Guat Spot

As time progresses and the chapters of history are written, new words and phrases situate themselves among the accepted vocabulary of our society. This is inevitable, and can be positive, but every so often it all goes wrong. Every so often a word is spawned which is so foul and disgusting to the eyes and ears of readers and listeners that it must be rejected by those of us who are responsible enough to do so. In the past decade, one such word has been created and has invaded our collective consciousness to a frightening degree. That word is "Blog". When I imagine what it might be like to hold a "blog", I vomit just a little bit in my mouth. "blog" is a word better suited to describe some strange variety of putrid, disease ridden, goo. In response to this assault on our vernacular, we have decided to fight fire with Guat. "Guat" is a similarly disgusting and arbitrary word, but invokes a much more comical response. We hope that "Guat" will take over and "blog" will suffer the very same wretched and horrifying fate that it sounds like it may describe. Blogs are dead. Welcome to the Guat.

The other day, I went down to the Brooklyn Museum and saw the special Fred Tomaselli retrospective that’s showing there right now. I’ve seen pictures of his work before, but wow, this was some of the most intense, itricate, worke I’ve ever seen. Most of the pieces are large mixed media works made from insanely detailed photo collage, inlayed pill tablets, paint, and covered in resin. From pictures and from a distance, it is impossible to take in the intricacies of the work, but seeing it in person was really amazing. Check out the New York Times review here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/arts/design/08tomaselli.html

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