Archive for December 17th, 2020

“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 262

Thursday, December 17th, 2020

Travel Thursday!

I thought it might be fun to do something a little seasonal, so…

“A German Christmas market in Dresden” from the DW Documentary channel.

Bonus #1: “Tastiest treats at German Christmas markets”.

Bonus #2: Slightly less seasonal: “Street Food In Germany”.

Bonus #3: Just one more. “2018 Vienna Advent | Europe Christmas Market Tour”. This is a bit longer than the others (about 30 minutes).

Art, damn it, art! watch (#57 in a series)

Thursday, December 17th, 2020

I was going to try to make a Yakov Smirnoff reference here, but I decided to leave it as an exercise for the reader.

Guy in Peoria is hired to paint a “Soviet-style mural of Cookie Monster” on a building and gets paid (well, he claims) in cash. Guy paints mural.

Guy finds out after the fact that the person who hired him was not the property owner, but someone posing as the property owner. Hilarity ensues.

In a brief interview, Mr. Comte [the real one, the guy who owns the building – DB] expressed fury over the attention that the apparent prank had gotten from national and international news outlets.
“This isn’t news,” Mr. Comte said, then added an expletive. “I’ll give you a headline: Man paints his own building wall.”
“I don’t hate art,” he earlier told The Journal Star of Peoria. “But I don’t know what the hell that was.”