That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 03, 2018

Three months later Roman Life & Casualty filed for bankruptcy.

Roger added too much lighter fluid to his barbecue again.

might’ve been a premonition for what Stalingrad was going to be like in a hundred years or so…

I TOLD you that last sacrifice was not really a virgin!

For a second I thought it was Hawaii.

Coming soon to a cinema near you….. now in full colour.

Really easy to learn about this one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Day_of_Pompeii. “The Last Day of Pompeii is a large history painting by Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833 on the subject of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It is notable for its positioning between Neoclassicism, the predominant style in Russia at the time, and Romanticism as increasingly practised in France. The painting was received to near universal acclaim and made Bryullov the first Russian painter to have an international reputation. In Russia it was seen as proving that Russian art was as good as art practised in the rest of Europe. Critics in France and Russia both noted, however, that the perfection of the classically modelled bodies seemed to be out of keeping with their desperate plight and the overall theme of the painting, which was a Romantic one of the sublime power of nature to destroy man’s creations.”

Build a wall.

But home prices are at an all-time low.

Ashes, ashes, all fall down.

" Oh, sure ! Let’s buy in Zone 2 because the the real estate’s cheap, you said. You never told me that Zone 2 meant Lava Zone 2 !!"

The Last Day of Pompeii: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Brullov_-_The_Last_Day_of_Pompeii_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

(before trying to click its image, note the Summary Warning below it and the tiles; again, best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting. The strip image comes an earlier coloration of the WORKS section image shown by first artist info URL below.

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/b/bryullov/karl/biograph.html 

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/briullov_karl.html 

http://www.sphinxfineart.com/Bryullov-Karl-Pavlovich-DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=45&tabindex=44&artistid=18204 

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~russ15/russia_PI/Painting_romanticism.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/karl-bryullov 

http://artroots.com/ra/bio/bryullov/bryullovbio.htm 

https://vsdn.ru/authorcolumn/416.htm 

https://books.google.com/books?id=QTxAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false 

all have info about this artist (the last is the start of several pages about him, along with a discussion of this painting; the prior is in Russian which again Chrome can translate – click his boldface name link there for more paintings by him), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2010 (August 2, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“There goes the neighborhood!”

Man, they just don’t have raves like this anymore.

Damn Pyrovilles…

I told you it wasn’t just gas.

let´s go pyroclastic.

Guests protesting cuz Karl only brought a bottle of lemonade to the Bottle Party.

“That’s not what I meant by ‘Come On Baby Light My Fire’.”

California, about every 7th year.

Today in California…..