Re: Art Shouldn't Have to Hurt.

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I remember Irene. I think MTV treated the slap differently from the punch (which I haven't seen) because it looks on film to be a less harmful form of assault. She's seen to be laughing in the shot. But it was an assault and she has a valid objection to it being aired, even if her immediate reaction was startled laughter. MTV wasn't in a better position than she was to judge its magnitude. Irene sounds to have been too smart for The Real World by its third season. She might have gotten along in Season One, which had a different feel from the others, but who knows.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 12:09 PM
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On a side note, if any of you are on the pushcart committee, I hope you'll vote fairly and wisely.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 12:27 PM
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I remember this interview with this guy whose entire agenda was to focus on the rings


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 1:00 PM
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Art Shouldn't Have to Hurt

I wonder if she would have said that to Werner Herzog or George Balanchine.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 1:39 PM
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Herzog was a good manager, but I wouldn't call it "art".


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 1:40 PM
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5: What? Not ART? Haven't you read George Will?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 1:51 PM
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I wonder if she would have said that to Werner Herzog...

If they'd made a season of The Real World where the kids had to share the house with Klaus Kinski, I might have watched it.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 2:06 PM
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I think I watched the first two seasons. I sometimes had wondered what it would be like if someone intelligent were on a reality show. Hilarity might ensue, right?


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 4:18 PM
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I managed to avoid seeing even a single episode of the show. I feel this is an accomplishment I should be proud of.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 4:23 PM
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I've never ever seen it. And I knew a dude (from high school) on season 1.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 4:32 PM
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I would watch a reality show where Smearcase, Bob McManus, and Klaus Kinski have to raise a cute toddler together.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 4:34 PM
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I never saw an episode of Law & Order, any of the series. That is my distinction. Also I never read a word of a Harry Potter book except the first paragraph in Czech.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 4:34 PM
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11: oh I'd watch that, too.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 4:37 PM
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I have never seen Titanic. Or Forrest Gump.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 4:37 PM
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11: Throw in Thorn and I'll produce. (The show, not the baby. Never the baby.)


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 4:38 PM
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I have seen Titanic over and over again because I had free cable the year it was on HBO. Also Twister.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 4:49 PM
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Actually, I have never read Hamlet.


Posted by: Howard R. | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 5:27 PM
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Art should hurt! Art is not a mirror—it is a hammer!


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 5:31 PM
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Hey text, congratulations (?). The establishment!


Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 5:34 PM
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Fear art


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 7:34 PM
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thanks keyaki.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 8:19 PM
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Hey, yeah! Congratulations, text!


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 8:25 PM
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and thanks to you to parsi. I couldn't have done it without derailing my legal career while commenting on unfogged.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 12- 2-13 8:33 PM
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Has someone linked this yet, the Jonas Brother's non-hysterical confessional? Great and well written.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 12- 3-13 8:09 AM
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It wasn't badly written, but kind of boring.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 3-13 8:28 AM
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24 to 3.

I'm also a little baffled about what role I could play on the Smearcase Toddler Hour, but I'm game! I don't think Bob would approve of me as sufficiently non-parental substitute care. Smearcase and Kinski could probably pass muster.

An go, text! It used to be my life goal to be nominated for a Pushcart. I was really into them as a teen.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 12- 3-13 8:38 AM
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I'm also a little baffled about what role I could play on the Smearcase Toddler Hour

You're playing the A.S.P.C.A. role, so we can sign off on the "no toddlers were permanently harmed very much in the making of this production" boilerplate. You just turn up and sit in one of those folding chairs and check that the opera isn't too loud and the blood of the bourgeoisie is being mopped up before it goes all yucky and unhygenic.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 12- 3-13 11:25 AM
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25: Also, I think, "as told to."


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 12- 3-13 11:26 AM
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Every Grey Hair on Thorn's Head She Calls 'Kinski'


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 12- 3-13 11:31 AM
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Toddler Klaus Kinski is a Jonas Brother in Seattle?

I have really got to work


on my attention span.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 12- 3-13 3:33 PM
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