Puritanism is alive and well

[David M. Bueker]

We really enjoyed a "dirty exhibit" at the Brooklyn a few years ago -- featured was this elephant dung picture of a Black Madonna:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ofili-No-Woman.jpg

I still have a yellow flier they handed out warning that the art "may cause shock, vomiting, confusion, panic, euphoria and anxiety."

Simultaneously?

Yeah man...it's some good shit.

Simultaneously?

Rudy Giuliani felt all that and much more, including for starters rage and vindictiveness!

What did bring a smile to my face was imagining a bunch of earnest BATF (or whatever the hell they call themselves now) suits having their conference calls and nervously typing into their blackberries, generating reams of cc.'ed emails, all with the goal of nixing the Baudelaire poem from a wine label. Sometimes you need to laugh at the absurdity of it all.