Day 346: The Value of Cinnapie

 

December 12th, 2011A vast majority of my day was spent indoors, after I departed for EHS and came back to Geetha’s place in Sixth College. The rain forced us to opt for a day indoors, in which we ordered some delicious Papa John’s pizza while simultaneously watching 24: Redemption. In the process we also ordered some mouth-watering Cinnapie, which, as jammed down our throats would provide mild sources of sugary goodness. A long food coma knocked us out for a couple of hours, forcing us to finally leave the apartment. We walked all the way on over to Marshall’s so I could get some Iowa-safe clothing, and then Starbucks where we could chill with the consumption of Hot Chocolate and Smoothies. We departed back for Geetha’s place where we spent the rest of the night watching Elf. [Well, I was. Geetha was writing emails.]

On this day in 1980, American oil tycoon Armand Hammer pays $5,126,000 at auction for a notebook containing writings by the legendary artist Leonardo da Vinci. The manuscript, written around 1508, was one of some 30 similar books da Vinci produced during his lifetime on a variety of subjects. It contained 72 loose pages featuring some 300 notes and detailed drawings, all relating to the common theme of water and how it moved. Experts have said that da Vinci drew on it to paint the background of his masterwork, the Mona Lisa. The text, written in brown ink and chalk, read from right to left, an example of da Vinci’s favored mirror-writing technique. The painter Giuseppi Ghezzi discovered the notebook in 1690 in a chest of papers belonging to Guglielmo della Porto, a 16th-century Milanese sculptor who had studied Leonardo’s work. In 1717, Thomas Coke, the first earl of Leicester, bought the manuscript and installed it among his impressive collection of art at his family estate in England. MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND.

The stars of Glee have rallied around producer Ryan Murphy after a rumours emerged of a rift. An article in Us Weekly reported that the show’s creator and executive producer had clashed with a number of cast members on the hit Sky1 show. But actress Naya Rivera, who plays Santana in the series, took to Twitter to refute the claims. She wrote: “I think that the malicious things being written about Ryan Murphy are so sad and false. WELL… I guess that’s that then.

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