Album covers gave musicians an opportunity to use visual art as an insightful dimension to their music. Zappa’s THEM OR US cover features the remarkable artwork of Donald Roller Wilson, which uses themes from other Wilson work starring PATRICIA, in the red smock. The Heinz ketchup bottle and nipple baby bottle are items which appear frequently in Roller’s work. It’s not surprising Zappa appreciated Wilson’s work, as they are similar in important ways.
What’s the ugliest part of your body…
Some say your nose, some say your toes,
But I think it’s your mind
“Merry Christmas” militant Ms. Betty Fiobles waits for local authorities. FAIRFAX WALMART — Betty Irene Fiobles of East Dour drove to the Fairfax Walmart in a snit of Christmassy cheer Wednesday, but that cheer was quickly and brutally put to death by a renegade Walmart greeter, who savaged her by blithely uttering, “Merry Holidays.” Fiobles snapped, shouting, “How dare you!” …
HANNITY AND OMAR FAUX — Bumtious blowhard Sean Hannity left Fox Chairman Roger Ailes‘ office Friday with his rodent tail lodged firmly between his legs after having been told he would be accepting a new liberal co-anchor replacement for milquetoast Alan Colmes. The replacement, Omar Mohammad Rafsanjani, a virtually unknown natural born American, got his start in the small farm …
The new “Vader” bullet-proof outfit keeps rogue face-shooters like Dick Cheney (left) shooting at birds; not you. (Click it.) PUKWANA SD — This time of year a lot of white men are out in the fields shooting each other— accidentally— and occasionally on purpose. John Derrick “Lucky” Shawtt, a Colorado outfitter who has made a small fortune selling bullet-proof fashion …
• • • SCATOLOGY WEEK • • • We can work it out. Leaving a Legacy of Shit for Barack to clean up may be the smartest thing Dick-Bush ever did. (Hold your nose and click it.) I don’t know about you, but I’m fed up. I’ve had enough shit from the Dick-Bush Debacle (D-BD) the past eight years to …
• • • SCATOLOGY WEEK • • • A small single portion of the Bush/GOP Dung-heap dinner left behind for President Obama. THE PSYCHO-SOCIAL BASES OF SCATOLOGICAL HUMOR: THE UNMASKING OF THE SELF William G. Plank The existence of scatological humor is as a tension between two terms of a dialectic structure. The first term of this dialectic is the …
