good talk

I'm so tired of you smug bastards, ignorance often takes a pride in itself. On Sunday I saw the Chargers play the Patriots. The easiest and fastest way to get to Qualcomm is to go to a bus-stop, get on a bus that'll take you to a trolley-stop, once on the bus buy a 1-day pass for $5 that's good for all the buses and trolleys. San Diego has 56 miles of trolley tracks and I've taken it all the way to the border. If you drive it takes an hour after you've gotten close to the stadium until you're in a parking spot and an hour to get out, real suprising as the last I've heard Qualcomm has the 2nd largest parking lot in the country. Parking is $25, at Foxboro it's $40 I was told. They crammed 68,863 people in that stadium, poor Chargers. Recently I went to Balboa Park to the San Diego Museum of Art to see lithographs by Henri de Toulouse-Latrec. Next to the it is the Timken Museum with the Putnam Collection. The Putnams were 3 sisters who never married, they inherited a fortune and spent it on the collecting of art. The Timken, free, is considered to be one of the 10 best small museums in the world. It's a permanent collection and say their Rembrandt of St. Bartholomew is considered to be the best of the many Rembrandts in S. California. Henri de Toulouse-Latrec (1864 to 1901) was the first born of a Count and Contessa who were lst cousins. Henri first broke a leg at "13" and the other at "14." His disease stunted his growth and he became artistic possibly because he couldn't do vigorous activities. He often used prostitutes as his models and associated with many people that his aristocratic parents disapproved of. He hung around the Moulin Rouge and enjoyed nightlife to a great extent, supposedly the creator of the cocktail "Earthquake." Like van Gogh who he knew Henri was greatly influenced by Japanese woodcuts. de Toulouse-Latrec had much success with women but unfortunately acquired syphilis and ecame an alcoholic. One of the women he painted and admired was Louise Weber who was the creator of French Can Can and known as "La Goulue," the Glutton. A great painter and lithographer his paintings have been sold for as much as 22.4 million dollars. Succumbing to his diseases at "36," Henri's last words were in reference to his father, "Le vieux con"---the old fool.