Mid-Morning Art Thread

Rosebud Cottage
Thomas Kinkade

Part of me thinks that Kinkade was a technically skilled artist without an ounce of talent, and he leveraged his skill into a multi-million dollar industry producing pablum that caught the eye, but was devoid of exactly the sort of stuff that makes people stop and stare at a good van Gogh or Caravaggio.

But part of me thinks that the pompous art assholes who criticize Kinkade's work are smug elitists whose ideas about art have plagued us with the current modern art that makes many people want to grab a rifle and go up into a tower.

And the idea that Kinkade is somehow diminished because he was commercially successful is an arrogant, disgusting, self-important reflection of their own failings, and a not-so-subtle call-out to socialism, and the thoroughly discredited image of the starving artist.

Nobody can tell me that Caravaggio or Gentileschi or Vermeer would have remained true to art for art's sake and wouldn't have cashed in on making millions. Some of the world's greatest artists were commercially successful, and many painted stuff expressly for income. And it defies reality to assume that nobody else ever laid a brush on Raphael's or Michelangelo's or Rembrandt's work.

Yes... art, at least to me, can be proof that God works through the hand of man. It can also be pretty pictures that please some of us.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Prime directive

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 22, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 22, 2025 09:30 AM (VFv8R)

3 This looks like an AI generated image.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 22, 2025 09:31 AM (JCZqz)

4 I noodified the others.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 22, 2025 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

5 Master of Light

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 22, 2025 09:31 AM (sJHOI)

6 Too cartoonish?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 22, 2025 09:31 AM (VFv8R)

7 Oh gads no. Make it go away.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

8 Music Festival to support Trans Rights: Kink-Aid

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 22, 2025 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

9 The light bulb thing from yesterday was better than this.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

10 Ripping on Kinkade for not being "art" is like ripping on a fried egg sandwich and a beer for not being "haute cuisine". It ain't supposed to be.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2025 09:32 AM (RlmPm)

11 Mrs. Kane's Boarding House?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 22, 2025 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

12 But part of me thinks that the pompous art assholes who criticize Kinkade's work are smug elitists whose ideas about art have plagued us with the current modern art that makes many people want to grab a rifle and go up into a tower.

I can't truly recommend this course of action.

Posted by: Charles Whitman at July 22, 2025 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

13 Would make a good 1000 piece puzzle.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 22, 2025 09:33 AM (MGB5H)

14 A little cartoonish, but there is a place for this kind of art. It's imaginative, colorful, and not stupid. Great for puzzles and a midsummer's daydream.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at July 22, 2025 09:33 AM (6qf1m)

15 This is actually art

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2025 09:33 AM (N1DT3)

16 No Sir, I don't like it.
youtube.com/watch?v=cDGlN6mluGA

Posted by: Mister Horse at July 22, 2025 09:33 AM (kRXt7)

17 All I know, when I see a Kinkade warmly-lit cottage painting, is I want to live there. That's an emotional reaction, which is what art aspires to elicit. Right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:33 AM (omVj0)

18 The colors are garish and the scene looks more like a comic book than a fine art painting.

Paint by numbers, if you will.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 09:33 AM (mT+6a)

19
The Binford Hedge-a-matic 6000. For all of your bush trimming needs.

Remember: if it doesn't say Binford on it, somebody else makes it.

Posted by: Tim The Toolman Taylor at July 22, 2025 09:34 AM (XQo4F)

20 Did Bob Ross ever comment on Kinkade?

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

21 This painting gives me a warm and happy vibe. I like.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 22, 2025 09:34 AM (pohLc)

22 The cottage has a magical, whimsical feel to it.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

23 Art is beauty.

If there is no beauty, it isn't art.

(And while beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, ugly is generally obvious.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2025 09:34 AM (N1DT3)

24 The electric bill must be at $1000 each month.

Posted by: dantesed at July 22, 2025 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

25 Not art, an "illustration"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2025 09:34 AM (JvZF+)

26 Proposed caption: "Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to Man."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:35 AM (omVj0)

27 All the pruning tools are rusted and broke. Now what am I gonna do? Game over, man! Game over!

Posted by: Gardner Hudson at July 22, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

28 Thomas and my family share the surname, right down to the spelling. My mom was a huge fan and a lot of his stuff all around the house. I was always luke-warm to his stuff.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 22, 2025 09:35 AM (PSEDc)

29 House needs a man to keep the electric bill out of the stratosphere

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 22, 2025 09:35 AM (sJHOI)

30 Painting: This is why you don't drop the brown acid.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:35 AM (kRXt7)

31 You just know that the Dad of that cottage is endlessly walking into the rooms turning off the lights.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 22, 2025 09:35 AM (cYBz/)

32 Finally some good art! Nukular Glow is hard to pull off well, but this one hits it out of the park. The naysayer, ne'er do-wells, and pompous twits can go squeeze a breeze along with the vocal, silly, Anti-Penguite minority. Lock them up!

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg 23 at July 22, 2025 09:35 AM (G5+As)

33 We're getting closer to some fine painting.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at July 22, 2025 09:35 AM (0sNs1)

34 "Yes... art, at least to me, can be proof that God works through the hand of man. It can also be pretty pictures that please some of us."

My feelings exactly, CBD!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

35 13 Would make a good 1000 piece puzzle.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Lol. As a matter of fact...
https://tinyurl.com/csr433e3

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 22, 2025 09:36 AM (JCZqz)

36 Painting: No unicorn. Fail.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:37 AM (kRXt7)

37 The cottage has a magical, whimsical feel to it.
Posted by: redridinghood

Cartoonish.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

38 thank you, it needed to be said, CBD!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 09:37 AM (dKEEs)

39 I used to run a fine art gallery. We had a lot of high-end fine art, and a good good swath of what I deemed suburban sofa hangings. Kincaid is schlock, but pretty good schlock, his use of light, and the corny turn-down-the-ambient-light to see the internal illumination from the graphic is so hackneyed, I couldn't do it anymore.
Kincaid: an artist your mother-in-law loves.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at July 22, 2025 09:37 AM (lPeS+)

40 Samwise Gamgee's garden while doing shrooms.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 22, 2025 09:38 AM (ufFY8)

41 A plethora of opportunity!

Which to choose? Which to choose?

Posted by: The Sniper at July 22, 2025 09:38 AM (0sNs1)

42
From the artist's Motel 6 period

no hang

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2025 09:38 AM (AOsQT)

43 It's no Rothko.

Thankfully.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2025 09:38 AM (kgE5c)

44 Paint by numbers, if you will.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 09:33 AM (mT+6a)

Snob.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 22, 2025 09:38 AM (SuQXo)

45 It’s just. Dumb.

I can’t make myself like it. Kind of reminds me of all those enhanced pictures of TFG and his halo.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 09:38 AM (mT+6a)

46 My Little Pony used to own that place, but moved out when Smurfs started moving into the neighborhood.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:38 AM (kRXt7)

47 Having fires going in two chim-o-lees in both ends of the house is a great touch, too.

Posted by: Metaphor For Something at July 22, 2025 09:39 AM (G5+As)

48 It's no Rothko.

Thankfully.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

For the Win!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 22, 2025 09:39 AM (NXz8h)

49 This is one degree of separation from a black light poster of Elvis.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 22, 2025 09:39 AM (ufFY8)

50 It's no Freud.

Posted by: Horde Art Critic at July 22, 2025 09:39 AM (0sNs1)

51 Diverse color palette, identifiable subject matter...it's total shit.

Posted by: Mark Rothko at July 22, 2025 09:39 AM (TbWk/)

52

Where's the snow globe and the dying Charles Foster Kane?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 22, 2025 09:40 AM (x0n13)

53 Part of me thinks that Kinkade was a technically skilled artist without an ounce of talent, and he leveraged his skill into a multi-million dollar industry producing pablum that caught the eye, but was devoid of exactly the sort of stuff that makes people stop and stare at a good van Gogh or Caravaggio.

It's funny you mention this, CBD. In the August issue of Fortean Times magazine, there is an article about a new documentary, Art for Everybody, which looks at a secret vault of dark, disturbing artwork that Kincaid created before and during his career as the "Painter of Light."

It was directed by Miranda Yousef with the full cooperation of Kincaid's family and is listed as available on "digital platforms."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025 09:40 AM (Dg2sF)

54 When is CBD going to post dogs playing poker?

I demand dogs playing poker!

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

55 Why is it that the modern "art" world scorns people who could actually draw and paint realistically, like Norman Rockwell and Robert McGinnis, or draw and paint idealistically and romantically like Mr. Kinkade here? I suspect not a one of them could draw a sure-God realistic cow if they tried, they all know it, and resent anyone who can.

I still want to live in this house.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:40 AM (omVj0)

56 49 This is one degree of separation from a black light poster of Elvis.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 22, 2025 09:39 AM (ufFY

Red velvet walls with black velvet paintings.

From the movie "Eating Raoul."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 22, 2025 09:41 AM (x0n13)

57
No dog. Appeals only to the lumpenproleteriat. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2025 09:41 AM (mr7IH)

58
That's the ginzo section of The Shire.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 09:41 AM (EJeBD)

59 The upkeep on that place is expensive. Just wait until they try to find a gingerbread mason to fix those walls.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:41 AM (kRXt7)

60 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025 09:40 AM (Dg2sF)

Yup. Supposedly Kinkade did a fair amount of dark, almost disturbing work.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 22, 2025 09:41 AM (SuQXo)

61 coaster art

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2025 09:42 AM (XvL8K)

62 From the movie "Eating Raoul."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 22, 2025 09:41 AM (x0n13)

Been ages since I saw that movie in our local art house/college theater.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 22, 2025 09:42 AM (ufFY8)

63 It's funny you mention this, CBD. In the August issue of Fortean Times magazine, there is an article about a new documentary, Art for Everybody, which looks at a secret vault of dark, disturbing artwork that Kincaid created before and during his career as the "Painter of Light."

It was directed by Miranda Yousef with the full cooperation of Kincaid's family and is listed as available on "digital platforms."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025

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Dark and disturbing? I'd like to see that!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:42 AM (omVj0)

64 Snob.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises)

Says he with the festive little hat and the cigarette holder.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 09:42 AM (mT+6a)

65 Paint by numbers, if you will.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 09:33 AM (mT+6a)

Snob.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 22, 2025 09:38 AM

Ce n’est pas ce à quoi je m’attendais de la part de la fraternité du 9 mm.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2025 09:42 AM (0sNs1)

66 I think you were right the first time, CBD. Kincade's style is just too much, at least for me.

Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2025 09:42 AM (zFwIe)

67 Roof is made of a thick layer of felt. Nice and toasty in summer.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:43 AM (kRXt7)

68 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025 09:40 AM (Dg2sF)

You read Fortean Times?

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

69 From the movie "Eating Raoul."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 22, 2025

***
Was that the film where one character cries, "Hit me! Beat me! Make me write bad checks!"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:43 AM (omVj0)

70 I still want to live in this house.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:40 AM (o
******
Same.
I love cottages, gardens and old houses.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 22, 2025 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

71 Snob.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises)

Says he with the festive little hat and the cigarette holder.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 09:42 AM (mT+6a)

Beret.
It's a beret.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 22, 2025 09:44 AM (ufFY8)

72 I still want to live in this house.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

When is your road trip?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 09:44 AM (mT+6a)

73 I was playing Final Fantasy: Dawntrail this weekend and paused to marvel at the glorious art, in the case the Cityscapes in "Living Memory."

It's beautiful. It was created by a hew-mon. It's art, right? Amaurot is also stunning.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 22, 2025 09:45 AM (6rbLO)

74 I'd love to have a house like that.

Posted by: Little Old Lady Who Lives In A Shoe at July 22, 2025 09:45 AM (wVcYX)

75 Thats a very nice

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2025 09:45 AM (RHGPo)

76 The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 film starring Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young and Herbert Marshall. Mildred Natwick and Hillary Brooke co-star.

Posted by: Supernatural Romance at July 22, 2025 09:45 AM (G5+As)

77 In the August issue of Fortean Times magazine, there is an article about a new documentary, Art for Everybody, which looks at a secret vault of dark, disturbing artwork that Kincaid created before and during his career as the "Painter of Light."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Keith Haring was a distant cousin of mine. You should see much of his unpublished works. Very sick shit. As kids, my mom wouldn't let us be around him at family reunions - she knew.

He was depraved even as a child.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 22, 2025 09:45 AM (cYBz/)

78 Rosebud Cottage
Thomas Kinkade

***********

One Man's Dream House Is Muldoon's Nightmare - a limerick

Plowing, planting, hoeing and seeding
Watering, pruning, fertilizing and feeding
There's trimming and mowing
Also reaping and sowing
Raking, thatching, thinning and weeding

Posted by: muldoon at July 22, 2025 09:46 AM (poXs5)

79 I still want to live in this house.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
When is your road trip?
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025

***
Planning for early September, Nurse. I'm hoping I'll be not only recovered from the surgery but back into fairly good workout shape by then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:46 AM (omVj0)

80 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025 09:40 AM (Dg2sF)

Yup. Supposedly Kinkade did a fair amount of dark, almost disturbing work.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 22, 2025 09:41 AM

Hmmm...Imma have to look into that.

Talking of dark, I had the pleasure of visiting the Edward Gorey House Saturday. Whimsical, fun, and also dark. And, damn it, the Gashleycrumb Tinies poster is out of print!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2025 09:46 AM (kgE5c)

81 Just the topiary maintenance cost alone would bankrupt me.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:46 AM (kRXt7)

82 My first impression was, "It looks like Thomas Kinkade did set design for the Teletubbies."

Not too much of a shock that it actually was Thomas Kinkade.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 22, 2025 09:47 AM (VSht7)

83 78 Gilbert & Sullivan!

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:47 AM (kRXt7)

84 Psychedelic Cute.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 09:47 AM (W3T6M)

85 Not enough lightbulbs.
Pass.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 09:47 AM (Vvm2m)

86 And if I may add, CBD, I think the same sneer between high and low art applies to music, as well.

Bach is hailed by musicians aq a master, but was little appreciated in his own time and, IIRC, there wasn't a real review of his work until the early 1800s (spearheaded by Mendelssohn, I believe).

Arthur Sullivan was feted in his day as the foremost of English composers, he grew rich off the success of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, but his music is dismissed as either candyfloss tune or (his 'serious' works) plodding, four-square 'churchy' echt-Victoriana.

But I'm just an asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog. I'm sure the rest of you can come up with better arguments.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025 09:47 AM (Dg2sF)

87
From my own interests, there are two kinds of music, good and boring. There's absolutely nothing wrong with well-crafted, tuneful works. Would I rather listen to Parry or Stanford or Hanson or would I subject myself to Boulez because it's held to be the work of a genius?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2025 09:47 AM (mr7IH)

88 I’m excited for you, Wolfus!!! Get out there and find your dream!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 09:47 AM (mT+6a)

89 Who's this no-name?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 22, 2025 09:47 AM (GBKbO)

90 81 Just the topiary maintenance cost alone would bankrupt me.
Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice

(Stares blankly)

Posted by: Edward Scissorhands at July 22, 2025 09:47 AM (JCZqz)

91 TORTURED artist Thomas Kincade.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2025 09:48 AM (dUQmt)

92 Just the topiary maintenance cost alone would bankrupt me.
Posted by: For gp

Not to mention the expense of trimming the bushes.

What?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 22, 2025 09:48 AM (cYBz/)

93 Pretty sure this painting was converted to a jigsaw puzzle.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 09:49 AM (W3T6M)

94 'member when Art Thread always started at 10?

Now it's 9:30, and I'm not sure why it changed.

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 22, 2025 09:49 AM (sJHOI)

95 I’m excited for you, Wolfus!!! Get out there and find your dream!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025

***
Thanks, Nurse. I would have gone in April but had to straighten out my retirement finances, and then this surgery thing came up. Maybe in Sept. more northerly climes won't be as hot. And there may be fewer families vacationing via the roads.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (omVj0)

96 You can light this image up with LEDs behind the canvas and really[ make it glow!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (075ei)

97 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Dogs playing poker at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (XQo4F)

98 Pretty sure this painting was converted to a jigsaw puzzle.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 09:49 AM

See 35, supra.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (kgE5c)

99 Some here are richly deserving of a nekkid lardass on an ottoman. And they would call that art, rather than lard porn.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (pohLc)

100 How do you maintain a thatched roof?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (W3T6M)

101 You read Fortean Times?
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

Been a subscriber for almost 20 years.

The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 film starring Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young and Herbert Marshall. Mildred Natwick and Hillary Brooke co-star.
Posted by: Supernatural Romance at July 22, 2025 09:45 AM (G5+As)

Also a 1924 silent starring Richard Barthelmess and May McAvoy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (Dg2sF)

102 Kinkade is kitsch, and kitsch is as American as apple pie.

I'm 100% in agreement I don't like his style, or that it took over the zeitgeist for so long. But I've circled around to reflexively defending him against the art snobs, since they are so, so awful about condemning him. Screw the pretentious elitist art snobs that live off a trust fund, so they don't have to live by their art to feed themselves. Don't have to take the time and effort to research what art the masses want and make art to appeal to them.

These are the same art snobs that refused to see that Norman Rockwell's illustrations were art, even if he did them for commercial purposes to pay the bills.

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (UfVvL)

103 Attorney General Pam Bondi to meet with Ghislane Maxwell.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (RHGPo)

104 I can't stand Bach, or most Baroque music. Or even most of Mozart's oeuvre. It's too mathematical, like they're setting an equation to music.

Same with a lot of jazz.

Give me some emotion, dammit. And a melody.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

105 "Bach is hailed by musicians as a master, but was little appreciated in his own time"

The Duke of Brandenburg was disappointed with the concertos!! That had to be the cruelist and most ignorant insult in human history.

Bach also had a heckuva time getting f'n paid for shit in general.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (kRXt7)

106 True art.

https://shorturl.at/dRHIc

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (i24o9)

107 It's prettier than reality, like a bug or crawly thing wouldn't dare invade, and there are no blights or fungus. I like it, even though it is not something I would buy.

Posted by: huerfano at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (n2swS)

108 Kinkaid's art is like snorting a line of sugar while eating a glazed donut covered in Maple syrup while drinking a glass of honey.

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (fV+MH)

109 AI could produce this, I'll bet. But AI cannot produce Caravaggio. Is that the difference?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (w6EFb)

110 Would not hang, but I'd like to see it painted on a low-rider.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (MX0bI)

111 It's pretty. It's not 'challenging' but, often times, pretty is what's called for.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (ExV1e)

112 "I can't stand Bach, or most Baroque music. Or even most of Mozart's oeuvre. ... Same with a lot of jazz."

Bulg, you are dead to me now.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:52 AM (kRXt7)

113 How do you maintain a thatched roof?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (W3T6M)

by keeping every damn light on in the house, evidently

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 22, 2025 09:52 AM (sJHOI)

114 I don't mind Kinkade. His stuff is pleasant and well done. Repetitive which eventually makes it boring, but each on its own is nice.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 22, 2025 09:52 AM (aPyU0)

115 Kinkaid's art is like snorting a line of sugar while eating a glazed donut covered in Maple syrup while drinking a glass of honey.
Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025

***
"Melts in yore brain, man, not in yore hands!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:52 AM (omVj0)

116
Bach also had a heckuva time getting f'n paid for shit in general.
Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (kRXt7)

In many ways this is the story of Caitlin Clark

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 22, 2025 09:53 AM (sJHOI)

117 Every window has the nukular glow. The guy's light bill must have been enormous!!

Posted by: Cheapskate Charlie at July 22, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)

118 108 Kinkaid's art is like snorting a line of sugar while eating a glazed donut covered in Maple syrup while drinking a glass of honey.
Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (fV+MH)

LOL... Wait.. That's true

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2025 09:53 AM (VE6XX)

119 Kinkaid's art is like snorting a line of sugar while eating a glazed donut covered in Maple syrup while drinking a glass of honey.
Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM

Someone once described Lysette Anthony's acting in similar terms. "Scoffing a jar of icing sugar", iirc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

120 'member when Art Thread always started at 10?

Now it's 9:30, and I'm not sure why it changed.

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 22, 2025 09:49 AM (sJHOI)

Not for a long, long time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 22, 2025 09:54 AM (SuQXo)

121 Pay me or I'll paint you as a revenge.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 22, 2025 09:54 AM (fOTMA)

122 If you hate Bach you should probably not talk about music.

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 09:54 AM (fV+MH)

123 120 'member when Art Thread always started at 10?

Now it's 9:30, and I'm not sure why it changed.

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 22, 2025 09:49 AM (sJHOI)

Not for a long, long time.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 22, 2025 09:54 AM (SuQXo)

=======

Simple archive search...away!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 22, 2025 09:54 AM (GBKbO)

124 PDQ Bach >>>> JS Bach

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

125 Come out, come out
Wherever you are
And meet the young lady
Who fell from a Star

Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM (+qU29)

126 116 Michelangelo had the same problem.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM (kRXt7)

127
Bach was kind of a grouch. All those no-good kids and having to deal with the dopes on the Leipzig city council would do that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM (mr7IH)

128 100 How do you maintain a thatched roof?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (W3T6M)
Thatch it. Thatch it good.

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM (dUQmt)

129 Would not hang, but I'd like to see it painted on a low-rider.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 22, 2025

***
I'd like to see a realistic(-ish) four-lion-pawed griffin on a van or low-rider.

A seller on Etsy has griffin silhouettes in several sizes meant to mount on windows. I've been meaning to buy a small one for the Buick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)

130 Sebastian Bach is the only Bach with musical chops

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM (sJHOI)

131 Bach also had a heckuva time getting f'n paid for shit in general.
Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (kRXt7)

In many ways this is the story of Caitlin Clark
Posted by: Otto Pen at July 22, 2025 09:53 AM (sJHOI)

ZZ Top - I Gotsa Get Paid

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM (wVcYX)

132 If you hate Bach you should probably not talk about music.
Posted by: eleven

Oh brother. Talk about snobbery.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

133 The lights are on but no one is home.

Posted by: dantesed at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM (Oy/m2)

134 AI could produce this, I'll bet. But AI cannot produce Caravaggio. Is that the difference?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (w6EFb)

https://midlibrary.io/styles/caravaggio

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 09:56 AM (ExV1e)

135 Come out, come out
Wherever you are
And meet the young lady
Who fell from a Star
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2025 09:55 AM

*snort*

I saw a great production of that two weeks ago at our local music theater.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2025 09:56 AM (kgE5c)

136 I've been sitting here listening to the English Suites for the past hour. No joke.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at July 22, 2025 09:57 AM (kRXt7)

137 I can't understand how a thatched roof keeps rain out. And the damn things can last 50 years.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 22, 2025 09:57 AM (pohLc)

138 Who tortured Kinkade?

Posted by: Just Axin' at July 22, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

139 Would not hang, but I'd like to see it painted on a low-rider.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (MX0bI)

Seems more likely to be a '70s era van.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)

140 First impression: scorn. Some relatives owned a fer real signed Kincade. I wouldn’t have nor hang it. Total kitsch. Yet, on the Wiki, he had a hard early life, some real talent and lots of drive. That he drained money from nice people with middle income, with art flooding the market, making it a non-investment- so it goes.
Once you learn how he died, you’ll call for CBD to post a genuine Hunter Biden. It’s rare to see modern art with any meaning or value.

Posted by: Lester Fahrner at July 22, 2025 09:57 AM (qwhe+)

141 I can't understand how a thatched roof keeps rain out. And the damn things can last 50 years.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 22, 2025

***
"Rudolf the Red knows rain, dear."
(-- punchline from ancient joke)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:58 AM (omVj0)

142 Good point about the greats possibly cashing in, if they had been presented with that devil's bargain.

I read a biography about Poe recently, and it posited the theory that had he gotten all the desires of his heart, we wouldn't have the brilliant literature from him we have today. And he might be forgotten, instead of one of the most celebrated writers of all time.

He was a foster son/ward who hoped to inherit the Allan estate one day. (It's why he changed his middle name to Allan, to appeal to the patriarch. Incident work.) He wanted to be a southern gentleman. Allan refused and left him nothing.

Poe realized gothic horror was the craze, and wrote a lot of gothic horror the masses would like. He made art for the masses. But he's such a genius he captured the themes and fears of humanity so brilliantly, and he wrote it so beautifully and skillfully, that those stories have captured our imagination forever.

The book posited that had he gotten the soft life he craved -- inheriting a plantation and living the cushy life of a southern elite -- he would never have had to sink to the depths required to wrestle out his best work. I think they have a good point.

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2025 09:58 AM (yq1WW)

143 I don't give a hoot in hell about art critics and their disdain for Kinkade's art is only one reason for my attitude. CBD's post about the reality of critics and commercial success is on the nose. The painters of the past that are considered masters were using their talents to make a living not for acclaim by people a century or two later.

I never had a problem with Kinkade's popular paintings. They are romantic, pleasant, relaxing, and nicely colorful. Yes, they are predictable but that isn't a crime. I've seen a lot of his earlier works. The man had talent.

Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2025 09:58 AM (yTvNw)

144 It’s safe to say that a lot of today’s great musicians, both popular and classical, revere and are inspired by Bach, even some artists you may prefer over Bach. See some of Rick Beato’s interviews with great popular musicians. Bach keeps popping up as an inspiration for them.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 09:58 AM (075ei)

145
Catherine Bach [Daisy Duke] or Barbara Bach [Bond girl]?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 09:58 AM (EJeBD)

146
See what I did there?

That's why I Am The King of the Comments.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 09:59 AM (EJeBD)

147 Someone once described Lysette Anthony's acting in similar terms. "Scoffing a jar of icing sugar", iirc.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

Even the full-frontal stuff?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 09:59 AM (ExV1e)

148
Bulg, you ought to listen to the orchestral transcriptions of Bach by Stokowski and others. Yeah, they're hyper-romanticized but they bring out the emotional qualities you may not hear in today's historically-informed performances.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2025 10:00 AM (mr7IH)

149 Once you learn how he died, you’ll call for CBD to post a genuine Hunter Biden. It’s rare to see modern art with any meaning or value.
Posted by: Lester Fahrner

What? Dying at 54 years old of an alcoholic induced overdose is not normal?

See? Even Thomas couldn't stand his shit.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 22, 2025 10:00 AM (cYBz/)

150 Someone once described Lysette Anthony's acting in similar terms. "Scoffing a jar of icing sugar", iirc.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

Even the full-frontal stuff?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025

***
* Begins quick image search for "Lysette Anthony" *

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 10:00 AM (omVj0)

151 Reminds me of a Gingerbread House. It's overall a nice painting.

I would pay $15.00 for it at the flea market.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 22, 2025 10:01 AM (89Sog)

152 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Grab a gun and go up in a tower. Every thread is a gun thread!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2025 10:01 AM (W/lyH)

153
Barbara Bach Trivia!

Why is Barbara Bach a.k.a. "Lady Starkey?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:01 AM (EJeBD)

154 103 Attorney General Pam Bondi to meet with Ghislane Maxwell.
Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2025 09:50 AM (RHGPo)

She's an administrator. Better to have somebody else conducting the actual interview.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 22, 2025 10:01 AM (VSht7)

155 I think they have a good point.

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2025 09:58 AM (yq1WW)

Such is the arc of a lot of good rock bands. Young and hungry, great works. Comforts sap the drive.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 10:01 AM (i24o9)

156 But part of me thinks that the pompous art assholes who criticize Kinkade's work are smug elitists

One can be a smug elitist and still hate modern art and the pompous art assholes who praise it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2025 10:02 AM (Riz8t)

157 LOL Good troll, CBD. Did I miss the opprobrium towards Kincaide by various posters by my coming in late?. What a shame. Whenever this topic comes up, someone says he did lots of fine artistic works before this. He sold out for money !! Oh, horrors; I bet no other artist at any epoch did that!/s To each their own as far as liking or not liking Kincaide.

I am going to go back for another visit to the Delaware Art Museum in August. They will have an exhibit of works by John Sloane, who apparently never sold any paintings

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 10:02 AM (2GCMq)

158 Even the full-frontal stuff?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 09:59 AM

I'm guessing that prompted the full frontal stuff and the Playboy shoot. You're welcome, Wolfus.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2025 10:02 AM (kgE5c)

159 I would like Pam Bondi to interview me whanger...

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 22, 2025 10:02 AM (pohLc)

160 Why is Barbara Bach a.k.a. "Lady Starkey?"
------------
Cuz Ringo. Who, BTW, had a really nice mansion with a Thatched Roof!

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 10:02 AM (W3T6M)

161 109 AI could produce this, I'll bet. But AI cannot produce Caravaggio. Is that the difference?
Posted by: Miley

I mean...it's getting there. I said I wanted a painting of the last supper in Caravaggio's style.
https://tinyurl.com/yxfbekne

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2025 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

162 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2025 10:00 AM (mr7IH)

Thanks, Hadrian. I'll check them out.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

163 Every thread is a gun thread!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2025 10:01 AM (W/lyH)

Gun thread material at 106.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 10:03 AM (i24o9)

164 My goodness, all this talk of snobbery makes me want to fetch my monocle and actually use the saucers at tea time this afternoon.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 22, 2025 10:03 AM (VSht7)

165 CNBC has a piece on Canadians boycotting American products cuz da tAriFFs. Big movement in Canuckistan to buy Canadian products.

So Canada is mad that the US is buying g more domestic products. And to show the US how backwards their policy is they’ll…..do the exact same thing. lol.

And nobody sees the irony in this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:03 AM (Vvm2m)

166 Off to the library and a couple of other errands, all. Later!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

167 I can't stand Kinkade's style. It belongs on the side of a van. YMMV.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2025 10:03 AM (Riz8t)

168 >>> Once you learn how he died, you’ll call for CBD to post a genuine Hunter Biden

Let's not say things we can't take back.

That being said, Hunter is such a little weaselly thorn in the dems' side right now. And I'm all for it. That interview was hilarious.

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2025 10:03 AM (yq1WW)

169 Bucolic.

One of those words that, if you don't know the meaning, sounds bad but is exactly opposite of that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2025 10:04 AM (yxVqi)

170 I mean...it's getting there. I said I wanted a painting of the last supper in Caravaggio's style.
https://tinyurl.com/yxfbekne
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2025 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

Are there 15 Apostles?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:04 AM (ExV1e)

171 Long time ago when I was taking art classes and otherwise developing my skills in llustration, I found a book by Kincade and a childhood friend, James Gurney, a record of them tramping around the country sketching. I eventually stopped pursuing my art goals, and not until I read his obituary did I realize who the famous Thomas Kinkade was. I didn't like his painting style and didn't pay that Kinkade much attention. But I sure love both guys' sketching styles. Gurney is still with us, and I think many of the Horde will be familiar with his work.

I still have their book. Wayback Machine is kind enough to provide it to us:

https://tinyurl.com/tad92zds

Posted by: Clio Weeps at July 22, 2025 10:04 AM (kSAM8)

172 A music critic said something along the lines of: if he had a time machine he would go back to listen to Bach live, but if given the choice he would rather dine with Händel than Bach!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 10:04 AM (075ei)

173 Sebastian Bach is the only Bach with musical chops

The best chops, yes, but Wilhelm Friedemann and Johann Christian put out some solid stuff.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025 10:05 AM (Dg2sF)

174 Bach...Mozart...too mathematical, like they're setting an equation to music.

Posted by: Bulg

I hear ya. I don't dig Mozart, and the only Bach I enjoy is the Inventions as performed by Andras Schiff. Purists don't like Schiff for some reason, he makes it sound like music.

https://youtu.be/kjJqGXupkhY
https://youtu.be/Um6n-TJLCLA
https://youtu.be/nicsV8qvpYo

Posted by: Bombadil at July 22, 2025 10:05 AM (MX0bI)

175 Gonna quote the gist of Hunter's interview:

FUCK, FUCK, FUCK YOU, FUKKITY FUCK!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 22, 2025 10:05 AM (pohLc)

176 Ah, Bach

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2025 10:06 AM (XvL8K)

177 *looks at picture*

the Shire before Rosie O'Donnel moved in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:06 AM (UNuW6)

178 Bach...Mozart...too mathematical, like they're setting an equation to music.

For some of us, that is not a negative.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2025 10:06 AM (Riz8t)

179 Talking about chicks and broads from last thread:

JC Monahan (start at 2:30)

https://www.youtube.com/live/7xjFwQy7wo4?si=tQqrcBmxKjim0tBx

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 22, 2025 10:07 AM (ufFY8)

180 176 Ah, Bach

What does that mean?

Posted by: Hot woman at July 22, 2025 10:07 AM (Riz8t)

181 "I can't stand Kinkade's style. It belongs on the side of a van. YMMV.
Posted by: Archimedes"

A horrible van driven by Bulg.

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 10:08 AM (fV+MH)

182 After yesterday's art thread, Kinkade is a pleasant change. At least he was creating something people enjoyed looking at. So much of modern art is all message (usually leftist), pointless and bizarre. Think of those idiotic wrapped houses and such by Christo. Artistic talent is secondary at best, if it it exists at all.

Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2025 10:08 AM (yTvNw)

183 I remember those Kinkade stores in The Malls back in the Golden Age.

I always wondered what kind of an idiot went to The Mall to buy some crappy art like Kinkade's.

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at July 22, 2025 10:08 AM (rfMRc)

184 "I can't stand Kinkade's style. It belongs on the side of a van. YMMV.
Posted by: Archimedes"

A horrible van driven by Bulg.
Posted by: eleven

That escalated quickly

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:08 AM (UNuW6)

185 True art.

https://shorturl.at/dRHIc
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

That's almost a Kardashian-sized ass.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

186 Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2025 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

Lol, the hands! Human artists who were bad at hands learned to hide them, while AI just goes full speed ahead.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 22, 2025 10:08 AM (lFFaq)

187 181 "I can't stand Kinkade's style. It belongs on the side of a van. YMMV.
Posted by: Archimedes"

A horrible van driven by Bulg.

Well, yeah. Obviously.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2025 10:09 AM (Riz8t)

188 I get that people don't think it's great. I don't get why it gets more hate than the ugly one of the woman with a dog.

BTW, Peter Schickele did a great parody of the "Lincoln Portrait", the "Bach Portrait", where all the quotes from JSB were about money.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 22, 2025 10:09 AM (od0dV)

189 Are there 15 Apostles?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

We don't talk about Chaz, Hunter and Fredo. Such embarrassing failures...

Posted by: Judas Iscariot at July 22, 2025 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

190 For some of us, that is not a negative.

Posted by: Archimedes

Try the Schiff, you'll like it!

Posted by: Bombadil at July 22, 2025 10:09 AM (MX0bI)

191 How do you maintain a thatched roof?
Posted by: pudinhead

***********

ThatchPatch™

Available in a fine hardware store near you. Look for the red and black label. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Posted by: muldoon at July 22, 2025 10:09 AM (poXs5)

192 170 All of the 15 Apostles have the same face and Christ has a cardboard halo stuck on his head!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 10:10 AM (075ei)

193 I think you people are just praising Bach to hide your passionate love of Nickelback.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

194 Random thoughts -

Interesting how snobbery and elitist attitudes emerge from all of us in some facet of our lives, even though many of us despise such attitudes when we see it in others. The disdain for Kinkade among some is a great example. So what if this isn't "fine" art? If people like it, then let them! I am guilty of this when it comes to some things (such as music, food, bourbon), and I am really trying hard to stop doing it.

You want your steak well done with ketchup on it - go ahead. It doesn't make my preferred way any less enjoyable because of how someone else wants theirs.

You want to drink Jim Beam white label mixed with Diet Coke? Have at it!

And if you want to hang a Kinkade in your house - don't let anyone else make you feel bad about it.

More importantly -- I saw some mentions of Bach. You can have J.S. Bach and Sebastian Bach -- I'll go with late 70s Catherine Bach, thank you very much!

Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2025 10:10 AM (XUX2Y)

195 He's not painting a cottage with a garden. He's painting coziness.

Posted by: Emmie at July 22, 2025 10:10 AM (FMtrg)

196 How do you maintain a thatched roof?
Posted by: pudinhead

***********

ThatchPatch™

Available in a fine hardware store near you. Look for the red and black label. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Posted by: muldoon at July 22, 2025 10:09 AM (poXs5)

Like a roof merkin?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 10:11 AM (i24o9)

197 True art.

https://shorturl.at/dRHIc
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM

You, sir, are a great American.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2025 10:11 AM (kgE5c)

198 I think you people are just praising Bach to hide your passionate love of Nickelback.
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

I used to like Cold Play.

Posted by: Bill Clinton, drooling horndog at July 22, 2025 10:11 AM (ufFY8)

199 170 You’d think Jesus would heal the hands of some of his disciples!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 10:12 AM (075ei)

200 Every thread is a gun thread!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2025 10:01 AM (W/lyH)

Gun thread material at 106.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 10:03 AM (i24o9)

Oh!
Damn!
This being Geezer Golf Tuesday, it's a given I'm now going to screw up my first couple drives.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2025 10:12 AM (W/lyH)

201 You're just trashing Bach to distract from your addiction to Windows Theme.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 22, 2025 10:13 AM (MX0bI)

202 >Give me some emotion, dammit. And a melody.
---

"Gimme a C! A bouncy C!"

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2025 10:13 AM (AOsQT)

203 would not hang

garish

Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2025 10:13 AM (aBgBM)

204 Who is this Nickelbach you speak of?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 10:13 AM (075ei)

205 Arnold Schwarzenegger just signed on for a remake of Amadeus.

"I'll be Bach!" he declared

Posted by: muldoon at July 22, 2025 10:13 AM (poXs5)

206 Nickelbach was Sebastian's shiftless nephew who spent his days high on ergot and slivovitz.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025 10:14 AM (Dg2sF)

207 Beethoven and Brahms kick ass, though.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

208 I am going to go back for another visit to the Delaware Art Museum in August. They will have an exhibit of works by John Sloane, who apparently never sold any paintings
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Sloan's widow was an artist and much younger than him. She had a long affiliation with the DAM, which is why so many of his works ended up there. He was great.

Posted by: Ashcan School Rules! at July 22, 2025 10:16 AM (G5+As)

209 The book posited that had he gotten the soft life he craved -- inheriting a plantation and living the cushy life of a southern elite -- he would never have had to sink to the depths required to wrestle out his best work. I think they have a good point.

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2025 09:58 AM (yq1WW)

Good and interesting point indeed!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 22, 2025 10:16 AM (SuQXo)

210 Today is World Brain Day!

It's sad to have a worldwide day that celebrates less than half the people in the world.

Posted by: Gref at July 22, 2025 10:16 AM (aBgBM)

211 I almost let it slide!

It’s Tuesday! TUMMY RUB TUESDAY! Whoohoo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 10:16 AM (Nfeqn)

212 Nickelbach was the albino who ate live rats.

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 10:16 AM (fV+MH)

213 Best Brahms is in looney-tunes "Pig In A Polka".

Posted by: Bombadil at July 22, 2025 10:17 AM (MX0bI)

214 An AWFL is running for governor of Virginia and Winsome Earle-Sears is not having it.

Winsome Earle-Sears@winwithwinsome
Meet Abigail Spanberger: a fake moderate—dishonest, dangerously liberal, and counting on you to forget she backed open borders and government-run healthcare.
Good thing we have the receipts

https://is.gd/NH29Om

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:17 AM (L/fGl)

215 "Beethoven and Brahms kick ass, though.
Posted by: Bulg"

k

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 10:17 AM (fV+MH)

216 Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2025 09:58 AM (yTvNw)

Well said!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 10:18 AM (2GCMq)

217 Today is World Brain Day!

*********

If Only!

Posted by: Scarecrow at July 22, 2025 10:19 AM (poXs5)

218 106 True art.

https://shorturl.at/dRHIc
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

She makes me think of llamias.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 10:19 AM (075ei)

219 Someone did a series of his paintings with Star Wars edited in. I like the humor in those better.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 22, 2025 10:19 AM (xhw2P)

220 Lex Luthor, "Spanberger?!?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:19 AM (UNuW6)

221 "garish
Posted by: Gref "

Garish and twee.

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 10:20 AM (fV+MH)

222 Meet Abigail Spanberger: a fake moderate—dishonest, dangerously liberal, and counting on you to forget she backed open borders and government-run healthcare.
Good thing we have the receipts

Unfortunately, those are positives for the voters who will likely decide the election

Posted by: Archimedes at July 22, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

223 I am so damned tired of hearing about Colbert...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2025 10:20 AM (VE6XX)

224 I am so damned tired of hearing about Colbert...
Posted by: It's me donna

Dude was a financial genius.
-- Zombie Louis XIV

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

225 Today is World Brain Day!

*********

That's hurtful!

Posted by: ~~Michelle Fields~~ Joe Biden at July 22, 2025 10:21 AM (poXs5)

226 I am so damned tired of hearing about Colbert...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2025 10:20 AM (VE6XX)

At least nobody has mentioned Prometheus. And let's keep it that way.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2025 10:22 AM (W/lyH)

227 Today is World Brain Day!

***

Knock yourselves out, I won't be participating.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 22, 2025 10:22 AM (MX0bI)

228 I'm a legit 42. My kids ask why I watch so many "gray" movies (black and white).

It's because I think I would've loved living at a time where a house like the one in the painting existed.

And I'm sure there are some today just like it. But there are none exactly like it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 22, 2025 10:22 AM (KbCG3)

229 "I am so damned tired of hearing about Colbert...
Posted by: It's me donna "

Are you kidding?

I'm loving hearing about that twink getting shitcanned.

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 10:23 AM (fV+MH)

230 Speaking of AWFLs, here's a Florida Republican. Well, RINO anyway.

Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Rep Maria Salazar sells her Dignity (Amnesty) bill on Miami television:
"We give them dignity. At some point in the future, another legislator will write another law to give them path to citizenship."
"Right now, what we need to do is to buy peace for these people."

-
Hunter will invade El Salvador and bring them back and Maria Salazar will give them amnesty.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

231 Oh!
Damn!
This being Geezer Golf Tuesday, it's a given I'm now going to screw up my first couple drives.
Posted by: Diogenes

I bet that made
Your putter stand up

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 10:23 AM (n/9gd)

232 223 I am so damned tired of hearing about Colbert...
Posted by: It's me donna

Did anyone cry when Room 222 was cancelled?

Posted by: Denise Knickerless at July 22, 2025 10:23 AM (G5+As)

233 /sock

Posted by: /muldoon at July 22, 2025 10:24 AM (poXs5)

234 If you could save one, which would it be?

Colbert or Coldplay?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:24 AM (UNuW6)

235 /resock

Posted by: muldoon at July 22, 2025 10:24 AM (poXs5)

236 I do like Kincade a lot.
First 'real' painting I ever bought was a Kincade. It is a simple garden painting with a stone stair. It speaks to me.

Mind you, Kincade was a raging drunk but...nobody's perfect.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2025 10:25 AM (xcxpd)

237 Oddley enough, I did have Republican amnesty bill on my 2025 bingo card.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:25 AM (Vvm2m)

238 Winsome Earle-Sears@winwithwinsome
Meet Abigail Spanberger: a fake moderate—dishonest, dangerously liberal, and counting on you to forget she backed open borders and government-run healthcare.
Good thing we have the receipts

Was that wrong? I feel like, if that were a problem, my handlers would have said something.

Posted by: Abigail Spanberger at July 22, 2025 10:25 AM (JCZqz)

239 This being Geezer Golf Tuesday, it's a given I'm now going to screw up my first couple drives.
Posted by: Diogenes

I bet that made
Your putter stand up
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 10:23 AM (n/9gd)

I wonder if she likes Coldplay?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2025 10:25 AM (W/lyH)

240 Mmm mmm good.

https://is.gd/uO63lJ

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2025 10:25 AM (sFONh)

241 I think the painting has a good bit of charm; nothing wrong with decorative art. As an avid gardener, though, I'd need to spend a small fortune on fertilizer and insecticide to have a garden that looked even remotely like that.

Posted by: Paco at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (mADJX)

242 Room 222 shaped my youth.

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (fV+MH)

243
Today is World Brain Day!

Take care of your brain.

Posted by: Abbie Normal at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (63Dwl)

244 Kincade actually was a good artist. His work before his commercial success was quite good. But he sold out to make schmaltz and diminish the world of art just a little more.

Posted by: ZeldaC at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (HhKpQ)

245 And I don't care what any of you say, the first 3 Coldplay albums were outstanding. Especially their 3rd one - X&Y. After that, not so much.

Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (XUX2Y)

246 My only complaint about Kinkaide is that is are always looks better if you put little light bulbs behind all the windows.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2025 10:27 AM (uWKK8)

247 Spanberger was a multi time rep with deep ties to the deep state. She's among the worst of them.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 22, 2025 10:27 AM (XZ6f8)

248 Bach. Harpsicord. Minor keys. Chef's kiss!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 22, 2025 10:27 AM (aPyU0)

249 Brain went to Hansel and Gretel. Where is the witch?

Posted by: scampydog at July 22, 2025 10:27 AM (2bFN5)

250 Today is World Brain Day!

***********

This should be great! I've got one in the original container...never been used!!

Posted by: muldoon at July 22, 2025 10:27 AM (poXs5)

251 234 If you could save one, which would it be?

Colbert or Coldplay?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Candace or Coulter?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2025 10:27 AM (JCZqz)

252 Today is World Brain Day!

NARF!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (Dg2sF)

253 234 If you could save one, which would it be?

Colbert or Coldplay?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:24 AM (UNuW6)

Coldplay reveals more truth so...Coldplay

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (xcxpd)

254 251 234 If you could save one, which would it be?

Colbert or Coldplay?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Candace or Coulter?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2025 10:27 AM (JCZqz)

Neither

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (VE6XX)

255 And I don't care what any of you say, the first 3 Coldplay albums were outstanding. Especially their 3rd one - X&Y. After that, not so much.
Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (XUX2Y)

Deposit your man card into the usb port.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (XZ6f8)

256 They had to cancel Room 222 when all of the students turned 30.

Posted by: Cousin Oliver at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (G5+As)

257 243
Today is World Brain Day!

Take care of your brain.
Posted by: Abbie Normal at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (63Dwl)

Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (xcxpd)

258 It shows talent, but looks like something from a greeting card.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (QLbUM)

259 But he sold out to make schmaltz and diminish the world of art just a little more.
Posted by: ZeldaC at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (HhKpQ)

I detest the phrase “sell out” when it comes to art or music or anything like that.

The point of it is to make money. I know the public has this notion of artists creating art for the betterment of the world and all that. Nah bruh. It’s a job at the end of the day.

Will you willingly restrict your potential earnings for the “purity” of your work? Fuck no. Nobody does. And nether should an artist.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:29 AM (Vvm2m)

260 Bach is something of a musical mathematician, and it’s glorious! But calling Mozart a mathematician is a slur! Yes, he composed effortlessly in the classical style, he helped define the classical style, but you must have never listened to the Magic Flute! It’s hilarious! If you can’t understand the language, get a libretto with English translation and follow along! You don’t know what you’ve been missing!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 10:29 AM (075ei)

261 Mmmmmmmm...Karen Valentine...mmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

262 I had a business contact that was a professional photographer right around the time that digital photography was taking hold. He wasn't against the concept of digital photography, per se, but he used "Kinkade" as an example of digital photography taken to its worst extreme--all "twinkle" and not so much substance.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2025 10:29 AM (TN0g+)

263 Today is World Brain Day!

This is about me isn't it?

Posted by: Ab B Normal at July 22, 2025 10:29 AM (W/lyH)

264 Kincade was a visionary, he was creating paintings that looked like AI before AI ever picked up a brush.

Posted by: kallisto at July 22, 2025 10:30 AM (z32Z9)

265 Money. Today we are awash with people that create all type of works and never make a dime. I am pretty sure 99.99% of us (yes, I am in this group) would jump at the chance to make Led Zeppelin amounts of cash at what we love to do. That Kincade made a boat load of cash as the painter that made shopping malls great is a non starter as a discussion point.

Great art is like porn, I know it when I see it. The reality is most work is not great; and yes, I am this group. Great artists change the discussion about what is Art: Louis Armstrong, Cezanne, or Shakespeare, and they manage to do this forever. Often, 50 years on the cream has come to the top; for me Kincade curdled on day two.

Art snobbery. At the core of this is people trying to fill a void in themselves by often behaving like louts when it comes to their opinion about what is important art. There is two parts to art: The Art and Art Snobbery. The magic of Modern Concept Art is it has managed to do both of these at the same time; that is something. One of Kincade's hallmark features is the art snobs love to hate on his work; it is all tedious. Like what you like; in the end great art is what floats your boat.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 22, 2025 10:30 AM (NXz8h)

266
Deposit your man card into the usb port.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Doof lost his Man Card on the first pickleball court he entered.

Posted by: NTTAWWT at July 22, 2025 10:30 AM (G5+As)

267 Kincade actually was a good artist. His work before his commercial success was quite good. But he sold out to make schmaltz and diminish the world of art just a little more.
Posted by: ZeldaC at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (HhKpQ)

If it's true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, wouldn't that mean that commercially successful artists are better than jackasses who slop paint on canvas to please bitchy critics?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:30 AM (ExV1e)

268 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 10:29 AM (075ei)

I actually like The Magic Flute.

I don't dislike all of Mozart's stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

269 210 Today is World Brain Day!

Me lose brain? Uh-Oh!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 22, 2025 10:30 AM (PiwSw)

270 257 243
Today is World Brain Day!

Take care of your brain.
Posted by: Abbie Normal at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (63Dwl)

Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (xcxpd)

======

Umm, I think so, Brain, but what if the chicken won't wear the nylons?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 22, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

271 I would smash through the ice with Colbert's corpse to save Coldplay.

And I don't even like Coldplay.

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 10:31 AM (fV+MH)

272 106 True art.

https://shorturl.at/dRHIc
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 09:51 AM (i24o9)

No argument.
Never though I'd love snake booty.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2025 10:31 AM (xcxpd)

273 Today is World Brain Day!

***********

F*ck THAT guy in particular!

Posted by: A gall bladder at July 22, 2025 10:31 AM (poXs5)

274 57 No dog. Appeals only to the lumpenproleteriat. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2025 09:41 AM (mr7IH)

This!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2025 10:31 AM (aURVT)

275 Today is World Brain Day!

Take care of your brain.
Posted by: Abbie Normal at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (63Dwl)

Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (xcxpd)

======

Umm, I think so, Brain, but what if the chicken won't wear the nylons?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 22, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

*Gonzo busts through the wall*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2025 10:31 AM (xcxpd)

276 63 It's funny you mention this, CBD. In the August issue of Fortean Times magazine, there is an article about a new documentary, Art for Everybody, which looks at a secret vault of dark, disturbing artwork that Kincaid created before and during his career as the "Painter of Light."

It was directed by Miranda Yousef with the full cooperation of Kincaid's family and is listed as available on "digital platforms."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 22, 2025

***
Dark and disturbing? I'd like to see that!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 09:42 AM (omVj0)

It was during what has become known as Kinkade's Dark Dominatrix Period.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2025 10:31 AM (uWKK8)

277 Mmmmmmmm...Karen Valentine...mmmmmmmmm...
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

Susan Dey.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (W/lyH)

278 Life's been good to him so far.

Joe Walsh@WalshFreedom
A very brief chat with a former supporter of mine Sunday:
Him: “How the fuck can you go from Tea Party to the Democratic Party?”
Me: “Easy. I love democracy & the rule of law. I hate fascism. How can you be Tea Party and support a lawless fascist like Trump?”
Him: “Fuck you.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

279 Remember when Burger King gave away Leroy Neiman Olympic posters in the 70s?
I liked that shit and still do.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (5Dwz2)

280 Will you willingly restrict your potential earnings for the “purity” of your work? Fuck no. Nobody does. And nether should an artist.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:29 AM (Vvm2m)

I'm actually quitting my job in order to protect the purity of my work. And because I've come to hate my job.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (ExV1e)

281 Coldplay has some very good songs. But it’s one of those bands that the cool kids love to hate because reasons.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (Vvm2m)

282 P.D.Q. Bach >> all the other Bachs.

Posted by: Peter Schickele at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (PiwSw)

283 'What Do All Those PhDs Do?' - Bessent Calls For 'Fundamental Reset' Of Financial Regulations

Trump could bypass questions of whether he has the legal authority to fire Powell and ‘do an Andrew Jackson’ by abolishing the central bank altogether

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2025 10:33 AM (RHGPo)

284 "They had to cancel Room 222 when all of the students turned 30.
Posted by: Cousin Oliver"

ha

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 10:33 AM (fV+MH)

285 258 It shows talent, but looks like something from a greeting card.
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (QLbUM)

I think so, too. I just would've said:

It shows talent, *and* looks like something from a greeting card.

Posted by: m at July 22, 2025 10:33 AM (aURVT)

286 >Today is World Brain Day!
---

True story:

Doctors scanned my brain once as part of an imaging series. The result was, they found my brain to be 'unremarkable.' Now, in the world of brain scans, 'unremarkable' is what you want to hear. But still, that really hurt.

Posted by: Don Black at July 22, 2025 10:33 AM (AOsQT)

287 Hey everybody, I just checked, and you don't have to pay any attention to Francis Fukuyama. Turns out he's a total buzzkill.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 22, 2025 10:34 AM (MX0bI)

288 Treasury Secretary Bessent worked for Soros when he cornered a few currencies

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2025 10:34 AM (RHGPo)

289 How does Kincade's work strike me? I would rather spend a lost weekend doing drugs and biting bat heads off with Ozzy Osbourne. Everything has gone hazy in my later years, this may be an actual memory.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 22, 2025 10:34 AM (NXz8h)

290 279 Remember when Burger King gave away Leroy Neiman Olympic posters in the 70s?
I liked that shit and still do.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (5Dwz2)

McDonalds was selling old fashioned Coca Cola glasses a decade or so back. The wife and I bought like 16 of them. Love them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2025 10:34 AM (xcxpd)

291 254 251 234 If you could save one, which would it be?

Colbert or Coldplay?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Candace or Coulter?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 22, 2025 10:27 AM (JCZqz)

Coldplay

Neither of those 2

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2025 10:34 AM (VE6XX)

292 Opinions are like assholes.

Everyone has one.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 10:34 AM (vHN7R)

293 283 'What Do All Those PhDs Do?' - Bessent Calls For 'Fundamental Reset' Of Financial Regulations

Trump could bypass questions of whether he has the legal authority to fire Powell and ‘do an Andrew Jackson’ by abolishing the central bank altogether
----------------
I kind of look at Powell as China's provider (step n fetch, if you will). Guess who owns a shit ton of US Treasuries?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 10:34 AM (W3T6M)

294 Kincade also collaborated with with authors to write novels for the Cape Light series.

Posted by: kallisto at July 22, 2025 10:35 AM (z32Z9)

295 Mark Anthony Edwards

So what did you think of the first three episodes of season two of My Dress Up Darling?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:35 AM (UNuW6)

296 "No Spare Capacity": Watchdog Warns Largest US Grid Is Maxed Out Amid Data Center Buildout

Perhaps retiring all those fossil fuel power generators wasn't such a great idea after all.

Thanx Joe Biden

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2025 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

297 Opinions are like assholes.

Everyone has one.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 10:34 AM (vHN7R)

I remember when I said things like that. -- head in a jar from Futurama

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:36 AM (ExV1e)

298 280 Will you willingly restrict your potential earnings for the “purity” of your work? Fuck no. Nobody does. And nether should an artist.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:29 AM (Vvm2m)

I'm actually quitting my job in order to protect the purity of my work. And because I've come to hate my job.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (ExV1e)

There are times when I have compromised on the purity of my work, but I have always denied them my Precious Bodily Essence.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2025 10:36 AM (uWKK8)

299 They X-rayed Curly Howard's head and found a cuckoo clock!

Posted by: They Stooge To Conga at July 22, 2025 10:36 AM (G5+As)

300 Speaking of Brain Day . . .

Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Eric Swalwell: The main problem Dems had in 2024 was that Americans just didn’t see enough of Kamala Harris.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

301 261 Mmmmmmmm...Karen Valentine...mmmmmmmmm...
Posted by: Bulg

I've watched multiple YouTube reactions to "Death Becomes Her" recently, and you know who's sexy in that?
https://tinyurl.com/4p8vcb8h

I'm not sure what else Isabella Rossellini was in, but she looked damn fine in that movie. Being hot, and then half-dressed and strutting around sensually doesn't hurt, either.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 22, 2025 10:36 AM (JCZqz)

302 Kincade was never the same after managing the Partridge Family.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2025 10:36 AM (QLbUM)

303 Joe Walsh loves his perilous democracy and rule of law.

OK. Can he give a single example of how Trump has not followed the rule of law?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:37 AM (Vvm2m)

304 *sings*

When whippoorwills sing, and evening is nigh
I hurry to my blue heaven
Just a turn to the right, you'll see a little white light
I hurry to my blue heaven

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2025 10:37 AM (Lvo1B)

305 Colbert or Coldplay?

Get creative.

First, fire Chris Martin, then stick Colbert in skin-tight leopard-print spandex, give him a microphone, put him in front of the band, then have them booked at a random Junior High School Prom.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 22, 2025 10:37 AM (PiwSw)

306 292 Opinions are like assholes.

Everyone has one.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 22, 2025 10:34 AM (vHN7R)

AND THEY ALL STINK!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2025 10:37 AM (uWKK8)

307 'No Miracles': Russia Downplays 3rd Round Of Ukraine Talks Set For Wednesday

Putin hopes to kill another 100,000 or 200,000 just for the hell of it

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2025 10:37 AM (RHGPo)

308 Mind you, Kincade was a raging drunk but...nobody's perfect.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Wasn't he a big Christian at one point?

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

309 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Eric Swalwell: The main problem Dems had in 2024 was that Americans just didn’t see enough of Kamala Harris.

OF was right there. Not our fault she didn't take the opportunity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:37 AM (ExV1e)

310 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (Vvm2m)

What are their good songs?

Serious question.

Posted by: kallisto at July 22, 2025 10:38 AM (z32Z9)

311 309 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Eric Swalwell: The main problem Dems had in 2024 was that Americans just didn’t see enough of Kamala Harris.

OF was right there. Not our fault she didn't take the opportunity.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:37 AM (ExV1e)

=======

I just want Kamala out there, standard bearer of the party, for another 20 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 22, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

312 Kincade was never the same after managing the Partridge Family.

----------

The conversations Ruben would have with Danny were my favorite parts of the show.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2025 10:38 AM (TN0g+)

313 And I don't care what any of you say, the first 3 Coldplay albums were outstanding. Especially their 3rd one - X&Y. After that, not so much.
Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2025 10:26 AM (XUX2Y)

Deposit your man card into the usb port.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 22, 2025 10:28 AM (XZ6f

Says the man who thinks Creed is better than Alter Bridge.

Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2025 10:38 AM (XUX2Y)

314 >>> McDonalds was selling old fashioned Coca Cola glasses a decade or so back. The wife and I bought like 16 of them. Love them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 22, 2025 10:34 AM (xcxpd)

=====

I remember that, and I think we even bought a couple. But didn't they have to stop because of something bad in the materials used to make them?

Posted by: Though my memory is not that good. at July 22, 2025 10:38 AM (q4s6m)

315 Kamala Harris, a political Typhoid Mary.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:38 AM (UNuW6)

316 'F**k Clooney & Carville' - Hunter Biden Goes On Expletive-Laced Rant About... Everything

... Hunter Biden's 15 minutes were up hours ago

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2025 10:39 AM (RHGPo)

317 311 309 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Eric Swalwell: The main problem Dems had in 2024 was that Americans just didn’t see enough of Kamala Harris.

Because the border, economy had nothing to do with it... More Mamala was what was needed ... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at July 22, 2025 10:39 AM (VE6XX)

318 Opinions are like assholes.
Everyone has one.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Hunter is so full of shit he needs two assholes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)

319 Although it has been said many times, it always bears repeating - whenever anyone says that Donald Trump is a threat to our precious "Democracy", what they mean is that Donald Trump is a threat to our precious Bureaucracy.

And you know what? Yes, yes is he is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2025 10:39 AM (uWKK8)

320 271 I would smash through the ice with Colbert's corpse to save Coldplay.

And I don't even like Coldplay.
Posted by: eleven

You want to smash your icy HR Department head? Coldplay tickets will warm her right up and get those juices flowing. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: CEO Andy Byron at July 22, 2025 10:40 AM (JCZqz)

321 Elaine Giftos played Ruben Kincaid's girlfriend on The Partridge Family.

Posted by: Trivial Persoot at July 22, 2025 10:40 AM (G5+As)

322 You definitely DO NOT WANT a remarkable brain scan.

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 10:40 AM (fV+MH)

323 You know that Reuben Kincade was doin' Ma Patridge.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

324 If someone gifted me the painting featured today, I would definitely have to tweak it. I’d find a way to make it livable.

Posted by: kallisto at July 22, 2025 10:41 AM (z32Z9)

325 Hunter is so full of shit he needs two assholes.
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Heh, anyone that trash talks Clooney is a friend of mine.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 10:41 AM (W3T6M)

326 Where is Hunter Biden on the dead pool bingo card?

Will he be found dead in bed with a syringe in arm while a hooker is peeing on him?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:41 AM (UNuW6)

327 Now that we had a whack at Kincade, I am demanding equal time for Robert Crumb.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 22, 2025 10:41 AM (NXz8h)

328 According to the left, Democracy = open borders, men using girls changing rooms, people imprisoned for political speech not approved by the left and stolen elections.

OK then fuck your democracy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:41 AM (Vvm2m)

329 I like Kincaid's art. So there!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 22, 2025 10:42 AM (g8Ew8)

330 310 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (Vvm2m)

What are their good songs?

Serious question.
Posted by: kallisto at July 22, 2025 10:38 AM (z32Z9)

Something something Clocks.

ok I cheated that's the only Coldplay song I ever listened to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2025 10:42 AM (uWKK8)

331 "And you know what? Yes, yes is he is.
Posted by: Tom Servo "

Fuck yeah.

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 10:42 AM (fV+MH)

332 You want Kincade? Go for it. I prefer significantly different subject matter, Harold Bugbee drawings for example.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 22, 2025 10:42 AM (vd6bO)

333 OK. Can he give a single example of how Trump has not followed the rule of law?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:37 AM (Vvm2m)

It's just shorthand for President Trump doing something they don't like. "Rule of law," "due process," and of course the Nazi, Hitler, fascism, ICE as Gestapo, blah blah blah. They can't think they just emote and regurgitate. Sad!

Posted by: Amygdala over prefrontal cortex at July 22, 2025 10:42 AM (TbWk/)

334 171 Long time ago when I was taking art classes and otherwise developing my skills in llustration, I found a book by Kincade and a childhood friend, James Gurney, a record of them tramping around the country sketching. I eventually stopped pursuing my art goals, and not until I read his obituary did I realize who the famous Thomas Kinkade was. I didn't like his painting style and didn't pay that Kinkade much attention. But I sure love both guys' sketching styles. Gurney is still with us, and I think many of the Horde will be familiar with his work.

I still have their book. Wayback Machine is kind enough to provide it to us:

https://tinyurl.com/tad92zds

Posted by: Clio Weeps at July 22, 2025 10:04 AM (kSAM

Talent on display!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2025 10:43 AM (aURVT)

335 Says the man who thinks Creed is better than Alter Bridge.
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They may be--they're at least "accessible" to many listeners. I'm a huge fan of hard rock, including Priest and Megadeth and Metallica and early Malmsteen, but it just feels like "work" to attempt to listen to anything by Alter Bridge.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2025 10:43 AM (TN0g+)

336 California Governor Gavin Newsom’s wife makes “gender justice” movies and sells them to the state public education system through her non-profit, The Representation Project. By 2023, she had charged the state $1.5 million for her “gender justice” movies. That’s a screaming example of a conflict of interest. If that’s not enough, the governor requested nonprofits and private corporations to contribute to his wife’s charity before taking their side on state issues.

... Newsom needs to talk to the Clintons to upscale his operations

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2025 10:43 AM (RHGPo)

337 I’ve heard that the ceo in question is ultra wealthy and his lady friend is married to a ceo as well and pretty well off. She was a c-level employee after all.

So while both of them “ruined their careers” they won’t go hungry any time soon. Just call it an early retirement.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:43 AM (Vvm2m)

338 327 Now that we had a whack at Kincade, I am demanding equal time for Robert Crumb.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 22, 2025 10:41 AM (NXz8h)

I see your Robert Crumb and raise with Big Daddy Roth!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 22, 2025 10:43 AM (uWKK8)

339 The fact that we haven't had an R. Crumb redounds to CBD's eternal shame.

Posted by: Fritz the Cat at July 22, 2025 10:44 AM (G5+As)

340 From the meeting I'm listening to...

Always ask: Can AI do this faster?

Not better, mind you, faster is the only metric under consideration.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:44 AM (ExV1e)

341 If we deport all the illegals who will do our lawn care?
I'm calling my realtor.

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at July 22, 2025 10:44 AM (uNwvV)

342 338 327 Now that we had a whack at Kincade, I am demanding equal time for Robert Crumb.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convict

I see your Robert Crumb and raise with Big Daddy Roth!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo

Art is more than just paintings. I want music themed mornings! Bring Captain Beefheart!

Posted by: No One Ever at July 22, 2025 10:45 AM (JCZqz)

343 It's just shorthand for President Trump doing something they don't like.
_-_-_
Yeah, they were referring to him as "authoritarian" over and over and over as though that was the approved talking point, which it was, before he was back in office. No rational analysis, just repeating of the approved words.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 22, 2025 10:45 AM (vd6bO)

344 Today is World Brain Day!

My brain hurts!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 22, 2025 10:45 AM (kgE5c)

345 The Globe watched the Misrepresentation Middle School movie as well. It’s a documentary, but it hammers strong feminist and “gender justice” messages for school kids ages 11-14:

Women as sex objects
Women/girls “in a disempowered position”
Few female protagonists in movies
women/girls portrayed as only seeking men, husbands, marriage, pregnancy
boys should be trained to not be “hyper masculine” or “misogynistic”
Middle school children are served images of upside-down strippers with little left to the imagination
the “genderbread person,” who aims to show children how biological sex, “gender expression,” “sexual attraction,” and “gender identity” exist on a spectrum, which can be mixed and matched.

The movie is not age appropriate for Middle Schoolers, and really should not have any place in school curriculum. It is pure propaganda.

Posted by: SMOD at July 22, 2025 10:45 AM (RHGPo)

346 Tens of millions of people like this song/band. But I know better than them, their music sucks dude. It’s a thing we all do. And it’s kinda dumb.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:45 AM (Vvm2m)

347 When whippoorwills sing, and evening is nigh
I hurry to my blue heaven
Just a turn to the right, you'll see a little white light
I hurry to my blue heaven
Posted by: naturalfake

Watching Chapelwaite
You like whippoorwills eh?
*eyes narrow suspiciously, grabs garlic*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 22, 2025 10:46 AM (YqCDc)

348 John Everett Millais was pilloried by his contemporaries for making money. It wasn't looked down upon. It was *abhorred.*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 22, 2025 10:46 AM (BI5O2)

349 The first time I saw a Kincade painting it triggered me so much I dropped my Orange Julius.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 22, 2025 10:46 AM (NXz8h)

350
"No Spare Capacity": Watchdog Warns Largest US Grid Is Maxed Out Amid Data Center Buildout

Perhaps retiring all those fossil fuel power generators wasn't such a great idea after all.

Turn off your air conditioner so that Grok may live.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 22, 2025 10:46 AM (63Dwl)

351 If we deport all the illegals who will do our lawn care?
I'm calling my realtor.
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I've been a Realtor for quite awhile, and I've hired exactly *zero* illegals to mow lawns for our sellers and buyers.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2025 10:47 AM (TN0g+)

352 341 If we deport all the illegals who will do our lawn care?
I'm calling my realtor.
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Imma thinking AI is the answer.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 10:47 AM (W3T6M)

353 They may be--they're at least "accessible" to many listeners. I'm a huge fan of hard rock, including Priest and Megadeth and Metallica and early Malmsteen, but it just feels like "work" to attempt to listen to anything by Alter Bridge.
Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2025 10:43 AM (TN0g+)

I actually like Creed. I just prefer Alter Bridge because Myles Kennedy's voice is a jillion times better than Scott Stapp's. Plus it's fun to bust on Bruce Wayne constantly.

Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2025 10:47 AM (XUX2Y)

354 Is it a movie thread yet?

Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”

-
I didn't realize Dumb and Dumber was type casting.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

355 Tens of millions of people like this song/band. But I know better than them, their music sucks dude. It’s a thing we all do. And it’s kinda dumb.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:45 AM (Vvm2m)

I watched a video once on whiskey and they discussed the "proper way to drink whiskey". The one guy said imagine this scenario...

Person1: What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Person2: Chocolate.
Person1: Well, you're wrong.

One of them is an asshole.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:48 AM (ExV1e)

356 349
JULIUS...JULius...Julius...julius...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 22, 2025 10:48 AM (vd6bO)

357 "No Spare Capacity": Watchdog Warns Largest US Grid Is Maxed Out Amid Data Center Buildout

We can triple energy prices to reduce demand, raise funds for government programs, and blame Trump for the induced recession going into the midterms. I see this as an absolute win!

Posted by: Watermelons at July 22, 2025 10:49 AM (MSUJF)

358 If all the artists make money who will sell at the Starving Artists Sale down at Motel 6?

Posted by: Well-fed Artist at July 22, 2025 10:49 AM (G5+As)

359 Well one could click on the link in my name to see fi any of my AI images appeal to your tastes. Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:49 AM (UNuW6)

360 I've been a Realtor for quite awhile, and I've hired exactly *zero* illegals to mow lawns for our sellers and buyers.
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If you hire illegals you may be faced with restoring all the missing copper water pipes. This can be expensive.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 10:50 AM (W3T6M)

361 Perhaps retiring all those fossil fuel power generators wasn't such a great idea after all.

Probably also need more high voltage lines. Might make sense to consider re-engineering the whole system to make it more failure tolerant.

That won't happen though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:50 AM (ExV1e)

362 Tens of millions of people like this song/band. But I know better than them, their music sucks dude. It’s a thing we all do. And it’s kinda dumb.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 22, 2025 10:45 AM (Vvm2m)

Correct. We all do it. And it is dumb. But we can't stop doing it.

Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2025 10:50 AM (XUX2Y)

363
btw, who the fark puts SALT on their Watermelons??

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:50 AM (EJeBD)

364 In modern Hollywood, brains are optional for actors.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:50 AM (UNuW6)

365 Is this about when we start dissing Prometheus?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (NXz8h)

366
I've heard of putting Salt on a Cucumber, but salt on a Watermelon??

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (EJeBD)

367 >>>Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us.

But enough about the Biden years.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (i24o9)

368 Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”

Says the guy whose party endorses violence against ICE agents and committing other federal crimes to aid and abet illegal immigration, and who make apologia for traffickers, rapists, and child molesters. Not to mention the assassination attempts, burning, rioting, looting, dropping concrete on cop cars at overpasses...

Posted by: Zero, I mean ZERO capacity for introspection at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (TbWk/)

369 Him: “Fuck you.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

Me: "Oh, i get it now. You're a charlatan! Now it makes sense."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (RlmPm)

370 You can't spell Kinkade without Kink!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (aURVT)

371 363
btw, who the fark puts SALT on their Watermelons??
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Its a thing. Had an uncle do that. Hint, do not chill your watermelon and you will enjoy the addition of salt.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 10:52 AM (W3T6M)

372 354 Is it a movie thread yet?

Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”

-
I didn't realize Dumb and Dumber was type casting.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

There's a self-importance about people like Daniels that betrays their insecurities. He knows he has a platform simply because he's good at playing make believe. But he can't just accept that. It probably eats away at him knowing that people appreciate him for the things that OTHER people wrote and created for him.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 22, 2025 10:52 AM (KbCG3)

373 I've been a Realtor for quite awhile, and I've hired exactly *zero* illegals to mow lawns for our sellers and buyers.
Posted by: Crusader

You're not a real realtor unless you have billboards with your unnaturally smiling visage on it.

Posted by: Who Is Tammy Inge? at July 22, 2025 10:52 AM (G5+As)

374 see your Robert Crumb and raise with Big Daddy Roth!!!

S. Clay Wilson.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 22, 2025 10:52 AM (RLGo3)

375 Doesn't putting salt on watermelon kinda defeat the purpose? Watermelons are supposed to be, well, watery.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

376 I've heard of putting Salt on a Cucumber, but salt on a Watermelon??
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (EJeBD)

Salt is a flavor enhancer. It can be put on anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

377 It probably eats away at him knowing that people appreciate him for the things that OTHER people wrote and created for him.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 22, 2025 10:52 AM (KbCG3)

Well I never!

Posted by: Sean Penn at July 22, 2025 10:53 AM (PiwSw)

378 These are the same art snobs that refused to see that Norman Rockwell's illustrations were art, even if he did them for commercial purposes to pay the bills.

Also the same art snobs who went along with the Soviet funding for shitty art and declared that all manner of modern art bullshit is great.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 22, 2025 10:53 AM (2ocoG)

379 The first time I saw a Kincade painting it triggered me so much I dropped my Orange Julius.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 22, 2025 10:46 AM (NXz8h)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 10:53 AM (i24o9)

380 Its a thing. Had an uncle do that. Hint, do not chill your watermelon and you will enjoy the addition of salt.
Posted by: pudinhead

I can still soak it in Everclear though, right?

Posted by: Alcoholic Moron at July 22, 2025 10:53 AM (JCZqz)

381 Bad Hombre thinks that Hunter should be Jasmine Crockett's running mate. Make it so!

https://x.com/joma_gc?lang=en

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2025 10:53 AM (sfSMm)

382 "We've normalized verbal abuse" presupposes that you yourself have observed someone else's verbal abuse and deemed it the new normal, deciding to engage in it yourself now that you feel excused.

So....

YOU are in fact the one who has normalized verbal abuse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2025 10:54 AM (RlmPm)

383 380 Its a thing. Had an uncle do that. Hint, do not chill your watermelon and you will enjoy the addition of salt.
Posted by: pudinhead

I can still soak it in Everclear though, right?
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Yes.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 10:54 AM (W3T6M)

384 Bach is dead.

Posted by: The Residents at July 22, 2025 10:54 AM (QB+5g)

385 My late mother used to salt her cantaloupe and watermelon. And, she'd put sugar on her tomatoes.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (Q4IgG)

386
I know someone who knew Kincade in art school. He was a calculating, arrogant asshole back then. He had a plan to make a fortune painting bad art for suckers. I read some of his verse once. To vomit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (HL/Ld)

387 Bach is dead.
Posted by: The Residents

Really? I didn't even know he was sick!

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

388 I've heard of putting Salt on a Cucumber, but salt on a Watermelon??
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (EJeBD)

Salt is a flavor enhancer. It can be put on anything.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
_____

I thought it was standard for watermelon.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (XvL8K)

389
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
Meet Mexican national Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez. He allegedly decapitated a woman and hid her body.
Lake County activist Judge Randie Bruno let him go free after he was arrested for the crime.
ICE just nabbed him.
Thank you ICE for keeping the streets safe when progressive policies won't.

-
MAGA makes out as if decapitating women were a bad thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)

390 171 ... "Long time ago when I was taking art classes and otherwise developing my skills in illustration, I found a book by Kincade and a childhood friend, James Gurney, a record of them tramping around the country sketching. "

Thanks for the heads up. Turns out a new edition of 'The Artist's Guide to Sketching' came out a few months ago. About $13 at Amazon with a lot of 5 star reviews. Just ordered a copy.

Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (yTvNw)

391 I've heard of putting Salt on a Cucumber, but salt on a Watermelon??
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (EJeBD)

I do. Brings out the taste better than without.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (g8Ew8)

392 354 Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

Now do Hunter!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2025 10:56 AM (aURVT)

393 *adjusts spectacles* *looks down nose*
My late grandma would hang.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 22, 2025 10:56 AM (36PRH)

394 My late mother used to salt her cantaloupe and watermelon. And, she'd put sugar on her tomatoes.

*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (Q4IgG)

Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: Cause and effect at July 22, 2025 10:56 AM (TbWk/)

395 https://youtu.be/HMD1JYgzI6s?list=RDHMD1JYgzI6s

Posted by: The Residents at July 22, 2025 10:56 AM (QB+5g)

396 Salt is a flavor enhancer. It can be put on anything.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 22, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

Whatever you do -- DO NOT search "salt trick", especially from your work computer. Anyone who has a social media feed will probably understand what I mean.

Posted by: Doof at July 22, 2025 10:57 AM (XUX2Y)

397 391 I've heard of putting Salt on a Cucumber, but salt on a Watermelon??
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (EJeBD)

I do. Brings out the taste better than without.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (g8Ew

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Or salt on a 'mater sammich?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 22, 2025 10:57 AM (36PRH)

398 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (HL/Ld)

In the tech thread, there was talk of Morticia!

Posted by: m at July 22, 2025 10:57 AM (aURVT)

399 >>> Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”

I am always amazed at how un self-aware dems are, when they project the worst parts of themselves onto Trump supporters.

What was the entire era of peak woke but bullying?? But their bullies were punching their enemies (the American people) in the face for them, so it was ok.

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2025 10:57 AM (sfSMm)

400 400

Posted by: m at July 22, 2025 10:57 AM (aURVT)

401 Salt on watermelon may be primarily a southern thing, after looking at the interwebs.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 22, 2025 10:57 AM (XvL8K)

402 Bach is dead.
Posted by: The Residents

Burt Bacharach killed him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 22, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

403 Bach is dead.
Posted by: The Residents at July 22, 2025 10:54 AM (QB+5g)

Oh no!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 22, 2025 10:58 AM (g8Ew8)

404
lololololol

Oh you poor canadians...

You think your health care sucks now?

Well this just happened: "Canadian Nurses Denounce White European-Centric Medicine"

White European-centric medicine? You mean...medicine?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:58 AM (EJeBD)

405 397 391 I've heard of putting Salt on a Cucumber, but salt on a Watermelon??
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:51 AM (EJeBD)

I do. Brings out the taste better than without.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 22, 2025 10:55 AM (g8Ew

----
Or salt on a 'mater sammich?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 22, 2025 10:57 AM (36PRH)

Yum.

Posted by: m at July 22, 2025 10:58 AM (aURVT)

406 "We've normalized verbal abuse" presupposes that you yourself have observed someone else's verbal abuse and deemed it the new normal, deciding to engage in it yourself now that you feel excused.

So....

YOU are in fact the one who has normalized verbal abuse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2025 10:54 AM (RlmPm)

Yeah, dude had no problem with verbal abuse when the target was hetero, white, Christian conservatives.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 10:59 AM (i24o9)

407 Wasn’t it Van Gogh who was never recognized, or sold any paintings, until after his death?

It happens.

But I like this painting from Kincaid.

Is it an earth-shattering, jaw-dropping, work that blows your mind?

No, but it’s quite a charming, colorful, beautiful little scene that looks like something out of an illustrated fairy tale book.

No wonder critics hate it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2025 10:59 AM (6ydKt)

408 'Rosebud' Cottage.
Isn't that what Pete Buttigieg calls his house?

Posted by: omm at July 22, 2025 11:00 AM (BDCbc)

409 Well one could click on the link in my name to see fi any of my AI images appeal to your tastes. Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 10:49 AM (UNuW6)

I like your work. I wouldn't mind if you added some tastelessness...

Posted by: Tastelessness has tastefulness all its own at July 22, 2025 11:00 AM (TbWk/)

410 401 Salt on watermelon may be primarily a southern thing, after looking at the interwebs.
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Yankee cuisine is truly horrid. Its like Yankees really have no idea how to prepare food and make it taste great.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 11:00 AM (W3T6M)

411
btw, who the fark puts SALT on their Watermelons??

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:50 AM

Tajin has entered the chat

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 22, 2025 11:00 AM (tljrc)

412 "I'm going to make something that a lot of people will want to buy regardless of if i like it myself or if it is intrinsically good" is the essence of capitalism.

Dude makes schlock.
People who like schlock buy schlock.
Dude gets money and is happy.
People who like schlock get schlock and are happy.

Where's the problem? It ain't like he's selling crank or mongering whores or making impressionable young children believe in the labor theory of value.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2025 11:00 AM (RlmPm)

413 @408 or "Starfish By The Sea"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 22, 2025 11:00 AM (36PRH)

414 Just a thought. I believe the qualities of Kinkade paintings has the same appeal that makes the Shire such a favorite part of LOTR for Tolkien fans: warm, welcoming, comfortable, homey, and a sense of tradition.

Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2025 11:01 AM (yTvNw)

415 You’re supposed to turn the tomatoes black with pepper on a tomato sandwich.

I’m not the biggest fan of them but you definitely need freshly ground black pepper on it and not just salt.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2025 11:01 AM (6ydKt)

416 Kincade was a visionary, he was creating paintings that looked like AI before AI ever picked up a brush.
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Midsomer Murders has been going strong for 20-odd years. Using the same enhanced nostalgia.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 22, 2025 11:02 AM (WvpwN)

417 410 401 Salt on watermelon may be primarily a southern thing, after looking at the interwebs.
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Yankee cuisine is truly horrid. Its like Yankees really have no idea how to prepare food and make it taste great.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 11:00 AM (W3T6M)
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I've heard horror stories, such as putting sugar, or worse, ketchup, on grits. Maybe those are just old wives tales to scare the youngins.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 22, 2025 11:02 AM (36PRH)

418 Anna Puma - I am not the respondent you are asking, but I thoroughly enjoyed the first three episodes of My Dress-Up Darling Season 2!
The animators keep returning to the theme of acceptance. In Wakana’s case it’s acceptance that he loves cute things like the doll heads he is learning to paint. He finds cuteness all around him in the cosplay world and is learning, slowly, to accept that about himself. The love story is progressing as well, it’s just that Wakana thinks too little of himself. The latest episode with the cross dressing beautiful young man was all about acceptance. That young man was risking his place in society by doing what he does. I don’t think Westerners realize how un-Japanese this acceptance is. The people participating in cosplay are depicted as far more open to all the weirdness than a typical Japanese person would be, I think. Also the first episode opening with an entirely different anime for the first two minutes threw me. I thought I was watching the wrong anime!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 11:03 AM (075ei)

419 Mater sandwich? A sandwich used for breeding other sandwiches?

Posted by: Or are sandwiches replacing the couch? at July 22, 2025 11:03 AM (TbWk/)

420 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

421 The morning rant is up

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 22, 2025 11:03 AM (w3u3d)

422 Watching a Sanford and Son episode yesterday. Fred was having an issue with Julio the neighbor, using a bit of Fred's yard to temporarily stire his junk.

Fred:"First you give them a bit of yard, then more, then they are in your house, and all the cockroaches arrive. And pretty soon, your house is full of Puerto Ricans!"

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 22, 2025 11:04 AM (ufFY8)

423 Salt counteracts bitterness. In small amounts it can make the watermelon tastier.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2025 11:04 AM (D7oie)

424 Warai-otoko

Thomas Kincaide would have cleaned up in artist alley at cons.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2025 11:04 AM (UNuW6)

425 Auburn, N.Y. — A landmark rail-car diner that has sat perched over the Owasco River in downtown Auburn since 1951 will need to be relocated due to safety concerns.

The Hunter Dinerant, which closed for business on Dec. 31, was seized by the city of Auburn for back taxes in May. But city officials have determined it is at risk if there were to be a breach in the city-owned dam upriver from its location at the point where Genesee Street (Route 20) crosses the river.
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I used to eat there when visiting my in-laws. Its owned by Biden's first wife's family - thus the Hunter.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 11:04 AM (W3T6M)

426 I had to convince a Romanian girl I knew online that salt was good on watermelon.

She thought I was absolutely crazy for telling her to put salt on her watermelon.

But she finally gave in and tried it and she couldn’t believe how good it was with salt.

I thought everybody around the world knew to put salt on watermelon, but apparently not.

You’d think it’d be obvious that salt goes well with sweet on occasion.

Because who doesn’t like salted caramel?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2025 11:05 AM (6ydKt)

427 Anna Puma -
Brains have always been optional for actors in Hollywood since its founding: it’s just that some of them have had them anyway. Look at Hedy Lamarr and her invention of frequency shifting for coded radio communication.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 11:12 AM (075ei)

428 390 JTB: Thanks! The book is currently half off, so I grabbed one too. Hope it revives some of the old passion. Spending less time online and more time outside sketching has to improve my mental health, which is pretty spiky these days.

Posted by: Clio Weeps at July 22, 2025 11:12 AM (kSAM8)

429 Kincaid's paintings were ok...but in the 30's there were artists who did similar also for profit. The prints were used for ads, calendars, etc. And they were affordable during the Depression for homes.

Many homes then had prints of Robert Atkinson Fox's paintings of cottages and English gardens. He also went by other names such as William Thompson.

I know this because one of my grandmother's left me a large cottage/garden print after she died. Which then led to me collecting from eBay or antiques stores in the 90's. I have a large collection in original art deco frames. Some frames are chipped or worn, but I don't care.

I used to look at this print at my grandmother's as a child when I was supposed to be napping (even then I did not like naps).

The colors and light are often surreal, as are Kincaid's...but I think they are lovely.

https://tinyurl.com/y278yw5m

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2025 11:13 AM (6PCLE)

430 Yankee cuisine is truly horrid. Its like Yankees really have no idea how to prepare food and make it taste great.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 11:00 AM (W3T6M)

Considering the fact that I'm only 2nd generation American, Hungarian (mom) and Slovak (dad) heritage and raised on the cuisine of those two nationalities, I have no idea what constitutes "Yankee" food. Also a neighborhood of Eastern European and Italian friends. If you're talking Irish cuisine, well, I agree. We didn't consider that "food".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguiy at July 22, 2025 11:15 AM (5xuJ/)

431 423 Salt counteracts bitterness. In small amounts it can make the watermelon tastier.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2025 11:04 AM (D7oie)
Not bad with a little tobasco sauce.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 22, 2025 11:18 AM (vd6bO)

432 Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse.”

I was listening to Dr. Drew on Michael Malice's podcast last week and he noted that modern woke society is set up to maximize the impact of people with personality disorders, especially narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). The way you break them out of it is to not affirm their bullshit and instead counter it strongly.

Naturally people who stand to gain from such maximalization and/or their useful idiots will scream bloody murder that it's "mean".

Posted by: Ian S. at July 22, 2025 11:20 AM (2ocoG)

433 His commercial success is what really pissed of the UN-successful ones. Yes, I think his art is … umm … 'nice'. It's certainly not Da Vinci, Braque, Cezanne, Van Gogh or any of the other luminaries. OTOH, it's nice to look at, well-executed technically, and is genuine professional-level artwork. The ones who don't see that can pick up their ticket to the Re-Education Camp at Section 'B' on the ramp at the railway station. There will be fresh straw in the cars for the sleepy ones.

Posted by: Dr_No at July 22, 2025 11:20 AM (ayRl+)

434 Well this just happened: "Canadian Nurses Denounce White European-Centric Medicine"

White European-centric medicine? You mean...medicine?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 10:58 AM (EJeBD)

Woke is a suicide cult.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 22, 2025 11:21 AM (2ocoG)

435 Yankee cuisine is truly horrid. Its like Yankees really have no idea how to prepare food and make it taste great.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 22, 2025 11:00 AM (W3T6M)
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The Pennsylvania Dutch dessert menu would like to have a talk with you!

Posted by: Black JEM at July 22, 2025 11:28 AM (GZYu7)

436 Kincaid is certainly a better artist than any of the producers of so-called "modern art". Having dabbled a bit in landscape painting for the backdrop of my model railroad, I can sincerely appreciate Kincaid's use of light and shadow, the detailing in the flowers, and the portrayal of the clouds in the setting (or rising?) sun.

Posted by: George V at July 22, 2025 11:37 AM (HUbHH)

437 Fun fact: art throughout history has almost always been commercial, and the whole 'starving artist' cliche comes from a handful of artists in the 19th century who didn't work commercially. (Much of what you find in museums were commissions done by entire ateliers with the master's name slapped on it.) Commercial artists (Glasgow Four, Mucha, Warhol, etc) practically required an entire subgenre due to their commercial successes even as they have commanded respect as great artists. ("Graphic art" is grudgingly a thing)

Posted by: Saber Alter at July 22, 2025 12:15 PM (AZg1Q)

438 58
That's the ginzo section of The Shire.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 22, 2025 09:41 AM (EJeBD)

Leave Connie Corleone out of this or I'll kill you!

Sonny at the tollbooth

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 22, 2025 12:23 PM (x0n13)

439 Call me a cretin but I've always loved Kinkade's work. When I lived near Tacoma he had a gallery in the mall and I used to like going in there and just being at peace. It was a little like being in Church. Many of his pieces have church themes. I have several of his works in my home to this day.

BLUF: I love his work.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 22, 2025 02:02 PM (KQmzo)

440 i'd like to admire the hands of the gardener.

Posted by: cmeat at July 22, 2025 03:54 PM (GAyiy)

441 Kinkade's work reminds me of that produced by a certain Austrian painter in the early 20th century...Adolf something-or-other.

Technically accomplished, but lacking in any real creativity or originality.

Posted by: Eddie Willers at July 22, 2025 06:54 PM (u82mY)

442 I want to live in Kincaid's houses, but I can't, because there are no toilets in them.

Posted by: dave moore at July 22, 2025 09:30 PM (M2v2q)

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