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Artist puts gingerbread Nazis in hardware store window
Associated Press ^ | 11/20/06

Posted on 11/22/2006 9:27:35 AM PST by presidio9

An artist's creation of gingerbread Nazis drew complaints after it was displayed in a hardware store window, prompting the store owner to demand the artwork be removed.

Charlie Palmer covered the gingerbread men during the weekend and said he wanted them out by of his business by Tuesday. "He's gone way overboard this time," Palmer said of artist Keith McGuckin. "A few of his other displays were on the edge, but never that crazy."

McGuckin said he chose the subject to provoke thought, not to offend.

"I can differentiate between real Nazis and that the atrocities they performed compared to these little gingerbread men, but I guess some people can't," said McGuckin, 50.

Palmer left one of McGuckin's displays uncovered: a depiction of a suicidal snowman sitting under a hairdryer.

"I want people to say 'Oh, my gosh,' " McGuckin said. "And once they look at it, say: 'It is kind of pretty.' "

Last winter, McGuckin used Palmer's window to display a "caroler-bashing" snowman and a little boy excited about using his chemistry set to create the illegal drug crystal meth.

McGuckin is searching for new display space in the town, home of Oberlin College and known for its left-leaning, beads-and-incense image.

"Maybe I just find beauty in bizarre places," he said.


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1 posted on 11/22/2006 9:27:36 AM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9

"Keith liked kids and dogs too."

2 posted on 11/22/2006 9:30:54 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: presidio9

No pics of those Gingerbread Nazis? Damn! I always wanted to see one... Haha.


3 posted on 11/22/2006 9:31:01 AM PST by SolidWood
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4 posted on 11/22/2006 9:33:11 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Who invented rock and roll hiccups?)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
"I can differentiate between real Nazis and that the atrocities they performed compared to these little gingerbread men, but I guess some people can't," said McGuckin, 50.

50 going on 15.

5 posted on 11/22/2006 9:35:07 AM PST by r9etb
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To: Revolting cat!

I think the artist needs to cut back on the chronic.


6 posted on 11/22/2006 9:35:18 AM PST by Petronski (BRABANTIO: Thou art a villain. IAGO: You are--a senator. ---Othello I.i.)
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To: presidio9
It fails my first and most important test in determining "Is is art?"

I could make it, if I wanted to. Therefore, it is not art.

7 posted on 11/22/2006 9:35:30 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: presidio9
Gingerbread Hitler's bunker.


8 posted on 11/22/2006 9:37:36 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Who invented rock and roll hiccups?)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Looks like she's got a game of Hollywood Nazi Squares going on there.
9 posted on 11/22/2006 9:37:55 AM PST by jdm
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To: presidio9
Gingerbread Nazi Death Squad and their innocent victim.


10 posted on 11/22/2006 9:42:56 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Who invented rock and roll hiccups?)
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To: presidio9

And our taxes fund some of the idiots!!


11 posted on 11/22/2006 9:47:12 AM PST by xowboy (My Parents were Right.......Love It or Leave It.)
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To: presidio9

No talent? Just be outrageous.


12 posted on 11/22/2006 9:58:46 AM PST by SIDENET (Everybody was kung-fu fighting)
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To: presidio9

"Heil Hitlery!"


13 posted on 11/22/2006 9:59:04 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Who invented rock and roll hiccups?)
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