Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

You cannot shame the shameless.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

I really should read my own blog.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

This blog will pay for itself.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

This fight is for everything.

This really is a full service blog.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Everybody saw this coming.

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The ‘irony’ here — you wouldn’t really need any artistic talent, just a dedicated (greedy) agent with the right art-world contacts…

Washington Crossing the Delaware — minimal photoshopping skills required to put a phone in Washington’s hand. Maybe give the frantic rowers headband GoPros, for additional marketing oomph?

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  1. 1.

    debbie

    Ophelia floating on the river, grateful she’s about to drown because she forgot to charge her phone. Again.

  2. 2.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    A bunch of these types of “art” pieces could be featured on r/phonesarebad subreddit

  4. 4.

    Kent

    According to Wikipedia:

    A 2018 study of news reports showed that there were 259 selfie deaths in 137 incidents reported globally between October 2011 and November 2017, with the highest occurrences in India, followed by Russia, United States, and Pakistan. The mean age was 23 years old, with male deaths outnumbering female about three to one

    More people die from selfies than sharks.

  7. 7.

    Barbara

    I did take a funny picture in the Rodin Museum of people checking their phones in front of a life sized statue of a couple locked in a passionate embrace. Just sort of highlighted for me the limits of art in the modern world.

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    bbleh

    Mona Lisa with her enigmatic smile and her phone tilted so you just barely can’t see what’s on it.

    Dali’s Persistence of Memory but with melted smartphones.

    The Discoboulos turning because he just heard a message tone.

    … seriously these would make MUCH better NFTs than a bunch of ugly monkey cartoons.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    Several years ago, in late October, there was a terrific New Yorker cover: tiny children in witch and pirate and princess costumes all running up to a big house for their treats, while their parents all hovered around the fringes, staring at their phones, which shone ghostly blue reflections on their faces. Put the spookiness where it properly belonged.

    ETA: And I’m pretty sure at some point there was a cover which had Eustace Tilley gazing at a smartphone (rather than the traditional butterfly) through his monocle.

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    Ken

    @SiubhanDuinne: Similar to the opening of the zom-rom-com Warm Bodies, with an airport full of people all staring vacantly at their phones as they wander around, which smoothly transitions to an airport full of zombies staring vacantly at nothing as they wander around.

  20. 20.

    Dangerman

    Recently seen on a T Shirt:

    ”It’s not that I don’t like you, it’s just I’d unplug your hospital ventilator if I need to charge my phone”

  23. 23.

    JWR

    I was thinking maybe I could put my limited artistic Art talents to work, then Googled “Mona Lisa with cell phone” and found out there’s loads of Mona Lisa selfies out there.

    But I once did some fun image manipulation for a friend’s online bookstore. I remember replacing the heads of the folks in Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People with his favorite authors, (James Joyce, etc.), with others holding up signs with the bookstore’s name. That was a lotta fun! Easy, too, though time consuming.

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    Misterpuff

    @Kalakal: THE DAWN OF MAN

    Apes circle giant black monolith, charge and bare teeth at it. One finally approaches and touches it.

    IT LIGHTS UP AND PLAYS Thus Spake Zarathustra ringtone.

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