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April 11th 2008 10:14
Found on BoingBoing, this great sculpture/furniture piece that doubles as a chair and a grotesque mockery of a Chairman Mao-Jabba chimera.
It's from Gerald Scarfe, an artist that obviously wants his customers to feel embraced by the genius behind the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
When sitting in this chair, you might get a sudden inclination to quit your job and melt down all your doorknobs. Don't worry - that's a normal side effect.
Don't worry - he's made scathing sculptures of Thatcher and Nixon, too. Naturally, Nixon has the long, Pinocchio nose, but it still doesn't beat Dr. Thompson's treatment of the great liar.
It's from Gerald Scarfe, an artist that obviously wants his customers to feel embraced by the genius behind the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
When sitting in this chair, you might get a sudden inclination to quit your job and melt down all your doorknobs. Don't worry - that's a normal side effect.
Don't worry - he's made scathing sculptures of Thatcher and Nixon, too. Naturally, Nixon has the long, Pinocchio nose, but it still doesn't beat Dr. Thompson's treatment of the great liar.
"Richard Nixon is gone now and I am poorer for it. He was the real thing--a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous enemy. He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. He lied to his friends and betrayed the trust of his family...
...If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."
...If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."
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