Talk about buzz kills

This is from my daily calendar:

In despair over living in a reunited United States, James Whistler’s fiercely Confederate mother hopped a ship to England.  Her son was there, enjoying  a bohemian lifestyle complete with all-night whiskey parties and a live-in girlfriend.  Imagine his shock upon learning that Mother Anna intended to move in!  She took over the housekeeping, managed his studio, and invited his friends over for dinner, during which she lectured about the evils of drink.  One day when his model failed to show up for work, Whistler turned to this mother.  Initially he positioned her standing, but the frail woman was unable to hold the pose.  He directed her to sit, propping her feet on a footstool.  Anna was dressed in her usual black dress, with a white cap on her head: as a result, the painting is strikingly monochromatic.

And as Red Foreman said on That 70’s Show, “Fun time is over.”