I must admit, it’s a big week around here. The college football season begins in a big way this weekend. I resolve, as usual, not to wind up like Arlo above. I know it’s all a big racket, and I’ve certainly been critical of big-time college sports in the strip over the years, but then, doggone it, my alma mater has a year like last year. It certainly was one of the most interesting seasons ever; even non-sports fans were watching the replays and talking about the end of the Auburn-Alabama game. It’s going to be another exciting year for us, I think, but there’ll never be another last year.
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“Many new ones [homes, institutions, businesses, have a single handle . . .. ”
“. . . businesses,] . . ..”, dammit. Closing ( ) or [ ] is my most common typo.
Ohhh, I see. So that’s why I’ve been seeing various articles and preseason polls related to college football on the InterWebnet. Tempus fugit. Or, if you prefer, “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
IT’S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER !!!
WAR EAGLE !!!
GO BIG BLUE !!!
ROAST THE HOGS !!!
The only good news is that the Razorbacks have beat Auburn at home 3 of the past four times they played. The point spread is 19 points in Auburn’s favor. I was surprised to see the number of Thursday games. I guess all the schools want to get that first game finished.
Here is a chance for the pedantic among you to lecture on the difference btw. pokies and the real thing.
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/#.U_31Umd0wcA
Another web site will follow. Peace, emb
Here’s a site that purports to be Godward’s complete works:
http://www.johnwilliamgodward.org/
I cannot find the TIP group of four, but page 2 on this site includes one or two of the separate paintings. The others may be somewhere on the site’s 9 pages.
Godward was perhaps the last of the pre-Raphaelites, and seems to have had a one-track mind. There is a bio at the end. He committed suicide at age 61, and may have blamed it on Picasso. Perhaps there was more to it.
Hum. Thursday college football games. Less competition for eyeballs. Potentially larger TV audiences. Higher TV ad rates. Increased revenue for the college teams playing Thursday football games. Yeah, I can sort of understand that.
I’m guessing Godward may have disliked Picasso because Picasso seemed to have trouble drawing eyes and limbs, much less boobs, in the right places.
I wonder if the gal in the TIP was drinking tequila?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj2700em-JQ
Good morning, Villagers. Ghost, Picasso could draw like an angel when he wanted to: http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s565/Lilyblack1/ScienceandCharity_Picasso_zpsaa6cf9be.jpg
He said “I am not interested in what something looks at on the outside as on the inside.”
Godward to me is not nearly as interesting as Millais, Waterhouse, or Rosetti of the Pre-Raphaelites
emb@1 – you can alleviate that problem if the first two key strokes are the open and closed parens (brackets, etc.), then go back and type between them.
There are new people in the apartment across the hall. Mom, dad, non-speaking toddler, and a dog. I cannot open my stupid front door without this dumb dog losing its mind. BAAAAARRRRRRRKKKKKK! BARK BARK BARK! (repeat as many times as you like) This of course sets the kid to crying hysterically. I am in and out with boxes and such, so basically this dog barks all day long and this kid screams all day long. I keep hearing the mother trying (in vain) to shut up the dog and quiet the baby. I am so SO glad I am not on the other side of that door.
My friend lives in an Apt with a Jack Russell terrier resident. He barks at everybody that comes by (including me) but never at her. Smart dog!
Thank you Jimmy, for finally helping me understand my husband and his football rants! Yes, he is JUST like Arlo and yes, I am JUST like Janis!!! and I guess I have to add War Eagle!!!
Who sez we don’t have no kulture around here?
Lady Mindy, poor man’s burglar alarm, perhaps?
Ghost: As I quoted Dorothy L. Parker earlier, there is all the difference in the world between an artist that can’t draw and an artist that can draw and won’t.
Or as Debbe might say, “There is all the difference in the world between a hen that can’t lay an egg and a hen that can lay an egg and won’t.” 🙂
Maybe. That’s the difference between an economically useful bird and one that is not. But there is all the difference in the Universe between a Sunday painter like me and the mind that could conceive of the “Guernica” or “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”. Not to speak of artists like Munch and Klee who likewise could draw but wouldn’t. And definitely n to speak of the fact that his paintings sell for in the millions and mine aren’t worth zilch.
Now, why didn’t I think of that?
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=31314095&nid=1012
Word of the day: edulcoration
Ghost, and Mindy from Indy. A dog who barks at everybody is like the boy who cried wolf. Everybody begins to ignore it, rendering it of little value except as a self-actuating doorbell. Sorry, been reading Nero Wolfe and picking up his speech habits.
Sentence of the day: “A green-and-black nudibranch devours a tunicate.”
I keep telling people: Don’t mess with Texas or Texans:
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/08/27/texas-dad-acquitted-shooting-death-drunken-driver-who-killed-2-sons
“A green-and-black nudibranch devours a tunicate. Video at 11:00. Right here on News 69 On Your Side. When news breaks, we fix it!”
Lily, I once heard someone say that Texas is the only state in the Union in which an affirmative defense for a homicide is “He needed killin’.” Of course the problem is (or would be for me) once you start, how would you know when to stop?
Ghost, usually when the blood stops flowing. Or is that what you meant? 😛