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Friday, January 16. 2009

A few Friday noon links


“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show... ”


- Andrew Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth dead at 91. Illustrator? Artist? What's the diff? They called his Dad, NC Wyeth, an "illustrator." Image above is Andrew Wyeth's Long Limbs, 1999.


Who voted for Obama? Patriot Post (scroll to Patriot Perspective)


How to deal with a home invasion (h/t, Alphecca). Related: Gun Salesman of the Year


More details of the plane crash


Look on the bright side: Consumer prices fall again. It's a good time to buy stuff.


Citigroup Citibank Whatever update. Thanks for nuthin, Sandy Weill.


What if Israel had lost the Six-Day War?


The mess that is Putin's Russia


Scathing about Bush's Presidency: View from the Right. OK, Lawrence, but drop it now. Just look at these people.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 11:43 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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"Sully" demonstrated the true beauty of practice, practice,practice!

I would like to also say "BRAVO" to those guys who were driving the ferries! Damn--they did good work too! No questions asked--just good solid thinking in an immediate response to a never expected situation!! When you east coasters get on board one of those ferries go up to the pilot and give em a "nice work" for me!
#1 apple pie on 2009-01-16 12:33 (Reply)
I love Wyeth. I have three framed works of his in my bathroom. They're of his lover.

Who wrote the lines beneath the picture you have posted? Striking words.
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#2 Meta on 2009-01-16 12:33 (Reply)
Nevermind... just noticed how you posted his name. He wrote those words. I love it when people put into words the exact things I think but cannot express.
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#2.1 Meta on 2009-01-16 12:39 (Reply)
Also love Wyeth. He lived a few miles away from our farm and judged our elenentary school art contests. Gave me a blue ribbon too! First and last taste of glory. The landscape haunts one, even years away from it. Dismal at times, but a depth and intricacy to it that draw one in. I roamed thickets and open fields, and the alternation of wide upon lonely views and hemmed in by thorns and branches are a pretty good metaphor for life. Another life metaphor: hoky, I know, the way the corn farmer across from us used to blast his shotgun at our rabbitting beagles trampling his fields (we had 18 at one time, sold them to hunters. Dreadful breed!)
#3 retriever (Link) on 2009-01-16 12:56 (Reply)
I also loved Wyeth. Sorry to hear of his passing. The whole Brandywine School, ( Howard Pyle, NC Wyeth, etc.) were terrific, as is Andrews son, Jaimie. One of my favorites by NC was The Giant, which showed a giant walking in the clouds as children played on the beach.
Back in the late 60's my future wife and I were in a small art gallery in Croton-on the-Hudson. They had a dish painted by Andrew Wyeth for sale. It wasn't all that impressive but it was a Wyeth and it was going for only a hundred bucks.
At the time I was a jobless hippie and didn't have a pot to piss in, so we passed on buying the plate. I could kick myself in the butt now.
#4 sean on 2009-01-16 18:02 (Reply)
I can kick myself now for 100 things I never did or bought when the chance passed by.
#4.1 Bird Dog on 2009-01-17 08:04 (Reply)
Likewise. Kick, kick kick, kick. Gotta tune in that inner voice better --i mean the one that says 'listen to me, not that other inner voice'. But then both of 'em say that, so, feh.
#4.1.1 buddy larsen on 2009-01-17 15:06 (Reply)

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