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Half the fun of being in Barcelona is going to Thermas. I would go.

Is this the update? It's two different posters! What happened @Hithereall111 ???

It seems he has been held up.

No doubt the drought contributes to this. Save water!

Wally Cleaver

The Palm Springs Art Museum has an exhibit of work by Leon Polk Smith. The exhibit is featured in today's Wall Street Journal. T The article is behind a paywall, so here is an excerpt: In 1954, the American abstract painter Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996) saw some drawings of basketballs in a sports equipment catalog. “They were just line circles with a drawing of the seams on the covering of the ball,” he said. “I was fascinated by the space that was between these lines and felt bound to them and started immediately drawing some of my own, taking off from this space concept. . . . It was flat and the same time it was curved. It was like a sphere. The planes seemed to move in every direction, as space does.” Although the event didn’t signal Smith’s first brush with abstraction (he’d been painting nonrepresentationally since the 1940s), it epitomizes the relationship of the physical format (usually not a rectangle) to the pictorial composition that characterizes his work. This, essentially, is the subject of “Leon Polk Smith: 1945-1962,” on view at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California through Aug. 28. (The show is an expanded version of “Leon Polk Smith: Big Form, Big Space,” that was at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.) Born the eighth of nine children to part-Cherokee parents who had migrated from Tennessee to what was then the Chickasaw Indian Territory—a year later it became the state of Oklahoma—Smith spoke Cherokee at home. He worked on the family farm until, in his early 20s, he went off to school at Oklahoma State College. When he was a senior, he happened by an art classroom and peeked in through a partially open door. Smith asked the teacher if he could watch for a bit. He subsequently enrolled in a painting class and decided to major in art... Untitled “Untitled” (1953) is a superb little painting—a moving one, if you’re attuned to the beauties of geometric abstraction. The play of curved lines—both within the painting and in the format—the bang-bang but not overpowering use of red, and the way the gray above and below the painting’s midpoint prevents the work from becoming a mere emblem all display Smith’s appetite for nuance, a quality that sets him apart from a plethora of showier geometric abstractionists. “Red Blue Orange Ellipses” from eight years later shows Smith revisiting the tondo mode, working with three flat colors; but this time there’s no black and the abrupt chromatic shift is a little harder for a viewer to handle comfortably. Plus, there’s more than a bit of sexual allusion in the picture. ...The Palm Springs show is good, but whether by circumstance or design is spacious to a fault. Viewers more used to chockablock installation, multiple walls of explanatory texts, and—as is the wont of current painting exhibitions—billboard-size works might feel a little at sea. “Leon Polk Smith: 1945-1962” is a respite from all that, and a chance to contemplate the modestly scaled and somewhat formative work of an excellent abstract painter. https://www.wsj.com/articles/leon-polk-1945-1962-palm-springs-art-museum-abstract-art-gallery-of-living-art-new-york-university-brancusi-mondrian-ellsworth-kelly-jack-youngerman-robert-indiana-carmen-herrera-11653426666?mod=books_arts_lead_pos3

Don't get ridden of your broken items! I know a guy who fixes broken things!

When someone with few posts comes here to ask which providers go beyond the legal limits I am curious about their motives.

It's okay. Wasn't it your birthday?

@Unicorn I can just imagine what the staff put up with when you were employed. How did they like it when you said nanny-nanny boo boo to them?

Demeaning people for their race is bad whether done in a sexual context or in the real world. It is not a "fetish." It is a sickness.

Your Ethan posts ...wouldn't one be enough?

Why is it that @Unicorn rude post attacking the poster and not the issue still standing?

I-bonds are written up and recommended in today's Wall Street Journal. There is a paywall, so here are some hints: To be sure, no investment is perfect for everyone. But series I bonds have so many attractive features that they represent an “absolutely superb” investment opportunity, says Burton Malkiel, author of the investment classic “A Random Walk Down Wall Street.” If I buy these Series I savings bonds, what’s the minimum amount of time I have to hold them? At least one year. If you can’t afford to lock up any money for at least that long, these bonds aren’t for you. But if you can, keep in mind that they can continue to earn interest for 30 years, or until you decide to cash them in, whichever comes first. If you redeem them before five years, you lose interest for the previous three months. “For example, if you cash an I bond after 18 months, you get the first 15 months of interest,” the Treasury website says. If I buy now, am I guaranteed to get that 9.62% rate for as long as I hold the bonds? No. That 9.62% rate is only the initial annualized rate on new I bonds sold from May through October of this year. That rate “is applied to the 6 months after the purchase is made,” the Treasury site says. “For example, if you buy an I bond on July 1, 2022, the 9.62% would be applied through January 1, 2023. Interest is compounded semiannually.” The Treasury resets the rate every six months based on a formula tied to inflation. Since nobody knows precisely what will happen on the inflation front, we don’t know today what the new initial rate will be starting in November. “Rate updates affect both new and previously issued bonds,” a Treasury spokesman says. “The composite interest rate that applies to a Series I savings bond is updated every six months from when the bond is issued until the bond matures.” For more details on how the bonds earn interest, see the Treasury’s site. Are there limits on how much of these bonds I am allowed to buy each year? Yes. The annual limit is $10,000 per person, according to the Treasury. You can buy the bonds in electronic form from Treasurydirect.gov, and you can also buy up to an additional $5,000 a year in paper I bonds by using your federal income-tax refund. Also, many investors buy Series I bonds not only for themselves but also as gifts for relatives, friends and others. https://www.wsj.com/articles/series-i-savings-bonds-what-you-should-know-11652834560?mod=hp_trending_now_article_pos4

A week later and it is up to $5.62.9 a gallon. $67.50 to fill my tank. I have never paid so much.

I met a guy on a bus from the airport. I learned later that he was a flight attendant. I had sat next to him, noticing that he was sleeping. Cute guy! His head started tilting toward me and soon it was resting on my shoulder! How's that for a come on? Yes, we ended up having great sex in my hotel room. I never saw or heard from him again.

Watching ESPN tonight, White Sox v. Yankees was painful. The broadcasters really aren't interested in the game. They love to hear themselves talk, and they do more interviews than calling the game. Plus the Yankees lost twice. Judge, Trout and Ohtani hit homers today, so I liked that.

The prices paid versus the time allowed are hilarious! $700 for a 60-minute massage?

His listing now says he is in Palm Springs but will be going to New York for a week. His profile says he lives in Ireland. From the posted pictures, which @glutes says are outdated, he is super beautiful.

You don't want to know!

Former MLB umpire Dale Scott has written his memoir about being an out gay ump: https://www.ebar.com/news/books/315655

Interesting that your post says that you are quoting me, but I didn't post that picture.

Maybe the cumming attractions forum, except that he is departing. The deli seems a reasonable spot.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/COVID-in-California-A-third-of-Americans-think-17185822.php Latest updates: Bay Area COVID case rate up 80% since last week Hospitalizations in the state reach a two-month high U.S. cases rise by 19%, hospitalizations up more than 24% Almost as contagious as measles: Coronavirus spins out worrisome new mutations COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations expected to rise in nearly every state Now, that's spoon feeding!

The good doctor has to resort to name calling as well as cheating. Yes, shameful. A friend in San Francisco tested positive today. He is sick and had to cancel his trip that was supposed to have started tomorrow. Tell him there are no consequences to getting Covid.