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Jeremy...the minute you find an Ayn Rand bobble head PLEASE let me know. :)

ald.

Post 21

Monday, February 19, 2007 - 10:59pm

Jeremy, what was the context for this picture?

Do you mean what it ran in?

If that's what you mean, I remember that it ran in this little independent publication at my college campus. I still have some stacks of stuff from college, and this was in it. It was an article on the American philosophical downfall, and they had highlighted the ideas of Ayn Rand as a possible platform for a whole new approach to things.

I wish I could tell you more than that, but I clipped the article awhile back, and only the picture remains...

Post 22

Monday, February 19, 2007 - 11:03pm

Jeremy...the minute you find an Ayn Rand bobble head PLEASE let me know. :)

*LOL* Will do. Actually, I think one will probably have to be manufactured.

You know, I was in a bookstore that has all these "action figures" of literary characters, as well as stuffed dolls of other "famous thinkers", yet there was no Ayn Rand, although there was a Nietzsche(sp?) one and a Socrates and Aristotle one.

Post 23

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 6:02am

I rest my case.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 6:44am

I think a good caption for this caricature would be:

"If you think you can pit your ideas against mine you've got another think coming."

Rand had the ability to dissect erroneous arguments like a coroner with a scalpel in the morgue, expertly determining the pathology and recording and explaining it in the terms of the professional and also in terms that the lay person could understand. The latter was her gift of fiction.

Sam

Post 25

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 7:18am

I don't like this drawing. It looks more like Betty Friedan's face, except she'd be holding two balls instead of one.

Post 26

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 10:56am

I remember back in the 70's a refrigeraor magnet of her, with $ as her eyes, and the caption underneath, saying - "I only have eyes for you".......

Post 27

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 11:18am

Maybe the caption could be: "Go long."

Post 28

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 3:23pm

Ha ha! She does look like she's throwing a football!

Or, about to knock down a 7-10 split...

(Edited by Mr. Jeremy M. LeRay on 2/20, 3:24pm)

Post 29

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 12:32pm

Rand liked bowling?

Michael

Post 30

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 8:16pm

No, no; I'm just saying. *L*

Post 31

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 8:38pm

Hi Jeremy,

I wasn't asking you if Rand liked bowling. I saw this in the caricature and made the quip. My posts take time to appear after I make them, so it came in after yours, although I had made it before.

Humor is in good part timing, so this one misfired.

Michael

Post 32

Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 12:14am

Dean Michael Gores
Due to the "randroid" accusation, I didn't really enjoy this mock of jihad. If you would have said "our great philosophical inventor/founder/teacher" I wouldn't feel this way. I'm not sure exactly who you are trying to mock.

I mocked the real jihadists. There's no moral judgement in this cartoon, only a judgement by one cartoonist about how AR looked. I think we should smile at this caricature and use Objectivist Art criticism for more serious work.

Post 33

Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 9:24pm

There is something just a little sinister, in that the eyebrows are arched, but there is no hint of a smile. Perhaps as sinister as that bald Mike Myers character, mr Evil, or whatnot. But as a caricature, the work is excellent, since it is unmistakbly her. It is ever so much better that the GWB caricatures nowadays or the Reagan ones of yore that could not be recognized without gross exaggeration and context.

I think Mr Beelen's statement is one of the funniest things I've read on this site since I've been here. And I agree with Mike that there is a resemblance to Friedan. But Friedan wasn't so bad, and I'd have just said that it was Friedan who was copying Rand's style in any case.

"Go long," and "You've got another think coming" were also great.

Who owns the copyright on this image?

-an animal-loving plant-waterer.

(Edited by Ted Keer
on 2/22, 9:25pm)

Post 34

Friday, March 2, 2007 - 3:44am