Tar Pit Tar Pit – Old school Beatdown

Date: 2026-05-23
AO: Tar Pit
Q: T-bone ,
PAX: LeMond, Big Mac, Panhandle, T-bone, Beaker
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WOR: ssh, av, picking daisies, ch squats & merkins, ssh

The Thang: 5 alive with BOMBS – rifle or farmer carry between benches. End with a bit of stretching

Moleskine:

Song of the Lark:

In 1884, French painter Jules Breton captured a moment so simple it almost escapes notice: a peasant girl standing in a field at sunrise, holding a scythe, her gaze lifted — perhaps listening to a bird’s song in the calm of early morning. No glory, no grandeur. Just a young woman, barefoot in the dirt, pausing before the work begins again.

The painting has stopped people in their tracks for well over a century. But perhaps no story about it is more striking than Bill Murray’s. Early in his career in Chicago, after a performance he felt was disastrous, Murray walked out of the theater and just kept walking — disenchanted, unmoored, heading toward Lake Michigan. He wandered into the Art Institute and found himself standing in front of The Song of the Lark.

What he saw there broke through. He thought: “Well, there’s a girl who doesn’t have a whole lot of prospects, but the sun’s coming up anyway and she’s got another chance at it.” And then: “I, too, am a person, and I get another chance every day the sun comes up.”

Tags: Tar Pit, LeMond, Big Mac, Panhandle, T-bone, Beaker