Thursday, July 6, 2023

POTD: Portrait and Cityscape

This photo-of-the-day is from the Meadows Museum at SMU in Dallas. It shows two paintings in the exhibit "In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art".

Fifty points if you can say which painting is a portrait and which a cityscape. Extra credit for knowing which person the portrait is of and which city the cityscape is of. Muchisimo puntos if you know the model in the middle.

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Texas Chain Saw Massacre: Promising Change

Source: h/t DALL-E

After apologizing for the "Texas Chain Saw Massacre", the City of Richardson pledged on Facebook, "We will also do everything in our power to make sure this never happens again."

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Random Thoughts: Mike Pence is Connor Roy

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2023-06-01: Mike Pence is the 2024 presidential campaign's Connor Roy.
Headline: "Mike Pence is a man without a constituency."

2023-06-01: Ted Lasso series finale (with spoilers): True to the end, Ted Lasso stays nice win or lose. Laughs were never the main goal here (warm fuzzies were), and became less a goal as the series wore on. Series could continue without Ted, with a sharper edge (I'd watch that), but won't. B-

2023-06-04: TIL: "In a typical year, the country builds more three-car garages than one-bedroom apartments."
How Parking Ruined Everything - The Atlantic

Monday, July 3, 2023

Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Source: Amir Omar

Condition of trees? Dead.
Cause of death? Chain saw.
Chief suspect? City of Richardson.
Statement by the accused? Sorry, not sorry.

Sunday, July 2, 2023

POTD: Galleria Umberto I in Naples

From 2022 10 29 Naples

This photo-of-the-day shows the Galleria Umberto I, a public shopping gallery in Naples, Italy.

A bonus photo is after the jump.