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“More than a hundred years ago some French bohemians decreed that the purpose of art was to shock the middle classes. It may have been a great idea back then. But these days the middle classes aren’t paying attention. They’re all on Jerry Springer or Ricki Lake, talking about their cross-dressing experiences or sex with the baby-sitter. Cutting-edge artists have to watch this stuff in despair and complain about the state of American culture even as they demand more grant money to do their cutting-edge art. In the future this spectacle of the middle classes shocking the avant-garde will probably become the textbook definition of Postmodernism.”

-the avante-garde according to Brad Holland in The Atlantic Monthly

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Every once in a while, something comes along that utterly restores my faith in human nature. This is one of them – one of the funniest and most uplifting things I’ve seen in a long while.

Girl quits her job by writing on dry-erase board and sending photos in

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Whew! This M.I.A. satire has got an edge…but it’s rather beautifully spot-on (if you’ve never seen M.I.A. by the way, that’s not her – this isn’t one of those tongue-in-cheek self-satires)



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I can’t decide if this is more creepy or funny…

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When I’m sad, I watch this. And it cheers me up.

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In the most blatant(and thus hilarious) piece of exhibitionism I’ve ever seen on the ice, Evgeni Plushenko delivers the goods and then some at the 2001 Worlds(ETA according to a commenter, this was his unjudged piece which makes sense but makes it only marginally less funny).

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