Mid-Morning Art Thread

A Wheatfield, with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh

I couldn't find anything remotely interesting for Yom Kippur that I hadn't used before, so I figured I would plague you with one of my favorite paintings!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 09:30 AM (hGTKn)

2 Vinnie, did you just phone this one in?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 09:31 AM (hGTKn)

3 Tree says there's a joooo behind me

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 21, 2026 09:31 AM (d1RkJ)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V)

5 This looks like something from a Dr. Seuss book.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V)

6 Very swirly. Reminds me of 1970s art.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)

7 Very swirly. Reminds me of 1970s art.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)

A still from Fritz the Cat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (ccf/V)

8 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (2ap+5)

9 Meh.

I never understood all the hoopla with Van Gogh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (DpZaL)

10 Very swirly. Reminds me of 1970s art.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

BTO album cover.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (hGTKn)

11 The wheat was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at September 21, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

12 The Little Bush isn’t Burning, CBD.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 09:34 AM (Gqar8)

13 Children's book art. Nice.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (2Cry5)

14 The wind was swirly that day.

Posted by: huerfano at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (2Xqig)

15 It's a happy little bush.

Posted by: B. Ross at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)

16 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)

17 There are faces in the clouds. And boobs.

Posted by: Because boobs at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

18 Had a big print of this on the wall for a couple decades. Got tired of it.

Posted by: Lend Me Your Ear at September 21, 2026 09:35 AM (Fn+3X)

19 I never understood all the hoopla with Van Gogh.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (DpZaL)
---
The invention of the camera pretty much wrecked classical painting. Not all at once, of course, but as photography became better, faster, and finally colored, achieving realism was kind of pointless, and the thing was to become more abstract or fantastic.

The final form is just throwing puke on a canvas, which is where we are today.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)

20 Lovely. The colors are gorgeous - bright and happy!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 09:36 AM (rOKnE)

21 Morning, Art Folken,

I knew this was a van Gogh when I saw it -- though maybe it's because I've seen it before, here or elsewhere. It suggests cool fresh weather and a nice breeze out of the north, with maybe a rain shower later in the afternoon. Possibly thanks to the blue color of the hills in the distance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

22 those arbor vitae remind me of hollie's armpits.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:37 AM (Bep7s)

23 I like this picture.

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2026 09:37 AM (Gqar8)

24 It's no Bierstadt.

Posted by: red speck at September 21, 2026 09:37 AM (Ve/HL)

25 Curvy. Simple and colorful too.

This was painted as therapy during van Goch's too short confinement in a mental hospital.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:38 AM (dM5CL)

26 One cloud just to the right of center looks like the Doomsday Machine. Or like a hippo opening its jaws, about to swallow something.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

27 Would Hang!!!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 21, 2026 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

28 Big fan of Van Gogh

Posted by: It's me donna at September 21, 2026 09:39 AM (+gK6I)

29 There's a lovely Van Gogh Down By The River jigsaw puzzle for sale on line for $40. Beats this one by a mile.

Posted by: Fine Art America at September 21, 2026 09:39 AM (Fn+3X)

30 Is this wiggly style the inspiration for those glass blocks they used everywhere in Miami in the 90s?

Posted by: red speck at September 21, 2026 09:39 AM (Ve/HL)

31 Too much gluten.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at September 21, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

32 I honestly cannot think of a place in my house where this painting would make sense. On the other hand, my life is best captured by Piranesi etchings.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 09:40 AM (2ap+5)

33 The pale green bush on the left looks as though it's perching on the ground -- like a large greenish buffalo grazing.

What can that dark rock at center be? A gravestone?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

34 This was painted as therapy during van Goch's too short confinement in a mental hospital.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:38 AM (dM5CL)
=================
Or, maybe not! I just looked it up on Wiki. show says three similar paintings form a series and two of them were painted after he was released, and I don't know enough to distinguish between the early painting and the later paintings.

Does anyone with greater knowledge know? Kris here?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2026 09:40 AM (dM5CL)

35 So, which one of those cypresses is the Turkish Republic of Northern Cypress?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

36 There's a lovely Van Gogh Down By The River jigsaw puzzle for sale on line for $40. Beats this one by a mile.
Posted by: Fine Art America

Endorsed.

Posted by: Zombie Chris Farley at September 21, 2026 09:41 AM (DpZaL)

37 Dutch Mental Illness Art is OK, but Scandi Mental Illness Art is paramount.

Posted by: Love Munch A Bunch at September 21, 2026 09:41 AM (Fn+3X)

38 The invention of the camera pretty much wrecked classical painting. Not all at once, of course, but as photography became better, faster, and finally colored, achieving realism was kind of pointless, and the thing was to become more abstract or fantastic.

The final form is just throwing puke on a canvas, which is where we are today.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 21, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)

This is probably the best description of the generations of art ever.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 09:41 AM (ccf/V)

39 I thought cypresses were to be found in swamps, not in the vicinity of wheatfields.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

40 Right and cheerful. Makes you feel good just by looking at it,

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)

41 It's nice and cheerful.
1) Are we sure it's van Gogh?
2) wouldn't fit my aesthetic, but would be nice in doctor's offices!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 09:43 AM (aJQbY)

42 Why's that guy doing the breaststroke left of the cypress?

Posted by: MkY at September 21, 2026 09:44 AM (+Pp+Q)

43 Dutch Mental Illness Art is OK, but Scandi Mental Illness Art is paramount.
Posted by: Love Munch A Bunch at September 21, 2026

***
Oh, yeah, that's right; Munch was Norwegian. The Scream was used as an example of art done by schizophrenics in one of the abnormal psych books I read as a college student.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:44 AM (wzUl9)

44 You've got me going in circles, CBD!

On your Saturday music thread there was discussion of Don McLean's American Pie, and someone (Whig?) mentioned that his song, Vincent, was a good one also. After listening to both songs and reading the lyrics and artist explanations, I ended up in a van Gogh rabbit hole. This entire adventure took the better part of Saturday evening, but it was worth it.

And here I am again. With Vincent. But you're not going to trap me again, mister!

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 21, 2026 09:44 AM (3ImbR)

45 Thx CBD
Always thought Van Gogh was great because he was simple.
Would hang

To all of the Jewish Horde a blessed Yom Kippur

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2026 09:44 AM (oUMhY)

46 41 yeah, i'd kinda like to be there. if there were plenty of cevapcici, lepinja and malort.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:45 AM (Bep7s)

47 I thought cypresses were to be found in swamps, not in the vicinity of wheatfields.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Yeah, you're thinking of bald cypress. Not really a cypress at all.
Think more Italian Cypress.

Posted by: MkY at September 21, 2026 09:45 AM (+Pp+Q)

48 40 I thought cypresses were to be found in swamps, not in the vicinity of wheatfields.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:42 AM

Or on a very specific island in the Mediterranean.

Posted by: Person who can't spell at September 21, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

49 What can that dark rock at center be? A gravestone?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

It looks like a darker green shrub of some kind.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:45 AM (DpZaL)

50 Thanks for giving us something to chew on.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 21, 2026 09:45 AM (2ap+5)

51 When I took the Brown Blotter, the whole world looked like this.

Posted by: Psychedelic Sidney at September 21, 2026 09:46 AM (Fn+3X)

52
Painted 1890. van Gough suffered through life. Twenty four years after this was painted, the first of two civilization-destroying world wars started.

I'm kind of miserable part of the time. But what if these are the good old days?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 09:46 AM (VWtfl)

53 45 gun, one bullet --> american pie

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:46 AM (Bep7s)

54 Why's that guy doing the breaststroke left of the cypress?
Posted by: MkY at September 21, 2026

***
There is the suggestion of a face, isn't there? Perhaps it's the Jolly Green Giant's youngest son. (I leave it as an exercise for the student to explain where Mrs. JG Giant is to be found.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:46 AM (wzUl9)

55 There is the suggestion of a face, isn't there?

Nah, I see head down, right arm coming in for the next stroke.

Posted by: MkY at September 21, 2026 09:48 AM (+Pp+Q)

56 I never understood all the hoopla with Van Gogh.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:33 AM (DpZaL)
~~~~~

This is not the best example of his work, IMO, but I really admire his art.

What I will never, ever understand is all the hoopla over Picasso.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 21, 2026 09:48 AM (3ImbR)

57 What can that dark rock at center be? A gravestone?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026
*
It looks like a darker green shrub of some kind.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026

***
Could be, but it's very smooth, like a gemstone. The other shrubs have some highlights and textures.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 21, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

58 I would hang this, in the hall outside the scullery of my country manor.

I like Vince's other Wheatfield better though.

https://tinyurl.com/426fzst9

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 09:49 AM (ZxPkt)

59 This painting is fine! Just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low.

Posted by: Feed Your Head at September 21, 2026 09:50 AM (Fn+3X)

60 53 "it's up to you and me
and who's to say...
these could be the good old days?"
- mark oliver everett

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:51 AM (Bep7s)

61 "The other shrubs have some highlights and textures."

We would have also accepted emanations and penumbras.

Posted by: The Judges at September 21, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

62 Dutch Mental Illness Art is OK, but Scandi Mental Illness Art is paramount.
Posted by: Love Munch A Bunch at September 21, 2026

***
Oh, yeah, that's right; Munch was Norwegian. The Scream was used as an example of art done by schizophrenics in one of the abnormal psych books I read as a college student.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Wasn't Goya crazy, too? Or did he just like to paint the inmates of insane asylums?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

63 62 st. hildegard of bingen.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:53 AM (Bep7s)

64 There's no wheatfield in Cypress. Heck, there's no fields left there, either. Just costco and outlet mall.

/ oh

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 09:53 AM (cGjQu)

65 What I will never, ever understand is all the hoopla over Picasso.
Posted by: IrishEi?!

Yes. I don't even think of that as art. A psychopath let loose with a paintbrush.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 09:53 AM (DpZaL)

66 goya adobe is the best adobe.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 09:54 AM (Bep7s)

67 you wanna see some freaky shit, check out Hieronymus Bosch

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 09:54 AM (ZxPkt)

68 Just as Vinnie was setting up his easel, a cropduster flew over spraying the entire scene in pesticides and anti-fungals. That's why this looks so fucked up.

Posted by: Round-Up Ready at September 21, 2026 09:55 AM (Fn+3X)

69 I failed art appreciation. I just see how hard it would be to harvest that wheat field.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 09:55 AM (UdrMW)

70 Wasn't Goya crazy, too? Or did he just like to paint the inmates of insane asylums?
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:52 AM

That was before he made it big in Latino foods.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at September 21, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

71 you wanna see some freaky shit, check out Hieronymus Bosch
Posted by: Don Black

One of my favorites.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

72 The clouds they were a-swirling that day, my friend.

Posted by: Roy at September 21, 2026 09:55 AM (qwype)

73 Couple jovial penguins dancing in the foreground would help this immensely.

Posted by: Happy Feet-Happy Life at September 21, 2026 09:56 AM (Fn+3X)

74 This is one of the more enjoyable van Gogh paintings for my taste. It isn't intense just pleasant and suggests a warm summer day. The curving brush strokes for the clouds and wheat convey a sense of motion from the wind. I got caught up in a close look at the brush work and how the colors were blended.

I don't know why this came to mind but examining the tree and bushes closely, they made me think of a Dr. Seuss illustration. No doubt a psychology paper could be made from that.

Posted by: JTB at September 21, 2026 09:58 AM (yTvNw)

75 >>>Yes. I don't even think of that as art. A psychopath let loose with a paintbrush.
~~~~~

His very early art is good (and normal!) and shows that he absolutely had talent. However, it's only his modern crap that we're constantly subjected to for some ungodly reason.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 21, 2026 09:58 AM (3ImbR)

76 goya adobe is the best adobe."

With or without black pepper?

/oh. Again.

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 09:58 AM (cGjQu)

77 It's slanted. Looks like a cypress hill

Posted by: 88C+u at September 21, 2026 09:58 AM (88C+u)

78 I have it!

Van Gogh had poorly made glasses that made things swirly looking.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 09:59 AM (SvJcA)

79
My understanding is that Goya turned strange during the Napoleonic wars. During the occupation of Spain, the French atrocities put the zap on his head.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 09:59 AM (VWtfl)

80 It's slanted. Looks like a cypress hill
Posted by: 88C+u

It's insane in the membrane.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (DpZaL)

81 bosch did not keep his rye loaves fresh.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (Bep7s)

82 Penguins In The Wheat was the working title for Faulkner's manuscript for the work ultimately published as Catcher In The Rye.

Posted by: Obscure literary trivia for $200, Alex at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)

83 so I figured I would plague you with one of my favorite paintings!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

A plague of Van Gogh? Not very Biblical.

*squints looking for locusts in the wheatfield*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 10:00 AM (bFu5X)

84
79 I have it!

Van Gogh had poorly made glasses that made things swirly looking.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 09:59 AM

-------

He painted with heavy metal based pigments, and licked his paint brush to sharpen it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 21, 2026 10:01 AM (VWtfl)

85 it's a goodie, CBD!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 10:02 AM (VyBeY)

86 >>>you wanna see some freaky shit, check out Hieronymus Bosch
~~~~~

An early Where's Waldo.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 21, 2026 10:02 AM (3ImbR)

87 I'd hang this one in a heartbeat.
Thanks CBD!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 10:03 AM (NnhvP)

88 King of the Hill - a limerick

The truth that had long been concealed
Has finally now been revealed
With this painting of wheat
Vincent's fame is complete
A man who's out standing in his field

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 10:03 AM (I0N4X)

89 There's no wheatfield in Cypress. Heck, there's no fields left there, either. Just costco and outlet mall.

/ oh
Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 09:53 AM (cGjQu)

There's one in Gettysburg, PA. *shivers*

Posted by: Zombie Gen. Samuel Zook at September 21, 2026 10:03 AM (wVcYX)

90 Well done CBD

catch y'all later

Posted by: Don Black at September 21, 2026 10:03 AM (ZxPkt)

91 85 radium dial company, ottawa ill.
supplier of westclox.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:05 AM (Bep7s)

92 and the Horde Commentariat seems frisky this morning!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 21, 2026 10:06 AM (VyBeY)

93 and the Horde Commentariat seems frisky this morning!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Just wait til we get past 100!

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

94 Would hang.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:08 AM (l3cgK)

95 Meh. Me, I'd put a chick in the wheat field.

Posted by: Wyeth at September 21, 2026 10:10 AM (2Ez/1)

96 94 would hang(ed, as someone here taught me).

Posted by: peyton farquhar at September 21, 2026 10:12 AM (Bep7s)

97 Morning, all.

CBD, JJ and all the MOT of the Horde: may you be inscribed in the Book of Life for another year.

I find Van Gogh to be overexposed (much like Mozart), but this is a lovely picture.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:12 AM (qRla/)

98
https://tinyurl.com/426fzst9
Posted by: Don Black

More lithium overdose indication that that one, halos.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 10:13 AM (NnhvP)

99 CBD I'm curious as to why you are drawn to this painting.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:13 AM (lJ0H4)

100 wait for it

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:13 AM (Bep7s)

101
Van Gogh. Overrated. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:14 AM (cI7ht)

102 So, a 100 comment pull in the first 10 comments, huh?

That took effort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:14 AM (SvJcA)

103 My understanding is that Goya turned strange during the Napoleonic wars. During the occupation of Spain, the French atrocities put the zap on his head.

All the lead-based white that he basically slapped on his paintings with a trowel didn't help, either.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:14 AM (qRla/)

104 Sidebar: Hamas allegedly built weapons depots across Europe, planned terror attacks as Oct 7 anniversary neared

Well, yeah, of course they did, yet the Euroweenies still support terrorists over Israel and import terrorists into their countries by the boatload.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (l3cgK)

105 Wheat Chex is noted for absorbing butter and Worcestershire sauce deeply, enhancing the flavor of homemade mixes.

Posted by: General Mills at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wVcYX)

106 77 ok. i stopped using it. i'm on "slap yo mama" now. although he same question still applies.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (Bep7s)

107
I find Van Gogh to be overexposed (much like Mozart), but this is a lovely picture.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:12 AM (qRla/)

__________

*splutters*

Sirrah! Mozart is not overexposed. On the contrary, every time we hear him we find new things to admire.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (cI7ht)

108 98
https://tinyurl.com/426fzst9
Posted by: Don Black

More lithium overdose indication that that one, halos.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 21, 2026 10:13 AM (NnhvP)

I like the bright, cheerfulness of the Van Gogh, but that one? Damn, it's too bright!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (l3cgK)

109 Hey, MP4. I hope this morning finds you well.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

110 107
I find Van Gogh to be overexposed (much like Mozart), but this is a lovely picture.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:12 AM (qRla/)

__________

*splutters*

Sirrah! Mozart is not overexposed. On the contrary, every time we hear him we find new things to admire.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (cI7ht)

Did Mozart ever strip down and run around nekkid? In that case, he was overexposed...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (l3cgK)

111 Sidebar: Hamas allegedly built weapons depots across Europe, planned terror attacks as Oct 7 anniversary neared

There called mosques. I'm sure there is a similar network here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (DpZaL)

112 So, a 100 comment pull in the first 10 comments, huh?

That took effort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:14 AM (SvJcA)

Given the attention span for the average Hordean is 37 seconds.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (ccf/V)

113 105 Wheat Chex is noted for absorbing butter and Worcestershire sauce deeply, enhancing the flavor of homemade mixes.

Posted by: General Mills at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wVcYX)

Then you add the milk to the bowl?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (l3cgK)

114 105 Wheat Chex is noted for absorbing butter and Worcestershire sauce deeply, enhancing the flavor of homemade mixes.
Posted by: General Mills at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wVcYX)

Nuts!

and maybe some pretzels, too. Pro tip: Cheerios absorb spicy melted butter best of all.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 10:18 AM (r7+Q7)

115 It’s

SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!
Best week of the whole damn year!

Whoohoooooo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 10:19 AM (W2Pud)

116 Nice, but it's no 'Starry Night', an' I tol' you dat f'true, yeah me …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2026 10:19 AM (ayRl+)

117 Sirrah! Mozart is not overexposed. On the contrary, every time we hear him we find new things to admire.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Preach it Hadrian! I love Mozart. My favorite composer. Never tire of listening to his compositions.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:19 AM (lJ0H4)

118 112 So, a 100 comment pull in the first 10 comments, huh?

That took effort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:14 AM (SvJcA)

Given the attention span for the average Hordean is 37 seconds.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (ccf/V)

That's only 3.7x that of a fish, I can vouch for the attention span of a fish. We had a goldfish that moved the rocks at the bottom of the aquarium around into a slant. I went in and leveled it, to which to goldfish looked at me and made what I can only describe as angry, frantic mouth and body movements at me...for almost exactly 10 seconds...then looked around with a motion that I'd described as "Oh, what was I doing?", saw the rocks below, and started moving them again...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (l3cgK)

119 102 lenient today, all things...

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (Bep7s)

120 Then you add the milk to the bowl?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:17 AM (l3cgK)

Rice Chex is the standout one for breakfast cereal application. Wheat Chex is for snack mixes.

Posted by: General Mills at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (wVcYX)

121 Or is it a cypress field, wit wheat?

Posted by: My Cousin Vinnie at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (k7GNr)

122 Wheat Chex is noted for absorbing butter and Worcestershire sauce deeply, enhancing the flavor of homemade mixes.
Posted by: General Mills at September 21, 2026 10:15 AM (wVcYX)
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Rice Chex >>> Wheat Chex

For wheatiness, I go with Nabisco Shredded Mini-Wheats. Much better flavor and absorption of the butter/Worcestershire sauce.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (FZ29D)

123 *splutters*

Sirrah! Mozart is not overexposed. On the contrary, every time we hear him we find new things to admire.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (cI7ht)

If I could go ten years without ever hearing Eine Kleine Nachtmusik again, it would be too soon.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (qRla/)

124 Well, CBD, you've posted a LOT of paintings over the years that require forgiveness. So ALL of those are appropriate for Yom Kippur....

(This one isn't bad if you like the style.)

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (kU0PQ)

125 Did Mozart ever strip down and run around nekkid? In that case, he was overexposed...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

His wife in the movie had a great rack.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

126 118
That's only 3.7x that of a fish, I can vouch for the attention span of a fish. We had a goldfish that moved the rocks at the bottom of the aquarium around into a slant. I went in and leveled it, to which to goldfish looked at me and made what I can only describe as angry, frantic mouth and body movements at me...for almost exactly 10 seconds...then looked around with a motion that I'd described as "Oh, what was I doing?", saw the rocks below, and started moving them again...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (l3cgK)

========

"Be a goldfish."
-The Ted Lasso Way

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (SvJcA)

127 115 It’s

SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!
Best week of the whole damn year!

Whoohoooooo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2026 10:19 AM (W2Pud)

Should I be watching my backside?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (l3cgK)

128 painted with heavy metal"

*looks for Loc-Nar

Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (cGjQu)

129 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Sure as hell, someone is gonna hit that damn tree with the harvester.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 10:21 AM (2WIwB)

130 Hey, MP4. I hope this morning finds you well.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

I'm OK, thanks. Doing some more edits and then a Book Thread post. Got laundry and dishes to do as well, so enough of a busy day to keep me from sinking into a depressive slough.

Hope you're doing well, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:22 AM (qRla/)

131 129 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Sure as hell, someone is gonna hit that damn tree with the harvester.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 10:21 AM (2WIwB)

I'd also watch out for the hidden boulders in the field...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:22 AM (l3cgK)

132 125 Did Mozart ever strip down and run around nekkid? In that case, he was overexposed...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

His wife in the movie had a great rack.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

=======

After Meg Tilly tore a ligament in her leg, there was an emergency recasting. Foreman brought out Elizabeth Berridge and Diane Franklin for the role.

After a few days of not making up his mind and the two actresses pushing for a decision, Foreman ended up saying, "Well, one of you is too pretty."

So, Berridge got the role.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:22 AM (SvJcA)

133 CBD I'm curious as to why you are drawn to this painting.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:13 AM (lJ0H4)

Fantastic colors, and the texture when seen up close is amazing. It is in the National Gallery in London, and I try to see it every time I am there.

Plus....I just really like van Gogh!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (k5CNB)

134 Thanks to Nurse, all of us Hordeans are VERY aware of sea otters.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

135 133 Plus....I just really like van Gogh!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (k5CNB)

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Yeah, but how do you pronounce it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (SvJcA)

136
If I could go ten years without ever hearing Eine Kleine Nachtmusik again, it would be too soon.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (qRla/)

_________

Yes, but after 10 years you'd find it good. Whereas after 10 years you'd realize that Also Sprach Zarathustra shoots the bolt after the first two minutes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (cI7ht)

137 A possible misconception. Thousands of Iranians were on the streets in Canada at a rally with Pahlavi and they were joined by Poilievre. They were not on the streets in Iran.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (UdrMW)

138 A Wheatfield, with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh

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

Questioning the Provenance - a limerick

The art critic felt like a victim
As if Vincent Van Gogh had tricked 'im
Whew! He sighed in relief
It's by Georgia O'Keefe
Taos: After the Peyote Had Kicked In

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 10:24 AM (I0N4X)

139
137 A possible misconception. Thousands of Iranians were on the streets in Canada at a rally with Pahlavi and they were joined by Poilievre. They were not on the streets in Iran.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (UdrMW)

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Well, reports are that the UAE has ground troops in Iran now. So, I wouldn't expect many protestors, at least near the Strait.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:24 AM (SvJcA)

140 So it's a trail mix thread?

Posted by: Just got here at September 21, 2026 10:24 AM (2Ez/1)

141 118 "es cap e"

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:24 AM (Bep7s)

142 Hope you're doing well, too.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

OK. My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday, and yesterday our son paid us a visit. So it was a good weekend.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

143 Nice pic. Seems balanced to my inartistic eye. Van Gogh's signature swirlies looks good for the clouds.

Bonuis Dies, y'all. Hard to get going this morning.🌞

Posted by: mindful webworker - alternately dimensioned at September 21, 2026 10:25 AM (MX7Zk)

144 124 needs a belt with hanging onion.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:25 AM (Bep7s)

145 135 133 Plus....I just really like van Gogh!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (k5CNB)

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Yeah, but how do you pronounce it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (SvJcA)

Like the Goch in this...
https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:26 AM (l3cgK)

146 after 10 years you'd realize that Also Sprach Zarathustra shoots the bolt after the first two minutes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (cI7ht)

Ugh, Richard Strauss. Just cannot got into him, even Rosenkavalier. I thought I might enjoy Salome, but that really turned me off.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:27 AM (qRla/)

147 I just had Rice Chex this morning.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:27 AM (ccf/V)

148 So, is it true that on Yom Kippur, you not only have to fast, but you're not even supposed to drink water?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

149 “ Yeah, but how do you pronounce it?”

Like all things Dutch, with a lot of phlegm.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (iA4/+)

150
OK. My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday, and yesterday our son paid us a visit. So it was a good weekend.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

Congrats!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (ccf/V)

151 I believe up until he came along and started to paint, nobody had done anything remotely like van Gogh. His "style."

That, IMO is what made him "famous."

Not saying he was great artist (I think he was) but his style was new and has been copied by others. There are artists whose work is considered "good" but have had zero copycats.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (2Cry5)

152 Beehoven is way better than Mozart in my opinion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

153 152 Beehoven is way better than Mozart in my opinion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

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It's pronouned Beeth-oven.

At least by the great ones.

And people need to really learn that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:29 AM (SvJcA)

154 painted with heavy metal"

*looks for Loc-Nar
Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (cGjQu)

Speaking of heavy metal.......

William Shatner is in the studio recording his latest heavy metal album.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)

155 The Immortal Guard are doing a good job of guerilla warfare on the IRGC and Basij. The regime is arming women and boys a young as 12 to augment their troops.

Those new and devastating weapons they have are probably detonating camels.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (UdrMW)

156 Morning.

Very nice art. Very bright, very colorful. I kind of imagine this being used for a book cover.

Would hang/read.

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (dpXJq)

157 153 152 Beehoven is way better than Mozart in my opinion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

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It's pronouned Beeth-oven.

At least by the great ones.

And people need to really learn that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:29 AM (SvJcA)

Noah of Arc? OH... ( Insert Ben Roethlisberger here )

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:31 AM (l3cgK)

158 Ugh, Richard Strauss. Just cannot got into him, even Rosenkavalier. I thought I might enjoy Salome, but that really turned me off.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Try his Four Last Songs. Sublime, especially the third song. I'm partial to the Kiri Te Kanawa recording.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:31 AM (lJ0H4)

159 A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, 1889
Vincent van Gogh

The National Gallery, Overview
Van Gogh painted several versions of A Wheatfield, with Cypresses during the summer of 1889, while he was a patient in the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Paul de Mausole, in the village of St-Rémy in the south of France. A first version, which he described as a study, was painted on site in late June 1889. The National Gallery’s painting, which was completed in September while Van Gogh was confined to his hospital room, is the finished version. He also made a smaller copy of it for his mother and sister.

The landscape includes typically Provençal motifs such as a golden wheat field, tall evergreen cypresses, an olive bush and a backdrop of the blue Alpilles mountains. Van Gogh wrote of painting outdoors during the summer mistral, the strong, cold wind of southern France, which here seems to animate the entire landscape. Everything is depicted with powerful rhythmic lines and swirling brushstrokes that convey Van Gogh’s sense of nature’s vitality.
--
A painting featured years ago within the Van Gogh Exhibit: The Immersive Experience.

It's touring again 2026, US & Europe.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:31 AM (NFX2v)

160 Take the 4K virtual tour of the Van Gogh museum. It's about 15 minutes. I'd link it if I wasn't a retard. Easily googled.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:31 AM (KC5Lt)

161 154 painted with heavy metal"

*looks for Loc-Nar
Posted by: man at September 21, 2026 10:20 AM (cGjQu)

Speaking of heavy metal.......

William Shatner is in the studio recording his latest heavy metal album.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)

In the original Klingon

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:31 AM (l3cgK)

162 Congratulations Bulg!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 10:32 AM (2WIwB)

163 Stephen Greene links to a guy talking about the new Greenland deal. Later, in that same author's post, he talk about the Administration's work on handling H-1Bs. Very much worth your time.

https://instapundit.com/824131/

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 10:32 AM (dpXJq)

164 Beehoven is way better than Mozart in my opinion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

Bach. Johann Sebastian. Accept no substitutes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:32 AM (qRla/)

165 BTW, the five tv news units that make up the video portion of the press pool have decided they will not cover the President at the UN in protest of CNN et al.

Trump should excise the cancer and replace all five with new media of his choosing. They weren't barred, they quit.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (r7+Q7)

166 Granddad grew the dryland wheat
Stood on his own two feet
'Til his mind got incomplete
and they put him in the home!

https://tinyurl.com/mzw6nrdc

James McMurtry

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (I0N4X)

167 Otter Awareness Week so close after the talk of sardines.
Accident? Or by design?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (2WIwB)

168 Thanks, Sponge and Diogenes.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

169 161 Speaking of heavy metal.......

William Shatner is in the studio recording his latest heavy metal album.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)

========

Christopher Lee did it first. And better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFbPiUEA62A

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (SvJcA)

170 Plus....I just really like van Gogh!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (k5CNB)

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Yeah, but how do you pronounce it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (SvJcA)

It'll always be Van Go to me.

("Guff"? Communist nonsense.)

Posted by: Robert at September 21, 2026 10:34 AM (dpXJq)

171 165 BTW, the five tv news units that make up the video portion of the press pool have decided they will not cover the President at the UN in protest of CNN et al.

Trump should excise the cancer and replace all five with new media of his choosing. They weren't barred, they quit.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (r7+Q7)

If you told them there were holes left open by some assholes, they MSM would be crawling over each other to fill them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:34 AM (l3cgK)

172 My Van Gogh painting . Cloudy Day instead of Starry Night. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (KC5Lt)

173 157 153 152 Beehoven is way better than Mozart in my opinion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:28 AM
++++

Did he ever get his face on a baseball card?
Well, did he?

Posted by: Lucy Van Pelt at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)

174 Bach. Johann Sebastian. Accept no substitutes.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I can't stand Baroque music. Too mathy, not enough emotion. Same to some degree with Mozart. That's what I like about Beethoven -- he brings the emotion.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

175 >>BTW, the five tv news units that make up the video portion of the press pool have decided they will not cover the President at the UN in protest of CNN et al.

So silly.
Who issues their broadcast licenses?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (rOKnE)

176 Speaking of heavy metal.......

William Shatner is in the studio recording his latest heavy metal album.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:30 AM (ccf/V)

========

Christopher Lee did it first. And better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFbPiUEA62A
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:33 AM (SvJcA)

Ninja, please...

Posted by: Pat Boone at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (dpXJq)

177 172 My Van Gogh painting . Cloudy Day instead of Starry Night. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (KC5Lt)

Those solar flares are a lot scarier

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:36 AM (l3cgK)

178 G’mar chatima tova

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:36 AM (NFX2v)

179 154 ya, the f*ckers or something, they played here.
supersuckers this weekend.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:38 AM (Bep7s)

180 Alternate title:

"Imagine a World Designed By God To Look Like Dairy Queen Soft Serve Swirly-Q Ice Cream"

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:38 AM (iJfKG)

181 Did he ever get his face on a baseball card?
Well, did he?
Posted by: Lucy Van Pelt

IIRC, it was "bubblegum card."

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

182 Vincent is a great Don McLean song.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:39 AM (KC5Lt)

183 Sad Mozart had such a short time to compose, and such a long time to decompose.

Posted by: Goodbury and Graves, Ltd... at September 21, 2026 10:39 AM (Fn+3X)

184 Vincent is a great Don McLean song.
Posted by: polynikes

Yes, it is. Much better than "American Pie."

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:40 AM (77rzZ)

185
SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK!

The best thing about Sea Otters is that they taste like chicken.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:40 AM (iJfKG)

186 I can't stand Baroque music. Too mathy, not enough emotion. Same to some degree with Mozart. That's what I like about Beethoven -- he brings the emotion.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

Oh, Beethoven is wonderful - my first record was the Eroica - but I adore Bach.

On another note (ha!), I mentioned Strauss' Salome above. If you can find the Marco Polo CD, Florent Schmitt's La Tragedie de Salome is well worth listening to. It's the 1907 score to a 7-scene ballet.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:41 AM (qRla/)

187 Seems to be a pleasant morning today for us. This lovely, peaceful painting. Earlier, while running an errand, we were going through a neighborhood that still has areas of trees, not just wall to wall houses. As we approached a momma deer and her fawn appeared and crossed the street followed by a yearling doe. The morning sun struck hints of gold in their coats. Not something we see around here very often. I stopped the car, blocking traffic, until they disappeared into trees on the other side. What a nice surprise.

Posted by: JTB at September 21, 2026 10:41 AM (yTvNw)

188
I thought I might enjoy Salome, but that really turned me off.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 10:27 AM (qRla/)

__________

The Salome Chord is great, though.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:42 AM (cI7ht)

189 "Sad Mozart had such a short time to compose,..."

He died so young. It's interesting to speculate how or if his style would have changed had he lived longer.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:42 AM (lJ0H4)

190 189 "Sad Mozart had such a short time to compose,..."

He died so young. It's interesting to speculate how or if his style would have changed had he lived longer.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:42 AM (lJ0H4)

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Just think of how much earlier we could have had disco...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:42 AM (SvJcA)

191 Is it possible that Van Gogh was the ultimate inspiration for the old 'Saturday Nite Live' SWIRLIES!? … Just askin' …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2026 10:43 AM (ayRl+)

192
The best thing about Sea Otters is that they taste like chicken.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:40 AM (iJfKG)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/xF77OXhCkfk

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:44 AM (ccf/V)

193 Just think of how much earlier we could have had disco...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

LOL

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 10:44 AM (lJ0H4)

194 Trippy

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 10:45 AM (viF8m)

195 166 that dude is my hero, sometimes.

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:45 AM (Bep7s)

196 Wasn't he the fella who cut his junk or his ear off over some love spat with a hooker and $20?

That would have made a better painting.

Posted by: Zombie Tom Kinkade, Boozer at September 21, 2026 10:46 AM (6VpiA)

197
after 10 years you'd realize that Also Sprach Zarathustra shoots the bolt after the first two minutes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (cI7ht)

"Also Sprach Zarathustra" is the polar opposite of the "1812 Overture" which meanders about aimlessly until it finally blows its load in the last couple of minutes.

Premature Composing is for chumps. Learn trigger control!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:46 AM (iJfKG)

198 Since it's the Big Day, might I suggest watching The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973). Contains a bubblegum scene.

Posted by: Classic French Cinema at September 21, 2026 10:46 AM (Fn+3X)

199 197
after 10 years you'd realize that Also Sprach Zarathustra shoots the bolt after the first two minutes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2026 10:23 AM (cI7ht)

"Also Sprach Zarathustra" is the polar opposite of the "1812 Overture" which meanders about aimlessly until it finally blows its load in the last couple of minutes.

Premature Composing is for chumps. Learn trigger control!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:46 AM (iJfKG)

I think there are meds for that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:47 AM (l3cgK)

200 Philadelphia Museum of Art is currently hosting Van Gogh's Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow, a rare special exhibition running through October 11, 2026.

The nearby Barnes Foundation houses a permanent collection of seven Vincent van Gogh paintings interspersed throughout his famous idiosyncratic wall ensembles,

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:47 AM (NFX2v)

201 One of my favorite Van Goghs is a little out of the ordinary for him--its titled "Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre".

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:48 AM (TN0g+)

202
The best thing about Sea Otters is that they taste like chicken.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:40 AM (iJfKG)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/xF77OXhCkfk
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:44 AM (ccf/V)

Holy Cow! where do you get this stuff?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:49 AM (iJfKG)

203 188 :salome was a dancer, she did the hoochy cooch"

Posted by: cmeat at September 21, 2026 10:50 AM (Bep7s)

204
Holy Cow! where do you get this stuff?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:49 AM (iJfKG)

They had a couple songs that got airtime back in the 90's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:50 AM (ccf/V)

205 Ny granddad actually did grow the dryland wheat north of Greeley, CO.

Also wore the bib overalls.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 10:51 AM (I0N4X)

206 Vincent van Gogh actually painted two distinct self-portraits showing his bandaged ear in January 1889, just a couple of weeks after the infamous incident in Arles.

Because he painted his reflection in a mirror, both artworks show the bandage over his right ear, even though it was his left ear that he had actually injured.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

207 Hey Sponge!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 10:51 AM (GlLw/)

208 Do sea otters taste like chicken or does chicken taste like sea otter?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (viF8m)

209 Hey Sponge!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 10:51 AM (GlLw/)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (ccf/V)

210 I think there are meds for that...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) a

There's this ad on WMAL for some ED clinic in the DC area. They say, "You'll see results right in the office!"

How does that work, exactly? Do they give you a playboy and send you to a bunk? Do the scantily-clad, buxom nurses give you handsies?

Not sure I want to know how they see the results right in the office.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

211 Do sea otters taste like chicken or does chicken taste like sea otter?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (viF8m)

Which ate first? The chicken or the otter?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (ccf/V)

212 >>>salome was a dancer, she did the hoochy cooch

Is that anything like an itchy cooch? If so, I have questions.

Posted by: Brooke Baldwin at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (J4Dwc)

213 One of my favorite Van Goghs is a little out of the ordinary for him--its titled "Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre".
Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:48 AM (TN0g+)

I'm still of the opinion that's not a Van Gogh painting.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:53 AM (KC5Lt)

214 Hey, SMH. I hope you are well.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

215 The msm thinks not covering Trump is punishing him?

😆

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 21, 2026 10:54 AM (iA4/+)

216 >>Which ate first? The chicken or the otter?

I know, right?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2026 10:54 AM (viF8m)

217 "results right in the office" - so, teenager "watching linoleum peel" level of reaction, they're saying?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 21, 2026 10:54 AM (aJQbY)

218 201 One of my favorite Van Goghs is a little out of the ordinary for him--its titled "Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre".
Posted by: Crusader

Yes, it was featured on this thread in the past, and was quite different, very nice.

(Awhile before he cut himself and was hospitalized.)

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 21, 2026 10:54 AM (NFX2v)

219 would hang(ed, as someone here taught me).
Posted by: peyton farquhar at September 21, 2026 10:12 AM

*wanders back in*

ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 21, 2026 10:54 AM (bFu5X)

220 Christopher Lee seemed to be an awesome dude.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (d7mRD)

221 Holy Cow! where do you get this stuff?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:49 AM (iJfKG)

They had a couple songs that got airtime back in the 90's.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 10:50 AM (ccf/V)

I'd have thought the 80's.

They sound like a mash-up of Devo and Wall of Voodoo.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (iJfKG)

222 How many stamps to mail an ear?

Posted by: Gone Postal at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (Fn+3X)

223 212 >>>salome was a dancer, she did the hoochy cooch

Is that anything like an itchy cooch? If so, I have questions.

Posted by: Brooke Baldwin at September 21, 2026 10:52 AM (J4Dwc)

Mike who cheese itchy?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (l3cgK)

224 Christopher Lee seemed to be an awesome dude.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (d7mRD)

Cliff Clavin trivia. He portrayed Dracula more than any other actor.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)

225
220 Christopher Lee seemed to be an awesome dude.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 10:55 AM (d7mRD)

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British intelligence during WWII.

Actually met JRR Tolkien randomly at the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford one day.

Almost killed James Bond.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:56 AM (SvJcA)

226 224
Cliff Clavin trivia. He portrayed Dracula more than any other actor.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)

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And hated almost every second of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:56 AM (SvJcA)

227 One of my favorite Van Goghs is a little out of the ordinary for him--its titled "Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre".
Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:48 AM (TN0g+)

I'm still of the opinion that's not a Van Gogh painting.
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Tell me more?

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:58 AM (TN0g+)

228 147 I just had Rice Chex this morning.

we'll alert the media

Posted by: anachronda at September 21, 2026 10:58 AM (v3pYe)

229 Almost killed James Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The ornithologist?

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

230 Cypresses require water more that wheat does.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2026 10:59 AM (LHPAg)

231 I just had Rice Chex this morning.

we'll alert the media
Posted by: anachronda

They'll just blame Trump...

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

232
British intelligence during WWII.

Actually met JRR Tolkien randomly at the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford one day.

Almost killed James Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 10:56 AM (SvJcA)

Due to that meeting JRR Tolkien was inspired to write his own spy novel-

featuring Tom Bombadil, "You Only Prance Twice".

Posted by: naturalfake at September 21, 2026 11:00 AM (iJfKG)

233 Almost killed James Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The ornithologist?
Posted by: Bulg

It would have been a cardinal sin.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (d7mRD)

234 How many stamps to mail an ear?

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What sized envelobe?

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (I0N4X)

235
we'll alert the media

Posted by: anachronda at September 21, 2026 10:58 AM (v3pYe)

I was just responding to a topic of conversation.

Sorry someone pissed in your Chex......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (ccf/V)

236 Vincent Van Gopher

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (Cqx++)

237 Hey, SMH. I hope you are well.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)
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I am doing well, thank you!

Hope you are too.

Spent the weekend with a friend from my church in Illinois.

I don't miss Illinois, but I do miss my church there.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (GlLw/)

238 They sound like a mash-up of Devo and Wall of Voodoo.

I saw Wall of Devoodoo open for the B-52s at TT the Bear's in '87.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 21, 2026 11:02 AM (qRla/)

239 Has anyone asked those cypresseses whether or not they identify as wheat before we went and made that title? They could also be turnips.

Posted by: HR Department at September 21, 2026 11:02 AM (7Q0e+)

240 I am doing well, thank you!

Hope you are too.

Spent the weekend with a friend from my church in Illinois.

I don't miss Illinois, but I do miss my church there.
Posted by: SMH

That's nice.

My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

241 235 I was just responding to a topic of conversation.

Sorry someone pissed in your Chex......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:01 AM (ccf/V)

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Everything in the comments section must be of great historical import, Sponge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (SvJcA)

242 He portrayed Dracula more than any other actor.
Posted by: polynikes
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And hated almost every second of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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He really sucked at it.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (I0N4X)

243 Tell me more?
Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:58 AM (TN0g+)

It was decades before they finally authenticated it as a Van Gogh though other experts still disagreed. For me, the one thing Van Gogh did expertly was proportion. This painting is proportionally off to me. Also his background figures were never as amateurish as the one in this painting. Lastly he never used a palette knife to scratch in straight lines , etc. maybe this was a one off for him as he experimented.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (KC5Lt)

244 Ah...Bach!

Posted by: Radar O'Reilly at September 21, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1)

245
242 He portrayed Dracula more than any other actor.
Posted by: polynikes
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And hated almost every second of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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He really sucked at it.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (I0N4X)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:04 AM (SvJcA)

246 Nood H1-B

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2026 11:04 AM (lJ0H4)

247 Leastwise, it's not Ruler Art.

Posted by: Circle Jerk at September 21, 2026 11:06 AM (Fn+3X)

248 My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday.
Posted by: Bulg

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Congratulations!
So you married when you were one year old?

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (I0N4X)

249 Tell me more?
Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 10:58 AM (TN0g+)

It was decades before they finally authenticated it as a Van Gogh though other experts still disagreed. For me, the one thing Van Gogh did expertly was proportion. This painting is proportionally off to me. Also his background figures were never as amateurish as the one in this painting. Lastly he never used a palette knife to scratch in straight lines , etc. maybe this was a one off for him as he experimented.
Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (KC5Lt)

Thank you--now I'm going to have to do some reading on this subject!

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (TN0g+)

250 My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday.
Posted by: Bulg at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ)
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Awww...Congratulations to the both of you!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 21, 2026 11:07 AM (GlLw/)

251 My wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary on Saturday.
Posted by: Bulg

Congratulations!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 21, 2026 11:08 AM (hGTKn)

252 Ah...Bach!
Posted by: Radar O'Reilly
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*golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at September 21, 2026 11:10 AM (TN0g+)

253 This is an oil painting, but it looks like a watercolor to me.

Congratulations, Bulg, and to your wife. May you continue to deserve one another.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2026 11:11 AM (dLfW+)

254 I have a close elder friend, he's 91 now, I think. Started painting in his late 60's. He does a lot of Van Gogh imitative things. I think of him as the grandma Moses of Madison county NC. Worth a peek:

https://www.paintingsbycalvinedneyjr.com/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 11:12 AM (XeU6L)

255
Everything in the comments section must be of great historical import, Sponge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 21, 2026 11:03 AM (SvJcA)

How dare I.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 21, 2026 11:14 AM (ccf/V)

256 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2026 11:12 AM (XeU6L)

I think you linked this in the past because I remember commenting on how much I liked it.

Posted by: polynikes at September 21, 2026 11:15 AM (KC5Lt)

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