At one point the Obituary section was in this part of the paper until someone pointed out the obvious....sort of like our local Alzheimer's yearly big bang fund raising gala titled: A Night to Remember. HHHMMM........Well....may be not.
Anyway - The Social Page, in the aforementioned Arts and Life section, is the local community page. Every week is shows a lineup of smiling faces of those attending fund raising events - fashion shows, galas, art shows....I always look at these because sometimes I actually KNOW the people!
So this week the Winnipeg Art Gallery (or The WAG as they call it - how cute....not really) had an art show showcasing some of the work from art classes held there. Now, I understand, art is subjective and not everyone likes the same thing or even considers some of the pieces 'art.' But really.....there is a picture of two women standing in front of some artwork and the caption reads....(I will use pretend names instead of full names so I don't get sued...)
"Amanda Icanuseapaintbrush (with her untitled art work), and Millie Whowishesshecouldpaintlikeherfriend"
Whoa - with her...what.....'Untitled art work'!!!!!! You would think that if you had enough imagination to actually paint something you could, in the hours it takes to paint it, come up with a title. This particular untitled painting had a bunch of hands outstretched....hands, okay, good start here Amanda....so don't call it "My Best Foot Forward."
Being the true researcher I am, I asked myself "Colleen....how many paintings are there titled "Untitled?"" I shrugged and I turned to my best friend Mr. Google....actually I used Mr Bing this time...but what the hey. Lo and behold there are actually A LOT of paintings/sculptures/dodads entitled "Untitled."
Here is one example:
I know, I know....I was....speechless for a moment too.
I think I would call it "Mr. Lucky" .....for one large, obvious reason only.
And, truth been known, I have actually been to art shows where every other picture is entitled "Untitled." It drives me NUTS! I feel like finding the artist and asking "Couldn't you come up with SOMETHING? ANYTHING? No....NOTHING......?"
Of course some of these paintings have been rather......hhhmmmm......obscure, so maybe even they couldn't put their finger on it. Or, being artists....or arteeesstttsss...they just say "It is what YOU want it to be....I am just the arteesssttsss." My head hurts....
Things I have learned this week:
A 'bunch' of cats, domestic or feral, is called a Clower. I know! - isn't that interesting....and unheard of???
So once again I researched and was reading on Mr. Goggle......" a pride of lions, lepe of leopards, a tribe of goats and a richness of martinis".....MARTINIS??? Wait a minute.....if I have more than one martini I can actually say I have had a 'richness?" Then I re-read it and it said "a richness of MARTINS." Hahaha....I like it the way I read it better.
When I told my husband about the clower of cats being factual he asked me "Where did we hear that again?" ......I replied...."Sheldon - Big Bang Theory" - I know......Isn't that where everyone gets their facts???
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A few Blogs ago I suggested that you could, indeed, take too many pictures of your cat. I stand corrected.......My cat Lily has cancer. I actually found this out a few weeks ago and have been processing it. She is 15 years old, lived her entire life on acreage where she can roam free and catch mice and birds. She has never been sick before and I have loved her from the moment I picked her up out of the bush on our property where someone had discarded her. She has always been MY cat and follows me everywhere. Now that we know her days are numbered we are giving her more cuddles, more milk, more of her favourite food (except shrimp which she projectile vomits - really, you have to draw the line...). Strangely,
since being pronounced "dead cat walking" she has caught more mice, chased more grasshoppers and eats ravenously about ten times a day! !!!! BUT - It has given me pause. Perhaps if we all had our expiration dates stamped on the bottoms of our feet, for those who care to look....we would all be a lot nicer to one another. From the moment we are born we are steadily headed in that direction...some just sooner than others...and if we knew ahead of time.....well, who knows.
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