Mon, 17 Nov 2003
Bizarre links of the day
Tomorrow George
W. Bush arrives in the UK, an event so
unspeakable in its ghastliness that I think we could all do
with some practice at coping with hideous things. Without
further ado (or reference to www.rotten.com) I therefore
suggest you desensitize yourself by following some of these
links.
(NB: mostly work-safe, but vomit bucket recommended.)
To start off slowly, by way of Grouse! we have the Ugly Wedding Dress of
the Day weblog, clear evidence that the Fashion Police
death camps in the Appalachians aren't working nearly
fast enough. Now we turn our eyes to Budapest, where
artistic insensibility acquires a whole new meaning with the
discovery that the
corpse of a man who hanged himself a year ago was mistaken
for an abstract sculpture for more than a day by students and workmen
entering a newly re-opened university building.
Looking further east, those whacky Japanese can always be
counted on to invent such a bizarrely recherche
new
perversion
that the rest of us are left scratching our
heads (and then swallowing).
Mind you, we occidentals have created our own in-your-face
offenses against sensibility -- notably brutalist
architecture,
BIFF's web
page,
and G.
G. Allin.
Thank you, thank you. If you're still with me after that
little lot, and you haven't thrown up,
then you are ready to cope with a
state visit by George W. Bush.
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