{"id":2411,"date":"2005-02-16T12:41:18","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T17:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2022-10-09T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T19:58:02","slug":"vis-a-vis-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2411","title":{"rendered":"Vis a vis The Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Curly <\/a>and I were discussing, via email, my post about The Gates <\/a>and how some people seem truly ANGRY about these things. I am baffled by their response, and baffled by their rage. It seems to me these people need to LOOK WITHIN and stop PROJECTING!!<\/p>\n

I said to Curly:<\/p>\n

I may have to write some grandiose post about how I discovered the Meaning of Life through the Gates (even if I hate them) \u0096 just to chap people\u0092s asses. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I said I would make it very pretentious, and use a lot of big words.<\/p>\n

So now has begun a game. Please join in. And I promise – after I see The Gates, I will write a HIGHLY pretentious review of them, somehow incorporating ALL of your words.<\/p>\n

Curly responded:<\/p>\n

You should include some foreign-sounding words too and set them apart with italics. Ex: “Pedro whacked the pinata <\/i>until the candy fell out.” You don’t need to use the word pinata <\/i>necessarily but you know what I mean. Oh and use the word zeitgeist<\/i>!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I said:<\/p>\n

I need to also use some Latin phrases: ‘What I enjoyed most about The Gates, was the lack of quid pro quo<\/i>.’ <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curly said:<\/p>\n

Other suggestions:
\nSchadenfreude
\nVis a vis
\nCarte blanche<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wrote:<\/p>\n

Dichotomy <\/i>needs to be in there too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curly added:<\/p>\n

And urban landscape<\/i>. And some crap about “altering one’s perception of reality.” Be sure to cite Dadaism and Warhol’s soup cans when suggesting that Christo’s goal was to bring enlightenment to the unwashed masses by elevating their understanding of the seemingly mundane and banal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t wait to be as pretentious as I can be. It’ll get out some of my hostility towards all the cranks and cynics and whiners out there.<\/p>\n

Please add bull-crap art criticism words and phrases for me to use. I will take note of them all.<\/p>\n

My art-review post will then be along the lines of this former post<\/a> – which was a response to a bunch of whiners writing to me saying: “Why don’t you write about this??” “Why don’t you write about that??” I decided to ask EVERYONE to tell me what THEY wanted me to write about, and I would put it all in one post. The result is … if I might say so … pretty damn funny. A lovely group effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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