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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Nappy Hare and Hoses, oh wow?


I will never forget Andre Serrano, a facsimile of an artist if I may artist, and his works of his art. Jesus Christ on the cross in a vat of his own urine, is called art.
The Sun Cities Museum of Art featured an exhibit by Katherine Wells, an atheist, that took aim at Our Blessed Mother and Our Lady of Guadalupe. Mary, adorned in an American flag, is resting on a cross and clutching a can of Budweiser, surrounded by rays of light cut from the peeled labels of beer bottles. High caliber bullets are used as a border around various religious icons.
The Museum of Contemporary Art hosted an exhibit by a self-described ex-Catholic gay man which defiled the Virgin Mary. The Blessed Mother in clay, Robert Gober "pierced his Virgin Mary with a phallic culvert pipe," says the promotional literature for the work. The Immaculate Conception as well as the miraculous conception of Christ, while at the same time "depriv(ing) the Virgin Mary of the womb from which Christ was born." Free speech and art rolled into one.
New York, NY – Artist Barbara Kruger tries to mimic Andres Serrano by creating a sculpture of Jesus Christ and an inebriated Santa Claus leaning against a large sarcophagus. While Jesus clutches a cross, Santa holds a dollar sign and a little girl who looks like JonBenet Ramsey. The critic Hilton Kramer said of Kruger’s work, "People no longer have any understanding of what blasphemy means." Nor art if I may add.
New York, NY – A painting hanging in the display window of the Art Students League depicted a crucified Santa Claus hanging from a cross. While artist Robert Cenedella contended that the work was intended to protest the commercialization of Christmas. A league objected to the exploitation of a sacred Catholic symbol, the crucifix, to make the artist’s point. He might have made the same point by putting Santa in a noose, Mr. Cenedella noted that that would have been offensive to African Americans, as it would conjure up images of lynching. Yet he had no qualms about offending Catholics! The league asked only that the painting be moved inside the Art Students League, where its meaning could be pondered by serious art patrons without needlessly offending passersby. Joanne Kuebler, executive director of the Art Students League, never responded to the league’s request.
All the above are passed as art. What happened to Imus' art? Whatabout Imus' protected speech.
Now, when I was a child I remember Imus in pajamas, lying on a dish next to two sunnyside eggs, (I hope I did not offend the chicken) and the sign says "IMUS IN THE MORNING". Imus is very entertaining, and he says what he says and thats the Imus show. You offended, to bad....don't listen. So he used nappy hair, whatever, hoses, so what....whats the problemo. The idea that he should even apologize for what seems to be wallpaper of words, making millions of dollars in CD's, in local stores is totally rediculous. Oh it perfectly acceptible, to use trendy lyrical passages in millions of "Rap" songs out in the country seeking a pass as music, however its not o.k. for Imus to use the same words in his right of free speech.
Imus made a mistake. Not because he was offensive in his choice of words, but because he was not funny. I saw the rutgers basketball beauty queens on foxnews. I saw lots of material for the wallflower beauty extravaganzas, sitting before the camaras. I can spew so much material from the sight of the athletes that would have left you in stitches for hours, without having to get into textures and garden hoses.
I am convinced that the human species has a need to embrace the absurd. Its enthused by the irrational. We are becoming a nation of "pendejos" and in english it means a bunch of jerks. We are getting like the british in England. Imus made an error in judgment. He was merely making a statment based on current nonsense, heard on records, out on the airwaves. We have much bigger problems, like being offended, Anna Nicole, mexican drunk drivers killing americans, and jobs american's won't do.
Imus needs a vacation anyway he looking tired.

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