Ads are not an endorsement by the blog author.

By The Way...

Public Journal
 Back to Journal Archives | Subscribe to Alerts Alerts Subscribe to Alerts | Feeds
< Some Days, All Yo
Saturday, August 11, 2007 See Some Night Li >
Sunday, August 12, 2007
August 2007
8/31/07
Vacation, All I Ever Wanted
8/31/07
Thank God We Avoided the Predicted Jumpsuit Craze!
8/30/07
One of Those Days I'm Glad for my Plain Jane 30-Year Fixed Mortgage
8/30/07
Weekend Assignment #181: Two Truths, One Lie
8/30/07
RWB: The Photos
8/29/07
Good Lord I SO Need This
8/29/07
Wrap it Up
8/29/07
Here, Have a Cookie
8/29/07
Have a Sunrise
8/28/07
An Image That Will Haunt Your Dreams
8/28/07
I've Been Looking Through My Secret Spy Camera and You've Not Been Spending Enough Time Online.
8/28/07
This Dorm Room Needs Some Duct Tape!
8/28/07
It's Like the World's Largest, Fishiest-Flavored Cappuccino
8/27/07
Bumper Stickers!
8/27/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Red White and Blue
8/27/07
A Nice Way to Start the Week
8/27/07
Some Organizational Notes
8/26/07
So Long, Summer
8/26/07
Light Me!
8/25/07
When Geeks Meet Lions
8/24/07
The Old Way to Give Someone an Out-of-Body Experience With a Stick Was to Beat Them
8/24/07
More Monkeys With Darts!
8/24/07
The Last Days of Summer
8/24/07
Goths Trying So Hard to Be Happy
8/23/07
No Flooding Here
8/23/07
The End of Redheads?
8/23/07
Weekend Assignment #180: Build a Bumper Sticker
8/23/07
Return to 2003
8/22/07
Cool Astronomy Tool
8/22/07
Because There's Nothing More Fun Than a Monkey with Darts!
8/22/07
Confucious Says: I'm Not Sure Why I'm in This Article at All
8/22/07
This Makes That "Memories" Song From "Cats," Like, Unbearably Ironic
8/21/07
He's Something That Rhymes With "Vick"
8/21/07
My Badges. Let Me Show You Them
8/21/07
Pretty in Pink
8/21/07
Happy Fourth, AOL Journals!
8/20/07
Four Years of By The Way
8/20/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: 2003
8/20/07
These Are Days You Remember
8/20/07
Just in Case it's Already Turning Out to Be One of Those Mondays
8/19/07
I Once Did a Wheelie Off a Curb With My Bike
8/18/07
Child Marriage in Arkansas -- Not Just a Cheap Joke at the State's Expense Anymore
8/17/07
Your Friday Music: High School Musical 2
8/17/07
25 Years of CDs
8/17/07
How a Star is Like a Comet
8/17/07
All Set For Another Year of Giving Parents and Students Status Anxiety
8/16/07
Weekend Assignment #179: Your Favorite Day
8/16/07
These Phones Will Be Very Big in Some Parts of Russia
8/16/07
You Know, This Was Something We Did on Our Own Time
8/16/07
Angular Photos
8/15/07
You Yawn Because You Care
8/15/07
Liam Finn
8/15/07
Just in Case You've Forgotten What You Look Like on the Inside --
8/15/07
I'm Back
8/14/07
Ghlaghghee in the Garden
8/14/07
Because Tuesday is a Good Day to Bake Your Noodle -- With Science!
8/14/07
Just Because You're Smart Doesn't Mean You Can't Do Dumb Things
8/13/07
Appropriate For a Day of Pictures
8/13/07
Some Flowers For You
8/13/07
A Hazy Shade of Winter
8/13/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: At an Angle
8/12/07
See Some Night Lights
8/12/07
What People With More Money Than You Spend It On
8/11/07
Some Days, All You Really Want to Do is Sit Back and Stare at Pictures of Funny-Looking Animals
8/10/07
Your Future Music
8/10/07
Serving All Your Cloud-Based Needs
8/10/07
Be Glad If You Don't Have Them, Sad If You Do
8/9/07
Films on a Tiny, Tiny Screen
8/9/07
Meet Me at the Cemetery
8/9/07
Weekend Assignment #178: Cool Places
8/8/07
The New Sultan of Swing
8/8/07
Money Confessions
8/8/07
Wow, That Band is Unreal
8/7/07
The Ultimate in Pileups
8/7/07
When Good Foods Go Very Very Very Bad
8/7/07
The Terrifying Thing is, Someone IS Probably Making This
8/6/07
You Will Be APPALLED At How Cute This Cat Video Is
8/6/07
The Apollo Landing Deniers Are Suddenly Very Nervous
8/6/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Cemeteries
8/6/07
Quick Thanks for Weekend Assignment Feedback
8/5/07
Possibly the World's Most Annoying Game
8/4/07
Unnecessarily Crazy
8/3/07
Thinking About Tap Water
8/3/07
World Class Insults
8/3/07
As It Happens...
8/2/07
A Note For Tomorrow
8/2/07
Possibly the Cutest Picture in the History of Cute Pictures
8/2/07
Side by Side
8/2/07
Weekend Assignment #177: Feedback and Suggestions
8/1/07
It Could Be Worse
8/1/07
Meet the Earth
8/1/07
I Am So Behind This Article
« August 2007 Archive
Sunday, August 12, 2007
9:45:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment

What People With More Money Than You Spend It On


The Top Ten Most Expensive Paintings (so far, anyway).

You know, if I had $135 million, I wouldn't spend it on one picture. Maybe that's just me, though.

Also, I wonder what Van Gogh, who could barely sell a painting when he was alive, would think about everybody but him making huge gouts of money from his paintings. Because he's, you know, dead.


Written by johnmscalzi Blog about this entry
This entry has 4 comments: (Add your own)
  • #4 Comment from dpoem 
    8/12/07 8:35 PM | Permalink
    Oh, I like looking at art.  I just don't think I like the notion of spending $135 million to look at that art every day.  

    -Dan
    http://thewisdomofadistractedmind.blogspot.com/
  • #3 Comment from preciousfewe 
    8/12/07 5:38 PM | Permalink
    I enjoyed frittering away my precious life-time looking at great works of art that sold for far too much money to contemplate. In fact, I considered it life-time well spent.

    Enjoy the art, and let the nay-sayers say nay.

    -boliyou
    http://boliyou.blogspot.com/2007/08/really-expensive-art.html
  • #2 Comment from johnmscalziEntry Author 
    8/12/07 12:06 PM | Permalink
    "There is no value what-so-ever
    in having and expressing opinions about who
    spends too much money doing whatever. "

    Actually, I'm getting paid for this, so, well, there's value in it for me.
  • #1 Comment from bbartle3 
    8/12/07 11:18 AM | Permalink
    We hunger, John, for knowledge of what
    to value. There is no value what-so-ever
    in having and expressing opinions about who
    spends too much money doing whatever.
    Only a peasant would waste their time on such
    frittering away of precious life time.

    Barry
    Take an Art history course in night school.