# Saddam's Love Palace Has Familiar Art **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694 "2003-04-14T18:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/1 "2003-04-14T18:16:26Z")
A thread about Saddam’s Love Palace on MPSIMS produced this comment: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flodnak \* > \*\*_The luuuuv shack is a little ol’ place where > We can hide our @sses…_ > > ## quote: > > ## Another [painting] showed a buxom woman chained to a barren desert mountain ledge, with a huge dragon diving down to kill her with sharpened talons. > > Even in the details, this guy is severely creepy. And individually wrapped skivvies? What the fuh? \*\* Holy crap! This painting’s description sounds EXACTLY like the cover of an SF/Fantasy novel by “Randy” Andy Offut! I can’t remember the title, but I bet someone does. There were descriptions of other pieces of artwork that definitely had an F&SF flavor. I hope we get to see lots of pics. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/2 "2003-04-14T18:48:14Z")
Sounds like [Boris](http://fantasy.bratsk.net/Vallejo/Andromeda.jpg) art. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/3 "2003-04-14T19:46:50Z")
**Evil Captor** , the novel you’re recalling is King Dragon. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/4 "2003-04-15T02:08:37Z")
Here’s [a link](http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/14/sprj.irq.saddam.hideaway/index.html) to a story with a photo that shows the painting in the background. It’s definitely the cover art from the book I mentioned. The painting is by “Rowena,” the famed sf&f cover artist. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/5 "2003-04-15T03:12:59Z")
Do we get some sort of prize now? I think we should get a prize! ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/6 "2003-04-15T03:49:22Z")
BWA-HA-HA! How weird! Years and years ago, my father had a table at a con right next to Rowena. My mom used to paint fantasy scenes, and wouldn’t you know it, we got stuck with the one table next to the Big Shot Fantasy Artist. Now she shows up in Saddam Hussein’s love shack. I should have known she was conspiring with evil dictators! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/7 "2003-04-15T04:28:00Z")
[Here’s](http://fourth-bo.boom.ru/VRM/VRM-05.jpg) a view of the Rowena painting in question. It comes from [this page](http://fi-lm-bo.boom.ru/VRM.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/8 "2003-04-15T11:47:20Z")
“Four out of five evil dictators prefer the art of Rowena for their love nests!” Man, she’d be so mortified! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/9 "2003-04-15T19:42:46Z")
[She is.](http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/75594p-69826c.html) ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/10 "2003-04-15T19:48:48Z")
Lets say I’m really drunk, and Saddam Hussein is trying to woo me. Bringing me to a mirrored love shack with gaudy ass dragon painting on the walls is going to dry up my loins in a heartbeat. That place was a gaudy, porn set nightmare. Interior Designers across the world were heard gasping in horror the minute “Mirrored Walls” was uttered. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/11 "2003-04-15T20:39:20Z")
Yeah, I’d feel bad if I helped a bastard like that get laid, too… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/12 "2003-04-15T22:36:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*Lets say I’m really drunk, and Saddam Hussein is trying to woo me. Bringing me to a mirrored love shack with gaudy ass dragon painting on the walls is going to dry up my loins in a heartbeat. > > That place was a gaudy, porn set nightmare. Interior Designers across the world were heard gasping in horror the minute “Mirrored Walls” was uttered. \*\* Well, let’s face it. When you can use pick-up lines like, “Sleep with me or I’ll execute your family,” it really doesn’t matter how you decorate your bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/13 "2003-04-15T23:24:49Z")
I may be mistaken, but I could swear that room was designed by Hilde on an episode of Trading Spaces. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-love-palace-has-familiar-art/168694/14 "2003-04-15T23:30:09Z")
if i ever get the chance to go on trading spaces i’ll have a tough time deciding between star trek house or sadam shack for the redo… unsuspecting designer: what do you see for your friends room? rocking chair: i think this bedroom need a “rocking iraqi” design. or i think this kitchen need to move up a few centuries to “boldly go where no produce has gone before.”