Comments on: We Now Resume Our Semi-Regularly Scheduled Broadcast http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/we-now-resume-our-semi-regularly-scheduled-broadcast/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:49:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/we-now-resume-our-semi-regularly-scheduled-broadcast/#comment-2131 KF Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:01:47 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=884#comment-2131 <p>Incidentally, the painting is entitled “Sunny Morning--Eight Legs.” And the dog appears in multiple such paintings, always in that same state of repose. </p> <p> Maybe it’s just being a girl, though, but those legs under the bed are the stuff of nightmares for me.  I prefer to think I don’t have them, but now I’ll have to go check.  Thanks. </p> Incidentally, the painting is entitled “Sunny Morning–Eight Legs.” And the dog appears in multiple such paintings, always in that same state of repose.

Maybe it’s just being a girl, though, but those legs under the bed are the stuff of nightmares for me.  I prefer to think I don’t have them, but now I’ll have to go check.  Thanks.

]]> By: ogged http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/we-now-resume-our-semi-regularly-scheduled-broadcast/#comment-2130 ogged Mon, 01 Sep 2003 05:37:56 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=884#comment-2130 <p>Wow.  I hope it’s not too Freudian to say I think that’s a beautiful painting.  I’m not sure I’d put it on my wall, but mainly because one does occasionally have guests.  </p> <p> The agonizingly taut man manages to hold his fingers apart just so around the animal’s tail.  And the animal responds with perfect repose.  Parenting. </p> <p> Yes, I see the legs under the bed, but who doesn’t have a pair of those hidden somewhere? </p> Wow.  I hope it’s not too Freudian to say I think that’s a beautiful painting.  I’m not sure I’d put it on my wall, but mainly because one does occasionally have guests. 

The agonizingly taut man manages to hold his fingers apart just so around the animal’s tail.  And the animal responds with perfect repose.  Parenting.

Yes, I see the legs under the bed, but who doesn’t have a pair of those hidden somewhere?

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/we-now-resume-our-semi-regularly-scheduled-broadcast/#comment-2129 KF Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:34:07 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=884#comment-2129 <p>You know, I didn’t see any evidence of the Freud exhibit there, so I must have missed it (in fact, I think it was at the Tate Britain in 2002...?)—but fortunately, I caught it in L.A., twice.  It was deeply disconcerting—much has been made of Freud’s grotesqueries in approaching the human body, but I still wasn’t prepared for <a href="http://www.acquavellagalleries.com/artwork/freud_1061_fw.jpg" rel="nofollow">this image</a>, which haunts me months later. </p> You know, I didn’t see any evidence of the Freud exhibit there, so I must have missed it (in fact, I think it was at the Tate Britain in 2002…?)—but fortunately, I caught it in L.A., twice.  It was deeply disconcerting—much has been made of Freud’s grotesqueries in approaching the human body, but I still wasn’t prepared for this image, which haunts me months later.

]]> By: ogged http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/we-now-resume-our-semi-regularly-scheduled-broadcast/#comment-2128 ogged Fri, 29 Aug 2003 04:46:50 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=884#comment-2128 <p>Yes, welcome back.  Did you happen to see the Freud exhibit at the Tate?  Is it still there? Wasn’t it in LA for a while?  I think I’ve now just missed it in both places… </p> Yes, welcome back.  Did you happen to see the Freud exhibit at the Tate?  Is it still there? Wasn’t it in LA for a while?  I think I’ve now just missed it in both places…

]]> By: BT http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/we-now-resume-our-semi-regularly-scheduled-broadcast/#comment-2127 BT Fri, 29 Aug 2003 04:17:32 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=884#comment-2127 <p>Welcome home and belated happy birthday, Kathleen! </p> Welcome home and belated happy birthday, Kathleen!

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