And, of course, it's nice to be reminded, once again, that men are always thinking about the Roman Empire.
August 14, 2024
You have to buy something with your money. Why not something atrocious and uxorious?
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I like it!
Don’t ruin Meade’s surprise.
I often think about the Roman Republic, a special time of representative democracy. I recently finished watching a free online Hillsdale College course on the subject. I care much less about the Roman Empire, when power shifted away from a representative democracy to a centralized imperial authority, with the emperor holding the most power.
I like it too, but in that first picture it kinda looks like she's standing behind an insane chromium duck.
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Zuckerberg's neighbors can see into his back yard? I have so many questions.
We’ve watched the Roman Empire’s comeback for decades now. One good source is a short book called Sex Lives of the Roman Emperors by Nigel Cawthorne.
Of course claiming we or Emperors is what it’s all about. Those dudes really had whatever sex life styles the wanted.
She's turned blue. Asphyxiofilia?
Erotic asphyxiation (variously called asphyxiophilia, hypoxyphilia or breath control play) is the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual arousal.
- wiki h/t Google
There was a Grasshoppa who self-aborted while indulging that queer sexual orientation.
Exhibitionism is a sexual orientation. #NoJudgment #NoLabels
The Roman empire reached a left-wing ideological summit in social progress. Throw another Christian on the barbie, it's over.
If you go around behind what do you see? Is the statue complete?
Is this a depiction of his wife lost in the woods and struggling with a disposable emergency blanket in a wind storm?
I would have preferred a naked Mrs. Zuck.
I think it would look a lot better if the garden around it were fuller, e.g. with shaped hedges or cypresses or even just a big fluff of forsythia or something. Something that would feel more shaped and intentional such that it frames and sets off the statue. It's just kind of random right now, like it just got unloaded from the truck.
It's ridiculous, and she should be embarrassed.
Dat muttafuggin' Zukabug, he don't give a shit.
Can't wait for Progressives to tear it down.
I don't really like the blue color but other than that it is actually really good.
To me, it looks like Kamala as Aquawoman.
Dave Begley
"I like it!"
Tom T.
"It's ridiculous, and she should be embarrassed."
There's very fine people on both sides.
Her coffee mug color matches the patina of the statue. Does this mean she is presently already partly tarnished, or that she acknowldeges the reality of her slow oxidation?
A little patter on patina pander.
And, of course, it's nice to be reminded, once again, that men are always thinking about the Roman Empire.
"So it's history repeating itself all over again.
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"And, of course, it's nice to be reminded, once again, that men are always thinking about the Roman Empire."
For some reason, I just imagined Meade wearing a toga.
Good Lord that’s ugly.
Why would you pay someone to recreate it ?
In horology there’s a high end play doh material called rodico that is that exact shade…
It’s more entertaining when the obese are represented in butter or other animal fat
+10 for uxorious. It can be a bad thing, but it doesn't have to. Depends on who, why, and how you define 'excessive'. If habitual or mindless, it leads to destruction.
For rehajm - if you marry an A. Lange woman you don't treat her like a Casio, no matter how accurate or timely her description of your actions may be.
I'd change that to "Make Beautiful statues of your wife". that's sorta hideous. But props for going public.
Nominally the Emperor held the most power, but all too frequently he didn’t. There were quite a few who were figureheads and weaklings. Many were puppets for manipulative empresses and dowager empresses, scheming courtiers, powerful and popular generals, clever mistresses, and particularly the Praetorian Guards. There were assassinations, palace coups, civil wars, banishments, and times when it seemed no one was in charge. With only a few exceptions, such as Aurelian, Diocletian, and Constantine, the emperors who came after Marcus Aurelius presided over 300 years of chaos and decay.
We are following in their footsteps ever more closely.
Looks like she's carrying some kind of freakazoid duck.
It looks like "an altered image" the kind that was said to hobble Joe Biden.
I don't have to look up too many words, but uxorious was new to me. There's nothing more attractive than a woman with a a huge lexicon. Wowza!
I’m pretty familiar with the career of the artist who made it and he’s an awful artist in almost every way. So in my opinion it’s very fitting for him to have gotten this commission.
Looks like Melania.
Looks like Melania.
LOL!
Didn't Zuck buy his neighbor's houses?
It isn't Nike of Samothrace, but as modern art goes....
I just don't want to think about the pile of blue crap she's standing in.
Looking up Mrs Zuck in Wiipedia, I discovered their kids are named Maxima, Aurelian, and August. So they have been thinking about the Roman Empire for a while.
Stoicism could also explain why a Zillionaire has stayed with a Harvard 7 for so long.
JSM
Or, to be fair, why she’s stayed with a skinny aspie nerd when she could take a quarter-zillion and run off with a succession of pool boys….
JSM
Should have named the daughter Zenobia. Set up a bit of sibling rivalry with Aurelian there haha.
At least the statue wasn't in the neo-classical style with her boobs hanging out all over the place.
Achilles said...
“I don't really like the blue color but other than that it is actually really good.”
She’s Andorian, albeit with the antennae photoshopped out.
Dave Begley said...
“I would have preferred a naked Mrs. Zuck.”
Have her stand on a giant shell and Botticelli would approve.
Mark, I'd be happy to write a song about Priscilla.
Wow I didn't think it was possible. Something that makes me feel like HOAs might be a good idea. I didn't realize it was Mark Zuckerberg's wife at first, but I imagined having to live next to a neighbor who put up this effigy, and figured this was something that I would never be able to get used to seeing.
mikee said...
"Her coffee mug color matches the patina of the statue."
Here's how I imagine the discussions went.
Le Artiste: Here's a schetch and model of what I am thinking for the piece.
Zuckerberg: I dunno. It looks ok. But something doesn't seem quite right.
Le Artiste: What if I throw in a matching coffee mug?
Zuck: DEAL!!
It was a pure oligarchy.
Like a few others, I didn't glom to who she was--my interest in Zuck (and his products) approaches null.
Seen up close, she is beautiful. As you back away, she becomes imperious, cold, a transitory face in the crowd.
What does it mean to make your wife teal? Why does their backyard look like they live in a middle-class subdivision? Do artists sometimes hate their clients and conceal it to sell them bad art?
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