A spit take is when a comic responds to a surprise by spraying water, soup,
whatever's in his mouth, all over the place. Jerry Lewis was particualry
good at this.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricia [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 7:27 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST candidate
>
>
>
> jason pierce wrote:
>
> > {insert spit take}
>
> what's a spit take?
>
> > 20,000$ for a "sarkin"? there should be some kind of
> > artistic code
> > of ehtics in place that says no one can sell ANY piece of art work for
> more
> > than say 1000$,
>
> Why?
>
> >
> > and no one can buy or sell art work by people that are no longer living.
> > throwing
> > that much money around for art just corrupts and trivializes everything
> > about it.
> > the whole thing just reeks of arbitrary hierarcy. i mean suggesting that
> 1
> > artists life
> > or work is monetarily more signifigant than other artists' life?.....ok
> this
> > is starting
> > to sound like some kind of marxist aesthetic rant and i apologize but
> > still.......
> > the whole thing is just comical at best. it would be more interesting if
> > sarkin never
> > had a stroke and the whole context was fraudulent. i would like to
> suugest
> > that
> > artists should now only move about (fraudulently) in wheel chairs and
> wear
> > aluminum
> > foil on our heads in order to extract "the big bucks" from a
> sentimentally
> > confused
> > society.
>
> Apparently, you are not a big fan of Chuck Close.
>
> Best,
> PK
>
> >
> >
> > jason pierce
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
