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whosasailorthen · 2009-10-04 23:28:56

Dmtdust wrote:
You can still appreciate someones artistic output (say Hakim Bey) and dislike there behaviour. I have known some absolute loonies in my time who produced brilliant music, art, business ideas, but whose personal lives were a cess-pit.

John Wayne Gacey was a fine artist. Does that mean what he did was OK, too?

Dmtdust · 2009-10-04 23:47:55

whosasailorthen wrote:
Dmtdust wrote:
You can still appreciate someones artistic output (say Hakim Bey) and dislike there behaviour. I have known some absolute loonies in my time who produced brilliant music, art, business ideas, but whose personal lives were a cess-pit.
John Wayne Gacey was a fine artist. Does that mean what he did was OK, too?

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/12849.jpg

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/12857.jpg

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/12850.jpg

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/12851.jpg

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/13142.jpg

What exactly don't you understand in my statement?

fnord · 2009-10-04 23:48:31

I’m rather charmed by this little Gacey gem.

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Dmtdust · 2009-10-07 21:14:02

whosasailorthen · 2009-10-07 22:35:46

Dmtdust wrote:
whosasailorthen wrote:
Dmtdust wrote:
You can still appreciate someones artistic output (say Hakim Bey) and dislike there behaviour. I have known some absolute loonies in my time who produced brilliant music, art, business ideas, but whose personal lives were a cess-pit.
John Wayne Gacey was a fine artist. Does that mean what he did was OK, too?

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/12849.jpg

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/12857.jpg

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/12850.jpg

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/12851.jpg

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/13142.jpg
What exactly don't you understand in my statement?

I wasn't arguing. I was being sarcastic.

Excuuuuuuuuussssseeeeee me.

Cripes.

phreddy · 2009-10-08 18:09:05

Here's a little sidebar. This guy stepped up to defend Polanski.

PARIS (AP) - France's culture minister is struggling to keep his job amid an uproar about a 2005 book in which he details Bangkok's brothels and the pleasure and freedom of paying "boys" for sex.