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    Luxury Real Estate Market 1/3 of the Way Back

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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    10/24/09

    In reply to Luxury Real Estate Market 1/3 of the Way Back
    There was a great post on the blog Scouting New York that compares the "Palazzo" Chupi with Disney World's Tower of Terror. They are truly hewn from the same marble.

    [www.scoutingny.com]
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    10/24/09


    @i'm a bottle: #palazzochupi
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    10/23/09

    In reply to Luxury Real Estate Market 1/3 of the Way Back
    I'll say it again: REAL PALAZZOS LOOK NOTHING LIKE THIS AT ALL.

    The Federal Reserve building more closely resembles a palazzo but we don't call it (say) "Palazzo Bernanke." (Though that might be cute.) #palazzochupi
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    10/24/09

    @Dickdogfood: This is what the Chinese, French and the Germans mean when they say that the US, "Doesn't have high culture." Mostly the best we can muster as art is a pasticcio of cast off forms done in hot pink.

    A great many Renaissance artists and princes were Neoplatonists who believed in a perfect moral order that could be achieved through perfection and discipline of form. The whole of Northern Italy will be turning in their graves right now once they learn that some charlatan from Texas is passing off his shit as their art.

    (And have you seen the Diving bell and the butterfly? It's the most overrated film in the last decade. It's one of those films that people like merely because they think they need to like it for its being boring and overlong yet still constructed with arty mannerisms.)
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    10/23/09

    In reply to Luxury Real Estate Market 1/3 of the Way Back
    "ugly pink celebrity-infested craptower" - fabulous #palazzochupi
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    05/21/09

    In reply to ABC Internal Video Teaches Us How to Market The Smoking Clown
    Krusty: "They drove a dumptruck full of money up to my house. I'm not made of stone!"
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    05/21/09

    In reply to ABC Internal Video Teaches Us How to Market The Smoking Clown
    @5:12 the assistant comes in to tell them that NBC has a competing show called the "Snorting Clown."
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    05/21/09

    In reply to ABC Internal Video Teaches Us How to Market The Smoking Clown
    That clown looks familiar.
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    Image of andheartss haz it andheartss haz it
    02/04/09

    In reply to Did Obama Pose For This Hideous Painting Long Ago?
    Not Obama.


    Where it fails miserably? The hair. All old photography of the president show him with an afro-like style.


    From recalling pics of family members in the 70s, it was not cool to have hair as closely cut as in that painting. That's what his hair looks like now.

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    02/04/09

    @andheartss haz it: Excellent point! His wee junior 'fro from days of old was seriously cute. In the one interview that the li'l Obama ladies did, Sasha namechecks it! "Daddy had a small afro [measures it out over own adorable little head]!"


    [Go to 10:48 or so for that. Don't watch it all in one go, you will get tooth decay]

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    Image of scarletmenace scarletmenace
    02/04/09

    In reply to Did Obama Pose For This Hideous Painting Long Ago?
    I think the proper question to ask here is who is Obama's secret gay lover, because the painting was obviously done by an older gentleman in love with this young man.
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    02/04/09

    @scarletmenace: It's Jack from Titanic. Obama refused to pose in the necklace because it was too stereotypically "bling" (as I believe the kids called it some years back).
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    02/04/09

    In reply to Did Obama Pose For This Hideous Painting Long Ago?
    What's with the shirt hate? If we're assuming this was done in the 80s -- good lord, I've seen MUCH MUCH worse from the 80s. That ain't nothin!
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    02/04/09

    @SaraRueful: I actually had a shirt like that in the 80s.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    02/04/09

    @MrInBetween: The paint's probably still wet.
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    02/04/09

    @jasonelias: Ugh, commenting problems... What I wanted to say was, I don't think the shirt's even from the '80s, looks more like the early '90s to me.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    02/04/09

    @SaraRueful: I have pants something like it now. :DDD
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    02/04/09

    In reply to Did Obama Pose For This Hideous Painting Long Ago?
    I call BS. He used to be knoown as Barry Obama, right?
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    02/04/09

    @son of spam: Ooh! Good point.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    02/04/09

    In reply to Did Obama Pose For This Hideous Painting Long Ago?
    His legs are spread oh so suggestively and he's giving the viewer a come-hither look.


    That's what Anderson Cooper thought when he saw this picture.

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    Image of dado dado
    02/04/09

    @Kid Twist: Why is he pointing at his butt?
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    02/04/09

    In reply to Did Obama Pose For This Hideous Painting Long Ago?
    Does Obama have freakish arms and horribly disfigured hands?
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    02/04/09

    In reply to Did Obama Pose For This Hideous Painting Long Ago?
    Meh. Blago and his wife have been artists' models since 1949.


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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    02/04/09

    @King Blago: Gasp! Do not besmirch the good name of Lego, sir! (Miss? I don't know.)
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    02/04/09

    @King Blago: That's a mid-80s Blago though.
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    02/04/09

    @Aaron Altman: Miss - King Blago is my wrestler name. [gawker.com]


    @CaptainFantastic: Blago is always ahead of his time.

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    Image of Mihir Kelkar Mihir Kelkar
    02/04/09

    @King Blago: Don't you mean Blego?
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    02/07/09

    @Mihir Kelkar: Yes I do! Hee!
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    Image of Mary Mouse Mary Mouse
    02/04/09

    In reply to Did Obama Pose For This Hideous Painting Long Ago?
    I don't actually think it's hideous. Believe me, there is a world of fuglosity out there much worse than this.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    02/04/09

    In reply to Did Obama Pose For This Hideous Painting Long Ago?
    Or, more likely, the portrait was painted in December 2008 and made to look like an attic relic. The hope is that the "mystery" will help the (hiding, not dead) artist and his lady-friend earn six-figures for a garage sale piece of art.

    And, Hamilton, as usual, is right: the goofy shirt gives it all away -- it's someone's current idea of a late 70s disco shirt.
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