I have dedicated much of my life to useless pursuits and I have the liberal arts degree to prove it. Let’s set aside the liberal and focus on the aggrandizing, classist, hazy, subjective, undefinable and worthless “art”. It’s not Science nor Technology nor Engineering nor Mathematics. Nor Accounting nor Business Management. Which means [snort, air quotes] art is nowhere to be found among the disciplines that push us towards progress, whether uncontrollably (artificial general intelligence), deliciously (Empanada Assembly Lines), or smotheringly (Barbie / Oppenheimer hype).
Both movies open in two weeks. Get a fucking grip, dammit.
Artists can get to be geniuses, although raw intellect is not required for art. Art deals more in the sensorial and suggestive, rather than in abstract thought and deductive reasoning. And sure, critical reasoning and scientific research may consist of a higher-calling-type of activity, but it’s one that requires ignoring human desires as thoroughly engrossing as lying on a couch doing squat shit. Some say art fuels the soul; I say you can enjoy art while lounging, which is divine in my book.
Love awakens more feelings than lust, and I think art operates in a similar manner. You look at an object or listen to a jingle, but a piece of art gives you an experience. You feel something while looking at a sculpture or a huge mural, or get jolted while listening to a symphony, or to a rock opera, or an arrestingly personal dis on your fashion sense.
Art draws you to explore more thoroughly what is before you—or maybe, instead of provoking admiration, it repulses you. Art traffics in the irrational, which is beyond STEM stuff but thoroughly human and natural. And irrational stuff can get prettay, prettay, pretty awesome.
Art is the opposite of commonplace. This is how I would distinguish a thing from an artistic creation: a creation requires an author, craft and intention. Surveillance videos are not art, just a depiction of stuff. Faces of Death videos… I was shocked that the lighting was so uneven, at least in the one I saw back in the 90s. Nawt art. Found-object installations and stuff like a banana taped to a wall… Well, those are events within the art community. That is a fact. But since art is intrinsically subjective, I says NAWT ART.
Which, by the way, this is my beef with conceptual art: it’s idea driven. Sometimes the idea is WOW, but there’s gotta be more than that. I think a work of art must have some craft behind it, a skillful hand or design, I think. Don’t get me wrong: exploiting the wealthy art patrons’ Emperor-with-no-clothes angst is very, very satisfying. I just ask for the artist to demonstrate skills, among which could be showmanship:
Yeah, Banksy rocks–duh!
NFL NEWS
-NFL Training Camp dates are here. Rookies will start reporting by July 18 and veterans by the 25th. The Steelers report on July 26. The Hall of Fame game is on August 3, Jets @ Browns.
-But regarding now, is there anything happening?
Unless you count the supplemental draft, which is Tuesday, and for which two players are available.
SPROTS TONITE
WNBA
Las Vegas Aces @ MinnesoUta Lynx – 6:00
Atlanta Dream @ Chicago Sky – 7:00
Gold Cup Quarterfinals
But now, it’s personal.
EEUU hosts Canada – 6:30
TOP FLIGHT FÚTBOL
Secsi Mecsi – Apertura
Monterrey hosts Atlas – 8:00
Argentina
Banfield hosts Arsenal Sarandí – 6:30
Defensa y Justicia hosts Lanús – 6:30
Bolivia
Universitario de Vinto hosts The Striongest – 6:30
Perú
Deportivo Binacional hosts Deportivo Garcilaso – 7:30
Venezuela
Zamora hosts Portuguesa – 7:15
FINALLY,
It bothers me that “art” carries with it a hoity-toity association. Yes, refinement could be a defining quality for art, but it’s not the only one. Terms like “folk art” or “outsider art” reinforce that notion, much like “white trash” reinforces white supremacy. Living in misery or being a horrible person is not restricted to non-whites, just as everyone is capable of producing art and seeing art in every type of creation. Which I like, although it’s hardly artful or novel.
Too soon?
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Today’s Pennsylvania Experience: Recharging in the rain at Sheetz
Near Mt. Dangerous, Pennsylvania
I like SD weather.
South Dakota?
/Gonna keep beating this dead horse
We do enjoy beating dead horses around here more than in Santa Anita.
How else are you going to get affordable yet tender taco meat?
(Affordable yet tender is also how Horatio describes Lowratio)
I think Lowratio has legs 😂
Little, tiny, churning legs. But legs nonetheless.
Lowratio!
South Dakota is lovely.
I grew up in Montana and never heard anyone say that about South Dakota
What’s MT life like?
So much fun I haven’t been back since I left for college.
/Went to North Dakota State
Plus there’s that pesky bench warrant…
Whomst amongst us? Am I right?
I really liked Bozeman, I would have been happy to stay longer.
And now, for an inaccurate and insufferable take, let’s go to the studio and Alexi Lalas.
The next US player better go left.
The point is moot, thanks to MVP* Mr. Crossbar.
*Oh the MVP is definitely Turner.
THIS MATT TURNER I CALL HIM TRUMP’S PROMISE BECAUSE HE’S AN EFFECTIVE FOREIGN WALL
You can also call him Trump’s Promise because the last guy hit the post, meaning someone else finished something Trump started and then wandered off in search of a Big Mac after losing interest five minutes later.
LA MANDÓ A KENTUCKY!
Fucking MLS dipshits.
“Oh he’s 2-2 for in his MLS career”
Just fucking Blair Walshes that shit immediately.
Problem with art is that it doesn’t self-police. Too many frauds sitting around on their asses getting away with using the Artist excuse.
Need a registered trademark, like Realtor.
So you hate “The Invisible Hand of The Market”? AHAHAHAHAHA I LOVE IT 🤣
Fuck, that’s a hell of a save.
Gonna guess the US punts at least three of these into the crowd. Have to count on Canada to punt at least four of them as well.
Well, there’s one.
Sky points.
USA 1: CAD: 0
“¡La mandó a Kentucky!”, said the Univisión guy
Kentucky my ass; if the stands weren’t there that thing wouldn’t have come down before Memphis.
Memphis, Egypt.
Oh good, the most exciting thing in sports: five guys lining up from 18′ and just blasting soccer balls at the net while the keeper tries to guess where they’re aiming.
You need to be a lot closer for effective ball blasting
— Buddy
Matt Turner using those Arsenal skills to get this game tied up!
U S A! U S A! U S A!
Never a doubt!
How will Canada react to this sudden victory!?
“eh”
Jesus that’s a hell of a save.
Seems like a lot of effort to win the soccer equivalent of a Grammy.
Fun fact, the VAR officials were told that if they performed well today, their usual pay of loonies would be upgraded to toonies. Additionally they would be gifted a swag bag of moose jaws, beaver pelts, and a sixer of Molson.
2 4 of Molson, those VAR folks be thursty
Oh, good idea. They need a couple of roadies after the game, eh?
PLOT TWIUST
Canadia gets a penalty
And we are tied.
The big bully Canucks intimated the ref into that call, which hurts the underdog US. Unfair.
the proper terminology is we are LEVEL at 1
In Amurica, we are TIED. None of that gay euro talk here.
And now we go into OVERtime.
2 minutes for fighting or high sticking?
Four minute double-minor for drawing blood.
Under 50 stitches and its just one minor
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL ESTADOS UNIDOS
Suck it, Trebeck
The #BFIB apparently took a CF from Bear Down FOAR Midterms. Does that mean we will add Blax to the supporter contingent?
The Mariners are going all high school players this draft. For more on that we go to their new GM, Matt Gaetz.
Absolutely thought Manfred was going to lose his shit and start scolding the crowd there.
What a loathsome individual.
I did manage to get solid participation from the ladies with the meal prep.
Absolutely wonderful day.
You’ll read about it eventually.
Eldest granddaughter can cook and that’s just fucking wonderful.
Oh good, another HS shortstop for the farm system. Fucking awesome. That’ll help.
In 2029.
Just the worst organization.
RE29ECT!
If you were to open a dictionary and look up the word ‘smarmy’ you would find a picture of Greg Armsinger.
He should just lean into it and change his name to Eddie Haskell.
Armsinger just tried to blame the boos Manfred was getting on the Yankees being next on the clock.
My man, the Yankees have yet to draft and Manfred has been booed every single time he’s spoken and not had a cancer surviving child to use as a shield.
What he did to the A’s or at least was complicit with should haunt him on his way to hell. And longer if I have a say so.
He sucks. I may hate him more than Bettman at this point, and that’s saying a lot.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I thought we were clear that Manfred and Goodell, while international disgraces, fall behind Bettman’s status as a galactic disgrace.
Interdimensional disgrace. Gozer the Gozerian marvels at Bettman’s destructive power.
I think Goodell at least likes football. Manfred hates the fans, baseball, himself, basically everything except getting paid.
Just waiting on the Yankees pick at 26 to see what SS or C they draft in the first round this year.
Good to see Manfred is familiar with the “bring a cancer kid onstage with you to prevent from constantly being booed” ploy.
The Major League Baseball draft just has no comparison to the NFL draft, yet MLB Network is going to die on a hill trying to make it happen.
I am happy to see that the fans are booing that asshole Manfred.
Like the NHL draft, absolutely none of these guys will sniff a big league ballpark without a general admission ticket for at least three years. Two-thirds of them will be in a different franchise by then, too.
I think both of the LSU kids, including the one your Dirt Steelers took, will be up pretty quick.
Then Pittsburgh will lose him the second he qualifies for arbitration.
See my comments below. I’ll have pamphlets and you can sign up for my email listserve at my booth in the lobby.
I missed those earlier, likely because of Don T’s gif.
I still say Skene will play for the Pirates. Maybe not well, and definitely not for long, but he’ll play.
It’s the RFK Jr. of drafts.
I like going to art museums and I like having art prints around. I don’t understand for a millisecond the concept of having a horrendously ugly piece of art on your walls because “it will be worth something someday.”
horrendously ugly piece of art on your walls because “it will be worth something someday.”
Also known as having children.
who won yesterday’s Golden Shower Flacco Eights?
Fightin’ Van Halens and America’s Bottom
Here I am in front of Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece “Fallingwater”
It’s called a “dam,” Frank! Then the water wouldnt be falling anymore.
You’re 90 minutes away. Stop by.
Almost did! But I might be back in Pittsburgh area again this month, and then I will. Today was very spur of the moment.
I grew up less than an hour away. I’ve never been there.
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” – Andy Warhol
Correct.
Huell? Mos’ def art.
Huell left New Mexico and moved to the East Coast to become a successful comedian.
At least in a my erotic fanfiction..
Here’s performance art:
The Dirt Stillers just picked an LSU pitcher first-overall in the draft. He’ll toil in the minors for three seasons, and then be traded to an actual franchise in 2027 for “prospects.” Paul, Skenes, the LSU pitcher, will be a terrific third-starter for the Dodgers by then.
This is what the Dirt Stillers have done for three decades, and us gullible Yinzers keep allowing it. It’s really like economic politics: the uber-rich fucking over everyone else, forever. That’s tragic and comedic, no understands it, but people keep paying to witness it. Sounds like art to me.
Speaking of works of art:
Similar swagger
Speaking of swagger, I’ll be eating a Cuban Sandwich from Porto’s while munching on Lay’s Cuban Sandwich chips and speaking Spanish really loudly and rapidly.
You can’t get more Cuban than that unless you have a super strong coffee in a tiny cup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV1jAURI7MI&ab_channel=WrecklessEating
Make sure to say “caballero” a lot and try to top every single story within earshot. THAT is the Cuban Way
THIS GUY BALLSOFSTEELANDFURY I CALL HIM MONICA LEWINSKY ON HER FIRST DAY OF WORK CAUSE BEFORE LONG SOME CUBAN THINGS ARE GOING TO END UP INSIDE OF HIM.