Mark Steyn: Screen test

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 12/15/2001 | Mark Steyn

[WarrenC]

"Where do I park my ass?" And he says: "In the extra-large burqa, infidel harlot." Bloody hilarious, I don't think. Worth repeating

Bloody hilarious I Do think.

[LibertarianLiz]

A great Steyn ping! Wonderful.

[summer]

BTTT.

[LibertarianLiz]

Try this Derbyshire article on the most recent Turner prize recipient:

The Nincompoop Prize

[dighton]

A marvelous column, which I hadn't seen before. Thank you.

Quote:

What do I think about all this? Well, first I think that the directors of the Tate Gallery, which receives funding from general taxation, should be locked up in prison and made to do hard labor scraping the rust off bolts for 20 years or so with nothing to eat but cold oatmeal porridge. Then I think Mr. Creed should be stripped naked, sprayed all over with bright blue paint, and made to run round and round Piccadilly Circus until he drops from exhaustion, after which he should be killed by some not-very-humane method. Then the Tate Gallery should be reduced to rubble by aerial bombardment, the rubble carted away to be used as landfill, and the ground sown with salt. Then the fools who pay good money to look at this "art" should be packed into boxcars and tipped off the white cliffs of Dover, and their mangled corpses left to be feasted on by dogs, crows and crabs.

Oh, all right: In a free country, people should be left alone to ingest dog poop, if that's what they want to do. Cancel the boxcars.

[Orual]

#15. Quote: Harsh, but true.

[leilani]

"Oh, all right: In a free country, people should be left alone to ingest dog poop, if that's what they want to do. Cancel the boxcars." Thanks. Because, ya know what? I'm a conservative/libertarian NOW, but I spent a lot of time in the TATE when I was a young wannabemarxist skull full-o-mush. And I have a sneaking suspicion that it was the WILLIAM BLAKE EXHIBIT that made me a Reagan fan. Seriously.

[dighton]

It's a long way down from William Blake to Tracey Emin.

[leilani]

Yes, I very much agree that it's a long way from Blake to Emin. LOL! But I don't think that Mr. Blake ever "enjoyed" the luxury of financial support from the "art as defined by government committee" fund as determined by the City of London's social bureaucrats as Emin does. Shades of Tom Wolfe (The Painted Word).

[dighton]

What a splendid little book!

And there, at last, it was! No more realism, no more representational objects, no more lines, colors, forms, and contours, no more pigments, no more brushstrokes, no more evocations, no more frames, walls, galleries, museums, no more gnawing at the tortured face of the god Flatness, no more audience required, just a "receiver" that may or may not be a person or may or may not be there at all, no more ego projected, just "the artist," in the third person, who may be anyone or no one at all, for nothing is demanded of him, nothing at all, not even existence, for that got lost in the subjunctive mode -- and in that moment of absolutely dispassionate abdication, of insouciant withering away, Art made its final flight, climbed higher and higher in an ever-decreasing tighter-turning spiral until, with one last erg of freedom, one last dendritic synapse, it disappeared up its own fundamental aperture . . . and came out the other side as Art Theory! . . . Art Theory pure and simple, words on a page, literature undefiled by vision, flat, flatter, Flattest, a vision invisible, even ineffable, as ineffable as the Angels and the Universal Souls.

-- Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word.

[leilani]

Holy *@#%... That is one amazing 'graph. Now you tell me why HE has never won the Nobel. (Don't tell me, they already gave it to Naipaul, so he doesn't have a chance.)

[leilani]

(PS:, I just checked your name & read your collection of wacky FR thread titles - priceless! Now I know who to send 'em to!)

[Twins613]

So I say to him: "Where do I park my ass?" And he says: "In the extra-large burqa, infidel harlot."

Thanks, Pokey. I laughed ten solid minutes at this line. Steyn is amazing.

[Howlin]

Bump!

[Pokey78]

Fisk

[Howlin]

LOL.......I had forgotten that. I think he faked it! "I deserved to be beaten."