Mid-Morning Art Thread

Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida
Ivan Albright

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2026 09:31 AM (4Iv8v)

3 WTF?!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

4 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:31 AM (R11M+)

5 Lumpy!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 24, 2026 09:31 AM (amcLV)

6 Okay.. Why are we being punished ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2026 09:31 AM (FtULh)

7 I demand a recount! Time stamps going out to the 10th of a second!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2026 09:31 AM (4Iv8v)

8 'She' looks hideous.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

9 Zombie

Posted by: Skip at June 24, 2026 09:32 AM (sgkY8)

10 That's a pickleball paddle in her hand, isn't it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

11 Ida picked something else.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 24, 2026 09:32 AM (6/7Fs)

12 his brother did some neat stuff, too.
but this dude did portrait of dorian grey (for the film?).
the one of a door is even more intricate.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (R11M+)

13 At least quite detailed

Posted by: Skip at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (sgkY8)

14 Bish stole my legs

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (J4Dwc)

15 Gah! Looks like Hillary Clinton.
Would hang the artist.

Posted by: PabloD at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (tTZHu)

16
That's a man! Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (O0L8i)

17 Art should never be ugly.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (mWKAz)

18 ....and then he was a she......

The colored girls sang

Do, di do, di do, di do di do......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (2YhKe)

19 Good grief.

Posted by: Bulg at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

20 Forget the powder puff. Start with a sander.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (6/7Fs)

21 Saw this in a book in elementary school. Repulsive. Give us boobs, a dog, something!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2026 09:34 AM (Kt19C)

22 when my wife was a little kid she told her mom she had "very close veins."

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:34 AM (R11M+)

23
No Betty Grable, that's for sure.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2026 09:34 AM (O0L8i)

24 Good lord....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 24, 2026 09:34 AM (jehhT)

25 Hillary despairs on the cutting of her cosmetics budget.

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at June 24, 2026 09:34 AM (2Nfh9)

26 Forget the powder puff. Start with a sander.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (6/7Fs)

Spackle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:34 AM (2YhKe)

27 Sex worker?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 24, 2026 09:34 AM (6/7Fs)

28 7 yeah, i was johnny on the spot and ~they~ were already on the board!

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:35 AM (R11M+)

29 Sanding that face smooth would take a while. Better to start with a grinder.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 24, 2026 09:35 AM (J4Dwc)

30 Bloom is off the rose. Time is cruel.

Posted by: little people at June 24, 2026 09:35 AM (ehY6c)

31 Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida

Light in the parlor, fire in the grate
Clock on the mantle says it's getting late
Curtains on the window snowy white
The parlor is pleasant on Sunday night

Ida Red, Ida Red, I'm plumb fool about Ida Red...

Posted by: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2026 09:35 AM (4Iv8v)

32 Poor Ida

Posted by: Tuna at June 24, 2026 09:35 AM (lJ0H4)

33 Fell down the ugly tree and hit EVERY limb.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:35 AM (2YhKe)

34 Oh my gosh, veins upon veins.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 24, 2026 09:36 AM (ibDUx)

35 Ah. The famous Jake, from State Farm.

Posted by: William Kurelek at June 24, 2026 09:36 AM (UQj8B)

36 13 i think i read some of these took a yea r or whatevs. some of them are at art institute, i've stoof before them since lil'shit.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:37 AM (R11M+)

37 This is grotesque. Burn it.

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2026 09:37 AM (ZciVq)

38 Ida, a study in cellulitis.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2026 09:37 AM (afJtY)

39 She should send her soul back for a refund.

It was damaged in transit.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2026 09:38 AM (gnNyN)

40 Looks like a typical feminist

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at June 24, 2026 09:38 AM (ilHZO)

41 THE SMELL he cried. The smell.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:38 AM (2YhKe)

42 Looks like a typical feminist
Posted by: Drunken Yoda at June 24, 2026 09:38 AM (ilHZO)

I'm MA'AM!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:38 AM (2YhKe)

43 From Wiki:
Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (February 20, 1897 – November 18, 1983) was an American painter, sculptor and print-maker most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes.[1] Due to his technique and dark subject matter, he is often categorized among the Magic Realists and is sometimes referred to as the "master of the macabre".

Posted by: Tuna at June 24, 2026 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)

44 Why?

Posted by: Oglebay at June 24, 2026 09:39 AM (2ap+5)

45 I'm MA'AM!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:38 AM (2YhKe)
----
Now the truth comes out...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2026 09:39 AM (gnNyN)

46 perfect for humpday.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:39 AM (R11M+)

47 Well motttled.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 24, 2026 09:39 AM (wVcYX)

48 Some 'art' should be hidden away so deep, it's never to be seen again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:39 AM (2YhKe)

49 Starting your day with a quart of colloidal silver will do this to you.

Posted by: PabloD at June 24, 2026 09:39 AM (tTZHu)

50 Definitely a two bagger.

Posted by: Better make that three at June 24, 2026 09:39 AM (sUTO1)

51 ----
Now the truth comes out...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2026 09:39 AM (gnNyN)

I regret not using quotes.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:39 AM (2YhKe)

52 Absolutely hideous art.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 24, 2026 09:40 AM (qBdHI)

53 What fascinates me about Albright is that his talent is undeniable. And he chooses to paint these incredibly depressing and unflattering pieces.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 24, 2026 09:40 AM (PLxDd)

54 Starting your day with a quart of colloidal silver will do this to you.
Posted by: PabloD at June 24, 2026 09:39 AM (tTZHu)

I know a couple taking that. They've had more health issues over the past year than anyone I know.

"Here! Try it!"

"um.........."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:40 AM (2YhKe)

55 Willowed:

The why is gas still expensive when oil is cheap thing is asked every time there’s a sudden oil spike and oil drop. The answer is always the same. And no it’s not some collusion by Exxon and Shell.

Posted by: Heroq at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (rjPWf)
==
Gas is a cash business, even the big guys have to pay for each tanker of fuel as it is received. Thus, you need to make sure you have enough cash received from the last tank to pay for the next one. So by default, prices rise quickly and fall slowly. Of course, some do try and take advantage. They usually quickly run out of customers.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 24, 2026 09:40 AM (GZYu7)

56 Ida was a ho.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 24, 2026 09:40 AM (amcLV)

57 And he chooses to paint these incredibly depressing and unflattering pieces.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 24, 2026 09:40 AM (PLxDd)

You're being very polite.

What gives?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:40 AM (2YhKe)

58 43. Magic Realists. Sounds like the Democrats.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 24, 2026 09:41 AM (k3af6)

59
100 comment rule SHATTERED.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:41 AM (2YhKe)

60 The morning sun, when it's in your face, really shows your age.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 24, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX)

61 Alternate title:

A Night With Hunter

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:42 AM (2YhKe)

62 Ivan really shouldn't use models recommended by the Richard Upton Pickman Agency.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2026 09:43 AM (gnNyN)

63 At first I thought it was a cross dressing George Washington...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2026 09:43 AM (91qhl)

64 Who commissioned this?

Hang them at dawn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:43 AM (2YhKe)

65 A Night With Hunter
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:42 AM (2YhKe)
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No Jello!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 24, 2026 09:43 AM (amcLV)

66 No Jello!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 24, 2026 09:43 AM (amcLV)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:43 AM (2YhKe)

67 my dad warned me about this. "the problem with women, son..." mom was 25yrs his junior.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:43 AM (R11M+)

68 Oh holy crap. This is NOT what y' wanna wake up to. Ida? … yeah, as in 'Ida Voider' …

Posted by: Dr_No at June 24, 2026 09:44 AM (ayRl+)

69 What fascinates me about Albright is that his talent is undeniable. And he chooses to paint these incredibly depressing and unflattering pieces.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 24, 2026 09:40 AM (PLxDd)
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Yeah, right?
-Shel Silverstein

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2026 09:44 AM (mWKAz)

70 At first I thought it was a cross dressing George Washington...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2026 09:43 AM (91qhl)

Kinda Mr. Inbetween in drag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:44 AM (2YhKe)

71 my dad warned me about this. "the problem with women, son..." mom was 25yrs his junior.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:43 AM (R11M+)

Momma told me not to come.

Posted by: Three Dog Night at June 24, 2026 09:45 AM (2YhKe)

72 "The horror … the horror … " — Col. Kurtz

Posted by: Dr_No at June 24, 2026 09:45 AM (ayRl+)

73 A chimney sweep?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2026 09:45 AM (T6aVk)

74 Hell-Granny!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 24, 2026 09:45 AM (cWLG3)

75 Ida don't want that on my walls...

Posted by: Boswell at June 24, 2026 09:46 AM (NTVPI)

76 Alternate title:

"Too Many Stirred Manhattans Ruin Your Looks, Your Soul, Cause Blindness, and Impair Your Judgement About Good Art"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2026 09:46 AM (iJfKG)

77 In before the Rocky Horror Picture Show........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:46 AM (2YhKe)

78 The painting looks a little like collage. The chair is impossibly small. I guess the rubbery looking cash is her pickleball winnings.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 24, 2026 09:46 AM (2ap+5)

79 70 i tried searching that up the day after i heard about it. "man in the middle" didn't work until i added australia and then got the hit. great, great series.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:46 AM (R11M+)

80 Dogs Playing Poker is not depressing. Just sayin.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2026 09:47 AM (T6aVk)

81 my dad warned me about this. "the problem with women, son..." mom was 25yrs his junior.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:43 AM (R11M+)

Momma told me not to come.
Posted by: Three Dog Night at June 24, 2026 09:45 AM (2YhKe)

My momma told me you better shop around.

Posted by: The Miracles at June 24, 2026 09:47 AM (wVcYX)

82 Alternate title:

"When The Botox Wears Off"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2026 09:47 AM (iJfKG)

83 i tried searching that up the day after i heard about it. "man in the middle" didn't work until i added australia and then got the hit. great, great series.
Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:46 AM (R11M+)

We had to look up the brother to see whether he was actually sick or not. That dude did a PHENOMENAL job in that role.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:47 AM (2YhKe)

84 And they say Hitler was a failed artist?

What Eldritch horror splashed this monstrosity on to canvas?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2026 09:48 AM (73/SM)

85 69 What fascinates me about Albright is that his talent is undeniable. And he chooses to paint these incredibly depressing and unflattering pieces.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 24, 2026 09:40 AM (PLxDd)
=====

Yeah, right?
-Shel Silverstein
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2026 09:44 AM (mWKAz)

Hold my beer.

Posted by: Steven John Wilson at June 24, 2026 09:48 AM (T6aVk)

86 81 momma told me there'd be days like this.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:48 AM (R11M+)

87 Cellu-Lite!!!!

Posted by: Jimmie Walker at June 24, 2026 09:48 AM (w9Wax)

88 83 just remarkable.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 09:49 AM (R11M+)

89 Cellu-Lite!!!!

Posted by: Jimmie Walker at June 24, 2026 09:48 AM (w9Wax)

Thread winner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:49 AM (2YhKe)

90 Cruel, just cruel.

Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2026 09:49 AM (byXQ4)

91
For everyone there's a perfect soulmate...

Cue the naked, fat guy sitting on an ottoman.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2026 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

92 This is the movie poster for Joaquin Phoenix's 'The Joker' right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:50 AM (2YhKe)

93 Gas is a cash business, even the big guys have to pay for each tanker of fuel as it is received. Thus, you need to make sure you have enough cash received from the last tank to pay for the next one. So by default, prices rise quickly and fall slowly. Of course, some do try and take advantage. They usually quickly run out of customers.
Posted by: Black JEM at June 24, 2026 09:40 AM (GZYu7)

And gas stations don’t make money off of the gas. There is a reason why fully automated gas stations seldom work.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2026 09:51 AM (T6aVk)

94 After this, we deserve a week's worth of Dogs Playing Poker.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 24, 2026 09:51 AM (0bjKf)

95 Ida says, "It's not a tumah!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 24, 2026 09:51 AM (O7YUW)

96 Ida? More like Iwouldn'ta.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2026 09:52 AM (viF8m)

97 Wait.......It's Robert DeNiro in "Cape Fear."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:52 AM (2YhKe)

98 Delta Dawn in Repose

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 24, 2026 09:52 AM (wVcYX)

99 99

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:53 AM (2YhKe)

100 Ida says, "It's not a tumah!"
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 24, 2026 09:51 AM (O7YUW)

Ida get to the choppah!

Posted by: Boswell at June 24, 2026 09:53 AM (NTVPI)

101 😬 Right off the bat, pass hanging but here's the story -

Art Institute Chicago,
Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida
Date: 1929–30
Artist: Ivan Albright (American, 1897–1983)

About this artwork
Holding a mirror, powdering her chest, and surrounded with accoutrements of fashion and beauty, the figure portrayed here does not necessarily inspire thoughts of youth and vibrancy. Rather, as one critic put it when this painting was first exhibited, he saw a “woman with flesh the color of a corpse drowned six weeks.” Ida Rogers herself was 19 years old at the time she posed for the artist. With his hyperbolic version of realism, Ivan Albright laboriously transformed his sitter into a vision of his own making. The painting is less a portrait than a meticulous musing on the passage of time and the relationship—both powerful and fragile—between mind and body.

Also: Fleshing Out Ivan Albright
In part, "At a base hospital in France a surgeon put Albright’s drawing ability to use, employing him as a medical draftsman documenting the wounds and injuries of soldiers returning from the front." WWI
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Sunshine and blue skies, but today still has the feeling of an off day.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2026 09:53 AM (NFX2v)

102 She does have an amount of definition to her legs.

For certain definitions of "definition".

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 24, 2026 09:55 AM (w9Wax)

103 Alternate title:

"Ida And Her Cancer Finally Reached An Agreement. Cancer Gets Everything Below The Waist, Old Age Gets Everything Above"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2026 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

104 San Franpsycho disagree on art being ugly
Goya didn't always paint pretty pictures but are very important

Posted by: Skip at June 24, 2026 09:55 AM (sgkY8)

105 Ida Rogers herself was 19 years old at the time she posed for the artist.

What the f*ck did she do to deserve such treatment by the artist?

She should've kneecapped him for that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:55 AM (2YhKe)

106 Was Ida a ‘ho?

Posted by: Bulg at June 24, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

107 Thanks for the art commentary from the Art Institute of Chicago, L.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2026 09:56 AM (Nx5jP)

108 Artist is asshoe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:57 AM (2YhKe)

109 Was Ida a ‘ho?
Posted by: Bulg

Her skin was made from Ida'ho potatoes.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 24, 2026 09:57 AM (w9Wax)

110 14 Bish stole my legs
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM (J4Dwc)

15 Gah! Looks like Hillary Clinton.
Would hang the artist.
Posted by: PabloD at June 24, 2026 09:33 AM

Hordemind...beautiful and terrible.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 24, 2026 09:57 AM (bFu5X)

111 This is why so much of 20th century art pisses me off. An artist with obvious talent (look at the table and accoutrements and the chair) chooses to show the ugly side of everything. This is not the tragic quality of Rodin's sculpture "La Belle qui fut heaulmière" denoting age and loss. This 'art' emphasizes ugliness and lack of awareness with no redeeming aspects. The blocky, lumpy body and features in colors that are unfit for the living flesh, the confidant posture that belies the reality of her appearance, and the lack of any real femininity remaining are completely unattractive. A rotting corpse applying makeup to cover up the decay.

It's one thing to use art to demonstrate vanity and lack of awareness. It's another to make the image so repulsive, deliberately, that it drives the audience away.

Posted by: JTB at June 24, 2026 09:57 AM (yTvNw)

112
Hordemind...beautiful and terrible.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 24, 2026 09:57 AM (bFu5X)

Disturbing. Disturbing comes to mind.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:58 AM (2YhKe)

113 She didn't pick pickleball life, pickleball life chose her.

It is a hard life, it is not a long one.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2026 09:58 AM (rbvCR)

114 Was Ida a ‘ho?
Posted by: Bulg at June 24, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

Ida know...maybe

Posted by: Boswell at June 24, 2026 09:58 AM (NTVPI)

115 Of news headlines I never had on my bingo card:

Missing Texas Giraffe Found After Extensive Search That Had the Entire Nation on Edge

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2026 09:59 AM (rbvCR)

116 On Waterloo Podcast, points out many battle injuries got Sketches, often by name of the soldier.

Posted by: Skip at June 24, 2026 09:59 AM (sgkY8)

117 Does look a bit like Zombie Hildabeast

Posted by: Skip at June 24, 2026 10:00 AM (sgkY8)

118 Hordemind...beautiful and terrible.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 24, 2026 09:57 AM (bFu5X)

Disturbing. Disturbing comes to mind.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 09:58 AM

Comes under the umbrella of "terrible."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 24, 2026 10:00 AM (bFu5X)

119 I think I look quite sexy in this painting.

Posted by: Helen Thomas at June 24, 2026 10:01 AM (l3cgK)

120 Hell-Granny!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

Jethro would have never said that to Granny. He'd have been chewing on lye soap.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2026 10:01 AM (4Iv8v)

121 111 there's usually a pretty good crowd taking the details in.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 10:01 AM (R11M+)

122 This painting is a nightmare. The ladies face ugh… her legs even worse. What are those lumps? Cellulitis?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 24, 2026 10:02 AM (YetvJ)

123 Very odd-looking woman - is she really that blotchy? Bruises from a major car accident? Just yikes. (And I hate the color palette - very depression-era yuck.)

Posted by: GWB at June 24, 2026 10:03 AM (kU0PQ)

124 This painting is a nightmare. The ladies face ugh… her legs even worse. What are those lumps? Cellulitis?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Hillary without the muumuu.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2026 10:03 AM (4Iv8v)

125 I think I look quite sexy in this painting.
Posted by: Helen Thomas at June 24, 2026 10:01 AM (l3cgK)

Lumpy, bumpy, and squishy!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 24, 2026 10:03 AM (wVcYX)

126 Alternate title:

"Hillary Taking One Last Desperate Shot At Attracting Bill"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2026 10:05 AM (iJfKG)

127 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Impressive art. It is a powerful piece but I definitely would not hang.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2026 10:05 AM (2WIwB)

128 Looks like the movie poster for a George Romero flick.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 24, 2026 10:05 AM (PMi3m)

129 >>Bruises from a major car accident?

Bruises are from men pushing her away with 10-foot poles.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 24, 2026 10:05 AM (J4Dwc)

130 Re: gas prices

State taxes vary wildly. Can’t really compare apples to apples gas prices between regions. Even within states, cities and counties can add their own gas tax.

I used to live on the border of two states. Gas was always 30-40 cents cheaper on one side. Mainly difference in gas tax but also difference in minimum wage, property taxes and other factors. There were 4 gas stations on the main road, just inside the state line, 2 on both sides of the street. Always packed with cars from the other side. Funny thing was all 4 always had the exact same price. One would raise price by 2 cents the other 3 would match. One would lower by 5 cents the others would match it.

Posted by: Heroq at June 24, 2026 10:05 AM (rjPWf)

131 Looks like she was embalmed with Yang Poon embalming fluid from Temu.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2026 10:05 AM (1z8ji)

132 Wrong window.

*hops ladder to next window*

Posted by: Brother Bluto at June 24, 2026 10:06 AM (wVcYX)

133 She's nice and cooks well. You should meet her!

Posted by: Weasel at June 24, 2026 10:06 AM (1S3fY)

134 Ivan Albright hated women.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 24, 2026 10:06 AM (NpAcC)

135 Idaho?? No, YOU da ho!

Posted by: fly gal at June 24, 2026 10:07 AM (KDgJ1)

136 Speaking of impressive...Geezer Golf Update.
I had my best round of the year shooting an 88. But the star was Geezer Jim who nailed a hole in one! 147 yards and of course, an open bar afterwards.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2026 10:07 AM (2WIwB)

137 I'd like to see a photograph of the real Ida Rogers --his model-when she was 19.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2026 10:07 AM (Nx5jP)

138 I think I look quite sexy in this painting.
Posted by: Helen Thomas at June 24, 2026 10:01 AM (l3cgK)

Lumpy, bumpy, and squishy!
Posted by: Count de Monet

What is, "When you go home at 2:00 with a 10 and wake up at 10:00 with a 2"
Posted by Carnac The Magnificent

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2026 10:08 AM (4Iv8v)

139 Missing Texas Giraffe Found After Extensive Search That Had the Entire Nation on Edge
Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2026 09:59 AM (rbvCR)

It tried to hide itself in a herd of Texas Longnecks, but it was spotted.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2026 10:09 AM (1z8ji)

140 -Shel Silverstein
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Decades later and I still can't understand why public school teachers were so obsessed with that guy's dreck.

A small consolation from my public school miseducation was that I was never forced to read Catcher in the Rye.
And only a small bit of Hemmingway torture.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2026 10:09 AM (73/SM)

141 While equally repulsive to look at, this is a major step up from the vile dog vomit featured yesterday. This is actually a technically competent, maybe even masterful, peice of a repulsive subject, while yesterday's painting, heck, pretty much everything by Pollack, is literally "Let me splash some paint on a canvas and see what happens."

Posted by: tankdemon at June 24, 2026 10:10 AM (PMi3m)

142 Missing Texas Giraffe Found After Extensive Search That Had the Entire Nation on Edge
Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2026 09:59 AM (rbvCR)

It tried to hide itself in a herd of Texas Longnecks, but it was spotted.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

People were ripping the reporting on facebook. LOL

Biggest question was "how the hell is it hiding?

And "it has round ears? Perfect! That'll make it easy to spot among all the other escaped giraffes!"

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2026 10:11 AM (4Iv8v)

143 Missing Texas Giraffe Found After Extensive Search That Had the Entire Nation on Edge
Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2026 09:59 AM (rbvCR)

Would make a good Far Side cartoon. A cop talking to a movie theater manager, "no sir, I haven't seen a giraffe."

Behind them, silhouetted against the movie screen is the giraffe watching the movie.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 24, 2026 10:12 AM (PSEDc)

144 Happy feast of St John the Baptist!

In the town of San Juan in the Philippines, people will fling water at unsuspecting passers-by to celebrate. 😆

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 24, 2026 10:12 AM (dE3DB)

145 I had my best round of the year shooting an 88.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2026 10:07 AM (2WIwB)
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Keep working on fundamentals and I bet you can get that over 100!

Posted by: Weasel at June 24, 2026 10:13 AM (1S3fY)

146 That's worse than fat guy on the Ottoman. Nightmare fuel.

Posted by: Toad-0 at June 24, 2026 10:13 AM (cct0t)

147
Lumpy, bumpy, and squishy!
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 24, 2026 10:03 AM (wVcYX)

The forgotten of the dwarfs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 10:13 AM (2YhKe)

148 111 "A rotting corpse applying makeup to cover up the decay."
pretty much what we all are doing.
this appeals to my love of horror (not slasher) stuff.
it confronts you and makes you consider the inevitable.
mom turned 98 saturday. she's delightful, but it ain't purty.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 10:13 AM (R11M+)

149 144 Happy feast of St John the Baptist!

Great day for a swim.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 24, 2026 10:14 AM (PMi3m)

150 Due to his technique and dark subject matter, he is often categorized among the Magic Realists and is sometimes referred to as the "master of the macabre".
Posted by: Tuna

Anyone try calling an old priest and a young priest to see him?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 24, 2026 10:14 AM (6U1c2)

151 Further background:

"When Albright, who had developed a crush on his young model, presented her with a romantic poem he had written about her (“Tis Ida the holy maiden I dream of…”

, Rogers “started to giggle.” Embarrassed by her laughter, Albright immediately snatched the poem back and tore it up."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 24, 2026 10:14 AM (XvL8K)

152 Missing Texas giraffe? Heck, all we misplace here in Alabama are peacocks and the odd kangaroo...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 24, 2026 10:14 AM (OUMaO)

153 Yeesh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 24, 2026 10:14 AM (F8sQr)

154 111 what causes gawkers traffic at accident scenes again?

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 10:15 AM (R11M+)

155 Ida know about this painting, was she at Pompeii?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2026 10:15 AM (sUDUf)

156 Alternate Title:

'High School Beauty Queen Ms Ida Mae Coverdale Six Months After Going to Princeton On Scholarship and Joining Anitfa"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2026 10:16 AM (iJfKG)

157 Happy feast of St John the Baptist!

Great day for a swim.
Posted by: tankdemon

Keep your head about you when in the water.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 24, 2026 10:16 AM (F8sQr)

158 After seeing this tribute to revulsion, excuse me while I go look at some Wyeth (both NC and Andrew) paintings and the Alan Lee sketches for LOTR.

Posted by: JTB at June 24, 2026 10:16 AM (yTvNw)

159 Bish so ugly:
they had to tie a pork chop around her neck to get the dog to play with her.
Fed her with a sling shot.
Could stop a clock.
Make a freight train take the dirt road.
Make Medusa look good by comparison.
Could sour milk with a single look.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at June 24, 2026 10:16 AM (JNTt1)

160 88 is a darn good round for an am golfer, even on a muni… especially if on a muni because you rarely get good lies or predictable greens on a muni

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 24, 2026 10:17 AM (D2O3S)

161 Keep working on fundamentals and I bet you can get that over 100!
Posted by: Weasel at June 24, 2026 10:13 AM

Ha!
For which 9?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2026 10:17 AM (2WIwB)

162 Thought of another title for this painting: "Vanity After Nuclear War".

Posted by: JTB at June 24, 2026 10:18 AM (yTvNw)

163 140 uncle shelby's abz book was a staple of my childhood.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 10:18 AM (R11M+)

164 Cartoon Art Museum Curator Andrew Farago Arrested for Secretly Recording Party Guests, Including Children, in Bathroom
He is one of the wokies in File770.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:18 AM (CAahN)

165
"When Albright, who had developed a crush on his young model, presented her with a romantic poem he had written about her (“Tis Ida the holy maiden I dream of…”, Rogers “started to giggle.” Embarrassed by her laughter, Albright immediately snatched the poem back and tore it up."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 24, 2026 10:14 AM (XvL8K)

_____________

This painting likely stopped any potential relationship cold.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2026 10:18 AM (O0L8i)

166 Farago? What a virago.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2026 10:19 AM (sUDUf)

167 A small consolation from my public school miseducation was that I was never forced to read Catcher in the Rye.
And only a small bit of Hemmingway torture.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2026 10:09 AM (73/SM)
==
Catcher in the Rye is so bad I know it was on my HS reading lists and I remember nothing but this aching feeling in my head of how terrible it was, with no memory about any of it.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 24, 2026 10:19 AM (GZYu7)

168 144 Happy feast of St John the Baptist!

In the town of San Juan in the Philippines, people will fling water at unsuspecting passers-by to celebrate. 😆
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 24, 2026 10:12 AM (dE3DB)

Interesting (well, maybe not to you, but I found it notable)- while most saints get a feast day aligning with their death (they day they entered heaven) St. John the Baptist has an additional one celebrating the day of his birth, called the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, which is today's celebrstion.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 24, 2026 10:19 AM (PMi3m)

169 143 wouldn't work as well at mst.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 10:19 AM (R11M+)

170 >Happy feast of St John the Baptist!

In the town of San Juan in the Philippines, people will fling water at unsuspecting passers-by to celebrate
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beats lopping their heads off

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2026 10:19 AM (k8KoT)

171 88 is a darn good round for an am golfer, even on a muni… especially if on a muni because you rarely get good lies or predictable greens on a muni
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 24, 2026 10:17 AM (D2O3S)

I believe my best score ever is an 82 on a local track that's not all that difficult, but yes, the fairways aren't lush and the greens aren't overly receptive.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 10:19 AM (2YhKe)

172 Keep working on fundamentals and I bet you can get that over 100!
Posted by: Weasel at June 24, 2026 10:13 AM

Ha!
For which 9?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2026 10:17 AM (2WIwB)
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Front 3.

Posted by: Weasel at June 24, 2026 10:19 AM (PVV5z)

173 Mmmm. Yummy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 24, 2026 10:19 AM (g8Ew8)

174 Catcher in the Rye is so bad I know it was on my HS reading lists and I remember nothing but this aching feeling in my head of how terrible it was, with no memory about any of it.
Posted by: Black JEM

It's a big club.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 24, 2026 10:19 AM (F8sQr)

175 The model was 19 when this guy painted her to look like that apparently as a mediation on aging and mortality.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2026 10:20 AM (sKqQm)

176 Happy feast of St John the Baptist!

In the town of San Juan in the Philippines, people will fling water at unsuspecting passers-by to celebrate. 😆
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 24, 2026 10:12 AM (dE3DB)

As a prank, go to your nearest mosque or Democrat HQs and throw water on the muslims and/or Democrats, as they come out.

Then point and laugh and say-

"Ha ha! You've been baptized. Now, you're Christian!!! And there's nothing you can do about it!"

FIIIIIIINE. I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2026 10:21 AM (iJfKG)

177 Cartoon Art Museum Curator Andrew Farago Arrested for Secretly Recording Party Guests, Including Children, in Bathroom
He is one of the wokies in File770.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:18 AM (CAahN)

Of the Wales Faragos?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2026 10:21 AM (1z8ji)

178
Nothing extinguishes the spark of interest in literature more effectively than high school English class.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2026 10:21 AM (O0L8i)

179 Extreme Hakeem isn't extreme enough.

Townhall.com
@townhallcom
Hakeem Jeffries is in SHAMBLES as Mamdani-endorsed radicals seek to threaten his leadership.

A spokesman for the NRCC released a statement in response, nothing that “tonight wasn’t just a bad night for so-called ‘Leader’ Hakeem Jeffries...the Democrat establishment officially surrendered to Zohran Mamdani and the socialist wing of their party."

"Every House Democrat, in safe and competitive districts alike, will now answer to the radicals calling the shots."

"Americans should be terrified by where the Democrat Party is headed.”

–
@NRCC
Spokesman Mike Marinella

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 24, 2026 10:21 AM (ndZc7)

180 'High School Beauty Queen Ms Ida Mae Coverdale Six Months After Going to Princeton On Scholarship and Joining Anitfa"

I've seen people collect before and after woke-i-fication pictures of young women going to college and it is depressing.

Your physical appearance is not your moral worth but people intentionally uglifying themselves is sad. And of course the outside ugly reflects the far worse inside ugly.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2026 10:21 AM (sKqQm)

181 82 Alternate title:

"When The Botox Wears Off"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2026 09:47 AM (iJfKG)
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Nutty Professor's lab assistant been dippin in the stash.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at June 24, 2026 10:21 AM (JNTt1)

182 Reddit will conflate Farago with Farage, and off to the races of calumny we will go.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2026 10:22 AM (sUDUf)

183 I believe my best score ever is an 82 on a local track that's not all that difficult, but yes, the fairways aren't lush and the greens aren't overly receptive.
Posted by: Sponge
_________

Read somewhere that only 1% of golfers ever break 80 when playing strictly by the rules, no foot wedge.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 24, 2026 10:22 AM (XvL8K)

184
Your physical appearance is not your moral worth but people intentionally uglifying themselves is sad. And of course the outside ugly reflects the far worse inside ugly.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2026 10:21 AM (sKqQm)

____________

A real American tragedy of the last 25 years is that women have stopped trying to look feminine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2026 10:23 AM (O0L8i)

185 Nothing extinguishes the spark of interest in literature more effectively than high school English class.

The memory that haunts my HS English career is reading the endless Scarlet Letter. I know what New England looks like at night Nate thanks for telling me repetitively over hundreds of pages.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2026 10:23 AM (sKqQm)

186 >>> 176 Happy feast of St John the Baptist!

In the town of San Juan in the Philippines, people will fling water at unsuspecting passers-by to celebrate. 😆
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 24, 2026 10:12 AM (dE3DB)

As a prank, go to your nearest mosque or Democrat HQs and throw water on the muslims and/or Democrats, as they come out.

Then point and laugh and say-

"Ha ha! You've been baptized. Now, you're Christian!!! And there's nothing you can do about it!"

FIIIIIIINE. I denounce myself.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2026 10:21 AM (iJfKG)

Would it be wrong to use holy water, to see if anyone melts?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 24, 2026 10:23 AM (R+iUD)

187 176 As a prank, go to your nearest mosque or Democrat HQs and throw water on the muslims and/or Democrats, as they come out.

I would not suggest using hol6 water, as it would cause many of them to start melting.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 24, 2026 10:24 AM (PMi3m)

188 And now for a woman who's painted quite attractively by John Singer Sargent - Lady Agnes Of Locknaw( sp?):

https://tinyurl.com/mw3a9yua

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2026 10:24 AM (Nx5jP)

189 Oy

Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2026 10:25 AM (YwEeS)

190 A real American tragedy of the last 25 years is that women have stopped trying to look feminine.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2026 10:23 AM (O0L8i)
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One tat is one tat too many.

Posted by: M. Rothko at June 24, 2026 10:25 AM (rj6Yv)

191 St. John the Baptist has an additional one celebrating the day of his birth, called the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, which is today's celebrstion.
Posted by: tankdemon

A good day to sing (or listen to) the Canticle of Zechariah

Harpa Dei chant:
youtu.be/XwMeR5EnxzA

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 24, 2026 10:26 AM (4Ntlw)

192 DSA telling Extreme Hakeem he'll be the next to be removed for a more enlightened candidate.

https://tinyurl.com/3tfn56n2

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 24, 2026 10:26 AM (ndZc7)

193 As a prank, go to your nearest mosque or Democrat HQs and throw water on the muslims and/or Democrats, as they come out./i]

Remember how the story of that guy spraying vinegar water on a Dem congressvillain just disappeared?

For about a day it was the biggest news story with the subtext of "MAGA TERRORISM!" and then...nothing.

Was the guy crazy or some leftwinger pulling a stunt?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2026 10:26 AM (sKqQm)

194 Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 24, 2026 10:26 AM (wVcYX)

195 I believe my best score ever is an 82 on a local track that's not all that difficult, but yes, the fairways aren't lush and the greens aren't overly receptive.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 10:19 AM (2YhKe)

My best ever score is also an 82. On a short muni, only 6000 yards and par 70 but I count it!

I’ve played a few “real” courses over the years, notably Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill once each and Torrey Pines South twice. On all those real courses I was over 100…. The rough at Torrey Pines doesn’t look bad on TV but I swear that grass is made of steel… I could barely hack out of that stuff with a wedge

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 24, 2026 10:27 AM (D2O3S)

196 I'm sorry/ It's "Lady Agnew"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2026 10:27 AM (Nx5jP)

197 190 unless it says "property of..."

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 10:27 AM (R11M+)

198 One tat is one tat too many.

Of all the changes in our society from when I was a young man, women getting tattoos in mass is at least in the top 10 of "I did not see that coming"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2026 10:27 AM (sKqQm)

199 real American tragedy of the last 25 years is that women have stopped trying to look feminine.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Like the girl who flashed Charlie Kirk? She really kept herself fed.o

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:27 AM (CAahN)

200 Now, friends, before there's too much been said
Let's all dance this old tune called "Ida Red"

Posted by: Zombie Bob Wills at June 24, 2026 10:27 AM (8tSC/)

201 Speaking of impressive...Geezer Golf Update.
I had my best round of the year shooting an 88. But the star was Geezer Jim who nailed a hole in one! 147 yards and of course, an open bar afterwards.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2026 10:07 AM (2WIwB)

Congratulations My parents house that I've been cleaning out is on a golf course and my one relaxation this week was watching scores of golfers go by! A bunch use what look like motorcycle golf carts? those are new to me.

Posted by: LASue at June 24, 2026 10:28 AM (lCppi)

202 Ida know 'bout this 'n.

Looks like Ida failed to use that mirror when looking at the Medusa.

Ivan Albright was angry that day, my friends.

Gray and rainy here this morning. She fits right in.

Posted by: mindful webworker - all the usual commentary at June 24, 2026 10:28 AM (Is2cY)

203 I will chase this hash around the cape of good hope and the Orion nebula and through perdition flame

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:28 AM (CAahN)

204 Decades later and I still can't understand why public school teachers were so obsessed with that guy's dreck.

For the same reason that any 'art' deemed to be 'important' when it's shit. Because the sophisticates said so and I must ape them or they'll think I'm not sophisticated.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 24, 2026 10:28 AM (ExV1e)

205 "Nothing extinguishes the spark of interest in literature more effectively than high school English class.

Not mine. 🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2026 10:28 AM (Nx5jP)

206 Nothing extinguishes the spark of interest in literature more effectively than high school English class.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2026 10:21 AM (O0L8i)
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Depends on the teacher.

I had fantastic literature teachers in high school.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2026 10:29 AM (gnNyN)

207
Read somewhere that only 1% of golfers ever break 80 when playing strictly by the rules, no foot wedge.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 24, 2026 10:22 AM (XvL8K)

I wouldn't disagree with that. It's RARE that the average amateur doesn't improve their lie in some way a few times per round.

I mean, I've actually been "Mr. Rules Guy" and it cost me a 5 iron as I punched out and wrapped the club shaft around a t-post.

Not worth it. I ain't gettin' paid to play.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 10:29 AM (2YhKe)

208 From the Art Institute of Chicago's description:
1929–30
Artist: Ivan Albright (American, 1897–1983)
About this artwork: Holding a mirror, powdering her chest, and surrounded with accoutrements of fashion and beauty, the figure portrayed here does not necessarily inspire thoughts of youth and vibrancy. Rather, as one critic put it when this painting was first exhibited, he saw a “woman with flesh the color of a corpse drowned six weeks.” Ida Rogers herself was 19 years old at the time she posed for the artist. With his hyperbolic version of realism, Ivan Albright laboriously transformed his sitter into a vision of his own making. The painting is less a portrait than a meticulous musing on the passage of time and the relationship—both powerful and fragile—between mind and body.

He looked at a beautiful woman and transformed her into a vision of ugly vanity. Thanks, guy!

Posted by: AMartel at June 24, 2026 10:29 AM (otvi3)

209 The model was 19 when this guy painted her to look like that apparently as a mediation on aging and mortality.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2026 10:20 AM (sKqQm)

Did she knife him after she saw the painting?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 24, 2026 10:30 AM (ExV1e)

210 192 DSA telling Extreme Hakeem he'll be the next to be removed for a more enlightened candidate.

https://tinyurl.com/3tfn56n2
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 24, 2026 10:26 AM (ndZc7)

You mean to tell me that a party can select leadership who actually align with the ideology of the majority of the party members? Could somebody please mention this to the GOP?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 24, 2026 10:30 AM (PMi3m)

211 I know what New England looks like at night Nate thanks for telling me repetitively over hundreds of pages.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2026 10:23 AM

Do you have time for a few hundred pages discussing cetaceans?

- H. Melville

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 24, 2026 10:30 AM (bFu5X)

212 Fascism!

Molly Hennessy-Fiske [WaPo reporterette]
@mollyhf
The latest, updated a few times and with photo: Alleged antifa members sentenced to decades in prison over ICE protest

-
All they were doing was protesting and shooting pigs!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 24, 2026 10:31 AM (ndZc7)

213 DSA telling Extreme Hakeem he'll be the next to be removed for a more enlightened candidate.

https://tinyurl.com/3tfn56n2
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 24, 2026 10:26 AM (ndZc7)

They smell blood in the water and are going full steam ahead.

And our side is too pussy to attack them for their communist lurch to the left.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2026 10:31 AM (2YhKe)

214 American literature, in general, stinks.

Posted by: Bulg at June 24, 2026 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

215 And now for a woman who's painted quite attractively by John Singer Sargent - Lady Agnes Of Locknaw( sp?):

https://tinyurl.com/mw3a9yua

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2026 10:24 AM (Nx5jP)

With a look that says, "Why are you still painting?"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 24, 2026 10:32 AM (ExV1e)

216 Per the interwebs, Ida ended up marrying a Russian soccer player.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 24, 2026 10:32 AM (XvL8K)

217 Speaking of English one thing that surprised me after I graduated HS and started reading more broadly is just how much writing has changed.

One Hundred years ago authors assumed you were intimately familiar with European and American history and would drop allusions to things modern Americans have never heard of. Horatius at the bridge? Muhammad Ali in Egypt...and no not the boxer? And on and on...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2026 10:32 AM (sKqQm)

218 He looked at a beautiful woman and transformed her into a vision of ugly vanity. Thanks, guy!
Posted by: AMartel

Heinlein had a relevant quote- maybe he was thinking of this painting - Stranger in a Strange Land.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 24, 2026 10:32 AM (4Ntlw)

219 With a look that says, "Why are you still painting?"

Honey I'm only wearing 5 layers of underthings today...you know what that means!

Posted by: The woman in the painting at June 24, 2026 10:33 AM (sKqQm)

220 18-1, our shared culture does have Tolkien at least

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:33 AM (CAahN)

221 He looked at a beautiful woman and transformed her into a vision of ugly vanity. Thanks, guy!

Entropy is gonna win yo!

Posted by: Obligatory at June 24, 2026 10:34 AM (sKqQm)

222 27 Sex worker?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 24, 2026 09:34 AM (6/7Fs)

I think I'll keep my $20.00

Posted by: javems at June 24, 2026 10:34 AM (zFsEm)

223 "Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body."
Heinlein, SiaSL

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 24, 2026 10:34 AM (4Ntlw)

224 > this guy painted her to look like that apparently as a mediation on aging and mortality.
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and the natural process of decomposition
seriously is that Norman Bates' mother?

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2026 10:34 AM (k8KoT)

225 187 176 As a prank, go to your nearest mosque or Democrat HQs and throw water on the muslims and/or Democrats, as they come out.

I would not suggest using hol6 water, as it would cause many of them to start melting.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 24, 2026 10:24 AM (PMi3m)
==========
I'm not seeing this as a problem; a feature not a bug.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at June 24, 2026 10:35 AM (JNTt1)

226 Jason Biggs had a kid.
Kids mom is now sharing pics of her basically molesting him.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:36 AM (CAahN)

227 Ida was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at June 24, 2026 10:36 AM (ZeHnZ)

228 For the same reason that any 'art' deemed to be 'important' when it's shit. Because the sophisticates said so and I must ape them or they'll think I'm not sophisticated.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 24, 2026 10:28 AM (ExV1e)
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Clement Greenberg has a lot to answer for.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 24, 2026 10:37 AM (amcLV)

229 > American literature, in general, stinks.

Posted by: Bulg
---
Let's get Mikey to try it!
He won't eat it! He hates everything!

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2026 10:38 AM (k8KoT)

230 Ratshit Taliban is big mad that alleges ANTIFA (which doesn't even exist) were convicted and sentenced!

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
@RepRashida
These sentences are a travesty and totally unjustified, but that's the point. Americans hate the fascist Trump regime, so the only way they can try to cling to power is brute force. NSPM-7 is a grave threat to all of us and more bullshit "terrorism" charges like these are coming.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 24, 2026 10:38 AM (ndZc7)

231 >>@ChadPergram

>>Trump: Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2026 10:38 AM (viF8m)

232 At least Muslims bathe. But Democrats...

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:38 AM (CAahN)

233 Heinlein had a relevant quote- maybe he was thinking of this painting - Stranger in a Strange Land.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 24, 2026 10:32 AM (4Ntlw)

He was talking about a sculpture by Rodin.

This one, to be precise. https://tinyurl.com/y5jnfw2t

"Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl.

An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become.

A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist — a master — and that is what Auguste Rodin was — can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is… and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be…. and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart…. no matter what the merciless hours have done to her.”

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 24, 2026 10:39 AM (ExV1e)

234 After this, we deserve a week's worth of Dogs Playing Poker.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 24, 2026 09:51 AM (0bjKf)
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I would go for a reprise of Gaetano Bellei's "The Card Game."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 24, 2026 10:40 AM (amcLV)

235 Poll:
90% of people opposing data centers don't live near them.

But you knew that already ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2026 10:40 AM (73/SM)

236 Americans do have Poe. And some excellent SF. And Lovecraft and Howard and Smith.
The reason American letters suck now is because of publishers and horns 40/ fs

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:40 AM (CAahN)

237 *horny. Phone doesn't like the word

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:41 AM (CAahN)

238 Tweet from Insty:

The Democrats are electing America hating Communists and the Republicans are worried about the Filibuster Rule.

Think about that…

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2026 10:41 AM (73/SM)

239 234 After this, we deserve a week's worth of Dogs Playing Poker.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 24, 2026 09:51 AM (0bjKf)
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I would go for a reprise of Gaetano Bellei's "The Card Game."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 24, 2026 10:40 AM (amcLV)
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Or paintings of Elvis on velvet.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 24, 2026 10:43 AM (cWLG3)

240 Ratshit Taliban is big mad that alleges ANTIFA (which doesn't even exist) were convicted and sentenced!

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
@RepRashida
These sentences are a travesty and totally unjustified, but that's the point. Americans hate the fascist Trump regime, so the only way they can try to cling to power is brute force. NSPM-7 is a grave threat to all of us and more bullshit "terrorism" charges like these are coming.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I wonder why that isn't in the news and there's no GoFundMe for them?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2026 10:43 AM (4Iv8v)

241 226 Jason Biggs had a kid.
Kids mom is now sharing pics of her basically molesting him.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:36 AM (CAahN)

I think this is fake news. It's basically Page Six publicists outrage farming for clicks.

A lot of the Internet is basically people inviting us to be upset for the benefit of them and their advertisers.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2026 10:43 AM (AUL7F)

242 So Rodin sculpted when he wasn’t fighting Godzilla?

Posted by: Bulg at June 24, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

243 Good news, everyone!

Missing Texas giraffe found after extensive search that had the entire nation on edge

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 24, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

244 Reminder:

The reason the Uniparty vigorously opposes the SAVE Act has nothing to do with the ID or registration portions.

The part that has them recoiling in horror is that it grants a private cause of action to enforce vote integrity laws.

And that threatens all Democrats and corrupt Republicans more than anything else.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2026 10:44 AM (73/SM)

245 So Rodin sculpted when he wasn’t fighting Godzilla?
Posted by: Bulg at June 24, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)
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How a bird that big could get inside a studio is anyone's guess.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 24, 2026 10:45 AM (amcLV)

246 243 Good news, everyone!

Missing Texas giraffe found after extensive search that had the entire nation on edge
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 24, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

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Was it hiding in a zoo?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 24, 2026 10:45 AM (cWLG3)

247 The woman in the painting is doing her makeup before heading to the Dem Socialist victory party
Wouldn't hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2026 10:46 AM (aDqI/)

248 what was the Tom Clancy novel that featured a plot to fly a plane into the Capitol building?

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2026 10:46 AM (k8KoT)

249 PHV, also Thune can dangle it in front of small donors with the usual fake promises " this is why we need to donate to electable Republicans"!!

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:46 AM (lXQRu)

250 The lower you golf score the more you’re paying per swing. I shoot 120 so I get my moneys worth.

Posted by: Heroq at June 24, 2026 10:46 AM (rjPWf)

251 Khaaaaaan!!

Posted by: gKWVE lost his hash at June 24, 2026 10:47 AM (lXQRu)

252 Looks like all the Marxists won in NY
Will be fun to watch the train wreck coming

Posted by: Skip at June 24, 2026 10:47 AM (sgkY8)

253 PHV, also Thune can dangle it in front of small donors with the usual fake promises " this is why we need to donate to electable Republicans"!!
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:46 AM (lXQRu)

Election integrity is Roe version 2.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 24, 2026 10:47 AM (ExV1e)

254 what was the Tom Clancy novel that featured a plot to fly a plane into the Capitol building?
Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2026 10:46 AM (k8KoT)
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Executive Orders, I believe.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 24, 2026 10:47 AM (amcLV)

255 Read somewhere that only 1% of golfers ever break 80 when playing strictly by the rules, no foot wedge.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 24, 2026 10:22

That's the thing about playing with the geezers. They're a stickler for rules. No foot wedges, if you're 2 inches out of bounds it's a penalty, and no gimmes.
I am happy with the score and equally as happy that I started and finished with the same ball! Nothing into the lake.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2026 10:48 AM (2WIwB)

256 220 18-1, our shared culture does have Tolkien at least

well, at least the illustrated classics editions...

Posted by: anachronda at June 24, 2026 10:49 AM (sGtp+)

257 Read somewhere that only 1% of golfers ever break 80 when playing strictly by the rules, no foot wedge.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 24, 2026 10:22

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I carry an 11.2 handicap and have broken 80 three times. Golf is hard.

Posted by: ballistic at June 24, 2026 10:50 AM (oqH4h)

258 what was the Tom Clancy novel that featured a plot to fly a plane into the Capitol building?
Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2026 10:46 AM (k8KoT)

Is that the one hollyweird changed so instead of muslim terrorists blowing stuff up and killing people it was whitey running around killing everyone for the Fatherland?

Posted by: The Sum Of All Honkies at June 24, 2026 10:50 AM (8tSC/)

259 @197 the comments to that vid are great. "White twenty somethings trying to unseat on of the most powerful African Americans ever". Get em fighting each other

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2026 10:50 AM (aDqI/)

260 >>That's the thing about playing with the geezers. They're a stickler for rules. No foot wedges, if you're 2 inches out of bounds it's a penalty, and no gimmes.
I am happy with the score and equally as happy that I started and finished with the same ball! Nothing into the lake.

Once you get by the windmill hazard and the evil clown it's pretty smooth sailing.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2026 10:50 AM (viF8m)

261 A real American tragedy of the last 25 years is that women have stopped trying to look feminine.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2026 10:23 AM (O0L8i)

Some women have. Most haven’t.

I see well put together women every day. It’s the trigly puffs that stand out not the other way around.

Posted by: Heroq at June 24, 2026 10:50 AM (rjPWf)

262 Yikes, Ida is fucked up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 24, 2026 10:51 AM (snZF9)

263 Shake your booty!

What Parkinson’s Drugs Can’t Do, Dancing Just Might

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at June 24, 2026 10:51 AM (ndZc7)

264 Read somewhere that only 1% of golfers ever break 80 when playing strictly by the rules, no foot wedge.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 24, 2026 10:22 AM (XvL8K)
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My best score was in college when I played every week with a friend who was a legit golfer. Got it on the school's Big Ten championship course - 42-39. Legit score, no mulligan's. With old clubs, only a 3 wood and no spikes. It was glorious. Never touched it even on a muni later on in life when I still played a bunch.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 24, 2026 10:52 AM (GZYu7)

265 I had my best round of the year shooting an 88.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2026 10:07 AM (2WIwB)

For 2 or 3 seconds I wondered where you got the artillery from.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 24, 2026 10:52 AM (zafwz)

266 235 Poll:
90% of people opposing data centers don't live near them.

well, of course! they're opposing the ones what ain't been built yet!

(fair disclosure: there's a big one proposed for a neighboring town. they're also going to build an indian casino next to it. coincidence?)

Posted by: anachronda at June 24, 2026 10:52 AM (sGtp+)

267 A real American tragedy of the last 25 years is that women have stopped trying to look feminine.
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OTOH, when I was in school, just seeing a bra strap almost sprung a boner on some boys.

Now?

These HS girls have their ass and tits hanging out all over the place; makes my HS look like the girls were wearing burkas in comparison.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2026 10:53 AM (73/SM)

268 what was the Tom Clancy novel that featured a plot to fly a plane into the Capitol building?
Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2026 10:46 AM

Debt of Honor.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 24, 2026 10:53 AM (bFu5X)

269 It’s rare to play golf with someone who follows the rules. Once you start with mulligan per 9 hole rules, gimme 5 ft puts and shit like that, your score and handicap are meaningless.

Posted by: Heroq at June 24, 2026 10:54 AM (rjPWf)

270 167. Catcher in the Rye is so bad I know it was on my HS reading lists and I remember nothing but this aching feeling in my head of how terrible it was, with no memory about any of it.
Posted by: Black JEM

Yes. Depressing and confusing at best.

Wuthering Heights - The 1st and only time I used Cliff Notes in HS. Horrible, including every movie version.

The Bell Jar - more required reading; deeply depressing just about every teenage girl in the literature class.

Acting out Beowulf at the end of the semester was our reward, and truly the highlight of the year.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2026 10:54 AM (NFX2v)

271 Having defeated all pickleball challengers that day, Ida was preparing herself for the cornhole world cup.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 24, 2026 10:55 AM (fkjGs)

272 So Rodin sculpted when he wasn’t fighting Godzilla?
Posted by: Bulg at June 24, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)
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How a bird that big could get inside a studio is anyone's guess.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 24, 2026 10:45 AM (amcLV)

Same way an elephant got in my pajamas.

Posted by: Grouchy Marx at June 24, 2026 10:56 AM (zafwz)

273 236 boy's middle name is ambrose.
kinda hard to beat bierce for horror whether wartime or supernatural.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 10:56 AM (R11M+)

274 Huckleberry Finn is the most overrated book ever written.

Posted by: Bulg at June 24, 2026 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

275 Americans do have Poe. And some excellent SF. And Lovecraft and Howard and Smith.
The reason American letters suck now is because of publishers and horns 40/ fs
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:40 AM (CAahN)

Eh, the reason Am Lit sucks now is because almost everyone is writing for the movies.

Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with genre fiction.

The business of writing is to make money in the end. You can't write if you can't eat or can induce aa big Sugar momma to keep you in Brazilian Pizza.

But, writing for movies writing process goes something like this-

Think of a high concept
Mash high concept into genre and story easily turned into a movie.
Write well enough to get a Hollywood producer to have his people read it.

As you can see you're constrained already in how or where your story will go.

Gives a patina of sameness to every story out there.

Sad.

But there it is.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2026 10:57 AM (iJfKG)

276 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2026 10:54 AM (NFX2v)

Now try Virginia Woolf!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 24, 2026 10:57 AM (PLxDd)

277 Catcher spoke to me. It was depressing but shit life is depressing sometimes. Especially as a teenager. The phoniness thing has stuck with me all these ears and it’s there everywhere around you. Every politician, every TV ad, every social media post, etc. all bullshit and “phony” as Holden would call it.

Posted by: Heroq at June 24, 2026 10:58 AM (rjPWf)

278 One of the young actresses I follow just had a beautiful painting on Instagram so I had to come see what todays was.

I didn't expect to see this hot piece of ass.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 24, 2026 10:58 AM (Sco7b)

279 I'd hit it.

Posted by: a walrus at June 24, 2026 11:00 AM (7fU8L)

280 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 24, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)

281 .
NOOD

The Rant thread is up

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 24, 2026 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

282 my first thought was that this was painted by a gheigh...appears not to be the case

Posted by: Otto Penn at June 24, 2026 11:01 AM (sJHOI)

283 DEI has taken over publishing in a big way.

The shift over the last 15 years has been really obvious. Lots of women, minority, and gay authors who never would have been pushed before. And the insert of those kinds of characters too.

Horror, like most niches, has been taken over the way comics and rpgs have been.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2026 11:01 AM (AUL7F)

284 Jason Biggs had a kid.
Kids mom is now sharing pics of her basically molesting him.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2026 10:36 AM (CAahN)

I think this is fake news. It's basically Page Six publicists outrage farming for clicks.

A lot of the Internet is basically people inviting us to be upset for the benefit of them and their advertisers.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2026 10:43 AM (AUL7F)

I checked it out. She coddles and smothers the boy, clearly. It's not molesting. Just an overbearing mother, nothing nefarious.

I strongly suspect this is Biggs' PR guy & attorney tapping on media contacts to grease the skids on the guy's divorce with an unflattering story about the ex. NTTAWWT. You do what you can as a dad to level the playing field.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 24, 2026 11:01 AM (BI5O2)

285 235 Poll:
90% of people opposing data centers don't live near them.

But you knew that already ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Having newly built huge, ugly and forever unoccupied warehouses scattered through an area are far worse for local economies and urban decay.

Also, indoor commercial marijuana growing facilities require 10 to 70 times more energy per square foot than typical office buildings. Lighting accounts for about 38% of energy use, while climate control (HVAC, dehumidification) makes up the remaining 51%.

But that's okay because social justice.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2026 11:03 AM (NFX2v)

286 This is your basic 20th century influencer.
Teachers and Democrats loved him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 24, 2026 11:03 AM (lkdOl)

287 277 yeah, being forced to read stuff usually ruined it (esp. "poetry") and we read salinger too young. but it is a kick ass narrative of a tweaked mo.

Posted by: cmeat at June 24, 2026 11:05 AM (R11M+)

288 >>It’s the trigly puffs that stand out not the other way around.

Not in my case. I ignore the tatted tackle-boxes. Don't give them the satisfaction of noticing them.

An attractive woman, however...

Posted by: one hour sober at June 24, 2026 11:06 AM (J4Dwc)

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