Paintings of whale hunts

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My regular readers may recall that on my last vacation/fishing trip I had planned to do some whale hunting. Alas, my scheme was foiled by the TSA when they refused to allow my to board the airplane with my harpoon. Stupid bureaucrats. This post, in honor of my dream, shows artwork depicting whale hunts. Oh, what might have been.

From Moby Dick:

Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane. Besides, now and then such unaccountable odds and ends of strange nations come up from the unknown nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating outlaws of whalers; and the ships themselves often pick up such queer castaway creatures found tossing about the open sea on planks, bits of wreck, oars, whale-boats, canoes, blown-off Japanese junks, and what not; that Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin to chat with the captain, and it would not create any unsubduable excitement in the forecastle.

Bad Moon Rising

Get ready for a minatory weekend with Craw NeQuent. 

 

Another year is in the books

Happy New Year

New Year's Eve is upon us so 2025 is disappearing over the horizon. It wasn't a bad year for me, but it was expensive. A lot of home maintenance costs tried their best to drain my wallet. I hope your year was fine as well.

And here's hoping 2026 works out for all of us. Enjoy any parties to attend and fireworks you may see, and enjoy your misplaced optimism while making New Year resolutions. You probably won't keep them anyway, but hope springs eternal. 

 

Nikolay Dubovskoy paintings

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Nikolay Dubovskoy (1859-1918) was a Russian romantic landscape painter. He traveled extensively and painted landscapes of different regions. He also was active in artist salons and academia. While well known in his day, the Soviets ignored him and his works were forgotten for a period.  

Portrait of Nikolay Dubovskoy by Vladimir Makovsky

Tocarte

Get ready for a tactilized weekend with Jorge Drexler and C. Tangana.

 

Merry Christmas

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Here's wishing a Merry Christmas to all my regulars, visitors, and faithful spam bots.
May you all have a good and peaceful day.

 

The night before

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Christmas Eve is upon us. Decorations are up, and shopping is done unless you're a complete procrastinator. All that's left is to do is set out a snack and wait for Santa to wiggle his bulbous girth down the chimney (or from under the sink if you're in Japan as we discovered in the Stray Kids Christmas video). Sit back, relax, and enjoy the evening.