MonKeyArtAwards

A Reader Submits: Go On, Squeeze My Head

Dear Edwina, 

Welcome back! And here's something to get you back in the swing of things:

Thank you for the greetings, comrade. And might we add:

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Another Heartfelt Expression Of 'Welcome Back, Edwina!'

Dear Edwina,

So the Republicans were right about long-term unemployment benefits: cut it off and they'll turn off the TV, lose the ratty bathrobe and go back to work.

Sincerely, Edward Trout III

Advertising In The Great Outdoors

Going through our mailbag, we came across this from a reader sent to us back in October:

Dear Edwina,

These have been appearing on the bus shelter at Pico and Motor for the last couple of weeks (right across from the Fox lot where it'll do the most damage) . I forgot to take a picture of the one where this person calls the people responsible for the ad a "bunch of slobs". I was trying to come up with something pithy to say but I'm part of Hollyweird, so I'm not capable of higher thought.

We aren’t certain, but this could be the work of Public Ad Campaign. We ran a similar-themed item a while back about NYC artist Jilly Ballistic.

We see how you high-strung art directors might get your tighty whities in a twist seeing an excellent example of key art like this being defaced; however, the bus shelters may be privately owned, but the poster is viewed from a public space. As Fran Lebowitz once said, “Your right to wear a green polyester suit ends where it meets my eyes."

In answer to the editorial comments slapped onto these works of art and commerce: Hollyweird is simply markeing to its most actively engaged viewership, which just happens to be in a state of arrested adolescence. The stupid, the tasteless, the violent and the offensive are a prized demographic and higher thought will only result in low ratings and flat opening weekends.

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