Mail-Art Cafe

Hello Judy!
Many happy wishes to you!
Many health and happiness!
happy birthday!
Great affection of Brazil!

Thank you for all of the good wishes, I hop you enjoy my new pictures. It is quite an experience to ride the walkway under these lights.

Welcome to Washington DC and the arts.

I met an American.

strange... an ass is a term for a donkey the thing you sit on is an arse so is this bloke English/ I think one of the Dianasons called himself a sad-arse recently... nice to know that royal.... olde worlde royals have at least a minimal grip on reality... I just had a Skype exchange with Clemente Padin in Uruguay!!!! He doesn't have a webcam yet but will have one soon. The world gets smaller every day. Skype is great.
Impressive looking museum Judy... hallowed halls of culture and all that.

Hey Rod, We call a human jerk an ass and a donkey a jackass. At least in this museum we do not all have to be dead to get our work into it, and there are quite a few young artists exhibited.

Chantal, j'ai trouvé quelques articles en français concernant cet artiste et son "Sit your sorry asses down" : ils traduisent bien par "Posez vos pauvres culs là"... mon Harrap's admet "ass" aussi bien que "arse" pour nommer cette partie de notre individu !!
Quant au tableau qui porte ce titre un peu provocateur, je n'ai pas réussi à en avoir une image plus grande qu'un timbre poste ! trop petit et trop flou pour se faire une idée...

Respirer quel odeur?

RRRhhhoooo !!! tout de suite dans la fraîcheur !!

Evidemment, nous on était parties dans une très sérieuse discussion culturelle...

en tout cas il a l'esprit blagueur !!! et par les temps qui courent, rigoler un peu, ça ne peut pas nous faire de mal !

Je vous laisse aller sans moi, il est déjà tard, j'ai bureau demain et j'ai encore pas mal de trucs à mettre en ordre ce soir...
Bonne soirée à tous/toutes, et à bientôt...

I include a picture of a Mail Art Call style 2009. I hope nobody participated in it...! Fraternally,

Morning Clemente, nice to Skype with you yesterday. Your two performance DVDs have arrived.
Chantal, je ne parle pas le frog j'avais le condition Anglaise, Ik can wat Neerlans spreken maar dan met een Limburg's zachte G weet je wel?
Ruud you must feel very lonely on your Dutch only network on this site!!!!!

dear oh dear, writing that last text... multi ligual text... has totally absorbed all the benefits i got from breakfast... I'd better lunch(eon)

Judy Skolnick invited me to this group and am impressed at the activity and camaraderie of the group. Hope to have more and better interaction as time goes by.

Always knew those political types had frozen hearts! Our weather man is saying that this has been the coldest winter for many a year... frosts a pleanty... and this is likely to be the first of a series of similar winters... Liz is knitting me a new sweater... Icelandic wool... hands up who would like to see it when it's done?

Hi Chantal, Wonderful photo and snowmen. Made you all these?

Ohh Chantal, the picture was sent to me by my friend Sandra in Rhode Island and yes they are cute, make them bigger with more snow. But we are warming is this going to cause them to melt away and the animals to get bigger like the dinosaurs? They say no we are destroying the animals habitats.

I've been knitting sweaters for many years.
I want to see this one made by Liz...

February 5, 2009 - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama announced today that the Mafia would be entitled to receive as much as 70 billion dollars of TARP bailout funds recently approved by Congress, to offset losses incurred last year in the organization's loan shark and Ponzi scheme divisions. The president noted that the crime syndicate would have to agree to the same restrictions on executive pay as were placed on legitimate financial institutions receiving government assistance.

Under those restrictions, Mafia dons would not be permitted to receive more than five hundred thousand dollars in annual compensation, except for stock options. The value of stock options paid as compensation or bonuses would be unlimited, but anyone receiving such options would not be permitted to sell the shares until the Mafia returns a profit. The restrictions were incorporated into the second bailout package, to address concerns by some that taxpayer funds from the first bailout were used to finance nine figure salaries for the same managers whose business strategies brought about last year's financial collapse.

A spokesman for the Mafia lodged a protest against the salary cap, saying that it would limit the beleaguered drug and extortion giant's access to the most talented professionals. Top-performing felons currently on the payroll might leave, he pointed out, attracted by more robust compensation packages from the Russian mob and other competitors.

"There are only a finite number of candidates who have the knowledge and experience required to manage multi-billion dollar rackets," he said, "and they will naturally seek positions which reward them accordingly." A Forbes magazine survey indicates that as many as 3,000 mafiosi would have their salaries cut if the government's terms are accepted. Attorneys for the Mafia are preparing a package of threats and financial incentives to persuade congressional leaders to set aside the requirement.

Consumer advocate and presidential candidate Ralph Nader voiced objection to the disbursements, but no one heard him. Publishers have long insisted that Mr. Nader's opinions be expunged from the public record, as a dangerous impediment to the concentration of wealth.

Si tu veux, je sais aussi : coudre, broder, faire de la dentelle et de la frivolité (qui sait encore ce qu'est la frivolité ?), du crochet, du macramé, du tricotin, du tissage... euh, je crois que c'est tou...

zut, j'ai raté une touche : je crois que c'est tout...

Sûr, c'est le genre de loisir qui demande beaucoup de temps et de patience aussi...
Ma mère a toujours été très intéressée par tous les travaux "de dame", elle sait faire plein de choses qu'elle a apprises de sa grand-mère et de sa mère, et moi j'ai appris d'elle...
Mon père est un peintre du dimanche, et avec lui j'ai appris à dessiner, à peindre ; et j'ai dévoré tous ses livres, depuis les livres d'art jusqu'aux polars à deux sous...
Ils aimaient la musique, de Mozart à Brassens, ils chantaient dans des choeurs, et moi j'ai.... jamais su bien chanter !
Comme quoi, finalement, ça ne fait pas tout, les parents !!!!

Je ne reste pas là, ce soir.
Je me suis promis de boucler l'ordi tôt et de mailarter...
Bonne soirée à tous.

Today is beautiful in Washington, DC

Maud(e) by Rod

The sweater Liz is knitting to keep me warm in Venice will be finished this week.
Below a portrait I made of my niece last Friday.

Nice sweater to keep you warm!
See you both soon!
Ciao
TIZIANA

Soon I'll go to this installation and will open one of those boxes to discover if someone has sent me mail....

Chantal I think we just stomped a californians toes... virtually, are we ashamed? I don't think so.

Winter of 2009 for the niece of ROD SUMMERS last Friday, .... my knees are cold

Oh Yeah!!

Wow! Spring is here in Venice already... that's the original Venice... in Italy, SA! Fabulous picture, thank you for the posting

Now that I am home I will post mine too.

Here is a good cafe Rod.

with icing, looks like the cakes we had on Sunday... sundae...whatever, thanks for snowy pictures

My cousin in Key West, Florida said they looked like flowers. This is a busy open outdoor cafe area, no one sitting outside.

Hi Judy, very beautiful photos.

Hi Susan,

Is the first day of Fall down the globe in here! The summer is gone
but the weather is acting like the Spring is coming back!
Cheers with a glass of fresh lemonade! :)

Hi, here is to Spring, fall, mild temps, no hats, gloves, coats and being outside.

Ay Judy!
I love the horses of that "calesita"! Gorgeous!