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Mid-Morning Open Thread
Carel Willink
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Anybody who fails to keep their voices at a moderate level while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Anybody who says "Meh, it's no Rothko!" while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Anybody who makes a bawdy limerick while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Anybody who makes a fish pun while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:27 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: bluebell ~ get cooking, Horde! at December 12, 2017 09:27 AM (kNasr)
Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2017 09:28 AM (zLDYs)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2017 09:28 AM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Kris at December 12, 2017 09:29 AM (nwqNw)
Posted by: bluebell ~ get cooking, Horde! at December 12, 2017 09:29 AM (kNasr)
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Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:29 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Tami at December 12, 2017 09:30 AM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Frank Booth at December 12, 2017 09:30 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 12, 2017 09:30 AM (+Dllb)
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2017 09:30 AM (1Oy/Q)
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:29 AM (zSVEm)
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From the UFO hovering just above the picture frame.
Posted by: bluebell ~ get cooking, Horde! at December 12, 2017 09:31 AM (kNasr)
Posted by: Roland THTG at December 12, 2017 09:31 AM (xBSm0)
Anybody who fails to keep their voices at a moderate level while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Anybody who says "Meh, it's no Rothko!" while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Anybody who makes a bawdy limerick while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Anybody who makes a fish pun while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:27 AM (wPiJc)
I am having difficulty determining the meter of this submission, Mr. Muldoon.
Using "box' for the rhyme at the end of every line is sort of cheating, right?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 09:31 AM (ymnmz)
Technique Critique - a limerick
The clouds are as light as a feather
But the dark sky forbodes stormy weather
The shadows are dark
The buildings are stark
And the street was just cobbled together.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:31 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Scuba Dude at December 12, 2017 09:31 AM (Oq/TM)
Posted by: naturalfake, Philosopher at December 12, 2017 09:32 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 09:32 AM (rXkis)
Posted by: Rockysan99 at December 12, 2017 09:32 AM (m7LQK)
Posted by: Karmic Justice at December 12, 2017 09:32 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 12, 2017 09:32 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 09:32 AM (RD7QR)
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Hmmm. It's a limerick, but not bawdy, so you've evaded the box. For now.
Posted by: bluebell ~ get cooking, Horde! at December 12, 2017 09:32 AM (kNasr)
Posted by: BJ Blazkowicz at December 12, 2017 09:33 AM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Son of Sam the Butcher at December 12, 2017 09:33 AM (RZul+)
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2017 09:33 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2017 09:33 AM (BIr2P)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2017 09:33 AM (QLvwG)
in other words, it's more Joseph Beuys than Kinkade.
Posted by: Zod at December 12, 2017 09:34 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2017 09:34 AM (zmvwV)
Posted by: RioBravo at December 12, 2017 09:34 AM (5NMZN)
Posted by: Karmic Justice at December 12, 2017 09:34 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (zmvwV)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (rXkis)
Anybody who fails to keep their voices at a moderate level while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Anybody who says "Meh, it's no Rothko!" while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Anybody who makes a bawdy limerick while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Anybody who makes a fish pun while viewing the art spends a night in the box.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:27 AM (wPiJc)
What about squirrel puns? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (tRaq7)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Kris at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (nwqNw)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (QLvwG)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: #neverskankles at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (Vt61E)
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (g6sZZ)
Posted by: bluebell ~ get cooking, Horde! at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (kNasr)
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (NWiLs)
But a question remained: is one building a school?
Posted by: RioBravo
It is if it's on porpoise.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (rXkis)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: JAS at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (7JbXq)
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (zSVEm)
Titled "The Miasma Over A Random Town in Massachusetts".
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 09:37 AM (RD7QR)
I think there are some cold, dead bodies in the crawl spaces.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 09:37 AM (rXkis)
Posted by: JAS at December 12, 2017 09:37 AM (7JbXq)
Posted by: This Is CNN at December 12, 2017 09:37 AM (zmvwV)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:37 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Sponge at December 12, 2017 09:37 AM (Pi667)
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton, 26 time passenger on the Lolita Express at December 12, 2017 09:37 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:38 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (oVJmc)
Can't be. No bodies.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2017 09:38 AM (zmvwV)
Posted by: Karmic Justice at December 12, 2017 09:38 AM (FTPVM)
Fphhhhhft! It ain't no Rothko.
And don't be telling me 'bout no box. You specified the offending phrase in quotes, and failed to mention that paraphrases would incur the same penalty.
*thumbs nose at Muldoon*
#barrackslawyer
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2017 09:38 AM (veoSD)
Posted by: sarahw at December 12, 2017 09:39 AM (Sp1NT)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:39 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: bluebell ~ get cooking, Horde! at December 12, 2017 09:39 AM (kNasr)
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:39 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2017 09:39 AM (zmvwV)
Posted by: This Is CNN at December 12, 2017 09:37 AM (zmvwV)
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I CAN CONFIRM
Posted by: Brian Ross - ABC NEWS at December 12, 2017 09:40 AM (Vt61E)
Posted by: James Comey, Building Inspector at December 12, 2017 09:40 AM (Astxw)
Posted by: sarahw at December 12, 2017 09:39 AM (Sp1NT)
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You'd better keep looking. It's the one approved day a year when you can set your hair on fire.
Posted by: bluebell ~ get cooking, Horde! at December 12, 2017 09:40 AM (kNasr)
Posted by: sarahw at December 12, 2017 09:40 AM (Sp1NT)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
******
Okay. You get off on a technique-ality.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (zmvwV)
Your line is more prescient than you may think, especially if you take this painting as a subconscious representation of Europe in the first half of the 20th century, when this was painted.
Many artists have a talent for tapping into the zeitgeist, and stuff comes out in their paintings that even they don't fully comprehend.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: BOX Nazi at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (FTPVM)
I blame aliens. Damn them. Damn them all to hell, them and their anal probes and whatnot.
Posted by: troyriser at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (raGQi)
Historical Note:
Unfortunately, "Cthulhuland" the theme park venture between H.P. Lovecraft and Alistair Crowley
proved to be a complete bust financially.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (oVJmc)
No, these buildings have all four walls and aren't on fire.
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (7ZVPa)
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (zSVEm)
It really sucks to be alive in 2017.....
Posted by: Sponge at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (Pi667)
Posted by: sarahw at December 12, 2017 09:40 AM (Sp1NT)
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The buildings could use a torch toss.
Posted by: RioBravo at December 12, 2017 09:42 AM (5NMZN)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 09:42 AM (r9UYA)
Not much of a city, it's true.
But get this--between me and you
The roads may not be great
And there's naught open late
But it's sure got one heck of a view!
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at December 12, 2017 09:42 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 09:42 AM (BoMuO)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 09:42 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:42 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: RioBravo
Already had that. These were the survivors...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at December 12, 2017 09:42 AM (AM1GF)
"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was just dancing with me. Like a kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes..."
Posted by: Zod at December 12, 2017 09:42 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 09:43 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at December 12, 2017 09:43 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 12, 2017 09:43 AM (tRaq7)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2017 09:43 AM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Zod at December 12, 2017 09:43 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Sponge at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (Pi667)
Let's not get carried away.
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2017 09:43 AM (1Oy/Q)
Historical Note:
Unfortunately, "Cthulhuland" the theme park venture between H.P. Lovecraft and Alistair Crowley
proved to be a complete bust financially.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (9q7Dl)
The Yog-Sothoth ride was a little TOO realistic.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 09:43 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Sponge at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (Pi667)
____
I can confirm.
Posted by: Brian Ross - ABC NEWS at December 12, 2017 09:44 AM (Vt61E)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2017 09:44 AM (zmvwV)
Trump Tweeted that Sen. Gillibrand would "do anything" for campaign contributions and the blue checks are saying he sexually harassed her.
It really sucks to be alive in 2017.....
Posted by: Sponge at December 12, 2017 09:41
Well, in these Stupid Times, when making eye contact with some Aggrieved Sister can get you hauled into Shaming Court, I guess...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:44 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Mr. Wolf at December 12, 2017 09:45 AM (SCIcD)
The Ref - gotta get that out, one of my favorite Christmas movies! (Even if Kevin Spacey is a total shit, it's still a funny movie)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 09:45 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2017 09:45 AM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Blake at December 12, 2017 09:45 AM (qC1Sy)
While looking at this painting and knowing Willken worked in the last century, the thought ocurred: what would CS Lewis have thought of it. Not sure why.
Posted by: JTB at December 12, 2017 09:46 AM (V+03K)
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton, 26 time passenger on the Lolita Express at December 12, 2017 09:46 AM (LISuA)
proved to be a complete bust financially.
******
They had to shut it down after a Cthulhu look-alike contest.
Yep, the crowd turned ugly.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:46 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Dingbat at December 12, 2017 09:46 AM (lhSF/)
Nice.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2017 09:46 AM (ty7RM)
Posted by: Smiling Jack at December 12, 2017 09:46 AM (acwqB)
From the width of her beam, there's not a lot she wouldn't do for a Klondike Bar, either.
Posted by: Zod at December 12, 2017 09:47 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2017 09:47 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2017 09:47 AM (b0Mq7)
It really sucks to be alive in 2017.....
Posted by: Sponge at December 12, 2017 09:41
Strangely enough,
Carel Willink to do anything for cash as well.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2017 09:47 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Fox2! at December 12, 2017 09:47 AM (brIR5)
While looking at this painting and knowing Willken worked in the last century, the thought ocurred: what would CS Lewis have thought of it. Not sure why.
Posted by: JTB at December 12, 2017 09:46 AM (V+03K)
Because C.S. Lewis discussed the joy of finding God and this piece is about the joylessness of an empty soul.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 09:48 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: LMAO at December 12, 2017 09:48 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: Sponge at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (Pi667)
===========================
Worse to be dead.
Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at December 12, 2017 09:48 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 09:48 AM (QQ+il)
Moments later, shots rang out, and the world was never the same.
Posted by: Acme Explosives at December 12, 2017 09:48 AM (ajiE5)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 09:49 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 09:49 AM (rXkis)
my massive $165,000 mortgage. They had to ensure that, if I defaulted,
that large sum of money wouldn't sink their financial institution. This
required 3 weeks of emails asking me to prove I wrote a check for the
earnest money, show the cancelled check for the earnest money, show the
account where the earnest money came from, three months prior to prove I
didn't have to borrow the earnest money, show the account after the
earnest money cleared, and show the transaction to prove the earnest
money came out of my account. Nevermind the fact that I have nearly
enough money to buy the house outright parked in my savings account,
that $1700 earnest money might have pushed me to the brink.
.
.
.Had virtually the same exact experience when we bought this house back in January. Our credit Union holds our mortgage and they know full well that we could have nearly paid cash for the house with the savings that are sitting in our account in their Credit Union but we still had to abide by the rules.
We had to jump through so many friggin hoops and I had to keep sending the wife's current pay stub every two weeks and our Navy Retirement statements monthly during the process to prove that we could afford the mortgage even though every penny we earn goes right into our checking account with them and has been doing so for the last 35 years.
It was surreal.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 12, 2017 09:49 AM (+Dllb)
...or the satisfying solitude of a long-abandoned Twilight Zone set.
Posted by: Zod at December 12, 2017 09:49 AM (Bdeb0)
It seems Carel was Willink but the flash was weak.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:49 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: TexasDan at December 12, 2017 09:49 AM (yL25O)
I'm willing to risk it just for the halibut.
Posted by: Monkfish at December 12, 2017 09:49 AM (a1s18)
Posted by: auscolpyr at December 12, 2017 09:50 AM (suO/a)
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at December 12, 2017 09:50 AM (hMwEB)
This is a definition of sexual harassment from the dictionary:
uninvited and unwelcome verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature especially by a person in authority toward a subordinate (such as an employee or student)
I think the blue checkmarks once again have their hair on fire.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2017 09:51 AM (8+Ozj)
Continuing on to the third building, again the wall is too short to account for the differences in height. However, the artist plays with our expectation. Because the last building is behind a wall, we really cannot see its base. Therefore we don't really know how tall it is, or how far back it is. How large is that courtyard? Because of our low vantage point, we can't know. There are no trees to give us a sense of scale.
There is also a row of buildings in the far background. Their size tells us they are very distant, but how far? Are they even real? They almost present a mirage-like image.
This is a fascinating work. Nice find, CBD.
Posted by: Kris at December 12, 2017 09:51 AM (nwqNw)
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at December 12, 2017 09:51 AM (hMwEB)
Anyway, first time I used the self serve option. So simple and fast. And no illegal, non-English speaker fucking up my order either. It was the most efficient, well oiled fast food joint I'd seen in a long time.
This is the end result of $15 min. wage. Mucho low end jobs going away.
Posted by: #neverskankles at December 12, 2017 09:51 AM (Vt61E)
Unfortunately, "Cthulhuland" the theme park venture between H.P. Lovecraft and Alistair Crowley proved to be a complete bust financially.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 12, 2017 09:41 AM (9q7Dl)
Yeah. They opened the gate and all hell broke loose.
Nice art, CBD. Those poor stunted, frost-covered, cowering trees....
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 09:52 AM (CPk08)
It really sucks to be alive in 2017.....
Posted by: Sponge at December 12, 2017 09:41
Strangely enough,
Carel Willink to do anything for cash as well.
Posted by: naturalfake
I had a lot lizard at the Pilot Truck Stop in Des Moines tell me she'd do anything for $25.00.
I gave her $25 and told her to wash out the cattle trailer.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 09:52 AM (rXkis)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 09:52 AM (CPk08)
It seems Carel was Willink but the flash was weak.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:49 AM (wPiJc)
I quit...can't top that.
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2017 09:52 AM (1Oy/Q)
Posted by: TexasDan at December 12, 2017 09:52 AM (yL25O)
So here is a Q for all the readers here. Is there anyone else out there who is colorblind/deficient? Without a doubt it affects the way we see art and the art we like. I find that I prefer art that has clean lines and rather stark color. I can appreciate the impressionist, but I am sure that the power of the colors is lost on me, and I just shrug my shoulder and say , "Interesting technique, but whats all the fuss"
In the case of this piece I see two colors, many levels of grey and one color of "sand". I am not sure what the color of the "sand" is on the building in the foreground, but would would infer "sand" because it looks like some form of sand stone. I like it because I think I am seeing the art as close to what the artist intended and like the way other viewers see it, so I feel more connected to it. With other art I know that I am not seeing what is actually there and it leaves me left out.
Of course, now that I have said that, someone will say "Wrong, its as colorful as when Dorothy landed in Oz."
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 09:53 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: JTB at December 12, 2017 09:53 AM (V+03K)
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:35 AM (zSVEm)
I think Lovecraft's style grows on you. Slowly. Like an encrusted, multi-colored tumor that glows with an eerie, eldritch light.
I also think 'The Hound' is one of the best horror short stories ever written. The imagery evoked in that story--a howling skeletal horror held aloft by bats, swooping down and rending its victims to bits--is like nothing else in fiction. 'The Call of Cthulhu' is good, too. So is 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth'.
Besides, I ask you, who the hell else uses cool words like 'cyclopean' in their fiction?
Posted by: troyriser at December 12, 2017 09:53 AM (raGQi)
This is a definition of sexual harassment from the dictionary:
uninvited and unwelcome verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature especially by a person in authority toward a subordinate (such as an employee or student)
I think the blue checkmarks once again have their hair on fire.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I think that's how Trump! baits the hook. "Anything" from a politician could be a special zoning privilege, helping get your kid into the right school, a job for your near do well wife at a hospital.
It ain't all sex.
Posted by: Bruce at December 12, 2017 09:53 AM (8ikIW)
It is said among the locals that every year at midnight on the
anniversary of the election of Donald Trump, Barack Obama can be heard
in the upper story, moaning and humming a mournful tune on an organ.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2017 09:44 AM (zmvwV)
There's still stains on the keyboard. And they used Bon Ami!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2017 09:53 AM (QLvwG)
Posted by: TexasDan
Ahhhhh. The Detroit Drive By defense!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 09:54 AM (rXkis)
They love it. They're addicted to their own Trump-induced outrage.
Can't believe Trump didn't know he would be owning the next 24 hour news cycle with that tweet. Notice how he's made the story about him and Gillebrand (and Schumer) and not MeAgains's table of self-described victims.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2017 09:55 AM (W+vEI)
https://tinyurl.com/ybjfmq46
Posted by: Kris at December 12, 2017 09:29 AM (nwqNw)
========
Heh, the Chirico reminds me of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album cover because of the two guys.
Actually, this painting - cold, impersonal, slightly artificial, reminds me of some American art in the first half of the 20th century. Edward Hopper, and that painting of the inside of an NYC subway, I forgot the artist.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2017 09:55 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
if you don't like all that shit you should probably not buy the reasons democrats give for a financial crash and allow them to create Dumbledore's Army to engineer "solutions". The only real job Obama ever had was suing banks for not making loans to bad credix customers.
Posted by: x at December 12, 2017 09:55 AM (nFwvY)
So here is a Q for all the readers here. Is there anyone else out there who is colorblind/deficient?
Not me.
Posted by: Thomas Kincaid at December 12, 2017 09:55 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 12, 2017 09:55 AM (BIr2P)
Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2017 09:56 AM (xjiRE)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2017 09:56 AM (wtvvX)
in the upper story, moaning and humming a mournful tune on an organ.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2017 09:44 AM (zmvwV)
Whose organ?
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2017 09:56 AM (1Oy/Q)
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2017 09:56 AM (7HtZB)
Can't believe Trump didn't know he would be owning the next 24 hour news cycle with that tweet. Notice how he's made the story about him and Gillebrand (and Schumer) and not MeAgains's table of self-described victims.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2017 09:55 AM (W+vEI)
____
I don't buy the 4D chess by Trump theory. He just tweets/says what's on his mind. The fact he ends up pwning the blue checks/MSM is a fun by product. But I don't think it's intended or planned.
Posted by: #neverskankles at December 12, 2017 09:56 AM (Vt61E)
Where is the lighting on those buildings coming from?
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:29 AM (zSVEm)
Nuclear glow from North Korea...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2017 09:56 AM (wtvvX)
I also think 'The Hound' is one of the best horror short stories ever written. The imagery evoked in that story--a howling skeletal horror held aloft by bats, swooping down and rending its victims to bits--is like nothing else in fiction. 'The Call of Cthulhu' is good, too. So is 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth'.
Besides, I ask you, who the hell else uses cool words like 'cyclopean' in their fiction?
Posted by: troyriser at December 12, 2017 09:53 AM (raGQi)
I love his stuff. I love his utterly twisted theology: The universe is ruled by vastly powerful and malignant extradimensional beings who really, really want to kill us all.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 09:56 AM (CPk08)
Posted by: Stu-22 at December 12, 2017 09:57 AM (be0vm)
had to keep sending the wife's current pay stub every two weeks and our
Navy Retirement statements monthly during the process to prove that we
could afford the mortgage even though every penny we earn goes right
into our checking account with them and has been doing so for the last
35 years.
It was surreal.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman"
I made a huge effort and paid off our mortgage about a year ago, way years ahead of schedule. Never again. Next house will be cash only from sale of existing and what we have in the bank.
Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2017 09:58 AM (MxEKc)
Where is the lighting on those buildings coming from?
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 09:29 AM (zSVEm)
Frankenstein's laboratory?
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 09:58 AM (r9UYA)
Of course you do. Because Lovecraft is a Rhode Islander.
We are all very lovable.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 09:58 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: FRANK KAFKA at December 12, 2017 09:58 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2017 09:56 AM (xjiRE)
It's like we're seeing the gendarmie post at the edge of the city. The inhabitants are in the buildings in the distance and this is the barracks where the gendarmes live. Or else it's a clean and Germanic version of Detroit.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 09:59 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Chthillary, Dead but Dreaming at December 12, 2017 09:59 AM (LbXNI)
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It's eerie, menacing, ghostly, ominous. Needs scary sound track.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 12, 2017 10:00 AM (KdDCu)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 10:00 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: #neverskankles
Maybe the first couple of them, but after a year, law of averages would have to catch up unless it was targeted intentionally.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:01 AM (rXkis)
>>I think the blue checkmarks once again have their hair on fire.
They love it. They're addicted to their own Trump-induced outrage.
Can't
believe Trump didn't know he would be owning the next 24 hour news
cycle with that tweet. Notice how he's made the story about him and
Gillebrand (and Schumer) and not MeAgains's table of self-described
victims
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The Loonies are trying to organize a protest on the National Mall for January 20, hoping to draw tens of...tens in protest of Trumps inaugural.
Personally I'm betting there are more reporters from CNN that will be there than actual civilian protestors.
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton, 26 time passenger on the Lolita Express at December 12, 2017 10:01 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2017 10:01 AM (/qEW2)
Pervicane Harvey still a Class 5 and picking up strength.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 10:01 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 12, 2017 10:01 AM (8iiMU)
Of course you do. Because Lovecraft is a Rhode Islander.
We are all very lovable.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 09:58 AM (/tuJf)
Well, that and the whole crabs-eating-the-bodies-of-people-wrapped-in-chains-and-tossed-into-Naragansett-Bay thing. I mean, that isn't Lovecraft in particular but it gives you guys that whole awesome vibe. Almost as good as folks from Delaware.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 10:01 AM (CPk08)
This painting was used for the cover of a paperback edition of By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens. Good book, by the way. Out of print, of course.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2017 10:01 AM (Kq8mu)
his mind. The fact he ends up pwning the blue checks/MSM is a fun by
product. But I don't think it's intended or planned.
I don't think it's 4D chess as much as "I'm going to give them something to talk about!!" He likes to punch back - and he is definitely responding to Gillebrand's attack - and now he also knows it will cause the MSM heads to explode.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2017 10:02 AM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Dana Perino at December 12, 2017 10:02 AM (FTPVM)
81
Trump Tweeted that Sen. Gillibrand would "do anything" for campaign
contributions and the blue checks are saying he sexually harassed her.
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Plain statements of fact are sexual harassment now? Whatever. Maybe time to peruse the "driNks" section of the "Deplorable Gourmet"...
The Dumb is everywhere.
Posted by: Stu-22 at December 12, 2017 10:03 AM (be0vm)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 10:00 AM (QQ+il)
Go gogo Donny go!
Donny Two Scoops
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2017 10:03 AM (QLvwG)
Of course you do. Because Lovecraft is a Rhode Islander.
We are all very lovable.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 09:58 AM (/tuJf)
Well, that and the whole crabs-eating-the-bodies-of-people-wrapped-in-chains-and-tossed-into-Naragansett-Bay thing. I mean, that isn't Lovecraft in particular but it gives you guys that whole awesome vibe. Almost as good as folks from Delaware.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 10:01 AM (CPk0
Uh, does that sort of thing happen frequently in Rhode Island?
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 10:03 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 10:04 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 10:04 AM (CPk08)
The Normals are revolting.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 10:04 AM (QQ+il)
I don't know if we are revolting, so much as fractious...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:05 AM (zSVEm)
Jasper will do anything for peanut butter
Posted by: Dana Perino at December 12, 2017 10:02 AM (FTPVM)
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Come on over!
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton, 26 time passenger on the Lolita Express at December 12, 2017 10:05 AM (LISuA)
We are all very lovable.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 09:58 AM (/tuJf)
That Patrick Kennedy. Sweet guy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2017 10:06 AM (Kq8mu)
Sounds more goombah-ish.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:06 AM (rXkis)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 10:03 AM (RD7QR)
If they tell me it doesn't, I'm gonna have to move there and make sure it does. I have standards, and standards must be kept.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 10:06 AM (CPk08)
The Normals are revolting.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 10:04 AM (QQ+il)
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Usually, we're just a little off-putting but it's election day...
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton, 26 time passenger on the Lolita Express at December 12, 2017 10:06 AM (LISuA)
Unfortunately, "Cthulhuland" the theme park venture between H.P. Lovecraft and Alistair Crowley
proved to be a complete bust financially.
******
They had to shut it down after a Cthulhu look-alike contest.
Yep, the crowd turned ugly.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2017 09:46 AM (wPiJc)
The Tentacle Twister Bar and Grill was a hit for awhile, at least until some douchebag journalist started camping out at the bar, asking random women if they've ever read Sailor Moon.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2017 10:07 AM (veoSD)
The Loonies are trying to organize a protest on the National Mall for January 20, hoping to draw tens of...tens in protest of Trumps inaugural.
Personally I'm betting there are more reporters from CNN that will be there than actual civilian protestors.
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton, 26 time passenger on the Lolita Express at December 12, 2017 10:01 AM (LISuA)
Speaking of, we should have MOMEs to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the enTrumpening.
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2017 10:07 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 12, 2017 10:07 AM (H5rtT)
his mind.
Posted by: #neverskankles"
It just seems like 4-D chess because conservatives are used to the typical Republican response to attacks which is agree with them, surrender and throw the victim under the bus. Just fighting back without apologies is brilliant by comparison.
Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2017 10:07 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 10:07 AM (r9UYA)
Well, that and the whole crabs-eating-the-bodies-of-people-wrapped-in-chains-and-tossed-into-Naragansett-Bay thing. I mean, that isn't Lovecraft in particular
Sounds more goombah-ish.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:06 AM (rXkis)
In the Ozarks, we actually prefer the chipper, or old mine shafts, but whatever....
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:08 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 10:08 AM (QQ+il)
I do. Trump knows about the corruption during the election season and has since the very beginning when he was told what was going on.
He's allowing the process to unwind and let the culprits out themselves or be outed by the process and his tweets are either reinforcement or clues to what is coming.
Others are just targeted pushback designed to create the narrative that the media is dishonest and petty and sure enough, the media obliges every single time.
And then there are the tweets that predict what will happen which are no different from what we talk about here every single day. Remember when Trump tweeted about the insane immigration policies in Sweden? And now Sweden is finally realizing that they have an existential problem on their hands thanks to their own insane immigration policies. Who could have seen this coming?
Trump is a bull in a china shop and I would like it if he could be more tactful at times but that's not what bulls do. And damned if he hasn't been proven correct time after time after time.
He knows exactly what he's doing and his tweets are a huge part of his strategy and success. They aren't random.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 10:08 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 10:07 AM (r9UYA)
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Brains! Braaanees! Brrrraaaanes!!!
Posted by: Zombie AL LIV dead voter at December 12, 2017 10:09 AM (suO/a)
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:08 AM (zSVEm)
Diversity is Our Strength (simpers)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 10:09 AM (CPk08)
Can we now get on with it? Sizzler is having a lunch special and my guts are churning.
Posted by: Kirsten Gillibrand at December 12, 2017 10:09 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: PabloD at December 12, 2017 10:10 AM (fps1q)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 10:10 AM (r9UYA)
Report: Marshall Faulk, Donovan McNabb, Heath Evans named in sexual harassment suit against NFL Network
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 10:10 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:10 AM (zSVEm)
Dated a girl from Rhode Island who introduced me to "system sauce" on hot dogs (or 'gaggas,' as she called them). Almost life-changing.
Posted by: Zod at December 12, 2017 10:11 AM (Bdeb0)
The perspective looks like something an architect or engineer would draw.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 12, 2017 10:11 AM (tRaq7)
That is why I moved from Rhode Island in the 70s. Didn't want to bring down the average. :-)
Lovecraft lived in Providence. I wonder if he would have written the same way if he dwelt on Aquidneck or in Jamestown. Much cheerier places.
Posted by: JTB at December 12, 2017 10:11 AM (V+03K)
in the upper story, moaning and humming a mournful tune on an organ.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2017 09:44 AM (zmvwV)
Whose organ?
Valerie Jarrett? Reggie Love?
Posted by: Dingbat at December 12, 2017 10:11 AM (lhSF/)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 09:53 AM (ymnmz)
No you pretty much got it right, except that the building in back is bright purple.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 10:12 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 12, 2017 10:12 AM (KdDCu)
>181 We are all very lovable. Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 09:58 AM (/tuJf)
Dated a girl from Rhode Island who introduced me to "system sauce" on hot dogs (or 'gaggas,' as she called them). Almost life-changing.
Posted by: Zod at December 12, 2017 10:11 AM (Bdeb0)
I, just... nah
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:12 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: PabloD at December 12, 2017 10:10 AM (fps1q)
Also, chiropractic clinics specializing in Disability Claims.
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 10:12 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2017 10:07 AM (veoSD)
I liked the water park although they might reconsider renaming it. "Lair of the Deep Ones" seems a bit much.
Posted by: troyriser at December 12, 2017 10:12 AM (raGQi)
Twitter is Trump's bully pulpit.
Posted by: JEM someday I can comment from my desk again at December 12, 2017 10:13 AM (UVKwo)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 10:13 AM (CPk08)
different from what we talk about here every single day. ...
This thread is interesting - ties Trump tweets to recent House Judiciary Committee activities by GOP:
https://twitter.com/DaveNYviii/status/938991227466260480
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2017 10:13 AM (W+vEI)
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No way I'm googling that.
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2017 10:14 AM (7HtZB)
Of course, now that I have said that, someone will say "Wrong, its as colorful as when Dorothy landed in Oz."
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 09:53 AM (ymnmz)
No you pretty much got it right, except that the building in back is bright purple.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 10:12 AM (V2Yro)
HAHA. That building is made of brick.. so its red. There are no purple bricks.......maybe.....I don't know. Is it really purple?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 10:14 AM (ymnmz)
Throw in a coffee shop, and maybe 3 or 4 Marijuana dispensaries, and it
could be the downtown area of any one of a dozen old timber towns in
western Oregon.
Posted by: PabloD at December 12, 2017 10:10 AM (fps1q)
The business park I work in has a marijuana dispensary, a rum distillery and a gun shop. Got everything you need there for a great weekend -just not all at the same time.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2017 10:14 AM (jxbfJ)
Providence still loves Lovecraft. There is a neat little Lovecraft store in Providence in the oldest mall in the country that sells all sorts of books and other things Lovecraftian. Kind of a perfect setting.
And every Halloween the Lovecraft lovers organize movie showings and scavenger hunts around the city based on his books. He was a dark and troubled guy, obviously, I don't think that would have changed if he had lived in the happiest place in the world and we wouldn't have his twisted and great stories had he not been such a weirdo.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 10:15 AM (/tuJf)
I was a real live Boy in Mobile during the Sesquicentennial. They had a giant party downtown with a kangaroo court in the park.
I'd never seen so many drunk people in public before. One guy in a suit with a martini in his hand jumped on the back of a police motorcycle and they both started circling the square.
A good time was had by all.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 12, 2017 10:16 AM (tRaq7)
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Wizard of Oz was in black and white.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 12, 2017 10:17 AM (KdDCu)
Sooner or later, if it's your china shop, you gotta figure out a way to make the bull happy and stop antagonizing him all the time.
The left still hasn't figured that out. The more they hate him, the more smashy he gets.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 10:17 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:17 AM (zSVEm)
Wife of DOJ Deputy Was Fusion GPS Employee, CIA Research Aid, and Applied for HAM Radio License Month After Contracting MI6 Agent Christopher Steele
HMMMMMM
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 10:17 AM (y3aQB)
The Gillibrand one simply outs her as a typical selfish politician.
The one mentioning Don Lemon - hilarious!
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 12, 2017 10:17 AM (8iiMU)
http://bit.ly/2kqJ9qn
Wife of DOJ Deputy Was Fusion GPS Employee, CIA Research Aid, and Applied for HAM Radio License Month After Contracting MI6 Agent Christopher Steele
HMMMMMM
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 10:17 AM (y3aQB)
I think they should be checking the heels of her footwear...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:18 AM (zSVEm)
Applied for HAM Radio License Month After Contracting MI6 Agent
Christopher Steele
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Time to smoke out the hams.
Posted by: RioBravo at December 12, 2017 10:18 AM (5NMZN)
I will suck your cock and eat your ass for a campaign contribution. Is that clear enough?
Can we now get on with it? Sizzler is having a lunch special and my guts are churning.
Posted by: Kirsten Gillibrand at December 12, 2017 10:09 AM (FTPVM)
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Wow Kirsten. Sizzler? You are really dating yourself there as a "woman of a certain age". All the sizzlers in NY closed way back in the 90s - I believe only the West Coast ones survived.
Wait . . . I am wrong. There is one "East Coast" Sizzler . . . . . in Orlando!
Posted by: Publius Redux at December 12, 2017 10:19 AM (Fb9aZ)
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No way I'm googling that.
Posted by: josephistan
That's what she gets for trying to take a whole footlong at once.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:19 AM (rXkis)
Watching a Sabaton video, and read the comments section. Immigration came up and a Swede told an American, "At least you can defend yourselves"
Posted by: Zombie AL LIV dead voter at December 12, 2017 10:20 AM (suO/a)
So here is a Q for all the readers here. Is there anyone else out there who is colorblind/deficient?
I am slighly colorblind. There's been a test out there for many years (Ishihara) where you are supposed to see a one- or two-digit number formed by dots of one color in a sea of dots of another color. There are a few of those I fail out of a couple of dozen(?). I have a slight deficiency in green/red.
I think I see a bit more color than you do in this painting (some dark blue/puprle in the sky). I see some red brick on the house, but agree it's mostly a sandy color.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 12, 2017 10:20 AM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 10:20 AM (r9UYA)
Did she introduce you to coffee milk ice cream? That's when you know you have been accepted.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 10:20 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 10:20 AM (V2Yro)
On multiple occasions, I caught the male cast members on Dukes of Hazzard staring at my butt cheeks.
Posted by: Daisy Duke - currently represented by Gloria Allred at December 12, 2017 10:21 AM (dUOAV)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 12, 2017 10:21 AM (FX/O0)
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 10:21 AM (y3aQB)
He's exactly what I called him repeatedly last year--a blunt talking blunt object. Perfect for bludgeoning the establishment into submission.
Subtle has a time and a place. I'm not entirely convinced this is it. I am convinced that, should Roy Moore become Senator Moore, it will be what the man said to his donkey--"that's two".
We know what three was.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at December 12, 2017 10:21 AM (AM1GF)
On multiple occasions, I caught the male cast members on Dukes of Hazzard staring at my butt cheeks.
Posted by: Daisy Duke - currently represented by Gloria Allred at December 12, 2017 10:21 AM (dUOAV)
As was every straight male in America over the age of 12.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2017 10:22 AM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 10:22 AM (y3aQB)
make the bull happy and stop antagonizing him all the time."
Mythbusters tested this, and the bulls were actually quite careful about not knocking over the china.
Posted by: Chris M at December 12, 2017 10:22 AM (eAZVt)
theartstack.com/artist/carel-willink/landscape-45
painter died in 1983
Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2017 10:22 AM (otAqJ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 10:20 AM (V2Yro)
My father was the same way, and he was a truck driver. His job took him into cities where the traffic lights were horizontal. I asked him what he did. He said, "I just watched what everyone else was doing."
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 12, 2017 10:23 AM (KdDCu)
Posted by: Fox2! at December 12, 2017 10:23 AM (Pwo5S)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 12, 2017 10:23 AM (FX/O0)
That would have been dangerous where I grew up. We were too poor to have a separate bulb for each direction so the main road was red yellow green, but the side roads saw green yellow red.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 10:23 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Zombie AL LIV dead voter
That's right. Suck it bitches!
All those years they "held" the moral high ground.
F them.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:23 AM (rXkis)
Trump is a bull in a china shop and I would like it if he could be
more tactful at times but that's not what bulls do. And damned if he
hasn't been proven correct time after time after time.
He's exactly what I called him repeatedly last year--a blunt talking
blunt object. Perfect for bludgeoning the establishment into
submission.
Subtle has a time and a place. I'm not entirely convinced this is
it. I am convinced that, should Roy Moore become Senator Moore, it will
be what the man said to his donkey--"that's two".
We know what three was.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at December 12, 2017 10:21 AM (AM1GF)
Can't take credit for this thought -someone else here at the HQ came up with it- but....The Tea Party revolution was us asking nicely.Trump is what you get when the establishment ignored us.
Beware of what comes after Trump.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2017 10:24 AM (jxbfJ)
Concept art for Phantasm?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 12, 2017 10:21 AM (FX/O0)
Phantasm? Is that when a ghost comes?
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 10:24 AM (CPk08)
My uncle was an AF lifer. He got to fly until they discovered he was hiding that he was color blind.
Spent the rest of his career flying various desks.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 10:25 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: steve walsh at December 12, 2017 10:25 AM (aUIrK)
So Trump is like most of flyover country? Plain Speaking Non Bullshit ! Truth Telling
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 10:25 AM (y3aQB)
You're from Resume Speed, AL too, Grumpy? That place was so small there was only one city limits sign. It said "Welcome to Resume Speed."
It said the same thing on the back.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 12, 2017 10:26 AM (tRaq7)
It hasn't been noted here that the Ominous and foreboding sense of the painting comes completely from the depiction of the sky. A lot like the "A Storm's Coming" scene at the end of the first Terminator.
Which also makes it quite striking for something done in Europe in 1934.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 10:26 AM (V2Yro)
Watching a Sabaton video, and read the comments section. Immigration came up and a Swede told an American, "At least you can defend yourselves"
Posted by: Zombie AL LIV dead voter
That's right. Suck it bitches!
All those years they "held" the moral high ground.
F them.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:23 AM (rXkis)
Yeah... I am sorry for the Swede normals ( I know) stuck in Welfare State Prog hell, the same way I do for normal Californians or New Yorkers... I was an Illinoisan for most of my life... I escaped when the opportunity arose.
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:26 AM (zSVEm)
Footlongitus?
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 10:20 AM (r9UYA)
San Fransicko strikes me as a breeding ground for new strains of Treatment-Resistant diseases, so... probably one of those?
Posted by: Hikaru at December 12, 2017 10:27 AM (WDCYi)
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at December 12, 2017 10:28 AM (LQLeS)
Posted by: saf at December 12, 2017 10:28 AM (cS/ge)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 12, 2017 10:29 AM (89T5c)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at December 12, 2017 10:30 AM (ubJwS)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2017 10:24 AM (jxbfJ)
So Trump is like most of flyover country? Plain Speaking Non Bullshit ! Truth Telling
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 10:25 AM (y3aQB)
Not sure if I'd go that far. Trump isn't panacea. But I'll say he isn't afraid to crack some eggs to make an omelette. The more establishment types he gets out of his administration, the better he'll be. Notice that once Rince Penis was booted, the leaks stopped? Look how well Mattis is doing. Sarah Huckabee Sanders deftly cracking skulls with the media. Keeping (some) of his campaign promises. Keep this up and he'll be around for 7 more years.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2017 10:30 AM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2017 10:30 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: lizabth at December 12, 2017 10:31 AM (p0fBx)
https://youtu.be/Jm-upHSP9KU
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 12, 2017 10:31 AM (FX/O0)
She worked on "open source" info, in her case related to Russia. Not sure if that means she was well suited to actually write some of the dossier.
In any case, the Deep State likes to do regime change around the world (e.g. Libya, thanks Hillary/Soros for sending the Muslim hordes into Europe).
So no surprise the have been involved in USA regime change/control, as we already know from Lois Lerner's long history, AND the fact Dem bureaucrats can lie to Congress, or plead the fifth, or get immunity for high crimes, and at worse walk off with their fat pension.
I hope the NYPD (?) made a good copy (or 20) of the Weiner laptop. That seems to be what forced Comey to go public about Hillary that second time, yet also covering for her.
No doubt Team Obama had bleach bit and hammers out everywhere before they left.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2017 10:33 AM (otAqJ)
From your tablet to The Big Guy's Blackberry...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 12, 2017 10:33 AM (tRaq7)
Got used to playing color games with my dad, who has always been quite
colorblind. He learned stoplights as top, middle, bottom, because to him
green and red seem to be the exact same shade of grey.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 10:20 AM (V2Yro)
My father was the same way, and he was a truck driver. His job took
him into cities where the traffic lights were horizontal. I asked him
what he did. He said, "I just watched what everyone else was doing."
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 12, 2017 10:23 AM (KdDCu)
The singularly hardest thing is driving on 50 MPH back country roads at night and seeing a blinking single light in the distance, the one with a single bulb, one direction is usually blinking red while the other direction 9-0 degrees from the red is blinking yellow. These give me the cold sweats. Even if I play it safe and slow waaaay down, to examine the traffic in all directions, I run the risk of having a following driver rear end me because he assumes that I am going 50, when I'm going like 15.
Pretty much everyone knows to call the color when I drive in strange areas.
Second hardest is " Go to the third green house and turn left. Drive until you see a big red house.....
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 10:33 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Kirsten Gillibrand at December 12, 2017 10:34 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2017 10:35 AM (xFBfz)
Posted by: Shep! at December 12, 2017 10:36 AM (vg8iE)
I do that & I'm NOT colorblind.
I T-boned a guy who ran a red light.
I have zero trust in my fellow man.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:36 AM (rXkis)
Posted by: Kirsten Gillibrand at December 12, 2017 10:34 AM (FTPVM)
Mmmm. Cheeze Fountain
Posted by: Homer Simpson at December 12, 2017 10:37 AM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2017 10:35 AM (xFBfz)
Muldoon is a national treasure. That's how.
Or he typed it up in advance and was refreshing the page like crazy in anticipation.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2017 10:37 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 12, 2017 10:39 AM (fA1SL)
>>My father was the same way, and he was a truck driver. His job
took him into cities where the traffic lights were horizontal. I asked
him what he did. He said, "I just watched what everyone else was doing."
My uncle was an AF lifer. He got to fly until they discovered he was hiding that he was color blind.
Spent the rest of his career flying various desks.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 10:25 AM (/tuJf)
I can estimate color based on where they appear in a setting. Or memorize the darkness of a set of lights on a panel and such and if they use bulbs consistently across a series of components I can get it right fairly well, but when it comes to live action changing things, it's hopeless..
Cut the green wire....... No not that one... the green one....... Everyone runnnnnnnn!
My friends convinced me when I was in Jr high that cats were green.....for about three years.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 10:39 AM (ymnmz)
Edward Gorey's kind of town.
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at December 12, 2017 10:28 AM (LQLeS)
Yeah... talk about an odd guy.. his bio is interesting... have a couple of his books... look through them when I am feeling more off than usual..
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:39 AM (zSVEm)
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Late at night, driving cross country two lane and we (I was a passenger) see a blinking yellow caution light in the distance. Blinking, blinking, blinking for the longest time. We got right up to it and it changed to solid red stop light. The drive jammed on the brakes and slid through the intersection coming to a stop on the other side.
We sat there for a few seconds, and I said, "Might as well keep going. We're already through the intersection."
Somewhere there was a local cop laughing his ass off.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 12, 2017 10:39 AM (KdDCu)
Posted by: Abdul Al-Hazred at December 12, 2017 10:40 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2017 10:35 AM (xFBfz)
Even I've managed 4 or 5 Art Thread Firsts, and I'm nobody.
Posted by: Hikaru at December 12, 2017 10:41 AM (WDCYi)
Posted by: steevy at December 12, 2017 10:41 AM (LiyEm)
Battle Angle Alita trailer. I hope to all the kami they don't use the song in the trailer in the movie because it would be so wrong. Doc Ito is supposed to be a blond, so is Jennifer Connoly's character. Who is the black woman with Ito? And good gosh did they CGI Salazar's eyes into that anime trope of Big Eyes Small Mouth?
https://youtu.be/aj8mN_7Apcw
Yes I have a bad feeling about this movie.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 12, 2017 10:41 AM (FX/O0)
Agreed. Those bricked-in windows give it a "something is very off" vibe.
Posted by: mpthompson at December 12, 2017 10:42 AM (qp9CW)
Or he typed it up in advance and was refreshing the page like crazy in anticipation.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2017 10:37 AM (KUaJL)
National Treasure. Love it joe. I hope he's reading this.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2017 10:42 AM (xFBfz)
PDT does what Bronco Bama promised (but never did) and the Usual Gang of Idiots goes completely crazy.
Go figure.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 12, 2017 10:43 AM (tRaq7)
I was nonplussed because kraken is a boy squid...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:44 AM (zSVEm)
Even I've managed 4 or 5 Art Thread Firsts, and I'm nobody.
Posted by: Hikaru at December 12, 2017 10:41 AM (WDCYi)
Hows your limerick-ing?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2017 10:44 AM (xFBfz)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 12, 2017 10:45 AM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2017 09:36 AM (W+vEI)
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i think he's using lightning
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 12, 2017 10:45 AM (oGRue)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2017 10:45 AM (xFBfz)
make the bull happy and stop antagonizing him all the time."
Mythbusters tested this, and the bulls were actually quite careful about not knocking over the china.
Posted by: Chris M at December 12, 2017 10:22 AM (eAZVt)
Horned animals seem to be quite aware of where the tips of their horns are. You need to not put them in the mood of not caring about it.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 12, 2017 10:46 AM (di1hb)
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 12, 2017 10:46 AM (YV+SU)
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 12, 2017 10:46 AM (YV+SU)
Now that WOULD be a war crime.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 10:47 AM (RD7QR)
Wait until Trump moves the Palestinian Capital to Fresno, California.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 12, 2017 10:46 AM (YV+SU)
Really? Thought sure it would be Dearborn...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:47 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Puddin Head
Why? It's fitting in so well in Detroit...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at December 12, 2017 10:48 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at December 12, 2017 10:48 AM (AM1GF)
Got a Porg infestation?
And oh yeah, Hugo in the manga and anime is a street rat barely surviving. Not some cool dude in biker leathers on a bike.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 12, 2017 10:49 AM (FX/O0)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 12, 2017 10:46 AM (di1hb)
I wonder what it is about certain animals that have better spacial awareness for their bodies than others. My cat won't even touch something unless she's intentionally rubbing against it, but you better not leave a cup on the edge of a table with a dog around, because they're going to knock it off, either with their tail or their head.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2017 10:49 AM (KUaJL)
Agreed. Those bricked-in windows give it a "something is very off" vibe.
Posted by: mpthompson
Keeps people in, not out.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:49 AM (rXkis)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 12, 2017 10:50 AM (FX/O0)
Speaking of color blindedness... I took a test once for trichromacy.... (
my color vision is unusually good)... anyway the results were such that
a group wanted to do some followup with me... they pointed out that
only wimminz could possess trichromacy ability because of something or
other...
I was nonplussed because kraken is a boy squid...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:44 AM (zSVEm)
That's pretty cool. Do you think that affects the way you view art? Seeing more shades than the artist might have intended?
That's like a superhero thing to me. Like you see all the colors of the visible spectrum, plus 50% of the UV spectrum. So you could see all the stains and crap on car seats without black lights, right?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 10:50 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
Ever see a longhorn run thru the woods? Places you'd have trouble running without bouncing off trees?
Amazing how they can do that.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:51 AM (rXkis)
Wait until Trump moves the Palestinian Capital to Fresno, California.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 12, 2017 10:46 AM (YV+SU)
Really? Thought sure it would be Dearborn...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:47 AM (zSVEm)
Nope. My sources say it's a tie between Cambridge and Berkeley.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 12, 2017 10:52 AM (CPk08)
https://tinyurl.com/y6uwyfro
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 10:52 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Karmic Justice at December 12, 2017 10:52 AM (FTPVM)
Agreed. Those bricked-in windows give it a "something is very off" vibe.
Posted by: mpthompson
Keeps people in, not out.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:49 AM (rXkis)
It's not just the windows.
It's a city, but there's no people. There aren't even any signs of people being there. The place could have been deserted for a week or 5 years, and you probably couldn't tell the difference. People should be here, but they aren't. Why not? Something bad, that's why.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2017 10:52 AM (KUaJL)
The butt-cheek cupping was not necessary nor appreciated.
Posted by: Lois Lane - currently represented by Gloria Allred at December 12, 2017 10:53 AM (dUOAV)
Which, by the way, isn't really a "move" - State pushed for a new "higher security" facility in Jerusalem during the previous admin which is nearing completion, and the current Tel Aviv facility will be under some level of reconstruction, thus requiring a move...
So as usual, what's reported isn't the real story. But hey, that's newz.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 12, 2017 10:53 AM (MINbv)
Not much has been said about that, but that did happen, didn't it?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2017 10:53 AM (V2Yro)
If Slate comments are any indication, a lot of lefties think she'll do anything to advance herself politically. They're steamed that she led the charge against Franken.
Posted by: stace at December 12, 2017 10:54 AM (6HFDU)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2017 10:52 AM (KUaJL)
North Korea?
Posted by: Kris at December 12, 2017 10:54 AM (nwqNw)
That's pretty cool. Do you think that affects the way you view art? Seeing more shades than the artist might have intended?
That's like a superhero thing to me. Like you see all the colors of the visible spectrum, plus 50% of the UV spectrum. So you could see all the stains and crap on car seats without black lights, right?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 10:50 AM (ymnmz)
It is kind of weird.... I have to wear tinted glasses all the time...missus kraken takes me shopping... a lot... and I help her pick stuff to wear ( major downside)... people I know ask me a lot about paint colors and design stuff...
I can always see the sniper though...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:54 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Kris at December 12, 2017 10:54 AM (nwqNw)
I think that falls under my category of "something bad" happening there.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2017 10:56 AM (KUaJL)
Looks like a friendly happy place to live
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 12, 2017 10:58 AM (493sH)
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 10:58 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 12, 2017 10:59 AM (fA1SL)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2017 10:52 AM (KUaJL)
North Korea?
Posted by: Kris
Chernobyl.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 10:59 AM (rXkis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q23xZwG9mE
Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 11:00 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 12, 2017 11:01 AM (fA1SL)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 12, 2017 11:01 AM (tRaq7)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 12, 2017 11:01 AM (FX/O0)
multi-colored tumor that glows with an eerie, eldritch light.<<<
Now imagine if Earflaps McBaritone did Lovecraft audiobooks. True horror with a whistle.
Posted by: Fritz at December 12, 2017 11:01 AM (2Mnv1)
Saw that. Intriguing...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2017 11:03 AM (O2RFr)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 11:04 AM (/tuJf)
something far more sinister.
Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 12, 2017
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 11:04 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 11:04 AM (BoMuO)
http://tinyurl.com/ycllk5cc
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 12, 2017 11:04 AM (TPimP)
It's not just the windows.
It's a city, but there's no people. There aren't even any signs of people being there. The place could have been deserted for a week or 5 years, and you probably couldn't tell the difference. People should be here, but they aren't. Why not? Something bad, that's why.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2017 10:52 AM (KUaJL)
Nuclear test site, just as the blast went off. Explains the weird double-sourced lighting, too. Clouds are light by the sun. "City" test target is lit by the detonation's fireball.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 12, 2017 11:05 AM (di1hb)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 12, 2017 11:05 AM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine
I remember Pripyat well. Top floor of a hotel, laid up in a sniper hide....
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 11:05 AM (rXkis)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 12, 2017 11:06 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 12, 2017 11:06 AM (fA1SL)
https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/brush-park.jpg
Posted by: shibumi at December 12, 2017 11:07 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine
I remember Pripyat well. Top floor of a hotel, laid up in a sniper hide....
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 11:05 AM (rXkis)
Hated me some doggehs in that town.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 12, 2017 11:07 AM (di1hb)
320.
* camp construction and ammo hording intensifies *
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 12, 2017 11:05 AM (fA1SL)
Good remind ( buy more ammo, and dog treats)... 50 box of 9 mm, 8.50$....
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 11:07 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 12, 2017 11:08 AM (3tqox)
...
Posted by: troyriser at December 12, 2017 09:53 AM (raGQi)
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I totally missed that, because it was implied by the discovery at the end. Thanks.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2017 11:08 AM (/qEW2)
tetrachromacy. tetra is four. tri is three.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 12, 2017 11:08 AM (3tqox)
Correct.
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 11:09 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 12, 2017 11:09 AM (fA1SL)
Posted by: rickb223
How many times did you shoot that guy's arm off?
Posted by: Roland THTG at December 12, 2017 11:09 AM (xBSm0)
CNN breaks a major story!
http://bit.ly/2krliqn
They're connecting the dots!
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Too bad they never spend any time CORRECTING the dots, too...
But what can you expect? They're idiots, and the truth is not in them.
Posted by: Stu-22 at December 12, 2017 11:10 AM (be0vm)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 12, 2017 11:10 AM (tRaq7)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 12, 2017 11:12 AM (MINbv)
Even I've managed 4 or 5 Art Thread Firsts, and I'm nobody.
Posted by: Hikaru at December 12, 2017 10:41 AM (WDCYi)
Hows your limerick-ing?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2017 10:44 AM (xFBfz)
You'll never see me make one. I don't like to rhyme.
Posted by: Hikaru at December 12, 2017 11:12 AM (9TK8E)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 12, 2017 11:12 AM (fA1SL)
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That's pretty cool. Do you think that affects the way you view art? Seeing more shades than the artist might have intended?
That's like a superhero thing to me. Like you see all the colors of
the visible spectrum, plus 50% of the UV spectrum. So you could see all
the stains and crap on car seats without black lights, right?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 10:50 AM (ymnmz)
It is kind of weird.... I have to wear tinted glasses all the
time...missus kraken takes me shopping... a lot... and I help her pick
stuff to wear ( major downside)... people I know ask me a lot about
paint colors and design stuff...
I can always see the sniper though...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 10:54 AM (zSVEm)
My wife never takes me shopping or asks me to check paint color..... So I have a super power!
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 11:13 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2017 11:15 AM (QCX64)
Posted by: aus at December 12, 2017 11:15 AM (suO/a)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 12, 2017 11:15 AM (MINbv)
Posted by: IC at December 12, 2017 11:15 AM (a0IVu)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Holiday Magic! Get a Face-Plant Hillary doll from the Outrage Outlet! at December 12, 2017 11:17 AM (hLRSq)
That ought to help with advertisers.
In addition, did anybody see the allegations against Warren Moon? That's just creepy.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 12, 2017 11:18 AM (tMFgx)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 12, 2017 11:19 AM (fA1SL)
George Sorozzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by: J. Sessions at December 12, 2017 11:19 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: JAS at December 12, 2017 11:19 AM (7JbXq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 12, 2017 11:19 AM (+y/Ru)
Like an episode of Twilight Zone...I'm guessing that building is the Library.
That's where my glasses will break.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 11:19 AM (RzgQJ)
Looks like something from an Avengers movie.
Posted by: IC at December 12, 2017 11:15 AM (a0IVu)
Reminds me a little bit of the bleak Scottish manor where Bond took M in Skyfall.... understand why the ancestors emigrated...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 11:20 AM (zSVEm)
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 11:20 AM (RzgQJ)
Posted by: JAS at December 12, 2017 11:20 AM (7JbXq)
345
Looks like something from an Avengers movie.
Posted by: IC at December 12, 2017 11:15 AM (a0IVu)
Reminds me a little bit of the bleak Scottish manor where Bond took M in Skyfall.... understand why the ancestors emigrated...
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 11:20 AM (zSVEm)
Ohh...yes. Honestly I found Edinburgh bleak, and that is a major city. The moors is not for the faint of heart I reckon.
Posted by: IC at December 12, 2017 11:21 AM (a0IVu)
George Sorozzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by: J. Sessions at December 12, 2017 11:19 AM (r9UYA)
The rotting Cloaca of the Demoncrat Party.
Posted by: Hikaru at December 12, 2017 11:22 AM (9TK8E)
Posted by: Adobe Juan Kenobe at December 12, 2017 11:22 AM (oJdaC)
Sounds reasonable.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 12, 2017 11:22 AM (tbOMB)
>In addition, did anybody see the allegations against Warren Moon?
No...how bad is it?
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 11:20 AM (RzgQJ)
We had a War Against Boys.... has it become a War Against Men now?
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 11:22 AM (zSVEm)
This just sounds sensible.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 11:24 AM (RzgQJ)
Posted by: #neverskankles at December 12, 2017 09:56 AM (Vt61E)
I don't quite agree with this theory, either. Trump's actions remind me more of something I read about the Kasparov vs Deep Blue matches. At one point, Kasparov began making unexpected moves, that, while not really hurting his position, forced the computer to re-analyze its next move. I tend to think Trump works similarly, whether intentionally or not (probably a bit of both). His adversaries are used to the game being played a certain way, and can't adjust.
Posted by: Valu-Rite at December 12, 2017 11:26 AM (rr4lZ)
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I wonder what the purpose of the thong underwear was.
Posted by: RioBravo at December 12, 2017 11:26 AM (5NMZN)
Posted by: Luis ... at December 12, 2017 11:26 AM (AoK0a)
No...how bad is it?
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 11:20 AM (RzgQJ)
Like I said, it's really creepy. Apparently he traveled a lot with a female assistant. Her working conditions included sleeping in the same bed with him on all business trips, providing him unfettered access to the bathroom even when she showered, wearing skimpy lingerie while in the obligatory single room, obtaining prior approval for her wardrobe, and being subjected to continuous unwanted and unsolicited sexual advances.
Maybe an affair gone bad, but it seems weirder than that.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at December 12, 2017 11:26 AM (tMFgx)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe today! Covfefe tomorrow! Covfefe forever! at December 12, 2017 11:27 AM (+y/Ru)
This just sounds sensible.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 11:24 AM (RzgQJ)
Exactly. Sharing a bed saves the company money; thongs are less expensive than regular underwear. It's just fiscal prudence.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 11:27 AM (RD7QR)
...required her to wear thong underwear and share his bed during business trips.
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I wonder what the purpose of the thong underwear was.
Posted by: RioBravo at December 12, 2017 11:26 AM (5NMZN)
a handle?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2017 11:27 AM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: RioBravo at December 12, 2017 11:26 AM (5NMZN)
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So he could say she wasn't sleeping nekkid with him!
Posted by: fly gal at December 12, 2017 11:27 AM (8TdcF)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 11:27 AM (39g3+)
I ain't got rhythm...
Posted by: Anon a mouse
We got rhythm
Yes we do!
We got rhythm
How 'bout you?
Posted by: 1980's High School Cheerleader Squad
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 11:28 AM (rXkis)
Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen (@SecNielsen) December 12, 2017
hopefully more than Verbal BS
Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 11:28 AM (y3aQB)
His safety!
Those big ol Granny Panties are as unsightly as they are cumbersome.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 11:28 AM (RzgQJ)
Posted by: sunny-dee at December 12, 2017 11:28 AM (QAOZh)
>A California woman who worked for a sports marketing firm led by Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon filed a sexual harassment lawsuit alleging that the retired football star required her to wear thong underwear and share his bed during business trips.
This just sounds sensible.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 11:24 AM (RzgQJ)
Can you imagine the difficulty of her proving these accusations?
Proof... we don't need no stinkin' proof.... the elders of 17th century Salem would be embarrassed by all of this.....
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 11:28 AM (zSVEm)
business trips, providing him unfettered access to the bathroom even
when she showered, wearing skimpy lingerie while in the obligatory
single room, obtaining prior approval for her wardrobe, and being
subjected to continuous unwanted and unsolicited sexual advances.
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#MeToo
Posted by: Mika - currently represented by Gloria Allred at December 12, 2017 11:29 AM (dUOAV)
Career machine leftist Ed Lee was about as far to the sane as you could get in SF these days.
Now it's loony bin open season.
Posted by: JEM someday I can comment from my desk again at December 12, 2017 11:29 AM (UVKwo)
I'll allow it.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 11:29 AM (QQ+il)
361
>A California woman who worked for a sports marketing firm led by
Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon filed a sexual harassment lawsuit
alleging that the retired football star required her to wear thong
underwear and share his bed during business trips.
This just sounds sensible.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 11:24 AM (RzgQJ)
Can you imagine the difficulty of her proving these accusations?
Proof... we don't need no stinkin' proof.... the elders of 17th century Salem would be embarrassed by all of this.....
Posted by: kraken at December 12, 2017 11:28 AM (zSVEm)
They said the same thing about Bill Clinton and the rumors of his affinity for making interns into humidors.
Then there was the blue dress.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 12, 2017 11:30 AM (jxbfJ)
His adversaries are used to the game being played a certain way, and can't adjust.
Posted by: Valu-Rite
Isn't that the very definition of 4D?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 11:30 AM (rXkis)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 11:30 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: RioBravo at December 12, 2017 11:30 AM (5NMZN)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 11:30 AM (QQ+il)
Those big ol Granny Panties are as unsightly as they are cumbersome.
Posted by: garrett
Size: Madea
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 11:31 AM (rXkis)
The artist is projecting his own feelings into the canvas. A one cut off from others, neither going out nor letting others venture into his life. The bleakness of the color palette reflects his own vision of the world.
Posted by: Sigmoid Fraud at December 12, 2017 11:31 AM (ajiE5)
I have Moore by 7. A touchdown and a PA.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 12, 2017 11:32 AM (tRaq7)
Posted by: sunny-dee at December 12, 2017 11:28 AM (QAOZh)
My guess is that she hoped this would develop into something more like a meal-ticket/maintenance situation, and when it didn't, this was the fallback plan. Gold-diggers gotta eat, too.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 12, 2017 11:32 AM (tbOMB)
This economy measure has been forced upon the company by reductions in baggage allowances by major airlines.
Optionally, female staff may simply elect not to bring underwear.
We expect male employees to pack only briefs.
Commando is not acceptable.
Posted by: JEM someday I can comment from my desk again at December 12, 2017 11:33 AM (UVKwo)
361 >>A California woman who worked for a sports marketing firm
led by Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon filed a sexual harassment
lawsuit alleging that the retired football star required her to wear
thong underwear and share his bed during business trips.
This just sounds sensible.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 11:24 AM (RzgQJ)
Exactly. Sharing a bed saves the company money; thongs are less expensive than regular underwear. It's just fiscal prudence.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 12, 2017 11:27 AM (RD7QR)
Sometimes I feel like the only person on the planet that wants to get married to a nice girl, raise a family and be happy with it.
I am suffering from Schedenbone burnout I think. Enough already.
How do people get to these weird places? I don't really want to know.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 12, 2017 11:33 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 11:30 AM (QQ+il)
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Would you catagorize your area as right leaning?
Posted by: Jackal at December 12, 2017 11:35 AM (fDby/)
Thongs:
The Mrs was watching some show on Hulu last night and the term 'whale tail' came up. When asked if I knew what the term meant I was kind of embarrassed to acknowledge that I did.
It's a look, but not a good one.
Posted by: Sigmoid Fraud at December 12, 2017 11:35 AM (ajiE5)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 11:36 AM (QQ+il)
Yes we do!
We got rhythm
How 'bout you?
Posted by: 1980's High School Cheerleader Squad
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 11:28 AM (rXkis)
Go bananas, go go bananas!Go bananas, go go bananas!Lean to the left! (all lean left)
Lean to the right! (all lean right)
Peel your banana and Huh! (hip thrust)
Take a bite!
Posted by: 80s Rival Team's Cheerleaders at December 12, 2017 11:37 AM (uiwCw)
Posted by: aus at December 12, 2017 11:15 AM
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Go to google images and search "Detroit Abandoned Mansions" and you'll get a bunch of pictures that look just like that.
It's really bizarre.
I know it's not Detroit but damn. It LOOKS like it.
Posted by: shibumi at December 12, 2017 11:37 AM (aT+Bx)
He keeps them off blaance, and they dance to his tune.
Posted by: blaster at December 12, 2017 11:38 AM (WonQS)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 11:30 AM (rXkis)
Not really. It's just a different strategy.
Posted by: Valu-Rite at December 12, 2017 11:43 AM (rr4lZ)
Oh very yes.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2017 11:36 AM (QQ+il)
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Well, that's agood sign I guess. Suggests that the base is riled up...
Posted by: Jackal at December 12, 2017 11:43 AM (fDby/)
Posted by: Burger Chef at December 12, 2017 11:57 AM (RuIsu)
perspective is. Take a look at the two buildings on the right. Real
perspective would make them similar in height, but they're not. Both are
two-stories with a gray stone base. The wall separating them is not
long enough to account of the difference. It's like an Esher painting.
To enhance this, the windows on the second house are taller than the
first, meaning the ceilings are really high in the second. In my mind
then that should compensate for the observed differences in height, but
it doesn't. It only adds to the confusion. This is something in
Surrealism called "disassociation", a purposeful juxtaposition of unlike
realities or things meant to confuse or unsettle the viewer.
Continuing on to the third building, again the wall is too short to
account for the differences in height. However, the artist plays with
our expectation. Because the last building is behind a wall, we really
cannot see its base. Therefore we don't really know how tall it is, or
how far back it is. How large is that courtyard? Because of our low
vantage point, we can't know. There are no trees to give us a sense of
scale.
There is also a row of buildings in the far background. Their size
tells us they are very distant, but how far? Are they even real? They
almost present a mirage-like image.
This is a fascinating work. Nice find, CBD.
The second building is the slave's quarters. The ceilings were low to force them to walk around bent over. Don't you know anything about socialist art?
Posted by: An Observation at December 12, 2017 12:00 PM (taXZf)
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