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Friday, September 27, 2002

I know I haven't posted anything in a while, forgive me. Interpol's been on my tail since Milan, and I've only now shaken them off for long enough to add a blog entry. You know, sometimes being wrapped up in a deadly game of realpolitik cat-and-mouse and international cloak and dagger intrigue gets old. I long for the simpler days, when I was known by a name and not a number, when I could take my daughter to school without running the risk of taking her to her grave, and when I could instigate a coup d'etat in a small sub-Saharan nation without receiving a death warrant on my head. I guess it's quid pro quo for maintaining the new world order.

Anyway...

Last night, I took advantage of the inclement weather to sit at home, engage in a personal catharsis of sorts, and watch a little television. Perusing the googolplex (yes, that's how you spell it) of potential viewing options (god bless you DirecTV), I noticed that VH1 had interrupted their normal parade of the ubiquitous "Behind the Music" and replaced it with "100 Sexiest Artists". Being somewhat of an armchair art-lover, I tuned to the station to gain insight into the great masters of our time and times past. Would Hokusai finally dethrone El Greco as the sexiest artist of all time, or could a third "dark horse" (Van Gogh perhaps - minus the self-mutilation, he'd be a shoe-in) take the lead?

Alas, it seems I was duped. They were referring to musicians, and contemporary ones at that. I was about to change the channel when guest commentator and noted Don Juan Bill Belamy appeared, providing additional depth and context to the segment on Jewel (#40-something out of the aforementioned 100). Quoth Bill:

"See, Jewel is like: 'I'm sexy as hell,' and I like that."

You can imagine my shock: that line is directly plagiarized from the thesis of my art history PhD dissertation, except he replaced "Dali" with "Jewel"! Oh well, such is the ultra-competitive world of academia/pulp-television.

Also, this and this (related) are awesome (props to Alex and Greg).

Posted by morland @ 05:19 PM

:: Comments ::

I'm Sexy.

Posted by: Sammy "el Toro" B. on September 30, 2002 02:45 PM

I'm also an artist.

Posted by: Sammy "el Toro" B. on September 30, 2002 02:45 PM

yes, well. what does one respond to this blog. as sammy has shown, nothing but quick snipps (yes, thats how i spelled it). so mike i ask you, who is this "Blog" for. you or us? emic(haelo), i can only guess two things. one, its for us (the reader), or two, its for you. and neither really make any sense. so i say...crap.

Posted by: mikeyH on October 1, 2002 08:49 PM

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