For all that the men in that picture suck, it's a good picture. I have a picture of my dad and I up in my bedroom, where he's making the Rumsfeld face.
3: Sometimes you're pretty impressive, Smasher.
Why do I expect to hear "Little Green Bag" come on in the background when I look at that picture?
Who are those tough guys in 3? Is that Schumer on the left?
I hear the Tumbleweeds song from The Big Lebowski in that picture.
7: I hear "My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died".
That's not a sneer, that's a scowl. A sneer is the face he usually wears, implying contempt for everyone else. A scowl suggests that he just feels bad in general.
It kinda looks to me like he has gas.
They all look like they want to hit you, and they want you to think they are going to hit you, but really they can't, because they'd all have heart attacks if they moved to quickly.
On a more serious note, this picture reminded me of those sharecroppers in Bonnie and Clyde who had fun shooting their own house after the bank foreclosed on it. What on Earth could make all these men so concerned and unarrogant, even for a second?
If they just keep going down that road, Cheney's going to get a heart, Bush is going to get a brain, and Rumsfeld is going to get a medal that proves he has courage.
It looks like a still from an old Western. The three men are almost caricatures of themselves. What a great photo.
I think this may have been their inspiration for the photo.
Amazing photo.
Bush is pseudo John Wayne or Clint Eastwood.
Rumsfeld is like pseudo-gangster type like Robert DeNiro in WiseGuys.
Cheney is pseudo-gangster character also, perhaps out of Wiseguys, Sopranos or Godfather series, I can't quite place the exact character.
23: Jon Polito's character in Miller's Crossing.
Cheney does have that 'consigliere' look about him.
Bush just looks like a prick.
Nah, Pinochet could do that look. Those three look like they've just been arrested and they're standing around waiting for somebody to come and throw them in the wagon. Beautiful.
Io Saturnalia, one and all.
I just posted this at Kriston's: there are prints to be had, if your piggy bank is plump enough.
Coincidentally, the "larger" picture at the link is the largest I've seen of it so far.
That picture is so amazing because it captures everything that conservatives adore these men for and everything that liberals despise them for.
Some more nice photos by the same photog.
And more from his photo agency (click "Christopher Morris").
In particular see this photo of Reid and McCain. Cool.
it captures everything that conservatives adore these men for and everything that liberals despise them for
That's really helpful; I kept trying to say something along these lines, but couldn't quite put my finger on it.
Jeez it's quiet on this last day before the Christmas weekend. Are all you lucky folks on vacation? Anybody want to round up a couple of dead presidents and go get stoned in Wash. Square Park? And/or talk about Thomas Pynchon's latest novel?
I'm here, though I should really get up off my ass and finish cleaning the house in preparation for my mother's arrival.
Are most people not working today? I hate most people.
That "Remember personal info?" box always trips me up.
34.2, the police presence there is pretty heavy, such that I'm never sure which of the people offering to sell me drugs are dealers and which are undercover cops.
36: Depends on what you mean by "working."
41, Yeah that's why I'm thinking we will use Van Buren and Buchanan and Taft as cover -- send them out to buy the stuff -- the cops'll never mess with figures of their eminence.
In particular see this photo of Reid and McCain. Cool.
They're neat photos, but they do too much to ennoble guys who are, let's not forget, be they on your side or not, politicians.
I'm not working, and am thus mostly offline today. Shelling pecans and making peppermint bark.
Are most people not working today?
Sick, should be home, but am instead in the office. Will be working at home this weekend to make up for time lost due to being sick this week.
Merry Christmas.
Ennoble? I thought the pictures made them look rather small and ordinary.
Point of discussion: Secret Santa games -- do gift-givers identify themselves at the end of the game or not?
I'm not working, but I'll be around, as I've given myself a day to officially do nothing, now that I've finished all these soul-sucking classes.
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I lost track of things the other early morning -- did you end up finishing your paper in good stead?
I did. I actually had two papers to write. The congressional redistricting one I aimed to finish befor my flight to LA yesterday, but I did not and had to spend yesterday in a coffeeshop writing it to get it in by 5 pm Chicago time. It was kind of a fiasco, but I sent it in at 2:54 PST.
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When impersonating Van Buren, make sure you know your gang signs.
Am I reading the NYT site right, or is this photo being sold in an unlimited edition? Tsk. That's a poor decision on Morris's behalf, and the dollar value thereby assigned to the print is pretty much arbitrary. (And a $395 frame for a 30 x 40 print must be a piece, indeed. Also, those aspects--11 x 14, 16 x 20, 30 x 40--are neither the same as one another nor match what I have as the original aspect.)
The repetition of similar shades and garments in the three outfits contributes to the variation on a theme: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. The composition of the portrait ought to be clunky, with three guys just standing face forward, but it's purchased by the dramatic swoop of the road (which, as all roads do, leads to Cheney), the fortunate placement of the pickup (giving crucial definition to Rumsfeld's blazer), and the menacing shadow of the tree.
I think a few people have said this in different ways, but this photo is about the viewer.
those aspects--11 x 14, 16 x 20, 30 x 40--are neither the same as one another nor match what I have as the original aspect
It looked like all the photos on that site were being sold in the same choice of sizes. Could the dimensions just include some white space around the actual photo, so as to preserve aspects?
57 explains 53; that photo isn't funny to me, because it represents the havoc they've wreaked.
Somehow all three of the guys in 60 look like they're being played by Jack Nicholson.
62 -- I can see Nicholson as Ford, but Rumsfeld and Cheney? I was kinda thinking Dustin Hoffman for Rummy. And maybe... I'm not sure.
Maybe it's because they're all squinting and smirking.
60: Wow. Cheney looked like even more of a complete dick when he was younger. I didn't realize it was possible.
That picture is so amazing because it captures everything that conservatives adore these men for and everything that liberals despise them for.
This is dead-on. I just asked a Bush-votin' co-worker what he thought of that photo. He said he liked it because it reminded him of the gunmen at the OK Corral.
Re:60,66. I can remember hating those guys back in the day, and then, in the years since as the center drifted rightward, thinking "They couldn't have been so bad, would that we had them back"—taking their positions as I remembered them as fixed and principled, you see.
But I was right the first time: they would do the worst, most right-wing thing the existing political environment of any given time permitted them to do. It's just that that was very different in 1975.
they would do the worst, most right-wing thing the existing political environment of any given time permitted them to do. It's just that that was very different in 1975.
Exactly right.
Wow, in the photo linked in 60, Rumsfeld looks like my grandpa and Cheney looks like the soon-to-be ex-husband of a good friend.
