PHOTO: The Link Between Timonium and Ted Nugent

It's not uncommon for musician Ted Nugent to make headlines for spouting off uber-conservative (at times controversial) political sentiments.

He was most recently quoted saying that the President represents "everything bad about humanity," according to The Huffington Post.

Nugent's polarizing comments have been a topic of discussion only in recent years (minus one stark detour from sanity in 1990 when he told the Detroit Free Press that apartheid was "not a cut and dry issue.")

In April, the gun rights activist pleaded guilty to breaking game laws by killing one too many bears and illegally transporting one of them.

That was the same month he threatened to kill President Obama. You may recall the rock star proclaiming he "will either be dead or in jail by this time next year," if President Obama was elected for a second term.

With that in mind, is it a surprise that Nugent signs his autographs with the very succinct message: "kill, kill, kill"?

The photo attached to this post shows Nugent donning his trademark "great white buffalo" Native American head dress, inscribed with the grim message in red marker.

The framed photo once hung on the walls of , which is decorated with decades of music memorabilia from the owner's successful catering business. (Full Disclosure: I used to work for Hightopps and have catered for several big name musicians, although Nugent was not one of them.)

Hightopps catered for Nugent in the mid 2000s, if memory serves correctly—a short time before the artist started shooting guitars on stages with arrows (true story). The photo has since been taken down following a renovation to the popular Timonium watering hole, but Nugent's proclivity toward violence seems to be in full swing.

So I ask, is it foreshadowing? Can an artist become lost in his or her own wild on-stage persona? Am I making too much out of an autograph?

Tell us what you think of the autographed photo or Ted Nugent in the comments section below.

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