CV - reporting for duty

[Guest]

Let us change the pace a bit, shall we?

Former world chess champion Bobby Fisher has appealed after a court rejected his bid to halt deportation from Japan. He is wanted in the US for violating sanctions against Yugoslavia and has been in detention since last month.

People, Bobby was playing chess match, not running smuggled guns and drugs. So, let us hope common sense will prevail.

Self-realisation: I have never been inside of Starbucks. I have never been to Disneyland/world. I've never tasted a smoothie. Perhaps, I'm the special one . . . Perhaps, I'm the new Jesus . . . Or, the new Che, at least . . . But then, it is quite conceivable I ghost-wrote the teenage porn best-seller One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed for Melissa P. (I'd save your money, if I were you).

 

[Guest]

End of.

To be continued.

 

[sincerely_helene]

cuntradicktion.

 

[shereads]

Re: Let us change the pace a bit, shall we?

Former world chess champion Bobby Fisher has appealed after a court rejected his bid to halt deportation from Japan. He is wanted in the US for violating sanctions against Yugoslavia and has been in detention since last month.

People, Bobby was playing chess match, not running smuggled guns and drugs. So, let us hope common sense will prevail.

Hmm. Let's calculate the likelihood that common sense will prevail.

President = anti-intellectual; brags about not reading, except for the Bible; admitted to Yale as a "legacy" one year before SAT scores were factored into the stricter admissions guidelines; no doubt tired of Bushisms and other smart-ass jokes at his expense; probably suffered father's silent contempt when he became a cheerleader at Yale instead of playing football.

Bobby Fisher = non-athletic nerd, commie sympathizer & fugutive who turns for help not only to foreigners, but to a country where president's dad suffered vomit-related global embarrasment.

Fisher is toast.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Let us change the pace a bit, shall we?

Hmm. Let's calculate the likelihood that common sense will prevail.

President = anti-intellectual; brags about not reading, except for the Bible; admitted to Yale as a "legacy" one year before SAT scores were factored into the stricter admissions guidelines; no doubt tired of Bushisms and other smart-ass jokes at his expense; probably suffered father's silent contempt when he became a cheerleader at Yale instead of playing football.

Bobby Fisher = non-athletic nerd, commie sympathizer & fugutive who turns for help not only to foreigners, but to a country where president's dad suffered vomit-related global embarrasment.

Fisher is toast.

Oh no!

On another front, as a war-time world citizen, I'll mostly be talking tough today.

"Edvard Munch's Scream stolen again!" cried the Norwaygians.

"Tough!" I say.

 

[shereads]

Lowbrow art criticism alert:






That is one butt-ugly painting. Why not steal something pretty, and sofa-sized?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Lowbrow Art Instruction.

This is Edvard Munch's “Scream.”


http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/ENO/SA024.jpg



This is not.


http://www.poster.net/scream/scream-2-italian-edition-3700163.jpg

 

[Guest]

That is one butt-ugly painting.

I happened to disagree. Munch's "Scream", I consider, to be one of the most powerful imageries our humanity had ever produced (Par with Francis Bacon's "Head No IV").

P.S.
V.B., as you are well aware, there are more than one version of "Scream" by Munch. (The one that got stolen had been a different version from the one got stolen this time around.)

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... Munch's "Scream", I consider, to be ... Par with Francis Bacon's "Head No IV"...

Me too, CeeVee, but I was never able to get past Francis Bacon’s Head No. III

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/bacon_head1961.jpg


Would the gentleman to the left be on Bacon’s “Head No. IV”

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/bacon_triptych1973.jpg

...there are more than one version of "Scream" by Munch...

Yeah, sure, but I’ve lost count. Wasn’t it four “Screams” from Edvard Munch?

One more than Wes Craven.

 

[shereads]

Wes Craven's screamer looks like a character in The Nightmare Before Christmas.

CV: Powerful and ugly coexist. Examples? Lions and week-old meat. Nixon.

 

[Guest]

Me too, CeeVee, but I was never able to get past Francis Bacon’s Head No. III

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/bacon_head1961.jpg


Would the gentleman to the left be on Bacon’s “Head No. IV”

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/bacon_triptych1973.jpg



Yeah, sure, but I’ve lost count. Wasn’t it four “Screams” from Edvard Munch?

One more than Wes Craven.

My mistake. I meant "Pope Innocent X" series.
http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/paint_study.htm

Hmmm . . . Powerful and ugly . . .

Female weightlifters?

Sumo wrestlers without the stuff around their crotch?

What about simply Kalashinikov or M-16?

 

[shereads]

My mistake. I meant "Pope Innocent X" series.

How did people acquire these nicknames? "Sulieman the Magnificent." Did their toadies come up with the names, or did they come up with their own, and put out a press release?

"Pope Albert the Wealthy will henceforth be known as Pope Innocent X. The name worked so well for Popes Innocent I through IX, it seems a shame to retire it on the eve of an unjustified and politically motivated investigation into alleged accounting irregularities."

It's downright Nixonesque. I'll bet his press secretary was routinely hounded to come up with something similar.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

How did people acquire these nicknames?... Did their toadies ... or did they come up with their own ...

And what about the dedicated anonymous amateur?

Who should get to decide what they are to be called?

Perhaps the appellation, Jack, the Ripper (considering he was never caught) can cause its owner no complaint because his true Christian name was slighted, but are we certain that mere ripping was his intention?

Perhaps Jack was an over enthusiastic performance artist trying to achieve a Picassoesque effect upon a human canvas.

But then, the world is so cruel to misunderstood artists!

 

[Guest]

Wasn’t it four “Screams” from Edvard Munch?

Officially, yes. But if you ask an art historian, he'll tell you there are up to 50 (dessin/study/unfinished, etc.).

P.S.
Apparently, high-quality photocopy machines are causing havoc with Dali painting forgery, costing fuckwits thousands of dollars.

 

[shereads]

Apparently, high-quality photocopy machines are causing havoc with Dali painting forgery, costing fuckwits thousands of dollars.

Also a problem are skillfully executed paint-by-numbers canvases.

 

[Guest]

A few funnies

1 - Mary Cheney (daughter of the Vice President Dick Cheney) is gay. Male role-model issue, I suspect. No equal rights for gaddamned gays, eh, Dick?!

2 - Mark Thatcher (son of former prime minister Maggie Thatcher) was arrested for his involvement in the failed coup attempt of Equatorial Guinea (piss-poor, but oil rich country in Africa).
Verdict: Kill him!

3 - Tony Bliar (the "out-going" prime minister) could be impeached for lying about pretty much everything.
Two words: Kill him!

4 - Terriroist!

5 - Just the one about funny Jews

6 - Oh no! Laura, don't gooooooooooooo!

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

CeeVee,

May we please finally agree to leave the Cheney daughter out of our discussions. She has clearly demonstrated her distaste for dick in any form, and can no longer be of any further interest to us.


While certain to be applauded by all Zero Population Growth movements, I can’t help thinking that your recommendations are a trifle severe. Then again, I am not current with the latest theories in penal philosophy. In fact, until only recently, I would have thought that penal philosophy was that discipline which asked such questions as, “Why do I have a penis?”

For that reason, I have paid scant attention to it.


I did, however, take the time to investigate at least one instance which you cited — Number 6.

. . . "In many ways, it emancipated women, letting them exploit their assets, earn cash and keep control. I see it as a modern art form." By which fuzzy logic, Ms Jubin, you'll also be classing prostitution as a modern art form, will you? . . .

Now you are confusing, high culture with performance art. The former is a sign of a sophisticated society, the latter is merely a survival technique at any level.

. . . As Virginia Woolf so wisely said, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.". . .

This, after considerable time invested in spying upon the habits of Jane Austin.

. . . "Once you're grey, no one sees you when you come into a room.". . .

Which only demonstrates the remarkably well-developed sense of property rights possessed by the average elder women, to not immediately turn to a life of crime as a sneak thief.

... a recent survey by Penguin books has found that eight out of 10 women judge a man by the cover of the book he is reading...

And why not? An ordinary man being observed with any book published by the Wall Street Journal demonstrates quite clearly that he obviously possesses a rich fantasy life.

... What book turns you on?...

A how-to book about controlling sexual addiction without resorting to drugs will always catch my attention.

 

[Guest]

Just wanted to post this somewhere. P.
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NY Times - WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 — The number of Americans living in poverty rose by 1.3 million last year, to 35.9 million, while those without health insurance climbed by 1.4 million, to 45 million, the Census Bureau reported today.

It was the third straight annual increase for both categories.

 

[Guest]

The last time that happened was during the Hoover administration!

 

[shereads]

Cheney publicly acknowledged that his daughter is gay and stated his objection to the gay marriage ban.

This is good news, but it's not.

It proves he isn't going to run again.

Which means McCain will.

Which means the fat lady is singing. This race is so over if McCain runs as V.P. It solves Dubya's draft dodger issue. It absolves Dubya of his smear campaign against McCain in the 2000 primaries. Cheney becomes the scapegoat-by-implication for Iraq, and his absence reduces the Republican's looks-like-a-satanist quotient (LLAS) by a factor of 200. It doesn't make Dubya smarter, but it reassures the many fans of his good ol' boy persona that there's a brain in the wings to feed him his lines. It also doesn't mean McCain will have an iota of power. This was Cheney's game and it might still be if he's backing out voluntarily. In 2008 McCain will run for president as the incumbent VP. Unless he's been photographed in a hot tub having sex with Colin Powell, and if the country hasn't imploded during Dubya's second term, and assuming we still have elections, McCain wins in 08 and appoints a passle of pro-life Supreme Court justices to complete the Fetal Rights Team that will take legal possession of America's uteruses.

And it's all the fault of his gay daughter! Well, no, it isn't. But if not for her, I wouldn't have figured this out last night and I wouldn't be so depressed today.




Sign on McCain front lawn: Soul for sale. Reduced.

 

[shereads]

Cheney publicly acknowledged that his daughter is gay and stated his objection to the gay marriage ban.

This is good news, but it's not.

It proves he isn't going to run again.

Which means McCain will.

Which means the fat lady is singing. This race is so over if McCain runs as V.P. It solves Dubya's draft dodger issue. It absolves Dubya of his smear campaign against McCain in the 2000 primaries. Cheney becomes the scapegoat-by-implication for Iraq, and his absence reduces the Republican's looks-like-a-satanist quotient (LLAS) by a factor of 200. It doesn't make Dubya smarter, but it reassures the many fans of his good ol' boy persona that there's a brain in the wings to feed him his lines. It also doesn't mean McCain will have an iota of power. This was Cheney's game and it might still be if he's backing out voluntarily. In 2008 McCain will run for president as the incumbent VP. Unless he's been photographed in a hot tub having sex with Colin Powell, and if the country hasn't imploded during Dubya's second term, and assuming we still have elections, McCain wins in 08 and appoints a passle of pro-life Supreme Court justices to complete the Fetal Rights Team that will take legal possession of America's uteruses.

And it's all the fault of Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter! Well, no, it isn't.

But if not for her, I wouldn't have figured this out last night and I wouldn't be so depressed today. Can we just have the apololypse already and get it over with? The waiting is agony.



Sign on McCain front lawn: Soul for sale. Reduced.

 

[cantdog]

That dumb bastard Prezdet Hoover!

 

[Guest]

Yo, Moomin,

Is it true American highschoolers learn about the World War I from watching Candie-Candie on DVD?

 

[cantdog]

Nah, they just plain don't learn about WW I.

 

[Guest]

Nah, they just plain don't learn about WW I.

They learn about Plymouth Rock, Valley Forge, the Civil War and Pearl Harbor. Oh, and The Alamo.

Perdita