{"id":2017,"date":"2012-05-07T09:52:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T15:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:07","slug":"i-could-just-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/i-could-just-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"I Could Just Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silly me. I thought if I dropped a few pounds the odds of me experiencing the debilitating excruciatingly painful episodes of my back going out of wack would decrease dramatically. Well, I have and it hasn\u2019t. I made an innocent but apparently awkward body turn on Saturday and \u00a0felt that familiar twinge of pain like I\u2019d stepped on a spine mine. At first I thought I\u2019d be able to walk it off but soon I\u2019d assumed the position of a guy standing on the side of a hill unable to straighten up. By Monday morning, I was barely able to get out of bed and to the Advil jar. So now I\u2019m sitting sideways in my big chair all doped up on Ibuprofen and probably shouldn\u2019t be trying to write coherent sentences but it\u2019s been way too long between blogs and there are a few things I\u2019d like to say.<\/p>\n

First off, I don\u2019t like the idea of extorting mega millions from Minnesotans for a new football stadium. But I don\u2019t like the thought of losing the Vikings to Los Angeles or Tucson even more so bite the financial bullet dear lawmakers in St. Paul and I promise not to complain too much about the exorbitant price of tickets, brats and beer when we come visit your new digs.<\/p>\n

Seems to me, though, that there are lots of people in this world with lots of discretionary income; billions to burn for things like stadiums or art. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"scream\"<\/p>\n

We still don\u2019t know for sure who had the top bid at Christie\u2019s last week when Norwegian painter, Edvard Munch\u2019s pastel version of \u201cThe Scream\u201d went for a record 120 million dollars.\u00a0 Most likely one of the filthy rich Arab oil barons from Qatar, Abu Dhabi or Dubai bought it. These guys have so much money they\u2019re running out of ways to spend it like creating palm-shaped islands out of desert sand on which to erect their mansions.<\/p>\n

\"Palm

Palm Island..they have two and are building more<\/p><\/div>\n

They also built an enclosed Alpine mountain resort in one of the hottest places on earth complete with snow and ski slopes.<\/p>\n

\"Ski

Ski Dubai outside view<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ski

Ski Dubai inside view<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course if they ever do run low on cash, they just turn off a few spigots to their oceans of oil..create world wide shortages and drive up the price. \u00a0Anyway its probably one of those Sheiks who wasn\u2019t rattled when he rolled out 120 mil for The Scream..likely from petty cash and ..perhaps to hang above the urinals in the executive wash room on the \u00a0top floor of Burj Khalifa..the world\u2019s tallest building in downtown Dubai never to be seen again by the general public.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know until this auction that The Scream is actually one of FOUR versions Munch did. \u00a0Linda and I actually saw the one hanging in the National Museum when we were in Oslo years ago. Now, I\u2019m full blown Norwegian and proud of it but I\u2019m afraid \u201cThe Scream\u201d leaves me cold. I just can\u2019t get beyond the thought that it looks like refrigerator art in the Addams family kitchen.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t sure if sports was a big deal in the turban belt until I noticed several horses entered in the Kentucky Derby were owned by guys with a lot of J\u2019s in their name so maybe if Minnesota lawmakers shake a nod to funding a new Vikings stadium, they should put in a call to one of the movers and Sheikers in Dubai or Qatar.<\/p>\n

If they should buy our team, though, \u00a0I hope they don\u2019t insist that Vikings players wear golden silk slipper spikes with turned-up toes.<\/p>\n

Have I gone too far?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll apologize when I hear an \u201cI\u2019m Sorry\u201d from them for having me over an oil barrel every time I fill up at the pump or for trying to make me feel like I\u2019m getting a bargain when gas drops to ONLY $3.50 a gallon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Silly me. I thought if I dropped a few pounds the odds of me experiencing the debilitating excruciatingly painful episodes of my back going out of wack would decrease dramatically. Well, I have and it hasn\u2019t. I made an innocent but apparently awkward body turn on Saturday and \u00a0felt that familiar twinge of pain like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lund-at-large","category-60","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11721,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/11721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}