Public Display
Posted by:: König Prüße, GfbAEV
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:44:46 GMT
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I'm curious as to what the next public display of bad ethical
judgement, poor taste, and geekery will be? And by geekery
I don't mean nerdiness, but "geek" in the old sense of the word.
geek: A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts,
such as biting the head off a live chicken.
Indeed, I wonder if the aberrant geekery we are now witnessing
seemingly on all sides is not brought on by the lack of pro geeks
who used to awe and mystify us in traveling shows. You know,
like "Jojo the Dogface Boy" and "The Aardvark Lady" and
"Squid Jesus" and "Hushpuppy Williamson."
We need these people to make ourselves normal, otherwise
you get people going postal, and gothically aroused to perform
circus acts that are either done by a) weird loners, b) normal
pillars of the community and just average joes, c) three-toed
tree sloths, d) frustrated Harpo Marx impersonators part-timing
as Chinese waiters, and so many other letters that we would
have to resort to the Greek alphabet and mathematical annotation.
What would have been a whole lot better than playing football
with Terri Schiavo (who, by the way, was starting to look a whole
lot like Christopher Reeves) would have been to shoot her head
full of stem cells and then graft a two-headed baby onto her, and
sent her on-tour. She could have put on a hell of a half-time show
at sports events, accidently flopping six tata's out of her custom-
tailored wardrobe. At least, her family and the doctors would have
been able to recoup some of the medical expenses accrued over
the past years, and we'd be spared the agony of these wankers
who at least try to amuse and divert us with their pathetic do-it-yourself
freak shows.