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Thursday, June 23, 2005
St. Anthony Tortured By Devils
This is one of my favorite paintings ever. It was painted in 1423 by Sassetta. Not a very good image, but I just wanted to look at it today. Almost anything with wooden club torture, naughty devils, and snarling faces makes me smile. Beat him, devils! Beat him until he submits!
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It is lovely, this torture in a barren landscape. The victim is calmly elsewhere, submitting to the badness. All is harmonious.
ReplyDeleteYou are a sicko. But I like this painting.
ReplyDeletethis painting is astonishingly good, MM! The devils are gently and lovingly applying their atrocities. It is soothing.
ReplyDeletesassetta likes to krunk it up!
ReplyDeleteGentle atrocities are coming into and onto the calm ascetic. Poignant is the stiffness of his beard. Loving is the club action. Gray is gunlike and sallow but happy.
ReplyDeleteThere is gore everywhere. I like the bloody gore. Gore is good.
ReplyDeletewhat the?
ReplyDeleteI agree Krix. What on earth.
ReplyDeleteThat French F***er stole my poodle pic idea. Damn. I guess it was not mine but still. Tarnation.
ReplyDeleteis crew koos Fabeebles in disguise?
ReplyDeleteHe deserves the double-snake treatment.
ReplyDeleteooops, I meant les fabeebles
ReplyDeleteMM, if Ned's had a celebrity poker invitational, who would you invite?
ReplyDeleteKrix that is a wonderful question. I am ruminating. Let's see...
ReplyDelete1. Alice Cooper
2. Animal from the Muppets
3. Bea Arthur
4. Chuck Woolery
5. Radha Mitchell (because there always has to be one babe and I have a crush on her)
I may want to have several simultaneous poker games going so I can invite more celebrities. This is fun.
What about Charles Nelson Reilley?
ReplyDeleteWait who is that again?
ReplyDeleteIs he a babe?
ReplyDeleteI forgot to specify that Bea Arthur would have to be topless.
ReplyDeletecharles Nelson Reiley was on Match game. he was a freak. a lovable freak.
ReplyDeletehttp://krixfort.com/img/borring.gif
Oh that guy. I spent many hours with him as a chld watching daytime tv. I miss bad game shows. I can't watch them now but I used to kind of love them. Especially reruns of older ones. There was one, hosted by Burt Convy, where everyone had to wear these horrible large earphones. I don't remember the name of it. I liked Card Sharks and the one where they said "Big Bucks...no whammy"
ReplyDeleteI prefer the whammy to come though. Come on whammy. Get me.
ReplyDeletehow about Data from Star Trek? He seems like a poker champ, but he can't read the emotions and nuances of the players very well. This would lead to much hilarity.
ReplyDeleteYes Data would be good, especially sitting next to Animal.
ReplyDeleteOh my God, that whammy game. It's so annoying but captivating. As a kid I really loved the Price is Right. Family Feud. How bout a tard family feud? think about that. or a tard reality show....
ReplyDeleteI bet Christopher Reeve would have been good at poker.
ReplyDeleteI will be hit by lightning later today.
ReplyDeleteyes, drastic, and he was always sitting around anyway.
ReplyDeleteYES FB! Tard anything would be so wrong but so good. We are bad people.
ReplyDeleteThe Price is Right was kind of the best one. I loved the showcase showdown. And that beeping wheel they would spin.
Hall and Oates could just be one player. I would like that.
ReplyDeleteBea Arthur's knockers are hot.
ReplyDeleteI saw Corky on an airplane recently. Both on my way out and on my way in. He seemed good, highly functional, if a balding a little.
ReplyDeleteI also think that the Runaway Bride would be good at poker. Her eyes are very distracting.
ReplyDeleteHow about Rog from What's Happening. He could be good in the poker game. Or his little sister Dee. She might be better.
ReplyDeleteOoooooooo Rog....your in trouble.
ReplyDeletecelebrity tard family feud?
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should ask Chaka to play poker too?
Yes Chaka should definitely come. Good one, FB. Everyone with high foreheads should be in one game.
ReplyDeleteDon't invite Sleestack. He's a boor.
ReplyDeleteYou need a celebrity dog playing poker... Spuds McKenzie, maybe?
ReplyDeletecelebrity dogs playing poker. Yes! Brilliant and inspired. There could be Lady, The Tramp, Benji, The shaggy DA, Spuds MacKenzie, Beatrice the temperamental weimeraner from Best in Show. Oh I'm sure there are more I can think of.
ReplyDeleteGoofy can not come. Whoever said goofy is a dog needs to get off the pipe. Goofy is not a dog, nor is he goofy.
I am satan on a good day!! :)
ReplyDeletethe infectation is spreading. we are all doomed.
ReplyDeletehp, where is your wineskin?
ReplyDeleteI...I..(cough,cough)...think I am dying...
ReplyDeletei am taking the silver pouch out of my box of wine to make it more portable. I will keep it in the overhead compartment with straws dangling for consumption - one for me and one for guests. no one will guess what is going on.
ReplyDeleteOh, wouldn't that be great: "In case of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, a straw will descend from above you. It will provide you with a constant flow of the booze of your choice."
ReplyDeletenow I am snorting/laughing. sorry FB. I am not like the snorter.
ReplyDeleteI have hunks of the jerkied beef stuck between my teeth. My tongue will not stay in my mouth, I cannot understand this.
ReplyDeleteMy beard is blackened from the dirts of the city. I am a trampoline for pigeons and bugs. My nose continues its dripping patterns on my chin.
ReplyDeleteI am swollen from eating too much soda and snickers. I will not stop my consumptions.
ReplyDeleteHorst is beyond repair. However I am willing to help whoever else needs fixing. I have an array of tools that I can wield upon any of you.
ReplyDeleteI could use a good fixing on my groin area. It is not exactly broken, but palpated and trashy.
ReplyDeleteGrayness is my anti-oxidant. Some say that the leaky boat is a danger to self but I have witnessed its friendliness in relation to the shores. I am still adrift, still wanting, still consumed by sadness without reason.
ReplyDeleteyes mm. why?
ReplyDeleteThere was no party. Just a raptoring, a snarling, a roping of the region. As though there was a rodeo taking place there. It was uncomfortable and induced by nothing. I blush.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds suspicious. Were you lassoing yourself? I think you were, naughty boy.
ReplyDeleteOk, I admit, it was induced by the treacherous Mr. Dank. I did not want to reveal it. There was a loosening of morals that occurred in my bedroom just now.
ReplyDeleteI feel soiled.
ReplyDeleteoh oh oh thanks hammy.
ReplyDeleteI am working through my gender confusion identity pathway issues.
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