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9 Responses to “Bailout Art”

1. DL Says:
   April 6th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

   That pig would make a nice float for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

2. Mark E Hoffer Says:
   April 6th, 2009 at 5:27 pm

   I’m curious as eo why the Rook is so prominent, one could think that it would have been one of the first pieces ’swiped’..

   w/that, I wonder if he/she considered using the Bishop, or King, instead..

   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rook
   def 1, #2

   past that, if was a play on ‘birds’, wouldn’t it be Black?

3. Mark E Hoffer Says:
   April 6th, 2009 at 5:33 pm

   oops, nice link..

   “There will be chess pieces randomly placed across a spance of chessboard hills, illustrating the financial ‘game’ that seems impossible to play.”

   obviously, not a chess player, went with the ‘random’ approach..

   still, it’d be interesting to hear his take on it..

4. Foghorn Longhorn Says:
   April 6th, 2009 at 5:33 pm

   http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/files/2009/03/trib-cartoon2.jpg

   Added this one to my home page.
   1934
   Chicago Tribune

5. Froglips Says:
   April 6th, 2009 at 6:17 pm

   @ Fog-Long

   Great toon, Chinese were already in the deal.
   Just wondering if Poutin is Stalin’s replacement? Appears to be so..

   What get me the most is the quickness people want to dismiss the past, as if we are smarter now than then.
   More sophisticated without a doubt, smarter I don’t think so.

6. VennData Says:
   April 6th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

   Life as Art… anybody else notice Eric Dinallo stroking his pen while he was talking to Maria B. today?

7. Foghorn Longhorn Says:
   April 6th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

   What get me the most is the quickness people want to dismiss the past…

   One guess
   The past is written in black and white, and thus unalterable, the present/future can be viewed with rose colored glasses.
   Tweak this, twist that,
   different result,
   because we are so SMART.

8. hipster Says:
   April 6th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

   How bout some new art for TBP Barry….this new site sucks. I thought you were going to fix that annoying flash that takes forever to load?

9. Foghorn Longhorn Says:
   April 6th, 2009 at 9:22 pm

   Speaking of distancing oneself from the past,
   sitting here watching Woodstock, 1969.

   My how far we’ve traveled.
   We’ve gone from free love, power to the people,
   to this.

   People change I suppose.