet no one would call my creation "art."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Marines would call it a buffet.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024 09:37 AM (SbJgO)

42 Also, I am outside and am not seeing the eclipse.

Posted by: Weasel at April 08, 2024 09:37 AM (JwHpX)

43 All I see is this art seared into my brain.

Posted by: Weasel at April 08, 2024 09:38 AM (JwHpX)

44 4 and 5 yearolds have been playing with watercolors and brushes. Now I have to wash the fricking wall.

Would not hang. Such drivel. Unrecognizable and I have to be told what it represents.

Posted by: Ciampino - It is smudges on smudges at April 08, 2024 09:38 AM (qfLjt)

45 Also, I am outside and am not seeing the eclipse.
Posted by: Weasel at April 08, 2024 09:37 AM (JwHpX)

——————-

Stare at the sun til it goes away, silly!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 08, 2024 09:38 AM (u73oe)

46 Sigh...looks like another pair of Hillary's panties are ready for washing....

Posted by: Huma Abedin at April 08, 2024 09:39 AM (JCZqz)

47 Also, I am outside and am not seeing the eclipse.
Posted by: Weasel

Did you check in the shed?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:39 AM (9yWhg)

48 All I see is this art seared into my brain.

Posted by: Weasel at April 08, 2024 09:38 AM (JwHpX)

Stare at it for five minutes, then look at a white wall.

It's amazing!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 09:39 AM (gSZYf)

49 Larue was Gidget's best friend on the show. Played by Lynette Winters, who also played Henrietta Plout on Petticoat Junction. Made a living playing plain girls. Don't know if she got butt implants.

Posted by: Homely Chicks Need Lovin' Too at April 08, 2024 09:39 AM (V5BDR)

50 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 09:39 AM (gSZYf)
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Far out!

Posted by: Weasel at April 08, 2024 09:40 AM (JwHpX)

51 I see phone and electric pole in Calcutta.

Posted by: Eromero at April 08, 2024 09:40 AM (NxC5+)

52 It looks like Cecilia Giménez "restored" a subway map.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 08, 2024 09:41 AM (lTGtQ)

53 Looks the screen on my WAZE when they is terrible traffic

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 08, 2024 09:41 AM (pVWRI)

54 I could drop a bunch of crayons from 10 feet, melt them in place where they land, and achieve a similar result.

Yet no one would call my creation "art."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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In my first library job, I cataloged a lot of theses & dissertations. I remember an MFA thesis that featured a "sculpture" that was a clothes rack (like from a department store) with several pairs of pantyhose hanging on wire hangers.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 08, 2024 09:41 AM (wQXfi)

55 Angry art by an artist who was very angry.

And wacked out of his mind. Done while blindfolded.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 08, 2024 09:41 AM (Q4IgG)

56 In my first library job, I cataloged a lot of theses & dissertations. I remember an MFA thesis that featured a "sculpture" that was a clothes rack (like from a department store) with several pairs of pantyhose hanging on wire hangers.
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 08, 2024 09:41 AM (wQXfi)
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That person is now earning 6-figures at a government or university job, no doubt...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 09:42 AM (7fElN)

57 Nice.

Posted by: Sidney at April 08, 2024 09:42 AM (Uy/WF)

58 I could drop a bunch of crayons from 10 feet, melt them in place where they land, and achieve a similar result.

Yet no one would call my creation "art."

I believe that the trick is that you have to call it art. And do so with an air of confidence and authority that dares anyone to refute you. And if anyone tries, you must immediately denounce him as an ignorant troglodyte and the others will get the message. Et voila, "art!"

Posted by: Oddbob at April 08, 2024 09:42 AM (sNc8Y)

59 I remember an MFA thesis that featured a "sculpture" that was a clothes rack (like from a department store) with several pairs of pantyhose hanging on wire hangers.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 08, 2024 09:41 AM (wQXfi)

Several years ago I went to The Tate Modern in London. They had a studio open to the public, where an artist was building his "art."

It was a bunch of Venetian Blinds hung from a 3D frame.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 09:43 AM (gSZYf)

60 I love it !. I might have just had a psychotic break though.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2024 09:43 AM (R7l+6)

61 It's no Hunter Biden masterpiece ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 08, 2024 09:43 AM (KtoBc)

62 With all this whining and kvetching, one would think an ottoman upholstered in the finest of Corinthian leathers was a major compositional element of the painting.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2024 09:44 AM (a3Q+t)

63 >>Several years ago I went to The Tate Modern in London. They had a studio open to the public, where an artist was building his "art."

It was a bunch of Venetian Blinds hung from a 3D frame.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 09:43 AM (gSZYf)

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That would make me shutter.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 08, 2024 09:44 AM (T+Iwg)

64 La Rue de Nevers
The Street of Nevers

Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2024 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

65 I told the otters that art was up but now I dunno.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:44 AM (o3SCB)

66 With all this whining and kvetching

I prefer "griping."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:45 AM (9yWhg)

67 Alternate Title: "Crucifixion on LSD."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 08, 2024 09:45 AM (KtoBc)

68 Yet no one would call my creation "art."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 09:35 AM (7fElN)

The key is self-promotion, and finding that first wealthy patron gullible enough to buy into it.

See The Emperor's New Clothes.

Posted by: spindrift at April 08, 2024 09:45 AM (OguvZ)

69 We can talk about the art or we can talk about the artist. The art is not antisemitic.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:45 AM (o3SCB)

70 Several years ago I went to The Tate Modern in London. They had a studio open to the public, where an artist was building his "art."

It was a bunch of Venetian Blinds hung from a 3D frame.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 09:43 AM (gSZYf)

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That would make me shutter.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 08, 2024 09:44 AM (T+Iwg)

But, it was window to his soul!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 08, 2024 09:45 AM (nFnyb)

71 We can talk about the art or we can talk about the artist. The art is not antisemitic.
Posted by: m

Well then - you know who else's art wasn't anti-Semitic?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 08, 2024 09:46 AM (KFYTi)

72 I remember an MFA thesis that featured a "sculpture" that was a clothes rack (like from a department store) with several pairs of pantyhose hanging on wire hangers.
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 08, 2024 09:41 AM

Was anyone in the pantyhose?

Asking for the 'rons.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2024 09:46 AM (a3Q+t)

73 The art is not antisemitic.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:45 AM (o3SCB)

Nobody suggested it was.

The contrast between the early 1950s and today is interesting.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 09:46 AM (gSZYf)

74 The key is self-promotion, and finding that first wealthy patron gullible enough to buy into it.

See The Emperor's New Clothes.
Posted by: spindrift
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Works for music, too.

Posted by: John Cage at April 08, 2024 09:46 AM (wQXfi)

75 73 The art is not antisemitic.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:45 AM (o3SCB)

Nobody suggested it was.

The contrast between the early 1950s and today is interesting.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 09:46 AM (gSZYf)

Wasn't disagreeing with you, CBD. Just adding thoughts.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:47 AM (o3SCB)

76 Culture Critic @Culture_Crit Apr 6
Was modern art a CIA psy-op?
This is what the Cold War did to American art:
https://tinyurl.com/2s3sj9f3

In the '90s, some former CIA officials admitted they had used abstract art — by Pollock, de Kooning, and others — as an ideological weapon in the Cold War.

But why and how?
Well, after WW2 the threat of communism was looming over Europe, and the U.S. wanted to inoculate European intellectuals against it.

A new form of warfare was emerging: a war of ideas...

The arts became a crucial battleground of this war. The communists wanted to prove that they were the true inheritors of the European Enlightenment, and that the U.S. was "culturally barren".

The Soviets had a confined view of what art should be — restricting artists to painting in a style called Socialist realism since the 1930s. Art became a tool for glorifying communist ideals and proletarian life.

The U.S. sought to counter by proving it was a bastion of creative and intellectual freedom, so it got behind the most liberated art of the day: Abstract Expressionism. The very antithesis of Soviet rigidity.

In the 1950s, the CIA secretly funded a group...

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 09:47 AM (vtyCZ)

77 It was a bunch of Venetian Blinds hung from a 3D frame.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 09:43 AM (gSZYf)

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That would make me shutter.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

So you're not a louver of blinds, I see.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:47 AM (9yWhg)

78 71 We can talk about the art or we can talk about the artist. The art is not antisemitic.
Posted by: m

Well then - you know who else's art wasn't anti-Semitic?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 08, 2024 09:46 AM (KFYTi)

At least one person I can name!

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:47 AM (o3SCB)

79 The key is self-promotion, and finding that first wealthy patron gullible enough to buy into it.

See The Emperor's New Clothes.
Posted by: spindrift at April 08, 2024 09:45 AM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Hunter B. at April 08, 2024 09:48 AM (a3Q+t)

80 The art is not antisemitic.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:45 AM (o3SCB)
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How can you tell?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 09:48 AM (7fElN)

81 Was anyone in the pantyhose?

Asking for the 'rons.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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It pains me to disappoint you, Duncanthrax, but no. Although that may be a blessing in disguise, considering that the model choice would likely have been Lizzoesque.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 08, 2024 09:48 AM (wQXfi)

82 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: vic at April 08, 2024 09:48 AM (A5THL)

83 Better then your average 5 year old.

But not by much

Posted by: 18-1 at April 08, 2024 09:48 AM (ibTVg)

84 The art is not antisemitic.
Posted by: m

It's just anti-human in general.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:49 AM (9yWhg)

85 >>That would make me shutter.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

So you're not a louver of blinds, I see.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:47 AM (9yWhg)

*golf clap*

(I will admit I lifted that joke out of an old W.C. Fields/Charlie McCarthy radio bit called "The Golf Game" of which I had a recording years ago. Never thought I'd get to use it but this is the Horde.)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 08, 2024 09:50 AM (T+Iwg)

86 With all the pop ups coming up it is almost impossible to get any news because the GD pop ups take up the entire screen and with no way to close theem.

Posted by: vic at April 08, 2024 09:50 AM (A5THL)

87 I put the "art" on a pdf and then rotated it 90 degrees left; then another 90 degrees left; then again; then back to the start. It really does look very different at each quarter turn!

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:51 AM (o3SCB)

88 That would make me shutter.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

But, it was window to his soul!
Posted by: naturalfake

What a pane.

Posted by: Rimshot at April 08, 2024 09:51 AM (dg+HA)

89 an old W.C. Fields/Charlie McCarthy radio bit

Do you mean Edgar Bergen?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:51 AM (9yWhg)

90 Well my nurse got here just got to go so got to go

Posted by: vic at April 08, 2024 09:52 AM (A5THL)

91 Looks like a line of Jews going somewhere.

-French Art Critic in the 50s.

Posted by: pawn - Champion of Reality at April 08, 2024 09:52 AM (QB+5g)

92 That would make me shutter.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

But, it was window to his soul!
Posted by: naturalfake

What a pane.
Posted by: Rimshot

I fail to see the revalence of these comments.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:52 AM (9yWhg)

93 I put the "art" on a pdf and then rotated it 90 degrees left; then another 90 degrees left; then again; then back to the start. It really does look very different at each quarter turn!
Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:51 AM (o3SCB)
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So that makes it four times as valuable?

$$$KA-CHING!$$$

--Art Dealer

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 09:53 AM (7fElN)

94 In my first library job, I cataloged a lot of theses & dissertations. I remember an MFA thesis that featured a "sculpture" that was a clothes rack (like from a department store) with several pairs of pantyhose hanging on wire hangers.
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Ah, yes. The "Sniff Me Tree" by Joseph Biden.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 09:53 AM (vtyCZ)

95 Well my nurse got here just got to go so got to go
Posted by: vic

Is she hot?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:53 AM (9yWhg)

96 89 an old W.C. Fields/Charlie McCarthy radio bit

Do you mean Edgar Bergen?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:51 AM (9yWhg)

Wait, wait...Are you suggesting Edgar voiced Charlie? What're you smoking? ; )

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 08, 2024 09:53 AM (T+Iwg)

97 80 The art is not antisemitic.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:45 AM (o3SCB)
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How can you tell?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 09:48 AM (7fElN)

Because it's inanimate.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:53 AM (o3SCB)

98 I fail to see the revalence of these comments.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:52 AM (9yWhg)

Nice!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 09:53 AM (gSZYf)

99 For some reason, my first glance at today's artwork made me think of a 19th-century sailing ship.

It also looks like (my memory of) the rather abstract animation on the NBC Suspense Theatre anthology series in the '60s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 09:54 AM (J2vNu)

100 100

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:54 AM (o3SCB)

101 Although that may be a blessing in disguise, considering that the model choice would likely have been Lizzoesque.
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 08, 2024 09:48 AM

Or Sam Britton. * shudder *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2024 09:54 AM (a3Q+t)

102 92 That would make me shutter.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

But, it was window to his soul!
Posted by: naturalfake

What a pane.
Posted by: Rimshot

I fail to see the revalence of these comments.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:52 AM (9yWhg)

You're making my eyes glaze over.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:55 AM (o3SCB)

103 Not unlike the French and the English blaming each other for syphilis, both the US and the Soviets accused each other of inventing non-objective art to undermine the other one's cultural traditions. And then of course both the CIA and the KGB tried to 'take credit' for the op.

This was way back, when enough people gave enough of a shit about either art or serious music to think such a thing could be done -- so you see, they both won, and both lost.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 08, 2024 09:55 AM (zdLoL)

104
Alfred Russell, it seems, was a nut case. An utterly horrible person.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2024 09:55 AM (MoZTd)

105 It was a bunch of Venetian Blinds hung from a 3D frame.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 09:43 AM (gSZYf)

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That would make me shutter.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
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So you're not a louver of blinds, I see.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024

***
So jalousie rears its ugly head!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

106 Alfred Russell, it seems, was a nut case. An utterly horrible person.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2024 09:55 AM (MoZTd)
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So that explains his art...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 09:56 AM (7fElN)

107 Looked Russell up on Wikipedia. It says his latent anti semitism led to his commercial downfall. It says nothing about what he said or did to lead to the charge. I wouldn't be surprised but I'd like examples

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 08, 2024 09:56 AM (ixVYR)

108 That middle vertical almost looks like a human spine.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:56 AM (o3SCB)

109 I don't see vey well. When I first glanced at this, I thought it was a map of a mass transit system for a major city.

Posted by: Don, the Rebel without a Blog at April 08, 2024 09:57 AM (DQ+/v)

110 63% Of IRS Audits Target Taxpayers Earnings Less Than $200,000, Not $400,000 Promised By President "Lying" Biden.

Posted by: SMOD at April 08, 2024 09:57 AM (RHGPo)

111 Alfred Russell, it seems, was a nut case. An utterly horrible person.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

He never got over the fact that Darwin beat him to the theory of evolution.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:57 AM (9yWhg)

112 The art is not antisemitic.
Posted by: m
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How can you tell?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Because it's inanimate.
Posted by: m
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I object!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 09:57 AM (vtyCZ)

113 ... and then the horizontal picked out with yellow would create a cross.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:57 AM (o3SCB)

114 Well my nurse got here just got to go so got to go
Posted by: vic at April 08, 2024 09:52 AM

Be nice to nurses. They determine what gauge needle and Foley you get.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (a3Q+t)

115 La Rue de Nevers
The Street of Nevers
Posted by: redridinghood at April 08, 2024

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I moved to an apartment there on the twelfth of Never.

Posted by: Johnny Mathis at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

116 La Rue de Nevers

There's something there, there's definitely perspective and shape. I can't tell what it is, but it's not random paint garbage. I give it a 'Pass' on the Art

ass/Fail grading system.

Posted by: t-bird at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (OkFiN)

117 Alfred Russell, it seems, was a nut case. An utterly horrible person.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

But his art was transcendent and... never mind I can't keep up the farce for a full comment.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (W4ovw)

118 112 The art is not antisemitic.
Posted by: m
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How can you tell?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Because it's inanimate.
Posted by: m
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I object!
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 09:57 AM (vtyCZ)

Where object? There object! You Canuck!

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (o3SCB)

119 I think a lot of artists gain notoriety by being the first do to something. Like painting an entire canvas black. Or bending and welding some rebar into a weird sculpture.

It's not that it's beautiful, or thought provoking... although it might be... but more about being the first to do something and declare it "art."

Thus you get a banana nailed to a wall... as "art." It's only so if people believe it to be "art." And most people are stupid idiots.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (Q4IgG)

120
It says nothing about what he said or did to lead to the charge. I wouldn't be surprised but I'd like examples
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 08, 2024 09:56 AM (ixVYR)

___________

"Alfred Russell's focused his talent for self destruction further away from home and upon those very persons most in a position to further his career. One story goes that Peggy Guggenheim,who owned the gallery Art of This Century, approached Russell at a party and made sexual advances to him, stroking his eyelashes and inviting him to be her “protegé.” He spat in her face on the spot, to which she countered something to the effect of “You'll never show in this town again,” and went home that evening with Jackson Pollock on her arm. Even before Alfred Russell decided to abandon abstraction in painting and focus on the human form, the critic Clement Greenberg decided Russell's intellectual approach to Abstraction was not in tune with the times. Russell countered this attack with a barrage of anti-semitic slurs."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (MoZTd)

121 The Charlie McCarthy-W.C. Fields "feud" continued over a decade and it seemed very real and quite personal. A tribute to their acting abilities and it was done mostly on the radio. They never feuded over art this bad, though.

Posted by: Chase Sanborn Hour at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (V5BDR)

122 You know, the gray background kinda looks like the Tasmanian devil when he's whirling around.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:59 AM (9yWhg)

123 This was way back, when enough people gave enough of a shit about either art or serious music to think such a thing could be done -- so you see, they both won, and both lost.
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The Joni Mitchell Effect!
/EMT tie-in

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 09:59 AM (vtyCZ)

124 Derivative of Kandinsky and Miro. *sniffs genteel-like*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2024 09:59 AM (RIvkX)

125 109 I don't see vey well. When I first glanced at this, I thought it was a map of a mass transit system for a major city.
Posted by: Don, the Rebel without a Blog at April 08, 2024 09:57 AM (DQ+/v)

It is quite the conversation piece.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:59 AM (o3SCB)

126 Could be worse.

Could be eclipsing.

Posted by: Igor at April 08, 2024 10:00 AM (5y9OU)

127
"Alfred's anti-semitic antics had reached theatrically absurd heights. For instance: a neighbor who was also a high school English teacher, was having a party to celebrate his son's bar mitzvah. As the festivities became more joyful and the music crescendo-ed, Alfred became so infuriated that he climbed to the roof of our house with two enormous speakers and drowned out their music with German Nazi marching songs."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2024 10:00 AM (MoZTd)

128 Where object? There object! You Canuck!
Posted by: m
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Cool game!

There HQ!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 10:00 AM (vtyCZ)

129 I love it !. I might have just had a psychotic break though.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2024

***
Our psychotic reaction was there first!

Posted by: Count Five at April 08, 2024 10:00 AM (J2vNu)

130 120 "Alfred Russell's focused his talent for self destruction further away from home and upon those very persons most in a position to further his career. One story goes that Peggy Guggenheim,who owned the gallery Art of This Century, approached Russell at a party and made sexual advances to him, stroking his eyelashes
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (MoZTd)

"Stroking his eyelashes"?

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:00 AM (o3SCB)

131 Not familiar with the artist so I need to read his history, but I'd hang this painting because it goes with just about any interior. Thanks.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you too at April 08, 2024 10:01 AM (NFX2v)

132 Thus you get a banana nailed to a wall... as "art."
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Duct-taped, you Philistine!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 10:01 AM (vtyCZ)

133 100 100
Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 09:54 AM

So, 36 in decimal?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2024 10:02 AM (a3Q+t)

134
The arts became a crucial battleground of this war. The communists wanted to prove that they were the true inheritors of the European Enlightenment, and that the U.S. was "culturally barren".

___________

How many refugees from the European Enlightenment fled to this "culturally barren" country?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2024 10:02 AM (MoZTd)

135 Went to the moderan art museum in DC once. They had used VW brake parts in a plastic bag stapled to the wall.
"ART"

Posted by: RUReadingthis at April 08, 2024 10:02 AM (aQ25I)

136 "Alfred Russell's focused his talent for self destruction further away from home and upon those very persons most in a position to further his career. One story goes that Peggy Guggenheim,who owned the gallery Art of This Century, approached Russell at a party and made sexual advances to him, stroking his eyelashes
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2024
*
"Stroking his eyelashes"?
Posted by: m at April 08, 2024

***
Well, we have to ask the age-old question.

Was she hot?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

137 Well,,, just because,

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBuk1HXcz1k

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at April 08, 2024 10:03 AM (X4yCj)

138 Was she hot?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

No, but she was rich. That's how she got laid.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 08, 2024 10:04 AM (gSZYf)

139 Was she hot?
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Did you not read the he spit in her face part???

Posted by: Stop it dad at April 08, 2024 10:04 AM (JM96T)

140 Went to the modern art museum in DC once. They had used VW brake parts in a plastic bag stapled to the wall.
"ART"
Posted by: RUReadingthis at April 08, 2024

***
I'm glad the artist went with "used." New parts would have been just de trop.

Posted by: Random DC Art Critic at April 08, 2024 10:04 AM (J2vNu)

141 Was she hot?
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Did you not read the he spit in her face part???
Posted by: Stop it dad at April 08, 2024

***
Well, yeah, but he was cracked anyway, so --

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

142 122 You know, the gray background kinda looks like the Tasmanian devil when he's whirling around.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 09:59 AM (9yWhg)

Yes, I can see that. It also looks like the profile of a man, looking left.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:06 AM (o3SCB)

143 Garbage.

Would Not Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 08, 2024 10:06 AM (K1/cs)

144 If you’re going to look at the eclipse later, do not use a colander as a shield. It’ll strain your eyes.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 08, 2024 10:06 AM (u73oe)

145 Thus you get a banana nailed to a wall... as "art." It's only so if people believe it to be "art." And most people are stupid idiots.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (Q4IgG)
--/

Nah, most *art world* people are idiots, and they have always held the lumpens in contempt, with their love of representational art and norms of beauty.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 08, 2024 10:06 AM (3e3hy)

146 Not so sure a dog didn't make it

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2024 10:07 AM (Jdj6j)

147 121 The Charlie McCarthy-W.C. Fields "feud" continued over a decade and it seemed very real and quite personal. A tribute to their acting abilities and it was done mostly on the radio. They never feuded over art this bad, though.
Posted by: Chase Sanborn Hour at April 08, 2024 09:58 AM (V5BDR)

Indeed, they were hylarious. Alas, I can't seem to find a CD of them. Sad.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 08, 2024 10:07 AM (T+Iwg)

148 Peggy Guggenheim's father was Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2024 10:07 AM (a3Q+t)

149 Looks like the cover of a New Yorker magazine.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:07 AM (o3SCB)

150 Sen. John Fetterman blasts squatters, violent crime: 'I am not woke'. “Squatters have no rights,” Fetterman said, adding that the issue was one he often dealt with when he was mayor of working-class Braddock, Pa. “How can you even pretend that this is anything other than you’re just breaking the law...if somebody stole your car, and then they held it for 30 days, then somehow you now have some rights?

Squatting in someone's home is not woke and no one should accept that frame. It’s stupid to accept it.

It is people on the far left that advocate for squatters rights. We should denounce this movement. Squatters in California are crazy. We are losing the independents and center leaning dems with some of our most extreme issues. The unhoused can not set up a tent in front of business entrances, they can not defecate all over the sidewalk an expect businesses not to complain. Democrats own business that are being impacted and we are losing them.

Common sense must prevail!

Maybe I'm missing something. Is this a big issue all over the country?

No. WaPo - last week: Squatters have become a right-wing talking point...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 08, 2024 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

151 "But why have you never heard of the artist? Because the art world of the 1950s rejected him for his anti-Semitism."

Interesting when you juxtapose this with the Easter display on building from the 50s. Shouldn't he have been embraced by those filthy Christianists?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:07 AM (di6C2)

152 Love the painting.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at April 08, 2024 10:08 AM (sX1BW)

153 Good news for a change came on a Monday. Pope Frankie has come out against transgenderism and surrogacy. Surprise

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 08, 2024 10:08 AM (ixVYR)

154 No. WaPo - last week: Squatters have become a right-wing talking point...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 08, 2024 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

Inconvenient facts have become Right Wing talking points.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:08 AM (di6C2)

155 144 If you’re going to look at the eclipse later, do not use a colander as a shield. It’ll strain your eyes.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 08, 2024 10:06 AM (u73oe)

Boo-o-o-o-o! Boo-o-o-o-o, Duke Lowell! Boo-o-o-o-o!

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:08 AM (o3SCB)

156 . . . Alfred became so infuriated that he climbed to the roof of our house with two enormous speakers and drowned out their music with German Nazi marching songs."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2024

***
Despite my German DNA, I have never been able to figure out what makes the Horst Wessel Song so special. Europe's "The Final Countdown" makes me want to march proudly down the street, but I get nothing out of the song named for Horst.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:08 AM (J2vNu)

157 Was she hot?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

No, but she was rich. That's how she got laid.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Hmmm. Sleeping with an unattractive person because they're rich? That's a very female way of doing things.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:09 AM (9yWhg)

158 Nah, most *art world* people are idiots, and they have always held the lumpens in contempt, with their love of representational art and norms of beauty.

Well then, it's good we hold them in contempt and think they're idiots, crooks, and poseurs. The universe must maintain symmetry.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2024 10:09 AM (CsUN+)

159 154 No. WaPo - last week: Squatters have become a right-wing talking point...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 08, 2024 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

Inconvenient facts have become Right Wing talking points.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:08 AM (di6C2)

*assumes the position to pounce and seize*

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 08, 2024 10:09 AM (T+Iwg)

160 Best bit of Modern Art BS was Marcel Duchamp's "Urinal", which was...a urinal.

"When explaining the purpose of his readymade sculpture, Duchamp stated they are "everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice."

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 08, 2024 10:10 AM (3e3hy)

161 I had a conversation once with an art instructor. We pretty much agreed that most modern "art" is crap. I blamed Duchamp for making crap mainstream. He argued that Duchamp was actually trying to mock the modern art movement with "Fountain" but the elites didn't get the joke and took it seriously. Kris?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 08, 2024 10:10 AM (sNc8Y)

162 See El Anatsui, Palettes of Ambition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Mostly bottle caps. Viewed closely, it was actually intriguing (to me).

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you too at April 08, 2024 10:11 AM (NFX2v)

163 So has MSM explained how great censorship (oops, preventing misinformation) and dictatorship will be for Brazil yet? Or are just ignoring it?

Posted by: Ripley at April 08, 2024 10:11 AM (JojsZ)

164 Peggy Guggenheim's father was Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2024

***
Little known fact: Her brother went into radio and later television. You remember him, don't you? "Crazy" Guggenheim?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

165 'Stroking eyelashes'?

Some women like long eyelashes on a dude. Women are a puzzle that in soon to be 49 years I have yet to quite figure out.

Fun though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:12 AM (di6C2)

166 Morning.

Uuuuhhhh...it's, uuuuhhhh...

I give up. What is it?

Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2024 10:12 AM (RI19w)

167 160 Marcel Duchamp's "Urinal"
Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 08, 2024 10:10 AM (3e3hy)

Eh, you get to be a star when urinal the right places.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:12 AM (o3SCB)

168 Some women like long eyelashes on a dude. Women are a puzzle that in soon to be 49 years I have yet to quite figure out.

I will let you know.

Posted by: Methuselah at April 08, 2024 10:13 AM (CsUN+)

169 160 Best bit of Modern Art BS was Marcel Duchamp's "Urinal", which was...a urinal.

"When explaining the purpose of his readymade sculpture, Duchamp stated they are "everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice."
Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 08, 2024 10:10 AM (3e3hy)

At least it was functional.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:13 AM (di6C2)

170 160 Best bit of Modern Art BS was Marcel Duchamp's "Urinal", which was...a urinal.

"When explaining the purpose of his readymade sculpture, Duchamp stated they are "everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice."
Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 08, 2024 10:10 AM (3e3hy)

Well, this is the logical conclusion of Romanticism. When the artist ceases to be an artisan and becomes an artiste, eventually the ego will crowd out any other consideration.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 08, 2024 10:13 AM (T+Iwg)

171 Eh, you get to be a star when urinal the right places.
Posted by: m

That takes the cake!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:13 AM (9yWhg)

172 I'm getting vibes of a "true-crime" podcaster's post-it note laden map of whodunnit.

Posted by: Doof at April 08, 2024 10:13 AM (XIF9h)

173 My mom says she really enjoys butterfly kisses from Jean-Luc.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 08, 2024 10:14 AM (a3Q+t)

174 171 Eh, you get to be a star when urinal the right places.
Posted by: m

That takes the cake!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:13 AM (9yWhg)

And water you going to do about that?!

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:14 AM (o3SCB)

175 This is how it works in some of the most populated states:

- California: Squatters who pay taxes on your property for 5 years will gain the title to the property (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code §318 and Code §325).
- Florida: Unauthorized residents paying taxes for your property for 7 years will be granted ownership (Fla. Stat. Ann. § 95.1

.
- New York: In most of the state, squatters need to live for 10 years on a property openly and illegally before claiming ownership. However, NYC has its own rules which stipulate you can claim squatters’ rights 30 days after a lease has ended (NPA § 501, et seq).
- Ohio: Squatters in Ohio must live on a property for 21 years openly before they can claim ownership rights (Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2305.04).
- Texas: The law in Texas states that squatters need to live on a property for 3 years, 5 years, or 10 years (§ 16.024-16.026) before they can claim its title under its adverse possession laws.

Posted by: SMOD at April 08, 2024 10:15 AM (RHGPo)

176 Watched WrestleMania this weekend, it pretty awesome, like whoever wrote the storyline for the final match needs to get a pay raise.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2024 10:15 AM (JIdXK)

177 I wonder if anyone peed in "Fountain". If so, it would have been performance art.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 08, 2024 10:15 AM (3e3hy)

178 Eh, you get to be a star when urinal the right places.
Posted by: m

That takes the cake!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:13 AM (9yWhg)

And water you going to do about that?!
Posted by: m

I'm flushed with all this excitement.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:15 AM (9yWhg)

179 Well, this is the logical conclusion of Romanticism. When the artist ceases to be an artisan and becomes an artiste, eventually the ego will crowd out any other consideration.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 08, 2024 10:13 AM (T+Iwg)

Art for Art's sake usually isn't. The best art is usually in service to something, speaking an enormous passion or feeling and trying to give that thing substance. 'Sniffing their own farts' is a good phrase for a lot of 'art.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:16 AM (di6C2)

180 I have no problem with styles being propped up by the CIA still being considered art. If we eliminated government-sponsored painting/sculpture/architecture/etc. from the conversation, we would have to eliminate A LOT of traditional and ancient art, such as the Parthenon, the Pantheon, the Pyramids/Sphynx, Michelangelo's "David" just to name a few.

Posted by: Kris at April 08, 2024 10:16 AM (hR8f8)

181 Women are a puzzle that in soon to be 49 years I have yet to quite figure out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:12 AM (di6C2)

Which will come first? Figuring out the mind of woman or figuring out what's inside a black hole?

My money's on the black hole.

Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2024 10:16 AM (RI19w)

182 172 I'm getting vibes of a "true-crime" podcaster's post-it note laden map of whodunnit.
Posted by: Doof at April 08, 2024 10:13 AM (XIF9h)

Someone shouting 'It's the Jews!' is somewhere in there too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:16 AM (di6C2)

183 I blamed Duchamp for making crap mainstream. He argued that Duchamp was actually trying to mock the modern art movement with "Fountain" but the elites didn't get the joke and took it seriously. Kris?
Posted by: Oddbob

I always understood it to be the general, rapid shift towards celebrating ugliness starting in the late 60s that is rapidly accelerating now, mostly driven by extreme Leftists that want to tear down societal norms.

Beautiful art is marketable, and appeals to the masses. Pretentious Left elites want to be different from, and more sophisticated than, normal people, so they feign appreciation for things normies dislike, thereby showing their superiority.

For the artist, they get to claim their work is so profound or controversial that normies don't get it, and only truly enlightened elites will appreciate it. Almost an Emperor's New Clothing situation, except the tailors AND the emperor believe the bullshit.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 08, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

184 Why all this hate for semis?
Without them, the economy would grind to a halt.

Posted by: Emily Latella at April 08, 2024 10:17 AM (rGjee)

185 Watched WrestleMania this weekend, it pretty awesome
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2024 10:15 AM

Did The Rock finally return to Philadelphia?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2024 10:17 AM (a3Q+t)

186 I'm hearing about people slacking-from-home because of the eclipse, which is a first for me.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 08, 2024 10:17 AM (cf/0E)

187 My money's on the black hole.
Posted by: Robert

C'mere, big boy.
-- Whoopi

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:17 AM (9yWhg)

188 Watched WrestleMania this weekend, it pretty awesome, like whoever wrote the storyline for the final match needs to get a pay raise.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2024 10:15 AM (JIdXK)
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Triple H has been pretty open about how they now consider the story first and foremost. I admit they did a tremendous job building up the main storyline and then resulting in a satisfying payoff. Other storylines were left open-ended for future events.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 10:18 AM (7fElN)

189 Crazy Guggenheim (Frank Fontaine) had 11 children, so we know what his hobby was.

Posted by: Joe the Bartender at April 08, 2024 10:18 AM (V5BDR)

190 Why all this hate for semis?
Without them, the economy would grind to a halt.
Posted by: Emily Latella at April 08, 2024 10:17 AM (rGjee)

—————-

Ok, that took me a minute.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 08, 2024 10:18 AM (u73oe)

191 " Alfred became so infuriated that he climbed to the roof of our house with two enormous speakers and drowned out their music with German Nazi marching songs.""

Schizo

Posted by: pawn - Champion of Reality at April 08, 2024 10:18 AM (QB+5g)

192 Why all this hate for semis?
Without them, the economy would grind to a halt.
Posted by: Emily Latella at April 08, 2024 10:17 AM (rGjee)

True fact, can confirm.

Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2024 10:18 AM (RI19w)

193 This weekend I got the chance to use a Horde-style pun on Miss Linda. She had just finished a fried codfish filet, and said, "That was good. How come you never bought those before?"

To which I replied, "Many are cod, but few are chosen."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

194
Hmmm. Sleeping with an unattractive person because they're rich? That's a very female way of doing things.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:09 AM

All I can picture is Rick Ocasek

:: drops mic ::

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 08, 2024 10:19 AM (RKVpM)

195 But can the bombastic US Senator Fetterman keep distracting from what a worthless piece of dung US Senator Bob Casey is? And FJB too?

Johnny is playing to the stands in PA.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you too at April 08, 2024 10:19 AM (NFX2v)

196 180 I have no problem with styles being propped up by the CIA still being considered art. If we eliminated government-sponsored painting/sculpture/architecture/etc. from the conversation, we would have to eliminate A LOT of traditional and ancient art, such as the Parthenon, the Pantheon, the Pyramids/Sphynx, Michelangelo's "David" just to name a few.
Posted by: Kris at April 08, 2024 10:16 AM (hR8f

There is a difference between 'Patronage' and this shit, Kris. At least theoretically, the Patron commissions the artist to create something the Patron will enjoy. Something of beauty or tragedy. Beauty, be it exquisite or terrible.

These retards are just jacking off.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:19 AM (di6C2)

197 Modern art = Money laundering

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 08, 2024 10:20 AM (u73oe)

198 Well, this is the logical conclusion of Romanticism. When the artist ceases to be an artisan and becomes an artiste, eventually the ego will crowd out any other consideration.

When the robots take over, they'll be neither. Here is an excellent review of just how far AI-generated imagery has come in only a year. Will Smith eating spaghetti is disturbing, but what's coming next will have real consequences for humanity (and especially "artists").

https://tinyurl.com/ypj9xm8m

Posted by: Archimedes at April 08, 2024 10:20 AM (CsUN+)

199 185. Did The Rock finally return to Philadelphia?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

He did.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you too at April 08, 2024 10:21 AM (NFX2v)

200 It's evoked 200 comments.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:21 AM (o3SCB)

201 Common sense must prevail!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 08, 2024 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

ruh roh!

Posted by: BignJames at April 08, 2024 10:21 AM (AwYPR)

202 Ceci n'est pas un pissoir.

Posted by: zombie ren� magritte at April 08, 2024 10:21 AM (vtyCZ)

203 201 Common sense must prevail!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 08, 2024 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

ruh roh!
Posted by: BignJames at April 08, 2024 10:21 AM (AwYPR)

Norman! Coordinate!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:21 AM (di6C2)

204 Why all this hate for semis?
Without them, the economy would grind to a halt.
Posted by: Emily Latella at April 08, 2024 10:17 AM

Not to mention the Oxford comma.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2024 10:22 AM (a3Q+t)

205 202 Ceci n'est pas un pissoir.
Posted by: zombie ren� magritte at April 08, 2024 10:21 AM (vtyCZ)

Magritte sans dictionnaire!

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:22 AM (o3SCB)

206 All I can picture is Rick Ocasek
:: drops mic ::
Posted by: Divide by Zero

I know, right?

Posted by: Bezos and Zuck at April 08, 2024 10:22 AM (GBMzZ)

207
Did The Rock finally return to Philadelphia?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 08, 2024 10:17 AM

The #1 radio news station in Philadelphia is KYW. The other day we got the ever living shit shaken out of us with the earthquake. I turn on KYW 10 minutes later and the #1 news story is WrestleMania.

About half an hour later they finally mention the quake. But no, they didn't mention the Rock - that I heard.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 08, 2024 10:23 AM (RKVpM)

208 I remember an MFA thesis that featured a "sculpture" that was a clothes rack (like from a department store) with several pairs of pantyhose hanging on wire hangers.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 08, 2024 09:41 AM

Please tell me you put it in the closet.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 10:23 AM (5sOEG)

209 "But why have you never heard of the artist? Because the art world of the 1950s rejected him for his anti-Semitism."

I reject him because of his anti-artism.

Posted by: fd at April 08, 2024 10:23 AM (ArbhN)

210 I could drop a bunch of crayons from 10 feet, melt them in place where they land, and achieve a similar result.

Yet no one would call my creation "art."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Depends upon your manifesto.

Posted by: javems at April 08, 2024 10:23 AM (8I4hW)

211 Modern art = Money laundering
Posted by: Duke Lowell
----------
No cadmium yellow.

Posted by: Hunter at April 08, 2024 10:23 AM (vtyCZ)

212 These retards are just jacking off.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:19 AM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at April 08, 2024 10:24 AM (a3Q+t)

213 Why all this hate for semis?
Without them, the economy would grind to a halt.
Posted by: Emily Latella

Lol....semi cheesecake. https://tinyurl.com/4pu47db5

Don't let the clown painted on the hood scare you- this tricked-out truck has a Peterbuilt engine and, uh....is air-ride equipped? I don't know crap about trucks, just searched for images and picked one out that looked like it was from a car show lol.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 08, 2024 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

214 All I can picture is Rick Ocasek
:: drops mic ::
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 08, 2024 10:19 AM (RKVpM)

Ric had that Polish broad who was smoking hot that's for sure.

Even though he was tall, ugly, pale and had a sunken chest, it was rumored that Old Ric was hung like a donkey, which kept the wimmens busy.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 08, 2024 10:25 AM (K1/cs)

215 196 These retards are just jacking off.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:19 AM (di6C2)

Now you're talking about "technique"!

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:25 AM (o3SCB)

216 Squatters a right wing talking point. Just like crime is, and the border. And inflation. None of this exists in DU land huh?

Posted by: Montec at April 08, 2024 10:25 AM (l3CKw)

217 "I could drop a bunch of crayons from 10 feet, melt them in place where they land, and achieve a similar result.

Yet no one would call my creation "art."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

Heh. Stay tuned for a future hobby thread.

Posted by: fd at April 08, 2024 10:26 AM (ArbhN)

218 Ceci n'est pas un pissoir.
Posted by: zombie ren� magritte at April 08, 2024

***
Une vespasienne, alors?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

219 Don't let the clown painted on the hood scare you- this tricked-out truck has a Peterbuilt engine and, uh....is air-ride equipped? I don't know crap about trucks, just searched for images and picked one out that looked like it was from a car show lol.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 08, 2024 10:24 AM (JCZqz)
---
Mon Calamari heavy cruisers are more your speed, eh?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 08, 2024 10:26 AM (7fElN)

220 Actual Fox News headline: "Researchers warn about increased risk of deadly crashes during spectacle"

Researchers? Really? It isn't common sense that morons on the highway looking at an eclipse just might have more accidents?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 10:26 AM (5sOEG)

221 Quite the display of something. A lifetime could be spent deciphering only to discover the end result had no more meaning.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 08, 2024 10:26 AM (KATBx)

222 It was lightly cloudy this morning when I stepped out of my office, and we have a chance of rain this p.m. I don't expect we'll see anything spectacular (even with the glasses) around here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

223 Little known fact: Her brother went into radio and later television. You remember him, don't you? "Crazy" Guggenheim?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

"Hiya Joe ! Hiya Mister Dunahee !"

Posted by: JT at April 08, 2024 10:28 AM (T4tVD)

224 chattering class reference. Nice.

I'm beginning to suspect some of you are not actually 29.

Posted by: Incorrect movie quotes but still true at April 08, 2024 10:28 AM (z/ifB)

225 "Quite the display of something. A lifetime could be spent deciphering only to discover the end result had no more meaning.
Posted by: irongrampa"

I call this composition "The Day The Plotter Went Berserk".

Posted by: the artist at April 08, 2024 10:28 AM (ArbhN)

226 That research probably cost $400k in tax dollars.

Posted by: Montec at April 08, 2024 10:28 AM (l3CKw)

227 I call this composition "The Day The Plotter Went Berserk".
Posted by: the artist at April 08, 2024 10:28 AM

In the First Self-Righteous Church?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 10:30 AM (5sOEG)

228 Watched a noir called "The Pushover" yesterday. Kim Novak's first movie. She was all of 20 when she made it. Boy, was she gorgeous.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:30 AM (9yWhg)

229 There is a difference between 'Patronage' and this shit, Kris. At least theoretically, the Patron commissions the artist to create something the Patron will enjoy. Something of beauty or tragedy. Beauty, be it exquisite or terrible.

These retards are just jacking off.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:19 AM (di6C2)

But a patron commissions an artist because they already enjoy their work or message. If you hate Duchamp or Pollack, why are you buying their stuff?

Posted by: Kris at April 08, 2024 10:30 AM (hR8f8)

230 Mon Calamari heavy cruisers are more your speed, eh?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Actually, that would have been pretty funny, too. Someone said I should occasionally mix in good or legit images, to keep people guessing, so I went with an actual truck this time...the idea of semi cheesecake images is funny enough. Oh...I wonder if they have bikini babies on some, like other cars?!

https://tinyurl.com/yc4pnxp5. Hell yeah they do! Not the hottest of the bunch, but I like the musculature of her legs....

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 08, 2024 10:30 AM (JCZqz)

231 Actual Fox News headline: "Researchers warn about increased risk of deadly crashes during spectacle"

Researchers? What about experts? Are they on strike or something?

Posted by: Ripley at April 08, 2024 10:31 AM (JojsZ)

232 Watched a noir called "The Pushover" yesterday. Kim Novak's first movie. She was all of 20 when she made it. Boy, was she gorgeous.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024

***
I watched that on YooToob a couple of years ago. Fred MacMurray co-starred with her, I think? Another of his crooked characters, this time a cop?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

233 But a patron commissions an artist because they already enjoy their work or message. If you hate Duchamp or Pollack, why are you buying their stuff?
Posted by: Kris at April 08, 2024 10:30 AM (hR8f

Because the government is using my money to force me to.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:32 AM (di6C2)

234 I watched that on YooToob a couple of years ago. Fred MacMurray co-starred with her, I think? Another of his crooked characters, this time a cop?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yep. He goes over to the dark side for Kim.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:33 AM (9yWhg)

235 218 Ceci n'est pas un pissoir.
Posted by: zombie ren� magritte at April 08, 2024

***
Une vespasienne, alors?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

Avec les crocs? Et un messenger bag?

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:33 AM (o3SCB)

236 @230 Always trust content from Adm Ackbar.
Some may not remember the Ridgid Tool calendar...

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 08, 2024 10:33 AM (zdLoL)

237 Good news, everybody! D.C. is safe!

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
BUTTIGIEG (who has a constant security detail): "I can safely walk my dog to the Capitol today in a way that you couldn't do when we all got here!"
Last year, D.C. had its deadliest year in 20+ years and saw the largest violent crime spike of any major U.S. city.

-
Bidenomics! Is there nothing it can't do?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:34 AM (FVME7)

238 200+ posts and no one has commented Alfred Russell or abstract expressionism has been eclipsed?????

CBD, every regular posting this morning, except me, is an imposter!

Posted by: Gref at April 08, 2024 10:34 AM (5fDan)

239 Per Wiki it says that the artist rejected abstraction and painted classically for the rest of his life but because of his antisemitism those works were never displayed.

Posted by: Tuna at April 08, 2024 10:34 AM (oaGWv)

240 236 @230 Always trust content from Adm Ackbar.
Some may not remember the Ridgid Tool calendar...
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 08, 2024 10:33 AM (zdLoL)

https://tinyurl.com/24y7vkru

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:35 AM (di6C2)

241 Ceci n'est pas un pissoir.
Posted by: zombie ren� magritte at April 08, 2024

***
Une vespasienne, alors?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024
*
Avec les crocs? Et un messenger bag?
Posted by: m at April 08, 2024

***
Truly, my knowledge of French stops at "Au Bon Pain."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:35 AM (J2vNu)

242 238 200+ posts and no one has commented Alfred Russell or abstract expressionism has been eclipsed?????
Posted by: Gref at April 08, 2024 10:34 AM (5fDan)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:35 AM (o3SCB)

243 Too much French on the blog this morning for my taste.

Mne ne nravitsya.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:35 AM (9yWhg)

244 Bidenomics! Is there nothing it can't do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:34 AM (FVME7)

Lying, is there anything it can't do?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:36 AM (di6C2)

245 Yep. He goes over to the dark side for Kim.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

As any man might do. Well, not Secretary Buttgigitty or Don LeMon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:36 AM (FVME7)

246 Watched a noir called "The Pushover" yesterday. Kim Novak's first movie. She was all of 20 when she made it. Boy, was she gorgeous.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:30 AM (9yWhg)

The sequel, "The Popover", starring Juila Child, was a tasty delight.

Posted by: spindrift at April 08, 2024 10:36 AM (OguvZ)

247 244 Bidenomics! Is there nothing it can't do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:34 AM (FVME7)

Lying, is there anything it can't do?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:36 AM (di6C2)

Nice.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:36 AM (o3SCB)

248 Too much French on the blog this morning for my taste.

Mne ne nravitsya.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:35 AM (9yWhg)

Gesundheidt !

Posted by: JT at April 08, 2024 10:36 AM (T4tVD)

249 Willowed from the MR:

"@PeteButtigieg
explains why the Biden economy is better than the Trump economy: “Four years ago you couldn’t buy toilet paper”

Couldn't find it then.

Can't afford it today.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024 10:37 AM (SbJgO)

250 @ 8 Whitney Museum of American Art
Date
1949

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil and ink on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 39 15/16 × 26 1/8in. (101.4 × 66.4 cm)
_____________

Ummm ... doesn't this fit the criteria needed to establish a comment of "Who fucking cares?" ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at April 08, 2024 10:37 AM (ayRl+)

251 243 Too much French on the blog this morning for my taste.

Mne ne nravitsya.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:35 AM (9yWhg)

Mas cerveza fria, por favor!

Posted by: Gref at April 08, 2024 10:37 AM (5fDan)

252
Did The Rock finally return to Philadelphia?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I thought The Rock was from Plymouth?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2024 10:37 AM (63Dwl)

253 No French

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2024 10:37 AM (RIvkX)

254 Neighbours got a 4-month old dachshund puppeh this weekend. The wife was in her backyard basic training him this morning I saw.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 10:38 AM (vtyCZ)

255 Pushover, it turns out, was adapted from a couple of print novels by none other than Roy Huggins -- later the creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, and The Fugitive. Our kidhood TV watching would have been very different without him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:38 AM (J2vNu)

256 Trump Says Abortion Should Be Decided By States, 'Will Of The People'

"We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies, not harder..."

.. the reasoning to overturn Roe v Wade was that there was no obvious Constitutional right for or against (claimed it was right of privacy, which does not appear any where in the Constitution) .. it was a matter for the states

Posted by: SMOD at April 08, 2024 10:39 AM (RHGPo)

257 @193 To which I replied, "The piece of cod passeth all understanding."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 08, 2024 10:39 AM (zdLoL)

258 Pushover, it turns out, was adapted from a couple of print novels by none other than Roy Huggins -- later the creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, and The Fugitive. Our kidhood TV watching would have been very different without him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aureliu

Huggins did the screenplay, based on two novels by different authors. It was his last movie screenplay before he went to TV.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:39 AM (9yWhg)

259 257 @193 To which I replied, "The piece of cod passeth all understanding."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 08, 2024 10:39 AM (zdLoL)

; )

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:40 AM (o3SCB)

260 Unfairness in the media.

Dan Pfeiffer
@danpfeiffer
Because Joe Biden is a serious person who tells the truth, the press holds him to an exponentially higher standard than Trump.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:40 AM (FVME7)

261 260
Dan Pfeiffer
@danpfeiffer
Because Joe Biden is a serious person who tells the truth, the press holds him to an exponentially higher standard than Trump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:40 AM (FVME7)

wut

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:41 AM (o3SCB)

262 "The Leftover." Meh.

Posted by: Spaghetti in Tupperware at the back of the fridge at April 08, 2024 10:41 AM (dg+HA)

263 @193 To which I replied, "The piece of cod passeth all understanding."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 08, 2024

***
* applause *

I do not understand why Miss Linda refers to puns as "the lowest form of humor." It's a stock phrase, of course, but why she thinks it applies to *my* superlative puns, and those of you folk, passeth *my* understanding.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:41 AM (J2vNu)

264 Shakespeare punned.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:42 AM (o3SCB)

265 I do not understand why Miss Linda refers to puns as "the lowest form of humor."

A bun is the lowest form of pastry.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:42 AM (9yWhg)

266 Mas cerveza fria, por favor!
---------
Reminds me of the Mexican "Norm" -- Pepe -- when Sam Malone got transferred to the Corporation's Cancun resort.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 10:42 AM (vtyCZ)

267 Bribe'em couldn't find the truth if it was stapled to his dick.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2024 10:42 AM (R7l+6)

268 261 260
Dan Pfeiffer
@danpfeiffer
Because Joe Biden is a serious person who tells the truth, the press holds him to an exponentially higher standard than Trump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:40 AM (FVME7)

wut
Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:41 AM (o3SCB)

Lying. Is there anything it can't do?

Although, this goes beyond mere lying. This is 'Emperor's New Clothes' nexus of propaganda and just telling you to disbelieve your own eyes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:42 AM (di6C2)

269 Shakespeare punned.
Posted by: m

The Bible is full of puns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:43 AM (9yWhg)

270 Oh dear, that's a hot mess up there.
Someone off his/her meds?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2024 10:43 AM (6IDWi)

271 255 Pushover, it turns out, was adapted from a couple of print novels by none other than Roy Huggins -- later the creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, and The Fugitive. Our kidhood TV watching would have been very different without him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:38 AM (J2vNu)

The white dress Kim wears in the beginning is more than a bit racy on her elbows for the Fifties. Especially since it is sleeveless.

Posted by: Gref at April 08, 2024 10:43 AM (5fDan)

272 Truly, my knowledge of French stops at "Au Bon Pain."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Boo coo
Toot sweet
Boudain
Etouffee

Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024 10:43 AM (SbJgO)

273 >>Because Joe Biden is a serious person who tells the truth, the press holds him to an exponentially higher standard than Trump.

The media is relentless in grilling Joe over his favorite flavor of ice cream.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2024 10:43 AM (LkLld)

274 267 Bribe'em couldn't find the truth if it was stapled to his dick.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2024 10:42 AM (R7l+6)

Maybe if we put it in the hair of a pretty 12 year old?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:43 AM (di6C2)

275 "Bidenomics! Is there nothing it can't do?"

Thanks Bidenomics we can now buy toilet paper.

Posted by: Ripley at April 08, 2024 10:44 AM (JojsZ)

276 Paul Klee managed to make his abstract-ish paintings whimsical and pleasing, unlike today's "art."

Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2024 10:44 AM (6IDWi)

277 Dan Pfeiffer
@danpfeiffer
Because Joe Biden is a serious person who tells the truth, the press holds him to an exponentially higher standard than Trump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:40 AM (FVME7

Why does this guy want the world to know he's mentally ill?

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 08, 2024 10:44 AM (ewqMN)

278 The Bible is full of puns.
_________

Take me to the Pilate.

Posted by: Barrabas at April 08, 2024 10:44 AM (lf83v)

279 It's an omlette /eggs thing.

Daily Mail Online
@MailOnline
Mayo Clinic say puberty blockers leave trans kids with withering testes, fertility problems and even cancer, in latest blow to trans medicine

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:44 AM (FVME7)

280 272 Truly, my knowledge of French stops at "Au Bon Pain."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Boo coo
Toot sweet
Boudain
Etouffee
Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024 10:43 AM (SbJgO)

liberté
egalité
fraternité

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:44 AM (o3SCB)

281 Blech. That looks like the stuff I would do practicing with a new set of paint brushes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 08, 2024 10:44 AM (xPJvm)

282 >>Boo coo
Toot sweet
Boudain
Etouffee

Walla!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2024 10:45 AM (6IDWi)

283 Mne ne nravitsya.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:35 AM

*nods*

Da. Ee ya nyet.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 10:45 AM (5sOEG)

284 *if it was stapled to his dick.*

(quickly crosses legs)

Posted by: Most guys at April 08, 2024 10:45 AM (dg+HA)

285 I was going to suggest self portrait 'in the morning' (or before coffee) but after reading the commentary I withdraw.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 08, 2024 10:45 AM (kOwE6)

286 in latest blow to trans medicine
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:44 AM (FVME7)

Which is an oxymoron in of itself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:45 AM (di6C2)

287 @240 And now a word
from Mister Bibendum:
https://tinyurl.com/6e3tj8m8

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 08, 2024 10:45 AM (zdLoL)

288 Notre Dame
Les Miserables
Tour Eiffel

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:46 AM (o3SCB)

289 Truly, my knowledge of French stops at "Au Bon Pain."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Boo coo
Toot sweet
Boudain
Etouffee
Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024

***
The Stations of the Cross plaques on the walls of St. Louis Cathedral are in French. I can read them because I know the story, and I can pick out one word in three and guess at the conjugations of the verbs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:46 AM (J2vNu)

290 @MailOnline
Mayo Clinic say puberty blockers leave trans kids with withering testes, fertility problems and even cancer, in latest blow to trans medicine
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So...you're saying nature and reality are transphobic!?!?!?

Posted by: Rabid Trans Evangelist Leftists at April 08, 2024 10:46 AM (JCZqz)

291 287 @240 And now a word
from Mister Bibendum:
https://tinyurl.com/6e3tj8m8
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 08, 2024 10:45 AM (zdLoL)

Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:46 AM (di6C2)

292 The Bible is full of puns.
_________

Take me to the Pilate.
Posted by: Barrabas

Pilate class was over by the time we got there.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024 10:46 AM (SbJgO)

293 267 Bribe'em couldn't find the truth if it was stapled to his dick.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2024 10:42 AM (R7l+6)

Good Morning, Ben Had. I'm not coming up there today for the (cloudy) total eclipse. Probably a bad decision but it's sorta too late now. Enjoy the extra bit of night time this afternoon!

Posted by: Gref at April 08, 2024 10:46 AM (5fDan)

294 Truly, my knowledge of French stops at "Au Bon Pain."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Brigitte Bardot
Claudia Cardinale
Juliet Binoche
Catherine Deneuvre.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:47 AM (9yWhg)

295 Orange versus Green. I wonder if both sides are calling the other racist??

||Scottish football fans face hate crime complaints from members of the public who hear chants on TV at home, a senior lawyer has warned.

Police Scotland, which has already received 8,000 reports since the new laws came into force last week, is facing warnings that as many as 2,000 further complaints will be made on Sunday due to the Rangers vs Celtic clash at Ibrox.

Sectarian songs are often heard at Old Firm matches, raising fears that partisan supporters watching the game live on TV could swamp the force with new hate crime reports.||

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 10:47 AM (vtyCZ)

296 (claimed it was right of privacy, which does not appear any where in the Constitution)
Posted by: SMOD at April 08, 2024 10:39 AM (RHGPo)

It doesn't explicitly use the phrase "right to privacy" but it's inferred from the Fourth Amenment which states, in part, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,".

So you have a right to privacy which the gub'mint can only violate if it has a good goddamn compelling reason to violate and only after it jumps through a bunch of hoops.

*In before "lol fisa"*

Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2024 10:47 AM (CHaZg)

297 Don't believe I've ever heard the phrase "withering testes" before.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2024 10:47 AM (LkLld)

298 "trans medicine" is not a real thing. By any stretch of the imagination it's torture.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 08, 2024 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)

299 300

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:47 AM (o3SCB)

300 To which I replied, "The piece of cod passeth all understanding."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 08, 2024 10:39 AM

That's my favorite description of lutefisk.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 10:47 AM (5sOEG)

301 Sectarian songs are often heard at Old Firm matches, raising fears that partisan supporters watching the game live on TV could swamp the force with new hate crime reports.||
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 10:47 AM (vtyCZ)

Do it! Make them choke on the sheer fucking lunacy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:48 AM (di6C2)

302 >>@danpfeiffer
Because Joe Biden is a serious person who tells the truth, the press holds him to an exponentially higher standard than Trump.

Insert meme pick of elitists at a cocktail party doubled over in laughter. You just know ol' Dan, loyal WH staffer to Obama, was giggling as he typed that - "There! That'll make MAGA heads explode!!"

That there tweet is a classic Obama-era stray voltage statement.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2024 10:48 AM (6IDWi)

303 297 Don't believe I've ever heard the phrase "withering testes" before.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2024 10:47 AM (LkLld)
What about Wuthering Huevos?

Posted by: Eromero at April 08, 2024 10:48 AM (NxC5+)

304 297 Don't believe I've ever heard the phrase "withering testes" before.
Posted by: JackStraw

Wurthering Heights > Withering Testes

Posted by: Literary Moron at April 08, 2024 10:48 AM (JCZqz)

305 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I'm late and I got nuthin'
Goes looking for coffee

Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM (W/lyH)

306 The Stations of the Cross plaques on the walls of St. Louis Cathedral are in French. I can read them because I know the story, and I can pick out one word in three and guess at the conjugations of the verbs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Growing up in St. Louis, I know and can pronounce more French words that I give myself credit for. But phrases and sentences are beyond my capabilities.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM (SbJgO)

307 297 Don't believe I've ever heard the phrase "withering testes" before.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2024 10:47 AM (LkLld)

Emily Bronte considered it, but decided against.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM (di6C2)

308 Wait. Frankie Hollywood said that?!!!

The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: The Vatican blasts sex change surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as grave threats to human dignity

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM (FVME7)

309 The Bible is full of puns.
_________

Take me to the Pilate.
Posted by: Barrabas

***
Giving the mob a chance to choose who got crucified was a new thing Roman procurators were trying out. You might say it was a Pilate program.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM (J2vNu)

310 287 @240 And now a word
from Mister Bibendum:
https://tinyurl.com/6e3tj8m8
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 08, 2024 10:45 AM (zdLoL)

What IS that?

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM (o3SCB)

311 Texas: The law in Texas states that squatters need to live on a property for 3 years, 5 years, or 10 years (§ 16.024-16.026) before they can claim its title under its adverse possession laws.
Posted by: SMOD at April 08, 2024 10:15 AM (RHGPo)

In Texas that timer resets every time the property owner officially informs you that you're on their property.

King Ranch has people who's only job is to drive around and so inform squatters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM (T7iTv)

312 Voulez-vous coucher avec moi...

... ce soir?!

Posted by: Labelle at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM (vtyCZ)

313 Dear Lord, I love this place. TWO commenters beat me to the Wuthering Heights ref.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (di6C2)

314 >>"trans medicine" is not a real thing. By any stretch of the imagination it's torture.

Newspeak, on par with calling abortion "reproductive care."

Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (6IDWi)

315 Don't believe I've ever heard the phrase "withering testes" before.
________

Oh, it's a thing.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (lf83v)

316 @MailOnline
Mayo Clinic say puberty blockers leave trans kids with withering testes, fertility problems and even cancer, in latest blow to trans medicine
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So...you're saying nature and reality are transphobic!?!?!?
Posted by: Rabid Trans Evangelist Leftists at April 08, 2024 10:46 AM (JCZqz)

If God can play God why can't we?!?

Posted by: A Different Even More I sane Group Of Leftists at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (CHaZg)

317 Painting- Yeah my first thought was 'Roadmap'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (XeU6L)

318 Pope Francis actually went further than just blasting transgenderism.

He condemns all gender theory. All of it.

It's why Catholics have been the #1 target of the Biden admin's religious target list.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (exHjb)

319 Gref, so sorry it didn't work out.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (R7l+6)

320
Mayo Clinic say puberty blockers leave trans kids with withering testes, fertility problems and even cancer, in latest blow to trans medicine

"Trans medicine' - now that's an oxymoron.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (RKVpM)

321 What IS that?
Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM (o3SCB)

Where the rubber meets the road, my boy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (di6C2)

322 danpfeiffer
Because Joe Biden is a serious person who tells the truth, the press holds him to an exponentially higher standard than Trump.

Insert meme pick of elitists at a cocktail party doubled over in laughter. You just know ol' Dan, loyal WH staffer to Obama, was giggling as he typed that - "There! That'll make MAGA heads explode!!"

That there tweet is a classic Obama-era stray voltage statement.
Posted by: Lizzy

That right there is authentic frontier gibberish that would make ol' Gabby Hayes proud!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (SbJgO)

323 Dear Lord, I love this place. TWO commenters beat me to the Wuthering Heights ref.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM

Me, too.

*shakes fist at sky*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 10:51 AM (5sOEG)

324 French, huh? Watched Jacques Pepin cook a rabbit the other night...looked pretty good.

Posted by: BignJames at April 08, 2024 10:51 AM (AwYPR)

325 308 Wait. Frankie Hollywood said that?!!!

The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: The Vatican blasts sex change surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as grave threats to human dignity
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM (FVME7)

Welcome to the party, pal! You stupid commie idiot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:51 AM (di6C2)

326 So...you're saying nature and reality are transphobic!?!?!?
Posted by: Rabid Trans Evangelist Leftists at April 08, 2024 10:46 AM (JCZqz)

If God can play God why can't we?!?
Posted by: A Different Even More I sane Group Of Leftists

Probably because God ain't playing.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024 10:51 AM (SbJgO)

327 Wait, that's not a map of the DC subway system?

Huh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2024 10:51 AM (VoAdT)

328 299 300
Posted by: m
----------
This is SPART...

Never mind.

Posted by: zombie Leonidas at April 08, 2024 10:51 AM (vtyCZ)

329 >>BREAKING: The Vatican blasts sex change surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as grave threats to human dignity

Left unspoken: believing you were born in the "wrong" body, requiring surgical "gender reassignment" is man telling God he made a mistake.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2024 10:52 AM (6IDWi)

330 French, huh? Watched Jacques Pepin cook a rabbit the other night...looked pretty good.
Posted by: BignJames at April 08, 2024

***
"The Pepin and the Lapin"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:52 AM (J2vNu)

331 Because the government is using my money to force me to.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 10:32 AM (di6C2)

You make a good point. Government has a responsibility to support and maintain the arts. What they patronize *should* depend on the society and its values at-large. Seeing how popular some of the public art is in my town, it seems like the government here is adhering the what the people want.

Posted by: Kris at April 08, 2024 10:52 AM (hR8f8)

332 Pope Francis actually went further than just blasting transgenderism.

He condemns all gender theory. All of it.

It's why Catholics have been the #1 target of the Biden admin's religious target list.
Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2024 10:50 AM (exHjb)

You're telling me Frankie is showing the slightest bit of Catholicism?

Remarkable.

Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2024 10:52 AM (CHaZg)

333 Voulez-vous coucher avec moi...

... ce soir?!
Posted by: Labelle at April 08, 2024 10:49 AM

*slap*

Posted by: Monique Junot at April 08, 2024 10:53 AM (5sOEG)

334 Dear Lord, I love this place. TWO commenters beat me to the Wuthering Heights ref.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
------

And yet, no one used Heathcliff sock.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 08, 2024 10:53 AM (XeU6L)

335 Wow, I'm actually surprised about the Pope. He has been aboard the ghey bandwagon for a while.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

336 I'm sorry I'm late.

Am I the only one who expected a painting of a solar eclipse?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 08, 2024 10:53 AM (4aoSa)

337 Dear Lord, I love this place. TWO commenters beat me to the Wuthering Heights ref.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
---------
Don't be such an Eyre-head.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 10:53 AM (vtyCZ)

338 315 Don't believe I've ever heard the phrase "withering testes" before.
________
Oh, it's a thing.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell

Oh Mitch, you so funny. Your balls well preserved in my purse. No withering dere.

Posted by: Elaine Chao at April 08, 2024 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

339 I luvs ya, Jane!

What's that?

Coming, Mr Benny!

Posted by: Rochester at April 08, 2024 10:54 AM (vtyCZ)

340 336 I'm sorry I'm late.

Am I the only one who expected a painting of a solar eclipse?
Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 08, 2024 10:53 AM (4aoSa)

A little dark for my tastes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 08, 2024 10:54 AM (rJ7Hd)

341 Dear Lord, I love this place. TWO commenters beat me to the Wuthering Heights ref.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
---------
Don't be such an Eyre-head.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024

***
Lumbering around like a Bronte-saurus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:54 AM (J2vNu)

342 French, huh? Watched Jacques Pepin cook a rabbit the other night...looked pretty good.
Posted by: BignJames at April 08, 2024 10:51 AM

He's got some good rabbit recipes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 10:54 AM (5sOEG)

343 I watched an old French film on Saturday - Un Homme et Une Femme. Very sneaky, it had race cars in it to keep guys entertained while the romance story unfolded.

Posted by: spindrift at April 08, 2024 10:54 AM (OguvZ)

344 I knew it had to be the CIA.

If you are wondering what is happening in Brazil right now, take 30 seconds and listen to Bernie Sanders explain what happened.

https://tinyurl.com/2u73f3x4

Posted by: JackStraw at April 08, 2024 10:54 AM (LkLld)

345 I am saddened that gossipy yellow tabloid bullshit words like "blast" continue to persist in whatever this mess is that passes for news media.

The Vatican hasn't "blasted" a damned thing since the 1630s.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2024 10:55 AM (VoAdT)

346 La Vie en Rose
La Mer
L'amour est bleu

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:55 AM (o3SCB)

347 Ric had that Polish broad who was smoking hot that's for sure.

Even though he was tall, ugly, pale and had a sunken chest, it was rumored that Old Ric was hung like a donkey, which kept the wimmens busy.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 08, 2024 10:25 AM (K1/cs)

Paulina Porizkova was Czech, not Polish, and pretty rich in her own right.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2024 10:55 AM (T7iTv)

348 >>> King Ranch has people who's only job is to drive around and so inform squatters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
----------------------

Can't shoot 'em now a days.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 08, 2024 10:55 AM (kOwE6)

349 >>Watched Jacques Pepin cook a rabbit the other night...looked pretty good.

So you would be lapin it up, if given the chance?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2024 10:55 AM (6IDWi)

350 You're telling me Frankie is showing the slightest bit of Catholicism?

Remarkable.
Posted by: Robert at April 08, 2024 10:52 AM (CHaZg)

It is the most core, so it was the biggest lay up. I was surprised folks thought Francis would waiver...instead, he went absolutely hard core and expansive (the expansiveness of including surrogacy surprised me, even as it's just as much a layup for Catholicism's core beliefs as the transgenderism)...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2024 10:56 AM (exHjb)

351 336 I'm sorry I'm late.

Am I the only one who expected a painting of a solar eclipse?
Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 08, 2024 10:53 AM (4aoSa)

Close your eyes!

Posted by: m at April 08, 2024 10:56 AM (o3SCB)

352 Wait, that's not a map of the DC subway system?

Huh.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2024 10:51 AM (VoAdT)

It does look a lot like a bit of aerial imagery I saw once of some electronic emitters in a foreign country. Cell phones actually. Kind cool.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2024 10:56 AM (W/lyH)

353 Watched Jacques Pepin cook a rabbit the other night...looked pretty good.
________

A la Antoine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydgVZQctkk

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at April 08, 2024 10:56 AM (lf83v)

354 BREAKING: The Vatican blasts sex change surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as grave threats to human dignity

Left unspoken: believing you were born in the "wrong" body, requiring surgical "gender reassignment" is man telling God he made a mistake.
Posted by: Lizzy

Before anyone does that, let me take cover.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024 10:56 AM (SbJgO)

355 327 Wait, that's not a map of the DC subway system?

Huh.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2024 10:51 AM (VoAdT)
- - - - - - -
First thought when I saw it; quoting for "dittos" purposes, a-la Majah Rushie.

Posted by: Another Anon at April 08, 2024 10:57 AM (QNMaY)

356 ahhh, waiver = waver...although with Francis, maybe I was right the 1st time...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2024 10:57 AM (exHjb)

357 Chanson d’Amour!

Posted by: Art and Dotty at April 08, 2024 10:58 AM (UodRc)

358 350 You're telling me Frankie is showing the slightest bit of Catholicism?

Remarkable.

Maybe he realizes his time is nearly up

Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2024 10:58 AM (Akjoo)

359 358 350 You're telling me Frankie is showing the slightest bit of Catholicism?

Remarkable.

Maybe he realizes his time is nearly up
Posted by: It's me donna at April 08, 2024 10:58 AM (Akjoo)

People do repent at the end...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 08, 2024 10:59 AM (exHjb)

360 Maybe I can read some French after all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

361 Chanson d’Amour!
Posted by: Art and Dotty

Louis L'Amour!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 08, 2024 10:59 AM (SbJgO)

362 The actual road:

https://tinyurl.com/Intothenever

Posted by: banana Dream at April 08, 2024 10:59 AM (Y6IkP)

363 I watched an old French film on Saturday - Un Homme et Une Femme. Very sneaky, it had race cars in it to keep guys entertained while the romance story unfolded.
Posted by: spindrift
--------

Saw it in the theater. I recollect that there was some actual footage from the Monte Carlo rally. I was impressed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 08, 2024 10:59 AM (XeU6L)

364 And "My Cherie Amour"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

365 Please tell me you put it in the closet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
---
[sorry I had a meeting]

Nah, probably just a copy to stacks and one to Special Collections. Though we did have this location called The Cage in the basement...

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 08, 2024 11:00 AM (wQXfi)

366
Paulina Porizkova was Czech, not Polish, and pretty rich in her own right.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 08, 2024 10:55 AM (T7iTv)

And insanely beautiful. I usually like them a bit more (or a LOT more) busty, but those eyes and legs make up for a lot.

https://tinyurl.com/3t5rasfh

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 08, 2024 11:00 AM (di6C2)

367 Noodus throckmortonii

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

368 I think the original French version of "My Love is Blue" did pretty well in the English-speaking world as well as the translated one.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 08, 2024 11:01 AM (vtyCZ)

369 >>>>> Maybe he realizes his time is nearly up

Posted by: It's me donna a
-----

The rumors are real.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 08, 2024 11:01 AM (kOwE6)

370 357 Chanson d’Amour!
Posted by: Art and Dotty at April 08, 2024 10:58 AM
Manhattan Transfer!

Posted by: Eromero at April 08, 2024 11:01 AM (NxC5+)

371 There B a NOOD !

Posted by: JT at April 08, 2024 11:01 AM (T4tVD)

372 Though we did have this location called The Cage in the basement...
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 08, 2024 11:00 AM

Kinky...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 08, 2024 11:01 AM (5sOEG)

373 I'm sorry I'm late.

Am I the only one who expected a painting of a solar eclipse?
Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 08, 2024 10:53 AM (4aoSa)

So like the opposite of Rauchenberg's white.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 08, 2024 11:02 AM (z/ifB)

374 "BREAKING: The Vatican blasts sex change surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as grave threats to human dignity"

Good to hear but surprising since he is either on board or more or less accommodating to so much of the left's agenda.

Posted by: Ripley at April 08, 2024 11:02 AM (JojsZ)

375 I’ll be your knight
In shining Amour

Posted by: Mick J at April 08, 2024 11:03 AM (UodRc)

376 Went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC for the first time in several years. Entirely skipped the Modern Art section.

Posted by: Michael K at April 08, 2024 11:07 AM (7fe3o)

377 Certain art you take in, and if you don't see its beauty and aren't inspired, you're dead inside (The Pieta, Bierstadt, Cole, Wyeth).

And then there's an entire genre, where it's searching for a handful of honest people who say, "Yeah, that'd work with my sofa or in my waiting room."

Posted by: red speck at April 08, 2024 11:11 AM (0Id0S)

378 @279

>>Mayo Clinic say puberty blockers leave trans kids with withering testes, fertility problems and even cancer, in latest blow to trans medicine

The effects of anthropogenic hormones has been known for decades, so called "trans" people are magical beings, standing athwart biology.

Or alternatively....

The maniacs in charge are demonic and evil, full stop.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2024 11:11 AM (JIdXK)

379 all considerations of anti-Semitism aside, this painting is just meh and the artist seems to be a lazy bum

Posted by: kallisto at April 08, 2024 11:15 AM (dCxaZ)

380 vic and JJ will both piss on your grave, idiot.

Posted by: pawn - Champion of Reality at April 08, 2024 11:20 AM (QB+5g)

381 considerations of anti-Semitism aside, this painting is just meh and the artist seems to be a lazy bum
Posted by: kallisto at April 08, 2024 11:15 AM (dCxaZ)

I dislike abstract expressionism but I do see a crucifix in this painting.

Posted by: polynikes at April 08, 2024 11:21 AM (AIm4E)

382 @ 353 Watched Jacques Pepin cook a rabbit the other night...looked pretty good.
________________

It was already dead, right ... ? (Please say 'yes') ...

Posted by: Dr_No at April 08, 2024 11:28 AM (ayRl+)

383 Let's make Joe Biden a "Trans Private Citizen"

Posted by: SMOD at April 08, 2024 11:39 AM (RHGPo)

384 One always hopes for good, inspiring art in the art thread. Alas.

This should not be hung above the fireplace. It more properly belongs *in* the fireplace, providing warmth, light, and joy at long last, if only for a bit.

Posted by: Ranten N. Raven at April 08, 2024 12:58 PM (8YAVU)

385 No, would not hang.
I like my abstract with the expressionism a la Piet Mondrian's later work - though his early stuff is good too, IMHO. Save the swirls and paint daubs for Pointillism a la Georges Seurat.

Modern Art is an elaborate ruse designed to make you look stupid.
— Jonathan Rosenberg, comic artist, www.goats.com

Posted by: ZilWerks at April 08, 2024 01:05 PM (0MpOC)

386 "abstract WITHOUT the expressionism"
Ugh, no editing capabilities.

Posted by: ZilWerks at April 08, 2024 01:06 PM (0MpOC)

387 Wow, I'm actually surprised about the Pope. He has been aboard the ghey bandwagon for a while.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 08, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

Not a fan of His Holiness - being unfit to hold the chasuble of Benedict XVI - Pope Francis has called transgender surgeries "demonic" for quite a few years now.

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