... you can talk all night.
And don't think I photographed that detail of "Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise" because I thought it was well painted!
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August 3, 2018
At the Green Beard Café...
... you can talk all night.
And don't think I photographed that detail of "Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise" because I thought it was well painted!
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looks like some bad pea soup was served at the Restaurant Fournaise. C'est dommage.
Almost reminds me of the messed up Christ portrait originally by Elias Garcia Martinez.
"Garcon! I'll have what he's having" ..said no one, ever.
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So why use it?!?!"
I like the painting.
"Monsieur, may I suggest you use a spoon?" the appalled waiter queried.
Maybe when we describe people like Sarah Jeong we should just call them racial bigots. It seems accurate, and sidesteps the logomachy over the term racist. Not that one never wants to hash out the meaning of that term— whether it means one thing with regard to individuals and another with regard to systemic structures & c., & c. — but that following that tangent in each individual case allows one to be too easily distracted from the matter at hand.
That's kind of beautifully painted. In a few dabs, you have a personality. Where Renoir went wrong was when he made an effort. Then it always turned into the theatre of flushed faces.
I didn't mean to put the link to the portal on the name of the painting. It's fixed now.
who you gonna call when you get slimed with ectoplasm at the Restaurant Fournaise?
Les Bustiers des Ghosts!
Ya know, that Chinese spy working twenty years for head of intelligence committee, Feinstien kinda embarrassing.
Reiterated by Dems looking to displace her, no doubt.
I'm surprised that Althouse hasn't put anything up about the drunken idiot who taunted the bison at Yellowstone. Perfect for a "men in shorts" tag!
In other news the bureau has played redaction games with the Steele file, surprised.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270928/when-1mueller-gang-met-judge-ellis-dani
In other news...
Washington Examiner
August 03, 2018 04:27 PM
12 times Christopher Steele fed Trump-Russia allegations to FBI after the election
by Byron York
"...Because he had broken his agreement with the FBI, bureau procedure did not allow agents to keep using Steele as a source. But they did so anyway — by devising a system in which Steele spoke regularly with Bruce Ohr, a top Obama Justice Department official whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Steele to search for dirt on Donald Trump in Russia. Ohr then passed on Steele's information to the FBI.
In a highly unusual arrangement, Ohr, who was the fourth-highest ranking official in the Justice Department, acted as an intermediary for a terminated source for the FBI's Trump-Russia probe. His task was to deliver to the FBI what Steele told him, which effectively meant the bureau kept Steele as a source.
Agents made a record of each time Ohr gave the bureau information from Steele. Those records are in the form of so-called 302 reports, in which the FBI agents write up notes of interviews during an investigation.
There are a dozen 302 reports on FBI post-election interviews of Ohr. The first was Nov. 22, 2016. After that, the FBI interviewed Ohr on Dec. 5; Dec. 12; Dec. 20; Jan. 23, 2017; Jan. 25; Jan. 27; Feb. 6; Feb. 14; May 8; May 12; and May 15. The dates, previously unreported publicly, were included in a July letter from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to the FBI and Justice Department."
"...In a larger sense, the Ohr-Steele 302s could shed some light on how an effort — it certainly included Steele, but also others — to keep Trump from being elected morphed into an effort to keep Trump from being inaugurated and then morphed into an effort to remove Trump from office. A version of that effort is still going on, of course, even as some in Congress try to find out how it started."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/12-times-christopher-steele-fed-trump-russia-allegations-to-fbi-after-the-election
A companion article:
August 03, 2018 05:52 PM
FBI releases heavily redacted documents on Trump dossier author
by Caitlin Yilek
'...“[Confidential Human Source] confirmed to an outside third party that CHS has a confidential relationship with the FBI,” the document states. “In the article, CHS revealed CHS’ relationship with the FBI as well as information that CHS obtained and provided to FBI.”
“On November 1, 2016, CHS confirmed all of this to the handling agent,” the document continues. “Additionally, handling agent advised that CHS was not to operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI.”'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-releases-heavily-redacted-documents-on-trump-dossier-author
It was brutal but in a surgical way
https://amgreatness.com/2018/08/03/bill-kristol-hedgehog-king/
Some Renoirs are pretty mediocre, but I wouldn’t mind having “Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise“ on my wall. For that matter I would love to own “Two Sisters,” though the nose is slightly out of place on the younger girl’s face, or the mouth is. (Althouse is wrong; her eyes are wonderful.) Even though I prefer Van Gogh and Monet among the Impressionists, when Renoir was good he was very good indeed.
Here's the interesting thing, Steele had credbecause of the fisa investigation, now we discover bensinger who has,written a book about has fusion GPS ties.
Look what we find here:
https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2024%20of%2024/view
There was a,secondary server,
Since the UK is sort of a distorted mirror image
https://amgreatness.com/2018/01/14/view-britain-bonfire-pieties/
Meanwhile, the Amber Alert for the 12-year-old girl from (communist) China who went missing from her group with Chinese "chaperones" at National Airport showed every indication of being a defection, not an abduction. Yet, no one in the MSM even suggested it.
Sure enough, her "abductors" were her parents who had been in the U.S. for two years.
Yep, she defected.
(I know. Defection is such a Cold War thing.)
All must be at peace with Landru (china) who swiped 20 million dossiers, for no nefarious reason obviously:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/08/03/mark-carneys-doomsday-brexit-predictions-blamed-fall-pound/
It's malarkey by the pound, they are selling at the standard
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/contra-the-dross-of-doss-4.ph
I like the painting. Apparently not all agree.
It's an impressionistic one.
This is why mills called them the stupid party:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/998743/Brexit-news-Russia-EU-referendum-hacking-Robert-
I like it, too. It has the vibe that typifies all my favorite meals with friends. Quite apart from the greenish tones the man’s face has a rabelaisian quality that reminds me of many a Green Man image. Maybe that’s what the artist meant to suggest. Far-fetched but who knows?
August 3, I just recalled, and almost forgot - Columbus and his expedition left Palos today, 526 years ago.
Un navegante atrevido
salio de Palos un día
iba con tres carabelas
La Pinta, La Niña, y la Santa Maria
So, indulge me - Tres Carabelas
A childhood favorite, it brings up memories of tiled patios, tropical nights, cigarettes, and San Miguel Beer. All eventual fruits of that voyage.
As is, also, that annoying woman the NYT hired, and as is the NYT. As we all are as well.
¡Vivan las tres carabelas
La Pinta, La Niña, y la Santa Maria!
narcisco,
qanon says they have the server - been saying that from the beginning of course.
Renoir was trying to imitate DaVinci's Last Supper, complete with summer algae.
Re: the Chinese kid ...
Will Fascist Trump can now emulate Bill and Hillary Clinton with his own "JingJing" (Elian Gonzalez)
Asking for friend.
You may not think it’s well painted, and yet a real person with a distinct personality somehow speaks to us more than a hundred years later.
You’re all so busy mocking the poor man’s beard you haven’t even noticed that someone (Gauguin?) just sliced off his ear.
In other news:
"Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of the 11 members of the commission formed by President Trump to investigate supposed voter fraud, issued a scathing rebuke of the disbanded panel on Friday, accusing Vice Chair Kris Kobach and the White House of making false statements and saying that he had concluded that the panel had been set up to try to validate the president’s baseless claims about fraudulent votes in the 2016 election.
"Dunlap said that the commission’s documents that were turned over to him underscore the hollowness of those claims: “they do not contain evidence of widespread voter fraud,” he said in his report, adding that some of the documentation seemed to indicate that the commission was predicting it would find evidence of fraud, evincing “a troubling bias.”
"In particular, Dunlap pointed to an outline for a report the commission was working on that circulated in November 2017. The outline included sections for “Improper voter registration practices,” and “Instances of fraudulent or improper voting,” though the sections themselves were blank as they awaited evidence, speaking to what Dunlap said indicated a push for preordained conclusions."
Trump won the majority of votes outside of the state of California, and California’s voting laws only pay lip service to the idea of ensuring that only citizens vote in Federal elections and their politicians kowtow to illegals at every turn, so whatever HT.
Was this painting designed to be seen close up or from a distance? what type of light? What looks terrible close up and in bright light might be a masterpiece by lamp light from a distance.
In other visual news
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/the-week-in-pictures-the-last-straw-man-edition.php
I think we should wait until Renoir finishes the painting before we comment on it.
Re: HT comment @ 6:11 am
Since there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud, that proves Pres. Trump's win was legitimate. Good to know.
Associated Press gave this the headline of "No evidence of extensive voter fraud found," totally ignoring that this was the public statement issued by the Democrat ranking member on the commission, while the Republican chairman states that: Oh yeah, plenty of evidence was found and they would have found more if the study had been more wide ranging than the first tentative test to see if there were grounds to study the problem in depth that it was.
It's Renoir's Christ of the Macular Degeneration.
narciso, that Bill Kristol column was great.
It reminds me of Michael Crichton's piece, "The Murray Gell-Mann Hypothesis."
What a shame we don't have Crichton around to comment on the present hysteria.
I'm still waiting for that British guy Musk accused of being a pedophile to file a lawsuit...
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