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OMG, I leave for awhile and thread goes all to HELL. Damn, and I missed it AGAIN.

Btw, I really didn't mean to misspell Mr. Fuchs name, clearly a Freudian slip-- like there's any shortage of those around here.

When? This weekend? Next weekend?

Oh man, I'm already committed (hah) for the next couple of weekends at various Halloween parties etc. I was thinking of going as the Darryl Hannah character Elle Woods in Kill Bill. I'm thinking a nurse costume wearing the white eye patch with the red cross on it....
Has nothing to do with the housing bubble, but a cool costume nonetheless.

Oh man, I’m already committed (hah) for the next couple of weekends at various Halloween parties etc. I was thinking of going as the Darryl Hannah character Elle Woods in Kill Bill. I’m thinking a nurse costume wearing the white eye patch with the red cross on it….
Has nothing to do with the housing bubble, but a cool costume nonetheless.

We can probably wait until November...

Actually, I just have to go to work for a while!

For some reason when I picture Jack working I think of Bob Ross, "now that's a nice mountain".

Must be horribly taxing cleaning those brushes. ;)

I was thinking of going as the Darryl Hannah character Elle Woods in Kill Bill. I’m thinking a nurse costume wearing the white eye patch with the red cross on it….
Has nothing to do with the housing bubble, but a cool costume nonetheless.

Perhaps I will dress up as Peter the Great.

Peter

Isn't that who you are every day?

Isn’t that who you are every day?

No, I am Peter the Minion.

"I was thinking of going as the Darryl Hannah character Elle Woods in Kill Bill. I’m thinking a nurse costume wearing the white eye patch with the red cross on it….
Has nothing to do with the housing bubble, but a cool costume nonetheless."

Okay, now I'm picturing you looking like Darryl Hannah, with Farrah hair. The costume sounds way cool. As for how to make it relate to the housing bubble...

You could be Nurse Bendover. You know, signifying how all those NAALVP people are going to take it in the $(@.

"OMG, I leave for awhile and thread goes all to HELL. Damn, and I missed it AGAIN."

And here I am now playing all alone. Sigh. I did some actual work today. I'm feeling all productive and stuff.

"Although I believe it is not necessarily a derogatory term."

Surfer dude, I don't know what crowd you're hangin' in, but skanky is most definitely a major slander. Right up there with hoochie mama and stank ho.

"I like to open the can by HAND. Creates more anticipation as you hear the crank, crank, crank, continue around the can. Restraint."

and

"(Because that is far worse than if you said it on penis!)"

Wow, Jack was in rare form today.

And Jack, I'm sooooo never going to be able to look at a can opener the same way again! LMAO.

Aw, this is really pitiful me sitting here talking to myself. Guess I'll go sulking off now.

What's really pitiful is me trying to carry on an intelligent conversation about anything (as in, over there on the "serious" thread). I much prefer writing stupid jokes.

The secret signal could be really complicated, something like...

"Huh?"

"Nice costume reccommendation Jamie…. “Nurse Bendover” indeed…. "

Hey, I'm here to serve.

Oh, I forgot to comment on your Art as Therapy topic. Yes, I can see how that must be frustrating. There seems to be a great movement toward any sort of art being interpreted and/or created in too personal a way, IMO.

Example: in college, my lit classes often devolved into these miserable personal association discussions, where everything in the book we were supposed to be discussing was somehow related to something in some whiny person's life in the class. It all sounded more like a therapy session than anything else. It's truly the most simplistic and dull way to interpret literature.

I personally believe all forms of art are supposed to be hard. They're supposed to make you bleed. Well, maybe not "supposed" to, but pain and bleeding should be a natural part of the process. Am I too harsh? ;-)

"Re Nurse Bendover…. Do you get the images in your head first? And THEN make the jokes?"

LOL, I cannot explain my "process."

"Do you think that the blog members would find it distracting and devisive?"

Maybe so. I would not want to ruin the vibe on this blog.

"or do you think that they would be thankful that we dont waste serious housing talk time with out pathetic 4th grade depravity? "

Hmm. I think we should just try to show up here at Huh? when we don't have anything useful to say. :-)

"I guess the third choice could be not being depraved at all, "

Mais non!

"I always tell people that art is the cause of all of my problems."

LOL. I can't remember who (some famous writer) said the thing about how if you can think of anything you want to be besides a writer, you should go do it.

"and if its all fun and growth at first, that goes away real fast as soon as your standards go up a little (as they should) with experience, and it stops being “fun”."

Excellent way to put it. I'm always suspicious of people who just have these rapturous, joyous creative experiences. Or maybe I'm just jealous of them. :-P

LOL! There are whole museums of art like that in Amsterdam. Have you been?

And are you familiar with the artist (I saw his work in the Pompidou Center in Paris) who does these freaky drawings of masturbating and stuff? Weird. My husband (who is not creative at all) looked at that stuff and said the next big thing in art would be putting paint on one's, um, member, and slapping it against a canvas. I thought that was about the most creative idea he'd ever had.

Well, social effects is at 830+ and counting.

"Do you mean Egon Schile” around the turn of the century or so?"

I did not note his name, but Egon sounds like an appropriate name for the artist who created these pieces.

"Loose drawings with a little color “you know where”? hahaha"

Yes! I believe so (it's been a while).

My other favorite (not) at the Pompidou was Yoko Ono's video of butt cheeks walking.

But maybe I am insulting all your favorite artists? If so, I apologize.

My taste is more along the lines of Franz Marc, Marc Chagall...

any artist named "Marc" (kidding).

"“Portrait of artist as a young boy masturbating” Lots of white. "

Yes, that's it.

"GREAT paintings of big carcases of beef in meat lockers hanging on hooks. "

Hmm, I think I might have seen a few of these in a college art class.

We used to live near a church that was in Metz, France in which Chagall had done some of the stained glass in the windows. It was really beautiful and got me hooked on his style.

Wow, we just had a sort of polite conversation. How did this happen?

"Wow, sounds better than saying “I used to live in Novato” or I used to live in Thrill Valley."

I'm sure Novato and Mill Valley are way better than the town we actually lived in. I have never met a French town I didn't like, but we lived across the border in dreary little German armpit of a town. Fog hung over it constantly, it was freezing cold, and it had very little of the typical quaint architecture of that region. It was beautiful countryside at least.

Wow "huh" is certainly becoming all-encomposing.

"Mark Rothko, Ad Rienhardt (”Black paintings”) JMW Turner, Robert Irwin, James Turrell for me I guess. Wanna see my prints? Just kidding, never made one!"

I googled all the names. I looooove Turner's work. Also Rothko's. Am probably not highbrow enough to appreciate the black plastic-covered canvases. :-)

Wow “huh” is certainly becoming all-encomposing.

That is the idea. No thread bubble.

"was implying that you might be getting bored listing to me go on and on about art!"

Nah, I missed out on taking more art classes in college. I might have majored in it except that I lived really far from the school and couldn't swing the extra hours on campus required for the labs.

"Its not plastic!"

Oops, sorry, I read too fast.

"Wow “huh” is certainly becoming all-encomposing."

Let's see, how can I get SJ Jim to make more jokes about lap-dancers... Must go consult my evil-mastermind manual.

"The black paintings are actually hard edge geometric crosses of nine squares each. Not black really. Just close to it."

Okay now I have to go look at them again...

So SQT is a work of art. Well, we all knew that anyway.

Okay, my confusion came from reading one of the titles too quickly: "Black print on plastic." The nuances do not show up on my computer monitor. I can only see black.

So SQT is a work of art. Well, we all knew that anyway.

Huh?