Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]

Lonely Dwelling
Alfons Walde

Lonely Dwelling is a view of the Tyrolean Alps of Austria. The first thing I noticed about it is its texture. The mountain in the background is craggy and rocky, with high, steep cliffs created by Walde’s application of thick, heavy paint. It is caked on in a way that makes the work look three-dimensional, shaping the surfaces and creating sharp edges and deep crevasses. The artist sculpted this picture, not just painted it. In art, this technique is called impasto.

Along with impasto, Walde also uses chiaroscuro, a heavy use of contrasts between highlight and shadows, usually for dramatic effect. In a piece as quiet as this however, chiaroscuro is used instead to shape and define some objects and frame others. Look back at the blue mountain in the center and the buildings on the edges. There are no clouds allowing strong sunlight. The sun is also low in the sky — either mid-morning or mid-afternoon. This creates long, dark shadows and bright highlights. On the mountain, the blacks work with the thick paint to visually build up the crags and boulders even more. The mountain is solid, massive, and steep, and towers over the dwelling.

Walde’s use of steel-blue creates the illusion that the mountain is in the far distance. Called atmospheric perspective, this technique implies great distances in art and creates an illusion of depth on flat surfaces. Notice how the mountain fills the background even though it’s far away. Walde emphasizes the massiveness of the mountain. In the foreground, the deep black shadows frame the bright mountain and draw my attention to it even more.

Another trait of atmospheric perspective is as an object recedes into the distance, it will get hazier because the air diffuses light passing through it. Here the mountain is crisp and clear, however. Walde might be trying to convey thin air and high altitude. To me, this implies a physical toughness in the people that live here.

In contrast, the foreground is occupied by two plain buildings and two small figures – all painted in browns and black. Here too, Walde’s impasto sculpts and defines the buildings. Almost windowless, the houses seem roughly constructed. Walde’s brown paint creates a plastered-on effect on the outer walls, like a wattle-and-daub or adobe-type construction. To me, this makes the buildings look simple and rough and unassuming. A clue into the lifestyle and personalities of the people who choose to live here.

The mother and child are interesting. Walde painted this family in the same black and tans as the buildings, except for a small, blue cloth on the mother’s lap, the same blue as in the mountain. I think Walde is trying to create visual connections between the Tyrolian people and their region through color. He uses chiaroscuro to shape them. Rather than human forms, they seem to be constructed from blocks and without the heavy shadows, I think these figures would look flat and lifeless and might get lost within the painting. The chiaroscuro gives them mass and dimension.

Walde uses texture, color, and light to define the rough and rugged terrain, and through that, its people. Walde was Tyrolese himself. His later career focused on bright and positive depictions of this region, advertising its virtues and features, and portraying its people. I think his hometown-pride shows in works like this.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:30 AM

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1 thx kris

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 24, 2024 09:30 AM (ENQN6)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 24, 2024 09:31 AM (T4tVD)

3 "Dwelling" seems to be a bit ... generous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:31 AM (HnUIn)

4 I'd live in a place like that. But I'm a misanthrope.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 24, 2024 09:31 AM (Q0kLU)

5 Oh, no, I guess it is a house. It just looks like a gray cliffside at first glance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:31 AM (HnUIn)

6 It looks like the quarterpanel of his truck is just visible on the top floor.

The only question in mind is how it got there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:32 AM (HnUIn)

7
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2024 09:32 AM (MoZTd)

8 I will confess that I am unsophisticated. I don't enjoy ballet, or opera, or most "art".

Having said that... I am singularly unimpressed by this.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 09:32 AM (T7iTv)

9 Lay dee odl lay dee odl lay hee hoo

Posted by: spindrift at April 24, 2024 09:32 AM (OguvZ)

10 Ricolaaaa!

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 09:34 AM (MvF+J)

11 JJ could have made that whole art explanation into one sentence.
BTW , would hang.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 24, 2024 09:34 AM (FCPbW)

12 The woman looks like a man, made out of stone, wearing a dress.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

13 I like this, give the shivers even thinking about drunken staggering back from the pub.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2024 09:34 AM (MsrgL)

14 Is the person on the stoop holding a kid?

No way I'd live in a place like that, especially with a kid. I'd always be terrified that the kid would fall off the edge of the cliff.

Or that I might do likewise.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:35 AM (9yWhg)

15 Tyrol was a small thorn in Napoleon's side, it was Austian land at the time

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2024 09:35 AM (9VVVN)

16 Did Frank Lloyd Wright Build that?

Posted by: dantesed at April 24, 2024 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

17 The people who live in the Alps yodel, don't they? Most, if not all?

Sings "Little Old Lady Who"

Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 24, 2024 09:35 AM (BHrzb)

18
Rejected set for "The Sound of Music"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2024 09:35 AM (MoZTd)

19 Needs some goats.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2024 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

20 I'd live in a place like that. But I'm a misanthrope.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 24, 2024 09:31 AM (Q0kLU)
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If you're willing to relocate to British Columbia and have a few million bucks burning a hole in your pocket, this seems right up your alley:
http://tiny.cc/67huxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:36 AM (HnUIn)

21 http://tiny.cc/67huxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Yeesh. No.

I grew up in the Midwest. I'm strictly a flatlander.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:37 AM (9yWhg)

22 At first I thought I spotted an Alpine sniper on the background mountain. Looking closer I realized it was a white frocked Turkish dentist.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 24, 2024 09:38 AM (o67Na)

23 This looks lovely.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2024 09:38 AM (z5h1j)

24 When do the yetis show up?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:38 AM (9yWhg)

25 Impasto aglio e olio is darn tasty.

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 09:38 AM (MvF+J)

26 If you're willing to relocate to British Columbia and have a few million bucks burning a hole in your pocket, this seems right up your alley:
http://tiny.cc/67huxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:36 AM (HnUIn)

Not gonna lie... looks like a model.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 09:39 AM (T7iTv)

27 I grew up in the Midwest. I'm strictly a flatlander.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:37 AM (9yWhg)
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So you're saying that this is *not* the house for you:
http://tiny.cc/28huxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)

28 Not gonna lie... looks like a model.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 09:39 AM (T7iTv)
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Looked that way to me, too, but it was in an article about its sale. Apparently, it was notable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)

29 The artist is not the real Alfons Walde. He's an impasto.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:39 AM (9yWhg)

30 If you drop a baby from the lonely dwelling, does it bounce?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 24, 2024 09:40 AM (ZuqIn)

31 A painting must have shadows to show the light.
-Bob Ross

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It! at April 24, 2024 09:40 AM (ERdWw)

32 If you're willing to relocate to British Columbia and have a few million bucks burning a hole in your pocket, this seems right up your alley:
http://tiny.cc/67huxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:36 AM (HnUIn)

Not gonna lie... looks like a model.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 09:39 AM (T7iTv)
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So which supervillain do you suppose lives there?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 09:40 AM (7fElN)

33 So you're saying that this is *not* the house for you:
http://tiny.cc/28huxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

No. Sooner or later, that house is gonna tumble down that mountain.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:41 AM (9yWhg)

34 I grew up in the Midwest. I'm strictly a flatlander.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:37 AM (9yWhg)
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So you're saying that this is *not* the house for you:
http://tiny.cc/28huxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)
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What don't you understand about "flatlander"?!

Biden's Dog understands:

https://tinyurl.com/tbdnk4as

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 24, 2024 09:41 AM (o67Na)

35 The first thing I noticed about it is its texture.
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Yeah, but what I can't tell through a picture of it is whether the texture is rendered, or whether the texture is due to huge quantities of paint layered on with a trowel.

I've never been all that fond of the latter approach.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:42 AM (HnUIn)

36 So you're saying that this is *not* the house for you:
http://tiny.cc/28huxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)

Fortunately, landslides never happen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 09:42 AM (T7iTv)

37 12 The woman looks like a man, made out of stone, wearing a dress.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)
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Ancient trans-woman?

Posted by: Ciampino - that one is impastato at April 24, 2024 09:42 AM (qfLjt)

38 Thanks for the great commentary and insight, Kris.

Posted by: Dagwood at April 24, 2024 09:43 AM (CC0N1)

39 https://tinyurl.com/tbdnk4as
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

Now that's cool!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:43 AM (9yWhg)

40 12 The woman looks like a man, made out of stone, wearing a dress.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)
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Ancient trans-woman?
Posted by: Ciampino - that one is impastato at April 24, 2024 09:42 AM (qfLjt)
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trans-golem in its native habitat?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 09:43 AM (7fElN)

41 Reminds me to stop complaining about climbing a few steps at home.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 24, 2024 09:44 AM (kJKEU)

42 I see the sniper

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 24, 2024 09:44 AM (ZV+pB)

43 Lonely Dwelling is a view of ~~the Tyrolean Alps of Austria~~ the best parts of Afghanistan.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 24, 2024 09:44 AM (JCZqz)

44 So the big blueish/ whitish thing is the Alps so it's an avalanche ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 24, 2024 09:44 AM (Akjoo)

45 Oh, no, I guess it is a house. It just looks like a gray cliffside at first glance.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024

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Yes -- sort of like the Cliff Dwellings in the Four Corners region, except the mountains are bluer. This is good stuff.

I thought the adult figure was a father with his child rather than a mother; the hair is so short as to be almost invisible. But the adult also seems to be wearing a skirt. (No, I won't get into *that*.) So, mom and child, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

46 https://tinyurl.com/tbdnk4as
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

Now that's cool!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:43 AM (9yWhg)
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I'll prepare the papers. Just so you know, the previous owners' name was the Coneheads.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 24, 2024 09:44 AM (o67Na)

47 Lonely Dwelling is a view of the Tyrolean Alps of Austria.

Looks more like Tibet or the Steppes of Russia/Mongolia.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 09:45 AM (pgG81)

48 You live in a place like that, Door Dash is gonna refuse to deliver. Plus it's a three mile walk from your front rockledge down the driveway to get to your car.

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 09:45 AM (MvF+J)

49 When Kris sent me this piece, my first thought was, "Rock-'em Sock'em Robots!"

I appreciate the description of the technique, but it seems to me that the artist got so wrapped up in it that he forgot to put some humanity in it.

Or...Austrians are cold, inhuman people, which is certainly possible!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 09:45 AM (d9fT1)

50 I can't tell through a picture of it is whether the texture is rendered, or whether the texture is due to huge quantities of paint layered on with a trowel.

I've never been all that fond of the latter approach.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Don't judge us!!!!

Posted by: Most female porn "actresses" at April 24, 2024 09:46 AM (JCZqz)

51 Your daily limerick:

Hang On, Sloopy!!

A mother of six, Mrs. Deft
Is wailing and wholly bereft
Built her house on the edge
Of a perilous ledge
Now she's only got one baby left!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024 09:46 AM (l4B/J)

52 I appreciate the description of the technique, but it seems to me that the artist got so wrapped up in it that he forgot to put some humanity in it.

Or...Austrians are cold, inhuman people, which is certainly possible!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 09:45 AM (d9fT1)

looked up some of his other works and they are much cheerier

Posted by: It's me donna at April 24, 2024 09:46 AM (Akjoo)

53 Minor technical question...

When in click on the image to see the larger version, the larger version looks *different* than the one posted within the page. The red splotch for instance, is clearly a blanket or something in the embiggened version. Looks very different and it located in slightly different part of the painting.

Are there multiple versions of this painting?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 09:46 AM (7fElN)

54 Impasto aglio e olio is darn tasty.
Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024

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Knowing no Italian, I'll make a guess: pasta of some variety with garlic and oil?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)

55 Or...Austrians are cold, inhuman people, which is certainly possible!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Well, there was that one guy...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:47 AM (9yWhg)

56 Yeah, but what I can't tell through a picture of it is whether the texture is rendered, or whether the texture is due to huge quantities of paint layered on with a trowel.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:42 AM (HnUIn)

Both? I thought the texture of the paint enhanced the natural texture of the mountain.

Posted by: Kris at April 24, 2024 09:47 AM (OyyDO)

57 You know who else was a famous Austrian painter?

Posted by: Alpenporn at April 24, 2024 09:47 AM (V5BDR)

58 You live in a place like that, Door Dash is gonna refuse to deliver. Plus it's a three mile walk from your front rockledge down the driveway to get to your car.
Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 09:45 AM (MvF+J)
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The painstakingly excavated high-speed elevator to the parking level is accessible only from the inside and so is not pictured.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:47 AM (HnUIn)

59 This was painted during the five-week Tyrole summer. The rest of the year, there's twenty feet of snow sitting there.

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 09:47 AM (MvF+J)

60 Or...Austrians are cold, inhuman people, which is certainly possible!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

*********

See @51

Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024 09:48 AM (l4B/J)

61 When in click on the image to see the larger version, the larger version looks *different* than the one posted within the page. The red splotch for instance, is clearly a blanket or something in the embiggened version. Looks very different and it located in slightly different part of the painting.

Are there multiple versions of this painting?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024

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Yes. On the version on the main page, there are two splotches of red; on the enlarged version, only one, much bigger, and it does look like a blanket.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 09:48 AM (J2vNu)

62 Both? I thought the texture of the paint enhanced the natural texture of the mountain.
Posted by: Kris at April 24, 2024 09:47 AM (OyyDO)
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That's the idea for sure. And it's even effective, I'm just not particularly fond of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:49 AM (HnUIn)

63 "I'll make a guess: pasta of some variety with garlic and oil?"

Yes. With a dusting of crumbled chiaroscuro. Tuck in!

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 09:49 AM (MvF+J)

64 If you drop a baby from the lonely dwelling, does it bounce?
Posted by: She Hobbit

All the way to Milan.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 09:49 AM (pgG81)

65 You live in a place like that, Door Dash is gonna refuse to deliver. Plus it's a three mile walk from your front rockledge down the driveway to get to your car.
Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 09:45 AM (MvF+J)
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The painstakingly excavated high-speed elevator to the parking level is accessible only from the inside and so is not pictured.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:47 AM (HnUIn)
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You can see a structure that is either the stairwell or an elevator on the exterior that leads down to the garage level.

It's very reminiscent of one of the levels in the video game Hitman: Blood Money.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 09:49 AM (7fElN)

66 Yes. On the version on the main page, there are two splotches of red; on the enlarged version, only one, much bigger, and it does look like a blanket.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 09:48 AM (J2vNu)
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Yes, odd. In the linked version, it doesn't look like a truck's cornerpanel at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 09:49 AM (HnUIn)

67 I'll say the HOA hasn't done much with the landscaping.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2024 09:50 AM (bo7UB)

68 Otzi...The Early Years.

Would Not Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 24, 2024 09:50 AM (cDEsv)

69 I’d Airbnb this,

Posted by: Montec at April 24, 2024 09:50 AM (tpjlM)

70 Pasta and chorizo?

Posted by: So it's a food thread? at April 24, 2024 09:51 AM (dg+HA)

71 61 JMW Turner got to it.

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 09:51 AM (MvF+J)

72 Thank for the commentary Kris. I’m not a fan of this painting, but I guess this is something that needs to be in a gallery to appreciate the textures and maybe even the colors.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 24, 2024 09:51 AM (Z8Xq7)

73 The house to me looks like it belongs in the US Southwest.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:51 AM (9yWhg)

74 The major blue splotch on the mountainside is diffferent in the two versions, and the white next to it is brighter in the enlarged pic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 09:51 AM (J2vNu)

75 I watched a documentary from the 70s-Six Swedish Girls In The Alps-it was much more scenic than this craggy, stone-cold, scene.

Posted by: Lederhosen and Jaunty Hat W/Feather at April 24, 2024 09:53 AM (V5BDR)

76 I like the color and the texture fine, but the artist sucks at drawing feet.

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 09:53 AM (MvF+J)

77 60 Or...Austrians are cold, inhuman people, which is certainly possible!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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Just out of frame at the right is a doormat that says SCRAM!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2024 09:54 AM (bo7UB)

78 The major blue splotch on the mountainside is diffferent in the two versions, and the white next to it is brighter in the enlarged pic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

The major blue splotch on the mountainside is an old Boeing 707.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 09:54 AM (pgG81)

79 I watched a documentary from the 70s-Six Swedish Girls In The Alps-it was much more scenic than this craggy, stone-cold, scene.
Posted by: Lederhosen and Jaunty Hat W/Feather

And how were the Swedish girls' alps?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:54 AM (9yWhg)

80 This painting makes me wonder (yet again) whatever happened to the Anasazi?

The cliff dwellings of the desert southwest are an architectural marvel.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024 09:54 AM (l4B/J)

81 72 Thank for the commentary Kris. I’m not a fan of this painting, but I guess this is something that needs to be in a gallery to appreciate the textures and maybe even the colors.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 24, 2024 09:51 AM (Z8Xq7)

Yes. This is definitely a gallery piece that needs good lighting. The texture is what first caught my eye. I want to get in close and see the brushstrokes.

Posted by: Kris at April 24, 2024 09:54 AM (OyyDO)

82 We don't get many visitors here, except Greta's papa. He went hunting with granpa and we haven't seen lately.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2024 09:54 AM (NxC5+)

83 I wish I could add something brilliant, or anything at all, to Kris' wonderful description and analysis. The one thing I would include is the effect of the roofed balcony with the touch of soft, warm color. It seems to relieve some of the rough, hard atmosphere that dominates the painting.

This is an effective, powerful painting. Thanks for using it. Rather different.

Posted by: JTB at April 24, 2024 09:55 AM (zudum)

84 This painting makes me wonder (yet again) whatever happened to the Anasazi?

The hot Latin-American singer on Lawrence Welk? She's still around, I think.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:55 AM (9yWhg)

85 The house to me looks like it belongs in the US Southwest.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

*******

Fistbump! I had the same thought. Mesa Verde.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024 09:56 AM (l4B/J)

86 This painting makes me wonder (yet again) whatever happened to the Anasazi?

The cliff dwellings of the desert southwest are an architectural marvel.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024

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Louis L'Amour, of all people, has an SF movel called The Haunted Mesa which takes a stab at explaining that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

87 Big rock on left looks like the brutal Obamanation getting built in Jefferson Park in Chicago. Except easier to look at.

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 09:57 AM (MvF+J)

88 Bartender: "We don't get many Anasazi in here."
Patron: "At these prices, you won't get many more."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2024 09:58 AM (bo7UB)

89 79 I watched a documentary from the 70s-Six Swedish Girls In The Alps-it was much more scenic than this craggy, stone-cold, scene.
Posted by: Lederhosen and Jaunty Hat W/Feather

And how were the Swedish girls' alps?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:54 AM (9yWhg)
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What Alps?

Posted by: Ciampino - You mentioned girls? at April 24, 2024 09:58 AM (qfLjt)

90 Louis L'Amour, of all people, has an SF movel called The Haunted Mesa which takes a stab at explaining that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

If anyone could, it would be LL.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 09:58 AM (pgG81)

91 Thanks Kris.

I feel educated now. You did good.

Not a lot of snow, based on the steep and rugged mountain. Be a tough clime up that face.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2024 09:59 AM (u82oZ)

92 This painting makes me wonder (yet again) whatever happened to the Anasazi?

The cliff dwellings of the desert southwest are an architectural marvel.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024

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And, wisely, they located their dwellings on the south side of a cliff that ran east and west, so the lower winter sun would shine in for warmth, but the higher summer sun would not beam directly in and their homes would be less hot in the daytime. I want a house that's oriented in the same way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 09:59 AM (J2vNu)

93 How many children survive to adulthood in Tyrol? One in 10?

Posted by: Billy "Crash" Craddock at April 24, 2024 10:00 AM (V5BDR)

94 And how were the Swedish girls' alps?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

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Obligatory:

Grand Tetons

Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024 10:00 AM (l4B/J)

95 91 Thanks Kris.

I feel educated now. You did good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2024 09:59 AM (u82oZ)

Thank you.

Posted by: Kris at April 24, 2024 10:00 AM (OyyDO)

96 The cliff dwellings of the desert southwest are an architectural marvel.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024

I wonder how many illegals are squatting in those now.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 10:00 AM (9yWhg)

97 The cliff dwellings of the desert southwest are an architectural marvel.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024

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Pffft.

Posted by: The Florida All-Female Footbridge Engineering Staff at April 24, 2024 10:01 AM (bo7UB)

98 Obligatory:

Grand Tetons
Posted by: Muldoon

Thank you, horny French fur trappers.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 10:02 AM (9yWhg)

99 Home sweet home.

Posted by: Cliff Dweller at April 24, 2024 10:02 AM (lZVy/)

100 92
And, wisely, they located their dwellings on the south side .....

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Possibly bitter experience instead?

Posted by: Ciampino - You mentioned Swedish girls? at April 24, 2024 10:03 AM (qfLjt)

101 The cliff dwellings of the desert southwest are an architectural marvel.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024

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Pffft.
Posted by: The Florida All-Female Footbridge Engineering Staff

Stuck the landing!

Posted by: USAF all female P3 flight crew at April 24, 2024 10:03 AM (lZVy/)

102 JustTheNews:

FBI produces Tennessee’s Covenant school shooter manifesto and other writings

The FBI has turned over writings from the Covenant school shooter to U.S. District Court Judge Aleta A. Trauger, including the killer’s manifesto, which will be read privately by the judge.

Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 10:04 AM (RHGPo)

103 And, wisely, they located their dwellings on the south side of a cliff that ran east and west, so the lower winter sun would shine in for warmth, but the higher summer sun would not beam directly in and their homes would be less hot in the daytime. I want a house that's oriented in the same way.

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Now their casinos are fully air-conditioned.

Score one for Western Civilization.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2024 10:05 AM (bo7UB)

104 Walde did some nice porn, too.

Posted by: Truckstop Joe Bribin' at April 24, 2024 10:05 AM (KiBMU)

105 Pfft.

You call that a cliffside house? THIS is a cliffside house:
https://tinyurl.com/34f36nry

Posted by: Brinksmanship at April 24, 2024 10:05 AM (HnUIn)

106 There are/were some pretty impressive cliff-side homes along CA Highway 1 south of Pebble Beach. Most are older homes because the state put a moratorium on new construction decades ago (unless you had millions to bribe the CCC).

The weather and environment are really harsh so things require constant maintenance.

And, of course, there's the risk your multi-million dollar pad is going to tumble into the Pacific.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2024 10:06 AM (Q4IgG)

107 JustTheNews:

Just weeks after learning Joe Biden had improperly retained government documents, his administration began working with federal bureaucrats in spring and fall 2021 to increase pressure on Donald Trump for similar issues and eventually prompt a criminal prosecution of the 45th president, according to government memos newly unsealed by U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon.

Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 10:06 AM (RHGPo)

108 84 This painting makes me wonder (yet again) whatever happened to the Anasazi?

The hot Latin-American singer on Lawrence Welk? She's still around, I think.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 09:55 AM (9yWhg)
Are you thinking of Alize Lyonnet?

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2024 10:06 AM (NxC5+)

109 Since nobody else mentioned it, a lot of that painting was done with a palette knife. Handy for rocky stuff.

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 10:07 AM (MvF+J)

110 There are/were some pretty impressive cliff-side homes along CA Highway 1 south of Pebble Beach. Most are older homes because the state put a moratorium on new construction decades ago (unless you had millions to bribe the CCC).

The weather and environment are really harsh so things require constant maintenance.

And, of course, there's the risk your multi-million dollar pad is going to tumble into the Pacific.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Yes, I remember those from my time in Monterey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 10:07 AM (9yWhg)

111 You live in a place like that, Door Dash is gonna refuse to deliver. Plus it's a three mile walk from your front rockledge down the driveway to get to your car.
Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crow

No longer an issue! With my new company HyperDroneLink, my fleet of thousands of massive AI drones in low Earth orbit can deliver any payload, anywhere on the planet, within 45 minutes!

Posted by: mElon Musk at April 24, 2024 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

112 The Swedish Girls were visiting on summer vacation, and yes, it's a real movie. There was a series of Swedish Girls movies in early 80s.

Posted by: Kraut Cinema at April 24, 2024 10:08 AM (V5BDR)

113 FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
FTC’s final rule will generate over 8,500 new businesses each year, raise worker wages, lower health care costs, and boost innovation

Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business formation.

“Noncompete clauses keep wages low, suppress new ideas, and rob the American economy of dynamism, including from the more than 8,500 new startups that would be created a year once noncompetes are banned,” said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. “The FTC’s final rule to ban noncompetes will ensure Americans have the freedom to pursue a new job, start a new business, or bring a new idea to market.”

Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 10:08 AM (RHGPo)

114 You call that a cliffside house? THIS is a cliffside house:
https://tinyurl.com/34f36nry
Posted by: Brinksmanship

Yeesh. No way I would ever set foot in that thing.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 10:08 AM (9yWhg)

115 This Tyrolean family reads from their Wycliffe Bible, keeps their financial records in a ledger, eats fried perch for dinner and peaks in their neighbor's window.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024 10:08 AM (l4B/J)

116 Good morning, y'all! Thanks for the art and write-up, Kris!

Posted by: Doof at April 24, 2024 10:08 AM (gtY/l)

117 BabylonBee: Columbia Protestors Clarify They Only Want Death To America After America Is Done Paying Their Student Loans

Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 10:09 AM (RHGPo)

118 Alp me Rhonda
Alp, Alp me Rhonda

Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024 10:09 AM (l4B/J)

119 With the birds I share this lonely view

Posted by: RHCP at April 24, 2024 10:09 AM (og5mY)

120 MSM headline from Klownifornia

Fast food workers blindsided by sudden closure of Fosters Freeze in Lemoore

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It’s almost as if a statewide $20/hr minimum wage laws has negative consequences for businesses in low cost areas.

Well fast food workers, now instead of $16 you’ll make $0. But you struck a blow for workers rights and shit. So you have that going for you.

Posted by: Montec at April 24, 2024 10:09 AM (tpjlM)

121 You live in a place like that, Door Dash is gonna refuse to deliver. Plus it's a three mile walk from your front rockledge down the driveway to get to your car.
Posted by: The Smell Of The gp

No longer an issue! With my new company HyperDroneLink, my fleet of thousands of massive AI drones in low Earth orbit can deliver any payload, anywhere on the planet, within 45 minutes!
Posted by: mElon Musk

Or, as we call it in Texas, skeet shooting with prizes!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 10:10 AM (pgG81)

122 Not familiar with the artist but I like this painting & would hang it.

At first glance, thought it was rather grim but after studying it more - and your sharing your thoughts and wonderful analysis, Kris - I like the sunlight as it falls on the people, the top of the building across from where they're seated, and on the mountain. Strength.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 24, 2024 10:10 AM (NFX2v)

123 BabylonBee: Columbia Protestors Clarify They Only Want Death To America After America Is Done Paying Their Student Loans
Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 10:09 AM (RHGPo)
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NotTheBee in 5...4...3...2...1...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 10:10 AM (7fElN)

124 Are you thinking of Alize Lyonnet?
Posted by: Eromero

No. Anacani. María Consuelo Castillo-López y Cantor-Montoya.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 10:10 AM (9yWhg)

125 There are some interesting ancient...or very old dwellings among the extinct volcanoes in the Canary Islands. The first settlers there were very shrewd about land usage. With arable land so scarce on the islands, the settlers carved their homes into the mountain sides, leaving the valleys below for agriculture.

It always amazes me, that these islands so far from mainland Spain, have been a part of Spain since the 1300s.

Posted by: Mishdog at April 24, 2024 10:11 AM (qZ+fb)

126 Louis L'Amour, of all people, has an SF movel called The Haunted Mesa which takes a stab at explaining that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

He also has an interesting medieval book called The Walking Drum. Fun little story with lots of nuggets of information about an interesting period of time.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 24, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

127 Robert Reich oped: Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism

What does JJ call these people? Self gassing.

Posted by: Montec at April 24, 2024 10:13 AM (tpjlM)

128 It always amazes me, that these islands so far from mainland Spain, have been a part of Spain since the 1300s.

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Armed only with coconuts, the canaries were no match for Spanish armor.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2024 10:14 AM (bo7UB)

129 ‘How many times does he have to prove we can’t be trusted?’
--- Joe Biden, 23-Apr-2024

Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 10:14 AM (RHGPo)

130 Since nobody else mentioned it, a lot of that painting was done with a palette knife. Handy for rocky stuff.
Posted by: The Smell Of The gp,

*******

And they say the Horde doesn't read the content!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024 10:15 AM (l4B/J)

131 Louis L'Amour, of all people, has an SF movel called The Haunted Mesa which takes a stab at explaining that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

He also has an interesting medieval book called The Walking Drum. Fun little story with lots of nuggets of information about an interesting period of time.
Posted by: Military Moron at April 24, 2024 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

I've been looking for another good L'Amour book to read. Not that they aren't all good. He has a way of telling history that makes you want more. I'm going to get these two on Kindle right now.

Posted by: Mishdog at April 24, 2024 10:16 AM (qZ+fb)

132 Armed only with coconuts, the canaries were no match for Spanish armor.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2024 10:14 AM (bo7UB)
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Shoulda called in the swallow brigade...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 10:16 AM (7fElN)

133 Garde l'eau!!!

Posted by: Thems without indoor plumbing at April 24, 2024 10:16 AM (w9Wax)

134 And, wisely, they located their dwellings on the south side .....

----
Possibly bitter experience instead?
Posted by: Ciampino - You mentioned Swedish girls? at April 24, 2024

***
Yeah; my apartment faces west and gets hot sun until 7 pm in July and August. Since I mounted blackout drapes some years ago, though, it's been better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

135 I'm not usually a fan of impasto, including this picture, but a few years ago, I saw an impasto painting of brightly colored fishing boats in a Med setting, and was so taken by it, I bought it.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2024 10:17 AM (CsUN+)

136 Swallow brigade?

Hopefully laden.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2024 10:17 AM (gzX6N)

137 Armed only with coconuts, the canaries were no match for Spanish armor.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2024 10:14 AM (bo7UB)
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They shoulda mixed the lime with the coconuts.

Posted by: JT at April 24, 2024 10:18 AM (T4tVD)

138 132 Armed only with coconuts, the canaries were no match for Spanish armor.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2024 10:14 AM (bo7UB)
---
Shoulda called in the swallow brigade...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 10:16 AM (7fElN)

You people! I swear it's like youre not wearing pants! I bet you smell of elderberries too!

Posted by: Mishdog at April 24, 2024 10:18 AM (qZ+fb)

139 It's like Sweden, man. Sweeeden!

https://youtu.be/6bqkiHaApbY

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at April 24, 2024 10:18 AM (dg+HA)

140 Nice pic to counteract the flame throwing robotic dog video.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 24, 2024 10:19 AM (ufFY8)

141 OT: Called Social Security this am; got through *immediately*, and was told I can print my Medicare card through the MC website. Which I then did. Why couldn't they have told me that before . . .?

Now I need to look into Med Advantage plans, but once I'm set there I can tell my employer "I'm outta here at the end of May"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 10:20 AM (J2vNu)

142 not usually a fan of impasto,

The endless soup and salad at Olive Garden is pretty good, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 24, 2024 10:20 AM (ufFY8)

143 How long does oil paint take to dry if you ladle it on 1/2" inch thick? Does it crack?

Posted by: Cover the Earth at April 24, 2024 10:20 AM (V5BDR)

144 Nice pic to counteract the flame throwing robotic dog video.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 24, 2024 10:19 AM (ufFY

++++
Flame-throwing robo-dogs are exactly what the world needs.

Like that combat robot that eats flesh. This is a great thing that the world very much needs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 10:20 AM (HnUIn)

145 MSM headline from Klownifornia

Fast food workers blindsided by sudden closure of Fosters Freeze in Lemoore

You would have to have a heart of stone to not laugh at these people.

Me? I laughed my fool head off.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 10:21 AM (pgG81)

146 130 But I did. And ctrl-F'd for 'palette' before posting the comment.

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 10:21 AM (MvF+J)

147 With my new company HyperDroneLink, my fleet of thousands of massive AI drones in low Earth orbit can deliver any payload, anywhere on the planet, within 45 minutes!
Posted by: mElon Musk at April 24, 2024 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

A statement which would, without a doubt, fill the Australian eSafety commissioner with dread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 10:23 AM (T7iTv)

148 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Fascinating art. I like it and I always appreciate Kris' analysis.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2024 10:23 AM (W/lyH)

149 FTC’s final rule will generate over 8,500 new businesses each year, raise worker wages, lower health care costs, and boost innovation

Permit me to express rampant skepticism.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 10:24 AM (T7iTv)

150 Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2024 10:23 AM (W/lyH)

Thank you.

Posted by: Kris at April 24, 2024 10:24 AM (OyyDO)

151 Posted by: Diogenes

How'd the geezer-fleecing go yesterday?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 10:25 AM (9yWhg)

152 If both Wolfus and Skip stop working in the same year, the nation's economy would collapse, at least east of the Mississippi.

Posted by: Decline and Fall at April 24, 2024 10:25 AM (V5BDR)

153 How long does oil paint take to dry if you ladle it on 1/2" inch thick? Does it crack?

That's the great thing. Nobody can tell. Just give it an Italian name and say it's a technique.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2024 10:25 AM (CsUN+)

154 How long does oil paint take to dry if you ladle it on 1/2" inch thick? Does it crack?

That's the great thing. Nobody can tell. Just give it an Italian name and say it's a technique.
Posted by: Archimedes

It's an offshoot of baroque. It's called ca-racked.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 10:26 AM (pgG81)

155 Shoulda called in the swallow brigade...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 10:16 AM (7fElN)

A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut, amiright?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 10:26 AM (T7iTv)

156 But I did. And ctrl-F'd for 'palette' before posting the comment.
Posted by: The Smell Of The gp,

********

Just making a little joke at your expense. . My apologies.

It turns out that I didn't actually read the content.
🤔

Posted by: Muldoon at April 24, 2024 10:27 AM (l4B/J)

157 Everything is beautiful.

President Biden
@POTUS
Over 13.2 million jobs created.
That’s Bidenomics.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 10:28 AM (FVME7)

158 President Biden
@POTUS
Over 13.2 million jobs created.
That’s Bidenomics.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 10:28 AM (FVME7)

25 million of those have gone to migrants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 10:29 AM (T7iTv)

159 President Biden
@POTUS
Over 13.2 million jobs created.
That’s Bidenomics.
-

And lots of people need to work two of them to make ends meet...

Posted by: reason at April 24, 2024 10:30 AM (s3On1)

160 156 We're cool. I love all you guys. Kris writes good content.

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 10:31 AM (MvF+J)

161 Over 13.2 million jobs created.
That’s Bidenomics.

I thought they weren't gonna say Bidenomics anymore...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 24, 2024 10:31 AM (Akjoo)

162 If both Wolfus and Skip stop working in the same year, the nation's economy would collapse, at least east of the Mississippi.
Posted by: Decline and Fall at April 24, 2024

***
I don't want to be responsible for *that*!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

163 That's the great thing. Nobody can tell. Just give it an Italian name and say it's a technique.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2024 10:25 AM (CsUN+)
++++
Miss a note once, and you screwed up.
Miss a note twice, and you *really* screwed up.
Miss a note three times, and you made jazz.

/me runs away

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 10:32 AM (HnUIn)

164 Have the IDF started on Rafah yet?

You know they are over the target when the protesters started squawking vehemently.

Finish off the rapist genocidal maniacs. We turn out lonely eyes to you, IDF, Mossad, and Shin Bet.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 24, 2024 10:32 AM (ufFY8)

165 I do have a company of Tyrolean Jagers in my miniatures figures, they have hats kind of like Australian with one side flipped up.

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2024 10:33 AM (9VVVN)

166 141 OT: Called Social Security this am; got through *immediately*, and was told I can print my Medicare card through the MC website. Which I then did. Why couldn't they have told me that before . . .?

Now I need to look into Med Advantage plans, but once I'm set there I can tell my employer "I'm outta here at the end of May"!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 10:20 AM (J2vNu)
Just curious, but did you have to prove eligbility? Asking for my compadre, Luis.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2024 10:33 AM (NxC5+)

167 Random thought. Abbey Road album cover for today would feature the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse crossing the road.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 10:33 AM (FVME7)

168 Random thought. Abbey Road album cover for today would feature the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse crossing the road.
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...in beards, make-up, and gaudy mumus.

Posted by: reason at April 24, 2024 10:35 AM (s3On1)

169 Miss a note three times, and you made jazz.

/me runs away
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 10:32 AM (HnUIn)

So, arguably, music lessons are all about destroying jazz prodigies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 10:35 AM (T7iTv)

170 Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at April 24, 2024 10:31 AM (MvF+J)

Thank you.

Posted by: Kris at April 24, 2024 10:35 AM (OyyDO)

171 How'd the geezer-fleecing go yesterday?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 10:25 AM (9yWhg)

Not too bad.
Got two closest to the hole wins on the par 3's, and won one skin. So enough for two beers.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2024 10:35 AM (W/lyH)

172 138 132 Armed only with coconuts, the canaries were no match for Spanish armor.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2024 10:14 AM (bo7UB)
---
Shoulda called in the swallow brigade...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Professional Porn Actress Zoe Doll hails from the Canaries, and she could probably swallow a whole brigade...

Posted by: That Guy at April 24, 2024 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

173 Have the IDF started on Rafah yet?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 24, 2024 10:32 AM (ufFY

Long as they stay out of Haifa, as I have commanded! -- Joe Biden

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 10:36 AM (T7iTv)

174 If a Republican announces job gains, the Dems claim they are all part time jobs. I'm pretty sure these are all part time jobs. We will ignore the unemployment rate

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 24, 2024 10:38 AM (yeEu9)

175 CatholicVote
@CatholicVote
This. Is. VILE!
President Biden makes the Sign of the Cross at an abortion rally in Florida!
You cannot be Catholic and support abortion!
You cannot invoke GOD and promote Death!

-
A little blasphemy will fix everything!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 10:38 AM (FVME7)

176 My first thought when I viewed this painting was "What a dangerous place to raise a child."

Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2024 10:39 AM (oaGWv)

177 Testing

Posted by: Test at April 24, 2024 10:39 AM (dg+HA)

178 Have the IDF started on Rafah yet?

According to a blurb on israelnationalnews.com, they are beginning to evacuate the "civilians."

Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2024 10:40 AM (/y8xj)

179 Testing
Posted by: Test at April 24, 2024 10:39 AM (dg+HA)
++++
Testes, testes. One, two ... three?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 10:40 AM (HnUIn)

180 Aha. I can use the DDG browser to post if I disable privacy.

Posted by: Test at April 24, 2024 10:41 AM (dg+HA)

181 My first thought when I viewed this painting was "What a dangerous place to raise a child."
Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2024 10:39 AM (oaGWv)
++++
I imagine that instilling caution would be essential.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 10:41 AM (HnUIn)

182 Man. I am a super dooper conservative. I voted for trump in 2016 and 2020, but I am really concerned about a violent right wing backlash against the palestine protests on Columbia. I think, for everyone's safety, we should lock down and cancel in-person voting for the Nov election. Just mail every household a stack of mail in ballots and ask that they only fill out one if they are a registered voter. But also send a stack of voter registration cards with the ballots. It is the only way to ensure safety from the ultraviolent maga right. If it prevents just one person from feeling unsafe...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 24, 2024 10:42 AM (PHukT)

183 Shoulda called in the swallow brigade...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 10:16 AM

I'm assembling my troops as we speak.

- Kamala Harris

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 10:42 AM (I6W2K)

184 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act.
It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

-
What's so bad about genocide, anyway?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 10:42 AM (FVME7)

185 Prolly not worth it 'cuz the pop up ad at the bottom of the phone's screen covers up the "post" button...

Posted by: Test at April 24, 2024 10:43 AM (dg+HA)

186 Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students

Non violent ? They sure seemed violent when the police were trying to remove them

Posted by: It's me donna at April 24, 2024 10:44 AM (Akjoo)

187 184 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act.
It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

-
What's so bad about genocide, anyway?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 10:42 AM (FVME7)

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Why is police presence considered an escalation? Are the protestors mere animalistic creatures operating on instinct and will lash out violently at the sight of men in uniform?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

188 > Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act.
It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.
___________

Which "leadership" you talking 'bout there bug eyes?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2024 10:44 AM (Q4IgG)

189 Prolly not worth it 'cuz the pop up ad at the bottom of the phone's screen covers up the "post" button...
Posted by: Test

I don't get those when I use my phone for this site.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 10:44 AM (9yWhg)

190 It was the sign of the Beau. Beau died on a cross in Iraq inhaling burn pit fumes and was eaten by cannibals serving his country for all of us, so that no other soldier should die.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 24, 2024 10:45 AM (PHukT)

191 ‘We Are Ashamed’ — UK Psychologists Apologise for Role in Promoting Transgender ‘Medicine’ to Children

.. I'm sorry but anything less that seppuku isn't good enough

Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 10:45 AM (RHGPo)

192 OT: Called Social Security this am; got through *immediately*,

Lucky you. The couple of times I had to call after my husband died I waited an hour+ each time. I even called first thing in the morning thinking I might get someone quicker.

Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2024 10:45 AM (oaGWv)

193 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act.
It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

Whoa there, sugar, better save some hysterical adjectives for later. You wouldn't want to run out.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2024 10:45 AM (CsUN+)

194 191 ‘We Are Ashamed’ — UK Psychologists Apologise for Role in Promoting Transgender ‘Medicine’ to Children

.. I'm sorry but anything less that seppuku isn't good enough
Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 10:45 AM (RHGPo)

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No...no...no...

Well, unless they use the bamboo swords.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

195 182 Man. I am a super dooper conservative. I voted for trump in 2016 and 2020, but I am really concerned about a violent right wing backlash against the palestine protests on Columbia...
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Really!?!? No foolin'? That's great! How would you like a guest opinion/commentary spot to share your amazing, True Conservative insights!?!?!

Posted by: The Bulwark, The Lincoln Project, Daily Wire at April 24, 2024 10:46 AM (tUdMs)

196 Push the ads left and you can close them and be able to.post from a phone.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2024 10:46 AM (LfcYE)

197 158 President Biden
@POTUS
Over 13.2 million jobs created.
That’s Bidenomics.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 10:28 AM (FVME7)

25 million of those have gone to migrants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 10:29 AM (T7iTv)

Another 15 million jobs were created to serve the needs of the 'migrants.' Immigration lawyers, NGO staff and employees, emergency room docs and nurses, hospital billing office workers to fill-out payment requests to local and state governments, teachers, food truck cooks, tamale and tortilla makers, workers and clerks at barrio grocery stores, liquor stores, and Dollar stores, bail bondsmen, document forgers...

Posted by: Gref at April 24, 2024 10:46 AM (5fDan)

198 Got two closest to the hole wins on the par 3's, and won one skin. So enough for two beers.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2024 10:35 AM (W/lyH)

You won a skin?? Did you have to flay the victim yourself or was the skin just laying there waiting for you?

Posted by: Doof at April 24, 2024 10:48 AM (gtY/l)

199 My first thought when I viewed this painting was "What a dangerous place to raise a child."
Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2024 10:39 AM (oaGWv)

Mine was "No way I'm checking the mailbox two days in a row!"

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2024 10:48 AM (W/lyH)

200 ‘We Are Ashamed’ — UK Psychologists Apologise for Role in Promoting Transgender ‘Medicine’ to Children

.. I'm sorry but anything less that seppuku isn't good enough
Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 10:45 AM (RHGPo)
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Okay. Good. You should be.

But that's not enough. Let's talk liability.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 10:49 AM (HnUIn)

201 Kris, your art postings are a pleasure to read. Takes me back to college art classes. Very educational.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2024 10:49 AM (w6EFb)

202 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act.
It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

This is how you get open season on rag heads, from normies that just want to be left the eff aline.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2024 10:49 AM (MsrgL)

203 200 Okay. Good. You should be.

But that's not enough. Let's talk liability.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 10:49 AM (HnUIn)

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"Wait...you've noticed that responsibility has become an empty word? When did you figure it out?!"
-The elite

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

204 Got two closest to the hole wins on the par 3's, and won one skin. So enough for two beers.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2024 10:35 AM (W/lyH)

You won a skin?? Did you have to flay the victim yourself or was the skin just laying there waiting for you?
Posted by: Doof at April 24, 2024 10:48 AM (gtY/l)

Heh.
To hear these guys complain when they pay up, you'd think i had the knife in my hands!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2024 10:50 AM (W/lyH)

205 reminds me of the eiger sanction, that one of the channels was airing some time ago, trevanian, nee robert whitaker wrote the screenplay for the film that eastwood starred and produced, and williams wrote the score,

but he was discouraged from adapting any more of his work, after an accident on the set

Posted by: no 6 at April 24, 2024 10:50 AM (PXvVL)

206 Let's talk liability.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Oh, their ability to lie is second to none.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 10:51 AM (9yWhg)

207 OT: Called Social Security this am; got through *immediately*,
*
Lucky you. The couple of times I had to call after my husband died I waited an hour+ each time. I even called first thing in the morning thinking I might get someone quicker.
Posted by: Tuna at April 24, 2024

***
I fully expected to be told, "Your wait time is -- thirty -- five -- minutes." I rang up about seven minutes before their official office start time, figuring by the time I got through the early messages, it would be close on eight am and I might be early in the queue.

Instead, almost no delay. Maybe it was because I said I wasn't inquiring about benefits, but about Medicare status.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 10:51 AM (J2vNu)

208 Which "leadership" you talking 'bout there bug eyes?

Posted by: Martini Farmer

Sometimes, when I'm feeling mean spirited, i wonder if her bug eyes are from surprise wrong hole insertion. But then I remember the sack of soy she runs with.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2024 10:51 AM (MsrgL)

209 Tennessee's legislature passed a bill allowing teachers to carry firearms and Dems staged this "die-in" to protest. The video is Oscar-worthy. 😆

https://shorturl.at/imx19

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What's so bad about the mass murder of school children anyway?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 10:52 AM (FVME7)

210 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act.
It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

This is how you get open season on rag heads, from normies that just want to be left the eff aline.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2024 10:49 AM (MsrgL)

I bet she had to look up the word "heinous."

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2024 10:52 AM (W/lyH)

211 197 158 President Biden
@POTUS
Over 13.2 million jobs created.
That’s Bidenomics.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 10:28 AM (FVME7)

25 million of those have gone to migrants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 24, 2024 10:29 AM (T7iTv)

Another 15 million jobs were created to serve the needs of the 'migrants.' Immigration lawyers, NGO staff and employees, emergency room docs and nurses, hospital billing office workers to fill-out payment requests to local and state governments, teachers, food truck cooks, tamale and tortilla makers, workers and clerks at barrio grocery stores, liquor stores, and Dollar stores, bail bondsmen, document forgers...
And there it is, folks, except the 'army' was left off for some reason. Lots of soldatos there.

Posted by: Eromero at April 24, 2024 10:52 AM (NxC5+)

212 reminds me of the eiger sanction, that one of the channels was airing some time ago, trevanian, nee robert whitaker wrote the screenplay for the film that eastwood starred and produced, and williams wrote the score,

but he was discouraged from adapting any more of his work, after an accident on the set
Posted by: no 6 at April 24, 2024 10:50 AM (PXvVL)

Did he crap on the rug ?

Posted by: JT at April 24, 2024 10:53 AM (T4tVD)

213 I took a 10 day vacation with my family in the Canary Islands. Pretty interesting place. Mountains, ocean, pine forests...and then volcanic glass hellscapes and rocky wastelands from the volcanic activity. Took some tours of lava tunes and caves, parasailed off the mountain sides, snorkeled with sea turtles, and saw pilot whales on a little boat with booze. Good little trip.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 24, 2024 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

214 Lonely Dwelling
Alfons Walde

Alternate title: "Where's Walde?"

Posted by: Half Dozen at April 24, 2024 10:55 AM (/iU1b)

215 Only 21 percent of voters “strongly” approved of President Joe Biden, while 49 percent “strongly” disapproved, a recent Rasmussen poll found, raising reelection concerns for the president.

Overall, the poll found a 20 point differential between voters who approved of Biden and those who did not:

39 percent approved
59 percent disapproved

... I suggest Biden stop digging

Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 10:56 AM (RHGPo)

216 I saw that Alec Baldwin punched some psycho Jew-hater who was haranguing him to endorse Hamas.

Strange days, indeed

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 24, 2024 10:56 AM (0FoWg)

217 Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act.

So peaceful and non-violent the college recommended Jewish professors to stay home.

Find a "I Wish These Were Brains" t-shirt, Donkey Chompers.

Posted by: spindrift at April 24, 2024 10:56 AM (OguvZ)

218 reminds me of the eiger sanction, that one of the channels was airing some time ago, trevanian, nee robert whitaker wrote the screenplay for the film that eastwood starred and produced, and williams wrote the score,

but he was discouraged from adapting any more of his work, after an accident on the set
Posted by: no 6 at April 24, 2024
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Did he crap on the rug ?
Posted by: JT at April 24, 2024

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I'd read he was discouraged because he'd written Eiger the novel as a subtle send-up of James Bond novels and movies, and none of that was translated to the screen. For instance, the hero is named "Hemlock," and he contracts for a U.S. intelligence agency called CII (because it was the result of combining 102 other useless agencies into a single incompetent one). And his boss is named, wait for it . . .

. . . "Yurasis Dragon."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 10:56 AM (J2vNu)

219 I bet she had to look up the word "heinous."

"Radical!"
-- Bill & Ted

Posted by: Oddbob at April 24, 2024 10:56 AM (/y8xj)

220 Tennessee's legislature passed a bill allowing teachers to carry firearms and Dems staged this "die-in" to protest. The video is Oscar-worthy. 😆

https://shorturl.at/imx19

Then they will turn around and bitch at a Republican about dignity in office.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2024 10:56 AM (W/lyH)

221 Tennessee's legislature passed a bill allowing teachers to carry firearms and Dems staged this "die-in" to protest. The video is Oscar-worthy
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I think Justin Jones and his friends should be obliged

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 24, 2024 10:58 AM (CIS44)

222 I won't ever retire, can't afford it and would be bored

Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2024 10:58 AM (9VVVN)

223 I won't ever retire, can't afford it and would be bored
Posted by: Skip at April 24, 2024

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I may be bored, but I'll find something to keep me occupied. As for affording it, well, I'm not retiring to the Canary Islands or something like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

224 Noodus simianus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 24, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

225 noooooood

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 24, 2024 11:00 AM (CIS44)

226
I heartily advise against Advantage plans. They give you a list of docs. HINT: none of them are on the A list. Same with hospitals. - you are getting older & stuff breaks down.

The free glasses and free dental is no money when compared to the cost of a good doctor or medical facility.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 11:02 AM (lCWOD)

227 20 Joe Mannix

You never skip leg day living ruin that house.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 24, 2024 11:08 AM (u82oZ)

228 Jerry Seinfeld’s New Pop Tart Movie Contains a “Very Funny January 6 Parody”

https://shorturl.at/eiAM4 (You have to wait a while, a long while, for the article to u fuzz so you can read it.)

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There's nothing funny about the attempted violent insurrection of our democracy!

Also from the link.

“Well, I’m Jewish. And you grow up learning about antisemitism, but it’s kind of in a book. It never crossed my mind that people would look at me as anything other than, ‘I like this comedian. I don’t like this comedian.’ I think most Jews of my generation never thought about antisemitism. It was from history books. And then it was something different. It was something different.”

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Well, I'm glad I'm not the only f*cking idiot who didn't see this coming.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 11:09 AM (FVME7)

229 Still racist.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at April 24, 2024 11:16 AM (ytSiK)

230 Kris -- I adore it when you do art thread. Thank you!

Posted by: sinmi at April 24, 2024 02:05 PM (potuI)

231 me too, i really enjoyed the blurb perspective. thanks.

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