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    Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore

    Who Stole Andy Warhol?

    Dig Deep Enough Into the Wienermobile and You Will Find Pat Kiernan

    Now Theft-Worthy: Salt

    Master Thief Steals Goldman's Secret Process

    Fortune Writer Quits Amid Uncreative Plagiarism Charge

    AP Lawsuit Laughably Says Media Shouldn't Steal

    Times Takes Edwards Scandal Info From Blogger Without Credit

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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    09/17/09

    In reply to Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore
    Wow, Today Show. Your efforts to remake the Bushes into some kind of down-home, warm & fuzzy answer to the Kennedy Clan may just succeed after all, ya bunch of brain-dead dinks.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    09/17/09

    In reply to Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore
    Well fuck me but I thought the Today Show segment was kinda cute.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    09/17/09

    In reply to Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore
    When I look at Jenna Bush, all I can picture is her sitting on the floor of an Argentine bar in a puddle of spilled whiskey, repeatedly slamming the floor with both hands and saying "Fall down go boom!".
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    09/17/09

    In reply to Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore
    I thought Balk invented the anthropomorphic cock.
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    09/17/09

    @depardoo: He did, but got the shaft on that one too.
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    Image of RocketSurgeon RocketSurgeon
    09/17/09

    @scroll_lock: It's hard for that guy to get a head.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    09/17/09

    @depardoo: I only glansed at it.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    09/17/09

    @RocketSurgeon:

    He's a real sac.
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    09/17/09

    @BettyCrocker:

    You should look harder.
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    09/17/09

    @scroll_lock:

    I scrotally agree with you.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/17/09

    In reply to Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore
    Haha. It's fun to visit the Awl. It's like an alumni meeting for banned Gawker commenters and old retired ones.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/17/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: also it's funny too.. just btw.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    09/12/09

    In reply to Who Stole Andy Warhol?
    I bet it was john Holmes.
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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    09/12/09

    In reply to Who Stole Andy Warhol?
    That portrait of Weisman looks a lot like Tom Seaver to me.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    09/12/09

    In reply to Who Stole Andy Warhol?
    Warhol did care about art, and was extremely knowledgeable about it. Though it didn't fit his public persona to seem well-informed, he was extremely aware of the artists and art world of his time, always. But his detachment also comes from the fact that early on the "serious" art world snubbed him quite hard.

    And no one snubbed him quite as hard as Jasper Johns. As with his crush on Capote, Warhol was impressed with Johns' meteoric early success, being taken seriously by all the "right" people. But Johns sharply rejected Andy's overtures of friendship. Deeply closeted himself, he and Rauschenberg mocked Andy as "Wendy Airhole". The AbEx macho ethos was still afoot in the late 1950's art world, and Warhol simply could not "pass", he was too femme, and Johns and Rauschenberg found that deeply threatening- they didn't want to be associated with him. And many others in the artworld at this time disliked his work, thought it fey, decadent, unserious. He was treated as a gay illustrator, and it took him years to get beyond that stigma.

    Andy was deeply wounded by his rejection from the art world of the time. So if he seems dumb about it, or catty about Johns, it was coming from a certain pain of rejection. Of course, it freed him to do his own thing, in a famously novel and striking way. But yes, he cared about art, he just felt the art world didn't care much for him.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    09/12/09

    @Baroness: I was half-joking, but you, dear, are wonderful as ever. Thank you for this.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    09/12/09

    @Baroness:

    Good to know. Curious to learn more. I always thought of him as sort of a pet rock.
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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    09/12/09


    @Baroness: Thanks so much. I'm no expert, but somehow I think Warhol might have appreciated this. I know I would like a copy (or a multiple series).
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    09/12/09

    @Glib and Bitchy: Hey! That's not too shabby. I'd put it on my wall.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    09/12/09

    @Foster Kamer: Hey, thanks, Foster. I start typing, the gin takes over, and I've written a thesis, ach. I know you weren't making a declaration, just musing like i do too. Appreciate the topic, an interesting time.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    09/12/09

    @Glib and Bitchy: He really would love it, Glib, you're so right. Reminiscent of the tale of Warhol's 13 Most Wanted Men.

    Warhol was commissioned to do a large-scale work for the 1964 World's Fair in Queens, affixed to the exterior of a round pavillion. He chose to do massive silkscreen prints of "Wanted" posters, printed on metal. Objections erupted when it was unveiled- that it was a glorification of mob figures, a bad representation of NYC. etc. It looked very cool in extant photos.

    But unsaid in the uproar: the 13 "most wanted" men he chose were also uncommonly handsome, gangster-sexy. The homoerotic subtext of the series in a public fair might also have played a part in their destruction, "wanted" given a subversive alternate meaning.

    Rather than have the panels removed for the family-friendly 1964 World's Fair, in a Mad Men era, Warhol chose to leave the panels up, but had them sprayed with opaque silver. Underneath the silver paint were images of homoerotic desire- handsome gangsters, veiled , censored, erased. Something of the Catholic iconicism of Warhol makes me think this plan, this veiling of truth- gay desire under a silver veil- as deeply subversive.
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    Image of oneninesevenfour oneninesevenfour
    09/12/09

    @Baroness: You my dear have just single handedly re-ignited my faith in Gawker commenters.

    And perhaps humanity. If I may be so bold.

    Actually each and every one of you here has. What a great discussion. (I will however not DARE click on that 'Show hidden threads' link... which I know will send me into the pits of despair.)
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/31/09

    In reply to Dig Deep Enough Into the Wienermobile and You Will Find Pat Kiernan
    I don't dig wieners. But, it's OK if you do.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    Not that surprising. There was a shortage of road salt last winter.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/10/09

    @CaptainFantastic: there will probably be a shortage of road this winter, so it all evens out.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    Posts like these always brine me joy.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    07/10/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Posts reminding me of my new reality leave me more than a little salty.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    07/10/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Sodium it goes.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    They only stole the amount of salt necessary to pour in America's economic wounds.
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    07/10/09

    @resipsaloquacious: That's not kosher.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    Taking the train down from Connecticut from a shoot, I actually saw a hobo camp under a bridge. There were those wooden crates and a hobo-fire; it looked like a movie set. I was looking for a polka-dot 'kerchief tied to a stick.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    07/10/09

    @HiredGoons: It's called a bindle! Get used to the name. It's the future "The Way We Live Now"!
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    Hey, people without drivers' licenses can still enjoy life. We just do it by cutting our toenails and commenting on Gawker.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/10/09

    @DahlELama: drinking Popov alone and crying to Roy Orbison...Pinochle...
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    All this bad news. When it rains, it pours.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/10/09

    @Aaron Altman: when it reigns, it poors?
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    07/10/09

    @HiredGoons: Next we'll be stealing Ivory Soap, coz we're 99 44/100ths percent poor.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/10/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight:

    We've got 99.44% problems, and a salt lick ain't one?
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/10/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: take a lesson from 'The Simpsons,' you can make a new soap from the slivers of the old ones.
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    Image of katastic katastic
    07/10/09

    @Aaron Altman: America is really getting NaCled and dimed.
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