Tole Painting/I Hate Women was Re: definition of the word "freak"
atr...@shoggoth.uoregon.edu
> What is "tole-painting"? It sounds like an activity I might enjoy.
Tole painting is a sort of folky art-y painting style. Sort of a
Scandinavian thing, you know, with bright colors and stylized flowers
and distilfinks. Those big folk art abstract birds, you know. It looks
really cool.
Anyway, over time it has degenerated to mean "painting those goddamn
Mary Englbrhdht people and sunflowers and cows and angels and
pseudo-folk images on every surface that doesn't move, while waiting for
your doctor husband to come home from work and dose the kids with more
Ritalin so they don't touch your Beanie Babies." But at one point it
was actual neat folk art.
We have a bunch of little tole painted things at home from various
long-dead great-aunts (Intersting Trivia: 4 out of 5 old, dead
Scandinavian ladies are named Anna) and once I embroidered a denim shirt
with little tole doodads and distilfinks (I really like satin stitch,
and all the big blocky shapes were perfect for it).
It might also be a Penn. Dutch thing. There are two ways you can go
with tole painting: blocky, geometric shapes, or stuff that intertwines
other stuff and winds around. Both are cool.
Angels and cows and anything that a craft magazine tells you how to
paint step by step so that it looks "cute" and "folk art" painted on
stuff SUCKS. The current concept of "craft" as "something sugar-sweet
that looks handmade but there are a thousand EXACTLY like it made by
other zombies who get Nutshell News and can't change ONE step to make it
unique" is EVIL.
I hate women.
Annna
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Jahweh W
>david lynch wrote:
>> What is "tole-painting"? It sounds like an activity I might enjoy.
>
>Tole painting is a sort of folky art-y painting style. Sort of a
>Scandinavian thing, you know, with bright colors and stylized flowers
>and distilfinks. Those big folk art abstract birds, you know. It looks
>really cool.
Oh. I thought it was kind of a craft-type thing. I don't know, painting
twirly tassels all kinds of different colors, or something. I don't really
have any skill at painting distilfinks, or even spelling it. I guess you
might be talking about the big-ass mural over by the back entrance to the
local Kroger, though, which has really huge leaves and animals and stuff in a
style that I'd call "socialist realism" if the term wasn't already taken.
>Anyway, over time it has degenerated to mean "painting those goddamn
>Mary Englbrhdht people and sunflowers and cows and angels and
>pseudo-folk images on every surface that doesn't move, while waiting for
>your doctor husband to come home from work and dose the kids with more
>Ritalin so they don't touch your Beanie Babies." But at one point it
>was actual neat folk art.
That's the other thing. Why only paint on surfaces that don't move?
>Angels and cows and anything that a craft magazine tells you how to
>paint step by step so that it looks "cute" and "folk art" painted on
>stuff SUCKS. The current concept of "craft" as "something sugar-sweet
>that looks handmade but there are a thousand EXACTLY like it made by
>other zombies who get Nutshell News and can't change ONE step to make it
>unique" is EVIL.
>
>I hate women.
I hate those types of people who go in for the angels and all that stuff.
That really kind of disturbs me. If I had to choose between a faithful viewer
of the PAX network and some kind of weirdo Sandman-loving goth chyk, well, I'd
probably stay home in my room and brood, but I guess that's the kind of guy I
am.
--
"When you were establishing your personal relationship with God didn't He
tell you that CLUELESS PEOPLE MAKE BABY JESUS CRY?"- Steve Sullivan
The Velvet Elvis
>
>I hate women.
I love Mexicans.
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|| "i was rude: IN FACT I HAD THE SAME OMEN FOR A SORT OF LOVE AFFAIR ONE OF
THE FATALS AND ... IT ALL MESSED UP WITH NEPTUNE TRANSITTING PLUTO, AN OLD
WITCH, MUTUAL ORGASMS AND voodoo PSHCHOSIS" ||
Jim Vandewalker
atr...@shoggoth.uoregon.edu wrote:
{
{ Tole painting is a sort of folky art-y painting style. Sort of a
{ Scandinavian thing, you know, with bright colors and stylized flowers
{ and distilfinks. Those big folk art abstract birds, you know. It looks
{ really cool.
{
{ It might also be a Penn. Dutch thing.
Distilfinks ARE Pennsylvania Dutch. Part of an elaborate iconography of hex
signs to keep malign influences out of barns. The Little People who dry up
cows and sour milk.
--
Jim "The Dead Guy" van de Walker
(Who is not Pennsylvania Dutch, because he is of Nederlandish extraction,
and the "Dutch" in Pennsylvania Dutch is really "Deutsch" and means
"German". My ancestors were all indentured servants in New Holland (later
New York).
Mshotz
Actaully the Pennsylvania Dutch are German! The called thtemselves Dutsch
(German) and the 'mericans figured they were saying they were Dutch.
Which goes to prove that the US School system sucked even back then!
MSHOTZ: The Post Post Modern Man
"We got nothing better to do, then watch T.V. and have a couple of Brews!"
Black Flag: T.V. Party
Mshotz
signs to keep malign influences out of barns. The Little People who dry up
cows and sour milk.<<
OH! You mean tourists!
Jahweh W
>In article <373DEE...@gladstone.uoregon.edu>,
>atr...@shoggoth.uoregon.edu wrote:
>{
>{ Tole painting is a sort of folky art-y painting style. Sort of a
>{ Scandinavian thing, you know, with bright colors and stylized flowers
>{ and distilfinks. Those big folk art abstract birds, you know. It looks
>{ really cool.
><snip>
>{
>{ It might also be a Penn. Dutch thing.
>
>
>Distilfinks ARE Pennsylvania Dutch. Part of an elaborate iconography of hex
>signs to keep malign influences out of barns. The Little People who dry up
>cows and sour milk.
What's wrong with drying up sour milk?
atr...@shoggoth.uoregon.edu
>
> >>It might also be a Penn. Dutch thing. <<
>
> (German) and the 'mericans figured they were saying they were Dutch.
Well, yeah, I knew that. As a group, though, they have different
culture than Germans, so I figured that was the best way to distinguish
them as a group.
What I'd be interested in is how exactly we got "Germany" from
"Deutchland." And I'm about 100% sure I spelled that wrong, too.
Probably the moral is: If America wants to call you something, you
answer to it.
Annnna
Q the Counter-antipope
gay...@catholic.org (Jahweh W) says:
>
>What's wrong with drying up sour milk?
>
Nothing, as long as you don't cry when you spill it.
And that's harder than it sounds.
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