Happy Photo Friday I guess...

It's a likely candidate for the work of hers that will endure the longest - however long that may be.

He may be insanely overpaying - but at least he's insanely overpaying for quality.

It seems to me like the bidding for Skype. Microsoft won by doubling the highest bid from any other organization. Sometimes it's not about the object. Sometimes it's having more cash than anyone else and making a point.

Yeah, that's a bad analogy now that I think about it.

Maybe another way to look at it is playing poker. Sometimes you're in a Texas Hold-Em game and you are way ahead in chips. You decide that you're going to just make sure that you win the pot at any cost. You may have shit cards. So you bluff the crap out of people that have very little to win but a lot to lose. You win the pot with say, your $10,000 bet. But you only actually win $500.

You made a point. But big deal. Ya know?

I have a bridge he would like.

I lived in a house with that tile in the kitchen.

Tile? That's linoleum. We had it too. Lord knows I've spent plenty trying to recapture my youth, but...

I love Cindy Sherman. I love photography. I love art in general. But this is fucking ridiculous.

Of course, overinflated art prices are the LEAST of the ways that the people who have all the money are fucking us over, so I guess I'll let it slide.

Well...it's certainly orange.
I'm not seeing the almost-4-million-ness of it, though.

I may make that my desktop.

Agree with BoringPostcards.

"We're living in a world of funny money," says Ross. "And money is not really a measure of anything anymore because ... it's thrown around in such unpredictable ways."

That particular quote enrages me. These are the people demanding even more money stay their pockets through tax breaks for the rich, while the rest of the economy is struggling to keep a head above water.

Let's look at this a different way... The person who bought the painting could have, oh, I don't know, taken 4 million and funded a program that actually did some good in the world.