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Obamination

David Waterston — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:38:30 +0000

As the irrational wave of false-idol worship continues to sweep the U.S., Dutch newspaper De Pers peers into it’s crystal ball and sees nothing but violent death in the future of President Obama…

Illustration by Pluis Producties

‘Lone wolf’ loert op Obama (depers.nl) – original Dutch
‘Lone wolf’ lurks on Obama (depers.nl) – Google translation to English
Nation’s Presidential Assassins Still Undecided (theonion.com)

This is the truth

David Waterston — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:17:30 +0000

Despite having “a new found faith in Christianity” (generally the kiss of death to any kind of creativity), Peter Howson, “Scotland’s greatest living painter” ™ has now managed to produce a triumvirate of highly pleasing paintings of my favourite celebrity idiot and orphan botherer, the graceless Madonna. As can be seen from the extract above, also featuring her equally boorish husband (referred to here by Howson as ‘Ogre’), he has succinctly and expertly captured the repulsive allure of the “golden couple”.

“Madonna has bad brush with artist” (timesonline.co.uk)
Peter Howson Official Website (peterhowson.net)
“Howson slams ‘conveyor belt’ artists” (scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com)
Flowers East Gallery, London (flowerseast.com)
Features images of all paintings in the collection “Acheron and other works”.

Previously:

Constant shallowness leads to evil

Historical note: “Scotland’s greatest living painter” was actually born in England.

We are fam-i-lee

David Waterston — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:02:55 +0000

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something.
Nowadays everybody’s crazy.”
Charles Manson

Image source: Nick Bougas (unpopart.org)

No, please, no more.