That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 06, 2023

“I don’t get it. We make the big rocks into little rocks, then what?”

/// These Stone Workers don’t get any glory,

unlike sculptors, whose work tells a story.

They chop stone into blocks.

Where do they seek these rocks?

They must search until they find their quarry.

Wow, you mean in Sweden they PAY to make gravel? Back home in Russia we have it made for free

And this is why you should never tell the simple-minded to go pound sand.

It’s the old “find the hidden prize in a rock” prank.

winner of the “Most Pointless Portrait” contest,Western edition

Show me a man with “Stones”, I’ll show you a man who has no fear.

It’s strange: If you look at samples of Jungstedt’s artwork, you see many skillfully done human portraits, but also numerous depictions of mundane scenes of working men that might just as well been photographed. What was his purpose in doing those, and who bought those paintings?

If you come out from the shade you won’t be such a pale-ontologist.

I really dig fossils

“Everybody must get stoned”

The illusory search for Bitcoins.

“Are you sure Michelangelo started like this?

Nuthin is as horr’ble as to face a mass of marble in the mor-or-or in’…

“Sven, I think we’re taken for granite !”

A bunch of chiselers, the lot of them.

Breaking rocks in the hot sun, I fought the law and the law won…..

Early rock festivals

This picture is taken from a government handbook. Exemplifies the seven supervisors and one laborer principle. Well done!

There’s no doubt- it’s a tedious chore/

(Not to mention a crashing bore)/

But they’d rather crush stone/

Than sit somewhere alone/

In search of a metaphor..///

A career in mineral battery /

Will not win you a great deal of flattery/

You will never get rich/

But it beats writing kitsch/

And you’ll never lack camaraderie.

The Swedish Quarries rock!

Which one is Stoney?

He thought The Breaking Stones was a tribute band.

How the song “London bridges falling down” came to be written!

“What do you want to do with your life?”

“I wanna rock!”

You can’t always get what you want.

Old time rock music.

It’s still the same old story, / Hard labor in the quarry, / On that you can rely. / The world will always seek new marble, / It’s petrified.

So give the cutters their due, / For all they shear and hew. / It’s never ending toil. / For statues, steps, or buildings’ facings, / It’s what they do.

(With gratitude and apologies to Herman Hupfeld’s As Time Goes By – 1931.)

But this is just the Quarrymen…

Stone Workers: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Axel Jungstedt" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Stone, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3057 (January 6, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

Witness: We were just talking about the Stones.

Judge: The Stones?

Witness: The Rolling Stones.

Rumpole: Jazz musicians, Your Honor, of some notoriety.

- Rumpole of the Bailey (vaguely remembered)

Have been reading/listening to Roughing It by Mark Twain. Just finished a chapter describing his week working in a quartz mill, in which he broke up ore with a sledgehammer, shoveled it into a stamping mill, and then ran the fragments through various other processes to get the gold and silver out. He was fired when he asked for a raise from $5 per week to $400,000 per year because the work was that hard.

Whose turn was it to bring the papers and scissors?

How can we play if we don’t have papers and scissors?

after a couple tokes they’re stoned workers…

A stoned soul picnic? (tune from the 60s).

Has anyone seen Chip?

Next week Earth Wind and Fire.

Rocky VII: the brain-damaged years…