Distel32 Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 commie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foraker Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 i'm guessing the camels aren't the easy lays he was hoping they'd be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szyjakowski Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 on a side note you can get some really good gelato next door to the taco del stalin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foraker Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 maybe they need a mussolini statue too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distel32 Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 I'll bring back some nice Bactrian camels from Mongolia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 hey!!! that's not seattle, it's the republic of fremont. Â they have a troll too. what does it mean? Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szyjakowski Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 jb do you know how big the real painting of the scream is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_W Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 jb do you know how big the real painting of the scream is? Â Big enough to wrap his lifeless body in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Posted August 11, 2004 Author Share Posted August 11, 2004 hey!!! that's not seattle, it's the republic of fremont. they have a troll too. what does it mean?  I thought you might bring that up. I have no problem with a bedtime storybook fictional character.  I do have a problem with the founder of the USSR and communism having a huge ass statue in the country that fought for some 50 years to defeat the spread of his followers. comprende? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratboy Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 taco del stalin   But that's lenin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 That statue has an interesting story associated with it. Some art connoiseur, Lewis Carpenter, was travelling with his wife in Slovakia shortly after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. This statue of Lenin had been standing in the town square and had been toppled. Some wino was living in it in a junk yard. The thing had been installed quite recently and was solid bronze. He asked what the price was and I guess they only wanted the equivalent of the melt down value of the bronze, $13,000. So they guy buys it for reasons only he could know, and spends a fortune to ship it to Issaquah where he installed it in front of his home. Â It was so heavy that it sunk into the ground and fell over at one point. I saw this thing in the guy's yard near High Point Way or the Preston exit, I've forgotten which. Â So this guy dies suddenly in 1994 and his wife is stuck with this thing she didn't want, so where else would she go, but the People's Republic of Fremont. They agreed to "temporarily" display the thing so the widow could try to sell it. It actually had a "For Sale" sign on it at one time. Well, to my knowledge nobody actually wanted it, but the good people of Fremont got used to it, and so it remains. I guess you can still buy it if you want for $150,000. Â Story Article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_W Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Shut up, cbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Bite me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Posted August 11, 2004 Author Share Posted August 11, 2004 That statue has an interesting story...blah blah blah... Â Yeah, real interesting, IF YOU'RE A COMMIE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 szyjakowski- since i have not seen it live (not much of munch's stuff in general), i didn't know until i googled it: 91X74cm. i'd like very much to see the painting someday. Â bronco: i think having the statue there can be seen in many different ways and i don't think it implies support for the ideology. apparently the intent was purely artistic as it is quite well done. my comment about the troll was for fun; don't read anything else into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 hey!!! that's not seattle, it's the republic of fremont. they have a troll too. what does it mean?  I thought you might bring that up. I have no problem with a bedtime storybook fictional character.  I do have a problem with the founder of the USSR and communism having a huge ass statue in the country that fought for some 50 years to defeat the spread of his followers. comprende?  Come on dude, the Cold War was cool. The 70's and 80's were fun. Russian tennis playing chicks are hot. Lenin's statue is kitsch.  If it were a statue of Stalin, it would be different ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szyjakowski Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 yeah i too want to see that work of art. the other day at a buddy's house i saw a mock painting where the face was tweaty bird and the man shadow in the back was sylvester the cat from looney toons...caption: the Scweem (or something close) fukin hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Shut up, cbs. Are you really a moron? Or do you just play one on the internet? Â That statue has kitsch all over it - it's location is especially ironic. I've a T-Shirt from shortly after the collapse for McLenin's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancegranite Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Da! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Has Lenin lost his sting? Do we no longer fear his ideas? Certainly he is known more for his ideology than his deeds, unlike Stalin. Certainly, 40 years ago, his statue would be unthinkable. He is in Fremont because our system won the cold war and communism is no longer a threat to us ( or is it?). Â Maybe in 50 years, someone will find a bronze statue of Osama bin Laden in a dump and bring it home as a piece of funky art. Right now that is hard to imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szyjakowski Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 cbs why don't you go blow the damn statue up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMR Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 i see you found tlg's gremlin site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 COMRADES! Â The battle is over but the war has just begun! Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Â Hey Vladimir Ilich! We should never have let that swine Dzugashvili into the Party! My head hurts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Â A Spectre is haunting the Internet. The Spectre of Revolution! Rise up sprayers. You have nothing to lose but your chains! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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