Tea Parties and Chi Ghosts

Another fairly uneventful day has passed. I didn’t end up doing any painting so as long as the weather holds up I’ll be at it bright and early tomorrow. Till then I think I’ll drink a few Bloody Marys and watch Black Books which my friend Paul recommended. So far so good. I rented the complete series, but that isn’t saying much in terms of volume since it’s a British show.

Funny thing happened today. Funniest thing I’ve heard all week in fact. Apparently a protest took place in Cincinnati over Obama’s spending policies. My friend DJ mentioned this to me a couple of nights ago. I’m not a big fan of protesting. Often it feels to me like protests are more of a way of drawing attention to yourself and attempting to be clever, but if the government is borrowing unprecedented sums of money, and possibly wasting it then that is a legitimate reason to protest. Still I would never haven given the thing a second thought if I hadn’t been out for a walk and happened to stumble across some one listening to Air America.


Personally I love Air America. It’s like some one got together all of America’s dumbest celebrities, and decided to give them a radio station. It’s the intellectual version of The Jerry Springer Show only instead of waiting for a fight to break out, you wait for some one to say something insane. Anyways, I'm minding my own business when I hear Genine Gerafalo going on about how all the protesters are just a bunch of “... tea bagging rednecks who hate blacks”.

She then went on about how it's a scientific fact that all “right-wingers” have some kind of chemical imbalance in their brains that causes a certain portion to grow abnormally, pushing the frontal lobe into the skull. Amazing! Who could find a statement like that offensive? It’s right up there with David Ike’s lizard men or those people who think the whole world is controlled by seven Jews in a room some where.


This unfortunately is what I have been talking about for the last few days. There’s no debate. No attempt to question whether her ideas or the ideas of the protesters have any merit. It completely lacks any honesty or critical thinking. Her argument boils down to “you questioned the guy I voted for so now you’re all mentally abnormal, homosexual, redneck, racists”. It’s like the YouTube comments section has taken over the world. All discourse and reason is thrown out in favor of lazy insults.

Maybe she was just kidding, but I don’t know why any one would tell a joke that makes them sound insane. In the end it’s the substance of the idea that should be discussed, whether or not these things have merit. It isn’t like economics is the only field of human endeavor for which there are no empirical facts. At any rate that’s asking a lot from pop culture news.


On a more creative note I think I’ve found a chick woman that I can collaborate with on my project. It’ll be hard finding the right time to sit down and do some recording since she works three jobs, but she seems fairly open minded. I promised her I would get drunk so she wouldn’t have to feel too self conscious. Isn’t art fun?

I also sat down and decided that rather than waist my entire day I would get some photo editing done. I posted a few new pictures that I took at various places on my Myspace profile. I also got some great ideas for live performance art which I would like to film, but I need more people. I also have to figure out what attachment I need to dump video down onto my PC. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while, but I am a lazy man.

On that note you should all go and check out my friend's blog. His name is Ed, and he has this weird video up of Bjork talking about her television. I’ve watched it a dozen times. It’s soothing in a strange way. Makes you wonder if it’s all an act or if there really is something wrong with her. Oh and check out this guy. I don’t believe in any of this, but I’m a sucker for a smooth talking Asian ghost master.