Not since Marie Antoinette uttered, “Let them eat cake!” (not!) have cake and politics been so closely related. Zilly Rosen, a cake maker and artist living in Buffalo, New York created a 1,240-pixel, er, cupcake portrait of Barack Obama to express her excitement and gratitude for the presidential election process. Interviewed by Cupcakes Take the [...]
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Pat Buchanan, Framed.
Posted in A Picture is Worth..., border conflicts, Corporate Media, Documentary, Multimedia, Popular Culture, Television, tagged Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Morning Joe, MSNBC, Pat Buchanan, politics, Popular Culture, Rachel Maddow, rightwing politics, The Left, The McLaughlin Group on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pat Buchanan’s recurring role on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” has got to be some kind of border violation. And I mean that in the best possible way! It’s great to watch Buchanan trying to apply nuance to his irrational, nativist positions in the face of thinking, intelligent people from both the left and the right. The [...]
Speaking of Performance…
Posted in Comedy, Performance, Popular Culture, Television, tagged Annie Sprinkle, Comedy, McCain, Obama, Palin, parody, politics on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Performance art, as a practice, may have found its fullest realization in the work of Saturday Night Live (SNL)’s Tina Fey. Fey’s channeling of Sarah Palin’s character is uncanny. In her re-staging of Katie Couric’s Palin interview and Palin’s performance at the Vice Presidential “debate,” Fey has merged the absurd-in-the-real to the really absurd, producing [...]
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