Posted on 03/22/2007 11:08:43 AM PDT by Dan Evans
BEND OVER ATLANTA
OK .. here's the way it works:
Steve learns to weld.
Steve would rather be an artist than working in a machine shop
Steve obtains some scrap metal and starts welding it together in odd shapes which he declares to be art.
Steve can't find anyone who will voluntarily pay for the piles of scrap metal he has welded together.
Steve changes his name to Stephano and drops his last name.
Still nobody will buy Stephano's art, though there is one Buckhead matron who has taken a rather prurient interest in some of Stephan's other talents.
The Buckhead matron allows Stephano to place a pile of scrap metal in her garden and begins to refer to it as a sculpture.
Buckhead socialites, after encountering Stephano's "sculpture", and desiring to pander to the matron's artistic tastes, decide that Stephan is being greatly wronged because nobody will pay him for his artistic efforts.
The buzz among the Buckhead social set is heard in the halls of the Atlanta City Council and the arts community.
A sense of anger builds that we have yet another artist in our midst who simply cannot manage to find a willing buyer in a free market environment.
The arts community -- which, by the way, won't buy any of Stephano's art either -- tells Atlanta's political leaders that Atlanta simply cannot survive or be considered a world class international city unless Stephano's "art" is displayed citywide.
A plan is hatched to use the police power of the Atlanta city government to fund the purchase of Stephano's piles of junk.
The city seizes money from residents and writes some fat checks to Stephano for more artwork.
Stephano, no longer needing to service the needs of the Buckhead matron, tells her to find another cabana boy.
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So that's what a butt dart looks like!
Oh...almost forgot...Let me know when the smelts are running in W/P...Got some old-timers that are looking forward to a mess...)
What is W/P? I have no idea when the smelts run. I watch the lobstermen go out at 4 and I make my woodworks. I was interested if you were near. Just to satiate my curiosity.
>>>Dogs playing poker. Now THAT's Art!
The art world says you're right.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2005
(AP) A pair of paintings from the famed series depicting dogs playing poker sold for $590,400 at auction today.
The two works — "A Bold Bluff" and "Waterloo" — were among 16 paintings Coolidge was commissioned to create for Brown & Bigelow, a St. Paul, Minnesota-based advertising company, in 1903. Of the 16, nine, including the two sold today, are of dogs playing poker.
The two works capture moments in a poker game played by five dogs, among them a St. Bernard that ends up collecting the pot on a bluff.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/16/entertainment/main674455.shtml
>>>Dogs playing poker. Now THAT's Art!
I used to laugh myself silly every time I looked at copies of those paintings -- the expressions are priceless.
Me and my Navy buds used to sit at the bar and make up conversations to go with the expressions. I think some beer company may have used them at one time to put in bars with ads. Seems that was the only place we saw them a lot LOL
OB
What is a Whitten-Parrett stream? I've seen some streams in my life, but none that I'd call a whitten, much less a Parrett. Maybe a slowboy, or a quick-lizard.
Did my brother Dan fix your computer? Are you on route 1? I think we know each other through association. I am glad to see there is one other conservative in Maine, I was getting lonely.
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