Discrimination!

“Because of successful identity politics, people have come to identify profoundly with other kinds of groups — ‘I am a Jew,’ or ‘a French person.’ But it’s not likely with ‘I am an ugly person and let’s have a meeting of all ugly people.’ Most people in general would want to disclaim membership. It’s like declaring yourself a member of the clueless.”

An article about how ugly people are discriminated against across the board, no matter what their occupation may be, and how "Ugly Betty" and "Shrek" haven't done a damn thing to change it.

dog eating a wolf

I googled "dog eating a wolf". these pictures came up. dogs are supposed to eat meat. they're even related to wolves, which eat animal meat! but these pictures are still gross.

edit: for some reason these pictures come out really small on the website of the blog. i think if you click on them they are the full size

Blood!

you might not think dracula is that grotesque until you see this movie:

dracula 

is a big part of the book i am working on, and yesterday my friend invited me to the dracula spiral q parade. there is a dracula festival at the rosenbach library, for the holiday season. anyway, there is a gallery tour of maurice sendak's monsters, and a discussion of stoker's notes on wednesday.  i guess sendak's drawings seem more cute than scary, but perhaps more grotesque for that very reason? (oooh!)

$2000 Phone

This is an example of the grotesque things people do with money. The reason this phone is so expensive is because of what its made of and not what it does. Something about unscratchable crystals and LCD displays and oooooh the screen is round! Ugh. Personally I think the phone is ugly, and I'm pretty sure it has less features than most smart phones. Definitely less than the iPhone. But you just know that plenty of people will be running out to get one come December.

NY book fair

This weekend is the New York Art Book Fair. It should be really good.

Here is the website: www.nyartbookfair.com

The website has all of the info about location and times of the fair.

Go!!!!!!

"That's Gotta Hurt!"

So I was watching "what not to wear" last night (which is grotesque in and of itself), but then the next show that came on TLC was called "That's gotta hurt!". It's all about people's terrible accidents. There are plenty of shows like that on TV, but what struck me about "That's Gotta Hurt!" was the graphicness of the re-enactments. There was one where this guy sawed off some of his fingers, and it showed him clutching his really bloody hand and pantomiming pain. Then it talked about a cat who jumped off of a roof and impaled itself on a fence. They showed a fake cat impaled on a fence, with its owner coming up and seeing it and being all "OMG, my cat is impaled on a fence!!"
They also rate the pain on a scale of 1-10, then flash it across the screen.

http://tlc.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=2.14966.55628.31996.x

(the technophobe made a link!!!)

Anatomy Sculptures

It's hard to try and top an epic poem about Henry Kissinger, but try I must, so here are click to see sculptures by Lisa Black incorporating the idea of juxtaposing animal parts and machinery