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Artist died 'handcuffed to tree'
BBC ^ | 9/22/05 | Mikey_1962

Posted on 09/22/2005 5:57:30 AM PDT by Mikey_1962

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To: wideawake

A POEM:

A schizophrenic artist who threw away the key
died in a forest after 'cuffing self to tree


41 posted on 09/22/2005 6:24:41 AM PDT by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: Mikey_1962

So, I guess the question is: if an artist chains himself to a tree in the forest and he dies, does anyone notice? Guess not.


42 posted on 09/22/2005 6:25:27 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: krb

As are most (all?) performance artists.


43 posted on 09/22/2005 6:26:31 AM PDT by rollinginmybuggy (The Electric Amish)
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To: rollinginmybuggy

I would bet a lot of them are bipolar, but schizophrenia?


44 posted on 09/22/2005 6:28:23 AM PDT by krb (ad hominem arguments are for stupid people)
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To: Dust in the Wind; MortMan; Izzy Dunne; Enterprise
As it were, the tree's eating it up.

This was genuine "down to the bone" performance art.

You mean "Weekend at Woody's", right? ;-P

Drum roll, cymbal crash, group groan...

45 posted on 09/22/2005 6:28:40 AM PDT by Kenton ("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
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To: Mikey_1962

If a guy handcuffs himself to a tree in the forest, and there is nobody there to hear him screaming for help, is he really there?


46 posted on 09/22/2005 6:33:10 AM PDT by Paloma_55 (Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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To: Paloma_55
"If a guy handcuffs himself to a tree in the forest, and there is nobody there to hear him screaming for help, is he really there?"

If he's there long enough, that(s) only REMAINS to be seen...;-)

47 posted on 09/22/2005 6:39:06 AM PDT by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
A few days while alive

Well, that wasn't made too apparent IMHO.

48 posted on 09/22/2005 6:41:21 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Paloma_55

The Almost Amazing Kreska will now perform the double hand cuff tree escape....cameras roll...what's that? Cindy Sheehan is going to make a statement at the bus station in San Franciso? Hey guys, where are you going? This isn't funny any more...


49 posted on 09/22/2005 6:42:12 AM PDT by willyd (Good Fences Make Good Neighbors)
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To: Mikey_1962

what a bonehead


50 posted on 09/22/2005 6:48:57 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: Kenton

You're welcome! ;-P


51 posted on 09/22/2005 6:49:06 AM PDT by MortMan (Mostly Harmless)
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To: krb

I meant they are mentally ill.

Instead of celebrating their illness we should get them help.

Or at the least, ignore their expressions of illness instead of celebrating them.


52 posted on 09/22/2005 6:53:01 AM PDT by rollinginmybuggy (The Electric Amish)
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To: Darksheare

One of yours?


53 posted on 09/22/2005 6:53:22 AM PDT by null and void (I'm a patient and peaceful man. Threaten me or mine, and that changes. Then, I am a vengeful man.)
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To: Enterprise

Now THIS is humor in its most subtle form! Thanks...


54 posted on 09/22/2005 7:00:58 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Mikey_1962

Talk about "death as a career move."


55 posted on 09/22/2005 7:02:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: Mikey_1962
Father Darwin took his genes back.
56 posted on 09/22/2005 7:11:29 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: stylecouncilor

art ping


57 posted on 09/22/2005 8:18:46 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: econjack
Read post #20 and then the response in #94 in this thread:

link

58 posted on 09/22/2005 8:31:11 AM PDT by Enterprise (The modern Democrat Party - a toxic stew of mental illness, cultism, and organized crime.)
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To: Enterprise
Too Funny! I spit coffee all over my screen!

Watch CSI turn this into an investigation. They have a habit of taking real-life events and modifiying them for their series...

59 posted on 09/22/2005 8:31:55 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase ("Every man dies, but not every man truly lives...." Braveheart)
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To: Mikey_1962
Hope he had a good book.

60 posted on 09/22/2005 8:34:09 AM PDT by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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