I wonder how much it would cost to get a bronze statue made of (say) me? With or without parrots.
My hometown of Sacramento can only hope for a Dick Van Patten statue.
Milwaukeean here. I think it’s dumb and campy, but who cares?
:: looks at picture and recoils ::
Okay. Clearly I have to take a road trip to Milwaukee. I’ll need three of you to meet me there: one with a flame-thrower, one with a bazooka, one with a few sticks of dynamite.
Huh?
(Is there a general “with or without parrots” meme I’m unaware of?)
While were on the subject of odd Milwaukee art, WTF is that orange thing downtown near the lake, made out of a bunch of I-beams. I’ll give you that it slightly resembles the art museam, but it’s been there for at least 20 years. I don’t have a freaken clue how to google it, maybe I can find it on google street view.
[Here it is](<iframe width=“425” height=“240” frameborder=“0” scrolling=“no” marginheight=“0” marginwidth=“0” src=“http://maps.google.com/maps/sv?cbp=1,116.65818763535488,,0,3.414031594487585&cbll=43.039172,-87.899834&panoid=E9BQJKU2JN1bDD7gSln7Gg&v=1&hl=en&gl=us”></iframe><br /><small><a href=“Google Maps” style=“color:#0000FF;text-align:left”>View Larger Map</a></small>)
In Britain in 2007, £112,000 was apparently “about right” for a slightly larger than lifesize bronze statue, including the plinth. As is.
Sorry, that’s the best I could do before losing interest.
http://www.sculpture.net/community/archive/index.php/t-5035.html
I’m torn. On the one hand, it’s a vast improvement over the typical downtown corporate-sponsored abstractoid sculpture. On the other hand, it is undeniably horrible.
I suppose if any city is going to host a monument to a greasy fictional motorcycle hoodlum, it might as well be Milwaukee.
No, it’s just that he has parrots.
I heard that they were planning a Robin Williams as Mork from Ork standing next to a large opened egg on the mall outside the supposed music store in Bolder, Colorado, but Williams said no. But I do not know how valid the story is. I heard it in a bar in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Now do one of Pam Dawber and I’ll approve.
What we need is a statue of Phobe Cates in Ridgemont.
:sniff: Does that mean no Full House/Olsen twins statue here in SF. 
How about one of Geraldo Rivera in a basement in Chicago.
Better yet, just put Geraldo in a basement in Chicago.
Ugh. I think Cloris Leachman as Phyllis would better fit the TVLand aesthetic.
Oh, COME ON!
Here is a Journal Sentinel article about that ugly “sunburst” thing.
Definitely with parrots.
And the only San Francisco statue I will accept is one of Karl Malden and Michael Douglas.
I thought of that, but dramas aren’t TVLand’s thing, really. They’re more into the sitcoms.