Static will humbly accept the Star-Telegram’s November 21 pilfering of our annual Turkey Awards as a sincere attempt by the daily to let us know how really top-drawer it thinks we are — as in that 19th-century adage, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
Admittedly, when we turned to the Life & Arts section that day and saw the really awful cartoon turkeys in what can only be perceived as a poor imitation of our own Turkey issue out that same day, our first reaction was, well, unprintable. Then we looked carefully at the goofy turkey-lurkeys — with names, but no explanations of why they had gained such status — and decided not to sue for theft of intellectual property, since there was nothing intellectual in the S-T’s presentation.
We know it’s hard for the editors of the S-T to come right out and admit that they read us and follow our stories with catch-up versions of their own, so we’re taking this little larceny as their way of saying “thanks” for being their tip sheet. And a special thanks of our own to Life & Arts editor Julie Heaberlin for proving us right when we gave her a gobbler this year for making that section, well, a turkey.

Circular Investing
It warmed Static’s cockles to read Dallas Morning News art critic Janet Kutner’s warning that the Kimbell Art Foundation has problems the trustees “would be well advised to solve.”
On November 25, Kutner raised questions about the foundaiton’s penchant for handing out its money to board members’ favorite charities, as first reported in this paper November 22. Even the museum’s elusive director, Timothy Potts, seemed to support critics who fear that such gifts will diminish the mu- seum’s buying power. Art prices are on the rise, he told Kutner, noting that the Kimbell faces a “danger ... that we will slip behind.” Huh? Then why is the board giving away Kay Kimbell’s store? An “investment,” trustee Ben Fortson told Kutner. “If we decide to build on our adjacent property, we’re going to ask the Bass, Carter, and Marion foundations for money.” Pardon Static for seeming naïve, but wouldn’t a better investment be to keep the money in interest-drawing accounts so that it would be available for things like, oh, say, art?