My friend Ei was thinking about organizing a country/western festival up at Bard College in the summer. I was thinking about a bizarro universe in which all the Bard lefties were merged with red-state culture, and all the red state throwbacks were merged with liberal values. I imagined that some of them might belong to an organization that wore t-shirts like this. Their acronym would be 'RAT'!
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go BARD
"all the Bard lefties were merged with red-state culture, and all the red state throwbacks were merged with liberal values. "
i think that you are imagining Woody
i saw a t-shirt that said:
"I got fucked at Treblinka"
Dear Pat,
I like the new blog, how it merges your double-fisted art endeavors: drawing & public humiliation. The two shall ever twine. I wish I had a desk job so that it could be a diversion on company time, but makes an effective temporary numbing agent as I foggily watch the last remaining savings make haste.
~ Bethany
As the era of little world painters gives way does PP show us the way with his 'post quality" process ptg?
Pat, you should be smarter than to lump folks into red=redneck and blue=liberal. Why isn't the shirt purple then? I prefer the drawings of the lumpy stump and the lump with girl's head. They both leave more room for movement within very strange, ambiguous (more puce than purple) space. Peuce? Puce?
Hmmm.... Good point about the purple shirt. Cleverness hates a deadline!
Yes, I was being extremely reductive in my characterization of red/blue states. Isn't that what the red/blue state cliche is for?
There are a number of conservative intellectuals which I respect/admire/can't seem to 'neutralize', even with this 'failproof' laser sight they sold me at the fucking gun show! But those same conservatives would likely find the intended dark humor in the concept of 'racists against torture'. Since most of them
A: agree with the idea of dispassionately prioritizing problems (i.e. Torture is a more radical violation, and more easily legislated against than the broad character flaw of 'racism' in general)
B: Are as uncomfortable with the Bush administration's power-grabbing, incompetence, and fiscal recklessness as most sane liberals.
C: Realize how bad things have gotten once we're just trying to hold the line against 'extraordinary rendition' and warrantless domestic spying.
It should also be said that I don't qualify all conservatives as 'red staters'. I view 'red staters' as knee-jerk republican/conservative party liners. I view 'blue staters' in much the same way... people who would vote for Hillary Clinton without looking at the ballot. Although at this point, I must say I'd much rather err on the blue side. The Bush administration is in my view the worst, most disastrously corrupt and incompetent administration I have seen in my lifetime. And I think much worse than Nixon, as far as my understanding of history goes.
P.S.:
It is indeed spelled 'Puce'.
And thanks for the sharp and wholly appropriate critique.
Bon Soir!
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