Quite true, even without mention of its campy aspect, which arose from reading Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" at a very early age.
Barry
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:49:07 -0700, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Ah, but Barry, you clearly have a 'perverse' sensahumor....
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>Doug
>On 7-Dec-10, at 10:08 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
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>> I laughed till tears came to my eyes during each of the 3 literary
>> performances by Christian Bok I witnessed in Washington DC. The
>> Four Horsemen made me laugh when I was lucky enough to see a variety
>> of their performative work in Toronto, summer of 1975. Mr. Peanut's
>> campaign for Mayor of Vancouver was very funny. An unannounced
>> street performance with fetish t-shirts by the post-conceptual
>> collaborators General Idea stunned me initially when I noticed it
>> through the front window of a Toronto restaurant in which I was
>> eating--I started laughing after a Duchampian delay.
>>
>> Barry
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