[music]

[gripes & grudges dept.]

[music]

beatonna:

speaking of Fancy Dress parties

Gee whiz it’s like this guy time traveled to Right Now and went on the internet and asked what people think is funny.  Because the answer is bacon, for reasons I know not.

But since he won first prize I guess they were all hip to the future back in ‘94.  1894.

[fancy dress dept.]

At all events, he remembers throwing this, or some other book just like it, into the waste-basket, in the middle of the big screwing scene. Not that one isn’t broad-minded, of course; let them write about heterosexuality if they must, and let everyone read it who cares to. Just the same, it is a deadly bore and, to be frank, a wee bit distasteful. Why can’t these modern writers stick to the old simple wholesome themes—such as, for example, boys.

- Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man (1964)

[gripes & grudges dept.]

[oh boy dept.]

michellelegro:

Maybe now his paintings will be worth something. 

laphamsquarterly:

The No. 1 quote critics give me is, “Thom, your work is irrelevant.” My art is relevant because it’s relevant to 10 million people. That makes me the most relevant artist in this culture.

“Thomas Kinkade dies at 54,” LA Times

Susan Orlean, “Art for Everybody,” The New Yorker, 2001. 

[fine (?) art dept.]

[foolish games dept.]

[fine art dept.]

JJS: You attended Burning Man several times, did you not? I think you’ve mentioned it in five of your books? [Laughter] I’m positive about that. I maybe don’t know about music, but I know about that. 

Dyer: Yes, well at least I’ve not been to—what’s the name of that festival that you’ve been to?—Crossover Festival? 

JJS: Haven’t been yet, you mean.

[books & design]

[jokes dept.]

[gripes & grudges dept.]