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Chris Norris's avatar

This was a grand slam right down to the kicker/double-entendre mic drop “JE NE COMME PREND PAS.” (May wee! Odeur doo-dah-day!)

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

Merci buckets Mr. Norris!

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appleton king's avatar

so brilliant and hilarious

"Art can’t just press your pleasure buttons and sell itself to you. It can’t need to care whether you like it — that’s the space where new ideas are born. It can’t just “think outside the box.” For art to do its job, it has to fill the box with yak dung and get as far away from it as humanly possible."

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apdarrow's avatar

You misspelled "rarified," and now I will have Come Fly With Me stuck in my head all day. I'ma excerpt your observations about art for my Insta (& credit you lavishly of course)!

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

Well if I misspelled it, that means the Times did too, so HAH

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apdarrow's avatar

(sad emoji) Either their copyeditor dumbed it down from rarified to thin for the masses (unfortunately likely), or she is not afflicted with 24/7 brain radio like I am and was not triggered by the title.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/franksinatra/comeflywithme.html

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Sheila (of Ephemera)'s avatar

I would wear an Uncle Fester coat! Superb as always, thank you, Cintra.

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