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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    08/25/09

    In reply to Obama All About Fed Head Bernanke
    Am I supposed to stress the "who some say saved our country from absolute economic ruin" in a sarcastic tone or what?
    I'm not saying I had or even have, at this point, a better plan, I'm just, you know, sayin'.
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    Image of takeouteurotrash takeouteurotrash
    08/25/09

    In reply to Obama All About Fed Head Bernanke
    Can someone please explain what the fuck Bald did to save our country from absolute economic ruin? Keep interest rates low? Print more dollars? Prop up failing institutions?

    Let's see what got us here:

    -keep the cost of lending low
    -promote false sense of expanding growth by providing the plebeians ample use of their house/co-op/condo to substitute an ATM
    -prop up failing citizens that leveraged their life for a Prius, HDTV, 2nd home in the Berkshires/Poconos, and duplex abode

    Outstanding! No similarities.

    At least Summers will never take command, I suppose. The Fed would need to subsidize smelling salts to keep his languid person awake for the eventual demise.
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    08/25/09

    @takeouteurotrash: Can someone please explain what the fuck Bald did to save our country from absolute economic ruin?

    My take is that he created a false sense of crisis, transferred a lot of wealth to his friends and then got them to dutifully say that the crisis had passed.
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    Image of takeouteurotrash takeouteurotrash
    08/25/09

    @Magister: To that I say, you're absolutely right.

    "Never let a crisis go to waste" extends to both sides of the aisle.
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    Image of Island of Misfit Toys Island of Misfit Toys
    08/12/09

    In reply to How Getty Images Screwed Art Capital Group's Deal With Annie Leibovitz
    Can't she just sell those f*cking townhouses?
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    Image of ___ ___
    08/12/09

    @Island of Misfit Toys:
    the townhouses are pledged to Art Capital. noone would buy them.
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    Image of sparky sparky
    08/12/09

    @Island of Misfit Toys: I've walked by that block recently. One of those townhouses is pretty much a ruin.
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    03/16/09

    In reply to Museums: Obsolete Relics of Good Old Days
    At least with MOMA, they make it worthwhile to become a member. It is $75 for a year, and for that payment you can go as many times as you want, see as many movies as you want, get $5 guest admissions, attend previews, walk right into special exhibits like Van Gogh, and cut the ridiculous lines. If you visit four times a year, you have already saved money.
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    Image of tunamelt tunamelt
    03/16/09

    In reply to Museums: Obsolete Relics of Good Old Days
    Also, I walked into the California Science Center last week, looked at the suggested donation box, and kept going without putting anything in it.


    So I'm killing science by being cheap, too.

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    Image of tunamelt tunamelt
    03/16/09

    In reply to Museums: Obsolete Relics of Good Old Days
    The Whore of California's Babylon, the City of Los Angeles


    She's a whore, but goddammit, Nolan, she's MY whore.

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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    03/16/09

    In reply to Museums: Obsolete Relics of Good Old Days
    Maybe I'm naive, but problems like this always seem easy to fix:


    1. Stop making admission free.

    2. Stop with obscure "pay as you wish" crap and have the gonads to put up a real price.

    3. Don't make said real price more than the cost of a movie ticket.


    That said, I've lived in Philadelphia for almost a year now and still have not been to the PMA, so I'm feeling a little guilty, though I have been to the utterly creepy and horrifying Mutter Museum, which may have turned me off of experiencing culture outside of my TV screen forever.

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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    03/16/09

    @DahlELama: Yeah, rather naive. Because although more admissions revenue would help, their problems are also due to their misguided retail expansion and the fact that their endowment has last substantial value due to the Wall Street mess.


    Also, the reason the admission is "suggested" is that it is in exchange for a nice chunk of change from the taxpayers.


    "The suggested-donation policy is a requirement of being part of what is called the Cultural Institutions Group, a group of 34 New York City-owned institutions that also includes the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Bronx Zoo. As part of the same deal, the city provides 11% of the Met's total budget, according the Department of Cultural Affairs. In the last fiscal year, this came to about $24,598,000, an amount that contributed to general operating costs, as well as paying for heat, light, and power."

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    Image of AuntPeniston AuntPeniston
    03/16/09

    In reply to Museums: Obsolete Relics of Good Old Days
    Bunny Davidson is turning in her grave at the thought of the Frick having to give up its tuxedoed butlers. And the silver bell she used to summon them? Sent to Cash 4 Gold.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/16/09

    @AuntPeniston: Eh--The Frick (actually my FAVORITE NYC museum) can always rent out a few of those upstairs rooms to deserving down-at-the-heels socialites if they really need the money (and still want to keep up those all-important) appearances.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/16/09

    @AuntPeniston: BTW--Long time no see! Happy mid-point between Ides and Pat's!
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    Image of AuntPeniston AuntPeniston
    03/16/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): Oy! Don't think I've forgotten about you or your albarello. We'll have to arrange a photo shoot/social hour.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/16/09

    @AuntPeniston: Totally babes!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    03/16/09

    In reply to Museums: Obsolete Relics of Good Old Days
    As for the Getty, the building and view are better than the collection.
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    Image of tunamelt tunamelt
    03/16/09

    @Smitros: Isn't the Getty's thing that the building and the view are better than the art? So you can like, go there and picnic in the gardens?


    Maybe they can just charge more for parking.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    03/16/09

    @tunamelt:


    They must know their collection isn't up to the same standard as the facilities, but I don't know if they advertise on that basis.

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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    03/16/09

    In reply to Museums: Obsolete Relics of Good Old Days
    Maybe James Wood should sell tix to view his tremendously large cock. That could make some dough.
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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    03/16/09

    @saythatscool:


    Gosh, that's witty. These days, Denton's flagship site certainly has an air of New York City sophistication.

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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    03/16/09

    @saythatscool: Huh? This sounds like investigative reporting, or is in the Getty's annual report?
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    03/16/09

    @smithhimself: Sorry for offending your sensibilities. The joke was a reference to an earlier thread with SaraRueful. It probably will make her laugh and that's about the only person. All apologies.
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    03/16/09

    @saythatscool: No apologies necessary, I thought I was missing some important museum world gossip.
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    03/16/09

    @saythatscool: I thought you were just referring to his somewhat vintage (if not extremely old) organ..
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    02/24/09

    In reply to Getty Wants its Money Back, Freelancers
    Math is hard.
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    Image of Dave J. Dave J.
    02/24/09

    In reply to Getty Wants its Money Back, Freelancers
    It was "in protest of management changes made as the paper transforms itself into a Mormon niche publication."


    Man, what took them so long? I lived in Salt Lake City back in 1997, and it was obvious then that the D-News was a Mormon niche publication.

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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    02/24/09

    In reply to Getty Wants its Money Back, Freelancers
    Crap, you made me look. DeSales Harrison is an English professor at Oberlin.


    Luckily for him, Oberlin doesn't have a Starbucks.

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    02/24/09

    In reply to Getty Wants its Money Back, Freelancers
    Oops, Getty! It's hard to make a case for, "We made an error, now you please be responsible for it."
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    02/24/09

    In reply to Getty Wants its Money Back, Freelancers
    Oh that is HARSH Getty! Here's a better idea--fire the cubicle dweller who screwed it up in the first place and replace him/her with someone at a lower salary (easy to do these day). That should cover the difference without taking a dime out of the empty pockets of the poor photogs and leave everyone in a happy place.
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