Oozing Out

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,762

Managing Political Agitation:

 

I decided to be inert this weekend. I think that the USA needs a National Day of Inertness once a month.

 

Sunday was always like a calming day. Remember how families came together that one day each week. How great was the laughter, and all the comfortable love, not necessity overt, but innately there in the harmony? Every Sunday was like a holiday without tourists and special events. The day was set aside for church and If you liked it you got positive feelings there. And even if you half listened you were reminded of some sensible standards for life that made it better for everybody. Maybe I’m old fashioned to think of pleasant days of the past.  But then maybe Old fashion is due for a comeback. Maybe Kids will find that Dad can be funnier than TikTok, and that Mom is her own food channel. And that brothers and sisters are great to talk to live. That maybe we don’t have to video everything because memories of love, and everything that revolves around love, are so indelible.

 

Hey I know everything isn’t perfect for lots of people, but if you dream of perfection maybe you’ll be able to achieve a good percentage of it.

 

The NE Patriots were far from perfection yesterday. Ouch!

 

All Wall Street really cares about is a decisive victory one way or another.

 

Frisbeetarianism: The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there in the gutter.

 

 

The Question:

Who do you think are The Top 10 Artists of All Time? Bonus: What are considered the top 10 works of art of all time? Extra Bonus: Who are considered the Top ten Contemporary Artists?

 

The Headlines

--Covid Eruption Killing Stocks In Europe And USA.

--Big Report8ingn Week For Key Stocks; Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Boeing, Pfizer, Facebook, AMD, Caterpillar Among Big Trigger Stocks To Report.

--Baba’s Jack Ma Says Their Ant Group IPO Will Be Biggest In Human History; Could Raise $35 Billion; First Time Ever A Large IPO Has Been Priced Outside Of New York.

--Trump Gains In 9 ) Of 12 Swings States; Biden Still Leads In Ten; NT Post Endorses Trump.

--New White House Covid Breakout Hits Pence Camp.

--Zeta Next Storm To Blast Gulf Coast; Cal Bracing For New Round Of Fires,

 

While all eyes are directed to tedious debates. the most important stage featuring the Us Senate is boiling. Today, there is a distinct possibility that the Senate will be 50—50 which makes Kamala Harris the deciding vote on everything for four years. If that’s not enough to scare us into voting for anybody running for Republican Senator, then the USA is as become The United States of Apathy. 

 

Flatulence: Emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

 

You can create logic to support just about anything. And you can always find groups willing to accept premises built on faulty logic. The problem today is that as the populations soar, what used to be small demographic activist groups have become voices loud enough to be heard broadly.

 

And then they get a photog cropping in on a small crowd picture to make look like a revolutionary movement and the silent majority fades into the background.

 

For 120 years at the University of Texas, they have been singing “The Eyes of Texas are Upon You” at all special campus events. Now it’s racist and somebody wants it stopped.

 

The music of Sibelius is good for a day of inertness. He makes you feel you are somewhere, but nowhere where somebody will bother you.

 

Pokemon: A Rastafarian proctologist.

 

Now that big malls look like they are in a rapid demise scenario, we could give Sunday back to the people as a day of reflection to rediscover what is so good about just being nowhere but home.

 

Kamala Harris in control of the Senate. Double Yikes!

 

Aside from the financial implications, the Ant Group IPO is very interesting because it is another indicator of economic power shifting. One of The USA’s Achilles heels has been for decade that nobody can catch us. It’s called arrogance and I would call it one of Businesses seven deadly sins.

 

The Answer:

Obviously, many who know art will debate an all-time list like this. But Here goes: #10 is Paul Cezanne and he is followed up the ladder by an Vermeer, Auguste Renoir and Pablo Picasso. The top five are #5 Claude Monet, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Vincent Van Gogh and at #1 – Leonardo Da Vinci. Bonus: #1 is Pieta by Michelangelo. 2 is the Mona Lisa by you know who, and then “David”, Sistine Chapel, Cafe Terrace at Night (Van Gogh), Ecstasy of St. Teresa (Bernini), Water Lilies (Monet), (Inspiration of St. Matthew (Caravaggio), The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Van Meer and at #10 The Jewish Bride (Rembrandt). The first painting I ever remember learning about was “Blue Boy” by Thomas Gainsborough.  Extra Bonus: No, it isn’t Andy Warhol or Peter Max or Jackson Pollock, Number one is Jean-Michel Basquiat followed by  Peter Doig, Christopher Wool, Rudolf Stingle, Mark Grotian, Richard Prince, Yoshitomo Nara, Keith Haring, Zeng Fanzhi (His Version of The last Supper was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong office for $23,3 Million) and at #10 Damian Hirts.

 

 

Basically, I like to ask questions like these because I learn something new.

 

Coffee: The person upon whom one coughs.