Killing an ex-wife: A Men’s Right?

I think Roger is what happens when you invite book of overwrought philosophy to a frat kegger.

It’s like a little song about MRA thought patterns.

When a manly man who’s not a woman
decides that he doesn’t like you

Theeeeeennnnnn

You’re a tax cheat,
you’re a fraud!
A terrorist,
and you love god!

You live in terror of what’s right
You want us all to live in fright!

You’re evil!
You’re bad!
You’re ANTI
CHRRRIIIISSSTTMAAASSSS

When the manly man
hates you

As a work of dadaist art, roger’s screed is something else. It challenges us to consider the phrases’ meanings in a new context.

And it isn’t plagiarism: It’s found art. Just like mounting a rusted, twisted driveshaft on the wall.

Why, yes I have been to college. How could you tell?

I hope Roger comes back to answer questions about his giant screed. I noticed this from the end

If David’s goons had even an ounce of integrity they would reveal the nature and activity of David’s bootlickers and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims.

So, some of us are David’s bootlickers and have evil goals. Okay. But some of us are goons, and can prove our integrity by exposing the bootlickers’ aims. All right, so what I want to know is how can we distinguish the bootlickers from the goons? Also, if their goals are hidden in their inner contexts, how can anyone expose them?

But I have a feeling he won’t come back. He just dropped a turd and ran away. I miss the trolls that would engage with us, because that’s more entertaining.

Well, I almost have an art minor. If only I had taken a ceramics course, I would be fully qualified to mansplain to all and sundry about Art.

And most of the time, found art that’s just some discarded thing hung on a wall leaves me cold, and wondering what the point is. I mostly want to protest, you gotta do something with it.

Turn it into a vase, at least. It may be cliched but it gives this broken thing you found in a field some dignity.

I may be snobbish because I tend to think of art as something the artist has made themselves.

And most of the time, found art that’s just some discarded thing hung on a wall leaves me cold, and wondering what the point is. I mostly want to protest, you gotta do something with it.

I agree. I think that earlier examples of “found art” as something just displayed in a gallery with little or no change were interesting because they challenged people’s perception of what art is (oh my god that sounds pretentious). So I’m not opposed to the concept.

Now it mostly just comes across as lazy though. I just walked through several shops selling found art over the weekend, and it’s just absurd at this point. I mean, if the artist can get someone to pay for that stuff then more power to ’em, but I’m still going to think they’re somehow managing to be ridiculous and dull at the same time.

Oh, I was already all for bannination of The Lid, but after that baby joke I’m in a flensing mood.

I think that earlier examples of “found art” as something just displayed in a gallery with little or no change were interesting because they challenged people’s perception of what art is (oh my god that sounds pretentious).

I guess those original artists would have thought me a terrible grognard.

I’m all for variety in art. After three years’ worth of courses with at least one Art History course a year, I am sick and tired of fuckin’ crucifixion art. That’s all anybody in Europe wanted to paint for the longest time, mostly because the only folks with any money were the Church.

Somehow these courses left me with the impression that Asian art didn’t have a whole lot of portraits in it, which has got to be false because of all those Japanese silk paintings.

If I prove I DON’T have an ounce of integrity, can I level up from goon to bootlicker?

That sounds reasonable to me, although I was thinking goons are the level above bootlickers. Either way, everyone should be allowed to choose which role they play, as long as they help David in his anti intellectual, fundamentalist, get rich quick schemes.

The quotes in Roger’s screed are a nice touch; all trolls claim David said things he didn’t, but actually making up quotes and claiming he said them is going above and beyond.

As a work of dadaist art, roger’s screed is something else. It challenges us to consider the phrases’ meanings in a new context.

And it isn’t plagiarism: It’s found art. Just like mounting a rusted, twisted driveshaft on the wall.

As a baby art historian, I approve of this comment.

They say any artist paying six dollars may exhibit.
Mr. Richard Mutt sent in a fountain. Without discussion this article disappeared and
never was exhibited.

What were the grounds for refusing Mr. Mutt’s fountain:

1 Some contended it was immoral, vulgar.
2 Others, it was plagiarism, a plain piece of plumbing.

Now Mr. Mutt’s fountain is not immoral, that is absurd, no more than a bathtub is immoral. It is a fixture that you see every day in plumbers’ show windows. Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view—created a new thought for that object.
As for plumbing, that is absurd. The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

–Marcel Duchamp, “The Richard Mutt Case” (Letter to The Blind Man, May 1917

In this letter Marcel Duchamp was completeing his epic troll – under a psydoname he submitted a urinal to a non-juried exhibition to test if they would actually exhibit it. Naturally they did not, and he published this letter in defense to combat their reasoning why. In that context I love found art – it raises the fundemental question of what is considered art and who gets to say so. That said, after attending art college myself, I have seen way to many BAD BAD NO GOOD found art and assemblage art pieces.

PS: Howard, please accept one internet gift-wrapped with the poems of Baroness Elsa von Freytag Lorignhoven poetry. Also! Recent scholarship suggests she was the one who came up with Duchamps epic Fountain, not Duchamp.

/nerd-out

Thanks!