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a belated answer to Bread’s David Gates, who once asked, in a pop falsetto, “If a picture paints a thousand words / Then why can’t I paint you?”

’the hell…?

20 Replies to “a belated answer to Bread’s David Gates, who once asked, in a pop falsetto, “If a picture paints a thousand words / Then why can’t I paint you?””

  1. norm2121 says:

    Abbie Hoffman said it best when he called the 70s “that slum of a decade”. Jeff, you just wrecked my afternoon.

  2. Jeff Goldstein says:

    Listening to some Emmylou Harris just now. So it wasn’t all bad.

  3. ken says:

    And here I thought the answer was porn was against the law where David was at the time…

    I mean, c’mon…what kind of picture do you think he really wanted to paint?

  4. Mikey NTH says:

    Because when it comes to words you’re fingerpainting?

    Just a guess.

  5. Mark says:

    Because “Susie” can’t read?

  6. Pablo says:

    Because you don’t have the chops, pansy.

  7. Robert says:

    Well, they did go in for bodypainting back then.  Maybe he was speaking in a literal sense?

    tw: federal45 is damned good ammunition.

  8. Major John says:

    Holy Crap, I laughed so hard I started choking and my kids thought I was going to die…whew…

  9. wishbone says:

    Who wins in a bar fight?

    Bread or The Association?

    That, my friends, is right up there with “Can God make a rock so big he can’t lift it?”

  10. McGehee says:

    David, the first thing you need to know if you’re going to paint a portrait, is how to @#$!!ing draw.

    Unless you’re an impressionist, in which case just dab a few blobs and tell her it’s her.

  11. Pablo says:

    Who wins in a bar fight?

    Bread or The Association?

    If it’s the Bar Association, those fuckers win hands down.

  12. Major John says:

    Who wins in a bar fight?

    Bread or The Association?

    That, my friends, is right up there with “Can God make a rock so big he can’t lift it?”

    I think you mean something more like “what happens when a resistable force meets a moveable object”.

  13. Jeff Goldstein says:

    Can God make another God more infinity that S/he is?

    And if so, can that God then make the first God into a stick of gum and chew it until it makes itself into something non-chewable?

    8 glasses of Orkney, yes.

  14. wishbone says:

    8 glasses of Orkney, yes.

    Description or affirmation, Jeff?

  15. Jeff Goldstein says:

    Yes.

  16. Spiny Norman says:

    8 glasses of Orkney, yes.

    Scapa or Highland Park?

    Or are we talking beer? ‘Cause that’d be an awful lot of whisky…

  17. People, the Battlestar Galactica series finale just revealed that the mysterious music heard by a handful of key characters on the ship was in fact …

    wait for it …

    a Bob Dylan song.

    Naturally, my world is devastated.

  18. Jeff Goldstein says:

    Highland Park.

  19. People, the Battlestar Galactica series finale just revealed that the mysterious music heard by a handful of key characters on the ship was in fact …

    wait for it …

    a Bob Dylan song.

    I knew that show sucked within five minutes of trying to watch it. Anyone who substitutes camera movement for actual energy in a scene is a hack. Anyone who waves the camera around like an exhibitionist waves his member around during a scene involving two people seated at a table having a calm discussion is a worthless hack.

    Seriously. That show sucked.

  20. imran says:

    Testing system – server admin.

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