MsAnn

Now her Park Avenue digs...Well, that's a place a girl could hang her hat. http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/g3060/jackie-kennedy-nyc-apartment/ See Inside Jackie Kennedy's Park Avenue Apartment The duplex in one of New York's most prestigious buildings just sold for $25 million.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/townhouse-where-jfk-jackie-met-044504288.html The Townhouse Where JFK and Jackie Met Is for Sale (and it's seems, well...a bit underwhelming) Georgetown is wonderful, don't get me wrong, but perhaps it's because we sometimes wrongly expect more from the Kennedy clan...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/elon-musk-space-car-overshoot-mars-asteroid-belt SpaceX rocket set to overshoot Mars and hurtle towards asteroid belt Elon Musk’s cherry red Tesla sports car and its dummy test pilot Starman were on a new course hurtling towards the asteroid belt on Wednesday after overshooting their planned trajectory. Just hours after Tuesday’s spectacular launch from Florida of Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful space rocket, the billionaire founder of the private spaceflight company SpaceX admitted Starman had been a little heavy on the gas and would travel well beyond the intended target of Mars. “Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt,” Musk said in a tweet that seemed to confirm the final destination of the mission had changed Originally, the $100,000 electric Tesla Roadster, chosen by Musk as a whimsical experimental payload for the Falcon Heavy’s maiden flight, had been intended to reach a heliocentric orbit roughly the same distance from the sun as Mars, and orbit for a billion years. On its new trajectory, the world’s first car-turned-spacecraft will take a months-long cruise through deep space before taking its chances in the circumstellar asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where the risk of a catastrophic collision is greater. Some experts fear a bombardment of space radiation might even cause the Tesla to disintegrate before it gets there. “All of the organics will be subjected to degradation by the various types of radiation that you will run into there,” William Carroll, professor of chemistry at Indiana University, told livescience.com. “As the bonds break, the car can literally fall apart.” Meanwhile, mission managers at SpaceX, the upstart California-based company that hopes to use the demonstration flight to win contracts from Nasa, the US military and private space enterprise, have not confirmed whether the course-change was by accident or design. Profile Elon Musk But at a press conference late on Tuesday, Musk said longer-range missions were always planned to be within the capabilities of the Falcon Heavy rocket, a 27-engine leviathan second only to Nasa’s long retired Apollo-era Saturn V in terms of sheer lifting power. “It can do anything you want … it can launch things direct to Pluto or beyond, no stop needed, don’t even need gravity assist or anything,” he said. “Two or three Falcon Heavies would equal the payload of a Saturn V.” Musk also confirmed the loss after launch of the reusable central core booster, one of three of SpaceX’s smaller Falcon 9 rockets that were essentially strapped together to form the Falcon Heavy. The two side boosters returned safely to landing pads at the Kennedy Space Center, but the third, which had been intended to land on a barge in the Atlantic, crashed into the ocean at 300mph, “showering the deck with shrapnel”, according to Musk. “We’re looking at the issue. The centre core obviously didn’t land on the drone ship,” he told reporters. “We have the video. It sounds like some pretty fun footage if the cameras didn’t get blown up as well.” SpaceX oddity: how Elon Musk sent a car towards Mars Read more South African-born Musk, the billionaire former CEO of the online money transfer company PayPal, said he had invested more than half a billion dollars to get Falcon Heavy off the ground and hoped the success of its first flight would lead to more competition with private spaceflight rivals, including Blue Origin, owned by the Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos. “We want a new space race. Space races are exciting,” he said. “It’s going to encourage other companies and countries to say, ‘Hey, if SpaceX, which is a commercial company, can do this, and nobody paid for Falcon Heavy, it was paid [for] with internal funds, then they could do it too.’”

I was unaware of his paintings, so I did a little reading. My initial reaction is that I don't share your enthusiasm. I find it too dark, depressing, disturbing, and far too violent for my taste. Lacking intellectual analysis, I can only judge by my visual senses. That said, he is fascinating, and a brilliant film maker, however his art is in-keeping with the spirit of this thread...

And then of course there is this. With a tear right on cue at :41

After careful consideration...It does sort of resemble "Your Friend"

After consideration...It does sorta resembles B.N., but I'm not one to gossip. "My Bad"

LMAO....not going down that rabbit hole.

Bravo!! Well played.

lol...Once again... Black Bush, neat with a water back.

But with cautious trepidation.... Hockney's Mulholland Drive Once again... for obvious reasons.

Better...

Proving the point...

I have many that I am proud to call "friend"...but none that would ever, for one second exhibit the kind of "arrogant" "self righteous" pettiness that your "friend" does. I applaud your patience, understanding, and loyalty....Good luck Mr. Smith. For the record, I come to this website for one reason and one reason only, and that's because everyday that I read one of your posts, or one of Lar's post, I learn something, and that alone is worth the price of entry.

Perhaps...but that would depend on ones definition of "friend".

But Monte Cristo, without rising, and leaning forward in his chair, merely stretched out his arm and, taking the damp, crushed glove from the clinched hand of the young man, "Sir," said he in a solemn tone, "I consider your glove thrown, and will return it to you wrapped around a bullet. Now leave me or I will summon my servants to throw you out at the door."

I can stomach Rockwell...but I never liked De Kooning, I think he's a hack. There...I've said it. I'll consider the tomato thrown...

Never surrender, never retreat...A.S. “Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Frankly that's too rich for my taste... I prefer Old Bushmills Black Bush...for obvious reasons of course. A rather smooth Irish whiskey...neat with a water back.

I found that a good scotch does the same thing....