Artists
 

It's hard to assess mixed media on the web. The art loses texture and depth. That said, my first impression is that it's not very good.

The owner of the gallery seems only to have three artists in his stable, including himself. Not a great sign unless the artist is R.C. Gorman. Though, like R.C., he's based in a small town. Unlike R.C. there probably aren't hundreds of good artists around him.

His earlier work seems to be much better than his more recent pieces. I liked some of the more subtle pieces. His other artist seems doesn't seem to be very good at all. Boring landscapes.

Rosie's work is all over the place. I get the impression that her kids may have helped out, especially in the straight edge pieces. One or two of them could be good, (again, i can't tell because of it's on the web) but it seems that she's not a particularly imaginative artist.

I'd say that if I were trying to sell this, and it wasn't a celebrity's work, I'd ask for between three hundred and a thousand dollars for it. Since she's a celebrity, I'd up that by at least twenty five percent, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of her work is priced in the three to five thousand dollar range.

There are some good celebrity artists out there. Patti Smith has an exhibit in the Contempary Arts Museum in Houston right now that's very good. (http://www.camh.org/cam_exhandprogra...ed.html#smith, though if you're going to the CAM, you've got to see the Splat! Boom! Pow! exhibit on comics in art. It's really good.) I went to an opening for Viggo Mortensen a little over a year ago, and I thought he was very good. (http://www.robertmann.com/artists/mortensen/01.html) His photography was better, I thought, than his painting, but overall, I was impressed. His work (at the time, about three months after the first LOTR came out, I have no idea what it's going for now) was priced as I would have priced it if he weren't a celebrity.

I have a lot of friends who are artists, and I probably go to six or seven art openings a month. There's a lot of crap out there, but there's also a lot of good stuff. And the crap and the good stuff isn't necessarily the same for everyone.

sunless tanning update
 

Are you saying GWNC fucked him?



edit - just in case anyone didn't get the "joke," TM was accused of not treating e/o and GWNC the same and the explanation given as to why e/o got the TM Treatment (c) included the words "virtuous," "cock," and "denied." Ergo, the inference is that GWNC did not deny when the cock crowed.

Thus ends lesson number 254 in the "if you hav to explain it, it isn't funny" series.

Poll...
 

I once wanted to be famous, but when I achieved it, I have to say it sucked- in quick sucession I won state office then national office (as part of a ticket). as a hint, during the campaign, in a debate I quoted Mr____. My opponent, hateful shit said " I knew ____, and you're no ____. " let me tell you crap like that can ruin a day. I just got heaped upon as being dumb, couldn't spell, whatever. I mean my kids heard it- try telling your kids what you want them to do after they hear Dan Rather basically call you a numbskull- not cool. anyway, years removed it cooled off. I can go to the grocery store without being heckled, for the first few years out, i swear it was always "Hey ____, over here in produce, is this vegetable spelled right?"

sunless tanning update
 

If I admit the truth of your assertion, can we assume that the image of TM sexing her will be fodder for your daily effort at using the board for tcb??

I'm sure francis will be flattered at the fame he has acheived!

sunless tanning update
 

It's true. But only because Thurgreed is really Steve Yzerman, famous hockey player, cleverly posing as a transactional attorney, and I must fulfill my life's mission.

(no offense to Steve/TM)

More bad fame
 

Hmmm. You've made me think of the Wife of Bath and the notion that a gap between the teeth is a sign of lasciviousness. Seems appropriate. I wish I were getting a Ph.D. in something like feminist cultural studies so I could write a dissertation about Madonna, Chaucer, and clothes.

Edited to add: nevermind, I think Camille Paglia has already done it.

sunless tanning update
 

Sure. Whatever wets your whistle.

sunless tanning update
 

I have been IMing with the Pope discussing whether sainthood status should be conferred. Creating a vicarious sex life for Mister R does not a saint make.

sunless tanning update
 

I beg to differ. As does my namesake.

Poll...
 

sunless tanning update
 

Are you coveting that croc's whistle?!? The rimjobbery was bad enough but crocostyle bestiality is just plain sick!

Get thee to a nunnery!

Afternoon Dumb Poll
 

An anon poster (anon for obvious reasons) suggested the following poll:

What is the dumbest thing anyone has said to you at work?

Anon's response:

I once had a fellow associate ask me why a company would take out a trillion dollar indenture. I told em that, nine zeros usually equals just a billion dollars. And companies can't really afford to borrow a trillion dollars.

Afternoon Dumb Poll
 

This is not the dumbest thing, but it's up there. One day when I was wearing a fitted, but not tight, cotton blouse, a male colleague, who is of a higher rank than I and technically is in a supervisory role, asked me why my blouse did not have a top button. I looked down at my breasts, looked back at him, and said "It's not supposed to have one."

I was talking with someone about who we could hire to do something for us.

The person said he couldn't really think of anyone, but oh, we might use Mary. Mary just had a case on the subject in question and the jury handed down a verdict against her client in ## number of minutes. You should know, in law school, Mary was named Mark.

He then went on to give me the name and number of someone he suggested.

So I wrote back, I don't much care about Mary's past, is ## minute verdict fast for this kind of case, and what kind of lawyer is she, would you suggest we hire her?

He wrote back no, he wouldn't suggest that and yes ## minutes is fast.

I felt like writing back, so what was the point of your bringing up this person's name and discussing her? Did you just want to ridicule someone who had a sex change?

Instead I just wrote back, Ok.

This isn't the most stupid thing anyone has ever said to me, but it just happened and it is pretty dumb. Goes out of the way to be offensive. Guy obviously thought he was being funny, and wow was it not funny.

Afternoon Dumb Poll
 

You mean other than the time when our state lottery was at almost $500million and some schmuck asked me, with a straight face, if I would continue to work here if I won?*

*I like my job and generally like the people that I work with (probably because I don't work with other lawyers all that often) but for even a fraction of that I would do the "fuck you dance" all the way out the door.


edited to note that it was a multi-state lottery.