Parting Shot: Ramping Up
In Geneva, Switzerland our presidents are celebrated by kids riding and trouncing all over their faces.
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Last time we left off, New Jersey became the 14th state in the nation to allow for medical weed and now a potential 15th has stepped up to bat: Kansas. State representative Gail Finney (D-Wichita) introduced a bill that would give patients access to the herb without fear of prosecution, but it doesn’t look like she’s going to get any support from her colleague, Scott Schwab (R-Olathe). Read more »
Despite her fear of heights, artist Molly Dilworth has already garlanded three roofs with Craigslist-bartered paint leftovers, just so they could be seen on Google Earth. The colorful swirlies and tiles would have been cooler if not sanctioned. In fact, it’s all pretty much the antithesis of street art, as up next is “solar-reflective paint on the roofs of new developments.” Read more »
A New York-based artist Pratima Naithani has tricked out a short bus as an India-centric “multi-media, mobile art installation” The Sweet Shop, doubling as a free shuttle between SCOPE and neighboring fairs in March. The bus is “festooned with striking symbols” like a clip-art Taj Mahal and etch-o-sketchy Ghandi. Read more »
The Super Bowl might have had crappy ads, but it was still the most-watched program ever, attracting a record 106 million viewers. It even beat out the final episode of M*A*S*H which is startling—not the numbers, that so many people were ever into M*A*S*H. For my generation, the theme song alone served as a reminder that it’s time for bed. |WSJ|
Because no way he can paint the whole thing himself, Jeff Koons is looking for a few “realistic painters” for full time work at his Chelsea studio, which might resemble toiling in a sweatshop that makes mamal-shaped piñatas for giants. If you just never mind those psychedelic collage nightmares and coughing up metallic phlegm, you’re so going to the top, kid! |NYFA|
While surveilling one of Google’s Street View cars in Berlin, the evil geniuses over at the Free Art and Technology Lab managed to secure some privacy-deluding footage of their own, in this case a driver pulling over and taking a very public piss break. |F.A.T.|
When you go to jail you’re provided with many an opportunity to say to yourself, “Jesus Christ, I never thought I’d be doing this.” It makes you view the world in a different way (consistent pessimism), and is totally refreshing, rejuvenating, and any other “re” word that is included in self-help book reviews; except for not. Incarceration forces you to think about things that would otherwise occur without a hitch; simple tasks such as waking up in the morning, taking a shit, and masturbating. Read more »
The leftists over at the Daily Kos who hate America and are comparable to the KKK according to Bill O’Reilly, are claiming victory today as Fox News correspondent Chris Wallace used one their polls about Republican beliefs in an interview with Sarah Palin on Sunday. This is the same poll that O’Reilly billed as “a fraud” and Karl Rove said “falls flat on its face” just last week. |Daily Kos|
Residents of Marjah, Afghanistan are worried that a battle between U.S. troops and Taliban forces is about to break out in one of the country’s most doped-out valleys. Many have left what the AFP describes as “one of the world’s main sources of heroin and for eight years a major bastion of Taliban insurgents.” And presumably junkies too! |AFP|
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