RIP, Thomas Kincade, who will be welcomed into Middlebrow Paradise, where he will be greeted by the Archangel Meh-chael. Serenaded by Muzak, he will stroll through vistas of not-altogether-unpleasant pastoral views, and everyone will be more or less satisfied for all eternity as they walk the streets of Pleather. Finally, he will be welcomed into the presence of a semiomnipotent and liking Gosh.
The man made gazillions being a dick and selling prints of quasi-religious paintings to rubes – crap that Motel 6 wouldn’t hang on their walls. On some level one has to admire his ability to separate fools from their money, though I’d respect him more if I thought he had the same contempt for his fans that he obviously had for art itself – you know, like Jeff Koons.
From the LA Times, in 2006 “A Dark Portrait of the Painter of Light”.
“In sworn testimony and interviews, they recount incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee’s wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool, and palmed a startled woman’s breasts at a signing party in South Bend, Ind. And then there is Kinkade’s proclivity for “ritual territory marking,” as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.”
Scoff, but his paintings are hanging in 1 out of every 20 homes in the United States.
Carrie Brownstein
Buzzfeed reports on Rick Santorum Drinking Beer. In Wisconsin today, he started drinking at 11:30 AM.
I was in Wisconsin last year, and drinking bottled beer was NOT the local blue collar drink of choice. The working stiffs drink from big glasses of missile fuel gauge (see: 7% plus). What Rick has got there is gentry suds!
That’s some choice the Republicans give us this year – an emotional train-wreck that starts drinking at 11AM, a poorly programmed robot that doesn’t drink at all but wears magic underwear, and an egotistical fart that would drive the entire country to drink at 11:00AM. Nice strategy, GOP, why don’t you drag out Phil Crane and run him?
“Santorum in Wisconsin today. Before noon”.
11:30 is Bloody Mary time, you tool!
Moms across America, regardless of color or political affliliation, have endorsed and enacted a rule of law that applies to the Trayvon Martin murder case. Yet no one seems willing to apply it. While the Floridian idiots who sponsored the ‘Stand Your ground” law, Rep. Dennis Baxley and Senator Durell Peaden, are both stammering that the SYG law does not apply to George Zimmerman in this case. In a Fox News op-ed, Baxley wrote: “There is nothing in the Florida statutes that provides for the opportunity to pursue and confront individuals, it simply protects those who would be potential victims by allowing for force to be used in self-defense.” Likewise, Senator Peaden told the Miami Herald that the law does not apply to Zimmerman, because he followed the child), neither have suggested that the law did apply for the protection of the aforementioned child, who was stalked, and then killed. [click to continue…]
The best part is where Obama almost calls Santorum a cracker!
