I recently saw this portrait of former Democratic Senator (and very angry George W. Bush supporter) Zell Miller, when perusing google image for a photo to accompany a post I was writing about him. This fine oil painting is from a Georgia-based portrait artist named Thomas V. Nash, whose website I quickly perused, sending me down the rabbit hole. Did I ever even publish my Zell Miller bit? Who knows.
Mr. Nash has painted many other anglo “Men”: politicians like Newt Gingrich, and CEOs, doctors and Episcopal priests. He also does creepy portraits of children and dead people. There is a particularly eerie portrait of a dead child named Jeffrey, using a dummy dressed up like the child, in his “state-of-the-art portrait painting studio” in Roswell, Georgia. Nash’s portraits are unintentionally surreal, his subjects unintentionally bizarre. He’s clearly a technically competent artist, if not a master of detail. His oil paintings lack nuance, but that is because they meant to confer a sense of literal power concealed in innocuousness and benevolence which border on sinister and ironic. Even the children bear a sort of sinister quality twinned in innocence. The women are regal but undeniably sleazy. Look for yourself. [click to continue…]
Let me remind you folks, in lots of other parts of the world, you can’t send your nephew a candy bar, a $5 bill, or a traveller’s check for his birthday, because no matter how many times you try it, it never arrives! It’s an unending source of wonderment among immigrants that Americans dare to send cash, Marzipan fruits or a tiny little bottle of maple syrup through the mail, because in the old country, all of those things would be reliably boosted by a corrupt someoneorother. And let’s not be negative about the junk mail, either people. Somebody buys it, somebody “designs” it, somebody prints it, somebody addresses it and somebody has to use it for kindling. Other than Banking, Insurance, organ harvesting and sex in the public mensroom, it’s about the only part of the economy still turning a profit. So, read your junk mail, and if you still have money, use it to buy the things advertised and tell everybody you buy things from ” I’m only here because of your fascinating advertising media delivered to my household via a bulk rate mail run.” It doesn’t matter whether you got anything from them or not, seriously…most business owners are ‘tards and don’t remember if they are doing direct mail. Tell them you have a coupon and you lost it, you might get discount! And let me remind you that, even though Pennsylvania is drenched in snow and ice, my mom still got her mail. Because neither sleet nor etc. If I had to pick one bizarrely paramilitary arm of the federal masters, staffed by borderline autistics and weirdos, it wouldn’t be Blackwater. It would be the guys who literally “haul the mail.”
Thank you.
I’ve just fainted.
I loathe red carpet gowns. LOATHE. I mean, can you imagine? Wearing one of those poofy rags? A peach Versace, with billowing sleeves wafting in the wind, or a McQueen gown, laden down in heavy gold embroideredry like a suit of armor? How about a gilded overload Givenchy or something from the Marchessa pageant crap line that makes beautiful young girls look hideous and sad, and lithe girls in their 20’s look matronly and stunned? Maybe a Armani midnigt blue silk chiffon princess gown or a chimerica, coral layered Louis Vuitton, the ruffles and the flouncy peplum aka ra-ra skirts and dresses of the 80’s? Hideous, hideous, hideous.
Now Kerry Washington looks good in everything – and has worn some pretty fantastic dresses – but this Giles Spring 2013 gown, worn to the UK premiere of Django Unchained, is simply the most spectacular dress I’ve ever seen. I’m not kidding. The tight bodice, the color against her skin, the print, the pouf, the length, the print, THE HORSE. THE HORSE. It’s simply too much.
I wouldn’t get married to Alexina Rose in anything but.
The Dress on the runway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWURTYwn3k
A supporter of Republican presidential candidate House Speaker Newt Gingrich at Gingrich’s rally headquarters Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, in Manchester, N.H. Newt had just lost the primary. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
So much for “humanizing” (our country’s most sacred resource), fetuses! A Republican lawmaker in New Mexico introduced a bill on Wednesday that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial.
So after the baby is born, they take him, tag him, put him in a plastic evidence bag, and pass him around the jurors during the trial. Because you get DNA from an aborted fetus. Of course you can, but you miss out on all the fun of forcing a woman to carry her rapist’s baby to term.
House Bill 206, introduced by lunatic state Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R), would charge a rape victim who ended her pregnancy with a third-degree felony for “tampering with evidence.” Evidence, thy name is fetus. Specifically:
“Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion, of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime”.
Third-degree felonies in New Mexico carry a sentence of up to three years in prison. Prosecuting the victim is my favorite part of American law.
This unconstitutional bill turns victims of rape and incest into felons, incubators of evidence for the state. The unborn fetus are, in turn, “evidence”, like lipstick on a cigarette butt, or a semen-stained blue dress. I assume this means that only rapes that result in pregnancy will be prosecuted, as if no evidence (fetus) could have possibly be formed during the alleged rape. There would be no semen tracing, no blood typing, no evidence at all, surely a woman’s word would not suffice. Slut! According to Republican philosophy, rape victims will now have to carry the fetus to term in order to prove that they were “legitimately raped”.
Cathryyn (what the HELL king of spelling of Catherine is that?) Brown said in a statement today that she introduced the bill with the goal of punishing the person who commits incest or rape and then procures or facilitates an abortion to destroy the evidence of the crime, and that this heinous bill was to “help protect women cross our state”. Or, as a trial run for Arizona next door??
Way to go Rep. Brown, for this ignoble reach-around on a federal law. I guess the state would then be required to pay all the forced-into-birthchild’s meals, doctor’s appointments, clothing, insurance, housing ad tuition for the “life of the evidence”? Maybe we can get a law passed that states: Any republican member of the house in New Mexico is required to let any form of illness/injury remain untreated & heal “naturally” (as God intended) in order to receive insurance benefits. Would GOP Jesus approve?
Anna Selezneva
Russian born model in French Vogue, 2009
Fivla and Vitamin, cardigan-sweater-wearing Shetland ponies, are the official ambassadors of VisitScotland’s new campaign celebrating Year of Natural Scotland. via Gawker