I defaced or de-penised the poster for the group show at Smith-Andersen when I delivered a poster to the buen gente at Stanford’s El Centro Chicano

This is a better likeness of Kara Maria’s work, featuring the rock star Moby equipped with special penetrating x-ray specs, well hung or hung low at Smith-Andersen, summer 2012. I was going to try to sell the piece to Moby’s team, via my acquaintance Mocean Worker, Adam Dorn, son of the Masked Announcer — see how that links, thematically?

This is either the worlds worst preview for an art show or a pretty lame fan letter. I can edit to add the actual details of  #@&^ upcoming local show; I think it said Feb. 25, 20&^ at Café DuNord in San Francisco. Maybe by then  #@&^ can be tricked or cajoled into drawing his version of a tiger tattoo. There’s also a great show here in Palo Alto – this could be a lame and confusing preview or review of several things – at Smith-Andersen Gallery in Palo Alto featuring work most relevantly of Kara Maria tattoo animals.

LESS EAR-ELEPHANTLY, SF-BASED ARTIST KARA MARIA HAS WORK IN A GROUP SHOW IN SF THRU DEC. 22, 2012 , AT ELECTRIC WORKS ON MISSION STREET AND SOMETHING PRETTY COOL IN L.A. HAVING TO DO WITH 7 DEADLY SINS. 

#@&^ and his organ trio will perform at Santa Clara University De Saisset Museum Thursday, April 12, 2012 to honor “Indelibly Yours” Tattoo art show featuring #@&^, Kara Maria, #@&^ and #@&^.

The art show features work by 28 artists including #@&^ (my girlfriend), Kathryn #@&^, #@&^ Liu, Kara #@&^, Kara Maria, #@&^ Aoki, Vanessa #@&^, and Helen Frankenthaler – #@&^. The gallery is at 440 Pepper Street in Palo Alto, near the giant #@&^ at Page Mill and El Camino; info (650) 328-7762. (these are all excerpts from mentions of K.M. previously on Plastic Alto. The “#@&^” grawlix is a self-referencing thing about posting on Palo Alto Weekly and them deleting it as obscene or ad hominem despite it’s obvious reference to at least two Ai-deas)

edit to add: I described this project and even showed my actual sketch to the actual artistKara Maria (fka Kara Maria Sloat) and she took me serious enough or indulged me enough to ask about production per se. So yeah maybe I could write to Hood Museum about lending Juan Munoz “Hombre” and letting travel like the mother in William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying” all the way from Hanover to Minneapolis in a carriage or hearse and then, so, yeah, can it hang from from the Cherry stem, so how, for a minute. And maybe Dave Douglas or Steve Bernstein can gather there and play Don Cherry, his music. But for now the piece is a thought-experiment (like a Yoko Ono thingy) or exists only in Plastic Alto. (And not to digress but last night a PBS doc about Mexico 1910-1930 and Eisenstein said something about “film and plastic arts”. What are “plastic arts”?)

wait, there’s more:

Apparently I share a birthday with Claes Oldenburg, whose pink Q lurks in the Cantor quartyard and does not look like a semi-flacid penis to me

On August 12, 2009 Ai was arrested by authorities and sometime thereafter I asked Kara Maria to write something about him, on the strength of Kara having a zodiac themed print at S-A…pretty weak hand, I admit. I came quite close to posting this on another site but pulled out before it was too late:

I cannot remember is this is the thread wherein some dude calls me names and in response I go “Or, as Ai Wei Wei would say, ‘ go #^&^’ yourself’ which translates as ‘pound at et pointy thingy’ or ‘have you tried the mock smoked duck?’ ” Maybe I said “smoked mock duck” which sounds more like suck my dick which would of course be somewhat inappropriate but the run of grawlix I felt was appropriate in that it references both the Ai Wei Wei series of flipping off authority and his crab feed – -the words for “river crab” and the government euphemism “harmony” meaning arresting dissidents are quite similar. But this all goes over the head of the Weekly — I did remark to Bill Johnson that I am probably the only person who posts under his own name and still gets censored on these grounds.

Thematically linked of course is another thread and deleted post wherein apropos of whether to call a certain public figure a billionaire or philanthropist I compared it to calling Genghis Khan a pioneer in family planning (based on true fact that thousands of people carry his genes).

I am stuck in this moment trying to end with saying something funny about “dong” and “johnson”. Insert your own joke here.

Your brain trust is in your Dong-Johnson?

Getting back to #@&^ briefly I considered producing campaign posters saying GET THE #@&^ OUT which would have simultaneously referenced “move on” and GOTV “get out the vote” a common campaign acronym. That, or “P*t my Bu*t” which is actually a Vonnegut reference.

edit to add: apparently, if search-injuns are still credible, I am the first and only person to coin the phrase “smoke mock duck”!

–from our correspondent mark weiss in palo alto with additional reporting by groucho marx in tuscaloosa, who thanks to modern modem technology where able to conjoin this morning in their pajamas; that’s not actually true but it is true I am writing this from Coupa, have not actually had breakfast yet and am wearing a shirt in which I slept. I was meaning to research the Stanford muralist Juana Alicia but had some unfinished business with Ms. Sloat, if the connection is not too oblique.