httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hvaeHllwtw
Under any other circumstances, it’d be cruel to post such a video. But now that the cavernously ignorant and aggressively semi-literate serial liar Sarah Palin is the de facto leader of the Republican Party, it’s not necessarily a laughing matter.
This is Basil Marceaux, Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee.
Website here.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaf6zF-FJBk
But is it art?
Yes.
And if you have any doubt about that, go to YouTube and have a look at the outraged comments of some of the viewers. If they’re this angry over something so innocuous and mundane — and a number of them are very angry — then something meaningfully disturbing is happening here. A sample: “I mean WTF?!?” and “This is the ugliest thing I have ever seen” (which is not, of course, beside the point).
Frye makes just a couple of references to Andy Warhol, and they are made, interestingly enough, to illustrate a larger and more important point he is trying to get across to his readers.
Here he is in Words with Power, for example, with reference to ecstatic metaphor:
This is an intensification of the imagery that imitates the descriptive mode, an emphasis on the “thingness” of the objective world, which we find in, for example, Beckett’s Watt and Robbe-Grillet’s Les Gommes, and in William Carlos Williams’s insistence on “not ideas about things but the thing itself,” also the title of a poem by Wallace Stevens. In various forms of painting, such as the pop art of Andy Warhol and in the popularity of Zen Buddhism, with its technique of training one to see, not another world but the same world with a new intensity, there are parallel developments.
And with that in mind, here’s one more comment from a viewer at YouTube:
Honestly, sometimes I think these artistic so-called geniuses just do whatever the fuck passes through their heads and then try to pass it off as hip and edgy. But at the end of the day, kids, it’s just a guy eating a hamburger.
Well, the “end of the day” could also just be the darkness before the dawn, if we insist upon resorting to those kinds of cliches. For example, after the jump you’ll find six minutes of Warhol’s eight hour film Empire. (And, by a remarkable coincidence, tonight is the 46th anniversary of its filming.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvWfElFuFnM
July 10th, 2010, day 82
From the Associated Press:
NEW ORLEANS — Robotic submarines removed the cap from the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, beginning a period of at least two days when oil will flow freely into the sea [depicted in the video above].
It’s the first step in placing a tighter dome that is supposed to funnel more oil to collection ships on the surface a mile above. If all goes according to plan, the tandem of the tighter cap and the surface ships could keep all the oil from polluting the fragile Gulf as soon as Monday.
BP spokesman Mark Proegler said the old cap was removed at 12:37 p.m. CDT on Saturday.
Today is the 30th annual Gay Pride Parade in Toronto. Our prime minister is not attending it, but he no doubt supports it in spirit.
Then again, a fully grown man dressed up as a cowboy may not be what he seems. After the jump, Stephen Harper speaking at an anti-gay-marriage — or, as he winningly puts it, “real Canadian values” — rally on Parliament Hill in April 2005. Harper can claim to know about “real Canadian values” because his government represents as many as one in three Canadian voters.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heb9BXjYcII
Police charge at peaceful G20 demonstrators singing “O Canada”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2EXDmnNPw0
The recently applied cap on the Deepwater Horizon leak was removed yesterday, releasing oil into the Gulf at an even faster rate.
[Update] The cap was replaced today, but not before an estimated further million gallons of crude gushed into the Gulf.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJVNnAIrLkM
Kory Teneycke, former communications director for Stephen Harper now working for Brian Mulroney as Quebecor’s point man on “Fox News North,” interviewed on the CBC where until recently he was a commentator for the right.
Offered without comment.
However, I will repeat this comment left about the video at YouTube: “Does EVERY right-winger have to lie to make a point?”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrTooDqY9pY
Sun News wants to be “Canada’s Fox.” This is not a joke. But it is very very funny.
“Now that they have their own Fox news, Canadians will soon be demanding that their border be sealed, to protect them from the violent and economically unstable nation to the south.” Alex Pareen in Salon today.
Gosh, this “Canada” sure looks an awful lot like Alberta — like almost exclusively. (It’s the descendants of East European immigrants dressed up as cowboys that’s a big part of the giveaway.) Love the martial rat-a-tat-tat of the snaredrum in the fadeout. What says Canada better than sublimated crypto-fascist militarism? I’m sure this project will thrive. It’s what Trois Rivieres, Sydney and St. John’s have all been waiting for.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSbXkXAFSCs
Deepwater Horizon wellhead today, June 15th, day 57: estimates released earlier this evening suggest that oil is gushing into the Gulf at seven to twelve times the original calculation. Text of Obama’s speech tonight here.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaRPV6_w9Nk
BP Deepwater Horizon wellhead today, June 11, day 53
Toronto Star: Estimated rate of spill now doubled