from terrorist mastermind to advertising icon

Insult
This is just what I want to see on the anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks: a cartoon Osama, complete with Kalashnikov, selling video games.

On a related note, I saw some of SLEEPWALKING APOCALYPSE: 9/11, a bit of in-your-face political theater at Green Lake today. Nothing like people made up to look like they just fell off the embalmer’s table to make you think solemn thoughts.

Subtle as a bag of hammers, you might say.

There was one interesting element of it: there was a large red-draped shape (anthropomorphic and/or cross-shaped) that passers-by were invited to tag with small red cards saying what they were afraid of. Some of the sentiments were disappointingly predictable — Bush, the government — but others were more throughtful. One read “ignorance” while others said “being apathetic”, “becoming irrelevant.”

Now playing: Porrohman by Big Country from the album “The Crossing”

[composed and posted with ecto]

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