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12:20:2003 Entry: "Ann : Earth Swallows Hitler?"

Earth Swallows Hitler?

I think it's ironic that we were just discussing Mr. Section 8 (Who's real name is a derivation of Hitler! No joke...he told us that...would YOU tell people you casually know through school that your family's surname used to be the same as the most notoriously evil fascist in the history of the world? Doubtful.) and his yuppie non-radical art gallery in Vail, and then this giant sinkhole opens up on I-70 near Vail. Like some weird supernatural event. I'm picturing the cheesey image from the tacky Heston-version of The Ten Commandments and all these debouched golden calf worshippers being swallowed up into hell. If it was 20 years ago, I'd make an intaglio plate about it, and I'd put Mr. Section 8 right in the middle of it, writhing in the mental and physical anguish he is about to endure. But of course, 20 years ago I wouldn't have despised him as much as I do now...he'd just be an art school character, and I probably actually *did* include him in a few prints I made, come to think of it, as an "extra" so to speak. I used lots of art students and professors I was on speaking terms with (and some I wasn't) as extras in my imagery in crowd scenes. Hey, I included him in my prints, which is quite an honor if you think about it, and he repays me by not even *calling* me to look at my work for his gallery. Dipshit.

Well, the guy had mental problems. And the only reason he opened up a gallery was because he got the money from his parents. He was quite the Terry Mattheson. And yes, it was so Vonnegut. That whole university was just steeped in Vonnegutisms and Vonnegutites. It out-Vonnegutted Vonnegut. Why didn't we read Vonnegut in that Literature class we had together, Stan? Because it was too appropriate, perhaps? Would the professor have seen himself in too many of the characters?

I preferred being in the Vonnegutish novel of CSU, than in the...Orwellian? novel of the UW, though. I'm not sure if Orwellian is appropriate, but I cannot think of anything else right now.

By Ann @ 20:36 AM CST:12:20:03 ..::Link::..