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Still Life with Scabiosa and Ranunculus, Vincent van Gogh, 1886  via

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Vincent van Gogh

Kingfisher by the Waterside

Paris, July - August 1887 

oil on canvas, 26.6 cm x 19.1 cm 

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) via

DO NOT get me started!!!!

So, I am taking my family out to dinner because my, and another family member's birthday, are coinciding, and both are pretty major milestones.

Because it's a special occasion, I've chosen a favorite Boston landmark, the Marliave, one of Boston's oldest and also four star dining experiences  There in seems to lies the rub..  Since choosing the restaurant I've been  accosted with emails and phone calls dripping with fear.

"They have valet parking.  that's too much of a hassle."
"We don't like French food"
and my particular favorite:
"We are simple people with simple tastes."

All this from  folk who've lived, worked and dined in Boston and environs all their lives.  What is going on here? Has the whole world suddenly regressed to serfdom????

The Potato Eaters, Vincent Van Gogh.

Van Gogh’s House , Arles  - Paul Signac 

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Comic - Donald Duck #011 (Wouter Tulp Cover)

Yup.

Le Gogh

Dutch newspaper report from December 30, 1888: 'Last Sunday night at half past eleven a painter named Vincent Van Gogh, appeared at the maison de tolérance No 1, asked for a girl called Rachel, and handed her ... his ear with these words: 'Keep this object like a treasure.' Then he disappeared. The police, informed of these events, which could only be the work of an unfortunate madman, looked the next morning for this individual, whom they found in bed with scarcely a sign of life. The poor man was taken to hospital without delay.'

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