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The Grinch and Max

Oil

6x6 oil on panel, black floater frame


The Grinch's dog Max was my favorite character in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I do identify with the Grinch, tho. He's the kinda' person who prefers talking to a volley-ball named Wilson, than going out and meeting people. If all of us misanthropes ever decided to meet up, we'd have our cameras and microphones turned off, and I can't think of a better zoom call.


Boris Karloff (the Hollywood horror icon) was the narrator and the voice of The Grinch. They cast the guy who played Frankenstein, for a kids show, fer gawd's sake! I mean… who saw the movie, Frankenstein, and thought that monster-guy would make a great lead in a children's Christmas special?


Well, whoever it was, that person was a genius.


The theme song was also genius. Who knew the man who gave us The Cat in the Hat, was so good at writing insults?


It's full of gems like:


Your sole is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful
Assortment of deplorable rubbish
Imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots


Go look up the lyrics … it really is the greatest Christmas song ever written. :D

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About The Artist

Karen McCool

Karen McCool

My paintings celebrate things we have in common, like an obsession with a film character, or a universal experience captured in a vintage photograph. My hope is that we stop seeing each other as Us vs. Them. As much as modern technology connects us, it can also widen the divides between us. When I was a kid we had three channels, plus VHS. We all watched the same shows like “All In the Family”, and “Mary Tyler Moore”.  Now, with a bajillion channels and streaming services, our "tribes" have shrunk, and correspondingly, our respect for differing opinions. Our political discourse has devolved into name-calling, and even physical violence. 

Seems to me, it’s never not a good time to be reminded of all that we have in common, and that we're all in this together. Ultimately, we all want the same things:  to love and be loved, to be accepted for who we are, and to feel a sense of belonging. We all have our own ambitions and worries and we're all fans of Betty White.  (And if you're not a fan of Betty White, are you even human?)

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