A view from the hip

Travel
The top 20 meanest U.S. cities:

1. Little Rock, Arkansas
2. Atlanta, Georgia
3. Cincinnati, Ohio
4. Las Vegas, Nevada
5. Gainesville, Florida
6. New York City, New York
7. Los Angeles, California
8. San Francisco, California
9. Honolulu, Hawaii
10. Austin, Texas
11. Sarasota, Florida
12. Key West, Florida
13. Nashville, Tennessee
14. Berkeley, California
15. Dallas, Texas
16. Fresno, California
17. San Antonio, Texas
18. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
19. St. Paul, Minnesota
20. Manchester, New Hampshire

The top four meanest states:

1. California
2. Florida
3. Hawaii
4. Texas

Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: laconic
Word of the Day for Monday October 10, 2005

There was one tiny photograph of him at a YMCA camp plus a few laconic and uninformative entries in a soldier’s log from the war year, 1917-18.
–Edward W. Said, Out of Place: A Memoir

last week i had a prof tell me my paper was laconic, i had to ask what that meant. now it pops up as dictionary.com’s word of the day.

The man in the bowling hat is a painting done by Rene Magritte in 1964. The title of the painting is ‘The Son of Man’. The painting shows up in the movie ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’, possibly my favorite movie. I was watching it today and became curious about the painting of the man in the bowling hat, so I looked it up on wikepedia. It turns out it is a self portrait and

about the painting Magritte said,

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden…

I took the ‘man in the bowlers hat’ out of its original background and added the text behind it. The words in the background are not random and have personal meaning. Click on it for a larger image.