Mid-Morning Art Thread

Still Life (Vanitas)
N.L. Peschier

Still Lifes are sort of a generic topic that I assume were used by artists to hone their skills. This one is technically pleasing, and the addition of the music sheets is interesting, as is the smoldering...something...off to the left.

Of course the message is clear. Momento Mori; a reminder that death is always near. But I wonder whether most artists were less interested in the rote message and more interested in painting fun things like skulls!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

2 Memento Moro, amirite?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:31 AM (dDmld)

3 Mori

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:31 AM (dDmld)

4 Needs moar cowbell.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 18, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

5 Yesss!!

But I hate still lifes.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

6 2 Memento Moro, amirite?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:31 AM (dDmld)

3 Mori
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:31 AM (dDmld)
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If you use the nic "Cicero" you really shouldn't have to make that correction.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 18, 2025 09:33 AM (od0dV)

7 > 2 Memento Moro, amirite?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:31 AM (dDmld)

3 Mori
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:31 AM (dDmld)

Morey.

That's Morey Amsterdam's skull.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 18, 2025 09:33 AM (qpyNK)

8 Top 10?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:33 AM (omVj0)

9 Looks like he got as far as the 27th stanza, then kerplunk.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:34 AM (dDmld)

10 Alas poor Yorik!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 09:34 AM (wVcYX)

11 Shh! The maestro is decomposing!

-Far Side

Posted by: NR Pax at July 18, 2025 09:34 AM (99eI0)

12 Morey.

That's Morey Amsterdam's skull.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 18, 2025

***
"Hey, Rob!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:34 AM (omVj0)

13 Guy couldn't complete his last symphony. So the family left his skull with it. Not still life, Still Death.
Would hang though, thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2025 09:35 AM (egMwa)

14 Why did so many companies want to hire the headhunter?

Because he had such a great skull set.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

15 Per Wikipedia: Very little known about the artist other than his signature on some paintings.

Posted by: Tuna at July 18, 2025 09:35 AM (lJ0H4)

16 Junky, messed-up, don't like it. Still lifes suck. Needs a cat to knock that crap to the floor. Save the skull, though.

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at July 18, 2025 09:35 AM (G5+As)

17 There's something off about the coins, like they are about to fall off the table's edge.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

18 I forgot it's Friday, seems like Saturday to me
Very nicely detailed, so I like it

Posted by: Skip at July 18, 2025 09:35 AM (rwUkw)

19 A highly detailed painting. The music sheets alone mus have taken hours, along with the cards (or whatever they are) with the B & W images on the far right. The blue velvet wrap has real texture, as do the sheaves of wheat on the lower right.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:36 AM (omVj0)

20 Needs fruit and eggshells.

Posted by: Your Kid's Renaissance Art Teacher, phoning it in today at July 18, 2025 09:36 AM (PiwSw)

21 Why are the music sheets crumpled up like they've been in the trash?

Posted by: redridinghood at July 18, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

22 What's the red object? A wax seal or something?

Posted by: dantesed at July 18, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

23 17 There's something off about the coins, like they are about to fall off the table's edge.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

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ISWYDT

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:37 AM (dDmld)

24 Someone is getting ready for a garage sale.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 18, 2025 09:38 AM (cYBz/)

25 I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 09:38 AM (jc0TO)

26 An object lesson in maintaining good hydration while you compose.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:39 AM (dDmld)

27 Still Lifes are sort of a generic topic that I assume were used by artists to hone their skills. This one is technically pleasing, and the addition of the music sheets is interesting, as is the smoldering...something...off to the left.

Not enough people drink from the skulls of their enemies anymore, and it shows!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 09:39 AM (k3Vs9)

28 I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025

***
Sirrah, he had bad breath.
( -- Horatio in early first draft)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:39 AM (omVj0)

29 "Searching for something of potential value for Antiques Roadshow". . .

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 09:40 AM (GbwPZ)

30 Sometimes HR forgets to escort the deadbeats off company property

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 18, 2025 09:40 AM (8AONa)

31 Would hang in my macabre library. I'm sure I'll have one someday.

Only thing that bothers me about this one is the coins. They're not lying right. Compared to the skull, the smoke, the paper wrinkles... Like the artist just dropped them in after the fact.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 09:40 AM (ftFVW)

32 blue velvet wrap has real texture, as do the sheaves of wheat on the lower right.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Three stalks of wheat hardly can be called sheaves!

Posted by: Bringing Them In at July 18, 2025 09:40 AM (G5+As)

33 A wonderful work of art. Amazing detail and use of light, shadow and dark.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 18, 2025 09:42 AM (qliBS)

34 This one is technically pleasing, and the addition of the music sheets is interesting, as is the smoldering...something...off to the left.

Of course the message is clear. Momento Mori; a reminder that death is always near. But I wonder whether most artists were less interested in the rote message and more interested in painting fun things like skulls!

The artist failed to notice when the smoldering something got to close to the table, and voila, the origin of the AOSHQ flaming skull.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 09:42 AM (Riz8t)

35 I wish someone would bring back sealing wax. It lent gravitas to one's legal document.

But I guess today it would just gum up the digital scanner.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:42 AM (dDmld)

36 Honey! Have you seen my skull? I just had it a minute ago. Hey, where’s the dog?

Posted by: Eromero at July 18, 2025 09:42 AM (jgmnb)

37 Skull too scary
no hang

Posted by: Don Black at July 18, 2025 09:43 AM (AOsQT)

38 Who keeps a skull handy in their junk drawer/closet?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 09:44 AM (GbwPZ)

39 A painting I would hang in the mother-in-law suite.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 09:44 AM (/U5Yz)

40 Ah... a little Ecclesiastes on Canvas to send us into the weekend.

"Be of good cheer! All is vanity!"

Posted by: red speck at July 18, 2025 09:44 AM (0Id0S)

41 What the...?

I go away for a few weeks and CBD starts writing art commentary to go with the pix?

Has he started drinking Appletinis yet?

I suppose he'll start wearing crocs next.

Here's a useful article:

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/
reviews/best-

crocs-for-men

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2025 09:45 AM (iJfKG)

42 What a Numbskull - a llimerick

A phrenology fraudster named Moocher
Offered to tell me my future
I said "You little rummy!
Do you think that I'm a dummy?
That's no lifeline it's my parietal suture!!

Posted by: muldoon at July 18, 2025 09:45 AM (poXs5)

43 I wish someone would bring back sealing wax. It lent gravitas to one's legal document.

I feel the same way about scrolls.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 09:45 AM (Riz8t)

44 Wheat symbolizes life and fertility... so there's that.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 18, 2025 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

45
As you are, I once was
As I am, you soon shall be

Posted by: The Skull at July 18, 2025 09:46 AM (jc0TO)

46 Skull too scary
no hang
Posted by: Don Black

Come now, it's not threatening or gory. Just a happy little skull.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 09:46 AM (ftFVW)

47 It's an allegory. The burning torch of life has been quenched, the hourglass ticking off the minutes is broken, the music has stopped, the cap has fallen from a head which needs no warmth and no more will you walk in the green fields.

Posted by: tankascribe at July 18, 2025 09:46 AM (NtoJk)

48 I wish someone would bring back sealing wax. It lent gravitas to one's legal document.

also quill pens.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 09:46 AM (/U5Yz)

49 I bring my skulls out in October.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 18, 2025 09:47 AM (NpAcC)

50 Who keeps a skull handy in their junk drawer/closet?
Posted by: Lizzy

*makes shifty eyes*

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 09:47 AM (ftFVW)

51 > 38 Who keeps a skull handy in their junk drawer/closet?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 09:44 AM (GbwPZ)

Right. A proper host or hostess has the enemy skulls made into drinking vessels, and keeps them in the china cabinet, along with the other fine tableware.

Posted by: Emily Postmortem at July 18, 2025 09:47 AM (qpyNK)

52 You know, that skull over two crossed swords, maybe with a playing card as a background — the ace of spades, say — would make a nifty logo. Like, for a smart military blog.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

53 >>*makes shifty eyes*

*note to self: do not piss off She Hobbit*

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 09:48 AM (GbwPZ)

54 Skulls are cool!

Posted by: Beavis at July 18, 2025 09:48 AM (TdYBy)

55 Momento mori, momento amoris

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 18, 2025 09:50 AM (MGB5H)

56 54 That skull should fly into a video that doesn’t suck.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

57
I may be a skull but at least I know the score!

Geddit?

You geddit?

Hahaha....he....

Oh, fuck all you all.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2025 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

58 He paints a nice skull. That bag next to it looks like a Crown Royal bag. Interesting painting.

Posted by: Case at July 18, 2025 09:50 AM (ilX37)

59 Who keeps a skull handy in their junk drawer/closet?
Posted by: Lizzy

Um, would you accept the freezer?

Posted by: Zombie Jeffrey Dahmer at July 18, 2025 09:50 AM (cYBz/)

60
Needs a dog to make it live life. Unless it's a sighthound, which is as still as the skull. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 18, 2025 09:51 AM (HZi96)

61 Are those oats? I not up on my grasses.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 18, 2025 09:51 AM (n4GiU)

62 So much symbolism. So little time.

Posted by: But that's just me at July 18, 2025 09:51 AM (XQo4F)

63 > momento amoris
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 18, 2025 09:50 AM (MGB5H)

We usually express that sentiment as "I will gouge out your eyeballs and skullfuck you."

Posted by: Marine DI at July 18, 2025 09:52 AM (qpyNK)

64 I wish someone would bring back sealing wax. It lent gravitas to one's legal document.

Posted by: Cicero

https://artisaire.com/collections/wax-stamps

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 09:52 AM (ftFVW)

65 59 What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Bobbit?

“You gonna eat that?”

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

66 Ben Had's skull emporium. The very best in hog, coyote and cattle skulls. Large selection.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 18, 2025 09:52 AM (HFcKg)

67 Alas poor Yorik!
Posted by: Count de Monet

********

♫ ♪ ♫
New Yorick, New Yorick
He's wonderful clown
The crown is up and the mandible's down
A rictus grin, not a hint of a frown
New Yorick, New Yoorrrrrrrick...

...He's a won-der-ful clown!nnnn!!!

Posted by: muldoon at July 18, 2025 09:52 AM (poXs5)

68 The skull looks like it's cast in bronze.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)

69 Time, money and music.

Posted by: And a bunch of other stuff at July 18, 2025 09:53 AM (XQo4F)

70
Finally! A use for my dental school skull!

Most of those skulls come from India.

I don't know if they find them on the street or the banks of the Ganges.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2025 09:53 AM (iJfKG)

71 The skull looks like it's cast in bronze.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)

It's grandpa's. The bronze baby shoes are behind the sheet music.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 18, 2025 09:53 AM (MGB5H)

72 From the Branch Davidian era:

"Hey, did you hear Jeffrey Dahmer escaped from prison? Last seen headed for Waco with a bottle of barbecue sauce."

Too soon?

Posted by: Marine DI at July 18, 2025 09:53 AM (qpyNK)

73 I love still life paintings, especially from Dutch Golden Age artists. Peschier may not care about the adage but this is an example of real talent. The realistic detail captures the viewer's attention and won't let it go. The stained skull, everyone's final end, contrasts with the jewel-like sheen of the fabric and gold coins. The hourglasses in the shadows are not prominent but can't be ignored. I especially like the wood grain on the violin and the detail of the sheet music. For all the moral warnings in the scene it doesn't feel morbid to me. The violin, the sheen of the fabric, the writings and tools are points of creativity, possibly beauty. They may be momentary but they aren't signs of a wasted life.

Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2025 09:54 AM (yTvNw)

74 Hmmm. The paper looks very realistic, but the coins, or biscuits, or whatever they are look pasted on because they are not the correct orientation for lying on the table.

Posted by: Emmie at July 18, 2025 09:54 AM (FMtrg)

75 REALLY still life.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2025 09:54 AM (vFG9F)

76 38 Who keeps a skull handy in their junk drawer/closet?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 09:44 AM (GbwPZ)

Skulls belong with the other drinking vessels, in the cupboard.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 18, 2025 09:54 AM (pIfcn)

77 Momento mori, momento amoris
Posted by: BruceWayne

Imagining those words coming from an iodine coated Ralph Fiennes?

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 09:54 AM (ftFVW)

78
Three stalks of wheat hardly can be called sheaves!
Posted by: Bringing Them In at July 18, 2025

***
"Stalks" -- that was the word I was looking for!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:54 AM (omVj0)

79 Who keeps a skull handy in their junk drawer/closet?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 09:44 AM (GbwPZ)

Skulls belong with the other drinking vessels, in the cupboard.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 18, 2025 09:54

I put them on pikes along my driveway.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 18, 2025 09:55 AM (MGB5H)

80 Most of those skulls come from India.

I don't know if they find them on the street or the banks of the Ganges.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2025

***
Do you need a permit to collect them?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)

81 Momento mori, momento amoris
Posted by: BruceWayne

Imagining those words coming from an iodine coated Ralph Fiennes?
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 09:54 AM (ftFVW)

*nods sagaciously*

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 18, 2025 09:56 AM (MGB5H)

82 The skull was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 18, 2025 09:56 AM (XQo4F)

83 Most of those skulls come from India.

I don't know if they find them on the street or the banks of the Ganges.

Posted by: naturalfake

***
Do you need a permit to collect them?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Nah, just need to be of the right (wrong?) caste.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 09:57 AM (ftFVW)

84 I've heard a lot of sheet music in my time. Coldplay and Nickelback come to mind. And Toad-O.

Posted by: Zappa Family Trust at July 18, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

85 Who names their kid "N. L.?"

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at July 18, 2025 09:58 AM (XQo4F)

86 Do you need a permit to collect them?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Can buy everything up to a full skeleton online. But as stated above almost all come from India or China.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 18, 2025 09:58 AM (MGB5H)

87 Why are the music sheets crumpled up like they've been in the trash?
Posted by: redridinghood at July 18, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

My impression is that it’s meant to show they were well used.

As in marching out in the rain, used by a working musician.

It’s a rather dark piece in the photograph, though.
I bet you can see the details more clearly in person.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 09:58 AM (6ydKt)

88 TGIF

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 09:59 AM (mT+6a)

89 Can buy everything up to a full skeleton online. But as stated above almost all come from India or China.
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How much are elongated skulls?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 18, 2025 09:59 AM (W3T6M)

90 Ugh, I can just hear the amateur art historian droning on about the symbolism as if it's profound.

Meh.

It's alright.

Wouldn't pay $10 for it, though.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 18, 2025 09:59 AM (uEVfM)

91 Looks like a Colorado Rockies fan waiting for their MLB championship

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 09:59 AM (gKWVE)

92 More like still death amirite?

Posted by: Get it? at July 18, 2025 10:00 AM (XQo4F)

93 Looks like there's still skin on the skull - under the nose.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 18, 2025 10:01 AM (0bjKf)

94 That drawing of the naked girl with the small breasts that Trump did for his bro Jeff Epstein will be work millions !

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at July 18, 2025 10:01 AM (/1N7s)

95 79 My late father-in-law had a story from the Korean War.

Apparently, the native Koreans made a habit of stealing stuff from the camps of the various UN armies, including the Turks.

Some Korean heads were posted on the fence around the Turkish camp.

No one tried stealing stuff from the Turks after that.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

96 3 I love still life paintings, especially from Dutch Golden Age artists. Peschier may not care about the adage but this is an example of real talent. The realistic detail captures the viewer's attention and won't let it go. The stained skull, everyone's final end, contrasts with the jewel-like sheen of the fabric and gold coins. The hourglasses in the shadows are not prominent but can't be ignored. I especially like the wood grain on the violin and the detail of the sheet music. For all the moral warnings in the scene it doesn't feel morbid to me. The violin, the sheen of the fabric, the writings and tools are points of creativity, possibly beauty. They may be momentary but they aren't signs of a wasted life.
Posted by: JTB

Wow! What a load of cobblers!!

Posted by: Benny Hill, 1973 at July 18, 2025 10:01 AM (G5+As)

97 More like still death amirite?
Posted by: Get it?

Anxiously waiting for TJM to weigh in.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 10:01 AM (ftFVW)

98 I like it. It’s interesting. Fun to try to make a connection between all the objects on the table. I’d spend a couple minutes with this painting.

And then move on.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 10:02 AM (mT+6a)

99 At least the skull isn't on fire....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 10:02 AM (VE6XX)

100 Crrraacck!

Posted by: Eromero at July 18, 2025 10:03 AM (OSU7n)

101 Alas poor Yorik!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 09:34 AM

I knew him, Horatio. Tbh, he was kind of a dick.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 18, 2025 10:03 AM (kgE5c)

102 m

Posted by: Your Kid's Renaissance Art Teacher, phoning it in today at July 18, 2025 10:03 AM (PiwSw)

103 99 Well, it doesn’t have any hair.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

104 At least the skull isn't on fire....

Posted by: It's me donna

Agree, and there is no pudding either.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 18, 2025 10:03 AM (QcUc+)

105 > The violin, the sheen of the fabric, the writings and tools are points of creativity, possibly beauty. They may be momentary but they aren't signs of a wasted life.
Posted by: JTB

You forgot to mention the rich Corinthian leather.

Posted by: Marine DI at July 18, 2025 10:03 AM (qpyNK)

106 At least the skull isn't on fire....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 10:02 AM

The day is still young.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 18, 2025 10:04 AM (kgE5c)

107 Purification seals. Blessings from the God-Emperor, seated upon his Golden Throne. The Emperor Protects!

Posted by: Inquisitor Grimwald at July 18, 2025 10:04 AM (UKMh1)

108 Hamlet is the most overrated play ever.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

109 “I was one of, at the time, a few Democrats that supported independent redistricting,” the governor told reporters in Los Angeles. “At the same time, I’m very fearful about what’s going on in this country.”

Newsom, pointing to Texas, said, “they’re playing by a different set of rules.”

“We can sit on the sidelines and talk about the way the world should be, or we could recognize the existential nature that is this moment,” Newsom said.
====

Remarkable how far the truly stupid can go in this country.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 10:04 AM (JvZF+)

110 This comment from last thread is bothering me:

416 406 Colbert is a powerhouse talent. He’ll do just fine wherever he lands, if he chooses to work.

A total weasel, pharma shill and the most punchable face in media.
Posted by: Ordinary American

There's a lot of competition for that title, but my vote goes to Adam Conover: https://tinyurl.com/5b2jmm9c

Soft, smug and soy is no way to go through life.
https://tinyurl.com/4kmjhevx

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 18, 2025 10:04 AM (UKMh1)

111 "The Most Conformist Woman In The World"
a short AI clip with a catchy track

https://youtu.be/9hqDd-6hA8E

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 10:05 AM (D7oie)

112 Colbert’s show is getting cancelled by CBS.
Womp womp.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:05 AM (h+GbG)

113 108 Hamlet is the most overrated play ever.
Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

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It's no Cats

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 10:05 AM (dDmld)

114
Repurposing Grandpa - a limerick

The magician muttered some palabra
Wrapped it up with an "Abrra-cadabra!"
"Melt some wax (a couple drops)
Plop a candle on the top
Et voila! You''ve made a candelabra!"

Posted by: muldoon at July 18, 2025 10:05 AM (poXs5)

115 Hamlet is the most overrated play ever.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

Hold on there, Rex Reed Jr!

Posted by: Wicked at July 18, 2025 10:06 AM (iJfKG)

116 Hamlet sounds like a fast food breakfast sandwich.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 18, 2025 10:06 AM (qpyNK)

117 Isn’t any painting technically a still life? Otherwise it would be anime.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 18, 2025 10:06 AM (advWG)

118 111 I read that at first as “catchy rack.”

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

119 Would look better if run through a Salvador Dali filter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 18, 2025 10:07 AM (gWRQ1)

120 106 At least the skull isn't on fire....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 10:02 AM

The day is still young.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Sigh.

I’ll make sure the fire extinguishers are all full and charged. Everyone note where your nearest one is and review how to use it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 10:07 AM (mT+6a)

121 Okay.. Looked around the "news".. Now we have Birthdaycardgate ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 10:08 AM (VE6XX)

122 We can’t have hair on fire yet. Gotta save that for an Epstein thread.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

123 Hamlet is the most overrated play ever.
Posted by: Bulg

**********

I agree, Bulg

To Bother, Or Not To Bother - a limerick

It's the start of a worrisome trend
But I didn't watch the play to the end
So I'm embarrassed to say
That to this very day
I thought Hamlet was Pooh's little friend

Posted by: muldoon at July 18, 2025 10:09 AM (poXs5)

124 NPR has a headline: ACA insurance will increase as much as 75%.

Ohhh it’s those dastardly insurance companies and their greed man!!! Well, no. It’s because a Biden Covid freebie for the “poor” (defined as people making up to $100k) is going away.

In typical msm fashion, this will kill millions. And it’s Trump’s fault. Because god forbid people pay for their own fucking insurance.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:09 AM (h+GbG)

125 I see that Barky's "Affordable Health Care" is slated to go up 75% next year.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 18, 2025 10:09 AM (qpyNK)

126 Sigh.

I’ll make sure the fire extinguishers are all full and charged. Everyone note where your nearest one is and review how to use it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 10:07 AM

*checks location*

Yup...I'm good.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 18, 2025 10:10 AM (kgE5c)

127 CBS, NPR CEOs Mourn “Tremendous Tragedy” After Senate Defunds PBS and NPR

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Far worse than 9/11.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 18, 2025 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

128 Today's art, though somber, reminds me why I enjoy still life paintings from this period. The exquisite detail showing talent and care. The varied and exuberant colors of the many objects. And especially the delight in comfort and abundance they often show. They are uplifting when things seem dark.

Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2025 10:11 AM (yTvNw)

129 Has Kris been around lately? I don’t recall seeing her here the past couple of weeks.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

130 It's no Cats
Posted by: Cicero

You are correct, Sir. Cats had one catchy song, ran forever and sucked, big time. Honorable mention should go to the Harvey Fierstein play-Safe Sex-that opened and closed in one night on The Great, White Way.

Posted by: Broken Heart For at July 18, 2025 10:13 AM (G5+As)

131 If there is still life in that skull, I'm outta here. I've seen Jason and the Argonuats and know what those things are capable of.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 10:13 AM (kVWpQ)

132 Damn that bitch!

Former NFL Coach Blames Taylor Swift for Travis Kelce’s Career Low

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 18, 2025 10:13 AM (L/fGl)

133 Hamlet sounds like a fast food breakfast sandwich.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 18, 2025

***
Good name for a pet hamster.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 10:14 AM (omVj0)

134 With Jason, dragon teeth were scattered. From each tooth rose a skeleton warrior.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 18, 2025 10:14 AM (gWRQ1)

135 I hear Sesame Street is going to have to sell Big Bird off to KFC. "You're gonna need a bigger bucket."

Why is it always Sesame Street that they screech about? For one, the show went stale 30 years ago or more. For another, if there's one thing on PBS that DOESN'T need government funding, it's Sesame Street.

They rake in millions per year on merch sales.

Millions.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 18, 2025 10:14 AM (qpyNK)

136 CNBC Headline:

DOJ demands names, release dates of noncitizens in California jails as Trump deportation efforts ramp up

Awesome!! But why is this news? It’s maddening that shit like this wasn’t done before. Any time a non citizen is released from prison, their release should automatically be into ICE custody. And not just California.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:15 AM (h+GbG)

137 I wish someone would bring back sealing wax. It lent gravitas to one's legal document.

But I guess today it would just gum up the digital scanner.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:42 AM (dDmld)

Lizzie Borden sent a fax,
Closed it up with sealing wax.
When she saw that it had gone
She took an axe to Dad and Mom.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 10:16 AM (6ecJK)

138 Bush I, the libtards were all a twitter about saving Big Bird

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 18, 2025 10:16 AM (gWRQ1)

139 I was told of a theater kid in college who gave the name "hamlet" to his penis.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 10:16 AM (gKWVE)

140 With Jason, dragon teeth were scattered. From each tooth rose a skeleton warrior.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 18, 2025

***
Greek myth, the story of Cadmus.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 10:16 AM (omVj0)

141 CBS, NPR CEOs Mourn “Tremendous Tragedy” After Senate Defunds PBS and NPR

—

I already died twice. After the tax cuts and net neutrality. But when I die again from this, it will be worse than the first 2 times.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:16 AM (h+GbG)

142 Honorable mention should go to the Harvey Fierstein play-Safe Sex-that opened and closed in one night on The Great, White Way.
Posted by: Broken Heart For at July 18, 2025 10:13 AM

I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: The Vagina Monologues at July 18, 2025 10:17 AM (kgE5c)

143 I was told of a theater kid in college who gave the name "hamlet" to his penis.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025

***
"Hamlet" is also a word in English for a very small town or village.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 10:17 AM (omVj0)

144 With Jason, dragon teeth were scattered. From each tooth rose a skeleton warrior.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 18, 2025 10:14 AM (gWRQ1)

If you sow dragons' teeth, you should get dragons. What did it say on the packet?
I bet he should have covered them with 1/4" of soil, and he just got weeds. One year I planted the carrots wrong and spent a month carefully tending to the self-sown Queen Anne's Lace.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 10:18 AM (D7oie)

145 I was told of a theater kid in college who gave the name "hamlet" to his penis.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025

***
No doubt because everybody wanted to play (with) it, right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 10:18 AM (omVj0)

146 "Hamlet" is also a word in English for a very small town or village.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 10:17 AM (omVj0)

I think it was spelled "Hommlet".

Posted by: Gary Gygax at July 18, 2025 10:19 AM (gKWVE)

147 I didn’t say that Hamlet was the worst play ever, just the most overrated. It’s had a few hundred years’ headstart on the competition.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

148 Why is it always Sesame Street that they screech about?

"as the twig is bent, so grows the tree"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 10:19 AM (D7oie)

149 Guy, an assumption, could paint. For some reason I'm surprised at the abilities of 17th century people.

Posted by: javem at July 18, 2025 10:19 AM (8I4hW)

150 "Hamlet" is also a word in English for a very small town or village.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

And we all hope you go from living in a parish to a hamlet sometime soon!

Posted by: Sweatin' to the Oldies! at July 18, 2025 10:20 AM (G5+As)

151 Democrats: We could have released the Epstein files and eliminated the billionaire tax cuts but we didn't

Posted by: SMOD at July 18, 2025 10:20 AM (RHGPo)

152 117 Isn’t any painting technically a still life? Otherwise it would be anime.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 18, 2025 10:06 AM (advWG)

Nah, still life’s are exclusively objects or scenes without people or animals.

Usually it’s something you setup on a table.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 10:20 AM (6ydKt)

153 Cadmus thought he was gonna get sea monkeys. Major disappointment there.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

154 I mean, who doesn't have an extra human skull sitting around?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 18, 2025 10:21 AM (36PRH)

155 OT: On Colbert's show being eliminated. Late night shows have become absolute money losers. They tried cutting to 4 nights/week, reducing salaries, etc, and they still lose money now.

So, CBS cut Colbert under the cover of the Trump settlement, so CBS wouldn't take the blame...but they ALWAYS wanted to cancel. Hollywood Reporter was on this 10 months ago...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com /tv/tv-news/late-night-tv-downsizing-1235997584/

Posted by: Nova Local at July 18, 2025 10:22 AM (tOcjL)

156 Y2K killed me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 10:22 AM (IDcT3)

157 I think my favorite argument they have for NPR is that rural areas will be underserved without it. If there's one thing Bubba and Darlene crave it's the droning monotone of liberal white women from New York.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 18, 2025 10:23 AM (2UnvF)

158 I planted the carrots wrong and spent a month carefully tending to the self-sown Queen Anne's Lace.
Posted by: Kindltot

You sure it wasn't Poison Hemlock? They are oft mistaken.

Posted by: Conium maculatum at July 18, 2025 10:24 AM (G5+As)

159 Oh, fuck all you all.
Posted by: naturalfake

**********

I know what you mean, brother!

Posted by: muldoon at July 18, 2025 10:24 AM (poXs5)

160 Y2K killed me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 10:22 AM

Cleaner than Net Neutrality.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 18, 2025 10:24 AM (kgE5c)

161 157 I think my favorite argument they have for NPR is that rural areas will be underserved without it. If there's one thing Bubba and Darlene crave it's the droning monotone of liberal white women from New York.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

*snort*

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 10:24 AM (IDcT3)

162 TBF y2k was a real thing. The reason nothing happened was because an army of people spent a couple of years fixing it. But it could have fucked shit up bigly had it been ignored.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:25 AM (h+GbG)

163 You sure it wasn't Poison Hemlock? They are oft mistaken.
Posted by: Conium maculatum at July 18, 2025

***
Yeah, tell me all about that!

Posted by: Zombie Socrates at July 18, 2025 10:25 AM (omVj0)

164 Y2K killed me.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Perhaps it killed us all and this is just our consciousnesses living in a simulation.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 10:25 AM (ftFVW)

165 Y2K killed me.
Posted by: nurse ratched

That's the one thing I was prepared for. When I saw my tight-assed company spend a billion dollars to upgrade systems worldwide, I figured out that something was up.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 10:25 AM (k3Vs9)

166 Muldoon is seriously behind in his daily fart-joke quota.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

167 Hiya Duke,
How’s your boy? He’s still in my prayers. All our boys.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 10:25 AM (IDcT3)

168 Really well done.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 18, 2025 10:26 AM (xcxpd)

169
Mel Gibson's Australian version of Hamlet was great.

His updated rendering of "Hoy, Digger! To be or not to be, eh, mate?"

is a classic!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)

170 Today's art, though somber, reminds me why I enjoy still life paintings from this period. The exquisite detail showing talent and care. The varied and exuberant colors of the many objects. And especially the delight in comfort and abundance they often show. They are uplifting when things seem dark.
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2025 10:11 AM (yTvNw)

I saw one I loved, it was modern: It should have been called "still life with fruit, blaster and stormtrooper helmet"
(Etsy link)

https://tinyurl.com/446swe2v

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 10:26 AM (D7oie)

171 157 I think my favorite argument they have for NPR is that rural areas will be underserved without it. If there's one thing Bubba and Darlene crave it's the droning monotone of liberal white women from New York.

=========

"Rural areas" ilo "flyover country"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 18, 2025 10:27 AM (8AONa)

172 I think my favorite argument they have for NPR is that rural areas will be underserved without it. If there's one thing Bubba and Darlene crave it's the droning monotone of liberal white women from New York.

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That’s their go to for everything now. Any money that’s cut will hurt Bubba. Which is funny because they want Bubba dead but they also cry when he’s slightly inconvenienced.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:27 AM (h+GbG)

173 161 157 I think my favorite argument they have for NPR is that rural areas will be underserved without it. If there's one thing Bubba and Darlene crave it's the droning monotone of liberal white women from New York.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

*snort*
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 10:24 AM (IDcT3)

----
I have been sitting in meetings with a woman who sounds *exactly* like a NPR host. It's a challenge not to doze off at times.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 18, 2025 10:28 AM (36PRH)

174 TBF y2k was a real thing. The reason nothing happened was because an army of people spent a couple of years fixing it. But it could have fucked shit up bigly had it been ignored.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

In 1999, I was using a Lane 9000 telex machine with three 1200 baud modems for sending railcar movement information to customers. The eprom boards had manufacturing stickers of 1982 still on them. MCI was the servicing company. Yeah. They were dying on 12/31/1999.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 10:28 AM (k3Vs9)

175 Now I’m hearing about some computer problem that’s supposed to kick in 2038.

Apparently the tech geeks lag behind the Maya when it comes to using calendars.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

176 There is a Moron Still Life out there.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 10:29 AM (VofaG)

177 Why does govt need to pay for Sesame Street? If it’s the cultural icon they claim it is, someone can surely make money running it privately.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:29 AM (h+GbG)

178 Wait.

I thought Build Back Better was supposed to get high speed internet and EV charging stations to everyone in fly over country.

Did that not happen?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 10:29 AM (IDcT3)

179 This painting could have been vastly improved by the addition of a nice, red, MAGA hat.

Posted by: Mega Ultra MAGA Man at July 18, 2025 10:30 AM (G5+As)

180 How come we never heard anything about Hillary’s fat ankles?

She ain’t called Cankles for nothing.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 10:30 AM (VofaG)

181 169
Mel Gibson's Australian version of Hamlet was great.

His updated rendering of "Hoy, Digger! To be or not to be, eh, mate?"

is a classic!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)
----
The blue face paint made the duel with Laertes more intense.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 18, 2025 10:30 AM (36PRH)

182
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 18, 2025 10:30 AM (tljrc)

183 thought Build Back Better was supposed to get high speed internet and EV charging stations to everyone in fly over country.

Did that not happen?
Posted by: nurse ratched

BBB got NYC a new subway line. The rest was stolen.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:31 AM (h+GbG)

184 I think my favorite argument they have for NPR is that rural areas will be underserved without it. If there's one thing Bubba and Darlene crave it's the droning monotone of liberal white women from New York.

Rural areas have $750,000 planters/tractors/harvestors that are so technologically advanced that via gps, they almost drive themselves. I think those "rural folks" know how to operate a computer or smart phone to get to news.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 10:31 AM (k3Vs9)

185 I was told of a theater kid in college who gave the name "hamlet" to his penis.

**********

To pee oor not to pee...

Posted by: muldoon at July 18, 2025 10:31 AM (poXs5)

186 It's bad luck to mention the name of your penis. I just call mine that Scottish Penis.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 10:32 AM (jc0TO)

187 Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
On the one-year anniversary of Butler, I sat next to a real-life "ear truther" tonight on CNN. Wild. You won’t believe it 👀

Posted by: SMOD at July 18, 2025 10:32 AM (RHGPo)

188 pi[178 Wait.

I thought Build Back Better was supposed to get high speed internet and EV charging stations to everyone in fly over country.

Did that not happen?
Posted by: nurse ratched

I think they spent $7B and installed 4 charging stations. No one got internet and the four charging stations got jacked of their copper and no longer function.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 10:32 AM (/U5Yz)

189 So the dirty toilet we got at the first of the week was "still life". Well, live and learn. I just thought it was a dirty toilet.

Posted by: Case at July 18, 2025 10:32 AM (ilX37)

190 What firearm would be in the Moron still life?

And would it have a longbow or a crossbow?

How many cup sizes of bras would be included?

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

191 Why does govt need to pay for Sesame Street? If it’s the cultural icon they claim it is, someone can surely make money running it privately.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

SS brings in a billion dollars a year in merchandising alone.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 10:32 AM (k3Vs9)

192 What firearm would be in the Moron still life?

And would it have a longbow or a crossbow?

How many cup sizes of bras would be included?
Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

Unfortunately all three not included.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 10:33 AM (VofaG)

193 I was told of a theater kid in college who gave the name "hamlet" to his penis.

**********

To pee oor not to pee...
Posted by: muldoon

I thought that was more of a prostate thing.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 10:33 AM (ftFVW)

194 Hi Nurse! He's doing much better, thanks for asking.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 18, 2025 10:33 AM (2UnvF)

195 What firearm would be in the Moron still life?

1873 SAA. Blessed are the Peacemakers.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 10:33 AM (k3Vs9)

196 What firearm would be in the Moron still life?

1911

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 10:33 AM (jc0TO)

197 @183
So perhaps someone stole the missing tracks from the California high-speed rail project? What isn't locked down is as good as gone.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 18, 2025 10:34 AM (36PRH)

198 So the dirty toilet we got at the first of the week was "still life". Well, live and learn. I just thought it was a dirty toilet.
Posted by: Case at July 18, 2025 10:32 AM (ilX37)

Some of the bacteria in that exhibit were probably still viable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 10:34 AM (6ecJK)

199 What firearm would be in the Moron still life?

A Glock of course.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 10:34 AM (/U5Yz)

200 Mel Gibson's Australian version of Hamlet was great.

*************

To barbie or not to bartie...

Posted by: muldoon at July 18, 2025 10:35 AM (poXs5)

201 Ok. Boat just docked. Time to walk up the hill.

Wnjoy the rest of your morning, morons.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 10:35 AM (i2fv4)

202 @193 Every trip a male pensioner makes to the toilet, "to pee or not to pee."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 18, 2025 10:35 AM (36PRH)

203 The famous New Yorker cartoon is as true today as it was when it was published. People in New York think anything beyond the city is a vast wasteland of nothingness. Until you get to the west coast and then there’s some village named Hollywood.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:35 AM (h+GbG)

204 It's bad luck to mention the name of your penis. I just call mine that Scottish Penis.
Posted by: toby928

I call mine Chinese Calculus.

Yeah. It's that hard.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 10:35 AM (k3Vs9)

205 I should have consulted with the morons before I painted it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 10:35 AM (VofaG)

206 Anyone seen "The Phoenician" yet?

Has it got anything more going for it than bilateral staging around a central point in its shots?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2025 10:36 AM (iJfKG)

207 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Still life eh? Fine. So how long I gotta stand here not moving?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 18, 2025 10:37 AM (W/lyH)

208 Still Life (Vanitas) by N.L. Peschier

Victoria and Albert Museum: "Although little is known about Peschier, he specialised in the production of highly refined ‘vanitas’ paintings also called ‘memento mori’. This genre painting combines still-life elements with diverse inanimate objects so as to function as a reminder of the vulnerability of human life and invite the viewer to meditate upon the passing of time. This type of pictures reached the height of its popularity in Western Europe, especially in the Netherlands, during the 17th century and became characteristic of Baroque art."

Little is known about the artist. His name is on the sheets of music which don't seem to fit the theme of the painting. Where's an ornate frame? Perhaps the painting is a key to his life, his past or political commentary. 🤷‍♀️

Yes, I'd hang this painting. It's before Wyeths but could blend with a few of theirs.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 18, 2025 10:37 AM (NFX2v)

209 Mel Gibson's Australian version of Hamlet was great.

*************

To barbie or not to bartie...
Posted by: muldoon at July 18, 2025 10:35 AM (poXs5)

Nice! A better update.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2025 10:37 AM (iJfKG)

210 So perhaps someone stole the missing tracks from the California high-speed rail project? What isn't locked down is as good as gone.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 18, 2025 10:34 AM (36PRH)

The missing track was sent to China, and melted down, and made into railway rail, which China sells to California for its High Speed Rail project.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 10:37 AM (6ecJK)

211 Hamlet" is also a word in English for a very small town or village.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 10:17 AM (omVj0)

Hamlet is a small pig.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 18, 2025 10:37 AM (g8Ew8)

212 I bet you can see the details more clearly in person.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 09:58 AM (6ydKt)

Yes, you definitely can. But this was the best I could find.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 18, 2025 10:37 AM (L5An7)

213 On Two and a Half Men the neighbor called his Richard Roundtree.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 10:37 AM (VofaG)

214 Darlene: Bubba, you'll never guess who is starring in a new off Broadway version of Sex and the City!

Bubba: Do tell, Darlene, do tell!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 18, 2025 10:38 AM (2UnvF)

215 I think my favorite argument they have for NPR is that rural areas will be underserved without it. If there's one thing Bubba and Darlene crave it's the droning monotone of liberal white women from New York.

Come on now. All Things In Green Acres Considered is a big rural hit at NPR.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 10:38 AM (muwun)

216 Still life's and self portraits were advertisements for the artist, the presentation of everyday objects people were familiar with allowed prospective patrons to judge the artists skill. Get some rich aristocrat or king to hire you as his court artist and you were set for a couple years anyway.

Posted by: Fra Fillipo at July 18, 2025 10:39 AM (Nge8H)

217 They should privatize a Sesame Street reboot and have Big Bird be straight.

Posted by: muldoon at July 18, 2025 10:39 AM (poXs5)

218 Come on now. All Things In Green Acres Considered is a big rural hit at NPR.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 10:38 AM (muwun)

Eva Gabor's rack was worthy of consideration, for sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 10:40 AM (v/53C)

219 All Things Considered always put me to sleep.

Pro chess is more fast-paced.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)

220 Darlene: Bubba, you'll never guess who is starring in a new off Broadway version of Sex and the City!

*********

Bubba: Reba!!??

Posted by: muldoon at July 18, 2025 10:40 AM (poXs5)

221 You know Lisa Douglas and Arnold Ziffel had it going on.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

222 Venusians>>Venetians>>Phoenicians.

Posted by: The Rank Organization! at July 18, 2025 10:42 AM (G5+As)

223 I'm in love with Eb's Mom.

Posted by: Arnold Ziffel at July 18, 2025 10:42 AM (muwun)

224 You know Lisa Douglas and Arnold Ziffel had it going on.
Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

That’ll do pig. That’ll do. —-Mrs Douglas

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 10:42 AM (VofaG)

225 You know Lisa Douglas and Arnold Ziffel had it going on.
Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

--------------

A pig like that you don't eat all at once.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 18, 2025 10:42 AM (2UnvF)

226 Nice art. Too macabre to hang, though.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 10:43 AM (iFTx/)

227 NPR

National Public Radio

Who still listens to the radio? Yea, they stream too, I get it, but, really, who has NPR as a station preset?

Maybe 1 out of 100. 1000. Nobody? They (NPR) have an awfully outsized opinion of their relevancy today. Like a number of politicians. And late night TV gimps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 18, 2025 10:44 AM (Q4IgG)

228 Venusians>>Venetians>>Phoenicians.
Posted by: The Rank Organization! at July 18, 2025 10:42 AM (G5+As)

But Jesus loves them all.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 18, 2025 10:44 AM (g8Ew8)

229 One of William Shakespeare’s children is listed on the village register as “Hamnet,” probably a misheard transcription of Hamlet.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 10:45 AM (TZq+F)

230 the artists skill. Get some rich aristocrat or king to hire you as his court artist and you were set for a couple years anyway.
Posted by: Fra Fillipo

That's for fair to middlin' artists. True skill is shown by police sketch artists in Tokyo or Peking.

Posted by: Ms. Swan at July 18, 2025 10:45 AM (G5+As)

231 I doubt their children's television is/was remotely like "our" children's television, as Beyonce's private, paid concerts in the Middle East are not like the concerts performed in the US and Europe.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 18, 2025 10:47 AM (NFX2v)

232 The king might die, I might die, or maybe, just maybe, the horse will learn to sing.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at July 18, 2025 10:47 AM (jc0TO)

233 would not hang

Posted by: Gref at July 18, 2025 10:49 AM (aBgBM)

234 I stopped listening to NPR back in the 90s when I realized what an awful political hack Garrison Keillor was. It was a shame since I love classical music and there wasn’t much of an alternative back then except using multi-disk CD players.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 10:49 AM (TZq+F)

235 Nothing says "still life" like a skull.

Posted by: Paco at July 18, 2025 10:51 AM (mADJX)

236 Nobody watches pbs or listens to npr. But that’s not the point. The point this Trump wants to defund it therefore it will kill millions.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:51 AM (h+GbG)

237 The Northman > Hamlet

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 10:51 AM (gKWVE)

238 The toilet from earlier this week wouldn’t be considered a still life.

In the art world that kind of piece would be called an “installation”, as it involves a three dimensional object.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 10:51 AM (6ydKt)

239 There was always vinyl.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 18, 2025 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

240 Nowadays I listen to Sirius XM Symphony Hall, but even they can get tendentious over recent music chosen more for DEI than talent. Can’t go wrong with Baroque, though!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 10:53 AM (TZq+F)

241 If the entire NPR audience in the country is more than a few thousand people, I'll eat a dick. NPR is just a leftwing slush fund and Democrap full-employment scam. Defund, roll it up into a ball, shove it up an illegal's asshole, then feed the whole stinking lot to a gator.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 10:54 AM (iFTx/)

242 Between tax cuts, net neutrality, cuts to Medicaid and now the end of Sesame Street, I calculated roughly 41% of the American population has died.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:54 AM (h+GbG)

243 If a vampire cast a shadow, he's be on fire. Discuss.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 10:54 AM (jc0TO)

244 Van Gogh was an underrated painter of flowers . He’s basically just known for his sunflowers but the dozens of other flower paintings he did are much better imo.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)

245 I’m not a fan of baroque. Give me the 19th-century romantics.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

246 In the art world that kind of piece would be called an “installation”, as it involves a three dimensional object.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 10:51 AM (6ydKt)

Naw. I have installed toilets. At the bare minimum, you have to hook up the drain line and the water supply line. The ethernet cable and hydrazine lines are optional.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 10:55 AM (v/53C)

247 > Nobody watches pbs or listens to npr. But that’s not the point. The point this Trump wants to defund it therefore it will kill millions.
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They provide cover for graft and corruption. Thus, they must continue.

Literally everything the left (and the right) bitches about when suggested it lose funding is because someone(s) skimming money off it. Everything.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 18, 2025 10:55 AM (Q4IgG)

248 Elric takes an early lead in the cruelty sweepstakes today.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

249 3 If a vampire cast a shadow, he's be on fire. Discuss.
Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 10:54 AM (jc0TO)

If the wicked queen were a vampire Snow White would never have been in danger.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 10:56 AM (VofaG)

250 NPR.
Imagine having a job where you talk all the time and nobody listens? Every program is a rehearsal for the performance that never happens.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 18, 2025 10:56 AM (W/lyH)

251 Has the msm used the racism angle on nor defunding? The minuscule audience it has is 99.98% upper middle class whites. But I’m sure somehow it’s racist to defund it. 😂

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:56 AM (h+GbG)

252 236 Nobody watches pbs or listens to npr. But that’s not the point. The point this Trump wants to defund it therefore it will kill millions.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 10:51 AM (h+GbG)

I actually watch PBS for some of their shows... I pay 5 dollars a month to do so...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 10:57 AM (VE6XX)

253 I should paint a picture of my car that won't start. That is a still life.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 10:58 AM (gKWVE)

254 De fund! De fund!

Posted by: zombie Herve Villechaize at July 18, 2025 10:59 AM (v/53C)

255 I’m glad I don’t have to worry about PBS anymore, since my wife hit menopause.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

256 Women and children hit the hardest . So the Left figuratively speaking.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 10:59 AM (VofaG)

257 I think the average LIV is smart enough to understand that in 2025, where everyone has infinite options for entertainment, it’s idiotic to use tax dollars to run a TV and radio station.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:00 AM (h+GbG)

258 If a vampire cast a shadow, he's be on fire. Discuss.
Posted by: toby928

Not a shadow from the light of the full moon.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 18, 2025 11:01 AM (ftFVW)

259 Nood

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:01 AM (kVWpQ)

260 Noodus Throckmortonii

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

261 Is that a skull I see?

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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 11:01 AM (vV6Uu)

262 152 117 Isn’t any painting technically a still life? Otherwise it would be anime.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 18, 2025 10:06 AM (advWG)

Nah, still life’s are exclusively objects or scenes without people or animals.

Usually it’s something you setup on a table.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 18, 2025 10:20 AM (6ydKt)
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Consisting of inanimate objects, without quibbling over details like "but don't flowers in a vase still move over the course of a day?"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 18, 2025 11:02 AM (36PRH)

263 @258 that discussion ended quickly!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 18, 2025 11:04 AM (36PRH)

264 Yes, the toilet is an “installation” because of its multiple parts that must be “installed,” but I think it being 3D is not the key factor. What about sculpture? Is Rodin’s Thinker an installation? I think his Petite Danseuse at the Louvre might be, since it has a small dress that must be placed on the figure. The last time I saw it, the dress was quite old and tatty, perhaps the original?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 11:04 AM (TZq+F)

265 Nooood math

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 18, 2025 11:06 AM (uxAXv)

266 Mori Shapiro from Brooklyn here!
Time to deport that muzzie commie back to Uganda.
Arrest. Deport. Have a pastrami bagel sandwich. Repeat.

Wanna be cool artists? Boobies. Draw them in intricate detail and not meschugina skulls.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 18, 2025 11:10 AM (RJSYQ)

267 Kinda-sorta reminds me of my fraternity initiation .... kinda ... but diff'rent

Posted by: Dr_No at July 18, 2025 11:16 AM (ayRl+)

268 @ 253 I should paint a picture of my car that won't start. That is a still life.
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Bubbeleh ... such a deal I will make you for cash money ...

Posted by: Dr_No at July 18, 2025 11:18 AM (ayRl+)

269 81 "...iodine coated Ralph Fiennes?"
you left off twisleton- fiennes.

Posted by: cmeat at July 18, 2025 01:15 PM (GAyiy)

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