Toulouse-Lautrec Ep 4: Onomatopoeia Slurping and Squishing Sounds
Jinmaku! Jinmaku! Jinmaku! Go get’em buddy! My dude OWNS the makuuchi division. Also, if there’s one thing people should take away from this episode, is that William-Adolphe Bouguereau is a connoisseur of great asses and he would’ve loved the Jean-Claude Van Damme era of human history.
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This episode is quite the winding road, jam-packed with shenanigans, beaucoup cousin sex, and exploration of several art techniques and theories. As we navigate this road, we join an unexpected game show, I kick myself out of a few museums, 47 kitties take their revenge, we do science stuff, and mine a butte. Along the way, I make a decision on a segment that I’ll likely regret, Bonnat loves himself some Bonnat, and the Grandmothers grand plan runs into a few hiccups.Â
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Honestly, I don’t know how to explain this episode, this one really flies off the rails. The chaos probably starts when Florida comes into the picture and ends when I have impure thoughts about someone in a painting. The good news is, Paul Harvey makes a cameo appearance, because I force him in with a shoehorn, and that makes me happy.
Our adventure begins with the Grandmothers, a footnoted sister, more mounted heads than fireplaces (which is saying something), and some thick-ass man-thighs.
As we make our way through French history, we'll learn about why Paris was an "immense workshop of putrefaction," take the most horrifying raft ride of all time, get Gothic and emo with a spicy lady named Germaine, and ponder whose day that small newsie boy just ruined.
Along the way, I mess up the same joke twice, tell an inappropriate story, and make us all do a thought experiment that, in retrospect, might not have been necessary.
What did those three brothers do? When is the best time to take an unexpected hunting trip? What happens if your bird goes to hell? We'll discuss. And, we'll have a Merrrrrrry Christmas in the Languedoc. Two of them; two Merrrrrry Christmases. Yay!
I swear, I'm fine. All of this is healthy.Â
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Toulouse-Lautrec Ep 1: But, First... A Tale of French Lineage in Three Acts
Before we begin the Toulouse-Lautrec journey, we of course need a 5 hour fever dream of French history. It only took me one episode in this series for me to lose my mind, so that's pretty exciting :)Â
Act I: Entirely Too Many LouisÂ
Act II: Little Internal Structures
Act III: It's a Family Affair
Primary Sources
Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life, by Julia Frey
Toulouse-Lautrec, by Gerstile Mack
Toulouse-Lautrec, by Henri Perruchot
The Unpublished Correspondence of Toulouse-Lautrec
A History of France, by John Julius Norwich
A History of France, by Joseph Bergman
The Industrial Revolution in France (1815-1848), by Arthur Louis Dunham
Dawn of the Belle Epoque, by Mary McCauliffe
Fashioning the Bourgeoise, by Phillip Perrot
The Art of Cuisine, by Maurice Joyant and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Frida Kahlo Ep 7 of 7: Viva la Vida
In the Frida finale, we alternate between having lots of fun and exploring the cavernous depths of human suffering. But we also have fun? If you're here at the end, thank you so, so much for taking this entire weird journey with me. This really has been a life-changing project for me. Seriously, though, we will have some fun. Also, it gets sad. Like, really sad.Â
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