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A User's Guide to the Infinite Art Tournement
The Infinite Rice Army
Alleviating hunger through the taking of quizzes since March 21.
30,200 grains earmarked!
The Brackets!
Active First Round Pairings
- Gaudier-Brzeska v. Gauguin
- Gaddi v. Gainsborough
- Froment v. Gabo
- Friedrich v. Frink
- Play-In SubTournament: Phase 1, Flight 10
- Frankenthaler v. Freud
- Fragonard v. Francis
- Foujita v. Fouquet
- Flavin v. Fontina
- Fautrier v. Feininger
- Play-In SubTournament: Phase 1, Flight 9 -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Fabritius v. Fantin-Latour
- Etty v. Van Eyck -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Ernst v. Estes -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Ensor v. Epstein -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Eakins v. Elsheimer -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
Active Second Round Pairings
Active Third Round Pairings
Active Fourth Round Matches
Left Bracket, Round 2
- Elimination: Albers v. Alma-Tadema
- Antonello da Messina v. Archipenko
- Claude Lorraine v. Clouet
- Christo v. Chagall
- Tie-Break: Bellows v. Bourgeois
- Tie-Break: Bingham v. Botero
- Champaigne v. De Chirico
- Böcklin v. Buren
- P. Blake v. Boltanski
- Catlin v. Carrà
- Caro v. Catena
- Canova v. Burra
- Calder v. Canaletto
- Jan Bruegel v. Bronzino
- Bomberg v. Boccioni
Left Bracket, Round 3
The Hypothetical Hypermarathon
- Michael5000's Running Avatar has left Portland and is running generally east, out into the great big world.
- May 19th -- Passing through The Dalles, Oregon.
- May 12 -- The Avatar passes back into Oregon at Hood River and continues eastward on the Mark Hatfield Trail.
- April 28 -- Passing by Beacon rock in the beautiful Columbia Gorge.
- April 23 -- Standing on the corner in downtown Camas, Washington.
- April 17 -- THE AVATAR IS HOME!!!
The Humanly Prowess -- since August 2009
- May 19 -- 8.26 is a best-ever mileage for the 19th. I'm also at 14 consecutive Sundays, 1 short of the record, as well as 14 consecutive Saturdays.
- April 27 -- A nice 9.06 mile run passes us over the best-April-ever mark and gives me an record of 11 consecutive running Saturdays.
- April 25 -- By the by, I've currently tied the records for most consecutive Saturdays and most consecutive Wednesdays run. But who's counting.
- April 20 -- 9.62 miles is a surprise all-time record for the 20th of the month!
- April 14 -- 5.53 miles is an all-time record for a run resulting in hospital treatment for dog bite injuries!
- April 6 -- 10.1 miles is the first ever double-digit run for April.
Our Mission Statement
190 or Bust
- May 16 -- Weigh-in for work weight-loss contest: 208
- May 3 -- 208
- March 10 -- 205.4
- Feb 24 -- 206.0 -- but clearly we've got a little problem to work on here.
- Feb 23 -- 207.6 -- Uh-oh...
- January 5 -- 204.4. Oops!
- July 1 - 200
- June 24 -- 200
Labels
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- Boring Postcards (195)
- Like You Care (111)
- The Thursday Quiz (111)
- Too Much Time Goes Into This (107)
- The Monday Quiz (106)
- Holiday Cheer (105)
- The Great Movies (100)
- The Wednesday Quiz (93)
- Flags (92)
- The Reading List (80)
- Stamps (56)
- Arts and Letters (54)
- The Classical Music (52)
- The Bear Chronicles (50)
- Element of the Month (47)
- The Wednesday Post (47)
- Maps (38)
- Mrs.5000 (36)
- The M5K Decathlon (34)
- The Rock Music (32)
- Quilt Stuff (30)
- Book Arts (29)
- On The Road (28)
- Surreal (28)
- Michael5000 vs Shakespeare (27)
- Forgotten Lands (26)
- March Madness (26)
- Vignettes (26)
- Media (23)
- College Football (22)
- How This Thing Works (22)
- Song of the American Road (22)
- Blogs (20)
- Internet (20)
- City of Roses (19)
- More Movies (18)
- The michael5000 Kitchen (18)
- Cries for Help (16)
- Games (16)
- Saint of the Month (16)
- At the Movies (14)
- Coffee Table Book Party (14)
- Jazz (13)
- Advertising (12)
- Garden (12)
- My nieces are better than your nieces (12)
- I Like Presents (11)
- The Beaver State (11)
- Biscuits of Mongolia (10)
- Counties (10)
- Song of the Day (10)
- Castle5000 (9)
- Mercifully Brief Reviews (9)
- Quarterly Report (9)
- The Hypothetical Hypermarathon (9)
- Acquisition and Divestiture (7)
- Awards (7)
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- Yuletide (6)
- Before There Was Mrs.5000 (5)
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- michael5000 gets political (5)
- Home Recording (4)
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- Michael5000 vs Dickens (3)
- michael5000 rocks (3)
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5 comments:
Cinnamon Bear lobbying for pro-bear legislation!
LOL Sue, I was just going to ask what he was lobbying for. =)
The smirk on his face makes me wonder if he's sending Tweets with 'bear-naked' pictures....
Was there at some time in US history a policy of establishing state capitals in minor towns, or has urban growth since just made it appear that way? Like Salem? You have to look carefully to find it.
Elaine, he's really not so lascivious as you think. He's just happy to be in the world.
Aviatrix: There was never a national policy, but there was sometimes that kind of thinking in a particular state. But really there are 50 different stories of how a state capital was selected. The best might be that of Kansas, in which during the drive for statehood there were three major political plums to be passed out: the capital, the state university, and the state prison. The three major settlements of the territory more or less got to pick in order of political clout: Leavenworth first, then Topeka, then Lawrence.*
Salem incidentally, is the third biggest non-suburban city in Oregon, so it's not like the capital is hidden under a rock or something. But yes, it is hardly a metropolis, which is I believe why the Bear was at pains to mention its locations.
*Topeka is the capital of Kansas. Lawrence is home to one of my almae matres, the University of Kansas.
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