… it was the Picasso Quixote:
It doesn’t show up on Sports Illustrated’s 28 most popular dorm room posters, which with a couple of exceptions are about tits, ass, and alcohol (A poster showing two guys holding up a third drunk guy has a funny saying UD hadn’t heard: There’s no ‘I’ in “drunk.”)
I’d heard about this one but hadn’t seen it before:
FWIW, here are La Kid’s, as she — tomorrow! — goes off to decorate the walls of her single at George Washington University:
Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Concert Bal, Moulin Rouge
Couple embracing, gondolas, birds, Venice
Black and white photo, Eiffel Tower, from hotel room windows
August 27th, 2008 at 6:29AM
The first episode of season 4 of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" featured a nest of vampires living on a college campus. To pass the time while waylaying wayward freshmen, they kept a running tab of dorm room posters they’d stolen: Klimt’s kiss was running neck-and-neck with Monet’s waterlilies. Sounds like tastes at UC-Sunnydale ran more to La Kid than Sports Illustrated.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:56AM
No Dali "Persistence of Memory"? What IS higher education coming to?
August 27th, 2008 at 7:10AM
Dave: Funny!
Michael: A commenter on the SI article’s thread also notes the absence of the dread Dali.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:53AM
Dali, my melted watch! I had a Joan Miro poster.