Probably this poor searcher found him- or herself visiting one of Mike's old swipe file posts. (Incidentally, this is by far our most-visited page on the site. Could that have something to do with Uma in the altogether? Personally, I prefer to imagine that it's just general affection for the details of our second issue. Order it now and have it in plenty of time for Valentine's Day!)
But here's what the poor Googler probably wanted to find on our site:
Many people do not realize that Chaim Witz, otherwise known as Gene Simmons, based his "Demon" persona on an early version of Picasso's 1903 The Old Guitarist. Recent technological inspection has revealed a preoccupied woman, apparently nude, under the famous painting, but the earlier and more awesome version of the painting has been lost to the vagaries of time... until now!
(You may click to enlarge somewhat.)
It's worth noting that Simmons is unlike Picasso, in that there are some things that Pablo Picasso was never called.
"Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar," indeed.
Mike, I hope you'll paste your penance below...
...uh, okay, Isaac, hyar 'tis:
Clearly this is based not on Klimt's famous painting "The Kiss" (as seen, sort of, in SatCom #2, as noted above), but on Edvard Munch's less famous painting "The Kiss," which you can see here in its oil-paint version and here in its woodcut version. I have altered the image ever-so-slightly to suggest that it depicts a scene of osculation between Prince, original performer of the song "Kiss," and Tom Jones, who covered it with the Art of Noise. Munch's original design didn't leave a lot of room to suggest who's who in my version. I leave it to the viewer to decide if TAFKAP is wearing his own apparel or if the Performer from Pontypridd is sporting the Purple One's coat as the fan he must be.
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No doubt from Picasso's rarely-discussed "Love Gun" period...
It's worth following the link to Wikipedia that I put under Gene Simmons's real name, just so you can read the Al Franken racquetball story.
Why he's got the boorish manners of a Yalie! That's why gentlemen play squash, not racquetball.
Oddly, the first people I knew who played squash were grad students in English at, yes, Yale. My behavior is so correct that I avoid sports altogether.
Now I find that I want to see a picture of Prince in KISS makeup. Maybe done up as Peter Criss? Preferably that doodle would contain no osculation.
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