Dear Milwaukee,
You are all right. You are even fun.
I loved your art museum, oh yeah.
Mainly because you have this crazy painting on slate. I’ve been waiting over a year to see this. Look closely, notice anything?
However, Milwaukee, you felt a lot like St. Louis.
We never could get the Milwaukeeness of the city. The Safe House restaurant made us super fucking crabby (note: paying a cover to eat dinner is bitchy, making you torment yourself and your NB after a 7 hour drive with a hula hoop just to eat dinner in a town that feels like the one I already live in is just plain vile, not fun).
Milwaukee, you are okay. Perfectly nice and enjoyable.
But you are certainly no Memphis, my friend.
July 10th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Ok. I give up. I looked hard at the three women in the painting and noticed a lot, but can’t tell for sure what you meant. Tell me!!! (please?)
July 10th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Women? I saw no women. I’m perplexed!
July 10th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
I think the first lady looks to favor you.
July 10th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Wait, I assume those are women. (At least the first and last one…)
July 10th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
I thought they were all men….
July 11th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I think they are men, too. They appear flat-chested and to have five-o’clock shadow. European men of the 1500s are not usually depicted clean-shaven, and I don’t remember seeing any others with hair dressed like this, but they commonly wore pearl and other earrings, puffy sleeves, and lace-trimmed collars. I don’t think we can be sure of their gender, though, not without seeing the rest of their bodies.
But whatever the truth of their gender, I have no idea what we’re supposed to be noticing.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Want the answer yet?
July 11th, 2007 at 11:00 am
I know the answer!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
I would like to know the answer; I’ve been studying the picture for a little while now and don’t see anything odd. What is it?
July 12th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
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