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2004-10-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Frank G 2004-10-07 5:08:27 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 your tell em maria!

Posted by muck4doo 2004-10-07 5:12:27 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2004-10-07 5:12:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Another altruist savior. Phoo.

Posted by jules 187 2004-10-07 5:14:30 PM|| 2004-10-07 5:14:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Careless, sloppy, stupid and liberal is no way to go through life, sweetie.

Sometimes I wonder about this country of ours.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-07 5:18:05 PM|| 2004-10-07 5:18:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Then I'm sure she won't mind if the words her paycheck are "misspelled" - say, "Forty" is misspelled "Four."

After all, "The mistakes wouldnât even register with a true artisan."

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-07 5:55:35 PM|| 2004-10-07 5:55:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Barb, drop a few zeros too.

Back off man, I'm a ~~scientist~~ artist!

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-10-07 6:11:08 PM|| 2004-10-07 6:11:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people...[t]hey are denigrating my work..."

We are united in the denigration of your work. Isn't that enough?

Photo of mural here.

Photo of misspelling here.

Video here.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-10-07 6:13:07 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-10-07 6:13:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The trouble is that she was using a 1972 ceramic typesetting machine that did not have spell check...

Posted by Capsu78 2004-10-07 6:33:03 PM|| 2004-10-07 6:33:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people." I think we are pretty much united that she is an idiot! So your work is complete.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-10-07 7:11:16 PM|| 2004-10-07 7:11:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "The people that are into humanities, and are into Blakeâs concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words," she said. "In their mind the words register correctly."

See, you idiots? You're all just jealous that you're not enlightened. Like her. So what if you can spell?
P.S.: What the fuck is Blake's concept of enlightenment?

Posted by tu3031 2004-10-07 8:13:21 PM|| 2004-10-07 8:13:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 ROTFL!! Gotta give the dipwit credit for managing to scam the taxpayers out of another six grand.

Posted by 2b 2004-10-07 8:18:59 PM|| 2004-10-07 8:18:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I guess you could say the poor gal made a monumental spelling error.

Posted by SteveS 2004-10-07 8:28:45 PM|| 2004-10-07 8:28:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Next time I'm out there, I'll be sure to take my ~~spray paint~~ correction pen.

Posted by ed 2004-10-07 9:05:04 PM|| 2004-10-07 9:05:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 ed: if you take your "correction pen" out there, leave Shakespeare's name alone, however it's spelled. Shakespeare never spelled his name the way we do, and he never spelled it the same way twice in his surviving manuscripts.

"Blake's Concept of Enlightenment" sounds like something a graduate student stuck for a thesis topic came up with after too many espressos. My revered teachers Sister Jeanne and Sister Jeremy would never have uttered such gobbledygook; they could present the best of an artist's written work in lucid English. And Blake, as a printer and artist, would have taken care to do his work properly. So don't take his name in vain.

Posted by mom 2004-10-07 10:51:17 PM|| 2004-10-07 10:51:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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