The 8th Night
Now, click on the menorah for your 8th Hanukkah present.
Thank God this is over. I’m exhausted.
Now, click on the menorah for your 8th Hanukkah present.
Thank God this is over. I’m exhausted.
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December 18, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Was the birth a C-section?
I hope so.
December 18, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I didn’t know the Coneheads were jewish
December 18, 2009 at 5:03 pm
That guy looks like Chevy Chase.
December 18, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Look, the rabbi has a giant golden oosik!
December 18, 2009 at 5:05 pm
So I was gonna be fairly nice about this.. then I realized how effing much he’s asking for it. $3300??!?!?!? For Freddie Kruger hands?
Screw that.
December 18, 2009 at 5:05 pm
He kinda looks like Santa Claus, ironically…
Um, over 3 grand for an acrylic painting?
Those yarmulkes (sp?) are hysterical…
December 18, 2009 at 5:06 pm
correction- a poorly rendered acrylic painting- it doesn’t need to be an oil painting to be fine art!
December 18, 2009 at 5:12 pm
but $3,300!! Such a Deal! I’ve gotta tell Moishe, he’ll plotz!
December 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Did it get too bright with all those paintings “shining beauty” from his walls? He could just buy sunglasses and spare us.
December 18, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Am I a cheap Jew, or is that REALLY REALLY overpriced bad “art”?
December 18, 2009 at 5:15 pm
ha ha! and he misspelled “moron” at the bottom!
December 18, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I’m no artist or even art critic, but isn’t the head too small, the arms too long and the body way too large and amorphous? I hope no Rabbi’s feelings were hurt in the making of this painting.
December 18, 2009 at 5:16 pm
“Please care for it for long time as I would do.”
With gargantuan hands like that, I’ll wager I’ll do it one better-I’ll LOVE it long time.
December 18, 2009 at 5:20 pm
By the way, Regretsy fans should know about the Museum of Bad Art:
http://www.museumofbadart.org/
December 18, 2009 at 5:30 pm
@#1 Methuselah: That’s the first thing I thought (C section), and I can’t beleive you beat me to the punch line! Well, you are older and wiser…
December 18, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Gentile here – full of curiosity…
Chevy Chase is a rabbi?
Do you actually play a Torah the same way you play a harp?
December 18, 2009 at 6:04 pm
He actually signs his paintings M.OREN? Are you sure he wasn’t TRYING to get on here (because God knows someone’s going to end up buying this now)?
December 18, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Oh, and all I can think of that Red Sox kippah is that it’d be the perfect gift for Donny Donowitz.
December 18, 2009 at 6:37 pm
@#15 Skully: Older I’ll grant you, wiser is debatable, but surely no funnier than you *bows to master*
And let’s face it, there just weren’t many directions to take this one. But I reckon Miz Killer really is exhausted – double duty on the special entries, and then that little Facebook problem – so I’m happy to cut her some slack.
December 18, 2009 at 7:11 pm
obviously his mom just wanted it off the refrigerator.
Check his profile, he now lives in Florida.
This kind of crap passes for fine art in Florida.
Not unlike the ‘festival of the masters’ passes as fine art in orange county california.
December 18, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I’m just glad it’s not a reborn rabbi.
December 18, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I think that maybe, he should seriously, consider, the application of, the punctuation, known as, the period.
December 18, 2009 at 7:53 pm
My custom kippah is a little big. Did you save the receipt? I’m sad this is over. I’ll miss the Jewish mother comments.
On a non-Hanukkah note, it’s suddenly turned damn cold in my area. When I went to walk the dog earlier, I couldn’t find a scarf to save my life, so my roommate offered to lend me…her cowl. Yes, in the name of frostbite prevention, I swallowed my pride and wore a fucking cowl. Where do I turn in my Regretsy membership card?
December 18, 2009 at 8:03 pm
I didn’t know Santa was a rabbi. I guess that would make him a jew for jesus?
December 18, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I think this guy’s rabbi is a muppet. And I’m trying to figure out if the words in the prayer book in front of him are actual words.
December 18, 2009 at 8:22 pm
I wish I were Jewish so I could be less self-conscious about pointed observations. But–look at the dove in flight, and squint at the rabbi–he resembles a bird too. Was that subconscious?
December 18, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Thank goodness “there is no other prints.”
December 18, 2009 at 9:24 pm
@#19 Methuselah: You’re too kind (especially since I misspelled “believe” on #15). Regarding the birth of this painting, it looks like the umbilical cord is still attached, or is that supposed to be a shofar?
December 18, 2009 at 9:42 pm
This is just really poorly executed art. The colors are weird, the brushstrokes are awkward, the proportions are totally wrong – and not in a “primitive art” kind of way. Just in a flat, bad, untalented sort of way. I am choking at the sheer gall of this person charging $3300 for this painting. I wouldn’t pay $330, $33.30, or even $3.30 for it.
December 19, 2009 at 6:12 am
not to mention it’s 11 years old and has been hanging on his wall all this time. I hope it’s a wall of a gallery or museum something justifying the ridiculous cost.
I’d love to see the bonus hat viewed on a skull…lol “Steal your head”
December 19, 2009 at 9:52 am
ah yes. reminds me of moses…..or charleton heston playing moses….or, well, you know what i mean.
http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq105/tashaelizabethhart/celebrity-pictures-charleton-heston.jpg
December 19, 2009 at 10:29 am
I know putting a price on art is difficult, but for Christ’s sake … ahem.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19529531
I paint crappy pictures of the places I stay on holiday, too — I’d just never have the nerve to suggest that someone pay $1976.00 US for them.
December 19, 2009 at 11:21 am
“the beauty that shines”? Is that why I think I’m going blind from looking at it? I thought it was of the multitudes of crimes against art repeatedly stabbing my eye balls out of my head.
December 19, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I hope he’s painting this stuff with a vagina, and that’s why it costs so damned much.
December 19, 2009 at 1:41 pm
@#28 Skully. I think it’s a shofar but when I first glanced quickly at the picture I thought it was some sort of weird tail coming out of his robe.
December 19, 2009 at 2:20 pm
This piece of art was born on ____ by me __
WTF does that me?
December 19, 2009 at 9:28 pm
I think the position of the shofar looks rather phallic, which I find rather disturbing since it seems to be pointed at whatever book that is levitating near the rabbi. The flowers appear to be shooting out from the shofar, although the shofar does not appear to be circumcised.
My Hebrew isn’t great, but I do know that L’Chayim is a toast when drinking booze. Maybe it’s the Book of Bacchus.
December 21, 2009 at 7:36 am
What’s in the book is a Jewish new year greeting. Which would explain the shofar, which is sounded on the at that time. A lot of synagogues display this kind of thing, donated by the artists. Haven’t our people suffered enough?