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1

Best Lindy West line ever: "I learned that Indians are hella wise."

Posted by Kate | March 13, 2007 12:15 PM
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Culture has finally jumped the shark. Can we go back to carving spears and trying to figure out fire now?

Posted by Levislade | March 13, 2007 12:28 PM
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If that's not a sign of the End Times, I don't know what is...

Posted by Acolyte | March 13, 2007 12:37 PM
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I'm drooling, this is fkn awesome news!

"...resulting in Kinkade art being found in one out of every 10 U.S. households."

Wow...

Posted by Ceci n'est pas une pipe | March 13, 2007 12:48 PM
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I so angry that I didn't go when he was at my local mall to tell him he isn't a fucking artist. All of his ugly crap with bible verse attached should be shoved right up his ass.

Posted by Leeerker | March 13, 2007 12:48 PM
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Gross. I get an actual visceral discomfort just by glancing at Kinkade's paintings.

I bet my mom would LOVE that movie.

Posted by Carollani | March 13, 2007 12:51 PM
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i wonder if there'll be anything in the movie about Kinkade being investigated by the SEC for swindling his own franchisees. Or for this godly christian man's numerous, drunken "improprieties." (google thomas kinkade urinate)

Posted by bing | March 13, 2007 1:04 PM
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No! Not Lindy, she doesn't deserve this!

Isn't this a job for the Stranger's Worst Enemy(TM)?

Posted by Original Andrew | March 13, 2007 1:06 PM
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If no one pees in an elevator in that movie, I'm gonna be disappointed.

Posted by Gabriel | March 13, 2007 1:58 PM
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Andrew @ 8, are you referring to Daniel Schorr?

Posted by Gabriel | March 13, 2007 2:00 PM
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my mom will be ecstatic.

i will suffer.

then it will pass.

Posted by Max Solomon | March 13, 2007 2:29 PM
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Are partially-completed prints of the paintings going to be distributed to theaters, with local embellishers then hand-tinting them with little blobs of white? That would be awesome and sparkly.

It's fascinating to examine the fears and prejudices that produce a response to Kinkade's work.

Posted by Fnarf | March 13, 2007 2:56 PM
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They already made that movie, actually three of them. I believe they were the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Posted by keshmeshi | March 13, 2007 2:59 PM
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Ooooooooooh! OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!

Posted by Lindy West | March 13, 2007 3:12 PM
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I KNOW!!!!

Posted by David Schmader | March 13, 2007 3:18 PM
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Fnarf @12: no, everyone will get plain popcorn, a tube full of margarine, and a plastic palette knife.

Posted by rodrigo | March 13, 2007 3:46 PM
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Gabriel @ 10,

I was actually referring to Cienna Madrid, whose writing I adore btw.

Are you suggesting that the Strangler has more than one Worst Enemy(TM)?

Who knew?

And after Freedom Writers and Catch and Release, hasn't poor Lindy suffered enough?

Posted by Original Andrew | March 13, 2007 3:56 PM
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As a sometimes artist, I get a visceral urge to vomit at the mere mention of Kinkade's name. I will not go within a hundred yards of any theater playing this movie.

Posted by SDA in SEA | March 13, 2007 4:47 PM
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I heard they are making a movie out of the new Political Cartoonist finding his voice down in Tacoma... ?

Posted by Feed Tacomic(s) | March 13, 2007 5:33 PM
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Wow, you finally quoted a source in something you stole. Like we don't know you sit around combing BoingBoing and Gawker all day.

Posted by tsssk | March 14, 2007 12:32 AM
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What the fuck are you talking about? I quote sources for everything I "steal," you shitbag.

Posted by David Schmader | March 14, 2007 9:14 AM
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Nice work for a guy who got caught peeing on the Winnie the Pooh statue at Disneyland in Anaheim. And that's mild compared to what he's done to some gallery owners.

Check out the LA Times' archives from August of last year. *Painter Said to Be Focus of FBI Probe* By Kim Christensen 8/26/2006.
Money shot (aside from the Pooh-pee): "The FBI is investigating allegations that self-styled "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade and some of his top executives fraudulently induced investors to open galleries and then ruined them financially, former dealers contacted by federal agents said."

The ex-owners allege in arbitration claims that, among other things, the artist known for his dreamily luminous landscapes and street scenes used his Christian faith to persuade them to invest in the independently owned stores, which sell only Kinkade's work.

"They really knew how to bait the hook," said one former dealer who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case. "They certainly used the Christian hook."

Former gallery owners said that after they had invested tens of thousands of dollars each or more, the company's practices and policies drove them out of business. They alleged they were stuck with unsalable limited-edition prints, forced to open additional stores in saturated markets and undercut by discounters that sold identical artworks at prices they were forbidden to match.


--Will this make it into the movie?--

Posted by 11x | March 14, 2007 6:20 PM

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