Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Jeff, Paris and Amanda Update

Time for an update on three heroes I have acquired since starting this blog. First, 'Lord ' Jeff has delivered his verdict on Damien Hirst's skull, the intrinsic value of which is £14 million, not £4 million as Jeff says, and the correct title of which is For the Love of God and not For Love of God, as Jeff says. Anyway, he seems underwhelmed. I knew you'd need to know that. Meanwhile, Paris Hilton, having done the crime, is doing her time and she is said to be 'focused and co-operative', surely a first. And, finally, Amanda has a gripping post on the patriarchal oppressions of food. Prosewise, this post was going quite well until I reached this: 'Which is the first step down the road to aesthetic stalinism, because once you focus on this book or that movie for being what it is and not being the book or movie that you want, you are in essence arguing against the existence of the book or movie that's come into your sites.' It's downhill thereafter. All seems to be in order out there in the real world.

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  1. is heteronormativity close enough for Jeff's love of god? I'm not sure if he hasn't missed the point..

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  2. Habitual self-publicist who has reduced his art to the level of commerce admires habitual self-publicist who has reduced his art to the level of commerce.

    Now I see which audience Hirst was targeting.

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  3. Yes, Chip, I know I have sunk in your estimation since the voting scandal.

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  4. Ah, I admit that I misjudged you, Bryan. Now I understand your ulterior motive, I can see that you're working on a different level of being to the rest of us poor fools.

    To make up for my outburst, I've just nominated Your Eminence in three categories, though I fear you will have a tough fight with Lord Jeff who I've nominated in the other seven.

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  5. Surely that should read Habitual self-publicist who has raised his art to the level of commerce admires habitual self-publicist who has raised his art to the level of commerce, Big Chip.

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  6. I suppose I assumed that there was an artistic bone in either one of them. I now stand corrected.

    As penance, I'll go and vote for Bryan again.

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  7. I'm gutted not to be one of your three heroes you've acquired since starting your blog, Bryan. Am I a failed intellectual like Frank Wilson?

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