>>34731421 last time I went to the hospital they pumped me full of morphine (1) and I wound up watching Bob Ross for three hours absolutely zonked out of my mind. I was really inspired to start painting too.
It's something about him. Just his general aura of friendliness that he exerts. Genuine optimism and warmth of that caliber is so rare in today's world of impersonal communication.
For me Bob Ross is more than a painter, he is a movement. A living symbol of a bygone era, or perhaps an era that never really existed, but that we all like to believe existed at some point. Of friendly neighbors and barbecues that the whole block could attend, before liberals destroyed America.
1) (5α,6α)-7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol
An opiate based painkiller still popular in the medical field and a schedule 1 narcotic with high addiction potential.