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12:20:2002 Entry: "Ann : Surrealism"
Surrealism
The latest I heard on the pipe bomber was that he wanted to place bombs in mail boxes that when plotted on a map, formed the shape of a smiley face. Granted, I heard this in the morning on the radio when I usually sleep and dream, so I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Nope...I was awake. This is surreal. It's like something out of a bad B movie, except the movie version would form the letter of his first name or something significant. But a smiley face? It brings to mind a famous picture I've seen of a photo of an exploded nuclear bomb with a smiley face superimposed on it. The other day they showed the pipe bomber on tv being escorted by the feds. He had a goofy grinning expression. The following day I heard someone on the radio refer to him as looking like Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman, "What, me worry?" "What, me worry? I'll be in a safe cushy padded cell being fed three squares a day while my friends will have to face the tough job market after college." Maybe the smiley face point of the whole thing is that nobody was killed in this most cowardly expression of post-adolescent disillusionment.
Hey, go check out Google today. Gotta love a search engine that remembers artists' birthdays, even dead ones.
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Re: Google Artists Birthdays. Well, there was a Salvador Dali-fied Google logo earlier today, but because Dali's birthday isn't until May 11, maybe they took it down until tomorrow.
Posted by Ann @ 05:10:2002:04:35 PM CST