Found: The Scream

Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' has been found today after being swiped from the Munch Museum in Oslo some two years ago. Guess it was found in pretty good condition. Guess it coulda been much worse.

Now, "The Scream" isn't my favorite piece of artwork, but it is a significant piece. I do have respect for it, of course, but that's due to Gary Larsen's (Far Side) "Weiner Dog Art". If you haven't seen it, just picture a weiner dog as the screamer in the picture. The image invokes laughter from even the most serious of art snobs. It's classic and much more interesting than 'Dogs Playing Pool' or that white dude with the afro who paints fluffy clouds and furry green trees.

Personally, I was hoping that "The Scream" would end up, years later at a Flea Market in Blue Lake, California. Someone would buy it for say, 20 bucks and it would hang in some rec room next to a Pabst Blue Ribbon neon sign or on a wall painted to look like Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon'.

Now, that's where it really belongs.