Bought a book.

I think it's two geese made from straw that has been zip tied to a bench to commemorate somebody who used to sit there (and possibly liked geese) or put there to stop anybody sitting there.

That made me laugh more than I should publicly.

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We now have an entire media who would rather see a Farage govt, leading to the demise of the NHS and an alliance with the far right US Christian Nationalist fuckers than support the govt we elected And its drift towards EU alignment
Putin must be laughing his head off.

It's shaped like a trowel? Have I missed something?

The one where Gene Kelly danced on the top of it?

Still haven't touched it. I'm wondering if there is actually a drink in there.

So how much should a latte settle before the froth is considered unacceptable? I've not touched it yet and I still have froth settling.

Same. I wouldn't touch the swirls. But also everything is too expensive.

There's only one person I think of when I hear the phrase "towering bell end".

Zip tied geese.

He's plastering a bell tower?

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I think he's working today but I've not seen him around.

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Going home early? It's still the middle of the night.

You've never watched the Powder Puff Girls? Very hard to believe. I bet you can sing the theme song.

Thankfully I have absolutely no idea what that is. I'll ask @frmo.bsky.social. He's full of grandfather knowledge.

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You offend my juvenile working class tastes.

I watched 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' (one of my favourite books, but now I need to read 'Lust for Life') last night and noticed how they had Michelangelo outlining figures in his frescos with a clear black line and I also thought cartoons.

I think they've added more, if I'm honest. Not had them in years and I don't buy them myself. But we had some in and I was told to try one since they have a "new recipe". It's just lots of "caramel" but they call it "nougat". Far too sweet and quite nasty.

I get that. The brain lines what the brain likes and every brain is different. I like distortions of scale but also symmetry, chaos but also control. I think it's these tensions that make art done well infinitely captivating, in both drawn lines or a line of poetry or prose.

Ah, now Soutine I like. Closer to Francis Bacon (and then Steadman, Scarfe etc.). I guess Guaguin is closer to Hockney who plays around with collapsing perspective. The painting you've picked there is almost pure shape and colour and probably had four or five vanishing points. Very Hockney.

I think it's that line in the film where Gauguin says he likes flatness and he rages about VG's thick textured paint. His paintings remind me of Matisse's paper collages. More about shape and pushing for abstraction, which is why I'm probably cool on it.

So many of these contrasts come down the preferences of the viewer. VG's biography makes it harder to dislike him but there's a degree of populist poster art mentality to it. Because of you I've just started to read Waugh and I'd say there's a touch of Gauguin in Waugh. A similarly cold intellect.