I object to anyone my age dying. It encourages what I consider to be a bad trend.
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:31 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know anything about Kinkade swindling investors but I certainly did > hear about his temper and other rather unsavory things about his personal > life. > > Whatever. > > Much as I may dismiss his art (such as it is) I'm not sure how it is that he > didn't deliver. Seems to me that he did deliver - exactly what his buyers > wanted (otherwise they wouldn't have bought, right?). > > Whatever our opinion might be of his works, the sheer number of paintings and > prints sold must say something... > > Bottom feeder? Perhaps. > > Opportunistic panderer? Almost certainly. > > Rich man? Well, he was that. Fat lot of good his money is doing him now. > > I guess it'll buy him a nice funeral and keep his heirs in funds for a > generation or two. > > I hear he was a Christian. I'm sure there will be a Thomas Kinkade wing added > to his church now, likely filled with his paintings. > > As others said, condolences to his family. May they find consolation in their > grief... > > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> > Sent: April 7, 2012 4/7/12 > To: [email protected] > > > I'm not really impressed with his success, any more than I'm impressed > with the success of ... oh say ... Bernie Madoff. Kinkade was "selling" > champagne when he couldn't even deliver beer and swindling his investors > on top of it. Plus, he was an opportunistic bottom feeder. > > And lets not even get into the way he acted when he was drinking. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
