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Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Thomas Kinkade

From the L.A. Times, 2006

And then there is Kinkade's proclivity for "ritual territory marking," as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview.

It's impossible for me to look at any of his images and not see that signature golden shower of light as anything other than piss. "Painter of Light" indeed.