Art Appreciation Friday

Today's art appreciation is brought to you by the letter S ~ Paul Signac and Georges-Pierre Seurat.

First up, the work of M. Signac ~ The Dining Room




And now, for M. Seurat ~ Gray Weather




You can read more about Pointillism, the art form shown above, at wiki.

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For a little bee named Boo ~



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Two armed thugs tried to rob a line of people waiting to buy the new Playstation 3 gaming console early Friday and shot one who refused to give up the money, authorities said.

Merry Freakin' Christmas.

The two confronted 15 to 20 people who were in line outside a Wal-Mart store shortly after 3 a.m. and demanded money, said Lt. J. Paul Vance, a spokesman for the state police. The new Sony consoles are selling for around $500 to $600.

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Hunger still widespread:

That leaves less money for groceries, and the end result is that 194,000 people in Oregon and Clark County, Wash., are eating from an emergency food box each month. That statistic becomes even more heartbreaking when you consider that 72,000 of those food recipients are children.

RIP Louis Riel

Will you watch?

No.

Man, this is just sick. Please do not watch “If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened” or enrich that scumbag by buying his book. Please.

Back then O.J. denied everything. Now, I guess, he’ll tell us how he terrified her, beat her, sliced her until rivulets of blood streamed past the bougainvillea outside their Brentwood home. We’ll tune in. Then he, Fox, Regan, and all those advertisers will cash in on the blood of the woman who saw it all coming.

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Being George's poodle isn't working out too well for Tony: Sympathetic Labour Pains: Tony Blair's Post-Election Panic Attack

But the turning of the water was no miracle, no divine judgment on the leader whose fateful partnership with George W. Bush is producing - week after week, month after month, year after year - fresh cause for future mourning. The color came from the thousands of fake poppies tossed into the fountain in what The Observer called "a spontaneous act of remembrance": an offering of the ubiquitous charity emblems worn by most of the population in the week leading up to the memorials.

In any case, Tony Blair never saw the vision of blood in the Square; he was in Hyde Park, with the Queen and other worthies, conducting formal ceremonies where no free action or unscripted word from the public was allowed to intrude. These offices of the dead were a fitting end to a week which saw Blair and his ministers launch a massive new fearmongering campaign, promising a "generation" of terror, war and tyrannical security measures in a "long and deep struggle" against his own nation's Muslim minority.

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Molly bids farewell to Rumsfeld.

And the beybey Jebus smiles.

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USDA Eliminates 'Hunger'

“very low food security.”

America's Second Harvest

Foodshare, Bloomfield, CT

Island Harvest, Mineola, Long Island

The Greater Boston Food Bank, Boston, MA

Food Bank for New York City, Bronx, New York

Connecticut Food Bank, New Haven, CT

Yorkville Common Pantry, New York, New York

I found some of the list above using Charity Navigator and the criteria was "hunger" and I sorted it by highest to lowest rating - giving me a list of 192 hunger related charities across the United States. Please do the same for your own locale and give what you can.

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If you don't know who Louis Riel is, look it up.