The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Deux

The guy on the lower left should be reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X

 

While he extrapolates his colon?

It's a great read. I wish more brothers read it before prison instead of after..

 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y0ZQ3ZcltVI

This is the stupidest, funniest thing you'll see all day

and this woman is fine af

 

If that is the funniest thing I will see all day, comedy is dead.
Stupid? Yes.
Funny? No.

 

I'm sorry Seinfeld (or Monty Python or whatever tf White folks think is amusing these days) spoiled you.

I'm wiping tears away watching the short girl trying to reach whatever she's grabbing at, and the way SM does a cartwheel into the camera view...

 

I NEVER watched Seinfeld!

I could say this video is somewhat Python-esque, but it was just not funny to me.

 

I had to look back again to see if i missed something funny.
I didn't.

 

Damn, you, too?

tough room

 

She still fine

 

I can't decide what's better: Samuel Ramey's voice or Samuel Ramey's hair.

 

Shave it off, and he turns into a counter-tenor.

 

This is reminiscent of the CIA financially supporting many abstract expressionist artists like Pollack.

It's all a big WTF.

 

CIA funded international arts and literary journals like Encounter, etc. Most of the artists and writers had no idea where the funding was coming from. Covered in this excellent book, incidentally.

 

Ok, I don't get it. What exactly made Jackson Pollock deserving of financial support, compared to any other artist, in the eyes of the CIA, by a Cold War's point of view?

The fact that Abstractism was basically the opposite of Socialist Realism?

 

Ehhh?

 

Here's an article:
https://www.openculture.com/2013/04...t_expressionism_into_cold_war_propaganda.html

Basically, the CIA was trying to show that the USA was a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, culturally rich democracy.

 

The kid is on their paylist to keep an eye on you.

 

As Q*bert implies, your second point is pretty close. And any financial support was indirect. The support came via articles in quarterly journals by respected critics. Of course, Pollock benefitted from the criticism: better galleries for exhibits, better sales to richer collectors, etc.-- but it's doubtful he had any idea. After a few years, the funding was confirmed in . . . 1967 I think, prompting the English editor if Encounter, English poet Stephen Spender, to resign. Most of the American editors and critics were more "meh." The thinking was, if the CIA is stupid enough to give me money, I'll take it.