I like it when he says this about the alleged groping:
“But you’ve got to remember,” he said, “I’m the idol to these women who are there. They sell my work every day, you know. They’re enamored with any attention I would give them. I don’t know what kind of flirting they were trying to do with me. I don’t recall what was going on that night.”
Thomas Kinkade has written (or co-written, or paid ghost writers to write) several novels, too. Our library can hardly keep them in stock – the same crowd who loves the never-ending series of *Left Behind * novels and whichever writer is billed as “The Christian Tom Clancy” goes coo-coo for them.
Oh, man,Sausage Creature, thank you so much for that link to the Painter of Blight parodies on Something Awful. I’ve had a long weekend of work, and that made me belly laugh, still gut chuckling…
Especially the Ostrich and Bob Ross screaming. Lovely!
Having read one of the Left Behind novels (it was a class assignment), I’ve decided that comparing LaHaye and Jenkins to Clancy is an insult to Clancy. That’s how badly-written these books are.
No, not LaHaye and Jenkins. There’s another writer who is called “The Christian Tom Clancy”… I’ll look for his name tomorrow when I go back into the stacks.
Oh. See, my take on having to read Armageddon was something along the lines of “this is like really, really bad Tom Clancy. Like the stuff I read to kill time on the plane that actually isn’t written by Clancy but is titled ‘Tom Clancy’s Whatever’ and written by some guy I’ve never heard of. But still worse, because the entire idea is even more ludicrious than groups of cyberterrorists.”
I miss Bob Ross. That man was cool, I don’t care how trite his paintings were. Maybe because unlike Kinkade, he was just totally relaxed and unpretentious. “Happy little trees!”
One of the “investigative” TV mags did a story about the Kincaid paintings…he never actually paints most of them…he has a team of artists that do, and he might go by and make one stroke with a brush on each. Some of the works he actually does paint completely, and those sell for much much more.