Semiotics of the Kitchen, part II

Look at you in your black dress. Your fancy jewels. Your pinched face. We're not afraid of you! We laugh at you! Do you hear that? We laugh!

Bigfoot & Wildboy

Movie Quote:

Like I'll poop into her butthole and she'll poop it back... into my butthole and then we'll just keep doing it back and forth. With the same poop. Forever.

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion

Talent Institute

The University of Wisconsin authorized a photo in which the head of a black student had been electronically taken from another photo and inserted into a picture with white fans who were celebrating at a 1993 Badgers game.

Semiotics of the Kitchen

Martha Rosler's masterpiece that inspired a generation... or at least me.

This video produced in 1975 brings the formalist, minimalist, narcissism of video art of the time in to a more powerful and political place. Taking on the abstract performances styles from Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman, both trendy at the time, Rosler’s turns this sometimes comical, sometimes frightening lexicon of domestic items into a domestic terrorist’s video (albeit Ore Ida more than Al-Qaeda). The deep tension communicated by the piece is not the concept; it is in the performance itself. Rigid and resentful, she moves from object to object, coding them with anxiety and mindless repetition while at the same time recontextualizing them as domestic weapons of mass construction.

So Sad

Gay disco neanderthal re-mix

no sideways

In a 1994 profile of Miss Norman, Classic CD magazine said that when she became trapped in some swinging doors on the way to a concert and was advised to turn sideways to free herself, she replied: "Honey, I ain't got no sideways."
The singer contended she never uttered the remark, which she said held her up to ridicule, mockery and contempt because it conformed to a "degrading racist stereotype of a person of African-American heritage."
She sued the magazine for libel over the remark which she called "vulgar and undignified."

Paul Lynde Halloween Special

"A sad story about Paul that you don't hear much anymore occurred at Northwestern, sometime around '77 or '78. I was attending Northwestern at that point, and staying in dorms on Orrington, right across from the Burger King (useful, that). Anyway, Paul Lynde, being a treasured alumni, was asked to be the marshall of the homecoming parade.
"I didn't go, but the next day the college paper had his picture on the front page, sitting up in a convertible, wearing a huge fur coat, jewelry dangling round his neck and clustered on his fingers, his hand clasping a drink, beaming at the crowd. That night, one of my roommates came back from Burger King and said they'd just seen Paul Lynde in the queue there, and that he seemed really out of it.
"Well, according to the newspaper reports, what later happened was this: Paul Lynde was in the queue in front of a black guy; and Lynde started telling the guy he should apply for a job there, and started mouthing off on how lazy blacks were, etc. Unfortunately for Paul, this particular black person was a professor of sociology at Northwestern, who went straight home and wrote a strong letter to the press. Paul Lynde went apoplectic with apologies, citing stress, medication and exhaustion (in fact, I seem to remember he blamed anything except for being an alcoholic loudmouth)."
It was also around this time that the comic was ejected from an airliner, drunk and wearing nothing but a blanket. These antics carried over to his work life - in 1979, Lynde was fired from Hollywood Squares for being intoxicated and belligerent on the set once to often.
On several occasions he had to be forcibly removed from the studio because of his outrageous tirades, lashing out angrily at his fellow celebs, audience members and even the contestants.

Nina breaks it down

Beef Makes the Crust

Bright Eyes 2

Bright Eyes

Electra WOW

Flock of Sean and Swnatje

Ah...AquaNet

cakes