March 25, 2006 - homage to news that isn't.
In it's continued quest to bring to the world The News That Isn't, The New York Times reported from Le Louvre on the paintings of one Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingues.
TVFR can give you the link, but you won't see the whole thing unless you're a subscriber.
Not a suggested course of action. Think of boredom, then think of having it e-mailed to you.
Here are some of the more pompous quotations contained in the article:
(On the painting "Jupiter and Thetis") "The proportions in the picture are wrong, as they always are with him, but in the end they make their own peculiar right."
For those of you not well versed in art, everything that Ingres ever did was out of proportion. The person had some mental ailment -like all good painters do- that made him see people all skewed. "Ingres loved nudes but hated anatomy"
(On the Ingres exhibition itself) "Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the prince of darkness, is installed in the basement of the Louvre, his supernatural skill and imperious authority, as usual, inducing in a viewer the slightly uneasy sense of not quite being up to the work. At the same time his art is so curiously touching. Beneath the surface, suffocatingly perfect, as Baudelaire said, is pathos."
I am about to vomit. Only the most pompous and self indulgent elitist pig would ever utter some stupid shit like this. All Ingres wanted to do was something different, don't make it more than it is.
"You find it in his drawings of his first wife, Madeleine Chapelle. Nine of the 10 he did are here. I nearly wept."
You nearly wept because either you're a chick or you are the biggest whipping boy in the whole of the globe.
Ok, that's enough of that.
Fuckin eh
"One team, using computer models of climate and ice, found that by about 2100, average temperatures could be four degrees higher than today and that over the coming centuries, the oceans could rise 13 to 20 feet — conditions last seen 129,000 years ago, between the last two ice ages."
This is not news because two plonky engineers from the University of Arizona have been saying this since 2002. The other reason it's not news is because by 2100, none of us is likely to be around anyway and if we are, we'll be too old to give a shit.
In 2100 I will only be 112 and if things keep going as we are now, that will be about middle age.
It will be more interesting in Venice - the one in Italy, not the one in the U.S.M.N.A. - where high tide sees the water lapping around the ankles of the al fresco dining set. In the second half of this century, if all these predictions are correct, Venetian turds will floating around next to the latte glasses on the table tops and canneloni will be off every menu in the city.
Venice is just one city, we should all be living on mountains anyway. All you fuckers who demand waterfront are getting whats coming to you. Saying this, I live just 16 feet above sea-level on an island, so if all this is true, I am in the tubes in a big way.
"LAST week, America Online introduced the first broadband television network on the World Wide Web, fueling the question, Has the Internet truly been a net positive for civilization?"
No.
We here at TVFR can answer that question in the affirmative. Were it not for the internet, you wouldn't have TVFR.
This is still dead fucking wrong.
You seem a tad on the left side of grouchy today, Anton. Get a worm in your apple?
" The focus is on programming either no longer in syndication, and in some cases unavailable on DVD. The effect is a kind of diminishment on the Warner Brothers brand because if you have typically thought of Warner Brothers as the purveyor of classic cartoons or the production apparatus that brought us "Friends," Why do you know this Paul, be needing more friends are we? I've been reading the NY Times. What do you think? you will now think of it as the engine of "F Troop" and "Growing Pains" (each, as it happens, classified as vintage).
Vintage to me, I've never heard of the fucking shows. Then again I stay clear of the television save core news for a good laugh and The Price is Right for prime viewage. Bob Barker should be frozen to repopulate the earth after World War Three.
Oh good God, you evil po.
"Growing Pains" seems to occupy some exalted point of fascination in the culture, of which I've heretofore been unaware. On the site's message boards it receives more postings than any other show — 285 as of yesterday morning, 28 of them devoted to the subject of Kirk Cameron's sexuality and 61 to the matter of his religious leanings."
I am afraid of the world we live in.
Ending sentences with a preposition, you should be more afraid of me. But you'll only be middle aged by the end of this century so I figure by the time it's all over, you'll have suffered enough. Look on the bright side; you can watch syndicated re-runs of The Price is Right well into your nineties and your great great great grandkids will still think it's cute.
I'm already old enough to remember how cute Audrey Hepburn was.
TVFR can give you the link, but you won't see the whole thing unless you're a subscriber.
Not a suggested course of action. Think of boredom, then think of having it e-mailed to you.
Here are some of the more pompous quotations contained in the article:
(On the painting "Jupiter and Thetis") "The proportions in the picture are wrong, as they always are with him, but in the end they make their own peculiar right."
For those of you not well versed in art, everything that Ingres ever did was out of proportion. The person had some mental ailment -like all good painters do- that made him see people all skewed. "Ingres loved nudes but hated anatomy"
(On the Ingres exhibition itself) "Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the prince of darkness, is installed in the basement of the Louvre, his supernatural skill and imperious authority, as usual, inducing in a viewer the slightly uneasy sense of not quite being up to the work. At the same time his art is so curiously touching. Beneath the surface, suffocatingly perfect, as Baudelaire said, is pathos."
I am about to vomit. Only the most pompous and self indulgent elitist pig would ever utter some stupid shit like this. All Ingres wanted to do was something different, don't make it more than it is.
"You find it in his drawings of his first wife, Madeleine Chapelle. Nine of the 10 he did are here. I nearly wept."
You nearly wept because either you're a chick or you are the biggest whipping boy in the whole of the globe.
Ok, that's enough of that.
Fuckin eh
~
"One team, using computer models of climate and ice, found that by about 2100, average temperatures could be four degrees higher than today and that over the coming centuries, the oceans could rise 13 to 20 feet — conditions last seen 129,000 years ago, between the last two ice ages."
This is not news because two plonky engineers from the University of Arizona have been saying this since 2002. The other reason it's not news is because by 2100, none of us is likely to be around anyway and if we are, we'll be too old to give a shit.
In 2100 I will only be 112 and if things keep going as we are now, that will be about middle age.
It will be more interesting in Venice - the one in Italy, not the one in the U.S.M.N.A. - where high tide sees the water lapping around the ankles of the al fresco dining set. In the second half of this century, if all these predictions are correct, Venetian turds will floating around next to the latte glasses on the table tops and canneloni will be off every menu in the city.
Venice is just one city, we should all be living on mountains anyway. All you fuckers who demand waterfront are getting whats coming to you. Saying this, I live just 16 feet above sea-level on an island, so if all this is true, I am in the tubes in a big way.
~
"LAST week, America Online introduced the first broadband television network on the World Wide Web, fueling the question, Has the Internet truly been a net positive for civilization?"
No.
We here at TVFR can answer that question in the affirmative. Were it not for the internet, you wouldn't have TVFR.
This is still dead fucking wrong.
You seem a tad on the left side of grouchy today, Anton. Get a worm in your apple?
" The focus is on programming either no longer in syndication, and in some cases unavailable on DVD. The effect is a kind of diminishment on the Warner Brothers brand because if you have typically thought of Warner Brothers as the purveyor of classic cartoons or the production apparatus that brought us "Friends," Why do you know this Paul, be needing more friends are we? I've been reading the NY Times. What do you think? you will now think of it as the engine of "F Troop" and "Growing Pains" (each, as it happens, classified as vintage).
Vintage to me, I've never heard of the fucking shows. Then again I stay clear of the television save core news for a good laugh and The Price is Right for prime viewage. Bob Barker should be frozen to repopulate the earth after World War Three.
Oh good God, you evil po.
"Growing Pains" seems to occupy some exalted point of fascination in the culture, of which I've heretofore been unaware. On the site's message boards it receives more postings than any other show — 285 as of yesterday morning, 28 of them devoted to the subject of Kirk Cameron's sexuality and 61 to the matter of his religious leanings."
I am afraid of the world we live in.
Ending sentences with a preposition, you should be more afraid of me. But you'll only be middle aged by the end of this century so I figure by the time it's all over, you'll have suffered enough. Look on the bright side; you can watch syndicated re-runs of The Price is Right well into your nineties and your great great great grandkids will still think it's cute.
I'm already old enough to remember how cute Audrey Hepburn was.
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