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A treasure trove of Outsider Art discovered in a dumpster in 1970. Curious art, with a curious provenance. Note how it's value has steadily increased...from garbage, to $10,000 for the folio, to in excess of $10,000 per page...
I love this stuff...
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Now this was a bad idea from the get go. But I bought into it so I've only myself to blame.
First of all, cooking it up, I generally wait until the bottom softens and then push the rest down to boil. That did not work. What happened is that those damned macaronis served like little geysers and funneled up the boiling water and sprayed it all over the kitchen. Eventually I had to break them into the pot.
Secondly, even broken they're too fucking big. You can't twirl them on your fork, you have to try and impale one (at which point they make surprisingly animated attempts at escaping) and then pick it off the floor. There's no 5 second rule here, I'd have to sweep or some-such, so it's right into the garbage. Try again. Once you manage to spear one you then have the problem of fitting it into your mouth.
Yeah, right.
Mezzani #3. A thoroughly bad idea. Although I did read about some restaurant that was using them as an environmentally friendly alternative to straws...
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& the daughter, overdue, is needing me to get her to Taber to do her driver's test. Cold day, windswept, grey and snowy, and Taber, all of a single story at it's highest point, every shop window blacked out against the relentless summer sun, wide streets that offer no shade, a tired thrift shop with nothing of value, killing an hour while she does her test, an hour in Taber is like a week anywhere else in the world, not a single independent coffee house, the hour runs slowly through the glass and it's time to leave...
I don't know if I've ever been so glad to get out a place before, ever.
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Rather like his work, brooding, atmospheric, and I admire him for generally not painting faces. The people - alien, distant, there's a tension in their action, in their turning from the painter. Brilliant.
Links: Wikipedia on Vilhelm Hammershoi & a BBC article
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Interesting.
Link: The Strange Life of the Modlins
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=telLFt6bOKs
And an abundance of trailers: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=a+story+for+the+modlins+watch+online