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restez KALLLLM: vlog-on
High Anxiety meme descends by form of free-fall into the physical world. Mental wealth is nothing to joke about it, if you can find it. French version of marketing “maquette” for perhaps a future Vlog. Unlike Marsahll McLuhan and his … Continue reading
gas leak
The crappy nothingness of it all that skirts the foggy perimeter that defines vulgarity and respectability with a play on the pretensions of class and its relation to income. A sort of laughing gas that comes out of the human … Continue reading
sacred stories: niche interests
The sacred and the profane. the eternal tango. …“Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.”― Primo Levi….Max Frisch once wrote that “technology … Continue reading
the great white hope
The shitty nothingness of it all. Shit as pure nothingness. The essence of the empty and void.Nothingness. A man eager to give society, the political body, a political enema to purge it of all its shit. Politics as substitute shit. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Andres Serrano, Andrew Potter, Canada Goose Coats, justin trudeau, Marcel Duchamp, megan leslie NDP, Mel Brooks, PETA, peter kent environment minister, Piero Manzoni, sam rosenfeld, senator brazeau, senator patrick brazeau
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truman kaput & harry the hipster
It was an era of the general entertainer. Ronny Graham’s parents were both vaudeville players towards the end of that epoch and Graham was a multi-talented performer: comedian, composer, lyricist, actor. Like his contemporaries which were Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce … Continue reading
flowers of evil : herman cain dada
In his debates he looks almost bizarrely overconfident,brazenly recycling the same answers and obsessed with the populist mantra of 9-9-9- as if its a toll free number where you can order the godfather himself for home delivery. Its always ladies … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Andre Breton, Burt Lancaster, Charles Baudelaire, E.L. Doctorow, Franz Kafka, herman cain, Hugo Ball, jacob bendian, Kurt Schwitters, leslie savan, Marcel Duchamp, marcel jenco, mark bloch, Mel Brooks, nick searcy, Ralph Ellison, Richard Huelsenbeck
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life on parade: playing dress up
It was the Aryan myth. It was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics, grew into a full-fledged racial theory of history, and ended by almost devouring European civilization….. Steven Heller: In fact, Hugo Boss was the designer back … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arno Breker, Arthur Szyk, Bryan Ferry, Filippo Marinetti, Frederic Spotts, Georges Bataille, James Young, Jean Genet, Joseph Thorak, Julius Paul Junghanns, Kerry Bolton, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Steven Heller, Susan Sontag
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viscious frailties at the most extreme
At the Spanish court, Goya was advantageously placed to observe vicious frailties at their most extreme. At the time that he became Painter of the Household, Charles IV had just succeeded to the throne in place of an elder brother … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Woods, Ann Coulter, Diego Velasquez, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Los Caprichos, Goya Naked Maja, Jerry Vines, Kenneth Clark, Mel Brooks, Otto Dix, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba, Voltaire
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TRIVIAL PURSUITS & BOYS IN STRIPED SUITS
”However here we also get the first doubtful use of the Holocaust in Beatrice and Virgil. We are told that fewer than two per cent of Holocaust survivors ever tell of their ordeal. And so:’For his part, Henry now joined … Continue reading
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Tagged Aravind Adiga, Aravind Adiga The White Tiger, Brian Cuban, Casey Haskins, Charlie Chaplin, Eli Wiesel, George Orwell, George Orwell Animal Farm, Gerald Feldman, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust Fiction, Holocaust Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Boyne, John Self, Joseph Brean, Joseph Brean National Post, Lina Wertmuller, Lina Wertmuller Seven Beauties, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks The Producers, Roberto Benigni, Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful, Salman Rushdie, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal Institute, Yann Martel, Yann martel Beatrice and Virgil, Yasunari Kawabata
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