Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

er, the k-lo post is not real surprising...the funny thing is that i have seen this photo

christ.

it's an extraordinarily unsettling piece too, isn't it? really something to see it in a crowded gallery, collective heebie jeebies, nobody wanted to get close to it.

ha it's art appreciation day over there:

Time for an NEA Grant! [Mark Hemingway]

An Ohio artist — and I use that term loosely — has a new gallery exhibit. It's apparently "a long narrowing tunnel that can be walked through, and he's promising that anybody who enters it during the exhibition, he'll attempt to rape." But the author's story about how he found the the inspiration for the installation really must be savored:

In 2007 at the Seward Projects Space in Columbus, I had my first breakthrough with an installation that was to be the prototype for this current one. It was called THE PUNCH-YOU-IN-THE-FACE TUNNEL. It was the same set-up as THE RAPE TUNNEL except at the end of the tunnel I’d punch the subject in the face instead of raping him or her. The impetus was completely reactionary to the current state of art, and motivated by pure frustration.

As it turns out, I ended up breaking the nose of the third person to crawl through the tunnel, an aspiring model. She went to the hospital and eventually sued me. Her modeling career was put on hold. The civil case was long and drawn out and the matter still hasn’t been resolved. To this day she still has unpaid medical bills. The point of this long aside is that all this took place two years ago, and I’m still having an impact on this young lady’s life, something not many other artists could claim about their work

Rape seemed like the next logical step.

. . . and the next logical step after that is a plane ticket to France.

UPDATE: The story is — thankfully — a hoax.

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

HAH!

i mean come on

how on earth do you read that story and take it seriously

Next project: The Rape-Rape Tunnel

"The point of this long aside is that all this took place two years ago, and I’m still having an impact on this young lady’s life, something not many other artists could claim about their work."

^Telling detail here that this guy thinks this is how artists think

Newcastle police removed an 'obscene' Nan Goldin photo from BALTIC a few years back on the opening day; now a work chosen a year ago and publicized for six months ahead of the exhibition should, if objections are raised, be dealt with by some other body than policemen seeking publicity. I don't think they should just be able to come in and yank work unilaterally.

Richard Prince has been crepey for a while under the guise of high-mindedness; see also horrible 'auto show' piece with woman on a GTO.

AC/DC GOP [Jonah Goldberg]
No, this isn't a Larry Craig punchline in the making. Yesterday, in response to this great anti-Creigh Deeds ad, I suggested we needed a contest for other AC/DC songs that might lend themselves to GOP ads. Here are the most common themes/suggestions.

Fiscally responsible Republicans should run with the promise to get us "Back in Black." Or, they could use "Down Payment Blues" while running through a montage of headlines about spending, ACORN, mortgage stuff, etc.

Just about everyone voted for "Highway to Hell." 'Nuff said.

Lots of jokes about John Edwards "Love at First Feel" and so forth.

An at times inappropriate and often poorly articulated series of suggestions about Sarah Palin using the "Big Balls" song to out-man the rest of the field. Ditto "You Shook Me All Night Long."

And so on.

Jonah Goldberg, it's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll.

It's not a Larry Craig punch line, he reassures us.

Talking about New Zealand [Veronique de Rugy]

The New York Times reports that Obama just named the "openly gay lawyer" David Huebner to be his new ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.

I always find it a little disturbing when people's sexual preferences make newspaper headlines (especially when it's not to explain that children have been molested).

"openly gay lawyer"

It says that on the plaque outside his offices.

lol obama won the nobel ... cant wait for reactions tomorr

Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate [John J. Miller]

This is insane:

Swine-Flu Hype [Ramesh Ponnuru]

Do you have the nagging suspicion that the threat of swine flu is being exaggerated? So do I.

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CDC: 76 children dead of swine flu as cases rise (AP)

Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous for the young.

This, Needless to Say, Is Ridiculous [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Prediction [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Bibi Netanyahu will never be given a Nobel prize.

Hey Man, Sing Me a Song [John J. Miller]

The new Five for Fighting album, Slice, is out today. I've had a copy for a few weeks — that's one benefit of having written about John Ondrasik's band for NR and NRO — so I've had an opportunity to give it a few listens and let it sink in. The title track is about the power of pop music to make you feel a part of something bigger than yourself. It's kind of nostalgic, too, because it wonders about the erosion of common culture in a blog-driven world. Ondrasik longs for the creation of songs "that you could carry til the day you died."

Will any of his new songs make the cut? So far, I like "Slice," "Chances," "Transfer," and "The Story of Your Life."

Two other songs merit a special mention. They are both sequels of sorts. The first is "Note to the Unknown Soldier." It follows "Two Lights," which, as I've written, is almost certainly the first pop song at least partly inspired by Victor Davis Hanson. The new tune is about the anonymity of today's soldier — and a heartfelt appreciation for what they do and what they lose, plus a determination not to forget them.

The other is "Tuesday," a reference to September 11. Five for Fighting is a post-9/11 phenomenon; Ondrasik owes much of his success to the way his song "Superman" resonated with the public after the terrorist attacks. Now, eight years later, he worries that Americans are slipping into a 9/10 mindset: "Is Monday coming back?/Well, that's what Mondays do/They turn and turn around/Afraid to see it through."

Maybe if enough people list to the new Five for Fighting record, "Tuesday" will sway hearts and minds — we'll let its melody turn into a memory, rather than wish we'd heeded its warning when we still had time.

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Re: Slice [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

You've made a sale, Miller. I just bought it (and I never buy CDs anymore). Looking forward to it. I've never known Ondrasik & co. to disappoint.

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Now they've gone too far.

looks like payola to me

Oh god stir up bullshit scandal please I beg you

we'll let its melody turn into a memory, rather than wish we'd heeded its warning when we still had time

wtf does this even mean

lolololololololol

when did robert christgau start writing for the corner

"we'll vaguely remember how this song goes rather than vaguely remembering how this song goes after a terrorist attack"

Results 1 - 10 of about 9,770 for "five for fighting" conservative. (0.19 seconds)

huh

In fairness, this does answer my lingering background question of "who the hell still listens to Five For Fighting?"

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/05/06/five-for-fighting-in-dc/

(Flashback: Check out The Glenn and Helen Show interview with Ondrasik in case you missed it. Victor Davis Hanson played an integral part in “Two Lights.”)

wow that part might be true? that's even lamer than being NRO hyperbole

And they have to buy it rather than listening on YouTube or wherever to show that they support the free market.

I have this picture in my head now of the NRO all meeting up at a Five for Fighting concert and buying the same band t-shirt.

...all wearing it at the office the next day

Thank you for the inspiration, Nicole:

Victor Davis Hanson was the lyricist for Five for Fighting

http://media.musictoday.com/store/bands/327/product_large/FICT17.JPG

www.iwantaworldwherefiveforfightingareallworkingatmcdonalds.com

<3 u HI DERE

i remember getting a free compilation cd at edgefest when i was in high school that had "bella's birthday cake" on it and me and my friends did lol impersonations of it the whole ride back

Parsing this hurt my brain.

John Podhoretz once remarked that all conservatives are bilingual: We speak both conservative and liberal. Liberals are monolingual, because they can afford to be. To the Obama crowd, Fox News is a foreign tongue. The “mainstream” tongue? Well, we all grew up with it, were taught in it.

Ahahahaha. Oh, John Podhoretz. Is this your way of feeling better for your poor Hebrew + Yiddish skills? "Oh, I'm multilingual too!"

"George W. Bush’s people would never have singled out, say, MSNBC."

Uh didn't they?

They singled out NBC iirc, yeah

"And why should I have to learn about Van Jones, ACORN, and other significant matters from Fox News opinionists?"

oh sheeet gbx....edgefest...

lol cut work and got fired for that weekend

man i hope it was worth it.

i went to the one with ramones, bush, sponge and collective soul. front 242 refused to play cos ppl were throwing mud (it was raining) and they didn't want their gear ruined. people were getting aggro.

it was "our" altamont imo

I agree with Lord Hanson!

n one sense, we should all be happy that Obama — it is undeniable — has improved America's standing in the polls taken abroad.

But what might account for such a radical turn-about in America's image in such a short time, other than the fact that a young, charismatic, and eloquent African-American is now the titular head of the U.S. instead of an older, white, Christian guy with a Texas accent who says "nuclar"? Not being George Bush helped, but there is clearly something more going on to account for such markedly improved attitudes about America.

I think the answer is pretty clear: The world likes us when we admit that it was a mistake to take out Saddam Hussein; it likes us when confess to two centuries of systematic sinning and agree that we are no longer all that exceptional; it likes us when we at least verbally agree to sign on to the mass transfers of wealth in cap-and-trade European-style environmentalism; it likes us when we talk up the U.N. and rejoin the Human Rights Commission; it likes us when we distance ourselves from the hated Zionist entity; the world also likes us when we reach out to Ahmadinejad, Assad, the Castros, Chavez, Putin, and other dictators and totalitarians that are the norms in much of the world; and it likes us when it feels that we are adopting more statist policies akin to many states abroad. In other words, the more we resemble at least some of the popular attitudes of those in Asia, Africa, South America, and in Europe, the more we are liked.