Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Friday, May 21, 2010

Ouch!

Five masterpieces stolen from Paris modern art museum

The alarms didn't go off but they've got nice security camera footage? How bizarre! One of my favourite paintings , Olive Tree near l'Estaque by Braque, was stolen. Their insurance company is going to be furious (and refuse to pay, because what are insurance companies for anyway, paying out in event of insured loss?) and some extremely wealthy collector(s) of stolen art will end up happy if the crooks can find a buyer(s)...


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