Who knows, in three years he may be the live-in karate instructor, African art curator and electro-ejaculator technician for a lovely gay couple in suburban Virginia.
I don't know, though -- having now looked at the link, I'm starting to smell a hoax. It's a little too egregious. Also, why is the profile hidden and the album public?
@MissNormaDesmond: Notice the photos were all posted back in 2006. Unless some troublemaker has a time machine (like how the gays traveled back in time to force Carrie Prejean to pose topless), I think this is real.
I kind of feel sorry for this kid. Obviously his head's screwed up if he's half-Jewish/half-Korean, and he decides that he's going to hang out with the anti-immigration nutjobs. Self-loathing much?
That being said, attacking a woman while yelling racial slurs at her, and (apparently) lying about it on your law school application: not cool.
Also, I expect someone admitted to UVA law school to know how to use "its" properly.
Why would anyone care about this fudgepack of hate and idiocy? He looks like a pudgier Pillsbury doughboy in a suit and probably has the brains of an undercooked cookie.
@BookishLookish: My daughter watches lots of nature programs (Blue Planet etc), and there are long moments when I'm checking my nails, looking around the room, and otherwise pretending not to notice what's on. The other day it was about 15 minutes of crocodile love. Interesting stuff, if you like that kind of thing.
@The Real JR:I am at work and can't check facebook. What did they say. Please tell me it was something along the lines of "you ignorant sh*t thank God you weren't allowed to go to UVA because you suck at life and should eat Rove's sh*t and die." Was it something like that, more or less?
@MissNormaDesmond: He's referencing the quote, "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." I think he's not just ignorantly dismissive, but he's also a jackass who needs to be slapped with my driving gloves.
@Smitros: He is a fucking idiot. That criticism is as anachronistic as looking at a Medieval European art and faulting the draftsmen for having no understanding of vanishing-point perspective. The racism on top of it all makes this guy a dangerous asshole.
@Mama Penguino: I recognize the quote, thanks. In this context, it makes the Ethiopian artists analogous to the dogs. I don't really think that's an unmeant association.
@Mama Penguino: No, I do think it's a reasonable objection -- i.e. that he was just making use of that well-known phrase, which normally wouldn't necessarily involve comparing anyone to animals. For instance, I don't think Johnson was actually comparing the women to whom he was referring to dogs; women speaking in church was a real rarity at the time. However, when what Epstein's definitely saying is that it's amazing that Ethiopian artists are making art at all, as if they are somehow subhuman and incapable of such a thing, then yes, I think you can reasonably draw that association.
@Trulymadlyme: Exactly. The Sistine Chapel is, in many ways, derivative of Turkish, Islamic & Orthodox artistic traditions.
Really? How so? I mean this respectfully, but that's an extraordinary claim. There's no need to bash Michelangelo as "derivative" because of something some jerk said.
Islamic art forbids representation of the human figure, Orthodox iconography is static and hieratic. I can't speak of "Turkish", not sure what you mean, but if there's Turkish art superior to Michelangelo's that he would copy it, please let me know.
Michelangelo was derivative? No, he was a titan of Western art, and you seem to be condescending to that in a way that seems pat and PC.
Michelangelo's vision and talent electrified the West, his neo-pagan worship of the body, of beauty, sensuality, color, motion, ambiguity are the basis of the Western visual sense- his paintings were cinema long before it existed. Calling the Sistine Chapel frescoes "derivative" is sneering at a very great , supernatural accomplishment that changed our world in a very real sense.
Yes, I very much appreciate Islamic, Orthodox, Turkish art as well. Compared to Michelangelo they're more appropriately called "craft". Sorry, but I dislike that certain undergrad attitude towards Dead White Males, that there's aesthetic equivalence. Michelangelo was an eruptive talent, Western individuality and artistic power at maximum. Let's not sneer at that and say it's all the same.
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That being said, attacking a woman while yelling racial slurs at her, and (apparently) lying about it on your law school application: not cool.
Also, I expect someone admitted to UVA law school to know how to use "its" properly.
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Wait- and NO ONE called him on this picture commentary? They all went ha-ha?
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That's no crime, but being ignorantly dismissive is.
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And I wonder how well the Lega Nord would like him?
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The Ark is in a Defense Department warehouse. Everybody knows that.
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Really? How so? I mean this respectfully, but that's an extraordinary claim. There's no need to bash Michelangelo as "derivative" because of something some jerk said.
Islamic art forbids representation of the human figure, Orthodox iconography is static and hieratic. I can't speak of "Turkish", not sure what you mean, but if there's Turkish art superior to Michelangelo's that he would copy it, please let me know.
Michelangelo was derivative? No, he was a titan of Western art, and you seem to be condescending to that in a way that seems pat and PC.
Michelangelo's vision and talent electrified the West, his neo-pagan worship of the body, of beauty, sensuality, color, motion, ambiguity are the basis of the Western visual sense- his paintings were cinema long before it existed. Calling the Sistine Chapel frescoes "derivative" is sneering at a very great , supernatural accomplishment that changed our world in a very real sense.
Yes, I very much appreciate Islamic, Orthodox, Turkish art as well. Compared to Michelangelo they're more appropriately called "craft". Sorry, but I dislike that certain undergrad attitude towards Dead White Males, that there's aesthetic equivalence. Michelangelo was an eruptive talent, Western individuality and artistic power at maximum. Let's not sneer at that and say it's all the same.
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Here's the technique that influenced it. [en.wikipedia.org]
And here.
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Sigh.