Emily Katrencik is eating the wall that separates the gallery's exhibition space from the bedroom of its director, Louky Keijsers. How is that wall, Emily? Kinda dry? Yep...Probably why they call it "drywall"...
Five days a week, Ms. Katrencik consumes a section of wall 1.956 inches square and three sheets of drywall thick, for a total of about 8.5 cubic inches of drywall; she rests on Sundays and Mondays. Each meal takes about half an hour. She began on Jan. 1, to ensure that there would be a sizable hole before the opening on Jan. 28, and will keep it up until the exhibition closes on Feb. 27, at which time she calculates the hole will be large enough to stick your head through. She usually gnaws directly on the wall, working away at a sizable, eye-level hole, and avoids eating when the public is present. Video of her ingestion is included in the exhibition; she also removes some of the plaster and bakes it into loaves of bread, which are available for gallery visitors to sample. "Part of it is that I'm really broke," she said, "so this is a way to get the gallery to cover my food costs." Things are worse than I thought.
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02/07/2005 11:22:55 AM ||
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Either the NYT really respects 'art' or it's trying to behave itself. No political-spin in the article.
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/07/2005 13:04 Comments ||
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Is it bad that I hope she chokes on it?
I mean, who else is sick and tired of the glut of "artists" we have? When people thinking eating dry wall is somehow "artistic", or are just trying to get noticed, then maybe we're letting too many people into "art" schools.
If they were actually CREATIVE and TALENTED they wouldn't need stunts to get noticed.
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02/07/2005 14:22 Comments ||
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Mental illness, possibly brought on by eating lead paint chips as a toddler.
Posted by: Tom ||
02/07/2005 14:31 Comments ||
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When people thinking eating dry wall is somehow "artistic", or are just trying to get noticed, then maybe we're letting too many people into "art" schools.
Not so fast, there: if these idiots are turned away from "art" schools, they're going to end up in "journalism" schools. And we all know where THAT leads...
Posted by: Dave D. ||
02/07/2005 14:33 Comments ||
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We used to have the geek show at the circus.... that's no longer a career option.
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Not so fast, there: if these idiots are turned away from "art" schools, they're going to end up in "journalism" schools. And we all know where THAT leads...
Well, yes, but if we'd enforce the Constitutional definition of -- and penalty for -- treason, we'd have a lot fewer journalists.
And, for God's sake, can't some of these people go into something CONSTRUCTIVE, like bathroom attendant?
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well as dice clay used ta say "if she could eat a dozen apples and shit a fruit salad, now that would be somethin'"
Two communist rebels in the Philippines truly became brothers in arms when the men were married in a jungle camp, a newspaper has reported.
Oh, take me, Comrade!
Draped in a red flag with hammer and sickle in gold sequins, they exchanged vows, walked under an archway of assault rifles and were serenaded with revolutionary love songs by a choir of New People's Army comrades. Ka Andres and Ka Jose, who both use the word for "brother" before their names, each held a bullet during the ceremony on the southern island of Mindanao to show their "commitment to the armed struggle", the Philippine Daily Inquirer said. "What we have to do now -- with the help of the party -- is to work on our marriage and to be strong while serving the people," said Jose, who at 21 is 33 years younger than Andres.
Homosexuality is a largely taboo topic in the Philippines, with stereotypes of flamboyantly effeminate men reinforced in the media. The communist movement -- waging a violent insurgency in poor, rural areas since the late 1960s -- has been more progressive, adding same-sex relationships and marriage to its guiding policy in 1998. Still, Jose and Andres said they ran into the "patriarchal" culture of the Philippines when they decided to marry. "We conducted painstaking discussions to make comrades understand gay relations and gay rights," Andres said.
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02/07/2005 2:38:30 AM ||
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ahhhhh! So MILF actually stands for "Man I'd like to..."
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What ever happened to all the jolly Communists?
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Draped in a red flag with hammer and sickle in gold sequins, they exchanged vows, walked under an archway of assault rifles and were serenaded with revolutionary love songs by a choir of New People’s Army comrades . . .
The description just buggers the imagination.
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02/07/2005 10:57 Comments ||
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All the NPA are Ka-this and Ka-that, unless thay have rank and are called Kumander-this or that. Its the Filipino equivalent of "comrade".
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"I will tell you a Joke about Jewel and Mary
It is neither a Joke nor a Story
For Rubin and Charles has married two girls
But Billy has married a boy
The girlies he had tried on every Side
But none could he get to agree
All was in vain he went home again
And since that is married to Natty"
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Lighten up, Mike S.! All silliness is appropriate in Short Attention Span stuff.
It sounds like a British pub song, Aris -- am I right? (No googling for me today, I'm afraid. I'm struggling with my higher cognitive functions -- and don't appear to be winning.)
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Lighten up, Mike S.! All silliness is appropriate in Short Attention Span stuff.
It sounds like a British pub song, Aris -- am I right? (No googling for me today, I'm afraid. I'm struggling with my higher cognitive functions -- and don't appear to be winning.)
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How delightful! I had no idea our Homely Abraham had his bawdy moments -- the result of a sheltered childhood, I'm afraid. You've given me something to search out tomorrow, Aris. Thanks!
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02/07/2005 20:44 Comments ||
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Its just more anti-American, anti-Dubya, and anti-GOP/Western PC - the Commies are doing it to score points. SOcialist-Communist prioritized deficit depending will put a quick end to the honeymoon, and that's presuming the various International Lefts-LeftProgressives supp the Gay-Lesbian agenda to begin with, instead of lip service for politics. They'll be gulagged, exiled, forced to divorce, andor quietly executed once the Party realizes the milk cow of feel-good propaganda/info control o'er the unsuspecting masses is gone!
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I promise to be alone, Mrs. D, so the company will be unmixed. As you so subtly point out, the reputation of a lady must be jealously protected. ;-)
This has been going on in San Francisco for quite a while....
MANILA (Reuters) - Two communist rebels in the Philippines truly became brothers in arms when the men were married in a jungle camp, a newspaper has reported. Incestuous, too, eh? Al-Reuters apparently wants to get in all the progressive social values it can.
Draped in a red flag with hammer and sickle in gold sequins, they exchanged vows, walked under an archway of assault rifles and were serenaded with revolutionary love songs by a choir of New People's Army comrades. Gold sequins?
Ka Andres and Ka Jose, who both use the word for "brother" before their names, each held a bullet during the ceremony on the southern island of Mindanao to show their "commitment to the armed struggle", the Philippine Daily Inquirer said. A bullet, such graphic symbolism....
"What we have to do now -- with the help of the party -- is to work on our marriage and to be strong while serving the people," said Jose, who at 21 is 33 years younger than Andres. May/December too?
Homosexuality is a largely taboo topic in the Philippines, with stereotypes of flamboyantly effeminate men reinforced in the media. Tsk tsk. Does Al-Reuters have no sensitivity to the values of other cultures? Only if they're Islamos or commies, it seems.
The communist movement -- waging a violent insurgency in poor, rural areas since the late 1960s -- has been more progressive, adding same-sex relationships and marriage to its guiding policy in 1998. No editorializing there.
Still, Jose and Andres said they ran into the "patriarchal" culture of the Philippines when they decided to marry. Being a commie rebel swine might also put one at odds with society, but Al-Reuters must always highlight oppression.
"We conducted painstaking discussions to make comrades understand gay relations and gay rights," Andres said. "After a honeymoon trip to France, the couple will take up new positions as tenured professors of Peace and Ethnic Oppression Studies at the University of California."
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Ka Jose: Andres, does camouflage make me look fat?
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Nice campy touch with the sequined hammer and sickle, though.
Wonder if they'll be starring in "Queer Eye for the Rebel Guy"?
A budding romance between a Jordanian man and woman turned into an ugly public divorce when the couple found out that they were in fact man and wife, state media reported yesterday.
Dang, I hate when that happens.
Didn't Richard Strauss write an opera about this?
Separated for several months, boredom and chance briefly re-united Bakr Melhem and his wife Sanaa in an Internet chat room, the official Petra news agency said. Bakr, who passed himself off as Adnan, fell head over heels for Sanaa, who signed off as Jamila (beautiful) and described herself as a cultured, unmarried woman - a devout Muslim whose hobby was reading long walks in the woods, Italian cooking and bodacious sex, Petra said. Cyber love blossomed between the pair for three months and soon they were making wedding plans. To pledge their troth in person, they agreed to meet in the flesh near a bus depot in the town of Zarqa, northeast of Amman.
Yup, just where I'd meet my beloved, a bus depot.
... in Zarqawiburg.
The shock of finding out their true identities was too much for the pair. Upon seeing Sanaa-alias-Jamila, Bakr-alias-Adnan turned white and screamed at the top of his lungs: "You are divorced, divorced, divorced" - the traditional manner of officially ending a marriage in Islam.
Which means, now they can get married!
"You are a liar," Sanaa retorted before fainting, the agency said.
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This is the way the Pina Colada song ends in an Islamic country.
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Ah, yes. The Pina Colada song. So, they were cheating on each other....with each other.
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This has got to be a good urban legend in the making.
No self respecting muslim girl would be caught dead on the internet. And if she was on the internet her brother would kill her shortly thereafter for defaming the family honor (ie: knowing more than he does).
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Michael-True, they are hypocrites that way--premarital sex is only for unmarried men (but then, who are THEY having sex with)?
I could just imagine this nutcase saying he was going to bring her home to introduce her to the old bag as his new second wife. That would have been fun.
At least 17 people including eight children lost their lives and more than 500 injured while celebrating Basant or kites flying festival Sunday in Lahore, capital of eastern Punjab province, taking the death toll to 20 as three people were killed on Basant night, The Nation reported Monday. Seven persons were crushed to death while trying to catch stray kites, six others died after falling from rooftop of their houses, two teenage boys died after being hit by stray bullets in two different incidents, while a 7-years old boy was electrocuted and a four years-old girl was killed when a stray string slit open herthroat.
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.....and these are the cave dwelling bastards that are in charge of nuclear weapons?
BTW, I thought Benjamin Franklin already tried this experiment. Oh! that's right, they only allow the Moronic Koranic(TM) into their schools.
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"Rescue officials said they picked up at least 24 patients whose throats were cut by twine at different roads and shifted them to hospitals."
Whoa! Thanks for posting that one, Bulldog. I've flown kites many times and was totally unaware of the throat-cutting risk. Of course I've never used my wife's and kids' necks to tie off either...
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Tom, I wonder whether the Pakistani 'kites flying fest' is the same sort of thing the Chinese (used to?) get up to, being more like kite warfare than innocent aerobatics. Competing kites had sharp material embedded in the twine and the objective was, or became, severing your opponents' line. Not things you want to be downwind of.
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It's as Bulldog described, but improved with gun sex. The throat cutting "twine" is steel wire to prevent being but by razor blades. Makes a wonderful conductor.
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How can you be "crushed" by "trying to catch stray kites"?
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During the riots in Berkeley in the 60s, hippies and rabble rousers flew hundreds of kites all over Berkeley and the campus to serve as the equivalent of barrage balloons to keep the choppers away. Nobody got hurt by a kite. And these were druggies and anarchists. This Pak show is something else. Work accidents from kites. Sheesh!
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Two communist rebels in the Philippines truly became brothers in arms when the men were married in a jungle camp, a newspaper has reported.
