Puzzling Art, Puzzling People, Puzzling Choices
and the Morning Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Wednesday
Does it really matter how Mark Rothko paintings are hung?
Since his stuff can usually bring 7 and 8 figures at auction, and consist of whole pieces like, oh, the dot, or the square, or the line, or the thicker line, or the even thicker line, or the double lines, we of the Open-mouth Head-shaking Art Appreciation Society can understand the reluctance of London's Tate Modern museum not to re-hang two now on display, despite contention from experts that the late artist intended them to hang a quarter-turn rotation from their current positions. But then, would that be a quarter turn clockwise, or a quarter turn counterclockwise? Or perhaps they should be hung backward, with the painting sides facing the wall? Deep! (Also, probably lucrative!) Daily Telegraph
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Your Daily Losers
Four young women were arrested in San Antonio, Tex., riding in a car with no license plate yet carrying a duffel bag full of marijuana. And then, it says here, the three in the back seat tried to run for it when the car was stopped, but couldn't figure out how to undo the child safety locks. KENS-TV (San Antonio)
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People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
Stockholm's The Local reported that the Expressen newspaper infiltrated a "zoophile" group ("bestiality" is when the human has no regard for the animal's feelings) and has quotes from the ringleader, who said he was powerless in the presence of a bitch in heat and that, other times, when the dog indicated "Not tonight, honey," he backed off. And there's more. The Local
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Kelly Ann McCaw, 29. Philadelphia Daily News [you'll have to click the link on the photo if you insist on knowing what she's charged with]
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More Things to Worry About on Wednesday
Latest negative-cash-flow robbery: A 31-yr-old man, desperate for a drink, told police that he needed a hammer to be able to break a window at a state-operated liquor store and grab a bottle of something, so he bought a hammer for $11, broke the window, and swiped a $9 bottle of wine. KHQ-TV (Spokane) via MSNBC
Law enforcement computers are notoriously not interconnected from state to state, including on arrest records for DUI, as illustrated by this Associated Press report with the lead example being Mr. Robert Hood, who as you can plainly see from his mugshot, needed absolutely no DUI-computer-flagging at all (with the base-level question being whether multiple DUI's isn't the least of his worries). Associated Press via Fox News
He didn't write a vulgarism at all, so perhaps the crime (misspelling a common dirty word in graffiti) is something like "attempted indecency." Northwest Florida Daily News
They must not be much into religion in the Russian village of Komarovo, where a 200-yr-old Orthodox church building was stolen, brick by brick, and its icons taken, and a visiting clergyman just recently noticed it. Reuters
Update: The late superrich Nina Wang died last yr and was reported then [NOTW Daily, 4-21-2007] to have willed her whole fortune to her feng shui advisor, but her relatives have an earlier will that looks more normal, and besides, they think the master wangled his way into the will by promising her eternal life, kinda defeating the purpose of a will (and everybody'll hash it out in court in the spring). Reuters
Readers' Choice: (1) You'd think Kelli Thompson, 24, could find one sober relative in her Contacts list to come drive her 1-yr-old home when a cop stopped her for DUI, but first the kid's dad came to the rescue drunk, and then two grandparents came by to pick up the kid, but they were drunk, too. (2) It was her time to go: A Brazilian woman was killed escorting her dead husband's body to the cemetery when a car hit the hearse, knocking the casket into the back of her head. The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster) /// Associated Press via Yahoo
Editor's Note
Sorry. No Afternoon post today. Busy. Today's Newsrangers: Steve Wettlaufer, Chris Douthitt, Stephen Taylor, and all the people who passed along the Readers' Choice stories
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Does it really matter how Mark Rothko paintings are hung?
Since his stuff can usually bring 7 and 8 figures at auction, and consist of whole pieces like, oh, the dot, or the square, or the line, or the thicker line, or the even thicker line, or the double lines, we of the Open-mouth Head-shaking Art Appreciation Society can understand the reluctance of London's Tate Modern museum not to re-hang two now on display, despite contention from experts that the late artist intended them to hang a quarter-turn rotation from their current positions. But then, would that be a quarter turn clockwise, or a quarter turn counterclockwise? Or perhaps they should be hung backward, with the painting sides facing the wall? Deep! (Also, probably lucrative!) Daily Telegraph
Comments 'rothko_paintings'
Your Daily Losers
Four young women were arrested in San Antonio, Tex., riding in a car with no license plate yet carrying a duffel bag full of marijuana. And then, it says here, the three in the back seat tried to run for it when the car was stopped, but couldn't figure out how to undo the child safety locks. KENS-TV (San Antonio)
Comments 'marijuana_duffel'
People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
Stockholm's The Local reported that the Expressen newspaper infiltrated a "zoophile" group ("bestiality" is when the human has no regard for the animal's feelings) and has quotes from the ringleader, who said he was powerless in the presence of a bitch in heat and that, other times, when the dog indicated "Not tonight, honey," he backed off. And there's more. The Local
Comments 'swedish_zoophiles'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Kelly Ann McCaw, 29. Philadelphia Daily News [you'll have to click the link on the photo if you insist on knowing what she's charged with]
Comments 'kelly_mccaw'
More Things to Worry About on Wednesday
Latest negative-cash-flow robbery: A 31-yr-old man, desperate for a drink, told police that he needed a hammer to be able to break a window at a state-operated liquor store and grab a bottle of something, so he bought a hammer for $11, broke the window, and swiped a $9 bottle of wine. KHQ-TV (Spokane) via MSNBC
Law enforcement computers are notoriously not interconnected from state to state, including on arrest records for DUI, as illustrated by this Associated Press report with the lead example being Mr. Robert Hood, who as you can plainly see from his mugshot, needed absolutely no DUI-computer-flagging at all (with the base-level question being whether multiple DUI's isn't the least of his worries). Associated Press via Fox News
He didn't write a vulgarism at all, so perhaps the crime (misspelling a common dirty word in graffiti) is something like "attempted indecency." Northwest Florida Daily News
They must not be much into religion in the Russian village of Komarovo, where a 200-yr-old Orthodox church building was stolen, brick by brick, and its icons taken, and a visiting clergyman just recently noticed it. Reuters
Update: The late superrich Nina Wang died last yr and was reported then [NOTW Daily, 4-21-2007] to have willed her whole fortune to her feng shui advisor, but her relatives have an earlier will that looks more normal, and besides, they think the master wangled his way into the will by promising her eternal life, kinda defeating the purpose of a will (and everybody'll hash it out in court in the spring). Reuters
Readers' Choice: (1) You'd think Kelli Thompson, 24, could find one sober relative in her Contacts list to come drive her 1-yr-old home when a cop stopped her for DUI, but first the kid's dad came to the rescue drunk, and then two grandparents came by to pick up the kid, but they were drunk, too. (2) It was her time to go: A Brazilian woman was killed escorting her dead husband's body to the cemetery when a car hit the hearse, knocking the casket into the back of her head. The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster) /// Associated Press via Yahoo
Editor's Note
Sorry. No Afternoon post today. Busy. Today's Newsrangers: Steve Wettlaufer, Chris Douthitt, Stephen Taylor, and all the people who passed along the Readers' Choice stories
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