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Capsule
Monday, October 7, 2019
Houses at Auvers is an oil-on-canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh, painted towards the end of May or beginning of June 1890, shortly after he had moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town northwest of Paris, France.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail)
Monday, October 7, 2019
Houses at Auvers is an oil-on-canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh, painted towards the end of May or beginning of June 1890, shortly after he had moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town northwest of Paris, France.
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Commentary
Monday, October 7, 2019
It’s been a long time since I’ve gone to the movies regularly.
During the summer my daughter Kat had suggested the $6.00 Tuesday admission at many theatres.
Didn’t interest me then.
Lately, with “Once Upon a Time in Hlollywood,” excellent, “The Goldfinch,” enjoyable although overall disappointing, and “Downton Abbey,” enjoyable but predictability falling short of the elegance and drama of the series, renewed my interest in regular attendance.
Last week I went on a Tuesday to see “Hustlers,” in which J Lopez was charismatic, although overall the film was not compelling.
This week I bought a ticket to the latest Stallone feature. I expect a grade C movie and feel pretty sure I will not be disappointed.
How long will my refreshed romance with Hollywood last?
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Saturday’s Dinner posted on
Monday, October 7, 2019
I bought a piece of swordfish, just short of a pound.
After I slow-roasted it for 20 minutes I turned on the broiler, heated the frying pan under the broiler for 4 minutes, set the fish on the hot pan and put it next to the broiler, broiling one side while searing the other.
It took 4 minutes to cook and it was as juicy and delicious a piece of fish as I’ve ever had.
BTW: I served an anchovy-butter sauce with it.
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Chuckle of the day:
Monday, October 7, 2019
A man goes into a bar and seats himself on a stool.
The bartender, "What'll it be buddy?"
The customer, "Set me up with seven whiskey shots and make them doubles."
The bartender does this and watches the man slug one down, then the next, then the next, and so on until all seven are gone almost as quickly as they were served.
“Why are you drinking so fast and so much?”
“You’d drink them like this too, if you had what I have."
“I don’t mean to get personal, but what is it that you have?”
"A dollar."
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A “Hello, my friends!” video.
Monday, October 7, 2019
Melatonin
A complaint that medical people sometimes don’t see holistically
Dom’s website: existentialautotrip.com
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Today’s Thumbnail
Monday, October 7, 2019
Houses at Auvers is an oil-on-canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh, painted towards the end of May or beginning of June 1890, shortly after he had moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town northwest of Paris, France.
His move was prompted by his dissatisfaction with the boredom and monotony of asylum life at Saint-Rémy, as well as by his emergence as an artist of some renown following Albert Aurier's celebrated January 1890 Mercure de France review of his work.
In his final two months at Saint-Rémy, van Gogh painted from memory a number of canvases he called "reminisces of the North", harking back to his Dutch roots.
The influence of this return to the North continued at Auvers, notably in The Church at Auvers.
He did not, however, repeat his studies of peasant life of the sort he had made in his Nuenen period.
His paintings of dwellings at Auvers encompassed a range of social domains.
Houses at Auvers is now in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, United States.
The Church at Auvers is an oil painting created by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in June 1890 which now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Acknowledgements
Monday, October 7, 2019
Thanks to the Jokes Warehouse for the chuckle today.
Thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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GoodMorning
Monday, October 7, 2019
I keep a plastic reproduction of Van Gogh’s ear to remind me of his torment.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon