also: here’s something that occurred to my sweeping, complex-driven thought process, while fingering books on the passing of time and trying to give an explanation to the unexplainable, modern art ramblings and such … it occurred to me that the the government has more moral dilemmas about funding individual artist’s protest of societal repression (particularly Mapplethorpe’s photography emphasizing homosexuality) than funding weapons of mass destruction with the ultimate purpose of annihiliating nature, human & animal lives. How fucked are we when we—as a group, a community, a culture, a society—can support the slaughter of whole countries and the people that just happen to be in them, but absolutely cannot stand art of a sexual nature and tear down—as a group, a community, a culture, a society— works of art with old men in lengerie that happen to have a striking resemblance to a late, respected governor? How can we (by our actions alone) think that killing mass amounts of people is more acceptable than putting a piece of fucking art on the wall that has penises on it?!!! Fucking A!!! And that saying “Fuck” during such a protest statement (in front of congress shall we say) would make more waves than the possibility of a starving child or blown up body parts in Afhganistan! FUCK! Just don’t show them the pictures, right?