I got back like 3 days ago from driving through In Cold Blood territory, crazy black ice storms (and not in the Outkast song variety) and dope trucker food joints. I made it alive but my girlfriend did almost slip and break her hip when I asked her to step out and touch the black ice on the highway with her feet. Had it not been for the fifteen 99 cent cappucinos we’d been drinking she may have not had the energy to grab the “Oh Crap” handle above the door, and I would have had to just leave her there, stranded, in Evansville, Indiana. Thank goodness, I like having her around.

Denver is a great arts city with a great new museum of contemporary art aptly named the MCA which I like to refer to as the MOCA even though there’s already like 12 MOCAS out there. But MCA can’t be said as a word like DIA in Detroit or the MOMA or the MET. They are all the same anyway, smaller cities with big egos that like to glamorize some of the bigger names in the current art world to show that they are “with it” and not just yuppied-out, fusion-restauranted, suburban-transplanted meccas.

Charleston welcome to a snippet of my first rant, it feels good.

Here is an image of Damien Hirst’s installation at the MCA. It’s described wonderfully here by a museum-goer, who’s testimonial I pulled off the internet and most likely works for the museum. They say it’s just biting but I say it’s enlightening to quote Weezy.

Monday Oct 27 · 1 pm
@MCAmember: I asked a nice volunteer to explain Damian’s baby calf piece of work and she was nice enough to explain that this calf was killed at a slaughter house and then deemed unfit for consumption. You can see the blue dot on his forehead and the incision on its stomach is from the slaughter house. The calf represents St. Sebastien who was sentenced to death by archers for teaching wounded soldiers Christianity (tied to a poll like the calf) and survived and only after being sentenced to death again by stoning was he given a proper Christian burial. I was at first slightly disturbed by the work of art but now it all comes together and you can see the calf at least now has some sort of an artistic purpose rather than be discarded by a slaughter house. Very interesting exhibit, worth going to see.

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