The Art Institute in San Francisco has canceled the one person art show of artist Adel Abdessemed titled “Don’t Trust Me.”
Not because of the controversy surrounding the video in the show, which depicts the killing of several animals by bludgeoning with sledge hammers, but because among the complaints that the Institute was receiving were specific threats to specific individuals, including threats to take children and bludgeon them to death.
This doesn’t change that the description of the video does leave me thinking that the charges by some animal protection groups that the animals were killed for art is credible. The linked article reports that the artist claimed he simply recorded normal execution methods at a farm in Mexico, which I also find credible. As a piece of art, I’d have no desire to see it, nor would I have gone to the show.
But to resort to death threats against the workers at the Institute, or their children, is vile, and does more to blacken the whole of the animal rights movement than any possible benefit that would derive from stopping this show.
I’m trying very hard to keep from making this a screed against some of the more infamous animal rights advocacy groups. Let’s just leave it at this: arson, death threats, and bombings are not valid forms of protest. They are crimes, and rightfully prosecuted as such.
I remember you from the lawn mower days,
frightened at thunder, and begging to stay.
I remember your hands, freezing my arms.
It was not what you planned, as these things never are,
and you slept like a creek in your room in the dark.
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All the quizzes in my journalism class- I was making a spreadsheet to keep track of grades.
(draft of a thread I’m going to post tomorrow on a Who fansite)
TIMES ONLINE, UK
ROCK FANTASY MAY COME TRUE
Last Updated: 1:12am BST 01/04/2008
Townshend, McCartney head to studio with “friends” in tow
Two of Rock’s grand old men are getting ready to make music together, it seems. The Times has learned that Pete Townshend and Paul McCartney have been booking studio time together at Abbey Road. Of even greater interest are reports that Roger Daltrey and Ringo Starr have been seen ducking out of cabs in front of the iconic St. John’s Wood address.
The evidence seems to strongly suggest that the dream supergroup internet fans have talked about for years may be a reality. Inquiries to the performer’s managment teams have gone unanswered. Townshend’s partner, Rachel Fuller, when asked to comment, would only offer a cryptic “That would be telling!” She also suggested that readers check the date of this article.
Mine is slightly explicit. It’s a passage from a handout we got in a tutorial today that I had to share with some friends:
“Philaenis the tribad buggers boys
and with her ‘erection’, more savagely than any husband,
she shafts eleven girls every day.
Tucked-up from below, she also plays hand-ball
and glows golden-hued from the sand; and, heavy as they are for bum-boys
she swings the dumb-bells with a ready arm;
and, filthy from the putrid palaestra,
she gets flogged by the blows of the oiled-up instructor.
She neither dines nor reclines prior to the time
when she has vomited seven measures of unmixed-wine;
she thinks it proper for her then to go back for more,
when she has devoured sixteen servings of energy-food.
After that, when she is in the grip of lust,
she does not suck cock - she thinks this to be insufficiently manly -
but solely guzzles on girls’ groins.
May the gods grant you your wits, Philaenis,
you who think it manly to lick a cunt.”
