Displaying 361 To 390 Of 1,116 Comments escribacat – That’s exactly right. What makes Obama so polarizing? He exists, that’s what. I wonder if he didn’t underestimate how intense the hatred for him was going to be from the Right. Did he really think that his ability to see different sides of the issues, his willingness to find common ground and his propensity to sit down with adversaries in a true spirit of reasonable compromise was going to win over his political opposition? In a better world, it would have I suppose. Personally, I find those traits admirable. From an objective point of view, such a person would be the very opposite of a “polarizing” political leader. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 18, 2011 @ 10:37 am TAKE ACTION – How To Help Those In Japan We like Doctors Without Borders too. They do good work. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 19, 2011 @ 3:46 pm THE EAGLE (has trouble) LANDING Wow, I didn’t know they were that big. Great pictures. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 19, 2011 @ 3:17 am You’re too kind, but of course you alone deserve the credit for making this stuff. Something from nothing, man. There’s nothing finer than that. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 16, 2011 @ 5:17 pm 2CCP – This art is beautiful. Thanks for sharing it with us. And you’re right; that third one really DOES have a stained-glass feel to it. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 16, 2011 @ 5:11 pm This artwork is created by 2ndClassCitiizenPundit, not me, although I would have been proud to have done it. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 16, 2011 @ 5:09 pm You say that “Humans are far too ignorant selfish and hungry to ever do anything decent with the potential life has given them,” and I hate to agree with you. But it sure does seem that way sometimes. And since atomic power has a great potential for evil purposes, it might be nice if it weren’t used at all. Should Atom and Evil ever be wed… well, I’ll let the Golden Gate Quartet explain it. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 24, 2011 @ 5:04 am What IS leadership and what kind of leader do WE want? The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin is a book I won’t be reading, but I find the Amazon page kind of funny. It’s a book by Joe McGinniss that purports to be a “startling and penetrating examination of the illusion and reality of Palin.” What amused me was the list of “Tags Customers Associate with This Product.” The ones on the first page are: unfit for office http://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Searching-Real-Sarah-Palin/dp/0307718921 » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 16, 2011 @ 11:17 am It’s Official: Huffington Post Is Now Out-Drudging Drudge Wow, is that really a picture of Andrew Breitbart? What a hateful-looking individual. I shoulda figured he’d look something like that. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 15, 2011 @ 2:22 pm oldpol2 – Considering that media consolidation has become so extreme, how could it be otherwise? General Electric, Walt Disney, News Corp., TimeWarner and Viacom control just about everything the mainstream viewer sees and hears in the media. That’s not a lot of players on the field. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 15, 2011 @ 8:59 am That DOES sound depressing for a teacher. What did you teach, if you don’t mind my asking? » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 5:24 pm SequimBob2 – It really is good satire… forgive me, but I just now got around to reading it. You sure do explain the situation in a clear and entertaining way! » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 1:52 pm Chernynkaya – Okay that’s now my favorite Krugman quote (as nasty an image as that is, it sure is appropriate.) Previously, I thought the best Krugman quote was: “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.” And I agree with your idea about what is motivating the Right’s newfound deficit hysteria, “to hinder recovery and win in 2012.” I seem to remember that FDR was pressured by the conservatives of his day to cut government spending during the Depression… he tried that and it just made conditions worse, so he stopped doing it (I’m remembering that from a documentary I saw.) If that’s true, and the Republicans know it, then their present strategy would indeed hinder the recovery and is probably designed to do exactly that, as you say. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 1:48 pm skylover – I’m glad that you’re in the mood to paint and garden. Both are little acts of creation: making something from nothing. There is no nobler purpose in life, IMHO. And if you haven’t tried Copol, you definitely should! The stuff is great; it gives the paint a consistency of melted butter, and makes your brushstrokes longer, and easier to manage. I like it. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 5:20 pm Artist50 – Sargent! Yes! I’d love to be able to paint like that. He could put down in one stroke what it would take me 50 to do. About standing one’s ground for realism, have you seen this site? These people are VERY opinionated; they believe that history will look back at “Modern Art” and consider it a mere blemish on art history. They LOVE realism, and their museum has some of the highest-resolution scans of great art anywhere on the internet. (Just don’t look for Paul Klee or anyone like that!) It’s great for doing reproductions. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 12:55 pm boomer – I think I once heard somebody say “toe-mah-toe” on the BBC… but that’s about it. Love that bouncy little tomato GIF! (I would’ve called it a “smiley,” but it’s not smiling. It looks mad.) » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 12:51 pm jkkFL – I don’t believe in people who can’t do anything. Maybe you haven’t tried enough things yet, that’s all. I’ll tell you one thing I sure can’t do well – sing. I envy people who can, but I don’t have the voice for it. My MIDI’s may not sound too well over the speakers; they sound different on different computers. All those little musical themes are based on the General MIDI palette, and sometimes they can sound a little weird on some computers. So don’t expect too much. If I ever get around to it, I’m going to make actual recordings of some of those compositions. Unfortunately, I write things that are a little beyond my capabilities as an instrumentalist, but I am trying to learn my instruments well enough for that (someday.) » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 11:56 am Things I can’t do? Almost EVERYTHING, it seems to me! I’m only good at a few select things. Most everybody’s kind of like that. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 11:26 am Sometimes I do, sometimes not. It depends on what I’m doing. When I do use a medium, I like to use Copol. It doesn’t dry yellow like linseed oil does; that’s what I like about it. I agree about acrylics! Somehow the colors always look artificial and bad to me. I was forced to use them when I did volunteer work at the zoo. I painted backgrounds for the Reptile House there, and the animal experts said that oil was too toxic. So acrylic it was. And it dries much too fast! I found that a good thing to do is to keep a spray bottle on hand to spray water over the palette; that keeps the paint mixes from hardening up too quickly. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 10:53 am Artist50 – Admittedly, I am pretty fast with a brush because my background is that of a signpainter. I’ve worked in signshops my whole adult life. Oil DOES take time though, particularly if you aren’t painting alla prima, and you’re glazing layers one atop the other. In such cases, I use a Japan drier to speed things up. But I’m not as fast as you might think… it’s not like I painted all those Flickr paintings recently, you know! That collection of things represents years of painting. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 10:26 am I know the word BLAT doesn’t sound very appetizing, but it’s kinda fun to say. No mayonnaise on it for me, but that’s just a personal preference I guess. I don’t think simply adding avocado gives me an excuse to claim a whole new recipe! It’s just a BLT with one extra ingredient that’s all. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 9:06 am We like to eat BLT’s with avocado on it! Not only does it taste good, but adding a vowel to BLT makes for an easily pronounced acronym: BLAT. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 8:50 am BDM – Yes, please DO post those pics when you can. The reason I picked this particular painting to show is because I know there are people here who love gardening, and might also have things to say (and show) from their own gardens. My wife has been growing vegetable seedlings in the closet with a “grow light” over the last few weeks, and she has just put them in the ground outside recently. Hopefully, we won’t get another cold snap and have the frost kill them off. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 5:56 am It’s my new favorite word! » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 14, 2011 @ 6:44 am You know what I heard about Charlie Sheen the other day? Absolutely nothing, that’s what. I’ve been avoiding this “news story” like the plague. “Feh,” that’s what I say. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 13, 2011 @ 6:05 pm Truth – Thank you for your input. You are ‘way too kind. I really do want other people to post some art before I put any more up, though. The fact that you would like to see the Brueghel gives me motivation to finish the reproduction… I”ve been slowly working on it for a very long time, and I should definitely put a finish on it. Besides, it has the potential to be a real conversation-starter (which is good – I like the conversations around here.) As you probably know, The Netherlandish Proverbs is an illustration of different sayings that were common when Brueghel painted it, and I’ve been trying to imagine what a contemporary painting based on the same idea would look like. When I post the finished reproduction, I intend to encourage our fellow Planeteers to add their own sayings and idiomatic expressions that they have heard over the years. The two that spring to my mind are two of the ones I hear pundits and opinion-writers are saying a lot these days: people who have betrayed are often described as having been “thrown under the bus,” and people whose ideas are marginalized are described as being “kicked to the curb.” Can’t you just imagine a whole painting filled with over a hundred literal illustrations of such sayings? » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 15, 2011 @ 8:43 am Ah, a Metal umlaut! Yes, I guess that’s what it must be. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 13, 2011 @ 11:59 am I envy all the great writers and storytellers and news reporters around here. It’s all I can do to maintain some semblance of proper grammar. I don’t know if I’ll ever get up the confidence to submit an actual article. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 13, 2011 @ 11:57 am Okay, I submitted one more. But I don’t want this space to be “Buddy’s Gallery,” you know! That wouldn’t be right. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 13, 2011 @ 11:54 am I certainly do. That’s very flattering to me. » Posted By Buddy McCue On March 13, 2011 @ 11:38 amComments Posted By Buddy McCue
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