TFW last call is yelled out, but you have no intention of leaving without at least two more pours of happy hour specials.
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Monthly Archives: June 2016
vacay
There are 3.5 more days of work before vacation, but you might as well just go ahead and change the phrase “3.5 more days” to “3,598 more years.”
Until then, can I just stay in bed?
that’s a wrap
Woman in a Fur Wrap is attributed as a work by sixteeth-century painter El Greco. Scholarship suggests that it is a portrait of his great love Jeronima, with whom he had a child, but never married. Other (less important? more controversial? idk) scholarship points to this being a work of other contemporaries.
Whatever. Do we need rings in the 1500s when we have this fur? Personally, I don’t. You’re welcome, lads!
keep rolin
Let me get this straight: Nicholas Rolin, pictured above in this Jan van Eyck work, was said to be part of a triple marriage between his mother, her two sons, and the daughters of the bridegroom.
I’m not afraid to say that I just had to look up the definition of bridegroom (the Google search yielded a bunch of images about a VERY SAD movie…something about love being cut short from a “misstep of the side of a roof.” *700 WIDE-EYED EMOJIS HERE*
This means that the stepsiblings by marriage of Rolin’s mom and this guy were going to be…husbands and wives? Am I right? Here’s actually a time I wouldn’t mind being wrong because…yikes.
That makes Brady Bunch look totally, totally normal.
Pheebs!
Google celebrates the 85th birthday of Phoebe Snetsinger, a famous birder. What’s more fascinating about this image is, I learned that she was the daughter of Leo Burnett, the most AMAZING advertising mogul that is EASILY a company I want to work for someday.
Like, today. I’ll send my resume.
charles terrasse
Charles Terrasse was a French composer, and brother-in-law to painter Pierre Bonnard. This portrait of him was done by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
JUST PAUSE ON THIS, PLEASE. This is my idealized man, realized. Dark features, pensive thinking, no weird Urban Outfitter plaid shirts or rolled khakis. Sign me up.
tombsday
This is a painted relief from the Tomb of Amenherkhepshef, one of the sons of Ramesses III.
Its translation has something to do with it being early in the week, and someone responding, Ssshhhh….
Other translations include being asked what someone does for fun outside of work, or if I’d be interested in taking advantage of a drinking patio with the warm weather.
Woops. Sorry for the “I” in the last one. Don’t know how that happened.
olive trees
Did you know that Vincent van Gogh painted at least 18 canvases of olive trees? Most of them were painted while he stayed in the asylum at Saint-Remy.
Eighteen! I mean, I guess I’ve taken 18 selfies today, but I’m not using any oil on canvas or anything…
sebastian
Saint Sebastian becomes like my soul sister when it’s Monday at 8pm and JoJo starts talking about…anything…on The Bachelorette. Persecution of Christians? Please, I’ll take any and all the arrows instead of another clip of next week’s episode.
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