Bad Grace

G'day Possums,

Shane with doll... of sorts

Well, that's been a week to end all weeks....
it seems bad grace, ignorance, lack of regard and plain bad manners are the contemporary social currency.
But Hey-Ho... it's in another direction we go.






One of the least expected but pleasant re-awakenings of the recent trip was to re-discover sculpture again. From walking out of Port Royal and heading to our accommodation and recognising Francois Rude's "Marechal Ney" exhorting his troops, to the delightfully acid caricatures of Honore Daumier (illustrating a couple of posts back) in the Musee d'Orsay as well as the manic vibrancy of Carpeaux's "The Dance" which graces the facade of the Opera Garnier.

Carpeaux, The Dance, M. d'Orsay

Getting up close to this piece in its plaster form at the d'Orsay was quite revelatory of Carpeaux's brilliance of his deft handling and compositional ability.

It showed too, his primary influence on Rodin who we came across in the Montparnasse Cemetery.

Rodin, Cesar Franck, Montparnasse

It was a portrait of the composer Cesar Frank and like the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, Montparnasse has a wealth of sculpture to study and "finds" to discover.

Carpeaux, Observatory Fountain

Just across the road from our apartment was the Luxembourg Gardens where Carpeaux's "Observatory Fountain, The Four Quarters of the Globe" had its energetic horses wildly splashing  about....

Bourdelle's "Pomona"

....and when Visiting the Art Gallery in Rouen I finally understood Bourdelle's "Pomona" in its sinuous sensuousness.

But the real hit was visiting the Marmottan and there purchasing a reproduction of one of Degas' dancers.

Resin cast from the original wax you can feel where Degas' hands and fingers worked the material.. almost a lesson in itself.....

Degas, Spanish Dancer

...all of which means there will be sculpture being made.

And finally some pics of Erin S that were asked for..

Wombat Droppings 

or the demise of Egalitarianism and the rise of fascism in Australia.

Malcolm Farr got it right on "Insiders"calling the costumes of Oz's new "Border Farce" as like something that came from a provincial amateur Light-Opera wardrobe... and I was interested in the re-run of "Roaming Quisling" chief scout of the new Borders Protection Farce in just how much his speech delivery is so similar to the fascist nationalist buffoons wanting to "fight-party" on July 18 ... same mentality?

Prime Miniature, Rabid-the-Hun, sounding increasingly shrill, has switched what mind still functions to permitting his rabble to attend ABC interview programs again. That no-one really cares any more for his asinine attempts to control or destroy everything in his path he just makes it all the more difficuilt to take any of this ruling rabble seriously. And when it comes to interview, particularly on the ABC, one gets the feeling that now, with little to lose, no quarter will be given.  

Leigh "Hissy-Fit" Sales, one of the worst, most consistently "right" biased interviewers on ABC managed to make another mess of another interview. This time Labor's Brendan O Connor who, unfazed by her constant interruptions and obvious seething that he wouldn't answer in the manner she wanted, blithely said, "Leigh, I don't think you can see the woods for the trees!" 

Leigh was not a happy troll!

Similarly, it seems Justice Heydon wanted Bill Shortstuff  to answer questions in a particular way at the latest $80,000,000.00 ShowTrial Circus. Refusing to do so, Shortstuff was deemed an "unreliable witness" in what was not meant to be a pre-emtive verdict before this show trial circus is finished. Latching onto this as solid proof that Shortsuff is in fact "not-quite-nice" Liarbril non-entity Bruce "Blah-Blah" Bilson frothed at the mouth a lot, completely forgetting that his attendance at a number of fund-raisers hosted by alleged Mafia figures is somewhat more important and really needs his clarification.... or at least how many brown paper bags changed hands.

As my part in his eventual downfall I have made this little Rabid-the-Hun doll that you can stick pins in. I guarantee that it will make him as sick as someone sitting near a Wind Turbine

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

...to the Fourth Reich

G’day  Possums,  its all Wombat Droppings this week.

Isn't it brilliant just how quiet Mandy "Il Patrone" Vanstone has become all of a sudden? The old revelations of her granting a visa to a suspected Mafia identity have surfaced again and other Liarbrils are implicated in this sordid political donation stuff, too but don’t expect a Royal commission into this any time soon.

This on top of her cruelty to Cornelia Rau and Vivian Salon .... you'd think people really would think twice before having anything to do with a product called Liarbril.

It is yet to be confirmed but it has been rumoured that the Mafia are highly embarrassed by being linked to such an amateur group of thugs as the Liarbril party.
They cite the fact that in only two years the ruling rabble have increased the national debt by $100Billion, some 35% more than where it was when they took office and with no new infrastructure to show for it.   “If we acted like that in our drug smuggling, extortion, protection rackets, prostitution and money laundering we would be out of business in a week”, said Mafia Accountant, Antonio Portafoglio-Sollevatore. “ ...and the way they are goading Islamists to “have-a-go”  is too high profile and ultimately, will be counter-productive.”

In another attempt to distract that public’s attention from the social fabric unravelling through their economic ineptness, Prime Miniature Rabid-the-Hun has led a media pack including Bolt-the-Dolt and Toilet-Boy Jones in attacking the ABC for having freedom of speech.

Paraphrasing his boss Le Jongleur Roskam, Rabid has assured us that in his Fourth Reich all speech is free to agree with whatever he says and that being a bigot is a necessary quality for the New Australia and that no-one should appear on Qand A except those who understand what he means and have read the script.

One who thought he had and did was Timmy Twat-Freedom-Man Wilson who stepped in to be a panellist when two other Liarbrils had a hissy-fit and refused to appear on such a lefty-biased show.  

Unfortunately for the Fourth Reich's Team Australia, Timmy made a right twat of himself when along with P. Kelly ( Murdoch apparatchik) from the Un-Australian he delivered his ABC bashing script in a very poor fashion and got himself laughed at by the audience and very effectively snotted by the other two panellists, the intelligent cosmologist, Krause and Counter Terrorism expert Ann Ally.

Timmy the Twat-Freedom-Man Wilson is like the Magic Pudding... the gift that keeps on giving, pity it's like pus from an acne pimple, though!

Can he help it that he was succoured by the Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe (IPA) and is now sucking on the public teat to the tune of $390,000.00 p.a.?

He has some value though, you know when you see and hear him how bereft of talent and intellectual rigour the Liarbril Party really is.

I would also like to wish Sophie "Pit-Bull" Mirabella, a continuation of her success in lessening the Liarbril vote in Indi that she achieved in three successive terms. In attempting to re-take her old seat may the numbers this time, make it a safe seat for McGowan.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane