the problem is that when enough people don't realize they aren't the joke, they aren't the joke anymore, and one is in need of a blunt object for oneself.
This is the first time I've known you to mention joke-schemas, Labs. I thought you were too busy with other serious issues like cock jokes to deign to discuss joke-schemas.
Of course the Left is silent about Soros, his gelt, the drugs, and sexual slavery, because they're all part of the same thing.
And after skimming over the comments at SoCalPundit, I wonder what to think of the liberals who take him seriously, the ones who say, "But I did write about it!"
text, my friends who put out this are planning to make the next issue about heroes and villains, and when I mentioned to one of them your moustache theory they were intrigued. May they quote you on it, or should they do it without your permission? Also, might you be interested in expanding the treatment yourself?
How high in the Nazi hierarchy did Soros rise? I understand that he actually wasn't active or committed, and only became a Nazi in order to get the tuition break.
Also, when Soros became a Communist later, did he actual kill people with his bare hands, or did he just order other to do so while he watched?
Before we denounce Soros, I think that we should get the facts straight.
This homeless guy today claimed "the corporations are behind Iraq." I have yet to hear anyone on the left blogosphere denounce him. THIS IS THE TRUE FACE OF THE LEFT!
Has anyone ever noticed that the left only denounces pedophilia when some prominent Republican office-holder is caught fucking children? Political games, that's all there is to it.
As a liberal leftist, I unequivocally denounce and excoriate pedophilia, with the proviso that I reserve the right not to criticize Bill Clinton if he is found to have sexually abused a child, because I'm so blinded by my love of him.
You know, it speaks a lot of the intellectual acument of the left that Bono and Barbara Streisand are their most popular public intellectuals. Why does the left love these hollywood types so much?
Does anyone have any advice about how best to transport a still rather wet oil painting by airplane?
Specs: I think I'm in a position to be able to claim whatever solutions are offered as carry-on luggage. The painting itself is comparatively thin, but made on Saturday. I'm flying it out tomorrow, Monday (if ever), and so I won't have a chance to run out and buy any esoteric ingredients.
Speaking of Hollywood, has anyone noticed that that gay cowboy flick has seven Golden Globes and King Kong has NONE?!? It really just goes to show the Hollywood agenda and their complete disdain for what normal Americans like. Just look at how much money King Kong has made, and you can see that America is voting with its pocketbook, even while those Hollywood liberals try to shove their gay agenda down our throats.
JM - i haven't transported a still-wet painting by plane, but only a dry painting, so I can't offer much advice, except it seems that if you were able to box it up in such a way that you had a barried (e.g. some styrofoam) holding, say, some carboard suspended over the painted side, this might work. But you said you have no time to purchase anything.
Cheap-ass, student-quality cavas over cardboard that happened to turn out pretty damned well with my beloved Grandma at the compositional center. And otherwise she's getting stationary.
Styrofoam protection is probably very good. It could protect the drying process on most of the canvass while making it easy for any TA to interrogate one into innocence.
Well, if the paint goes all the way to edge of the board, the styrofoam thing is a little problematic. You could take two piece of cardboard which are an inch or so wider on each side than the painting. Attach the painting by some doubled-up masking tape on the back to one of the piece of cardboard, then line the perimeter with strips of styrofoam, and attach the other piece of cardboard to the top. If that makes sense (I need a diagram here).
Cheap-ass, student-quality cavas over cardboard that happened to turn out pretty damned well with my beloved Grandma at the compositional center. Styrofoam protection is probably very good. It could protect the drying process on most of the canvass while making it easy for any TA to interrogate one into innocence.
It all depends on the paint. And the extent of of the painting itself and whether it's mounted. If it was me, and I had to ship it, I'd make a box out of 8 pieces of 1x2 (four pieces to make the back half of the rectangle, four pieces for the front half) - and stretch mount the picture in between the the two halves there. Then I'd seal the box with mortarboard or 1/8 or 1/4" plywood. And I'd stuff side of the box at the back of the painting with those little moisture-absorbing bags of silicone they use to protect electronic crap during shipping.
Problem is, is that the airport personel would probably destroy even that.
If it was me, I'd take a picture, print that out and give to grandma as an IOU and ship her the painting later (V-Day?) when the damn thing has been framed after drying out properly.
ash
['I usually use three times however long they say a given paint takes to dry as the actual drying period. Or, if it's steel, pop it in the oven!']
Thanks for teh suggestions, folks. I'm skittish about ovens, I'm skittish about styrofoam, and so I'm becining more comfortable with I'll mail it later, if you're interested.
Oh man, wish I'd seen the thread last night. Mail it later, mail it later, mail it later. Oil doesn't really take very well on those canvas-board supports, I find, and also, if the oil is wet, mail it later. No matter what precautions you take your painting will be touched, and fresh paint is unforgiving.
Oh man, wish I'd seen the thread last night. Mail it later, mail it later, mail it later. Oil doesn't really take very well on those canvas-board supports, I find, and also, if the oil is wet, mail it later. No matter what precautions you take your painting will be touched, and fresh paint is unforgiving.
Missing the joke
This could almost be the theme for the entire WingNet, were it not for "Doesn't realize they are the joke".
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 4:39 PM
the problem is that when enough people don't realize they aren't the joke, they aren't the joke anymore, and one is in need of a blunt object for oneself.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 4:41 PM
that is, when enough people don't realize they are the joke.
crapcrapcrapcrapcrap
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 4:42 PM
Why aren't you talking about the Alito nomination?
Fucking piece of shit.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 5:21 PM
Hey, dude -- global warming. Ever heard of it?
Really? I wouldn't know from reading your blog.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 5:21 PM
There's a stunning silence in the left blogosphere about sexual slavery in the Third World. Yeah, real big supporters of women's rights.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 5:22 PM
Kotsko, this joke-schema is simply going to become funnier with each application.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 5:23 PM
This is the first time I've known you to mention joke-schemas, Labs. I thought you were too busy with other serious issues like cock jokes to deign to discuss joke-schemas.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 5:24 PM
Also, not a word about how George Soros is funding the War on Christmas with his dirty JewGold.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 5:28 PM
I thought it was drug money.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 5:39 PM
Jewgold Drugbucks.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 5:44 PM
Oh yeah. You really dispelled any idea that liberals are against the Christmas and for the sexual slavery.
F***ing moron.
Keep it up.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 5:45 PM
Well, this liberal, for one, is soundly in favor of fucking morons. Morons are teh hott.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 5:55 PM
it's the conservatives who want to take all our moron-fucking away. So in turn we must take their Christmas.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 6:17 PM
Of course the Left is silent about Soros, his gelt, the drugs, and sexual slavery, because they're all part of the same thing.
And after skimming over the comments at SoCalPundit, I wonder what to think of the liberals who take him seriously, the ones who say, "But I did write about it!"
Posted by JDC | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 6:30 PM
text, my friends who put out this are planning to make the next issue about heroes and villains, and when I mentioned to one of them your moustache theory they were intrigued. May they quote you on it, or should they do it without your permission? Also, might you be interested in expanding the treatment yourself?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 6:30 PM
How high in the Nazi hierarchy did Soros rise? I understand that he actually wasn't active or committed, and only became a Nazi in order to get the tuition break.
Also, when Soros became a Communist later, did he actual kill people with his bare hands, or did he just order other to do so while he watched?
Before we denounce Soros, I think that we should get the facts straight.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 7:30 PM
This homeless guy today claimed "the corporations are behind Iraq." I have yet to hear anyone on the left blogosphere denounce him. THIS IS THE TRUE FACE OF THE LEFT!
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 8:02 PM
Matt -- they can quote me, and also I'd be happy to expand upon it. e-mail me at ro/bert.d/art@gmail.com (without the slashes).
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 8:16 PM
Has anyone ever noticed that the left only denounces pedophilia when some prominent Republican office-holder is caught fucking children? Political games, that's all there is to it.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 8:22 PM
As a liberal leftist, I unequivocally denounce and excoriate pedophilia, with the proviso that I reserve the right not to criticize Bill Clinton if he is found to have sexually abused a child, because I'm so blinded by my love of him.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 8:51 PM
Here comes the left again with another thinly veiled denunciation of the Catholic Church. Have these people no shame?
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 9:01 PM
You know, it speaks a lot of the intellectual acument of the left that Bono and Barbara Streisand are their most popular public intellectuals. Why does the left love these hollywood types so much?
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 10:51 PM
Very much off topic.
Does anyone have any advice about how best to transport a still rather wet oil painting by airplane?
Specs: I think I'm in a position to be able to claim whatever solutions are offered as carry-on luggage. The painting itself is comparatively thin, but made on Saturday. I'm flying it out tomorrow, Monday (if ever), and so I won't have a chance to run out and buy any esoteric ingredients.
So: does anyone know from shit on this subject?
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 11:17 PM
Speaking of Hollywood, has anyone noticed that that gay cowboy flick has seven Golden Globes and King Kong has NONE?!? It really just goes to show the Hollywood agenda and their complete disdain for what normal Americans like. Just look at how much money King Kong has made, and you can see that America is voting with its pocketbook, even while those Hollywood liberals try to shove their gay agenda down our throats.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 11:19 PM
JM - i haven't transported a still-wet painting by plane, but only a dry painting, so I can't offer much advice, except it seems that if you were able to box it up in such a way that you had a barried (e.g. some styrofoam) holding, say, some carboard suspended over the painted side, this might work. But you said you have no time to purchase anything.
So it's on canvas?
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 11:27 PM
barried = barrier.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 11:28 PM
Cheap-ass, student-quality cavas over cardboard that happened to turn out pretty damned well with my beloved Grandma at the compositional center. And otherwise she's getting stationary.
Styrofoam protection is probably very good. It could protect the drying process on most of the canvass while making it easy for any TA to interrogate one into innocence.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 11:41 PM
Well, if the paint goes all the way to edge of the board, the styrofoam thing is a little problematic. You could take two piece of cardboard which are an inch or so wider on each side than the painting. Attach the painting by some doubled-up masking tape on the back to one of the piece of cardboard, then line the perimeter with strips of styrofoam, and attach the other piece of cardboard to the top. If that makes sense (I need a diagram here).
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 12-18-05 11:52 PM
Cheap-ass, student-quality cavas over cardboard that happened to turn out pretty damned well with my beloved Grandma at the compositional center. Styrofoam protection is probably very good. It could protect the drying process on most of the canvass while making it easy for any TA to interrogate one into innocence.
It all depends on the paint. And the extent of of the painting itself and whether it's mounted. If it was me, and I had to ship it, I'd make a box out of 8 pieces of 1x2 (four pieces to make the back half of the rectangle, four pieces for the front half) - and stretch mount the picture in between the the two halves there. Then I'd seal the box with mortarboard or 1/8 or 1/4" plywood. And I'd stuff side of the box at the back of the painting with those little moisture-absorbing bags of silicone they use to protect electronic crap during shipping.
Problem is, is that the airport personel would probably destroy even that.
If it was me, I'd take a picture, print that out and give to grandma as an IOU and ship her the painting later (V-Day?) when the damn thing has been framed after drying out properly.
ash
['I usually use three times however long they say a given paint takes to dry as the actual drying period. Or, if it's steel, pop it in the oven!']
Posted by ash | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 12:16 AM
even while those Hollywood liberals try to shove their gay agenda down our throats.
I love that imagery, BPhD.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 12:27 AM
Thanks for teh suggestions, folks. I'm skittish about ovens, I'm skittish about styrofoam, and so I'm becining more comfortable with I'll mail it later, if you're interested.
Thanks all for the advice.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 12:57 AM
g'night, all.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 12:58 AM
And otherwise she's getting stationary
That happens as you get older. Maybe you could just get her stationery.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 6:02 AM
And otherwise she's getting stationary
That happens as you get older. Maybe you could just get her stationery.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 6:03 AM
Oh man, wish I'd seen the thread last night. Mail it later, mail it later, mail it later. Oil doesn't really take very well on those canvas-board supports, I find, and also, if the oil is wet, mail it later. No matter what precautions you take your painting will be touched, and fresh paint is unforgiving.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 8:00 AM
Oh man, wish I'd seen the thread last night. Mail it later, mail it later, mail it later. Oil doesn't really take very well on those canvas-board supports, I find, and also, if the oil is wet, mail it later. No matter what precautions you take your painting will be touched, and fresh paint is unforgiving.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 8:09 AM
Not too late, Armsmasher! I think I might just mail it later.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 8:10 AM
If you went back in time and mailed it before it was wet, that could also work.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 10:43 AM
Although then you have that whole blankness thing to contend with, which might be puzzling to the recipient.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-19-05 10:45 AM