Re: RAT Road Rambling and Rants/piss

[Sharon MacMenamin <saoirse9@yahoo.com>]

Homeless Elvis for President!

Nick, do you think Ruth could get behind that campaign?

(btw: went to high school with her daughter miriam.  she had THE best
parties & through them all, ruth would be up, studying, reading
material, going through work as manhat borough prez...i swear, i don't
think that the woman EVER slept...)

Sharon Fool


--- NOMADMONAD@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/10/99 12:29:48 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time, 
> Btmsdream@aol.com writes:
> 
> > But is there more 
> >  to the struggle than just the struggle? is there
> an aim outside the 
> >  expression? People I respect, whose work I
> respect make a living and enjoy 
> >  things and then there are some that don't. How
> can a rat make a living and 
> >  still be a rat?What is that aim and do the
> institutions have a corner on 
> it? 
> > 
> >  I am curious, my friend. I am. please dont
> disrespect me for looking over 
> > the 
> >  fence. I'm never gonna graze there anyway.
> 
> Mitchell, I didn't mean any disrespect because I
> also am continually gazing 
> over that same fence.  Even fantasize about grazing
> over there.  The struggle 
> finally over, like some once strong brilliant
> racehorse that's been put out 
> to pasture.  
> 
> It's the Peer Panel that's the real problem, not the
> institutions.  We all 
> know this and we all participate in it at some
> level.  The constant is 
> backroom Cronyism with its ability to always bully
> aesthetics out of the 
> game. Cultural institutions are built from this
> cronyism reaching a near 
> fascist control of funding.  The divvying of the
> scarce resources goes to 
> individuals and/or projects that don't rock the boat
> for the others. 
> 
> RAT does its own nod toward cronyism, but it is
> built from an acknowledgement 
> of abundance not scarcity.  Because of this the RAT
> Peer Panel need only 
> judge on ethics or aesthetics.
> 
> As RAT has become a player in the cultural dialogue,
> many of the more 
> centrist ideas it has generated have already been
> co-opted.  Perhaps Big Ben 
> is coming to the Conference to see which ideas he
> can appropriate for his 
> "revolutionary" tenure at TCG.   Nothing's wrong
> with that.  But it got me 
> started thinking of that classic horror film in the
> early'70's called "Ben".  
>  So I went and found a plot summary for it on the
> Web.
> 
> ******************************************
> Ben (1972)
> A lonely boy, played by Homeless Elvis, becomes good
> friends with Ben, a rat. 
> This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious
> killer rats, killing lots of 
> people. The authorities succeed in destroying the
> rats, leaving the boy in 
> desperate tears ... until he discovers his friend
> Ben to be still alive!
> 
> ********************************************
> 
> > caridad's discussion is called "RATS NEST, how 
> >  to work within an institution and still be a Rat"
> I don't know if it can 
> be 
> >done but I'd like to explore the idea. maybe it's
> the ultimate infiltration
> 
> What if Ben Cameron was not just another one of
> those Big Cronies co-opting 
> the talk, but he was actually a rat that had
> infiltrated TCG?  
> 
> You just never know.
> 
> --nick
> 

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