Blowhard, Esq. writes:
- Performance artist Maria Abramovic’s next piece will be a non-performance. Or maybe her non-performance is itself a performance? Contemporary art, bro.
- Vagina art.
- Like the Elgin Marbles returning to Greece.
- A long, throbbing list of penis euphemisms.
- What Would Orwell Think?
- Disorder Du Jour: sluggish cognitive tempo. Remember, drugs are bad unless Merck and your doctor can get rich off them.
- Pepper Spray Cop will get almost $40,000 to “ease his emotional suffering.” Maybe we should double or triple that just to make sure he’s OK?
- Tumblr Du Jour: Composers doing normal shit.
- Audiobook producer extraordinaire Charlton Griffin has just completed his unabridged recording of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall. 127 hours!
- Ancient Egyptians drinking beer, circa 1350 BC.

> Abramovic is planning nothing in preparation for her upcoming performance, which will be open to the public for 65 days, six days a week, eight hours a day. “Nothing. There is nothing,” she explained the concept to BBC’s Will Gompertz.
Did Abramovic ever watch the TV sitcom “Seinfeld”, I wonder.
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Either that or she just listened to 4’33”.
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I hope that everyone else noticed that the guys promoting the idea of sluggish cognitive tempo were American.
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