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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:51 AM
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Who was it that hates Thomas Kinkade with a passion?
You're welcome.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kinkade5mar05,0,3770067.story?coll=la-home-headlines

...It's not just Kinkade's business practices that have been called into question. Former gallery owners, ex-employees and others say his personal behavior also belies the wholesome image on which he's built his empire.

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.

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview...
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:09 AM
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1. I don't think I posted about my hatred of him but...
I want him to go away. Like send him to Gitmo away and then liberate his factory of artist monkeys. Then, go back in time, and make sure he was never born.

So, yeah, I guess I hate him with a passion.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:13 AM
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2. The entire Lounge, I believe.
:rofl:
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laheina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 02:58 AM
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28. I second that assessment. nt
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:17 AM
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3. I cannot stand his "paint by number" paintings
but I think matcom and whoisalhedges have expressed particular distaste.
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:22 AM
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4. Without fondness perhaps
I try not to hate many, although * is close to my vest on that one.

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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 04:49 AM
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5. While I think his works belie a shmaltziness born of
brain trauma (perhaps caused by Bible abuse), I don't hate him.

Perhaps it's Xemasab or Joan Alpern?
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 04:52 AM
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6. Now that I think about it it is Rabrrrrrr
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southlandshari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 04:55 AM
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8. BUFFY!!!
:hug:































Sorry. Thread-jacking now over. Couldn't help myself. I missed her!

:hide:
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 05:02 AM
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10. southlandshari!!!
:grouphug: :loveya:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 04:57 AM
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9. I think his work is very similar to a lot of Nazi art
in both subject matter and purpose, but other than that, a fool and his money are soon parted. :shrug:

Americana uber alles!
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 05:08 AM
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11. It makes me think of Norman Rockwell
Or rather trying to capture that feeling of Norman Rockwell. People want this ideal world where innocence and eternal bliss exist forever, just like in NR paintings and Leave it to Beaver reruns. Thomas Kinkade provides that in his saccharine sweet paintings where you just know family fights, drug problems, gays, libruls and the like don't exist. It's an escape from reality right into stupidity.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 05:32 AM
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12. Nazi art




They were all about pastoralism and family values and shit like that.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 05:39 AM
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13. Ah, family values
Like herding Jews (as well as gypsies, gays and others) into concentration camps, stealing all of their stuff, starving them, torturing them and killing them.

Love them family values. :sarcasm:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 05:45 AM
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14. Hey, over on FReep certain souls are saying that
Muslims should be herded into camps like we did with the Japanese.

God bless America! :patriot:
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 01:30 AM
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20. I'm sure they'd like to see, along with the Muslims,
gays, Democrats, non-Christians and ACLU members tossed into such camps. :eyes:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 08:43 PM
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32. Rockwell is freakin' Egon Schiele compared to the dreck of Kinkade
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 06:52 AM
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15. Buffy!


I never heard any of this stuff before. I had no idea. He is such a sleaze!
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 01:33 AM
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21. Ok, my bad
I just remember some female DUer jokingly claiming I was a closet Kincaid fanatic. :scared: We went back and forth about it for a while one night.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 04:53 AM
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7. Rabrrrrrr doesn't seem to care much for Mr. Kinkade's work,
and neither do I, but I'm not _quite_ as adamant about my distate as Rabrrrrrr is. ;)
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 10:59 AM
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16. Count me in
Your post just makes it all the more pleasurable to hate Kinkade.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 11:03 AM
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17. My sweetheart will be devastated!
But, at least I won't have to look at Kinkade puzzle pictures while
I'm on the crapper anymore.

YEEEEESSSSSS!
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 11:29 AM
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18. that would be Rabrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
although I believe the rest of us concurrrrrrrrrrr
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 01:49 AM
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23. He's somewhat rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrabid
in his hatred of Mr. Kinkade.:D
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 11:35 AM
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19. And a quote from the devoted...
""This is God-given talent," she said of a favored print, "Sierra Evening Majesty," with its snowy peaks, red-gold skies and smoke wisping from a cabin chimney. "He is a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci or Monet. There is no one in our generation who can paint like that.""


Thomas Kinkdade mentioned in the same breath as Leonardo? ARRRHHHHGGGHHHHHH!

For the record, I despise the man's work, it reminds me of some artistic filler space that cheap hotels and Hardee's franchises purchase by the pound to fill their walls.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 01:46 AM
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22. What, did he do the "Dogs Playing Poker?" Or the kittens, or little kids,
with the really big eyes? 'Cause I LOVE all those!

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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 01:57 AM
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24. Nope...I love the poker playing dogs, too.
This is representative of Mr. Kinkade's oeuvre:

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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 02:00 AM
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25. That's ALMOST as good as my velvet Elvis paintings. You should SEE them
under black light! Kinda eerie how the eyes follow you around the room, though!
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 03:24 AM
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29. That looks like an ad for real estate
"Buy a property in this exclusive lakeside community now!"
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 02:01 AM
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26. Listen * walks around the stage all angry and shit * Listen...
Kinkade is a doucheCunt... I was painting light when he was sucking on his mommas tittie. The guy is a fucking fake.

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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 02:57 AM
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27. "Painter of Light" - What the fuck is there else to paint???
Without light you can't fucking SEE anything!

It is kitsch of the WORST kind - pure marketing and pandering.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 08:40 PM
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30. That would fucking be fucking me - here's my favorite
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 08:41 PM
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31. Beautiful.
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we can do it Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 08:44 PM
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33. An Asshole and A Lousy Painter
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 08:59 PM
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34. Kinkade! A regular Picasso, he is!
Edited on Sun Mar-12-06 08:59 PM by kwassa
For your viewing pleasure.






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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 10:22 PM
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35. *grace raises hand high in the air*
ME! ME! ME!
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