January 4, 2010

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  Just flew in from Paradise, and boy...
  

   

  

   

   

   

  

  

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  1  Und a Happy New Year to all of y'all.

  2   See, I never really flew in from Paradise.

  3   That was just a RUSE.

  4    I just thought it would be a kick to take a look at the Expulsion from Paradise, because REALLY? Some of those old religious paintings give me the HEEBZ!

  5    When I was a kid, I cried in dire fear each time my Mom took me to go visit Santa Claus. I know that it had SOME connection with those fierce depictions of God in the classic paintings.

  6    Look at God in that painting man.

  7    Scary.

  8    And check out Adam. He's all buff, but the little cherub holding up the cloud has WAY more confidence.

  9    And get a load of Eve. She KNOWS she f..ed up. She's MISERABLE.

  10  Then we have the whole thing goin' on with the Indifferent Goat, and the Serpent slithering off over on the left side of the painting.

  11   And that little chorus of cherubic faces gives the whole thing an air of absolute creepiness.

  12    And someone HAS kindly to explain the fig leaves...

  13    Moving on: Didn't expect to get an art lesson first day back, now did you?

  14    That painting was done with oils and copper in 1740 by this artist named Charles Joseph Natoire, who was a pretty boy and quite the snappy dresser. Here's his portrait:

  

  15  Hey, I even know the guy who painted the portrait. He was some bloke name a Gustaf Lundberg.

   

  16  For the life of me I have no idea why this headed in such a goofy direction, except that it was late when I was doing this brand spankin' new DN, and I thought I'd get all of us off to a rocky start.

   

  17  Moving on, Part the Second: I got the idea of flying in from Paradise last week when I actually went to a little town called Paradise for some New Year's partyin'. My idea of a party is to grade a billion papers, quit a minute before midnight, and then slam a glass of water, followed by a Stooges marathon.

   

  18   Hey, you may laugh, but at least I was able to awaken the on New Year's Day and not groggily open one eye at 7 a.m. and say, "Oooooh thasss right..." Fella, that was going to be the BEST you were gonna feel all day. I got work done, had a nice glass of clean water, and laughed into the night.

   

  19   Ah, it pays to get older.

   

  20   I've actually been youthening. Still hitting the gym (I did miss four days, Christmas, New Year's Eve, New Years, and one day when I went to my alternate gym and all the machines were taken. I hadda be somewhere, so I lost that one too.). Still, been keeping a pretty hearty pace, 54 times in 63 days, and only four days on machines. It's been all swimming the entire way.

   

  21   Sorry, it's past one a.m. and I just had to throw that in.

   

  22   School begins again today, so I expect to get a WHOLE bunch done. A whole buncha people go back to school and work today, so dudes, here's the deal:

   

  23    It's just another Monday. Fly low.

   

  24    Y'all have a GREAT day.

   

  25    And make someone happy today.

   

  26     Here's looking at you,kid.

   

  27     Peace.

   

   

   

   

  ~H~

  

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